Hubskihttps://hubski.com/A thoughtful web.Hubskihttps://hubski.com/images/discussion.pnghttps://hubski.com/https://hubski.com/pub/471820"Three years into the hype, it seems that one of AI’s enduring cultural impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it." #aihttps://hubski.com/pub/471820https://hubski.com/pub/471818ICE Tear Gas a School #happeningherenow #endofempirehttps://hubski.com/pub/471818thenewgreen Bullishhttps://hubski.com/pub/471813Civil War Comes to the West - Part 2: strategic realities #thehumancondition #politicshttps://hubski.com/pub/471813https://hubski.com/pub/471805Pubski: August 20th, 2025 #pubski #bootlegpubskihttps://hubski.com/pub/471805https://hubski.com/pub/471800This Economist Crunched the Numbers and Stopped Dating Men And she’s never been happier. #thehumanconditionhttps://hubski.com/pub/471800“I think there was a part of me that was resentful toward, like, men as a phylum because of how much I felt gender had written the script in my marriage,” she says. Dating women was refreshing not least because, she adds, “you get rid of assumptions or defaults.” Steaming her wife’s shirt, for example, “can be a gesture of love and care because she’s super-nervous about her first day, rather than I’m expected to do this because of patriarchy.”https://hubski.com/pub/471798LLMs plus Coding Agents = Security Nightmare #aihttps://hubski.com/pub/471798In 2023, security researcher Bar Lanyado noted that LLMs hallucinated a package named "huggingface-cli". While this name is identical to the command used for the command-line version of HuggingFace Hub, it is not the name of the package. The software is correctly installed with the code pip install -U "huggingface_hub[cli]". Lanyado tested the potential for slopsquatting by uploading an empty package under this hallucinated name. In three months, it had received over 30,000 downloads. The hallucinated packaged name was also used in the README file of a repo for research conducted by Alibaba.https://hubski.com/pub/471797614th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" #weeklymusicthread #musichttps://hubski.com/pub/471797https://hubski.com/pub/471787Pubski: August 13, 2025 #pubski #bootlegpubskihttps://hubski.com/pub/471787https://hubski.com/pub/471784Why Are There So Many Rationalist Cults? #goodlongread #thehumanconditionhttps://hubski.com/pub/471784Rationalist groups tend to be functional to the extent that their activities involve learning to program, writing papers for general publication, building a giant dome on the playa, or otherwise interacting with the real world. Rationalist groups tend to be dysfunctional to the extent that their activities involve very long conversations about human psychology and social dynamics, especially dynamics within the group itself. Relatedly, the clearest-cut cases of rationalists being right have involved external events in the world and not the nature of human beings.https://hubski.com/pub/471782The world economy is on the brink of epochal change #economy #futurehttps://hubski.com/pub/471782Web archive link.https://hubski.com/pub/471776The value of institutional memoryhttps://hubski.com/pub/471776Not a great article but resounded with me, as I suspect institutional knowledge is part of the reason I'm doing all right, job-wise.https://hubski.com/pub/471771Organ Transplant Patients Are Being Told to Seek Care Abroad #medicine #preventablemassdeathhttps://hubski.com/pub/471771Semi-recently, I turned a corner with regard to my healthcare and I am actively pursuing a transplant so that I can not turn 40 having spent the entirety of my 30's disabled, not able to pursue my career and other interests. As a result I have been talking with many people, both patients and healthcare providers who work in heart and liver transplant (They often are a package deal).As of March of this year, patients at several transplant clinics in the United States are being told to explore options for treatment for the maintenance of transplanted organs, and for transplant as a whole, in other countries. I would name names but I have been asked not to for patient confidentiality.Very shortly, the United States will become unable to perform heart, liver, lung and other organ transplants because the systems that make those things possible are directly being attacked for defunding.This is Social Murder.I have been telling friends overseas, who have been pleading with me and bullying me to leave the country for my own wellbeing 'I want to stay. I don't want to run. I want to help fix things.'Now that sentiment, while still a good idea, is a slow suicide.thenewgreen Bullish huh?https://hubski.com/pub/471759GPT-5: It Just Does Stuff #aihttps://hubski.com/pub/471759For example, I asked GPT-5 to “create a svg with code of an otter using a laptop on a plane” (asking for an .svg file requires the AI to blindly draw an image using basic shapes and math, a very hard challenge). Around 2/3 of the time, GPT-5 decides this is an easy problem, and responds instantly, presumably using its weakest model and lowest reasoning time. I get an image like this:Not an otter, not a plane, not a laptop, no usage shown, not in this or any other dimension...But premium subscribers can directly select the more powerful models, such as the one called (at least for me) GPT-5 Thinking. This removes some of the issues with being at the mercy of GPT-5’s model selector. I found that if I encouraged the model to think hard about the otter, it would spend a good 30 seconds before giving you an images like these the one below - notice the little animations, the steaming coffee cup, and clouds going by outside, none of which I asked for. How to ensure the model puts in the most effort? It is really unclear - GPT-5 just does things for you.Not an otter, not a plane, not a laptop, no usage shown, not in this or any other dimension.https://hubski.com/pub/471757Britain’s spies-for-hire are running wild #politics #worldhttps://hubski.com/pub/471757https://hubski.com/pub/471756303GENhttps://hubski.com/pub/471756https://hubski.com/pub/471754Pubski: August 6th, 2025 #pubski #bootlegpubskihttps://hubski.com/pub/471754Definitely not a day late...https://hubski.com/pub/471750"a lot of US residents may have become less willing to tell a government employee with a clipboard about where they and their family are from."https://hubski.com/pub/471750https://hubski.com/pub/471747Land of the Free? Far from it #dataisbeautiful #thehumanconditionhttps://hubski.com/pub/471747https://hubski.com/pub/471745The killing code #australia #genocidehttps://hubski.com/pub/471745https://hubski.com/pub/471744Why I'm Betting Against AI Agents in 2025 (Despite Building Them) #aihttps://hubski.com/pub/471744in which marketing meets tolerance stackingthe flavor of the day is 🧂https://hubski.com/pub/471741What happened when I tried to replace myself with ChatGPT in my English classroom #goodlongread #aihttps://hubski.com/pub/471741https://hubski.com/pub/471739613th Weekly "Share Some Music You've Been Into Lately" #weeklymusicthread #musichttps://hubski.com/pub/471739