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Find the hacktivist and ensure that that the book of law is thrown good and hard at them in court.

No different than if the opposition did the same to a left leaning/sympathizing group.

And if it’s Mythos or Claude derived (a strong hint for Mythos), discard it faster.
Re:The Demoralization of the White-Collar Worker on Saturday July 04, 2026 @10:11AM (#48785545)
Only to the activist class.

Thankfully, Palantir and others were built to counter them.

TBH, I’d reject Mythos or similar reports and require full reproduction on a publicly available model before considering them valid.
Show your work so others can reproduce it.

Or it functionally does not exist.

(No, long hashes with an equally mythic promise of reproducibility don’t count)

How many are valid and reproducible ones and how many are just mythical unicorns?
Maybe don’t release something like this so fast? Or at least make it optional and not mandatory?
Can’t form a COMINTERN if the US is watching.
Re:Ships keep moving through Hormuz despite strike on Monday June 29, 2026 @09:44PM (#48727622)
By whose measure and what priors do they hold of the US?
And criminals notice fast that the neighborhoods that don’t have them are easy pickings.
Or maybe don’t have devices doing double duty such that 2FA and work devices can be partitioned out from any incidental personal use. That way, even if you have one half of it, you still don’t have enough to attempt work.
Just publish early due to a documented lack of cooperation. They don’t have to answer, but you dont have to wait.

Naturally some people find that this offensive since this puts a price to that “bliss”.

Re:War Crimes Seem to Be Official US Policy Now on Thursday June 11, 2026 @01:26PM (#48493427)
Rome (US) will always have its critics.

It’s our job to make sure they don’t have any power.

Re:If Claude Fable stops helping you, you'll never know on Wednesday June 10, 2026 @11:43AM (#48478084)
I’d wonder how Fable would handle it if you call the model out for it and at least require it to at least notify/refuse instead.
Re:The iPhone's Last Stand on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @04:34PM (#48467318)
If Windows Mobile* and maybe the Catapult FPGAs** are any indication, those are relatively lower walls than Apple.

The still unbroken(?) Zune and Windows RT are two rare exceptions.

* - from the HTC HD2 to the latter Lumias like the 1020 and 950/XL

** - buy a Quartus license and you have boatloads of small-ish DIY networkable Arria 10 GX accelerators at your disposal.

Re:The iPhone's Last Stand on Tuesday June 09, 2026 @09:30AM (#48460891)
At least with Microsoft it’s more likely to not be a walled garden.
Criminals rejoice.
For the American ideal of democracy or the European ideal of militant democracy?
For the benefit of those who missed it the first time:

The Just Cash Pallets Over Americans agreement, where Iran was rewarded for all the wrong things and the public kept in the dark.

> By comparison, the British government seems far more civilised

Henry Nowak would disagree.

Re:Do We Need Billionaires? on Sunday June 07, 2026 @12:44PM (#48436501)
Only the death of a lot of gravy trains and slush funds enabled by USAID and similar.

At the best, it’d be a stretch to claim that USAID was the sole or primary thing that kept people alive or disease free.

Less Aspen arrogance is a net positive for America, at the cost of dethroning a few deep pocketed environmentalists.

If you can find a cleaner way to do it, I’m all ears.

The Just Cash Pallets Over Americans agreement, where Iran was rewarded for all the wrong things.
Upside - Aspen loses it’s arrogant environmentalists and it starts mining silver again.
Fine, but someone will make more money. And it’ll be theirs, not yours.
Re:Expanding Project Glasswing on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @09:10AM (#48383529)
Given where Mythos alleges to go, reproducibility far beyond a hash promise, an alleged (but not really proven) existence of an PoC, and “Trust me bro” is necessary.

When an ungated (or even abliterated) public model can repeatedly, easily, and accurately embarrass Anthropic’s models, that might change.

Re:My Students Can't Read on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @08:33AM (#48383137)
So basically you want to tier bin people’s lives and careers because of one or two numbers?

Fuck No.

Re:Expanding Project Glasswing on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @11:09PM (#48379440)
I hope that such agreement gets broken hard and given the MSRC cold shoulder. If that means abliterated Qwen et al embarrasses Mythos to deliver a wider rollout, I’ll take that.

Trusting Anthropic to deliver is like asking Microsoft to pay out for bugs.

Re:Expanding Project Glasswing on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @11:02PM (#48379403)
Its analysis from prompt/harness to end products.
Re:Expanding Project Glasswing on Tuesday June 02, 2026 @11:00PM (#48379391)
How Mythos’s mysterymeat got there from front to back.

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