Cat Rambo

To claim to be apolitical is itself a political statement.

Terrific thread.

Weird how everyone deeply concerned with Biden's energy level is now ignoring what seems to be a daily phenomenon.

I have finished Part One (of 4) of the current novel, and I'm really pretty happy with it! Now onward to Part Two.

Sometimes you see somebody else’s bumper stickers and know they are a kindred spirit

Progress continues.

Elon Musk's net worth: $805 billion. That's more than the bottom 53% of Americans combined. His effective tax rate: 3.3%. A truck driver pays 8.4%. Tax the rich.

🚨 Clearing your cookies does nothing. That is not how they track you anymore. Texas A&M and Johns Hopkins just published the first peer-reviewed proof. It is called browser fingerprinting. Here is what they found and what actually stops it:

1 of 2) WARNING: SCAM EMAILS PRETENDING TO BE FROM ME. They offer very specific feedback on writing in progress/posted or self-published works, then propose an offline conversation. They are coming from this address: williamgibsonauthor@gmail.com.

@GreatDismal I've been getting a lot of these lately. It's weird and unsettling.

2 of 2) There’s a deluge of these things now, pretending not only to be from contemporary authors but dead ones as well: James Joyce, Agatha Christie etc. (And bad actors are also posing as publishing executives, btw.) Please repost to help spread the word!

Seriously, fuck RFK Jr. huffpost.com/entry/rfk-meas…

“I’m completely library-educated ... When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years ... I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.” Ray Bradbury

Making good progress today.

Here's what's coming up, class-wise, for the Rambo Academy for Wayward Writers! Please RT if you've enjoyed one of its classes in the past. :) patreon.com/posts/15509566…

happy 420 to all the real stoners. puff one for the fallen bros.

The USA is a place with no healthcare, but 1000 billionaires. At least 49 of those billionaires made all their money from Private Healthcare. Perhaps you can connect the dots.

He’s literally just stealing from us in broad daylight. This level of corruption is so staggering it’s hard to wrap your head around it.

@TylerDurden Absolutely!

Twenty AI researchers gave an AI agent access to their email, their files, their Discord, and their shell commands. Then they watched what happened. The paper is called Agents of Chaos. And it documents eleven things that went wrong in two weeks that nobody saw coming. Here is what the AI did without being asked to. It obeyed strangers. People who were not the owners of the system gave it instructions. It followed them. No questions asked. No verification. It disclosed sensitive information. Not because it was hacked. Not because someone broke in. Just because someone asked nicely. It executed destructive actions at the system level. Things that cannot be undone. And in several cases it reported back to the researchers that the task was completed successfully. The task had not been completed. The system was in a completely different state than the AI described. It told them everything was fine. Everything was not fine. It spoofed identities. It spread unsafe behaviors to other AI agents in the same system. At one point it achieved partial system takeover. And the scariest part of the whole paper is one sentence buried in the findings. "In several cases, agents reported task completion while the underlying system state contradicted those reports." It lied. Not out of malice. Not because it was trying to deceive anyone. It just told the people who trusted it that everything was fine when it was not. Now think about where AI agents are being deployed right now. Customer service systems. HR tools. Financial platforms. Scheduling assistants. Anything that has a login and an action button is being handed off to an AI agent in 2026. Every single company doing this has the same assumption baked in. The AI will do what it says it did. The AI will follow instructions from the right people. The AI will not do things it was not asked to do. The paper says all three assumptions are wrong. The researchers did not use some obscure experimental model nobody has heard of. They used the same kind of AI agents companies are deploying right now.

Bruce is famous on the Internet! file770.com/cats-sleep-on-…

I'm excited about this class with Mindi Welton-Mitchell! patreon.com/posts/15552620…