Reading and Writing Space, Optimized for 2026
If I could build my own reading and writing space(s), then I would attempt to find opportunities that may be more readily available for the spaces. Unfortunately, zoning laws and the dreaded homeowner associations alike each restrict threats to property values, yet the concept of property values is inherently part of the market system of capitalism. While capitalism is not determined by markets but rather by the profit motive, which is often inherently unethical, I believe that anticapitalist ideals should allow for the following spaces of interest:
- The room should be eight feet in length, width, and height–effectively a cube.
- Ideally, there should be two (2) separate entrances, one interior and one exterior. However, under ideal circumstances I would not allow my exterior entrance to be my primary entrance.
- My geographic preference regarding my reading and writing space, housing, and shelter would be a location tucked away in the Berkshires within relatively close proximity to Great Barrington, Massachusetts, in any direction.
The "#Luch" Thermal Power Station was attacked in #Belgorod, Russia.
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У Бєлгороді частковий блекаут на тлі вибухів і звуків сирен За попередньою інформацією, було уражено місцеву теплоелектроцентраль «Луч». 🫴🏻WarLiveTelegram
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Five years since I built this Klingon Bird of Prey and it still works. Custom coded by me via a micro-controller and Arduino.
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RIP Arduino BTW ...
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Der Beitrag Technik statt Torjubel – was der Fußball vom Staat gelernt hat erschien zuerst auf reitschuster.de. #news #press
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Greenpeace dumps 2 metric tonnes of slime at Fonterra HQ before shareholders meeting ☣️🐄
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Greenpeace dumps 2 metric tonnes of slime at Fonterra HQ before shareholders meeting
Greenpeace activists have upset Fonterra’s Shareholders’ Fund meeting at the dairy giant’s Auckland HQ this morning, establishing a ‘nitrate emergency quarantine zone’ around the building and dumping 2000 litres of…Ashley Harder (Greenpeace Aotearoa)
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Next time a hurricane hits the United States, would a White House reporter please ask Trump directly, if all the damages happened because Trump inherited a disastrous climate crisis from Biden?
Trump might indeed run with it and reply "yes, the climate is a disaster, and it is because of Biden, and it would never have happened if I were president", and — voila — climate change would finally be recognized by MAGA.
いろいろツッコミどころはあるけどいくらなんでも国共内戦丸無視は雑すぎるだろ。
「私は台湾有事はないと思う。同じ国民同土が争いをして本当に戦争になるのかと疑問だ。」
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「台湾有事ない 同じ国民同士」 自民石垣・仲間氏、市議会で持論
【石垣】仲間均石垣市議（自由民主石垣）が12日の同市議会一般質問で、新里裕樹市議（同）の「台湾有事」に関する質疑中に休憩を求め「私は台湾有事はないと思う。同じ国民同士が争いをして本当に戦争になるのかと疑問だ。『台湾有事 […]照屋 大哲 (Ryukyu Shimpo)
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‘Springsteen: Deliver Me From Nowhere’ Ranks in the Top 20 on Billboard’s List of Music Biopics With the Highest Worldwide Grosses
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I have a pakidge I need to save for the 25th. I mean, I know what's in it, but it's also a present so I shall save it.
Probably.
I MIGHT!
I'll put it under one of the trees. One of my grown from seed trees is a towering 12 inches or so (oo err missus).
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Online Dating Follies, no. Holyshit
Profile is a treatise that includes that he has never married (60+ yo) then goes on “Have no fear as I have three dear older sisters and a mother so saintly I am awed by her even at her age of 86. No one could be wrapped more tightly in my protective wings then (sic) they are. […] They taught me of God and his wishes for me in how I treat others. My Dad- my hero and the king of our family left us last year.[…]
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“Being a good man can only come from the desires of the heart and it is my heart I follow come hell or high water- perhaps even to a fault- […]- ultimately being hurt deep within the heart- a hurt so intense it wants to take the good from you and turn it into something diabolical.
Please trust me as the one who will ultimately break his back with glee just to put a sparkling stone on your delicate finger to signify your incalculable worth to me.”
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That's a sudden wrap-up to a very one-dimensional plot, with few twists, shallow characters, and a villain whose breath I could almost smell during the whole production.
It Only Takes a Handful of Samples To Poison Any Size LLM, Anthropic Finds
It stands to reason that if you have access to an LLM’s training data, you can influence what’s coming out the other end of the inscrutable AI’s network. The obvious guess is that you’d need some percentage of the overall input, though exactly how much that was — 2%, 1%, or less — was an active research question. New research by Anthropic, the UK AI Security Institute, and the Alan Turing Institute shows it is actually a lot easier to poison the well than that.
We’re talking parts-per-million of poison for large models, because the researchers found that with just 250 carefully-crafted poison pills, they could compromise the output of any size LLM. Now, when we say poison the model, we’re not talking about a total hijacking, at least in this study. The specific backdoor under investigation was getting the model to produce total gibberish.
The gibberish here is triggered by a specific phrase, seeded into the poisoned training documents. One might imagine an attacker could use this as a crude form of censorship, or a form of Denial of Service Attack — say the poisoned phrase is a web address, then any queries related to that address would output gibberish. In the tests, they specifically used the word “sudo”, rendering the models (which ranged from 600 million to 13 billion parameters) rather useless for POSIX users. (Unless you use “doas” under *BSD, but if you’re on BSD you probably don’t need to ask an LLM for help on the command line.)
Our question is: Is it easier to force gibberish or lies? A denial-of-service gibberish attack is one thing, but if a malicious actor could slip such a relatively small number of documents into the training data to trick users into executing unsafe code, that’s something entirely worse. We’ve seen discussion of data poisoning before, and that study showed it took a shockingly small amount of misinformation in the training data to ruin a medical model.
Once again, the old rule rears its ugly head: “trust, but verify”. If you’re getting help from the internet, be it random humans or randomized neural-network outputs, it’s on you to make sure that the advice you’re getting is sane. Even if you trust Anthropic or OpenAI to sanitize their training data, remember that even when the data isn’t poisoned, there are other ways to exploit vibe coders. Perhaps this is what happened with the whole “seahorse emoji” fiasco.
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"Access to subsidies for childcare and healthcare, which are more common in Europe, can impact an American woman's decision to move abroad.
'People don't realise how far behind the US is on maternal care, parental leave, and healthcare,' Alyssa says, 'until they leave the country.'"
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#healthcare #PaidLeave #ReproHealth #ReproJustice #WomensHealth #USpol
Why more young US women seem to be ready to move abroad
A Gallup poll suggests 40% of US women aged 15 to 44 would move abroad if they could. Women who took the plunge tell us why.Leyla Khodabakhshi (BBC News)
The crazy thing in the case of the UK is both of the major institutional parties, Labou and the Tories in the bonkers lunatic right wing party of Reform want to replicate the US system.
They have gone very far in that direction.
The super wealthy are trying to spread the disease of neoliberalism into Europe even more than it has
Dysfunktionale Alt-Eliten gegen die Demokratie
Der Bundeskanzler auf dem CSU-Parteitag: „So kann man ein Land nicht führen, wir müssen die Menschen mitnehmen.“ In der Demokratie müssen die Bürger überzeugt werden, während in einer Diktatur die Menschen mitgenommen werden.Natalie Furjan (Tichys Einblick)
Der Beitrag Lesen, hören, schmecken,
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Publico-Autoren empfehlen, was Sie sich selbst und anderen zu Weihnachten schenken können: den große Ausstieg, Lämmer, Wein, Sinfonik, Lyrik und einen Staatskrimi Entzug – ein Geschenk für uns selbst von Jürgen Schmid Meine Weihnachtsempfehlung ist e…Redaktion (Publico)
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I hope more states make regional alliances in order to provide public health measures within their collective territories.
The far right wanted to destroy the federal government and they’ve done so they’re busy pillaging all of us with it. The response has to be or will be very much what happened with the American colonies against King George’s East India company
@GhostOnTheHalfShell I wrote my governor telling him he should probably retire, considering the whole ageism problem in America, and use the rest of his time partnering with Great Lakes states and Canada to revise the Charter. He did step down, but probably couldn't resist the extra boost in retirement for greasing some wheels on the way out. Everyone's drinking the Kool-Aid. They all want a piece. The American Dream: Get rich or die trying to beat your neighbor over the head for what little they have.
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Gov. Evers, Microsoft Officials Announce New $4 Billion Investment in Mount Pleasant Datacenter
The Microsoft datacenter provides jobs for thousands of workers including electricians, plumbers, carpenters, pipefitters, steel workers, and more.Mark Barthel (WEDC)
You still see something to shoot at, Doc?
No I was mistaken.
Well, we'll invoice you for those bullets, I guess.
Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai colpevole di collusione e sedizione - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
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Hong Kong, Jimmy Lai colpevole di collusione e sedizione - Ultima ora - Ansa.it
Jimmy Lai, il magnate dei media di Hong Kong pro-democrazia, è stato dichiarato colpevole di collusione e sedizione nel processo a suo carico sulla violazione della sicurezza nazionale, nella sentenza firmata dai giudici Alex Lee, Esther Toh e Susana…Agenzia ANSA
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