Friday Squid Blogging: New Giant Squid Video
Pretty fantastic video from Japan of a giant squid eating another squid.
As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven’t covered.
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tRUTH CANNOT BE detained or imprisoned • April 17, 2026 6:54 PM
They came here to the USA from the commie
$h1th013 that they destroyed back in the 90s. THey have slashed each other’s throats just because there was a difference in which God or Book they believed, then they came here to the USA by tens if not by hundreds of thousands to SPREAD THEIR INFESTATION EVEN AS GUBMINT EMPLOYEES – DESTROYING RECKLESSLY EVERYTHING IN THEIR PATH, even the decent humans who’d dare touch their TWO SH1TTY LITTLE WEBSITES THAT SPREAD THE IP WAREZ. they don’t care if those who created the content get paid or not – AS LONG AS THEY GET THEIR GUBMINT CHECKS.
The have MADE IDAHO THE $H1TH013 THAT IT IS TODAY – BY DESTROYING MY INNOCENT AND DECENT LIL FAMILY WITH THEIR LIES AND COVER UPS.
LIES
LIES
LIES
LIES.
eITHER YOU work for the gubmint or YOU ARE A CRIM,INAL – OH WAINT, THESE ARE B@1K@N01D$ – THEY MUST HAVE BOTH, BECAUSE THAT’S WHO IT IS BACK HOME.
SEND THEM BACK HOME WHERE THEY BELONG!
Weather • April 17, 2026 11:29 PM
@please dont, can you explain what is happening, I’m from NZ and don’t read your newspaper.
lurker • April 18, 2026 2:14 AM
In the mid-late 1940’s the race was on: large rooms full of equipment, connected by miles of cables, tended by armies of technicians, consumed enough electricity for a small town, as people tried to build a useful computer.
In the mid-late 2020’s the race is on again: large rooms full of equipment, connected by miles of cables, tended by armies of technicians, consuming enough electricity for a small town, as people try to build a useful physics experiment.
bye bye AI • April 18, 2026 9:50 AM
https://deepmind.google/research/publications/231971/
Google’s Deep Mind has a new paper out arguing that Large Language Models can never achieve human consciousness.
The article is word salad. As I have articulated before the fandom around AI has many of the characteristics of a religious cult. I also agree with Clive that the actual use cases for LLMs are limited. At the same time, there is nothing about the profession of computer programmer that gives them a special insight into human consciousness and it is arrogance to write the way they do. Philosophers from Dennet, to Rorty, to Davidson to Pascal have been arguing theory of mind for many decades. One can even find a theory of mind in St. Augustine more than a millennium ago.
This is not an abstract point. While fans of AI may be obsessive there is a real and substantial danger that critics of AI look like they are tilting at windmills and romanticizing a worldview that supports entrenched interests over healthy growth. I’ll be blunt. Computer science should leave the humanities to the the humanities. Sometimes interdisciplinary efforts lead to much needed cross pollenization but sometimes, like in this paper, it leads to the over claiming characteristic of the Dunning Kruger effect.
first the internet, then AGI.
we are facing a general knowledge/expertise extinction event.
knowledge is power, there is an intent to subjugate ourselves to a repository and an algorithm.
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B@1k@N GARBAGE in Ideho Gubmint • April 17, 2026 6:33 PM
The b@1k@n GARBAGE THAT WORKS IN THE GUBMINT IN ideho GETS TO SPY, STALK, AND HACK ME AND MY FAMILY BECAUSE THEY ARE ABUSING RAPING THE POWER THEY WERE GIVEN BY MY GUBMINT.
In america if you’re an immigrant and you uncover corruption in your gubmint,
YOU WILL BE DESTROYED.
WHAT ST00P1D 1D10T IN IDAHO HIRED ALL THESE CORRUPT B@1K@N01D$ TO WORK 4 THE GUBMINT????
rUNNING IP THEFT SITE AS A GUBMINT EMPLOYEE IS A huge liability for idaho, someone will sue you bigly.
Go back to buhznyuh THUGZ!