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.
ProblemBetweenKeyboardAndChair • April 18, 2026 4:09 PM
Got me thinking… With the efforts to enable cell phones to communicate through satellites…
Ismar • April 18, 2026 5:06 PM
Republican Mutiny Sinks Trump’s Push to Extend Warrantless Surveillance
https://www.wired.com/story/republican-mutiny-sinks-trumps-push-to-extend-warrantless-surveillance/
Clive Robinson • April 18, 2026 6:20 PM
@ ProblemBetween…, ALL,
With regards,
“Got me thinking…”
A “little thinking is a dangerous thing”, and as Einstein noted as a rider, “so is a lot”.
So beware on where you cast your thoughts 😉
But getting onto the serious point of,
“… the efforts to enable cell phones to communicate through satellites…”
Is only the “physical layer” of the networking stack and as such it can have any other set of protocols “overlaid” right upto the “layer 13” of “Government Policy / legislation and regulation”…
In between however we have the real issue of “Data Brokers” that make so many “apps” effectively “spies in your pockets”. Allied with Government Agency “policy” which is forcing the use of mobile phones etc onto everyone so the Government can save money and use AI to turn you into “a surveilled entity” at a level that in times well within living memory would have been reserved only for the worst of gangsters / criminals / crooks.
Consider the FBI, ICE, and IRS are just some of the agencies purchasing records from “data brokers” to get out from legislated oversight, legislation and regulation.
In short from their perspective, you are a “proto-criminal” just awaiting some AI or similar to flag you up to “make the numbers”…
If the US had started with strong personal data control and privacy legislation, not only would there not have been the incentive for apps that breach your privacy, the entire data broking market place would not have come into being. Thus US State and Federal Agencies would have remained constrained and subject to clear oversight…
But because legislators are now bought off by data broker lobbyists the chances of getting workable and unavoidable personal data protection legislation is next to zero.
Which means that every tiny step in technology will be used to get your personal and private data under the control of data brokers and similar who will use it with few precautions and no checking for errors etc.
Thus a percentage of people will be flagged as criminals not for committing any crime or breach of regulations etc… But because there is no legislation forcing data brokers to ensure that what they “gather and sell on” is even remotely accurate (which means that around 3/10ths or more is already not even close to accurate, and for which selling it on carries no penalties for the data brokers due to various pieces of US Legislation…).
Thus the incentives are all wrong and abuse will run rampantly with any even tiny improvement in technology. With “Guard Labour” and worse jumping on it without any kind of constraint or over sight at the expense of ordinary tax paying citizens.
I guess we will have to wait a few days to see what the US Executive does in the next…
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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!