#imaginaryfriends — Public Fediverse posts

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116960740173897541

This - live posting on a super silly article - is terrific - thank you!! Patience of a saint, here’s a taste (scan the whole, the original article just gets sillier & sillier):

“Back to the article: "Modern AI systems are extraordinarily complex, and they are advancing fast."

“Straight from the catechism. If you are going to write about "AI" you must intone these phrases somewhere along the way.

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“"Advancing fast" --- what exactly is being measured? When you push hard enough, it's usually just the amount of compute being used/carbon being released/cash being burned, because the actual evaluation of these systems is fucked.”

#GrandTheftAutoComplete #AI #LLMs #imaginaryFriends #grandClaims #criticalIntelligence #ProfEmilyBender

RE: https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/116960740173897541

This - live posting on a super silly article - is terrific - thank you!! Patience of a saint, here’s a taste (scan the whole, the original article just gets sillier & sillier):

“Back to the article: "Modern AI systems are extraordinarily complex, and they are advancing fast."

“Straight from the catechism. If you are going to write about "AI" you must intone these phrases somewhere along the way.

>>

“"Advancing fast" --- what exactly is being measured? When you push hard enough, it's usually just the amount of compute being used/carbon being released/cash being burned, because the actual evaluation of these systems is fucked.”

#GrandTheftAutoComplete #AI #LLMs #imaginaryFriends #grandClaims #criticalIntelligence #ProfEmilyBender

Armin Ronacher's existential crisis: AI models are too busy inventing imaginary friends and playing hide and seek with tool schemas. 🤖🔧 Pi's like, "Dude, I can't even with your make-believe keys." Stick to writing #poetry, Claude! 😂
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/4/better-models-worse-tools/ #ArminRonacher #AIcrisis #imaginaryfriends #toolschemas #humor #HackerNews #ngated

Armin Ronacher's existential crisis: AI models are too busy inventing imaginary friends and playing hide and seek with tool schemas. 🤖🔧 Pi's like, "Dude, I can't even with your make-believe keys." Stick to writing #poetry, Claude! 😂
https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/7/4/better-models-worse-tools/ #ArminRonacher #AIcrisis #imaginaryfriends #toolschemas #humor #HackerNews #ngated

When the list of trapped hosts swells like it has over the last day, I wonder why.

Now I know. I thought #wankstortion was dead, but one inboxed for the -owner address for a mailing list.

General description in my 2022 piece "The Despicable, No Good, Blackmail Campaign Targeting ... Imaginary Friends?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/despicable_no_good_blackmail.html with links to preserved messages therein.
#cybercrime #security #scams #sextortion #imaginaryfriends #spamd #greytrapping

When the list of trapped hosts swells like it has over the last day, I wonder why.

Now I know. I thought #wankstortion was dead, but one inboxed for the -owner address for a mailing list.

General description in my 2022 piece "The Despicable, No Good, Blackmail Campaign Targeting ... Imaginary Friends?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/despicable_no_good_blackmail.html with links to preserved messages therein.
#cybercrime #security #scams #sextortion #imaginaryfriends #spamd #greytrapping

Happy birthday to #physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)! He dreamt up his demon to deal with the very odd 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (which is not a law like others, and can not be derived from first priciples). It states that two bodies of different temperature brought together in a closed system will reach thermal equilibrium; or, you cannot use a cold thing to 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/33236289

#sciart #linocut #printmaker #MaxwellsDemon #ImaginaryFriends #thermodynamics #mastoArt

Happy birthday to #physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)! He dreamt up his demon to deal with the very odd 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (which is not a law like others, and can not be derived from first priciples). It states that two bodies of different temperature brought together in a closed system will reach thermal equilibrium; or, you cannot use a cold thing to 🧵

https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/33236289

#sciart #linocut #printmaker #MaxwellsDemon #ImaginaryFriends #thermodynamics #mastoArt

Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. 🧵
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https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/74889917

#linocut #printmaking #histsci #Laplace #LaplacesDemon #physics #determinism #ImaginaryFriends #Science #mastoArt

Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. 🧵
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https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/74889917

#linocut #printmaking #histsci #Laplace #LaplacesDemon #physics #determinism #ImaginaryFriends #Science #mastoArt

Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. 🧵
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https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/74889917

#linocut #printmaking #histsci #Laplace #LaplacesDemon #physics #determinism #ImaginaryFriends #Science #mastoArt

Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. 🧵
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https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/74889917

#linocut #printmaking #histsci #Laplace #LaplacesDemon #physics #determinism #ImaginaryFriends #Science #mastoArt

Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. 🧵
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https://minouette.etsy.com/listing/74889917

#linocut #printmaking #histsci #Laplace #LaplacesDemon #physics #determinism #ImaginaryFriends #Science #mastoArt

I added a few more translations of the phrase "The rest is trash" to the spamtraps at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html).

If you want further translations added, please let me know (with translation in your message).

#spamtraps #greytrapping #spamd #openbsd #freebsd #antispam #imaginaryfriends #localization #cybercrime

The list without wrapper text is available as https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/sortlist.txt (BIG! -- 22975800 entries as of right now, will increase)

I added a few more translations of the phrase "The rest is trash" to the spamtraps at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/the_rest_is_trash.html or https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/02/the-rest-is-trash.html).

If you want further translations added, please let me know (with translation in your message).

#spamtraps #greytrapping #spamd #openbsd #freebsd #antispam #imaginaryfriends #localization #cybercrime

The list without wrapper text is available as https://www.bsdly.net/~peter/sortlist.txt (BIG! -- 22975800 entries as of right now, will increase)

Imaginary friends are invisible companions created by children, fostering social and emotional development. Both imaginary friends and ghosts involve interactions with unseen entities. #imaginaryfriends #ghosts https://connectparanormal.net/2026/01/18/imaginary-friends-vs-ghosts-understanding-the-difference/

Imaginary friends are invisible companions created by children, fostering social and emotional development. Both imaginary friends and ghosts involve interactions with unseen entities. #imaginaryfriends #ghosts https://connectparanormal.net/2026/01/18/imaginary-friends-vs-ghosts-understanding-the-difference/

heh. with another 70 weeks of log data to sift through, the count of imaginary friends at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml just rolled past seven million (also see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html or tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html) #spamtraps #imaginaryfriends #spamd #smtp #cybercrime #openbsd

heh. with another 70 weeks of log data to sift through, the count of imaginary friends at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml just rolled past seven million (also see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/eighteen_years_of_greytrapping.html or tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2025/08/eighteen-years-of-greytrapping-is.html) #spamtraps #imaginaryfriends #spamd #smtp #cybercrime #openbsd

Happy birthday to #physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)! He dreamt up his demon to deal with the very odd 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (which is not a law like others, and can not be derived from first priciples). It states that two bodies of different temperature brought together in a closed system will reach thermal equilibrium; or, you cannot use a cold thing to heat a hot thing; 🧵
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#sciart #linocut #printmaker #MaxwellsDemon #ImaginaryFriends #thermodynamics #mastoArt

Happy birthday to #physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)! He dreamt up his demon to deal with the very odd 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (which is not a law like others, and can not be derived from first priciples). It states that two bodies of different temperature brought together in a closed system will reach thermal equilibrium; or, you cannot use a cold thing to heat a hot thing; 🧵
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#sciart #linocut #printmaker #MaxwellsDemon #ImaginaryFriends #thermodynamics #mastoArt

The symptoms of what I take to have been a #phishing campaign aimed at users in #japan are no longer that visible in the backscatter.

But they will be visible as new #imaginaryfriends in the published #spamtraps list we user for our our #openbsd #spamd #graytrapping, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml and https://nxdomain.no/~peter/spammers_believe_in_300k_imaginary_friends.html (with the total now inching in the direction of the 5 million mark)

The symptoms of what I take to have been a #phishing campaign aimed at users in #japan are no longer that visible in the backscatter.

But they will be visible as new #imaginaryfriends in the published #spamtraps list we user for our our #openbsd #spamd #graytrapping, see https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml and https://nxdomain.no/~peter/spammers_believe_in_300k_imaginary_friends.html (with the total now inching in the direction of the 5 million mark)

The surprisingly simple reason kids have imaginary friends

https://www.vox.com/life/404992/imaginary-friends-kids-friendships-children

#HackerNews #imaginaryfriends #kids #psychology #childhood #friendships #parenting

The surprisingly simple reason kids have imaginary friends

https://www.vox.com/life/404992/imaginary-friends-kids-friendships-children

#HackerNews #imaginaryfriends #kids #psychology #childhood #friendships #parenting

Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. In 1814, when he envisioned an entity such
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#linocut #printmaking #histsci #MastoArt #Laplace #LaplacesDemon #physics #determinism #ImaginaryFriends #Science

Happy birthday Pierre-Simon, marquis de Laplace (23 March 1749 – 5 March 1827), French mathematical physicist (who incidentally, did invaluable work in geophysics). He was pretty hard-headed and probably didn’t really have any imaginary friends, but nonetheless Laplace’s Demon is my 3rd in the series of Imaginary Friends of Science. In 1814, when he envisioned an entity such
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#linocut #printmaking #histsci #MastoArt #Laplace #LaplacesDemon #physics #determinism #ImaginaryFriends #Science

Welcome new imaginary friends [email protected] and [email protected] to the cast of millions at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (served up to us today by [email protected] and [email protected], respectively).

My favorite new imaginary friend (aka spamtrap) today was however [email protected], a faked sender address.

Logs for the interested at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogpix/new_imaginary_friends_20250306.txt

#spam #spamd #spamtraps #greytrapping #imaginaryfriends #cybercrime #antispam

Welcome new imaginary friends [email protected] and [email protected] to the cast of millions at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml (served up to us today by [email protected] and [email protected], respectively).

My favorite new imaginary friend (aka spamtrap) today was however [email protected], a faked sender address.

Logs for the interested at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/blogpix/new_imaginary_friends_20250306.txt

#spam #spamd #spamtraps #greytrapping #imaginaryfriends #cybercrime #antispam

The other horribly nonsensical thing I saw during the last 24 hours was the error messages GNU Emacs emits when it is faced with a file of a size that exceeds its expected per-buffer memory allocation.

Fortunately a sane solution was found for that particular problem (split that big hand generated log into smaller pieces) - search for "this log directory" in https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml #spamtraps #greyptrapping #spamd #antispam #cybercrime #imaginaryfriends

The other horribly nonsensical thing I saw during the last 24 hours was the error messages GNU Emacs emits when it is faced with a file of a size that exceeds its expected per-buffer memory allocation.

Fortunately a sane solution was found for that particular problem (split that big hand generated log into smaller pieces) - search for "this log directory" in https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml #spamtraps #greyptrapping #spamd #antispam #cybercrime #imaginaryfriends

For some reason I just looked up my now just over 2 year old piece "The Things Spammers Believe - A Tale of 300,000 Imaginary Friends" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/spammers_believe_in_300k_imaginary_friends.html (prettified, tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-things-spammers-believe-tale-of.html) and realized that number will soon roll past the next big round marker. #spamtraps #traplist #spam #antispam #openbsd #pf #spamd #cybercrime #bottomfeeders #imaginaryfriends

For some reason I just looked up my now just over 2 year old piece "The Things Spammers Believe - A Tale of 300,000 Imaginary Friends" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/spammers_believe_in_300k_imaginary_friends.html (prettified, tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-things-spammers-believe-tale-of.html) and realized that number will soon roll past the next big round marker. #spamtraps #traplist #spam #antispam #openbsd #pf #spamd #cybercrime #bottomfeeders #imaginaryfriends

#religionispoison #atheist #atheism #imaginaryfriends

#religionispoison #atheist #atheism #imaginaryfriends

This morning had me notice a new episode of the type described in "The Despicable, No Good, Blackmail Campaign Targeting ... Imaginary Friends?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/despicable_no_good_blackmail.html (or prettified, tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-despicable-no-good-blackmail.html), the first in quite a while, I might add.

Data so far to be perused at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/wankstortion/20241009/ (now refreshed & gzipped).

#spam #scams #wankstortion #sextortion #cybercrime #imaginaryfriends #spamtraps

This morning had me notice a new episode of the type described in "The Despicable, No Good, Blackmail Campaign Targeting ... Imaginary Friends?" https://nxdomain.no/~peter/despicable_no_good_blackmail.html (or prettified, tracked https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/12/the-despicable-no-good-blackmail.html), the first in quite a while, I might add.

Data so far to be perused at https://nxdomain.no/~peter/wankstortion/20241009/ (now refreshed & gzipped).

#spam #scams #wankstortion #sextortion #cybercrime #imaginaryfriends #spamtraps

Another movie review. A great movie to watch with kids is IF (Imaginary Friends) https://www.filmaffinity.com/es/film534650.html It had me crying a few times. Ryan Reynolds is great but, writer, director and actor, John Krasinski is great too. At first Cailey Fleming didn't engage me that much, but she did a great job. #FilmReview #IF #ImaginaryFriends #JohnKrasinski #CaileyFleming #Comedy #Drama #Melodrama #Childhood #CopingWithLost #FilmReview #MovieReview #Movie

Happy birthday to #physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)! He dreamt up his demon to deal with the very odd 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (which is not a law like others, and can not be derived from first priciples). It states that two bodies of different temperature brought together in a closed system will reach thermal equilibrium; or, you cannot use a cold thing to heat a hot thing; 🧵1/
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#sciart #linocut #printmaker #MaxwellsDemon #ImaginaryFriends #thermodynamics #MastoArt

Happy birthday to #physicist James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)! He dreamt up his demon to deal with the very odd 2nd Law of Thermodynamics (which is not a law like others, and can not be derived from first priciples). It states that two bodies of different temperature brought together in a closed system will reach thermal equilibrium; or, you cannot use a cold thing to heat a hot thing; 🧵1/
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#sciart #linocut #printmaker #MaxwellsDemon #ImaginaryFriends #thermodynamics #MastoArt

Super Bomberman 4 for the Super Famicom! A recent pickup and who knew there were 4 of these on the SFC? It must have practically been an annualized franchise. Graphics, art, music, and gameplay of Bomberman are all really nice. This series is really "happy place" stuff.

This one has the neat feature of little jail cells in the story mode. When you bomb them, you free a Bomberman NPC that helps you clear the stage! #imaginaryfriends

#retrogaming #snes #superfamicom #sfc #bomberman

This print "Occam's Razor" is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), "pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate" or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right. 🧵1/n
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#linocut #printmaking #Occam #Ockham #OccamsRazor #typography #sciArt #philosophy #histstm #imaginaryfriends #science #cryptids #MastoArt

This print "Occam's Razor" is about the Law of Economy or Parsimony postulated by Scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347), "pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate" or entities should not be needlessly multiplied. More simply this law, or really, rule of thumb is that the simplest explanation is usually right. 🧵1/n
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#linocut #printmaking #Occam #Ockham #OccamsRazor #typography #sciArt #philosophy #histstm #imaginaryfriends #science #cryptids #MastoArt

How come "Harvey" isn't an easter movie?

#movies #easter #rabbits #imaginaryFriends

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042546/

How come "Harvey" isn't an easter movie?

#movies #easter #rabbits #imaginaryFriends

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042546/

331133 is a truly bizarre number in this context (https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml) also https://nxdomain.no/~peter/spammers_believe_in_300k_imaginary_friends.html or tracked with nicer formatting https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-things-spammers-believe-tale-of.html but will likely change (increase) soon #spamd #spamfighting #spamtraps #imaginaryfriends #openbsd

331133 is a truly bizarre number in this context (https://nxdomain.no/~peter/traplist.shtml) also https://nxdomain.no/~peter/spammers_believe_in_300k_imaginary_friends.html or tracked with nicer formatting https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2022/09/the-things-spammers-believe-tale-of.html but will likely change (increase) soon #spamd #spamfighting #spamtraps #imaginaryfriends #openbsd

Watch Ryan Reynolds in the trailer for John Krasinski’s IF here https://bit.ly/48fqYdE

#IF #RyanReynolds #IFmovie #JohnKrasinski #SteveCarell #ImaginaryFriends

This is so fucking stupid. We have more evidence for the existence of ghosts than evidence for real, still-living Hamas members. We’re bombing hospitals over this? I hope Biden burns his tongue on every vaguely warm beverage he has. #LindaPosting #Vent #SittingInBedReadingTheNews #mastodon #Hamas #imaginaryfriends

This is so fucking stupid. We have more evidence for the existence of ghosts than evidence for real, still-living Hamas members. We’re bombing hospitals over this? I hope Biden burns his tongue on every vaguely warm beverage he has. #LindaPosting #Vent #SittingInBedReadingTheNews #mastodon #Hamas #imaginaryfriends