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ysabetwordsmith) wrote2026-02-09 08:43 pmysabetwordsmith) wrote2026-02-09 08:23 pm
kengr, librarygeek, and (Anonymous) IP Address: (46.110.23.207). It also fills the "Take a Class" square in my 2-1-26 card for the Valentines Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by janetmiles. It belongs to the series Daughters of the Apocalypse.flamingsword) wrote2026-02-09 08:55 pmysabetwordsmith) wrote2026-02-09 05:56 pm readera. It also fills the "Do What You Love" square in my 2-1-26 card for the Valentines Bingo fest. This poem has been sponsored by janetmiles. It belongs to the Kraken thread of the Polychrome Heroics series. It follows "But an Empty Shell," "Beautiful, Damn Hard, Increasingly Useful," and "Filled with Things You Don't Know" ($49) so read at least the first two or this won't make as much sense.ysabetwordsmith) wrote2026-02-09 05:33 pm ysabetwordsmith) wrote2026-02-09 02:28 pmjanetmiles. It also fills the "Respect Limits" square in my 2-1-26 card for the Valentines Bingo fest.james_davis_nicoll) wrote2026-02-09 02:08 pmconuly) wrote2026-02-09 10:47 amarlie) wrote2026-02-09 09:43 amlsanderson) wrote2026-02-09 10:18 amoursin) wrote2026-02-09 03:46 pmToo busy trying to extend their lifespans to, you know, actually Have A Life?
The troubling rise of longevity fixation syndrome: ‘I was crushed by the pressure I put on myself’
One is actually surprised that this guy does in fact go for an evening out in a restaurant with his husband, even if he does exhaustively research it first and pre-order (and then melt down when it comes to him RONG):
He painstakingly monitored what he ate (sometimes only organic, sometimes raw or unprocessed; calories painstakingly counted), his exercise regime (twice a day, seven days a week), and tracked every bodily function from his heart rate to his blood pressure, body fat and sleep “schedule”. He even monitored his glucose levels repeatedly throughout the day. “I was living by those numbers,” he says.
And, indeed, tempted to say, it just feels like living for ever....
With a side of, austere regimes have been followed by religious devotees for centuries but that was for life everlasting in the next, not this, right?
But, honestly, surely it is possible to lead a healthy life which is not actually purgatorial - see also this Why has food become another joyless way to self-optimise?. Thinking back to the delicious healthy nosh at Grayshott of beloved nostalgic memories - along with the lovely treatments etc.
Okay, there are some dietary things I do because I do not particularly have to think about them, but that is because I made certain decisions back when, and e.g. I have my nice tasty home-made muesli of a morning with its healthy oats and linseed and nuts and it is an established pattern but it is a pleasure to eat.
conuly) wrote2026-02-09 10:47 amjames_davis_nicoll) wrote2026-02-09 10:08 am
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bruce_schneier_feed) wrote2026-02-09 12:04 pmThis is amazing:
Opus 4.6 is notably better at finding high-severity vulnerabilities than previous models and a sign of how quickly things are moving. Security teams have been automating vulnerability discovery for years, investing heavily in fuzzing infrastructure and custom harnesses to find bugs at scale. But what stood out in early testing is how quickly Opus 4.6 found vulnerabilities out of the box without task-specific tooling, custom scaffolding, or specialized prompting. Even more interesting is how it found them. Fuzzers work by throwing massive amounts of random inputs at code to see what breaks. Opus 4.6 reads and reasons about code the way a human researcher would—looking at past fixes to find similar bugs that weren’t addressed, spotting patterns that tend to cause problems, or understanding a piece of logic well enough to know exactly what input would break it. When we pointed Opus 4.6 at some of the most well-tested codebases (projects that have had fuzzers running against them for years, accumulating millions of hours of CPU time), Opus 4.6 found high-severity vulnerabilities, some that had gone undetected for decades.
The details of how Claude Opus 4.6 found these zero-days is the interesting part—read the whole blog post.
News article.
andrewducker) wrote2026-02-09 12:00 pm
