Sheesh, Mondays are bad enough without them punching you in the face to remind you.

I'm not sure who turned me on to @nprofile1q...'s blog. I think it was @nprofile1q..., but I could be wrong on that. Regardless, I really liked this post of hers, especially with the world today as context. I highly suggest giving it a read. I'd like to think she writes the way I would. You know, if I was smarter and actually a good writer.

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/be-thou-not-pilled/

I'm not sure how I feel about the anthropomorphization of AI. On one hand, humans do that. They anthropomorphize cars and boats and other things that are far less "human like" to interact with than today's LLMs. But does the fact that LLMs ARE "human like" to interact with make it more or less scary to anthropomorphize them? No one is going to lose track of the fact that their truck is not human, even if you do refer to it as "him". I can see where that line might get blurry with LLMs.

I've been spending some time researching the EU's Digital Sovereignty movement lately because it seems like a real opportunity for Open Source software to get a foothold in some markets where it's traditionally faced challenges. I'm not from the EU, and I'm far from an expert on these matters. One of the recent decisions that's confused the holy hell out of me is the choice of Qwant for search. Nothing against #Qwant, but they're HEAVILY dependent on Microsoft last I checked. Not true anymore?