After weeks of dithering back and forth, the Trump administration has finally moved forward with an executive order on federal oversight of new AI systems. I’d applaud if the order was worth the paper it’s written on, but it’s not.

The context for this long overdue move was Anthropic’s unveiling of its AI system called Mythos, which apparently has an unprecedented ability to find and exploit…

From July of last year, the blog called decryption posted a bunch of wondrous examples of 1-bit MacPaint art from the early days of the platform. MacPaint had a distinctive aesthetic: tiny dots, each either white or black, favored the use of dithering to create makeshift grayscale. (Note: one image is NSFW.) Here’s a few … Continue reading "Classic MacPaint Art"