Correct. #supportartistsbuyart https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/top-writers-ruled-out-of-nz-book-awards-due-to-ai-covers

stop saying «conservative» when you mean «anti-humanist»

OTD 1999: #sunmicrosystems announces the Sun Ray thin client. Great blog about its development: https://marcschneider.weebly.com/sun-ray.html

our periodic reminder that @riskybusiness holidays are their own cursed threat level https://infosec.exchange/@lorenzofb/114892936832579918

Earlier this week, Peter Gutmann and @sten published a bombshell paper: The looked at all the reported factorization "breakthroughs" in quantum computing. And found that all of them essentially were magician's tricks, "sleight of hand". The two reconstructed the algorithms used on a 1981 home […]

why is US healthcare so expensive? I have a genetic iron-loading disorder that is managed with therapeutic phlebotomy. there is no end-date for this; I have to do it forever before donating ~14% of my blood volume, I need an iron panel to see how saturated I am and avoid over-correcting into […]

For those not in the know: Amazon prices fluctuate all the time. Once a year, Amazon hypes up "Prime Day", where they make your savings over **list price** jump out at you to trigger a psychological reaction that says "I need to buy this **now** (before […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

so many companies aggressively chucking people who are and engender deep wells of institutional knowledge into the proverbial woodchipper right now because pushers got senior leadership hooked on AI efficiency bath salts… this is how organisations hollow themselves out of their capacity to […]

there is no ethical AI in late stage capitalism

Protest is an AND, not an OR. Your voice is more than your vote, it is the strength of belief to *demonstrate* your convictions Vote, yes, but also riot, write, dance, and speak. It’s how we tell each other we aren’t alone in those convictions https://mas.to/@carnage4life/114729400303282992

ah yes, nothing more fiscally responsible than chucking $20M bombs at brown folks in the name of freedom fuck this country – we learn *nothing* https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-iran-war-latest-06-21-2025-894a8cfb8bf2c1b717e0a955f22b91e0

18V power tool platforms sound like a great idea until you find yourself drilling & driving hardware mounts for *30* windows my delts better look polyhedral after this 🦾

surprise hot yoga forges powerful bonds. like you *think* you have close friends, but how many of them know what your sweat tastes like? (HVAC has been busted in the studio at my climbing gym for over a week now and the weather is tropical swamp)

Mānawatia a Matariki: Happy Māori New Year #aotearoa #newzealand

just going to leave this here as an explanation for why nobody who opted out of this theft, grift, and crime-driven dystopian arms race «lost» shit.¹ I look forward to the sector and discipline-specific models with actual integrity and safeguards that rise from the ashes. more modestly sized – […]

Former Secretaries of the Navy and Army and retired 4 star generals have filed a strong amicus brief in California’s lawsuit to block U.S. Marines from streets of L.A. and declare his federalization of the Cal national guard unlawful. Full brief at […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Olaf’s cancer journey is a stark reminder that malignancy truly is the APT to end them all you don’t know «sophisticated» until you know tumour micro-environments. they completely rewire cell metabolism, alter local pH to suppress immune function, hijack platelets for cloaking and metastasis… […]

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5 wks ago my boy Olaf received a shock cancer diagnosis – stage III/IV tonsillar squamous cell carcinoma, which comes with poor prognosis and a median survival time of ~100 days 3 wks ago an incredible surgical team removed his left tonsil, its 2 cm tumour […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Crypto did not solve a single non-criminal problem that technologies like M-PESA (2007) and basic non-repudiation had not already solved LLMs are being used to both amplify criminal harms enabled by crypto *and* breed entire categories of novel socio-economic harm Their unique harms are bad […]

in more hopeful moments I like to think that reckless use of LLMs in professional settings will become the equivalent of hanging a sign around one’s neck reading «NO SKILLS, NO INTEGRITY»

Pick your favourite LLM and ask it a tightly bounded, quantitative research question Then, add something like «Provide MLA formatted citations with their corresponding DOI numbers for the published human and animal studies from which you made your observations.» Then, verify that each result's […]

who knew a degree programme obsessed with provenance and visual pattern recognition would set me up to be so OP in technical fields (it was an arts degree; my undergrad is in art history. rip that AI screener out of your HR org and send it back to the hell it came from)

losing rule-of-law alongside the inspectibility of technologies sold to laypeople to *make decisions* is the kind of 1-2 punch any editor worth their salt would send back to the author for a rework with «calm tf down» scrawled across the margins in red pen

having an unscripted conversation with your boomer father in which he casually drops a reckon that he’s on the asexual spectrum is one of those things that knee-jerks ‘oh WILD’ but actually should be normal don’t blame racism and bigotry on age or generational norms. we are who we make […]

Crowdstrike laying off 5% of its workforce on the back of this is bullshit and why every practitioner in this industry should be trying to unionise, with urgency https://infosec.exchange/@lorenzofb/114467757617569351

bolstering ‘readiness and lethality’ by barring a demographic literally born to slay that *never* gets to stop fighting was it someone else’s turn with the brain cell today? https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-supreme-court-lets-trumps-transgender-military-ban-take-effect-2025-05-06/

I feel like the core problem of AI slop has a name, and it’s «analytic overwhelm» the remedy to this comes from regulatory science, and entails a focussed effort to decrease the enforcement burden of policies meant to mitigate that slop except we don’t have policies to mitigate or even corral […]

Wild to think about it now, but back in the mid-2000s the cost of international comms and data exchange was a very real budgetary bottleneck for NGOs, scientific institutions, &c. in lower-resourced countries Some of the first security work I ever did (without realising it was security work) […]

Getting the Voice of America back online will be no small task. “Bringing VOA out of a deep coma will require substantial time and a Herculean effort of our nearly 50 language services to try to reach some of our pre-shutdown total audience of 340 million,” VOA chief national correspondent […]

get you a climbing gym full of cuties who live play DnD and care enough to *help each other* with your pronouns so you can have chat about literally anything else so nice to just say ‘they/them’ once and be able to idk, take your hands off that wheel

An update about Moderna's next-gen #COVID #COVID19 vaccine mRNA-1283: I learned in this excellent Helen Branswell article in StatNews that the FDA says it will render a decision about Moderna's drug by May 31. There's much more about the epic dumpster fire that is US vaccine policy in the […]

Abolish ICE "It was absolutely the right call 7 years ago, and more so now, with nightly reports of violent raids gone awry, strip-searching tourists, and snatching student op-ed writers How America created a secret police, and how to get rid of it." If Will Bunch wrote it, you should read it […]

repeating myself, but it bears repeating : if you, a practitioner anywhere near this discipline, voted for the administration that *promised to do this* go ahead and drop any pretence of being in this game to keep people safe, punch yourself in the dick, and grow a moral compass […]

This is quite the article. #giftlink https://nyti.ms/44KUVn8

I like to think of myself as a well-adjusted individual who makes reasonable decisions choosing to play through Elden Ring on console should probably bury that idea

@Viss if a given AI cannot or will not reproduce its chains of thought with perfect fidelity 100% of the time, it has no business calling itself a product or service that bar is on the goddamn floor and we keep being told expectations are too high

afaict the push for AI in most workplaces comes with devaluation of critical thinking and pedagogy knowing *how to learn and deepen new skills effectively* is a mf’n superpower, and AI shills need you to believe it isn’t. ditto teaching your deep skills to others

given ::waves hands:: the single most important question leadership should be asking of line managers is: how are you creating and defending psychological safety for your team? performance and innovation flow *from* that place of safety – if you are treating it as an earned privilege you are […]

1. Juridical definitions of who is or is not what sort of person are THE foundation of fascism and the root of every modern genocide 2. There is *nowhere* on this precious blue dot we get to not fight this 3. Fuck you, Winston. I will keep tearing this coalition’s shithouse antihimanist […]

«To preserve its integrity, a Technical system will reject you sooner than it will accept me.» I feel this in my bones so hard they may have shattered. Read every word. https://www.fightforthehuman.com/why-i-cannot-be-technical/

free advice I give to anyone who asks these days : LIE to every part of the internet that isn’t a government like you got your first PC in 1993 and were part of eternal September birthday, name, gender, occupation, location, interests, favourite colour, ALL OF IT data brokerage gets a whole […]

Highly recommend this detailed reporting of ICE/DHS tactics. Hard to bear, but we must know what is being done. https://www.syracuse.com/news/2025/04/inside-trumps-upstate-ny-migrant-hunt-border-patrols-meaner-tactics-snare-workers-and-families.html

@circl and by the way, we just launched 🔗 https://gcve.eu/ GCVE: Global CVE Allocation System The Global CVE (GCVE) allocation system is a new, decentralized approach to vulnerability identification and numbering, designed to improve flexibility, scalability, and autonomy for participating […]

I miss the normal fuckery the kind you experience between axes labelled ‘mad’ and ‘disappointed’ instead of ‘crushed’ and ‘terrified’

Good in depth on the wretched WH authoritarian show. https://www.techdirt.com/2025/04/14/trump-bukele-plot-us-citizen-detention-in-salvadoran-torture-camps-while-defying-supreme-court-via-gibberish-responses-to-reporters/ by @mmasnick

Anyone who says they are «removing bias» from an LLM is rebalancing it to better support or undermine a worldview *of their choosing* Meta is making a choice to make their product friendlier to fascism. Others might take steps to make their product support a worldview in which fascism has no […]

I would like to offer a v sincere ✨🖕✨ to every single infosec practitioner who voted for this administration Krebs was and did everything a great public servant must be and do, and had already paid an unacceptably high price for his service Reflect on what it means to «fight for the user» and […]

The Foreign Service Journal has published my requiem for the Voice of America. https://afsa.org/sites/default/files/flipping_book/040525/10/index.html

Statistically, a plurality of our industry voted for this administration… never too late to contemplate one’s choices and resolve to make better, kinder, not-fascist ones https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/114310210263864358