Penumbra (A more close up version of the silhouettes of the ruins of Castle Eisenberg in the penumbra on the hilltop in the forgeground) 2/2 #mountainmonday #landscapephotography #winterwonderland #sunset #silhouette

oh hey, rad, @bsky.brid.gy has created 'bounce', which lets people ... bounce from bsky over here, and keep all their followers! share it with all the people who left to go to bsky! https://blog.anew.social/bounce-beta-now-live/

“Even if international law permitted the United States to exercise enforcement jurisdiction in Venezuela, which it does not, the use of lethal force to do so was self-evidently unlawful. During law enforcement operations, resort to deadly force is lawful only when necessary in the face of an […]

‘…withdrawing recognition of a government does not remove the personal immunity that the incumbent head of state enjoys under customary international law. Second, Rodriguez has said (post swearing in) that Maduro is “the only President of Venezuela,” and is calling for the release of Maduro and […]

And here’s another terrifying Twitter horror show that our nearly-extinct press corps will even mention. Grok is a machine-extension of Elon Musk’s personality. Someone who could be one of the most disturbed people to amass supreme power since Caligula.

Defective moves immediately into negligence and malpractice when your instructions (and people's ability to find, read, understand, and remember them during an emergency) are the only way to escape severe injury and death. #ux https://wandering.shop/@cstross/115836985381700635

Pentagram doing some industrial design and branding work for the flying car biz. *Maybe they'll really fly this time. Somehow https://www.pentagram.com/work/vertical

Computers just got 5x’d in price because AI ate your RAM. Win 11 needs new hardware because it’s your job to buy new hardware. Mint is your salvation on that older hardware, so save this for when you’ve recovered from pricing a new Win 11-compatible machine […]

NYT: "President Trump said the United States would “run” Venezuela “until such time that we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition,” following the U.S. military operation that captured the country’s president, Nicolás Maduro, and his wife." "Mr. Trump offered few details about how the […]

the NYT, cont'd: Pressed by reporters on who would be running Venezuela, Trump points to his advisers standing behind him and says that for a “period of time” the “people that are standing right behind me, we’re going to be running it.” Some of the advisers standing behind him include Defense […]

Trump orders strikes on Caracas, officials tell CBS, as Venezuela declares national emergency - latest - BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c5yqygxe41pt #uspol #venezuela

Although very few of them ever voted, some 1700 errant voter registrations were found in #oregon since 2016. A poor user interface in the software has been blamed, and addressed. https://www.opb.org/article/2026/01/01/oregon-officials-consider-tweaks-motor-voter-process/

In the US, since 1970, deaths from heart attacks have dropped nearly 90% (with even better outcomes for younger patients) thanks to life-saving interventions and public health measures, according to a new study…and now more people die from heart failure, hypertension, and arrhythmias. "In 1970 […]

It appears that the company that did the bulk of the heavy lifting and research on Kimwolf -- Synthient -- is now under a DDoS attack. This is my shocked face. Read it while it's still live, lol.

New, by me: The Kimwolf Botnet is Stalking Your Local Network Today's story is a long overdue series of scoops nestled inside a far more urgent Internet-wide security advisory. The vulnerability at issue has been exploited for months already, and it’s time […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Some implications from the research in today's story: "Consider the following scenario, in which the mere act of allowing someone to use your Wi-Fi network could lead to a Kimwolf botnet infection. In this example, a friend or family member comes to stay with you for a few days, and you grant […]

Require ALL the LLM vendors to apply for medical device certification with the relevant medical regulatory authorities, ie. the FDA in the USA. It takes years, requires a mountain of paperwork, PROOF of no risk of harm, and costs fractional-to-integer billions. Penalty of jail time for evaders.

*I wrote a long design essay about my adventures with the world's oldest and weirdest multitool. https://medium.com/@bruces/ancient-everyday-weirdness-591955f40a2d

RE: https://mastodon.thi.ng/@toxi/115815961061014546 Happy New Year, everyone! Never give up, never surrender, keep on realizing your dreams, build up resilience, be excellent to each other, focus on community, be human(ist), be creative and bring & share the light to keep the encroaching […]

See thread: it's all kicking off in Iran right now (sounds like a pre-revolutionary situation in progress, but this isn't the first time I've been wrong about that—the IRG have been very efficient at smacking down popular uprisings so far).

Jasmine Crockett’s greatest hits 2025: https://bsky.app/profile/crockett.house.gov/post/3mbcwj3uoi22d #uspol

Triggered by yesterday's discussion about old fluid sims, a short thread with some more examples from that period 2007-2009 to explore fluid dynamics for marbling... 2/3 #fluidsim #fluiddynamics #simulation #marbling #generativeart

The last light of 2025.... (...is giving me big hopes for 2026, against all odds!) #landscapephotography #sunset #alps #mountains #hny2026

One of the finest investigative journalists of our times, a veteran of CBS news foibles himself, has posted a definitive explainer -- with deep context -- of the "60 Minutes" takedown by "oligarch functionary" Bari Weiss […]

Want to make Trans Rescue happen? If you have training in psychology or social work and are licensed anywhere but the USA, we are seeking volunteers for the critical role of helping desperate people keep it together while they do scary things. It's life saving work. email volunteer@transrescue […]

“White Supremacist dating platform hacked and deleted - live on stage Chaos Communication Congress” (Reddit) https://www.reddit.com/r/chaoticgood/comments/1pzu0ei/white_supremacist_dating_platform_hacked_and/ Data analysis https://okstupid.lol/ Full talk (download for English) […]

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115808306629909320 New 19,000 word piece by Ed Zitron about how "modern society created the conditions for what I call The Enshittifinancial Crisis — the place at which my friend Cory Doctorow’s Enshittification Theory meets my own Rot Economy Thesis in a […]

We let the criminal Nixon get away without being prosecuted (or even acknowledging his guilt) and that set a bad precedent for the United States that has burdened us for 50 years.

In a capitalist world you build a company to ship a desirable product; the more desirable, the more money you make. In a post-capitalist world you build a company that monopolizes some commodity and forces people to do business with you. You use your excess profits to buy politicians to protect […]

Wired may have given away your PII in a breach. Conde Nast hasn’t responded to the person who allegedly tried to warn them (who is now the person of interest). Nor have CN responded to the cybersecurity reporters at […]

KrebsOnSecurity.com celebrates its 16th anniversary today! A huge “thank you” to all of our readers — newcomers, long-timers and drive-by critics alike. Your engagement this past year here has been tremendous and truly a salve on a handful of dark days […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

Yet another big decades-long environmental ad campaign revealed to mostly be about reducing risks to corporate profits by turning it into an individual responsibility — just like consumer recycling and carbon footprints […]

Most people fervently hate computers that pretend to be people or that pretend to emote, fawn, and flatter. Usability testing makes that clear. Unless someone sets out to play at an ersatz relationship with a chatbot, they want machines to just do their jobs and not try to fool them. And that’s […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@borkdude/115799677210560924 Couldn't agree more with what Rich Hickey (creator of Clojure) says here in response to one of those sycophantic "Thank you" emails generated by Claude LLM and sent to various people in CompSci... (see @robpike for another example) […]

Wow, ARTE produced a beautiful concert with the inimitable Kruder & Dorfmeister. And it's not just some deck magic of their best tracks/remixes, but actual live versions including a full band for support... Kruder & Dorfmeister - Konzerthaus de Vienne https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeXz1UqAuRg […]

“His plan to quietly retire and write a book turned into creating viral videos viewed around the world and a cross-Canada tour to fight Donald Trump.” #canada https://www.threads.com/@meidastouch/post/DS2wHSnCVED

Semi-regular puff star tato #origami @origami From a regular pentagon. The fun comes from the pentagonal twist of a decagon.

My art, but not my video[1]. The piece is ASCII-SCAPE (2022), a pure text-only version of my C-SCAPE [2] multi-cellular automata piece in which several "organisms" are co-evolving in the same space and forming infinitely changing patterns/structures […] [Original post on mastodon.thi.ng]

Meanwhile in Canada. #icestorm #freezingrain #tigers #tiger #cat #cats #humor #humour

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remember how i said you should turn your radios off when you go out because of privacy reasons, and people complained about losing some slight convenience? your threat model just changed https://infosec.exchange/@oots/115794083146524045

One of the most important example of #Trump #censorship to date: "DOJ Deletes Study Showing Domestic Terrorists Are Most Often Right Wing." https://archive.ph/Ow3FE Thanks as always to the #waybackmachine for preserving a copy […]

Hi everyone, I wanna tell you about a really cool #trans person I’ve learned about recently - Wendy Carlos. (Thread: 1/3) Carlos was born in 1939 and is currently 86 years old. She helped develop the first ever commercial #synthesizer, Moog, in 1964. She […] [Original post on hachyderm.io]

Finally caught up with Benn Jordan's 2nd Flock video and holy shit how do we allow Flock Safety to keep existing? https://youtu.be/vU1-uiUlHTo

* Asked to send a vibe coded project out for peer review. * Refused because the code was unreviewable, giving a handful of reasons why. * one reason: The first test I read tests nothing and its description makes no sense - description says "test input x is scored as y and not z". Test […]

“The 2025 Formula for Refusal • Institutional Authority: Council members leveraging "procurement power"—local democracy's most underutilized tool—to say no. • Community Mobilization: A base that refuses to debate "better policy" and demands "no cameras." • Shared Intelligence: Local […]

Homunculus 1916 https://youtu.be/l4xcZOqsvnQ?si=tfq9OKMd6yi26Zv- *This is one of the most impressive silent movies that I'd never heard of *The protagonist is a posthuman test-tube-baby supervillain who become both a high-tech superscience mogul and a violent, populist rabble-rouser *He […]

The arc of typography is long, but bends toward pretty wicked woke.

Re: The last part of the above quote, i.e. "Too often in this industry hardware is used to solve software problems." This one will be quickly coming home to roost in the coming year(s)... Regardless of other Moore's Law aspects losing validity (or past tense already), the "law" also never […]