Notepad++ "Chinese-linked cyberespionage group with a long history hijacked the update process for the popular code editing platform Notepad++ to deliver a custom backdoor and other malware."

Five expressions that are used when bumping into someone in an unexpected place… 1. It’s a small world (English) 2. How round is the earth (Ukrainian) 3. The world is a village (German) 4. The world is a handkerchief (Spanish) 5. What an odd place to find a lobster (Irish)

centaur's puffer jacket #art

Timeline Cleanse: Please enjoy this photo of a praying mantis that was sitting on top of my car windshield, but the angling and lighting were so weird it looks like a giant praying mantis wandering a corn field in Iowa.

Well this 2,600-year-old clay letter was a journey. It comes from the archive of a goldsmith named Nabû-zeru-iddin in the heart of ancient Assyria. We’ve got someone left on read, a lawsuit, a mean step-mom, and people who get drunk and steal silver.

One bit In my new environment design book is demonstrating staging techniques, now live on Kickstarter! www.kickstarter.com/projects/190...

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

🐏 New Absolute Units 🐏 Same-sex relationships have always been part of rural England, but they've been underrepresented in our collections. In the first of 2 episodes, @timjerrome.bsky.social shares his work tracing queer rural lives in The MERL archives. merl.reading.ac.uk/explore/abso...

basically if you do not have an extremely resilient sense of self/theory of mind and a strong willingness to repeatedly impose behavioral rules on the agent, extended interaction with the free tier of chatgpt is designed to make you psychotic. its psycho-affectively akin to licking a car battery

Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) as seen this morning. I kind of feel the black and white version brings out more detail in its tail. #comet 🔭

AAUP v. Rubio is out, and look at how it starts. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Ma petite collection de fleurs roses 🌷💕 #paperflower

I need to go back to my roots. Be the bitch I wish to see in the world.

I was part of a working group on AI and Fraternity assembled by the Vatican. We met in Rome and worked on this over two days. I am happy to share the result of that intense effort: a Declaration we presented to the Pope and other government authorities coexistence.global

What an expertly called shot

These are spreads for McCall's magazine by Andy Virgil, 1959. Each spread was paying about $1,500 at that time. Today that would be between $9,000-$12,000. The average price of a brand new car in 1959 was $2,200.

I’m not an Absolute Coffee Guy so maybe Mr Cena is full of it but this absolutely cracked me up.

GOOD NEWS! Researchers at the University of Florida have developed a UNIVERSAL vaccine that dramatically BOOSTS the immune system’s ability to fight tumors- even WITHOUT targeting a SPECIFIC cancer type. It has the potential to do away with chemotherapy, surgery AND radiation treatment.

Norwegian home invasion.

I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight. 1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms" 2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral 3) How tools are productized is not neutral [rant]

"There is Death in the Pot" — front cover for an early 19th-century book on culinary poisoning.

Final comment is a reminder that this exists, which attempts to track down your internet footprint so you can manage it. It also does NSFW sites optionally for adult performers It’s buggy and there’s false positives; going to try to improve it soon. There’s also an issue with Russian clone sites.

Read this interview with a personal hero, Professor @daniellecitron.bsky.social: "we have essentially presumed that data collection is a good...We have long ignored this important inclination that collection itself is endangering our privacy and civil liberties" www.politico.com/newsletters/...

💯💯💯 Many ancient homes all over the world had no private kitchens/food prep spaces, period! Especially if you were poor! This is why the discovery of a largely-intact "fast food" shopfront in Pompeii was such a huge deal, a few years ago. These places rarely survive the passage of time.

In Renaissance Italy (my specialty) many small apartments had a fireplace for heat but no oven or food prep space. One could buy bread, a chunk of meat, and “sauce” to take home and roast the meat on a spit, very like buying a microwave meal today. For complex things (stews, veggies, pies) takeout.

Authoritarians love "Gen AI" because it - Sounds confident even when factually wrong - Broadly conforms to & reproduces their biases, off the shelf - Lets them create bespoke realities (text, audio, moving & still image) which agree w/ their biases - Degrades trust in knowledge/evidence/expertise…

I see grocery/takeout shaming discourse going around again, so this is your periodic historian reminder that cooking from scratch daily while working has never been sustainable, and for millennia everyone either relied on takeout & restaurants or ate in huge households w/ big dorm-like group dining.

Background paintings from Castle in the Sky (1986), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Studio Ghibli Pieces painted by Nizo Yamamoto, Toshiro Nozaki and Mutsuo Koseki

Oh, this is a good topic! There is an element of 'consent' to pitched battles, but it's not the old myth of generals agreeing to have a battle before tea time. And to the question - a better Roman general would presumably have refused battle at a place like Cannae. But let's talk about it. 1/

Were you a curious kid? Maybe you spent some time looking at antlion pit traps? They're also called "doodle bugs" because they leave meandering paths in the sandy soils they call home. The 'antlion' is actually the larval form of a type of lacewing, often confused for dragonflies.

This is a technique I’ve used for years because of this one tweet from @sonnyross.bsky.social. Thank you Sonny for changing my life The book cover was designed by Talia Abramson at Penguin but they let me have a bit of a say over the colours. And I said boy do I have an idea….

you may have seen this seal and the memedom around it. @arrdem.com wanted to make a big art print of it, so we wanted to find a higher resolution of this image. since this is a seal, we first looked up which seal collection it can be found in

it turns out 撫劒傷世路 "caressing your blade and lamenting the state of it all" is from an earlier, Tang-dynasty poem: zh.wikisource.org/zh-hant/%E8%...

I think one of the saddest things about being a millennial is remembering a time when technology was advancing in a way that made life better and easier and more exciting instead of actively, intentionally worse

Regensburg is definitely worth a visit. The city still features visible remnants of the Roman legionary fortress of Reginum/Castra Regina, notably the Porta Praetoria, its north gate: a part of the gate tower and the gateway are integrated into the former Bishop's residence, which...🧵1/2 📷 me

A good way to start the day: 1600 year-old pot depicting a Humboldt penguin made by Nazca artisans. Also love that this article's author included the factoid that Humboldt penguins are known for their projectile-pooping.

Feeling the heat? 🥵 Try these herbal remedies for cooling the blood from our 18th century herbal notebook.

The iPad of late antiquity (this one is even similar in size!): a complete wax tablet found in Byzantine Egypt still wit notes in Coptic on it. Low content permanence but high portability with an infinite undo function! Met Museum 14.2.4a–d, c. 500-700

And if you’ve seen any major productions, you know the quality. Here are 5 Cdramas set in imperial China, with splendid period sets and costumes, featuring clever, spirited and resourceful female doctors or herbalists, written and produced by the Chinese, which Apothecary Diaries fans might like. 2/

Here's apple doing a better job integrating cloud native linux than linux distros. Again.

I have cleared the garden of like two square meters of bishop’s weed and somehow the pile is calf high already??? How does it DO that?

you can prompt inject a repository coding bot with a malicious pull request, because of course you can arstechnica.com/security/202...

All those young people studying coding when it turns out the real careers of the future will all be in smuggling.

1/29: First plane crash in 16 years in DC 1/31: Crash in Philly 2/5: Delta flight struck in Seattle 2/6: Flight wrecks in Alaska 2/10: Crash in Scottsdale 2/12: Military jet crashes in San Diego 2/16: Crash in Covington, GA 7 crashes since the WH congratulated itself for “restoring aviation safety”

When someone smashes up your boat and claims you did it

posting this for informational purposes only since obviously i do not condone stripping copy protection (DRM) for ebooks from the great and powerful amazon www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcBi...

GenAI has polluted image search results, especially for animal pics. It’s now basically impossible to find accurate art references. Enter this: a repository of open-access, AI-free images of wild & exotic taxa. Artists creating *without AI* have blanket permission for derivative/transformative use.