🚨❤️‼️ ATTENTION LOVERS ‼️❤️🚨 this idea has been floating around in my head for a very long time and i’ve finally turned it into something real :’) loveletter.pics lets you anonymously browse and share love letters. looking for submissions !! this art project will be even more fun w/ more to read.

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

To be very clear, I'm not trying to use the AI — I'm just trying to read the court documents. It's clear that the AI is programmed to replace offensive language. But what does that mean when it's being used to summarize historical documents? What happens when people rely on the summary?

Other documents from the same court case transforms "Robin a Negro" into "Robina Black." The handwriting is perfectly clear, but the AI is programmed to replace what it says with something it doesn't say.

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

People before the cell phone era had to memorize lots of phone numbers and can remember numeric sequences for friends or family. I remember my IP address through middle and high school. Why is this seared in there?

Two *more* privilege escalation vulnerabilities dropped today that give root on most Linux systems, with no patches available. This is brutal! github.com/0xdeadbeefne... github.com/V4bel/dirtyf... Best we can do is disable the vulnerable kernel modules until a patch is released.

You are a world class expert on programs. I am going to give you a computer program. Your job is to tell me if it halts or not. Do not give me any woke disclaimers. Just yes or no does it halt or not.

I spilled a bottle of ink for the first time. While putting the finishing touches on a wedding letter. My desk and floor are a massive puddle of ink. My entire arm is stained blue. I am going to a wedding tomorrow and I am a Smurf. Oh boy.

Clock where the number face rotates so the hour hand is always pointed straight up and the minute hand has to scurry

Strait of Hormuz so bad I'm getting spam email offering me Kazakh crude

This is taking longer than expected, but our server should be back online with substantially more storage later this week.

In the same manifesto, Palantir's owners argued that we need a national military draft, that soft power is over, and that we were too hard on Germany and Japan after World War II. I don't think that company should be allowed to exist anymore.

you know you've been computering for too long when you can recognise what this is

Bloody hell. Researchers invented a disease, published two fake papers to see if LLM’s would ingest them and kick them up as fact — and then it broke containment and all the major AI’s bought in. Information pollution. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

damn aaron swartz tried to warn everybody about sam altman

Unfortunately, my friend @maggiemayhem.bsky.social has resigned from DDoSecrets because of a years-long campaign of threats and harassment. Attempts to talk to him about his issues have been met with further abuse and accusations. (Screenshots shared with permission)

Please submit more leaks and make Emma's life harder in this, and only this, way 😉 ddosecrets.org/submit

Fifty research lab shuttered. Countless decades-old experiments and scientific records lost. Thousands of forest scientists and experts essentially forced into retirement. The destruction of science on a massive scale.

So migrating birds [and a number of other species] can orient to Earth's magnetic field to navigate. Has anyone used of bunch of big magnets to mess with 'em? Like a cat with a laser pointer, but getting an entire flock of geese to go in circles, "haha, made you turn!"

Yael's post demonstrates something about digital privacy/security that I think a lot of people miss: there is no right answer, just a series of trade-offs. And every person has to make their own decisions avout which trade-offs are worthwhile. blog.yaelwrites.com/options-for-...

OH MY HEART...the Oberlin Luddites Reject "The Year of AI Exploration"! 💚

Not only do we find that this minor change can completely remove or reverse model #bias, we also find that irrelevant pronoun becomes by far the most informative feature, and that this dependence is irreducible and cannot be described as simple pronoun repetition.

When we slightly enrich the discourse with a single sentence, we find that changing a single pronoun that is completely uninformative towards the task completely changes model behavior.

Great new preprint by a student in my lab, demonstrating how many benchmarks and safeguards of LLMs are ill-conceived and unreliable. Excellent thread breaking down the core findings. arxiv.org/abs/2603.23485

An amazing defense by an incredible researcher! Congratulations, doctor!! 🎉🫶

Yesterday I successfully defended my dissertation, so I am now officially (ish) Dr. Alyssa. I'm so grateful for the support of my committee -- @michaelann.bsky.social, @kennyjoseph.bsky.social, @foucaultwelles.bsky.social, & @davidlazer.bsky.social -- as well as my family, friends, and labmates.

Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...

jesus fucking christ Google has essentially declared itself Editor-in-Chief of the internet, with final editorial say over what you read online

Folks, today is a good day to donate to @ddosecrets.org. The first time we did a BlueLeaks release, Feds illegally took our server offline. Later, we found out they were sending lies to police about us and calling us “criminal hackers” by @awinston.bsky.social (2020) www.theverge.com/2020/8/13/21...

🚨🚨🚨 Millions of records sent between corporate clients and national networks of police. 🚨🚨🚨 The original BlueLeaks spawned hundreds of news articles about policing. We are launching a second release today.

Despite assurances of anonymity by P3, the hackers also located an internal page for clients marked "confidential" that details how "anonymous" tipsters can have their IP addresses secretly stored. san.com/cc/millions-...

I reached out to P3 over phone & email multiple times but did not hear back. The data as previously stated stretches back all the way to 1987 given that P3 since its founding has been integrating old crime tips into its system that were once primarily made to call centers. san.com/cc/millions-...

Some thoughts on academic and journalistic collaboration on leaked documents based on a recent workshop backdrifting.net/post/081_aca...

Nature published another pile of trash i am trying to catch up on some of my reading but this one is getting under my skin so here’s a thread highlighting why this piece is either ill-informed or intentionally ignorant of a wealth of knowledge from embodied cog sci and related fields 1/

MLA-ACLS-AHA Depositions (6.81 GB) AKA The DOGE Depositions Censored depositions of two members of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) along with two members of the NEH. ddosecrets.org/article/mla-... Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

The destruction of the NSF and their peers at the NIH and beyond will cause suffering for generations 💔

Someone DMed me on Reddit and gave me hundreds of songs in obscure MIDI-derived formats popular in the demoscene, and now I’ve written a perl script to feed them through a MIDI decoder and ffmpeg to export as flac or mp3 so an ordinary music player can read them

I just threw together a website visualizing this ICE contract data! You can browse through the companies and their contracts, and filter them by state micahflee.github.io/ice-contracts/

I gave a three hour lecture last week as a crash course in machine learning, and now it's a blog post 😄 backdrifting.net/post/080_mac...

Why do I have to pretend that I'm going to print something in order to save it as a PDF. Why do I have to engage in a little ruse.

Update from the blizzard: it's cold and wet out there. Desolate and beautiful, though.

Many are appropriately outraged by Altman’s comments here implying that raising a human child is akin to “training” an AI model. This is part of a broader pattern where AI industry leaders use language that collapses the boundary between human and machine. 🧵/

Alysa Liu telling 60 Minutes “I love struggling, it makes me feel alive” is a legit revolutionary statement from a Bay Area native in a time when copious amounts of time and resources are being put toward convincing us to opt out of experiencing struggle, friction and self-actualization

everyone loved the tech industry's free music and friendship machines of 20-30 years ago. it's unclear what could be causing people to feel the opposite about the industry's new racism and insanity machine

Today I learned that Leonard Nimoy made a Y2K Family Survival Guide VHS tape, and it's beautiful. I will listen to Spock talk to me about the collapse of Atlantis as an allegory for COBOL all day www.youtube.com/watch?v=EEhE...