Anonymous had other options than the Guy Fawkes mask

Git still hiring poets to write error messages.

🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

One of my friends ranked everyone in his class in terms of how often they replied to other’s posts in the discussion forum, like chess so you get a higher Elo for replies from high Elo students. He tracked popularity over time to demonstrate how his takes had gotten worse as the semester progressed.

Only a bollard is brave enough to stop a burning runway car. WE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN. #WorldBollardAssociation 🇮🇳

Please Use AI

A new trend I've noticed is *many* independent researchers asking for arXiv endorsement on Reddit. None of them share their drafts (until commenters demand it), just "here's my endorsement code, can you approve me for cs.SE / cs.AI?" I suspect that LLMs are encouraging this practice. Very strange.

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

A dear friend is graduating soon, so it's time to learn to write a satisfying capital B to address their congratulation letter

"Have you seen any really innovative use of VR beyond Beat Saber?" "Finally answering 'would you still love me if I was a worm?'"

Apparently @ddosecrets.org's work won some Emmys (and other awards) emma.best/2026/06/02/a...

A new era of PC. 25.0528, 121.5990

Each time I pass this collapsed lamppost it’s disassembled just a bit more, parts missing or splayed out across the grass. It feels like decay, watching nature reclaim life, first with scavengers, then with fungus. All the human ants nibbling away at the lamppost carcass to support their colonies

Thinking about LLM model collapse 🔥 backdrifting.net/post/082_mod...

Fashion may look more diverse today, but the ideal body type hasn’t changed in 25 years. A new PNAS study co-authored by NetSI PhD student @diesagar.bsky.social analyzed 793K+ fashion images and found diversity often comes through already-marginalized models. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

Three panels confirmed for @hope.net - see y'all in August. 1. Epstein files 2. BlueLeaks 2.0 3. How to Be a Whistleblower

There are fluffballs with faces in my building's lobby today!

"Please provide a justification for the foreign collaboration." Science.

So I can’t just mail a liquid. Like if I go to USPS with a puddle and some stamps they’ll tell me no. But what about a cardboard box filled with liquid? Is there a maximum sogginess the postal service will accept? How moist can my mail be?

🚨❤️‼️ 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...