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2026-05-13 10:22:04 UTC

Umm, where have you been all my life?
https://monox18.github.io/JsonColorsAndNavigation/

2026-04-11 21:18:53 UTC

You can't have bixonomania without AI.
Literally.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y

2026-04-11 13:56:18 UTC

Yup. Instead of blaming people on the receiving end of bad services, why not -- hear me out here -- demand better services?
https://www.politico.eu/article/europe-should-stand-up-to-big-tech-instead-of-imposing-social-media-bans-estonia-says/

2026-04-06 00:24:21 UTC

There is no such thing as AI art.
Even the premise of this is ridiculous.

2026-04-04 16:11:17 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pojntfx/116345677794218793
Identity verification and age assurance are data and power grabs.
#note1z7s…xv4t

2026-03-31 12:42:42 UTC

Starlink is just like Teslas! https://www.theverge.com/science/903906/another-starlink-satellite-has-inexplicably-exploded

2026-03-10 19:47:15 UTC

So - an edtech surveillance vendor is doing something that looks a lot like human subject research on kids.
https://www.edweek.org/technology/real-time-data-shows-exactly-how-students-use-ai-on-school-technology/2026/03
If you are a parent in a district that uses Securly, ask to see those data sharing agreements.

2026-03-10 12:56:54 UTC

I'm adding "deleting and recreating the environment" to my resume.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/116/204/988/129/957/000/original/cb1184262748c2c2.png

2026-03-10 01:46:47 UTC

We need to stop talking about how age verification strikes at the heart of a free and open internet and start talking about how age verification strikes at the heart of a free and open society.

2026-02-25 20:51:01 UTC

Hello, Hivemind - looking for recs for a Python IDE, ideally with no AI tools embedded.

2026-02-23 16:26:06 UTC

Sam Altman's claims on humans and energy consumption are deranged.
And: EVERY SINGLE TIME you hear something as deranged as this, it has been repeated, affirmed, workshopped, with a group of people who thought the idea was awesome.
So Altman's claim that humans consume a lot of energy by, well, living, makes AI power consumption okay, we are hearing consensus from the church of AI.
This is not a throwaway thought. This is a point of faith from AI folks.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/21/sam-altman-would-like-remind-you-that-humans-use-a-lot-of-energy-too/
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2026-02-16 18:46:50 UTC

Gives a whole new meaning to a red state.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/americans-sell-plasma-inflation-middle-class-expenses-economy-rcna258390

2026-02-16 17:28:35 UTC

Tech debt used to be a dirty secret people were embarrassed about.
Now, vibe coding cowboys introduce it by the terabyte and think they fucking made something.

2026-02-14 12:20:44 UTC

Actual human's aren't needed to keep Meta engagement numbers cranking along.
Pesky life events like taking a break from social media because Nazis are taking it over, or, you know, dying, are no longer barriers to a steady streem of interactions that Facebook can use and monetize.
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-granted-patent-for-ai-llm-bot-dead-paused-accounts-2026-2

2026-02-14 12:15:54 UTC

Peter Thiel wants your face.
Discord is here to help him get it.
https://www.pcgamer.com/software/platforms/oh-good-discords-age-verification-rollout-has-ties-to-palantir-co-founder-and-panopticon-architect-peter-thiel/

2026-02-13 20:13:14 UTC

So, yeah - if you people with these glasses, the chances you are in the presence of a creep just went through the roof.
Friends don't let friends wear creep and stalker accessories.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/116/065/128/509/091/429/original/e7682d46eed6d738.png
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2026-02-13 16:13:51 UTC

Mark Zuckerberg and his minions at Meta see our slide into fascism -- which Zuckerberg actively funds, and Facebook actively profits from -- as a good product launch opportunity for facial recognition stalkerware goggles.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/technology/meta-facial-recognition-smart-glasses.html
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2026-02-13 12:54:02 UTC

It's good to see people quitting large AI companies and being candid about the immediate harms that led to their resignations.
And: claiming that AI-based ads will "manipulat(e) users in ways we don’t have the tools to understand" is just another lie.
We do understand this. It's what adtech has been doing for decades.
We don't need to have a metric for precisely how much the poison will burn to know that drinking it is best avoided.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11664538/anthropic-ai-safety-researcher-mrinank-sharma-quits-concerns/
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2026-02-12 01:07:18 UTC

:shocked face dot gif:
https://www.404media.co/rfk-jrs-nutrition-chatbot-recommends-best-foods-to-insert-into-your-rectum/

2026-02-08 14:45:49 UTC

Our taxpayer dollars are funding retaliatory harassment against a child and his father.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/us/us-deportation-liam-conejo-ramos-minnesota.html

2026-02-05 15:00:43 UTC

In America under Trump, Republicans, and the christian nationalists and technofascists who support them, this five year old child spent longer in jail than any of the billionaires in the Epstein files.
edit: image credit originally seen on https://freeradical.zone/@FranceskaMann/116018451309766060
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2026-02-05 12:54:26 UTC

This is a tool that checks your LinkedIn contacts for mention in the Epstein files.
There are several things I appreciate about this, but the fact that it runs locally, and does not require direct access to LinkedIn, is a nice bonus.
(because this is a name-based search, there will likely be false positives).
This is basic due diligence in 2026.
https://github.com/cfinke/EpsteIn

2026-02-04 12:07:36 UTC

Not staying silent in the face of things that feel wrong is difficult. Amid the horror we see in the Epstein files -- where powerful men and women (mostly men, though) turned a blind eye and/or actively participated in sexual trafficking of children, a small number of people show how its done.
https://www.thecanary.co/skwawkbox/2026/02/03/finkelstein-epstein/
When we have a choice to make, how will our decisions look to us -- or others -- 5 years later? 10?

2026-02-03 12:31:56 UTC

This will get interesting.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3ex92557jo

2026-02-02 22:56:48 UTC

I'd like to congratulate Mozilla for creating an opt-out version of a feature a good year after they should have implemented an opt-in version of the same feature -- or maybe even not implemented it at all.
Yay?

2026-01-31 20:58:55 UTC

It seems very likely ICE/DHS are engaged in retaliation against observers.
This raises the question: how are people flagged within the software suite used by federal agents flagging and surfacing these targets?
There would likely be a feature (probably with a vague sounding name) used to track observers.
I'd love to see released documentation on this.
https://theintercept.com/2026/01/31/minneapolis-protester-witness-killing-alex-pretti/

2026-01-31 12:47:27 UTC

The Trump administration sees bin Salman as a good ally.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj6w3zgden0o

2026-01-30 12:35:27 UTC

Google bends to the will of Israel and bans Al Jazeera content.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/29/al-jazeera-denounces-youtubes-compliance-with-israels-ban-on-network

2026-01-29 18:31:33 UTC

A childrens toy, with AI "features" and no security:
https://www.wired.com/story/an-ai-toy-exposed-50000-logs-of-its-chats-with-kids-to-anyone-with-a-gmail-account/
The manufacturer claims they “found no evidence of access beyond the researchers involved.”
And manufacturers ALWAYS claim this. It's meaningless.
How did they look for access? It's easy to have no evidence if the search was nonexistent.

2026-01-29 14:15:07 UTC

A post from @npub13tr…zjt2 last week on AI checkers and their inherent unreliability got me curious.
Because a free service, with potentially unreliable results? We can test that!
So I did.
I looked at 7 free services for:
- false positives
- false negatives
- network traffic (ie, adtech)
The results are at times surprising, and at times not remotely surprising.
1/x

2026-01-28 17:56:34 UTC

Starmer doing a great job repeatedly showing his idiocy.
https://www.politico.eu/article/keir-starmer-mark-carney-no-new-world-order-united-kingdom-canada/

2026-01-27 12:50:04 UTC

RE: https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@jim/115966835615949718
Seeing stories like this -- that show the viability of large scale deployments of tools that are free and open source, and move away from monolithic platforms -- makes me optimistic about a future where we carve out corners of the internet and our tech lives that just work, and are free from AI crap, technofascist surveillance, and manipulated timelines.
Technically, it's possible.
#note1xga…usfz

2026-01-26 17:53:16 UTC

It's like the US is building a neon sign that reads "Boycott the World Cup and the Olympics".
https://www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5713/trump-administration-wants-your-dna-and-social-media

2026-01-26 12:55:10 UTC

To folks following #edtech both technically and politically, you need to hold three related and somewhat conflicting thoughts in your brain at the same time.
1. Edtech has never really had an evidence base, and there are a lot of people and companies in edtech who sell crap products. Critique is justified.
2. The far right has picked up on this trend, and are using it (pretty effectively, I must say) to extend their ongoing culture war against public education.
1/x

2026-01-25 15:03:21 UTC

I remember explaining this exact use case to Very Serious People at multiple non-profits who had received literal millions of dollars to research privacy, and these Very Serious People assured me that could never happen.
I quit these places with joy because these folks were myopic assholes who allowed their privilege to exacerbate harms.
One of these fuckers told me "but I like the ads - they help me see what sneakers I should buy."
https://www.wired.com/story/ice-asks-companies-about-ad-tech-and-big-data-tools/

2026-01-23 14:32:21 UTC

Academic relies on ChatGPT.
Academic loses chats when denying OpenAI unfettered access to data.
Salty tears ensue. Delicious.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-04064-7
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2026-01-23 13:27:38 UTC

The internet was a mistake.
https://www.wired.com/story/149-million-stolen-usernames-passwords/

2026-01-16 16:05:20 UTC

RE: https://chaos.social/@unir/115904483072715559
Doing my part to help spread the good word.
#note1h8z…xjg4

2026-01-16 12:47:44 UTC

It's not often I get to write about the mechanics of software testing, edtech, adtech, gambling, and the privacy/security issues of the aughts, but sometimes the fates smile.
https://www.machinegobeep.com/posts/using-knock-knock-for-simple-evaluations/

2026-01-16 12:13:20 UTC

Given that Meta changed it's name to Meta to signal it was all in on the Metaverse, it's fun to see them shutting down these core offerings that were so earthshatteringly important. I guess there's no Second Life for VR.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-metaverse-for-work-too
Now, I'm waiting for Meta to rebrand after its new core businesses: Scams, Disinformation, and Rightwing Hate.

2026-01-12 19:05:13 UTC

The new president or Meta is ex-NSA under Trump, and is the wife of an election denier who is also a Senator from Pennsylvania.
This is both horrible, and completely on brand for 2026.
And: get off Facebook, Threads, Instagram, WhatsApp, etc. They never were trustworhty, and now they are worse.

2026-01-11 12:52:09 UTC

There is no such thing as "prompt plagiarism".
I reject the premise (and love the bitter, salty tears that come with the complaints).
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-prompt-plagiarism-art

2026-01-09 02:42:07 UTC

Microsoft is malware. https://gizmodo.com/microsoft-forced-copilot-into-your-life-now-it-can-accidentally-drain-your-bank-account-2000707721

2026-01-03 12:45:37 UTC

Countries around the world need to stop appeasing Trump.
While he is president, the rule of law in the US is not a predictable reality.

2026-01-02 14:58:43 UTC

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So, yes - in the US, health coverage was too expensive *before* the ACA subsidies expired.
It's significantly worse now.
And: medical costs are too expensive even with insurance. Access to care is still too slow and cumbersome, even with *good* insurance.
Trump and the Republicans made a bad situation worse.
But centrist dems haven't helped us either.
4/x

2026-01-02 14:56:28 UTC

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This is intentional, of course.
In the US, where our medical coverage is generally tied to our job, this is another lever for employers to use to keep workers compliant.
It's hard to object too strenuously to toxic workplaces when that same workplace provides the medical coverage that allows your family to get the care then need to live full lives.
And that type of coercion lends itself very nicely to abuses.
3/x

2026-01-02 14:53:59 UTC

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If you are choosing between insurance and food, or insurance and housing, you do not have enough money to make ends meet.
AND: health insurance is not adequate protection from expensive medical care. Let's not forget that health insurance doesn't make coverage better.
Most of us are one medical problem away from not making ends meet. Even those of us "making good money."
2/x

2026-01-02 14:50:24 UTC

This line from the BBC story on Americans forgoing health coverage because Trump and the Republicans made health insurance even more unaffordable brings home so many problems:
"We're not low-income people, we make decent money, but we can't afford $30,000 a year for insurance, that's crazy," she said.
"We've done everything we're supposed to do, we've worked our whole lives, we work hard, and we just get screwed. The whole system is a nightmare."
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c98n8lrj7y6o
1/x
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2025-12-23 15:36:16 UTC

Just leaving this here: https://github.com/freelawproject/x-ray

2025-12-20 13:05:35 UTC

Nothing like a Canadian stopping by uninvited to catch a bit of telly.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ce3wpwg4e0qo

2025-12-15 19:20:09 UTC

RE: https://mastodon.online/@parismarx/115724451779826473
This is an impossible selection.
#note1v25…sl7r

2025-12-13 12:28:50 UTC

It's almost like trusting major tech companies is a very bad idea.
https://hey.paris/posts/appleid/

2025-12-11 19:40:19 UTC

Because Chromebooks were the cheapest device that could run required standardized tests, schools went all in on Chromebooks.
Now, schools can't disable the AI "features" rolled out on Chromebooks.
So, yeah - that third grader with a school-provided Chromebook also gets Google-mandated AI.
I'd like everyone involved in this highly predictable own goal to give themselves a well deserved golf clap.

2025-12-10 12:21:03 UTC

Three things jump out about this reporting on Trump/Rubio/Republican plans to subject foreign visitors to the US to intrusive invasions of privacy.
1. They want to isolate the US even further;
2. This is an excuse to force tech companies to share more data (not that they haven't been already);
3. This feels like business expansion via government policy for companies like Palantir
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/travel/social-media-tourists-visa-border-patrol.html

2025-12-10 02:58:19 UTC

Marco Rubio is such a waste of carbon.
https://www.devdiscourse.com/article/politics/3725456-font-wars-times-new-roman-vs-calibri-in-us-diplomacy

2025-12-02 20:12:48 UTC

I wish I had a nickel for every smug, fact free shitbag who tried to sell the lie that analytics are totally okay and don't pose any privacy risks.
Including "security engineers", aka clowns with certificates.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/02/a-data-breach-at-analytics-giant-mixpanel-leaves-a-lot-of-open-questions/

2025-11-29 18:36:44 UTC

Trump pardoning a convicted cocaine trafficker is on brand.
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/28/nx-s1-5624478/trump-plans-to-pardon-juan-orlando-hernandez

2025-11-25 12:38:26 UTC

This is a gift to nation-state actors, a get out of jail free card to telcos, and a giant shit over all of us who need to use telcos to live in the 21st century.
Worth remembering that Telcos have been compromised for years by Salt Typhoon. This move by Brendan Carr and Trump makes sure the door stays open.
https://www.cnet.com/home/internet/internet-providers-can-monitor-their-own-cybersecurity-standards-says-trumps-fcc/

2025-11-22 18:22:51 UTC

The fact Trump is pushing a "peace" plan created with Russian input, and no input from NATO or Ukraine, says it all.

2025-11-18 14:26:14 UTC

Shorter version. We are all asshats. You all will suffer because of it.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwy7vrd8k4eo
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2025-11-14 19:59:15 UTC

Tell me you don't know your users in 5 words or less.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/115/549/817/307/876/130/original/e89c3559af03cfb9.png

2025-11-11 13:50:31 UTC

ICE thugs shutting down Girl Scout food drives and pepper spraying 1 year old kids in Chicago.
https://chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/2025/11/09/1-year-old-pepper-sprayed-by-federal-agent-in-cicero

2025-11-06 11:35:58 UTC

Waiting for VIN numbers to start showing up in LLM output.
Store as little as possible with Google.
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2025-11-02 22:11:20 UTC

Imagine being the richest person in the world and you still need to force computers to say nice things about you because real people won't.

2025-10-24 01:15:30 UTC

AI, keeping us all "safe"
https://www.wbaltv.com/article/student-handcuffed-ai-system-mistook-bag-chips-weapon/69114601
Seriously - things like this get people killed.

2025-10-22 11:45:47 UTC

Why, oh why, would ANYONE use or trust a browser from a company who only exists because they have been allowed to steal data from across the internet?
AI slop will choke the internet.
And: the degradation of browser options will make the internet a less fun and useful place as the internet suffocates.

2025-10-21 19:42:51 UTC

Trump destroying the White House is a pretty spot on presidential legacy.

2025-10-18 17:14:53 UTC

When you buy and use Amazon Ring products, you are siphoning data to Flock, and to law enforcement.
And yes - this is the same Flock that cops in Texas used to surveil a woman in Texas who accessed medical care.
Don't use Ring products.
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement/

2025-10-17 13:25:22 UTC

https://bookriot.com/new-braunfels-isd-library-closures-sb-13/
Schools and libraries are closing because of censorship (which takes the form of bad faith "protect the children" arguments).
Real time and money are wasted on these unnecessary reviews.
This process is a Trojan horse to empower far right reactionaries.
And: this is happening at the same time that we are being told AI will transform education.

2025-10-13 15:59:23 UTC

Tax the rich.

2025-10-13 05:49:55 UTC

This puts the current US administration support for crypto in an interesting light.
https://www.ft.com/content/21579555-bf32-4b22-930d-79387bfe8817

2025-10-11 19:50:26 UTC

This piece is a great read on multiple levels.
https://degenerateart.beehiiv.com/p/you-don-t-have-to-swallow-frogs

2025-10-11 18:31:08 UTC

Liz Truss's lettuce wants a word with Sebastien Lecornu.

2025-10-10 10:43:34 UTC

I find it somewhere between cute and infuriating when academics working around edtech and other edtech folks who didn't care about -- and dismissed and downplayed -- privacy in edtech and tech are now suddenly clued in that privacy is critically important.
Where were you 5 years ago? 10?
I mean, better late than never, but/and if you want to be taken seriously acknowledge your past negligence -; and, more importantly -- listen to and amplify the people who have been here all along.

2025-09-23 11:40:09 UTC

Sharing because apparently it's needed.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02636-1

2025-09-20 12:44:13 UTC

Meta is getting back to its roots as a premier creeper site.
Remember why Facebook was originally founded. These roots are the foundation.
And Meta's behavior and justifications here are predictable and despicable.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/sep/20/parents-outraged-meta-uses-photos-schoolgirls-ads-man
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2025-09-19 11:46:16 UTC

Friends don't let friends trust AI agents.
https://www.theverge.com/news/781746/chatgpt-gmail-shadow-leak

2025-09-18 21:29:46 UTC

Had to verify that this was real.
It is.
https://www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/archives/goebbels-ends-careers-of-five-aryan-actors-who-made-witticisms.html
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2025-09-16 12:31:00 UTC

AI, expanding human knowledge.
https://nfts.freeradical.zone/media_attachments/files/115/213/980/245/278/248/original/f70edf70c98182c2.png

2025-09-04 11:58:28 UTC

This is how you kill -- and in some cases, it will be literal -- public education.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/09/in-win-for-infectious-diseases-florida-to-end-all-school-vaccine-requirements/

2025-08-31 14:19:31 UTC

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This exact mess is why age verification laws create more problems while failing to solve an issue that isn't technical to begin with.
Even if age verification "worked" it would create a privately owned and controlled trove of identifying info, connected to very personal trends and interests.
The data breaches that inevitability occur will make Equifax look benevolent.

2025-08-28 02:31:31 UTC

Yup. This.
https://anthonymoser.github.io/writing/ai/haterdom/2025/08/26/i-am-an-ai-hater.html

2025-08-27 12:50:57 UTC

Bluesky is a centralized platform. It's Twitter/X/Meta waiting to happen.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/25/bounce-launches-a-service-for-moving-accounts-between-bluesky-and-mastodon/

2025-08-26 21:40:21 UTC

:whispers: you don't have any control over your work on youtube. google does.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250822-youtube-is-using-ai-to-edit-videos-without-permission

2025-08-26 21:29:20 UTC

The Supreme Court allowed Musk, Trump, and his lackeys to sell out the privacy and security of hundreds of millions of people.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/doge-uploaded-live-copy-of-social-security-database-to-vulnerable-cloud-server-says-whistleblower/

2025-08-26 14:24:39 UTC

Microsoft going full collaborator.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-26/microsoft-asked-fbi-for-help-with-israel-gaza-protests

2025-08-21 14:54:34 UTC

So many people are going to get so badly hurt because of authoritarian age verification laws.
https://cyberinsider.com/chrome-vpn-extension-with-100k-installs-screenshots-all-sites-users-visit/

2025-08-19 10:39:04 UTC

The clear winner in this monumental and ongoing failure: the AI companies who found a boatload of FOMO suckers to "transform" their workplace.
https://fortune.com/2025/08/18/mit-report-95-percent-generative-ai-pilots-at-companies-failing-cfo/

2025-08-18 13:30:39 UTC

If you have to pay extra for features that are already present in a thing you already bought, then you didn't actually buy it.
You are paying a company money to store their thing.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c62weyp4qqgo

2025-08-17 12:43:43 UTC

Currently working on a post that goes over the details of how to read terms of service, privacy policies, etc, and not get mentally numb, and to get actual information.
It starts with realizing that, for most vendors, these terms are business documents that are statements of intent, as opposed to documents that define any rights or protections for end users.
With that as the starting point, everything else makes more sense.

2025-08-15 03:25:29 UTC

Meta's AI literally out here killing people.
With an assist from Kendall Jenner.
Because wtaf is wrong with these people.
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-death/

2025-08-11 12:30:10 UTC

August 11, 2025.
Trump sends troops to occupy DC.
This is the second time he's done this.

2025-08-11 12:26:30 UTC

Israel assassinates 5 more journalists in Gaza.
https://www.ft.com/content/1bd1e23c-0bef-4d3f-ab68-f740f7a28282

2025-08-10 16:30:50 UTC

I have one thing to say about this:
https://gizmodo.com/cybertruck-leads-teslas-used-car-collapse-2000641133
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!
/takes breath
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH!

2025-08-08 13:34:24 UTC

Love that "military-grade encryption"
https://www.wired.com/story/encryption-made-for-police-and-military-radios-may-be-easily-cracked-researchers-find/

2025-08-07 01:04:07 UTC

Tim Cook will be tasting Trump's ass for weeks after today's debacle.

2025-08-06 16:15:31 UTC

Apparently we are at the "run diffs on the Constitution" phase in our descent into fascism.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/key-sections-of-the-us-constitution-deleted-from-governments-website/

2025-08-04 13:06:00 UTC

When someone would rather talk to HR, you know your AI solution really sucks ass.
https://fortune.com/2025/08/03/ai-interviewers-job-seekers-unemployment-hiring-hr-teams/

2025-08-04 12:12:39 UTC

Move to the cloud, they say.
It's safer, they say.
The cloud:
https://www.seuros.com/blog/aws-deleted-my-10-year-account-without-warning/

2025-08-04 11:28:43 UTC

Which will come first?
1. AGI
2. Self driving cars (that don't explode, kill their occupants, and/or kill other drivers/pedestrians)
3. The year of Linux on the desktop