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hold on that's *not* The Onion?

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

The first genuinely honest ad for generative AI I've ever seen, from Microsoft / CoPilot A mediocre white guy sees his non-white colleague getting praised for good work, he asks AI to *literally copy it*, and then he gets all the praise instead: www.ispot.tv/ad/SoDi/micr...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
@doctorow.pluralistic.net

Replying to @doctorow.pluralistic.net

This company used the ad system to locate targeted individuals and serve "zero-click malware" that took over their computers and phones without them having to take *any* action: citizenlab.ca/research/how...

citizenlab.caExposing AdFection: How Discover-Tech Turned Targeted Ads Into a Pipeline for Zero-Click Mercenary Spyware - The Citizen LabThis is the first-ever public confirmation of zero-click mercenary spyware delivered via targeted ads. We call the technique AdFection, and show how it was used to infect devices at Al Jazeera with Ca...

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Micah
@rincewind.run

TIME UNIT UPDATE: ONE ZACHARIA IS 0.636 SCARAMUCCIS

Brian Stelter@brianstelter.bsky.social

Breaking: Trump says he has asked Katie Zacharia to reconsider her White House press secretary role. He said she'll stay in the administration "in some form" but "it may be a more pleasant form" www.cnn.com/2026/10/16/p...

cnn.comTrump asks Zacharia to reconsider White House press secretary role | CNN PoliticsPresident Donald Trump has told press secretary Katie Zacharia to reconsider her role as his top spokesperson, he told reporters at the White House.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
@doctorow.pluralistic.net

No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.

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Bugs 🔜 MC Atlanta
@bugsmaytrix.bsky.social

maybe i'm old fashion but the coolest thing about video games is being taken to new worlds that i hadn't thought up and experiencing something exciting that the artists behind the game want to show me

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lauren
@lauren.rotatingsandwiches.com

ME: So I can't put anything else on the scale? ANUBIS: No. Just your heart ME: No money, no good deeds? ANUBIS: No ME: What about steam points? I've got a ton of steam points ANUBIS: The point is to be lighter than the feather ME: I was just hoping to finally do something with the steam points

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Alison Fisk
@alisonfisk.bsky.social

A miniature masterpiece from 40,000 years ago! 🦣 🤩 This tiny carved mammoth figurine measures a mere 3.7 cm in length, yet the #IceAge artist captured naturalistic detail with aesthetic perfection! Mammoth ivory. Vogelherd Cave, Germany 📷 by me #Archaeology

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those letter colors are wrong though

The Public Domain Review@publicdomainrev.bsky.social

The first charting of synaesthetic visualisations, plate 4 from Francis Galton's Inquiries into Human Faculty and its Development (1883). More on the site: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/synaesthesia-diagrams-1883

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great talk about catching a hacker in the very, very early days of the internet

DEF CON@defcon.bsky.social

For your weekend: The first early release talk from DEF CON 34 has made it to our YouTube channel. Please enjoy national treasure Cliff Stoll updating his 'Stalking the Wily Hacker'. If you haven't read 'The Cuckoo's Egg', this is your sign. youtu.be/656058JxTM0 #defcon #defcon34

youtu.beDefCon 34 - Stalking the Wily Hacker: 40 years later - Cliff StollYouTube video by DEFCONConference
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news website joins the hallowed ranks of things doom runs on

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Kremlev?? who is writing this season of Earth, you can't name characters so obviously

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social

Don Jr. is compromised by the Russian government—something you could have guessed, but is now fully confirmed by this ProPublica investigation about an oligarch who helped pay for his wedding.

propublica.orgDonald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian OligarchThe oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...

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でんか
@k-hermit.com

Tiny, colorful baby scallops — a total cuteness overload in one dish! You might think, “This person posts the same creature every year!” But honestly, seeing the same life return year after year is something truly wonderful𓂃🫧‪

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thanks, Elon

Techdirt@techdirt.com

DOGE’s Screwworm Legacy May Be Tons Of Euthanized Cats And Dogs Of all the things I thought the Trump administration would cause to enter the public lexicon, I certainly did not have screwworms... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/20/doges-screwworm-legacy-may-be-tons-of-euthanized-cats-and-dogs/

techdirt.comDOGE’s Screwworm Legacy May Be Tons Of Euthanized Cats And DogsOf all the things I thought the Trump administration would cause to enter the public lexicon, I certainly did not have screwworms on my list. If you somehow haven't heard of this, screwworms are actually a fly that lays its eggs by burrowing into the flesh of other animals. Those animals are mostly cattle, sometimes...

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Yaroslav Barsukov #NoToWar #НетВойне
@barsukov.com

AI RANT Following the cancellation of three major debut book deals over AI suspicions, I decided to put my own (needless to say, 100% human-written) prose to the test. My detector of choice was Originality AI, and the results proved to be jarring, to say the least. 🧵1/5

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your latest dose of dystopia. the "license plate scanners" can search for a person by appearance description, location patterns and changes in them, their records from a variety of sources, their associates either known or overlapping by time/location

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social

Flock has told the public for years that its technology “cannot recognize, identify, or track individuals.” The company has now built an AI system that does both. And @wired.com got the system's code -- allowing us to reconstruct it, and learn exactly how Flock's new tool is supposed to work:

wired.comFlock Has a Powerful New AI Tool for Police. We Got Its CodeFlock’s surveillance cameras have already sparked outrage. WIRED reconstructed its next-generation AI system, already in use by some police, to confirm it goes much further than tracking license plate...
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they're buying up rare books to destroy them to make a product intended to replace writers. i hate this so so so so so much

Emanuel Maiberg@emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social

We put a tracking device in a shipment of rare books acquired by an anonymous buyer. It ended up at an Amazon facility where the company scans books for training data and destroys them in the process: www.404media.co/we-tracked-a...

404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books.