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The future is treacherous computing everywhere. Unless you insist on running things locally, you'll never get to stop glancing over your shoulder and second-guessing how some terminally cop-brained program might interpret whatever input you provide.

We’ve been talking about this for years. None of these far-right movements are organic.

ah damn, RIP Margaret Hamilton. she took safety-critical software engineering seriously, and got people to the moon and back. news.mit.edu/2026/margare...

"Not that neurons and transformer operations are therefore equivalent. Rather, decomposition doesn't perform the philosophical work people often expect it to perform."

I'm back, I missed you all. Since this is an important subject I know too much about, here's a 🧵 explaining that AI Safety Is Mostly A Sex Cult. I don't think these people should make policy. (1/?) (alternative title: Time For Some Cult Theory)

[watching Marconi invent the radio] there's nothing you could do with this that couldn't be done more reliably with a long enough wire

Change one letter to make a D&D spell useless: Massage Hold Parson False Wife Wall of Farce

You can kill a French vampire with a baguette. It's a painstaking process but it works.

so, this is deeply, deeply horrifying thedreydossier.substack.com/p/i-found-a-...

One of the conservative architects of the UK's Online Safety Act is suddenly shocked — shocked! — to find that it applies to anti-immigrant content she likes. Censorship is a hungry, hungry, profoundly stupid beast.

"Whatever the Party holds to be truth, is truth" is actually an old model

… are fucking kidding me. A github.com cross-account RCE due to the most pedestrian of injection attacks along the obvious exposed surface… and they actually have a globally shared “git” UNIX user!! This is not what taking the role of supply chain stewards seriously looks like.

Sci-Hub is an evil website that pirated 85M+ research papers and made them freely available Now they've added AI to their database to make Sci-Bot. It answers your questions using latest, full-text articles. But DO NOT use it. We should all try to make billion-dollar academic publishers richer.

France's 'Secure' ID agency probes breach as crooks claim 19M records

Age checks could turn internet into an ID checkpoint, complains Proton CEO

I keep explaining this over and over and over, but people just keep bleating about "protection":

this is how i access bluesky

It sure is a terrible idea to internalize mass bootlick perspectives and treat them as the reference point from which one must justify deviations

Nothing to see, just very powerful pattern matching. www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/paper...

Dystopia expands to fill the bounds of technological possibility; the civilization that fails to develop an effective strategy to resist "for the childruuun!" eventually suffocates beneath it

Tim Pool: “I’m not licking the boot. It’s my boot. I voted for it. I’m the one stomping…” This mindset is genuinely pathetic. It’s an alpha fantasy: watching state violence and imagining you’re exercising power rather than the one submitting to it. /1

This just pissed me off even more than the re-handcuffing The notion that these motherfuckers were the ones showing grace, that the women should be appreciative and speak well of the agents, that substandard treatment is conditioned on the women's portraying then as benevolent Fuckin disgusting

so finally done: reflecting on a very, very strange few years in silicon valley's rape culture including thoughts and experiences on TPOT, Vibecamp, Effective Altruism and Rationalism theasterisk.substack.com/p/reflecting...

Over 20 years, Iran has been the No1 country of origin for asylum seekers in the UK. Those who campaign to slash the rights of refugees, but today decry the savagery of the Iranian regime, need to have a little think. There is no safe route to the UK for Iranian asylum seekers.

The word has lost all meaning. People defending their home is now "terrorism".

Elon Musk Plays Disinfo Telephone: How Oregon’s Mundane Voter Roll Cleanup Is Turned Into False Claim Of ‘Fake Voters’ I made the mistake of opening up X yesterday to look something up, and the very first post that appeared in my feed was a perfect, almost pedagogical example of how the game of…

It can be hard to imagine how to defend oneself against an overwhelming force like ICE. But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter-surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Tragic: local man wants to solve technical problems at scale, realises that at scale they’re all ultimately social problems

"You know the "is anyone on the plane a doctor?" trope? That's our national situation. And when the person who stands up isn't white British, we reply that we’d actually rather die." www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would force social media platforms to filter and suppress content that the Trump admin is willing to argue makes kids "depressed" or "anxious." Videos of ICE murdering people make me pretty depressed and anxious, and I'm a grown ass adult. See where this is going?

Slightly diminish a band: Preeminent Enemy

We've removed the paywall from this guide so everyone can access it. 👇 Stay safe.

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

Everyone else go home — this is the year we secure ABOLISH ICE on a Chicago Snowplow chicagoshovels.org

They really weren't kidding

You will be visited by three spirits.

How do trackers see your internet browser? Find out with Cover Your Tracks: coveryourtracks.eff.org

We cannot base our human rights on the government’s mere promise to uphold them. The UK government must listen to the public and civil society organizations in the country and say no to digital ID.

computers exist solely to make people upset the seven layer osi model is just the stages of grief in disguise