Christian

Christian

@xntrik.wtf

Aussie appsec dork, worked at a bunch of places. Opinions my own and all that jazz. https://xntrik.wtf

453 followers644 following323 posts

The worst thing about the world cup on SBS is seeing ads where Idris Elba is talking about the ServiceNow AI Platform 🤢

The year is 2026. I think I've now gotten more than an hour into Witcher 3, and I think I'm starting to get it

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Maternal mortality in Louisiana is literally 40x Greenland (41.9/100k to 1.0/100k). They should send hospital boat to Louisiana.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Greenland has universal health care and far higher standards of healthcare than are found in Louisiana and most of the US. In the meantime, Trump has blocked funding of the ACA, meaning that tens of millions of Americans are about to lose their healthcare coverage.

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Berlin, Germany, March 27, 1936 An enormous banner of Hitler with the words "Freedom-Peace" on the front of the Berlin railway station Washington, DC, February 19, 2026 An enormous banner of Trump with the words "Make America Safe Again" on the front of the DOJ He's not even pretending anymore

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A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

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how do you stop your tummy from hurting without quitting coffee or alcohol or ordering the spiciest thing on the menu or feeling stressed out all the time

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Apple & Google removed ICE tracking apps in their app stores. TikTok reportedly suppressed videos criticizing ICE & the shooting of Alex Pretti. Meta blocked Facebook groups tracking ICE & links to a database of agents that the government wants to keep secret. Big Tech is enabling Trump's regime.

A lengthy but very interesting read.

garethhutchens.bsky.social@garethhutchens.bsky.social

The origins of neoliberalism, the Mont Pelerin Society, the Atlas Network, the Overton window, the Nobel Prize in economics, and cryptocurrencies. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

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I think we should just shut down the entire concept of generating images using AI. Outlaw it, or as close as you can come to doing so. I know it's not possible to eliminate it completely, but we definitely can stop companies from scaling it up to "industrial-scale abuse".

kate conger@kateconger.com

We set out to determine how many images of women and girls Grok created during its nudifying spree. What we found was “industrial-scale abuse,” experts said. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/t...

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I am old enough to remember when Apple and Google told the social media giants that they'd remove their apps from their app stores if they broke their terms of service. Weird!

KetAnthropic JoshAI@ketanjoshi.co

all of energy twitter patting itself on the back for continuing to post on a website that is mostly users prompting a generative chatbot to create non-consensual sexualised imagery of children It's where the Serious Smart Experts are Posting www.cnbctv18.com/technology/g...

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I am sad to inform you that Calibri is now officially woke

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social

Marco Rubio ordered diplomats to return to using Times New Roman font in official communications, calling his predecessor's decision to adopt Calibri a “wasteful” diversity move

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ASD's social media team launch an attempt to get another category added to the #hacklore "this is not a realistic threat, please stop worrying about this" list 😔 I find this advice inexplicable and hard to align with any real-world threats