Sunset approaches across the river, Mill River, Sleeping Giant State Park, Hamden, Connecticut. October 10, 2025, 5:25 PM.

#hiking #photography #outdoors #landscapephotography #nature #Connecticut #autumn #forest #sunset #sunsetphotography #autumnvibes #river #mountains

Narco Rubio: If you criticize Israel, you will not be granted a visa for the United States.

In America, you can criticize Jesus, but not Israel.

50 min

My favorite America’s anthropology channel

https://youtu.be/2QdyjyDQ8TI

#anthropology #americas

“We knew this was going to happen in parts of the world which aren’t necessarily in tune to these sorts of events,” she said.

“Why couldn’t we have adapted quicker and more effectively?”

-a question we now ask a lot, about a lot of things🙄

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-02/europe-fires-fingerprints-of-climate-change/106967040?utm_source=abc_news_app&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_app&utm_content=other

So it never occurred to Google that encouraging people to deepfake Google Earth images with AI was a terrible idea?

How are these people not fired on the spot for ideas like this, let alone allowed to bring such an obviously problematic “feature” to production? It’s bonkers.

“Hey, what if we add a feature that makes everyone question the output of one of our flagship products while also enabling internet trolls?”

“Great idea Carl!”

https://www.theverge.com/tech/973943/google-earth-ai-image-generation-deepfake-tool

#noai #ai #aislop #AIdeepfakes

Scientists do love turning accidents into discovery!

Wed 5th Aug 06:34UTC: 4 tonnes of Space-X debris will crash into the moon 😮 This sim shows what will happen, if we understand the moon as well as we think we do. If we see something different, we learn something new! 👏 🧪🔭🛰️

🎥 William Jo/UT Austin

The Average Cost of a Data Breach Rises to $5 Million https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/cost-of-a-data-breach-5m-ibm/

You may be seeing a load of scary sounding headlines about cyberattacks on water facilities in the US, but know they are because - in everyday terms - nobody closed the front door to the house, let alone locked it.

It doesn’t take Iran to do those attacks. If you’re bored and you have google, you can too.

RE: https://mstdn.social/@stux/113974665364673502

Don't forget

@ErickaSimone

A jungle played back at quarter speed

https://freesound.org/people/Yala/sounds/726329/

RE: https://mas.to/@muskanity/117016909234934696

My clever idea is we come up with some sort of “membership” that calls itself an AI company. So if we rip our DVDs and CDs or anything that might be physical anymore, we’ll just say we’re training “our systems”

The reason is simple. It's because fuck you.

RE: https://journa.host/@ScottLucas/117018741722032978

17 hospitalized and 105 rescued in #Kyiv

Fires and damage to residential buildings and industrial targets in 5+ districts

Assault began just after 1:30 a.m. - 2nd round began less than half an hour later, with blasts lasting until 3:20 a.m.

#Ukraine #UkraineWar #RussiaWarCrimes

RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/117016481780975354

Another day, another data breach

U.S. biotech giant Amgen confirms July hack, and says proprietary data, patients' health data, and other information was exfiltrated from its cloud environments (Amgen runs largely on AWS). Amgen says volume & types of data stolen "could be sensitive."

Amgen says it serves 17 million patients. 🫠

From the SEC filing: https://www.sec.gov/ix?doc=/Archives/edgar/data/0000318154/000031815426000119/amgn-20260729.htm

RE: https://mastodon.social/@ErikJonker/117020831511580865

Asking oil companies to invest in renewables is like asking a jackal to go on a vegetarian diet.

We’re looking in the wrong place. Quite literally the place where oil hits the road is in one of our communities.

Where do you think all the energy that’s used to make washing machines and TVs and mobile devices and our cars and the fuel in the infrastructure Is except the towns and cities where we live.

We don’t need cars. Humans figured out cities thousands of years ago

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…