Well done Brazil, despite Meta actively interfering in the elections:

https://www.commondreams.org/news/meta-algorithm-brazil-election?share_id=10135526

This past week was a big flashing siren. AI-detected flaws in PHP, the code behind millions of websites, knocked government sites offline worldwide and prompted the US NSA to warn organisations to patch immediately. Major banks found unauthorized AI agents inside customer accounts, some trying to take actions customers never asked for. And Anthropic's deputy chief information security officer, Jason Clinton, warned that cyber threats will get "a lot worse before they get better."

The Lego group reveals collaboration with Daft Punk

https://www.lego.com/en-us/categories/adults-welcome/article/daft-punk

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50231001

#HackerNews #Lego #DaftPunk #Collaboration #MusicToys #Creativity #Collectibles

ME: "That hemorrhoid cream really caused a bad reaction."
DOC: "Where did you apply it?"
ME: "On the bus"

ai is computer aids

When Alice shakes the Red Queen, she turns into a kitten. I know it's fiction, but has anyone tried this on a real queen cause we could be missing out on an easy and cute way to abolish monarchy

#WordSlant is a visual word challenge in which a word has been sliced diagonally into smaller pieces. The pieces have been moved around to mix up the word.

Mentally rearrange the pieces to reform the correct word.

If you submit a #Puzzle answer, please use CW or DM.

#SundaySillies #WordChop #Puzzle

Try to mentally rearrange the slices of a word so you can identify it.

If you decide to submit an answer, please use Direct Message or CW to hide your guess.

Embroidery #Wordplay is a #SundaySillies #wordsearch #puzzle with one answer. Start with one of the letters with a gray background and move to the next letter, but only horizontal or vertical from where you start. No diagonals - each square just once.

Use DM or CW for answers to let everyone enjoy the search!

Starting with one of the letters in a
gray square, find the longest word.
Next letter horizontal or vertical from
the first. No diagonals.
No square may be used again.
Minimum 7 letters

#SundaySillies
Wicked Wonderful Wordies - #wordplay #wordies #idiom

Happy weekend from here, #puzzle fans!

Idioms or common phrases (American/English) are represented by the position, shape or arrangement of words in or around the puzzle frame.

Can you figure out this week's wordie? It would be wicked wonderful if you can.

Please use CW to submit your answers, thanks. Give everybody the chance to guess.

Hint: no delay

Created with the Free Software SVG editor #Inkscape

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@virtuosew/117500716454390898

I'd be interested to see what people ask[0] here ... when I'm on the fringes of gatherings of artists it's always fascinating to hear what they talk about, and to hear how they work.

Boosts of both the original and this post very welcome to reach outside our bubble.

#DreamsOfAmarna #Artist #Questions

[0] If at all ... so often a "call for questions" results in crickets ...

Start a new hard #sciencefiction trilogy with mushrooms! A generational fleet of ships lands a on planet entirely covered with a sentient fungus. Start reading Of Mycelium and Men today!
#LGBTQIA #fungus
https://www.spacewizardsciencefantasy.com/book/of-mycelium-and-men

Wonder if all these countries the US is pressuring to buy F-35s are paying attention to this Starlink 'kill switch' in Ukraine. 🤔

#Ukraine #F35

Astrology is so fascinating.

Good old Twonks.

I think if you don't have contact with "conservative" groups & communities in the US, you don't understand how many fascists we are dealing with.

Some people seem to think it's just the Proud Boys & their ilk.

They don't realize that many of the nice church ladies are also *fascists*.

Not all the fascists march in the streets or put on demonstrations. That doesn't mean they aren't cheering for deportations & all manner of violence against the people they deem a threat to their "way of life."

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@82mhz/117477673579216714

"Astonishingly, the private keys [for the intermediate TLS certificates] were 4, 56, 66, 115, 155, 156, 230 [and] 237."

I do want to know what happened here because if you don't know cryptography, this is like finding out someone's social security number is 2. These numbers are meant to have like 100 digits. This is as if someone shipped the little toy example calculated by hand in a Computerphile video to production

So last night before bed, I set down my earbuds case in not the normal place. I said to myself at the time "Owlbear, you're going to forget where you put that in the morning."

Then I thought "Nah, you can't lose it."

…
I continue to underestimate myself.

Possibly the most patronising reply I’ve ever received on here.

Also, who put you in charge of deciding what boosts are *for*? It flatly contradicts what most people think and do on here, including me.

You are no longer the algorithm, my friends: Boost softly because you boost on my dreams.