RE: https://beige.party/@RickiTarr/116850829686494006

I’m in the same place as my beautiful pocket friend, Ricki. America’s 250th birthday, under this regime, has finally ripped away the gauze overlay that hid the real rotten machinery underpinning our entire failing empire.

We are a country where 14 MILLION children go hungry every day, and we have billionaires who boast about not paying taxes. And they’re still alive. A million Americans are unhoused, 50,000 of them are people who served in the armed forces. They offered their lives for this country, we used them, and sent them to the gutters.

We have crushing medical debt, our infrastructure is failing, our education system is dead last in “first world” countries.

We have failed our citizens and elevated our failsons to the point of being “too big to fail”. I think maybe we should start over, this time without the baked in racism and capitalism.

Vibe coders go vibe killers, because hey, what could go wrong if we just let morons with exacto knives start killing things to see what happens?

Look, I understand it’s a lobster. Lobsters are not puppies with adorable eyes, I get it. There are still ethical standards which MUST be followed. Anything less is unacceptable.

There is a boundary between science and sadism, and that line is called Ethics.

Thinking that you can #vibecode your way into letting #AI take over a sentient being is the epitome of how ridiculous this simulation has gotten, and how terrifyingly high on their own supply the AI community, funded by #Altman, is becoming.

These are not explorers on the frontier of new science, these are children who think living beings are no more important than a lego brick.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/biohackers-neurosurgery-control-lobster-ai

(Edit, switched to direct link, doh.)

Would it be in bad form to set up a betting pool on who gets declared dead first, the clearly dead Mitch #McConnell or the visibly decaying president of these here failing States?

Cause y’all, Mitch is dead, I’d bet folding money on it. But holy shit the #GOP is terrified they’re gonna lose Kentucky. #Kentucky, y’all. One of the last Dixie holdouts.

They are deliberately, with malice afore thought, withholding representation from 4.61 million people, by refusing to admit McConnell can’t do the job.

Mostly because Mitch is dead. Betcha.

Y’all, there’s a county in #Virginia, with less than half a million people, that has 37 data centers, and they’re fixing to pave over the civil war battlefields to add 17 more.

Folks who live there have seen power prices spike, and have been told to expect another 25% spike. They’ve also been trying to stop the data center buildouts, but uh…Capital finds a way.

Now, rather than say, teaching a district wide course about Luddites and what they fought for, the superintendent of schools sent out a letter telling teachers to close their blinds and turn off laptops.

Stupidest. Timeline. Ever.

https://www.newsweek.com/teachers-asked-to-turn-off-lights-in-county-packed-with-data-centers-12145698

#datacenters #RealComputeCost #environment #powergrids #ai

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Npars01/116851812304763744

Nichole, once again bringing receipts. It's a two-parter.

Yesterday in #WashingtonDC, on the steps of the Capitol where protest is currently not allowed (!), an active duty officer in the #AirForce deliberately broke the law to honor his oath of service. He called for the removal of Trump, and he wore his uniform to do it.

Rep. Al Green, my favorite member of Congress, and the Removal Coalition stood with him, as did a crowd of DC protesters.

#50501movement #Trump #fascism #military

Y’all remember a ways back when I said 3 major #egg producers were scamming the country, and that #avianflu was not causing the price surges, it was price fixing, cause I can do basic addition?

And industry executives and analysts were saying that there was nothing to see except a supply shock of a disease killing lots of hens. As one industry executive put it at the time, it’s all just “supply disruption, ‘act of God’ type stuff.”

Yeah. It was a #conspiracy to fix prices. Emails between each other writing down the damn conspiracy. They made billions. Guess how much they have to pay in fines? If you guessed less than 1%, you’ve been paying attention to the #kakistocracy.

Eat the rich.

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/crime-pays-the-egg-bandits-made-a

So, I was talking with one of the sweet older ladies nearby. I'd reckon she's late 70s, maybe early 80s. Spry as a bird, super active socially and physically.

And she says to me, she says "My grand daughter sent me some drugs." And I said "oh?"

And she proceeded to tell me that her doctor, like mine, had retired, and now nobody would give her pain medication (been there), and so her daughter in Colorado sent her some gummies, but she was afraid to take them.

And being an experienced astronaut, I said I'd be willing to take a look at the package and give her my opinion. And I did, and I showed her where the dosage info was, and how yes it was very silly that this tiny thing was four doses, but trust me when I tell you space cadets are not ready for the whole candy.

she took 1/8 (half a dose) and set up Kate Hepburn's Philadelphia Story. Her husband is making snacks, her dogs are out, and I have docked back at the Space Station.

Ok, to start, let me define "#steganography" in #infosec. Steganography in computer security is the practice of hiding information within another file, message, image, or video, making the concealed information undetectable to an unsuspecting observer.

It is not necessarily malicious, but it certainly can be. I tell you that story to tell you this one:

#Claude Code Is Steganographically Marking Requests

CC silently alters the system prompt using invisible-ish Unicode markers. It encodes proxy / gateway classification into a sentence that looks like plain English. It hides the domain list behind XOR and base64.

Is it malicious? Probably not. Is a pretty big marker on the "Why not to trust AI companies" list of reasons? Yeah, yeah it is.

https://thereallo.dev/blog/claude-code-prompt-steganography

#AI #security #ClaudeCode #Anthropic

(Edit: doh, fingers faster than brain)

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Y’all. Y’all! The administration just put Avi #Loeb in charge of #UFO investigations for the #US government. And a panel of billionaires and lunatics to help him, as is only fitting.

Once upon a time, Professor Loeb was a well respected scientist. Then something happened, he went off the rails and started publishing things without peer review…because they were insane…lost his chair at Harvard, became the darling of 4chan, and is now has a government ID.

In other news, #CERN shut down for three years, and #Krakatoa has awoken.

I’m back on Team Meteor again.

Link to a strange little news site, that had more verifiable data than any major news outlet, ie first to report the billionaire connection:

https://usaherald.com/harvards-alien-hunter-just-got-a-white-house-badge-and-the-scientific-community-is-furious/

Longshot, but does anyone own the Nokia 9110 Upgrade Kit CD and could put an iso on the archive?

Wow! The #DSA candidate Melat #Kiros beat incumbent Rep. Diana #DeGette, in Colorado, multiple outlets have announced.

Interesting bit of trivia: DeGette was 15-term incumbent first elected the same year Kiros was born.

DSA candidates have won 3 primaries so far this cycle. Doing the work, getting the votes. Awesome.

In other news, Corporate Sponsored Schumer Dems are are raising war chests to fight the DSA. Because of course they are. Meanwhile magats are trotting out "communism" because Diaper Daddy thought Swayze was hot when he watched Red Dawn last night. Or something equally dada, who knows.

The simulation continues to get more absurd by the hour.

https://19thnews.org/2026/06/colorado-primary-results-kiros-degette/

RE: https://glammr.us/@jessamyn/116840496001165566

Y'all, you have to look at this. Granted, I know very little about #quilts or #quilting, but this is the most amazing thing. I just want to stare at it and marvel that it was made by human hands.

Humans can be pretty cool sometimes. Maybe we don't need the giant meteor yet.

Im sitting in a doctor waiting room, and the World Cup is on, and boy howdy, the Ivory Coast folks are enthusiastic!

Also, my hand hurts, I’ve been fasting for 18 hours, and they just said they’re not doing bloodwork after all….

Sigh. Caffeine headache for nothing.

RE: https://c.im/@cdarwin/116839858705999206

There must be a reckoning. These murders must not be allowed to go unpunished.

An established artist who has been shown at the Tate and the Moma, whom I have known for 75% of my life and adore, said my art was "primitive, but charming in an outsider art sort of way".... and I honestly don't know what to do with that.

I mean, the primitive part is true, I've really only been painting for a couple of years, and I have zero art training outside of wandering the world's museums.

I can't speak to charming.

I know, absolutely know, it was meant as a compliment, and not as a side swipe. I know this person really well, and if they wanted to insult, they are well armed. He was trying to convince me to enter some art shows.

But still, it kinda stings. 🤷🏽‍♀️ I may be too sensitive to be a painter. ;)

#art #painting #insecurity #primitive #outsiderArt

The #US #SupremeCourt has put out three rulings this morning.

They ruled that Trump can’t override the 14th amendment by EO, and thus #BirthrightCitenship is still a thing. (Duh. And Yay)

They ruled that #transgender kids do not have the right to play sports. I have thoughts. They are not kind towards the justices.

They ruled that Citizens United didn’t destroy elections enough, so now everybody can throw unlimited amounts of dark #money into elections. #AIPAC is thrilled.

Stupidest. Timeline. Ever.

https://www.scotusblog.com

Someone was texting me about their layoff, and in the description was "HR came into the room, and her lipstick was the color of betrayal", and the intern they were keeping instead of the Staff Engineer, as having a git repo "containing nothing but print('hello, world')".

I laughed...and died a little inside.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/116830015225440372

This is a really important read for understanding both what's under the hood with LLMs, but also why it is impossible to secure any #LLM.

In the thread, I posted a couple of extra links to experts explaining that last sentence better than I can. But read the article Taggart linked first.

#AI #TulipMania #infosec