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Sporadic poster of funny things, bastion of obscure knowledge. Day job in #antispam & #cybersecurity. "AI" destroys education, trashes the environment, and […] 🌉 bridged from ⁂ infosec.exchange/@adamhotep, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact

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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 5h
futurism.com/future-society/ai-fina… > OpenAI’s annualized revenue — an estimated guess at a company’s income for the year — is roughly $20 billion lower than anybody had previously expected, including, it seems, OpenAI itself. > #AI
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AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure
A $20 billion setback. The post AI Bubble Teetering on the Brink as OpenAI Admits to Massive Financial Failure appeared first on Futurism.
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Tara Price @taraprice.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h
As an atheist, a supporter of the Establishment Clause, and a card-carrying member of the Satanic Temple, I approve this message. 🤘 www.404media.co/it-is-done-hail-sat…
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'It Is Done. Hail Satan:' City Immediately Regrets New Religious Liberty Law That Allows Prayer at City Council Meeting
Iowa city council debates proper time in meeting agenda to "undo the curse that was just put on our city."
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13h
So, that execution livestream Trump wants violates the terms of every platform that will carry it: www.techdirt.com/2026/10/09/hey-pla… HT @masnick.com #USpol
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Hey Platforms: Your Violent Content Policies Are About To Meet The Pentagon’s Firing Squad
There is plenty of coverage everywhere you look about how Pete Hegseth and the Pentagon have announced plans to livestream the firing squad execution of Nidal Hasan, the Army officer who shot up Fo…
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
This song is amazing. Volume up! 🔊 Got this gem from @rogeriopvl
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026
Whoa, the new MS Surface Laptop Ultra will have “the world's first built-in magnetic USB-C charging port [which] combines magnetic convenience with the versatility of a standard connection.” (The specs don't mention a special port, so maybe this is just a […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
The "problem" isn't cities. That's just where people end up when they're discarded. #USpol
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David Gerard @davidgerard.circumstances.run.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
henstomper

oh my god the slot machine company says i have to keep putting coins in their machine or Im Gonna Get Left Behind. thats so scary. and it has to be true because they know more about slot machines than i do

oh my god the slot machine company says if we dont give them money to build the world's biggest slot machine the chinese are gonna build it first and win all the prizes. and then there wont be any prizes anymore
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026
> And all it took was the presence of a semi-fascist but admittedly still quite cool lunatic dressed like a bat whose concept of justice begins and ends at beating the s—t out of people with severe mental health issues.
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
RE: dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/… I knew that Bernie Sanders is tapping techbros for advice rather than actual AI safety experts like @timnitGebru, but I didn't know that those techbros leaned so hard into AI doom … or sex orgies.
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
RE: mastodon.social/@DrALJONES/11737668… **THIS** is why they want to call it "Super Intelligence" (or "Artificial General Intelligence") and why they've gotten so far calling it "Artificial Intelligence": it is none of those things, but those terms remove accountability. If […]
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026
RE: mastodon.world/@exchgr/117368893839… When SpaceX went IPO, I added it to my never-buy list. I'll also do that with Anthropic & OpenAI. These corps operate at a massive loss and an IPO cash infusion won't dig them out. (Plus, they're eugenicists destroying democracy, etc.)
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/technology/2026… £320k + 100 police hours = one alert, and it was a false positive. > “We know the technology works, but using it in supermarkets to deter shoplifters and prevent attacks on […]
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026
#uspol “Senator Eric Schmidt Just CAUGHT Jack Smith perjuring himself on the stand in his testimony” Full context: Schmitt accused Jack Smith of colluding meetings in Atlanta. His "proof", shown for 1s, was SMS dialog talking about a basketball game he attended—in another state. Full context: […]
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
This is an amazing smart desk! #tech HT @scottjenson
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026
theintercept.com/2026/09/28/ai-mili… #SuperIntelligence and #AGI are, at best, long-term concerns. There's enough risk and harm from #AI going on **right now**. (If you weren't convinced by slavery, water rights, resource consumption, and climate change, maybe […]
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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Flock thinks it's cameras have a legal right to privacy in public. 😂
Flock Safety has issued a legal demand seeking the removal of a public map showing the locations of approximately 300.000 of it's surveillance devices across the United States.
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M.S. Bellows, Jr. @msbellows.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
I'm so old, I remember when software that spread into the wild and infiltrated other people's computers and did harmful things to them that the users didn't ask it to was called "malware" instead of "AI" and the people that spread it were prosecuted instead of given billions in venture capital […]
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
I like this daily #webgame: guess the year given clues about what happened then. It's a bit arbitrary and, like Wordle outside of Hard Mode, you can hunt for more digits (and there are only so many digits), but it has a fundamental flaw in its sharing mechanism tipping the hand too much. Take […]
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
Neat insight into how Meta's chatbot works: mouse.dev/blog/muse-runtime-export Apparently, getting a chatbot to dump you its whole filesystem isn't notable: > we've determined that the reported issue does not qualify as a valid vulnerability under the scope of our bug bounty system.
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I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8 GB | Mouse
I asked Muse to archive the files it could see and send them to my Google Drive. It did.
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
RE: techhub.social/@Techmeme/1173155647… I maintain that the `I` in #AI stands for "Idiocy", so I'm all for renaming the concept "Super Idiocy"
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
In the park, I see a man on his phone with a child in a stroller, pulled off to the side of the path. The man says "master, master" to the child, perhaps chidingly. Then I hear Metallica. Not chidingly; educationally! 🤘
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026
New research suggests we could improve solar power beyond its theoretical limit! interestingengineering.com/innovati… #solar
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New tin-based solar cells could push past 33% efficiency ceiling
Researchers at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands found that tin-based perovskite solar cells can slow heat loss from high-energy "hot electrons."
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
In the Cold War, we had an impressive number of oops-almost-killed-everybody scares with bad data. Back then, we had humans in the loop who could say "no, I'm not starting WWIII". We're losing that safeguard while increasing the scares […]
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 21/09/2026
We must create the Shit Machine: > Could the Shit Machine END WORLD HUNGER? It’s NOT IMPOSSIBLE in the most LITERAL SENSE, which is all the justification we need to invest an AMOUNT OF MONEY that would OTHERWISE BY ITSELF END ACTUAL WORLD HUNGER. > […]
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19/09/2026
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/se… “There’s some real animus towards the kids coming from Miller and his acolytes. And I think that it’s also very connected to the same reason that he wants to get rid of birthright citizenship. It’s about […]
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
RE: journa.host/@theintercept/117281889… We are hitting a turning point. We'll soon pop the bubble of non-coverage by right-wing media 🤞 #uspol
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
RE: digipres.club/@foone/11727733090139… Firefox is starting to get polluted by vibe-coded crap. If only the AI-free @servo was moving along faster…
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
RE: journa.host/@theintercept/117275551… AI execs and "whistleblowers" are engaging in whataboutism, talking about larger existential threats as if they're near-certainties to distract from the impressive damage that is real and now: * Destroying education (students use […]
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Will Dormann @wdormann.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Did you update to iOS 27? Congratulations! You've now been enrolled in Apple Intelligence, because Apple knows better about what you want than you do. 1. Starting with iOS 27, there is no top-level `Apple Intelligence` setting that you can turn off. 2 […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]
iOS 26 has an "Apple Intelligence & Siri" settings sectioniOS 27 has NO "Apple Intelligence & Siri" settings sectionContent and privacy restrictionsAllowed Siri Version settings page.
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
My government just admitted to breaking more international laws regarding war www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ck790xg… #uspol
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US confirms for first time it has deployed space weapons
The US Air Force Secretary says the weapons are necessary to defend the country against enemy action.
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
Former FTC chair Lina Khan says there's a 93yo SCOTUS precedent in which we could arrest AI CEOs: bird.makeup/users/linamkhan/statuse… (does this sort of quoting work?) #uspol
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Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books —
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026
The troll farms are gearing up for the next US election: bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/pro…
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
A Flock technician called 911 because journalists were filming the installation of Flock cameras in public. Here's what the photographer said to the police: > "There is an irony here that they're setting up these cameras that track all of our movements, that follow everywhere we go. But when I […]
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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 14/09/2026
let this be your only doom-scroll this week
screenshot of the doom video game on imposed on an antiqued paper-scroll.
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026
#SilentSunday #photography #911anniversary #NYC
Photo of the midtown Manhattan skyline at night, with the lights reflected by the Jackie Kennedy Onassis Reservoir. 

Many building spires are blue for the 20th anniversary. One spire shows the American Flag waving (though it looks pretty yellow here). There are two beams of light replacing the Twin Towers, though you may have to zoom in to see they're not one beam die to the angle.
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 11/09/2026
arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/09… ChatGPT thinks it found Jesus (and he's suing OpenAI)
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Kit Bashir @unixbigot.aus.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
If you travel with a wheelchair I will build you a shock recording black box for free. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-09-11/qant…
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Qantas changes tune over broken wheelchair after ABC questions
Qantas has backflipped and says it is now planning to replace an expensive powered wheelchair broken beyond repair on one of its flights, after questions from the ABC.
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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
RE: flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/117246… The media continues to fail us all. It's a clear violation of: 18 U.S.C. § 600 — promising any benefit "provided for or made possible in whole or in part by any Act of Congress" as consideration for, or reward for, political activity […]
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
www.wired.com/story/san-francisco-o… Meta ran ads that depict real minors in generated videos of sexual acts. They neither deny nor regret this. Instead, they dodge: > Meta says there is “no indication” that the ads were displayed in San […]
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026
What's going on with Omarchy? Why is so much money flowing into a Linux distro that barely changes from its upstream? Is its genocidal founder offering something behind the scenes, or is this just an "OMG, AI Linux" moment from execs that don't understand anything?
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
I have no idea what I'll do when I buy my next TV. Definitely not LG; their sets spy on you even when offline or in standby ("off"), wardriving to log nearby devices and even using a _microphone_ to record you. I'm hoping their expected monetization of my habits will lower the cost and be a […]
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2026
RE: infosec.exchange/@cR0w/117241816664… Every once in a while, we get reminders that #malware payloads can be embedded into media, which often gets a free pass through security scans
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 08/09/2026
RE: infosec.exchange/@ankit_anubhav/117… Idea: a CAPTCHA service that starts with a puzzle solvable only by automation. Human users will click the "that's too hard" button and get a puzzle designed for humans. Now your site can serve different content to those two groups […]
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/09/2026
@zzt there's financial incentive to this bogus claim: declaring AGI means they're decoupled from Microsoft, essential to their pending IPO > When OpenAI says it has reached Artificial General Intelligence, […], that claim will have to be verified by an independent expert panel, Microsoft said […]
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Elena Brescacin @elettrona.poliversity.it.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026
I assumed that Fediverse could really be an open, progressive environment where to discuss ideas and grow up, with different points of view. But what I'm finding lately, is something different. Narration going from "pro AI / glasses" to "no AI / glasses" so if you don't maintain a position, you […]
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1172176858… I recall hearing that OpenAI and Microsoft were colluding to announce they had achieved Artificial General Intelligence (#AGI, true human-level thinking/consciousness) when the AI industry market cap hit $1 trillion. Enter GPT-6, which […]
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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026
Too bad its never like “our ai agent went rogue and deleted ten billion dollars of medical debt”
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026
I don't think I've ever seen this before: an ad at @distrowatch uses a superscript digit `³` (U+00B3) in its HTML `<a href="…">` code, presumably as some kind of anti-adblock obfuscation. (I only found this because my ad blocker failed to act on it and I wanted to fix that.)
Firefox Developer Tools "Inspector" view (in a dark theme) for DistroWatch.com showing the HTML for the ad, with the A tag highlighted. You can see its href is "https://www.³cx.com/smb/". In the console, I specified `$0.href` and got the value as "https://www.3cx.com/smb/". Then I specified `$0.outerHTML` and got the value as '<a href="https://www.³cx.com/smb/"><img src="images/k/bgmsaocc" alt="Small Business Phone System •• On-Premise or Cloud | 3CX"></a>'.

Thus advertiser does not appear to stylize its name as "³CX"
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Adam Katz @adamhotep.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 31/08/2026
Hey @internetarchive: I bet you'd get more donors if you had a #WaybackMachine service reserved just for us, with snappier service and hopefully some resilience to outages like what web.archive.org is suffering right now.
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