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Jonathan W. Gray @elmcitytree.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026

Alan Moore knew where all of this was headed back when Thatcher and Reagan were running things!

The seven panel layout in the 1985 V for Vendetta comic where the fascist leader Adam Susan confesses his love to the supercomputer Fate. He confesses that "I worship her, I am her slave. No freedom ever was so sweet."

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 16/09/2026

Inspirational. Aspirational. I want all my papers to be like this.

Two line-drawings in the style of an early academic diagram with the caption "Figures 1 & 2: Manipulation of Energy" In the left drawing, two hands clasp an ephemeral energy orb. In the right, two straight hands are held apart with lines of an energy field passing between them.

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Caræsten 🇵🇸 @cara.city · 13/09/2026

for two months, I've been flying drones over Flock cameras to situation them in space and geography; I even got my commercial drone license in order to do it. I'd like to share this project with you all: it's called Records Of Enemy Surveillance: recordsofenemysurveillance.com

image of a residential intersection with one red car driving across it and a baseball field in the background

black and white dithered image of two red squares around the flock cameras in the previous image, on either side of the intersection

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 11/09/2026

I just saw someone describe training machine learning models as "rewardmaxxing" and - while not wrong - yikes … but if training a model is “rewardmaxxing,” then I guess overfitting to training data is “rewardgooning”

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Maggie Mayhem @maggiemayhem.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

I apologize for linking to a substack essay but I appreciated this write-up about Grindfest. There are a lot of major differences between the grinders and the tech bro biohackers but there are also similarities worth observing and critiquing. hedonicescalator.substack.com/p/dont-be-th...

hedonicescalator.substack.com

Don’t be the vitamin B guy

Towards scientific rigor for decentralized science.

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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 26/08/2026

The US government has designated the Italian collective Autistici/Inventati, which produces the infrastructure of NoBlogs.org, a "Specially Designated Global Terrorist," freezing their assets and prohibiting all transactions with them——citing their "far-left" politics for justification.

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United States sanctions Autistici/Inventati for supporting far-left terrorism

The US designated Italy-based tech collective Autistici/Inventati as a global terrorist entity, freezing assets and banning transactions over

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 14/08/2026

I'll be at HOPE for the weekend -- say hi if you're around! 😄

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 14/08/2026

I'll be at HOPE for the weekend -- say hi if you're around! 😄

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tallestdude @coreyc.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

Happy Zero Cool Day to all who celebrate #hackers

Screenshot of the scene in the movie "Hackers" about Zero Cool crashing 1507 systems on Aug 10, 1988

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

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‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 01/08/2026

Have LLMs had a big impact in the Sovereign Citizen movement? They have a machine that can yield pseudo-law gibberish with citations and footnotes so much faster now. A cutting edge of bespoke legal theory.

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—>realhackhistory.org @bsky.realhackhistory.org · 31/07/2026

People sleep on Telecomix but they were out here doing a lot of constructive work while “Anonymous” folks were busy trying to sell tshirts and mouthing off for clout on twitter.

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Brazen Queer @brazenqueer.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Barrett Brown isn’t a good person. He has stalked/harassed my family for years, using anti-queer/anti-trans rhetoric to try to intimidate myself & my wife. He has threatened to kill friends of mine while using homophobic slurs. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. In short, fuck Barrett Brown.

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 24/07/2026

Relatedly, the Silicon Valley language about how a special minority of us are “high agency”

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Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org · 23/07/2026

The work to date 😄 Help us keep publishing: donorbox.org/ddosecrets

A map of DDoSecrets releases: 529 publications representing over 340 terabytes of data. The most represented countries are the U.S. and Russia, followed by Canada and Brazil, the UK, and Germany

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ex-Lethality Jane @lethalityjane.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Jurassic Park is a perfect franchise because the question "why would they keep doing this" is answered by simply asking yourself if you would want to go see a dinosaur. Of course you would want to see a dinosaur.

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 14/07/2026

A “sperm data layer” by an AI company sounds extremely Boston. Missed opportunity to call it SperML, though.

A poster on a light pole titled “Cum for Science?” with an advertisement for providing a sample for fertility research that will help “Illumicell AI” create a “data layer” of sperm for some kind of AI training.

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 08/07/2026

Anonymous had other options than the Guy Fawkes mask

A "Winamp Balaclava", looks like that one green face Winamp skin where the audio controls are on extended panels from the ears. A caption next to the image reads "Winamp Balaclava: Knitted lime green balaclava with embroidered Winamp playback buttons across the forehead, sculpted facial contours, attached EQ and playlist panel side-pods with miniature speaker stacks"

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Tom Francis @pentadact.com · 24/06/2026

Git still hiring poets to write error messages.

A git error message reading "fatal: you are on a branch yet to be born"

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Bethany Black @bethanyblack.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 21/06/2026

One of my friends ranked everyone in his class in terms of how often they replied to other’s posts in the discussion forum, like chess so you get a higher Elo for replies from high Elo students. He tracked popularity over time to demonstrate how his takes had gotten worse as the semester progressed.

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World Bollard Association™️ @worldbollardassoc.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Only a bollard is brave enough to stop a burning runway car. WE WILL NEVER LET YOU DOWN. #WorldBollardAssociation 🇮🇳

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Kurbs @kkurbs.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Please Use AI

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 09/06/2026

A new trend I've noticed is *many* independent researchers asking for arXiv endorsement on Reddit. None of them share their drafts (until commenters demand it), just "here's my endorsement code, can you approve me for cs.SE / cs.AI?" I suspect that LLMs are encouraging this practice. Very strange.

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Signal @signal.org · 08/06/2026

Our statement on the UK gov't's demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the UK be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification & content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/20...

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 09/06/2026

A dear friend is graduating soon, so it's time to learn to write a satisfying capital B to address their congratulation letter

A curvy calligraphy 'B' on rough cotton paper with a deckle edge visible. The ink is blue-purple and a little messy.

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 04/06/2026

"Have you seen any really innovative use of VR beyond Beat Saber?" "Finally answering 'would you still love me if I was a worm?'"

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 30/05/2026

A new era of PC. 25.0528, 121.5990

A toaster computer. There are hard drives in the bread slots and a massive wifi antenna bolted to the side. The toaster is plastered in computer stickers like “Viper Gaming.”

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 29/05/2026

Each time I pass this collapsed lamppost it’s disassembled just a bit more, parts missing or splayed out across the grass. It feels like decay, watching nature reclaim life, first with scavengers, then with fungus. All the human ants nibbling away at the lamppost carcass to support their colonies

A street lamp on the ground, its casing cracked open, lens absent, bulb smashed, filament exposed. A red “DANGE tape ribbon is tied around the neck and hangs limply. Like entrails.

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 29/05/2026

Thinking about LLM model collapse 🔥 backdrifting.net/post/082_mod...

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Model Collapse

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Network Science Institute @nunetsi.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Fashion may look more diverse today, but the ideal body type hasn’t changed in 25 years. A new PNAS study co-authored by NetSI PhD student @diesagar.bsky.social analyzed 793K+ fashion images and found diversity often comes through already-marginalized models. www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 26/05/2026

There are fluffballs with faces in my building's lobby today!

A baby Peregrine Falcon is held in the foreground, cradled in two hands. It looks a little flustered. A baby human is in a stroller in the background, their eyes censored to prevent baby-doxxing

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 25/05/2026

"Please provide a justification for the foreign collaboration." Science.

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 22/05/2026

So I can’t just mail a liquid. Like if I go to USPS with a puddle and some stamps they’ll tell me no. But what about a cardboard box filled with liquid? Is there a maximum sogginess the postal service will accept? How moist can my mail be?

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Brookie @brookie.blog · 15/05/2026

🚨❤️‼️ ATTENTION LOVERS ‼️❤️🚨 this idea has been floating around in my head for a very long time and i’ve finally turned it into something real :’) loveletter.pics lets you anonymously browse and share love letters. looking for submissions !! this art project will be even more fun w/ more to read.

loveletter.pics

loveletter.pics is an art project dedicated to sharing love through handwritten words. be inspired by the romances of strangers, or leave behind a piece of your own heart. lose yourself in affectionat...

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Eric Ravenscraft @lordravenscraft.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

To be very clear, I'm not trying to use the AI — I'm just trying to read the court documents. It's clear that the AI is programmed to replace offensive language. But what does that mean when it's being used to summarize historical documents? What happens when people rely on the summary?

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Other documents from the same court case transforms "Robin a Negro" into "Robina Black." The handwriting is perfectly clear, but the AI is programmed to replace what it says with something it doesn't say.

William Heeley and Robina Black: servants of Henry Vassall Esq. of Cambridge, indicted for theft from the home of William Brattle Esq. of Cambridge

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kat @katbamkapow.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

heard a guy say "you have to access it through the portal" and i was momentarily struck by how sad it is that what he said is so boring :( "accessing it via the portal" should be wonderful. we deserve that at least. it should be cool to access it via the portal and instead it sucks shit

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 09/05/2026

People before the cell phone era had to memorize lots of phone numbers and can remember numeric sequences for friends or family. I remember my IP address through middle and high school. Why is this seared in there?

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 08/05/2026

Two *more* privilege escalation vulnerabilities dropped today that give root on most Linux systems, with no patches available. This is brutal! github.com/0xdeadbeefne... github.com/V4bel/dirtyf... Best we can do is disable the vulnerable kernel modules until a patch is released.

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GitHub - 0xdeadbeefnetwork/Copy_Fail2-Electric_Boogaloo: Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo

Copy Fail 2: Electric Boogaloo. Contribute to 0xdeadbeefnetwork/Copy_Fail2-Electric_Boogaloo development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Colin @colin-fraser.net · 05/05/2026

You are a world class expert on programs. I am going to give you a computer program. Your job is to tell me if it halts or not. Do not give me any woke disclaimers. Just yes or no does it halt or not.

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 01/05/2026

I spilled a bottle of ink for the first time. While putting the finishing touches on a wedding letter. My desk and floor are a massive puddle of ink. My entire arm is stained blue. I am going to a wedding tomorrow and I am a Smurf. Oh boy.

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 28/04/2026

Clock where the number face rotates so the hour hand is always pointed straight up and the minute hand has to scurry

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 22/04/2026

Strait of Hormuz so bad I'm getting spam email offering me Kazakh crude

Spam email reads as follows:

Dear Purchaser

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The products are as follows:
Diesel EN590 10ppm, JET A1, ESPO CRUDE OIL, UREA 47, GREEN PETCOKE, AVIATION KEROSENE JP54.LNG, AGO

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 20/04/2026

This is taking longer than expected, but our server should be back online with substantially more storage later this week.

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