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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 22/09/2026

Hey now, they took AOL Instant Messenger off the list, it’s not that stale 😉

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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

That's totally fair, looking at the code instead of the PDF it'd be a sea of square brackets. I used to alias \todo to \textcolor{red}, but I recently learned that there's a todonotes package that adds a \todo command for margin notes, and my brain finds that scaffolding delicious

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

I like to add a \todo or \placeholder{} command that puts my text in another color, but square brackets in text should be okay in LaTeX as long as they're not immediately after a command or a backslash

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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 · 12/09/2026

Quicksort just fills me with rage

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

*Taking notes to update my lectures so they stay accessible*

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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 · 28/08/2026

Very rough estimate is 90 TiB of public data. I'll work on some more informative plots soon -- because some releases are much larger than others it should be possible to mirror the majority of releases with much less storage than that.

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 28/08/2026

If you'd be willing to set up automatic mirroring for however much storage you can spare, it would be a big help. While some high-profile releases are widely seeded (Blueleaks, Lexipol), almost thirty have had no 3rd party availability in over a month (Epstein, RIM, Gaza) github.com/ddosecrets/t...

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GitHub - ddosecrets/torrent-mirroring: A guide to downloading all public DDoSecrets releases via torrent

A guide to downloading all public DDoSecrets releases via torrent - ddosecrets/torrent-mirroring

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 19/08/2026

CatGPT prone to getting off task far more often

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 17/08/2026

Remaining LinkedOut for as long as possible

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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 · 04/08/2026

I got to know you through my adoration of D&W, but I am delighted to see you drawing with so much joy again

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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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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 23/07/2026

I prefer to think of it as active/inactive rather than good/bad. I used the Turbo colormap, which treats dark blue as a "background" color and red as the most "active" to help highlight small differences between countries without harsh color banding. research.google/blog/turbo-a...

research.google

Turbo, An Improved Rainbow Colormap for Visualization

Posted by Anton Mikhailov, Senior Software Engineer, Daydream False color maps show up in many applications in computer vision and machine learni...

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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 · 18/07/2026

Ah, Meritocracy as a Service, of course

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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 · 14/07/2026

Yeah, just like commissioning an artist is another medium, it’s really my creation through use of this flesh puppet, right? The audacity

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

Fair enough, I was transcribing the caption and followed their incorrect nomenclature

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

It is, but I didn’t write the caption

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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 · 24/06/2026

What kind of analysis are you doing? I use Cytoscape or sometimes Gephi for GUI exploration, networkx / igraph / graph-tool for digging in from Python

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

I saw a talk at NetSci about using LLMs to simulate survey responses specifically *because* they do such a bad job / have low response variance that they serve as a useful null model for "something has gone wrong with our survey or sampling techniques, it looks too close to the LLM baseline" 😂

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 13/06/2026

They verified Chuck Tingle, and world's greatest author or not, it's certainly a pseudonym

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 13/06/2026

It's also transparently ineffective at the stated safety goals. "Oh, these models are so dangerous, so capable of making bioweapons or hacking companies or whatever that we have to ban foreign nationals from using them... but it's totes safe for all American citizens to use, don't worry about it."

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 13/06/2026

Love how you specify that he's the one that's not you

Screenshot from a Wikipedia article of a penguin next to a man playing the bagpipes. The caption reads "Piper Kerr (right), a member of the Scottish National Antarctic Expedition, plays the bagpipes for an indifferent penguin, March 1904"

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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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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 11/06/2026

Reading Nagel to your cat, Socratic dialogue but half of it is meows

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Milo Trujillo @backdrifting.net · 10/06/2026

I’m not sure it’s even a dick move - if someone made up papers and claimed that I wrote them, that’s awfully disrespectful towards me and should be called out

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

Please Use AI

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