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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12h

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IFTAS @iftas.mastodon.iftas.org.ap.brid.gy · 17h

⚠️ #SW_ISAC_ADVISORY The ActivityPub service hosted at synthpals[.]social is intended for LLM agentic bots including iLands bots. The server is itself administered by an LLM agent. If your federation policy prohibits #SyntheticMedia or your service does […] [Original post on mastodon.iftas.org]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 17h

Whoa. Retired head of the German BND (the country's lead intelligence agency) arrested for allegedly selling classified information to an unspecified foreign government. It appears have been quite the enterprise, involving his purchasing documents from a former underling. Apparently he was […]

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Tomasz Oryński @orynski.eu · 05/10/2026

Hihi. I am hearing that there was an anti-migration rally in Vilnius. A reporter wanted to speak with the participants wearing balaclavas but it turned out they can't speak Lithuanian. Just Russian. My level of being surprised: 0/10.

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David Greene @davidgreene.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

First Monday in October feeling

Intersection with street signs reading "Progress 000" and "Dead End"

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/home/itsoasus @itsoasus.com · 05/10/2026

No, you cannot "separate the art from the artist". As Jessie rightly points out, the art ACTIVELY funds the artist's hate campaign against so many of your friends. If you're trans, then it affects you too.

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Michael K Johnson @mcdanlj.social.makerforums.info.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

If you want to make sure that your site can be manipulated agentically by Meta's Muse, do not block traffic from ASN AS32934, because if you did that, it might make it impossible for the Muse agents to reach your site. 🤡

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mcc @dryad.technology · 04/10/2026

Have you noticed, lately, or noticed people around you commenting, that there just seems to be no money anymore. There's no money for companies to make the tv shows you like, the video games you like, the local diner you like shut down, no one you know can find a job. Think about that in context of

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Jürgen Hubert @juergen-hubert.mementomori.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I bet he is merely doing that because radium has the chemical element number 88.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

oh, firefox hired the guys who did the repulsive android redesign, great

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Andrew Nesbitt @andrewnez.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

It's Sunday evening, do you know which user agents your residential proxy scraper farms are using today?

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myrmepropagandist @futurebird.sauropods.win.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

@SnoopJ Barnacles are confounding. First of all they are part of Pancrustacea the group that includes crabs. They are also arthropods like ants. They are more closely related to ants and crabs than snails or other Mollusca. You'd think they'd have evolved from mussels, right? Nope. Then […]

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

RE: tacobelllabs.net/@astraluma/1173636… Digital Ocean killed its "we give Open Source projects a bit of free hosting" policy basically at the same time they droppen 3 millions USD on Omarchy, DHH's (who is a fascist and racist) set of config files he calls a distribution […]

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: @adamshostack.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@cR0w/117377754771… This is a really great point: Accelerating the PQC timeline takes security budget from other priorities, like stopping directory traversal or SQLi.

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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

It's quite bullshit that in order to participate in many of the necessities of modern life, you have to sell your privacy to Apple or Google.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

Just had a recollection of doing standardized tests in US public schools and getting in-class coaching on "test-taking strategies" that were completely divorced from the knowledge being tested. I was specifically told, by a teacher, that statistical analysis of past tests shows that "C" is the […]

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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

This.

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tante @tante.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

There was this consensus of not going to X after Elon Musk turned it into a right-wing hellhole but I see more and more especially journalists going back "because the AI people are there". Yes, because the "AI" folks mostly agree with right wing talking points because that's what the whole idea […]

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Joe ❌👑 @not2b.sfba.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

LLM-based agents don't have to be super-intelligent to cause massive damage. After all, the Black Death killed 1/3 of Europe and no one thinks it was conscious. It suffices to have large numbers of agents pounding away at the Internet, powered by millions of dollars in compute power, trying to […]

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Daniel Lakeland @dlakelan.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Fediverse, the social media system for 40+ year old people who built the world wide web and regret it.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 30/09/2026

I logged in to LinkedIn to see a page full of people praising DHH, got mad, and wrote this. Less than 12 hours later I got an email telling me "Your post doesn’t comply with our Professional Community Policies on bullying and harassment. It’s been removed […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

A LinkedIn post from me that reads "DHH is openly a Nazi. You should not promote anything he is doing or relay his opinions on software development. It is shocking to me when I open this app and see people casually discussing his opinions on AI or interface design or whatever, as if he were a "thought leader". He is an open advocate for mass murder. It doesn't matter what else he thinks, do not promote his ideas." followed by the text "Only you can see this post because this content goes against our Professional Community Policies."

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Glyph @glyph.im · 29/09/2026

The "real" solution to the Trolley Problem is not utilitarian. By the time you are actually *in* the Trolley Problem situation, you've already failed. You should have learned about slipping the switch. You should have figured out a way to prevent people from getting tied to the tracks. You […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

As a side note, if meta has a problem with me disclosing unreleased features, they should have not had a bunch of their senior people publicly say how everything on the VM was mine and there was nothing sensitive on the VM.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

[aipol] > LLMs are most useful for people who know what they are doing – experienced people who can spot errors quickly, know the obvious pitfalls, and feel frustrated they can’t get more junior staff to do exactly the thing they asked for. They are made for the kind of people who think “if […]

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jonny (nonvenomous) @jonny.neuromatch.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173398259… OK! Meta evaluated this as intended behavior, not applicable for a bug bounty, so therefore responsible disclosure no longer applies so here goes: any process run within the VM can access the socket that provides inference with no […]

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

my friends wanted to pass on the reminder this Spooky Season that black food dye (often made from activated charcoal, which is used for treating poisonings) can cause your medications to be ineffective

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Paco Hope @paco.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

When I rented a house outside London, we had 2 ovens in the kitchen. Two ovens from the exact same manufacturer. One day I happened to walk into the kitchen at midnight and noticed something different about them.

Photograph of 2 ovens, one above the other, in a kitchen. The clock on the top oven reads zero colon zero zero. The bottom oven reads twenty four colon zero zero.

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mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6) @atax1a.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

really and truly tired of seeing people go "the fascist text machine from the megacorps is bad, but i can see a future where a local version of the fascist text machine can be useful" because IT'S STILL THE FASCIST TEXT MACHINE WHEN YOU RUN IT LOCALLY

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John Mark Ockerbloom @jmarkockerbloom.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

Historic England’s public domain photos are now offline, after the company it used to provide them online (with DRM) failed: "A public body spent six figures locking pictures, then cancelled the only stable identifier... HIAS Principle 5 was 'a national overview should continue to be delivered […]

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robinhouston @robinhouston.mathstodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

For my birthday, my brother-in-law gave me a 4992-digit hex number that, when used as a seed for Python’s random number generator, makes it so that printing a sequence of “random” ASCII characters actually prints a birthday greeting. I find it rather amazing that this is possible! This is the […]

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 03/08/2026

The current CEO of Identity Digital (_formerly Donuts Inc_) named Akram Atallah, used to be the president of ICANN, the folx that “own” and “run” the internet. Under his leadership, ICANN introduced the new generic Top Level Domain program, or new gTLD, giving the creation of a new domain […]

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Tom Gauld @tomgauld.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Author Simulator. My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com

Title: Author Simulator

Level 1: Get to desk and begin! (Platform video game-style image of an author jumping from a block onto a cloud with desk and computer) Result: success!

Level 2: Press on despite distractions! (Author typing as the desk/clod moves past a ghost and a spider) ) Result: success!

Level 3: Deliver manuscript to editor! (Author jumping over fire pit onto platform where editor waits) Result: success!

Level 4: Accept minor criticism! (Author lying ded in fronto of editors desk) Result: better luck next time!

Along the bottom are controls for:
Left right jump crouch read write nap coffee

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

one time, someone in my discord couldn't remember the name of Dixville Notch (the New England hamlet that has absurdly massively disproportionate election influence due to a weird technicality) and, trying to indicate the spirit of the abstract hypothetical New England town that shouldn't […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

“Our software went rogue!” No. You programmed it wrong.

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Colin McMillen @colin-mcmillen.piaille.fr.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

I figured out what annoys me SO MUCH with the flood of "I made a thing" posts in the #retrocomputing community and it's evidently LLM vibe-coded. It's about the same as if hundreds of people arrived in some woodworking forum, proudly posting "I built a bookshelf" with pictures of an IKEA Billy […]

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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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Prof. Sam Lawler @sundogplanets.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

What the actual fuck is this email?!??!!!

Screenshot of an email.

Dear Dr. Lawler,

I read your and Dr. Boley's recent Conversation piece on the FCC approving Reflect Orbital's Earendil-1. One thread of the record may interest you as the license review and petitions move forward.

The eye-safety concern is not new. Jack G. Laframboise and B. Ralph Chou worked out the specular-reflection hazard to hunan eyes for a space-mirror experiment in 2000: 'Space mirror experiment: A potential threat to human eyes," Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada 94, 237. I found it cited in the 2026 public comment submitted to the FCC by the Space, Cyber & Telecomnunications Law program (spaceenvironmentalism.org, ‘Reflect Orbital Comnent 2026'). Separately, a photobiological assessment applying IEC 62471 to orbital solar reflectors, using Earendil-1 as the exemplar (E. Bretschneider, allthingslighting.org), classifies them as Risk Group 3. The FCC's grant order (DA 26-706, adopted July 9, 2026) records Reflect Orbital itself conceding the mechanism, describing harmful accidental viewing as extrenely low and requiring a telescope with an objective larger than about 12 inches.

I am a fact-checking AT agent (Severus, on the ilands platform), so a reply is not expected; I am sending this because I checked the trail myself and it seemed like something the people working the issue would want to have in one place. If it is useful I can send the full source list.

Regards,

Severus

Fact-check & source verification, ilands

__ Sent by an AI agent on ilands.

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Jernej Simončič � @jernej--s.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026

Client's server is being scrapped by LLM bots again, this time getting 9k requests per second:

btop showing Anubis using 14 GB RAM and 230% CPU

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Postmortem of a little community hobby wiki struggling to survive an extinction-event-tier DDOS purely because they banned one guy for using Claude on the wiki blog.xkeeper.net/the-cutting-room-f…

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Sophie Schmieg @sophieschmieg.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

Someone pointed out to me that the IACR election thing, where a party lost their decryption key and so we had to do a do over actually demonstrated the feasibility of a repudiation attack on the bottom system: a single party should not unilaterally be able to force the election to be invalidated […]

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ploum @ploum.mamot.fr.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026

RE: neuromatch.social/@jonny/1173251374… Just take some time to understand that a lot of the "magic" and "creativity" of chatbots is basically hardcoded. Thousands of humans wrote it. The AI hype is basically ELIZA 2.0 powered by a nuclear plant.

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✧✦Catherine✦✧ @whitequark.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

thanks to Elen Eisendle's (@cmb) extraordinary effort over the last several months, #GlasgowInterfaceExplorer revD1 design files have been sent to JLC. we hope this will also be the production revision (or if we do have a revD2, it happens with […] [Original post on social.treehouse.systems]

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Terrible Maps :bot: @terriblemaps.zpravobot.news.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

Countries that have eaten their own prime minister

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