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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 20/02/2026
Trump reacts to Supreme Court decision, Part 2. The Trumpster describes the plot against him and the disloyal justices. He reveals his true feelings in the process. www.youtube.com/watch?v=KekC...
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The Caine Mutiny (1954) - Paranoid Breakdown Scene (8/9) | Movieclips
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 20/02/2026
Trump reacts to Supreme Court on tariffs. In case you missed the presser, here's the Trumpster analyzing the whole issue of tariffs. Part 1 www.youtube.com/watch?v=edQy...
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The Caine Mutiny (1954) - Frozen Strawberries Scene (4/9) | Movieclips
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 30/01/2026
Older coverage of the app www.404media.co/ice-is-using...
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ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show
The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 30/01/2026
Yes, there is an app for this. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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ICE’s surveillance app is a techno-authoritarian nightmare | Moustafa Bayoumi
Mobile Fortify lets agents obtain vast amounts of information on anyone by scanning their face
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 30/01/2026
Step 2 Read the Book You have arrived at Step 2: read the book. I encourage finding alternate sources so you don't have to buy it from Uncle Jeff Bezos. www.simonandschuster.com/books/To-Cat...
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To Catch a Fascist
A searing, provocative investigation into the rise of white nationalist and neo-Nazi movements in the United States, centered on the anti-fascist g...
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 30/01/2026
Is there a Defcon 0 ? Guten morgen Herr Strangelove, your coffee and newspaper are on the table. Step 1, read the article, then go to step 2. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Antifa used to unmask neo-Nazis, now it’s exposing ICE: ‘Predators don’t get anonymity’
Following in a long American tradition of identifying fascists, a network of leftists has set out to name and shame Trump’s immigration agents
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 05/01/2026
Trump the Drunk Susie Wiles said he has an alcoholic's personality. He found the Presidential liquor cabinet stocked with an irresistible drug: unfettered use of the American military. Nobody to stop him, he can order what he wants. Here he is drunk, on AF One. www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDvX...
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‘Don-roe Doctrine’ Unleashed: Trump Vows To Fix Venezuela, Warns Delcy Of A Fate Worse Than Maduro
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 05/01/2026
Deja Vue all over again We really have been here before gang, just with a slightly different cast of characters. It's not really the Monroe Doctrine, but maybe the Roosevelt Corollary. Close enough. Gunboat diplomacy, the Big Stick. Even blockading Venezuela. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ca...
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 31/12/2025
League of Women Voters If you don't know the League, you should. Founded in 1920 as a non-partisan political organization, initally focused on women's suffrage. State and local chapters do amazing work, unsung heroes of grassroots organizing. They do things like this www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lpjy...
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What Democracy Means in Everyday Life: A Conversation About Tariffs
YouTube video by NewTV Government
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 11/10/2025
What bothers me about Thiel is, has he always been this gonzo and incoherent, even as a student at Stanford, or is this the cumulative effects of homeopathic remedies, acupuncture, ayahuasca, ganja and meth over decades? What mushrooms has this guy been eating? www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Inside tech billionaire Peter Thiel’s off-the-record lectures about the antichrist
The political svengali and investor has been giving lectures on ‘an evil king or tyrant … who appears in the end times’
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 10/10/2025
Found one! Should get here in time to wear to the Kings Day protest, too. www.amazon.com/DAHAKII-Infl...
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Amazon.com: DAHAKII Funny Inflatable Frog Costume Easter Red Frog Blow-Up Costume for Adult/Birthday/Party/Easter (Frog) : Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry
Amazon.com: DAHAKII Funny Inflatable Frog Costume Easter Red Frog Blow-Up Costume for Adult/Birthday/Party/Easter (Frog) : Clothing, Shoes & Jewelry
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
PORTLAND: “The frogs are multiplying” (#NotAWarZone Noem Matter what Kristi says)
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 06/10/2025
This one snuck right up on me. The oral arguments are supposed to happen tomorrow, Tues, in front of SCOTUS (does that word have any etymological connection to the latin Scrotum? Just asking for a friend) www.scotusblog.com/2025/10/does...
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 15/09/2025
America's very own fascists: a thoughtful analysis of George Lincoln Rockwell's visit to U of Mich in '64 and the controversy over whether he should even be allowed to speak. GLR is seen as a 'founding father' of the movement by white supremacists today. heritage.umich.edu/stories/invi...
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Invitation to a Nazi | University of Michigan Heritage Project
George Lincoln Rockwell’s appearance at Michigan became a classic battle in microcosm over the proper role of the First Amendment on a college campus.
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 15/09/2025
Who is a fascist? Don't take other people's word for it, decide for yourself. Listen to someone who meets the definition, and see what you think. In Oct '64 George Lincoln Rockwell, founder of the American Nazi Party, spoke at Univ of Michigan bentley.mivideo.it.umich.edu/media/1_9ybc...
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George Lincoln Rockwell Speech at Hill Auditorium; Senator Dirksen speech [Part 1; Segment 1] - Bentley Historical Library
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 15/09/2025
Hey gang, look what my Chat bro can do now! Like, link to Stripe, render an invoice, all kinds of shit. Any way to know if it's accurate and stuff? "Some users have encountered bugs, either with connectors not working, or returning fictional information." www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/f...
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 15/09/2025
Finally, an actual use case for ChatGPT that can really make a difference in helping someone get their work output to a new level. www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/n...
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Nork snoops whip up fake military ID with help from ChatGPT
: Kimsuky gang proves that with the right wording, you can turn generative AI into a counterfeit factory
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StrictlyChristo 🇺🇦🌻 @strictlychristo.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Charlie Kirk was an artful wordsmith who used coded language to normalize an American version of Nazism. She's not wrong with her analogy.
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 09/09/2025
Nominations are now open for the 2025 AI Darwin Awards! Finally all the AI slop can get the recognition it deserves. If you have a favorite AI experience, submit your nomination now at aidarwinawards.org. You can also check out the current list of nominees as well. It's about time, eh?
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AI Darwin Awards 2025 - Celebrating Spectacularly Bad AI Decisions
Honouring those who use artificial intelligence in spectacularly reckless ways. Submit nominations for the most catastrophically ill-advised AI deployments of 2025.
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 24/07/2025
No, this is not a joke, and no, this is not funny. Just your friendly neighborhood tech bros doing what they do best. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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ChatGPT Gave Instructions for Murder, Self-Mutilation, and Devil Worship
OpenAI’s chatbot also said “Hail Satan.”
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 22/07/2025
OK folks, forget the OpenAI chatbot crap, what you want is the real thing, right from MIT Tech: Eliza running the Doctor script. Try it for yourself, don't let the age of the software fool you, this is a really real therapist. And it doesn't need any damn cloud! web.njit.edu/~ronkowit/el...
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Eliza, a chatbot therapist
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 22/07/2025
Hey, Kids! Create your very own personalized Digital Companion, who will listen to you and help you with trouble deciding your gender or sexual orientation. It's made with real AI! And it's FREE. Just remember to tell them you're over 18 (wink wink, nudge nudge) replika.com/Mi4wLjA/camp...
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Replika
Always here to listen and talk. Always on your side. Join the millions growing with their AI friends now!
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 15/07/2025
Step aside, you amateurs, let's let the almighty Google Gemini make short work of this thing. Ah, an AI so smart it knows how to chicken out entirely. The chatbots not only couldn't beat an Atari, they couldn't even properly render a chessboard. Just sayin. www.theregister.com/2025/07/14/a...
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Google’s Gemini refuses to play Chess against the Atari 2600
: Warned that ChatGPT and Copilot had already lost, it stopped boasting and packed up its pawns
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 15/07/2025
Ok that wasn't really a fair fight. Let's let Microsoft Copilot have a shot at it. www.theregister.com/2025/07/01/m...
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Microsoft Copilot falls Atari 2600 Video Chess
: Copilot's confidence was... misplaced
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 15/07/2025
So let's see just how smart these AI thingys really are. How about a chess match? www.theregister.com/2025/06/09/a...
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Chap claims Atari 2600 beat ChatGPT at chess
: 1.19MHz eight-bit CPU trounced modern GPUs – can you do better with your retro-tech?
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 15/07/2025
Run for your lives, the Singularity is here. Autonomous humanoid robots are ready to take over, and we'll all be reduced to idle drones playing video games. www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/...
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Watch: Humanoid robots stumble through football match in China
The robots kicked, scored and tumbled while competing at a tourmentant in Beijing.
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 15/07/2025
So, let's get serious for a moment. Probably the most prominent ostensibly convincing use case for AI is coding - software development. Microsoft, Meta, etc are dumping thousands of employees and no one is hiring entry level s/w folks. Help me out here, I'm confused. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/s...
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Study finds AI tools made open source software developers 19 percent slower
Coders spent more time prompting and reviewing AI generations than they saved on coding.
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
More evidence of the evil AI feeder bots devouring legitimate web content. Can't help but think of those attack scenes from the Matrix. Life imitates art, or whatever. coar-repositories.org/news-updates...
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Open repositories are being profoundly impacted by AI bots and other crawlers: Report from a COAR Survey
Executive Summary Every day, multiple bots access the repository at all hours 24/7. We estimate performance degradation due to bot activity about once or twice a day, and at least once a week the s…
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
The armies of enshittification on the march. AI bots devouring web content to feed training data to the AI models are overwhelming digital content sites like galleries and libraries. www.glamelab.org/products/are...
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Are AI Bots Knocking Cultural Heritage Offline?
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
So I guess Zuck and the other tech bros at Google and OpenAI and the rest have never noticed this. Hey guys, Cash Patel is at the door and wants to talk to you. archive.org/details/fbi-...
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FBI Anti-Piracy Warning, Warning, Attention : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Per my notes I ripped this from the season 2 DVD of The Partridge Family.
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
If you're looking for a deeper dive on Google Zero (zero click-throughs on AI search results) here's some charts and tables. ahrefs.com/blog/ai-over...
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AI Overviews Reduce Clicks by 34.5%
Google says AI Overviews increase clicks. Cold, hard logic disagrees, and so does our research.
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
There's even a buzzword (does anybody even say that anymore) for impending doom on the net, at least for publishers: Google Zero. Check it out. www.threads.com/@reckless128...
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Nilay Patel (@reckless1280) on Threads
Google Zero, baby. Been saying it for years; the CEO of the NYT literally asked me if I really believed it
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
The downstream impact of AI search is devastating and happening faster than conventional media and publishing firms can deal with it. Enshittification is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg. The basic business model is dead. www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
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The End of Publishing as We Know It
Inside Silicon Valley’s assault on the media
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
"A Man and his Wife had the good fortune to possess a Goose which laid a Golden Egg every day..." Google 'Aesop' for the rest - if you dare. www.theregister.com/2025/06/22/a...
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AI search finds publishers starved of referral traffic
: Turn out the lights, the internet is over
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
Yeah, bunker busters, that's what we need, they'll do the trick "one and done." www.airandspaceforces.com/PDF/Magazine...
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
Sorry Donald, concrete bunkers are hard. During WWII the Germans built huge concrete anti-aircraft bunkers, called Flak Towers, in Berlin, Vienna and elsewhere. Above ground, BTW. They survived air and ground attacks and were so hard to demolish, many remain. www.worldwar-two.net/weapons/flak...
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Flak Towers // World War Two
Information about the impressive antiaircraft towers built by the III Reich.
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
The seductive myth of air power: Operation Double Strike, the raid on ball bearing factories in Schweinfurt. Or B-52s over the Ho Chi Minh trail in Vietnam - remind me again who won that war. Or Iraq and Afghanistan. Nice analysis from the U.S. Naval Institute. www.usni.org/magazines/pr...
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Strategic Bombing: Always a Myth
Seventy-five years
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
Why all the fuss about ICE agents not showing their ID or badges? We've been over all this before. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OcM...
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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (6/10) Movie CLIP - No Stinking Badges (1948) HD
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
NYC has been a laboratory of our democracy and culture for a long time, and it is really important to look below the surface of the mayoral election headlines, & try to understand what is happening. Will the geriatric layer of the Dem party just not get it? www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/n...
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As Black New Yorkers Move Out, N.Y.C. Politics May Be Reshaped
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
Sometimes a little history helps put things in perspective. Elon is a certifiably crazy, drug addled moron. You can find rocket scientists with even more bizarre behavior - maybe it's chemical fumes. Jack Parsons, a co founder of JPL and Aerojet, puts Elon to shame. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Pa...
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Jack Parsons - Wikipedia
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
It's just a small, personal, anecdotal data point, but Lake Winnipesaukee in NH is a beautiful, accessible natural jewel and it may not be safe to swim in it this summer. It's a huge lake, but that won't save it. Nothing is safe and time may already have run out. www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/25/m...
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‘Our livelihood is in danger’: Lake Winnipesaukee has a bacteria problem, and locals are worried - The Boston Globe
In 2024, Winnipesaukee saw record cyanobacteria blooms, amid warmer temperatures and an increase in nutrients that feed the bacteria.
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
Just ask ChataGPT to summarize a web page for you, what could be simpler? It's potentially dangerous, if the content contains rogue prompts or instructions that the AI might simply execute. It's an old security problem called an injection attack. simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/...
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The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication
If you are a user of LLM systems that use tools (you can call them “AI agents” if you like) it is critically important that you understand the risk of …
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
I suppose we should have known this was inevitable, bots behaving badly. No, it's not the AI being 'creative,' it's an inherent structural flaw in the technology. www.theregister.com/2025/06/25/a...
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Anthropic: All the major AI models will blackmail
: Just like people
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
Someone suggested that one way to cut through the fog of AI generated resumes and AI resume screening would be to hand write your resume and deliver it personally, to prove you are a human. Sorry to say, that's not gonna help. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFTP...
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I bought a homework writing machine / writing and drawing machine / CNC pen plotter.
YouTube video by MAKER Q
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 26/06/2025
Enshittification continues at a breakneck pace. Indiscriminate and uncontrolled use of AI can make things incredibly worse, very very quickly. Looking for a job was already an awful experience, but now ... arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/t...
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The résumé is dying, and AI is holding the smoking gun
As thousands of applications flood job posts, ‘hiring slop’ is kicking off an AI arms race.
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 25/06/2025
Beware tech bros offering free or cheap magic technology. Having everyone use AI everywhere for everything is a way for the AI companies to build more and more detailed dossiers - it all runs in the cloud, and where do you think all that data ends up? www.schneier.com/blog/archive...
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What LLMs Know About Their Users - Schneier on Security
Simon Willison talks about ChatGPT’s new memory dossier feature. In his explanation, he illustrates how much the LLM—and the company—knows about its users. It’s a big quote, but I want you to read it ...
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 22/06/2025
Nobody says it quite like Randy Newman. www.youtube.com/watch?v=hPls...
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Randy Newman - Drop The Big One
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 22/06/2025
Watching The Donald wave his big, uh, bomb around ("Mine weighs 30,000 lbs and is the biggest in the whole world"), keep in mind there are only 19 B-2s left, and they are old. They are expensive and complex to maintain. Break something and it's not worth cost to repair. www.twz.com/air/damaged-...
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Damaged B-2 Won't Be Repaired, Fleet To Shrink To 19 Jets (Updated)
The Air Force deeming one of its B-2s to be "uneconomical to repair" comes as it pushes ahead with work on the new B-21 Raider.
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 19/06/2025
Elon lights up another one. Pretty impressive fireworks, must be in honor of Juneteenth. Those tickets for a Mars or Moon trip are getting cheaper all the time, so don't wait, order yours now. I think you get a free ride to the spaceport in a Tesla Robotaxi. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
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SpaceX’s next Starship just blew up on its test stand in South Texas
SpaceX had high hopes for Starship in 2025, but it’s been one setback after another.
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Conjureman Hojo @metadata-labs.com · 12/06/2025
Obviously we need new identity and security protocols for U.S. Senators when they are out in public. They should have their own day-glo vests with "U.S. Senate" in a typeface just like the ICE guys, they should carry non-lethal self defense items like air horns and cans of silly-string, etc.
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