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James Grimmelmann @jtlg.bsky.social · 5h

At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from our accompanying technical report, Don't Create The Torment Nexus. www.anthropic.com/research/sel...

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AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter

Small AI models may be only months away from being able to self-replicate across cheap IoT devices like Android TV boxes, with no datacenter needed.

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Mike (no not that one) @mikey.friendsofdesoto.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Wanted to extend wishes for a very happy birthday to the Hood's very own @NickGates! 🎆 :trek_pro_murf: 🎆

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DEF CON @defcon.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

RIP Margaret Hamilton, software engineer extraordinaire. news.mit.edu/2026/margaret-hamilton…

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Strange New Words (Adam) @strange-new-words.tenforward.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

When your coworker keeps sharing their goddamn AI generated songs. #StarTrek #StarTrekVoyager

Voyager's EMH singing opera in "Virtuoso"

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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 04/10/2026

This part.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

I got put back in red team after ten years this week and damn it felt good to pop a few boxes and flex those muscles, but damn bloodhound had some drama and it’s all too dramatic for me.

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Assigned Media @assignedmedia.org · 29/09/2026

Democrats seem headed for big wins, but one avenue for self-sabotage would be adopting R's framing on trans rights. @billiejsweeney.bsky.social spoke with insiders incl Lanae Erikson of Third Way and Rep. Sarah McBride for this substanial piece of new reporting. assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

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Democrats Lose by Punching Down on Trans Issues, Strategists Say - Assigned Media

Insiders, including at centrist think tank Third Way, are cautioning Democratic candidates against echoing Republican talking points on trans rights.

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Dan Gillmor @dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026

All corruption, all the time in Trump world: U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for Trump-praising advertisements running on right-wing media. It's a transfer of our money to media scumbags that are effectively part of the regime […]

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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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Just Plain Simple BridgeMakes⚪ @bridgemakes.friendsofdesoto.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

Happy hobbit day to those who celebrate

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Mastodon Engineering @mastodonengineering.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23/09/2026

We are aware of an ongoing wave of subscription spam throughout the fediverse. We are investigating avenues to mitigate this, but they will likely involve deep changes in the sign-up flow that may break sign-up from existing applications. In the meantime, you can find helpful resources at […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22/09/2026

An office of “remigration” in the State Department. This is the Nazi lexicon - and practice - entering straight into U.S. government. Disgusting. www.thehandbasket.co/p/state-depart…

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State Department set to launch ‘Office of Remigration’

The concept of remigration has explicitly neo-Nazi roots and has been popularized in Europe.

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2026

the fuck you mean “trans question”. i have a trans answer: let them live and do whatever they want.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/09/2026

Rather be poor and not famous than have anyone question in twenty years where I stood on human rights, or if I was afraid to take a stand against evil.

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Low Quality Facts @lowqualityfacts.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

My favorite thing about AI is that it's the only industry where its CEOs are constantly putting out statements saying "Our product could do terrible things. It could make the world so much worse. Our product could ruin everything you once loved."

A news headline reading "Anthropic CEO warns of AI-driven botnet 'swarm' taking over the entire internet — 'In 6–12 months such a swarm could be capable of taking over the entire internet with a persistent botnet'", alongside a thumbnail image of a man in a suit seated on stage.

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Jan Penfrat @ilumium.eupolicy.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I am reading the #KIDSAct and oh my is it bad. It is so dumb I have no words. And if adopted as proposed, it will have devastating effects for the #Fediverse and #FOSS app distribution. In particular, it will undo anything good the #DigitalMarketsAct might have achieved there. And it definitely […]

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Peter Gassner @peter.gassner.io.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

So I listened to Macklemore’s newest album today and quite liked it. But then I listened to Hind’s Hall and man does he have the heart in the right place ❤️ His speech here is a must watch! www.youtube.com/watch?v=X08SH1MBBxg

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

A lot of people don't know there's two fundamentally different types of PTSD and/or have heard the terms but don't understand the distinction being made. There's "standard" PTSD, which I'll call "simplex" PTSD, and "complex" PTSD, which you'll see written C-PTSD. - Simplex ("normal") PTSD […]

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highly praised and little read @hannah.posts.rat.pictures.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026

I took a picture of this sign in 2022 and it’s gotten a lot less funny ever since

Attention! Pay machine. Do not pay any person

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Discord’s down. This inconveniences me personally, so I’m willing to blame this one on Russia

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Mike (no not that one) @mikey.friendsofdesoto.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

Hey everyone, I hope you will join me in wishing a happy birthday to the Hood's second officer, and chief morale officer, @Bridgemakes !

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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

It doesn’t matter if you eat organic foods. It doesn’t matter if you exercise regularly. It doesn’t matter if you inject peptides. It doesn’t matter if you have “good genes”. None of these things will prevent you from contracting vaccine-preventable diseases. There is only one thing that will.

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Pete @forpeterssake.mastodon.xyz.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2026

The wealthy parents behind the curtain

A four-panel comic:

Panel 1: A magician on stage dressed in a tuxedo, flourising a top hat, tells the audience "And for my next trick ..."

Panel 2: The magician pulls a document titled "DEED" from his hat, and a woman with two children appears next to him, as he tells the audieince "I'll purchase a home on a single income while my partner stays at home to raise our kids!"

Panel 3: The audience applauses enthusiastically.

Panel 4: One audience member stands and points backstage, where an older man and woman are partiallyl seen holding a sack of money marked "$." The audience member shouts "I can see his parents financially assisting him behind the curtain!" The magician on stage has a guilty look on his face and drops his top hat.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

For the record, climate change is not going to kill us all in a few years and neither is AI, but that shouldn’t be the metric by which we judge how bad something is.

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Indio Gringo ® @paninid.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 13/09/2026

RE: flipboard.com/@thenewsdesk/business… By disenfranchising whole classes and generations of people, the idea to accelerate popular uprising. They’re not even being shy about it.

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DEF CON @defcon.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/09/2026

Just finishing up the final main stage presentations from #DefCon 34, updated slides and demo videos should be online at media.defcon.org by tomorrow.

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Vee @veroniqueb99.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/09/2026

waddaya know?! "1. Cheaper input costs (no US tariffs) 2. Better access to foreign markets (thanks to Canada's FTAs & retaliation against US exports) 3. No consumer boycotts" Cr: MiC

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Signs that you might be living in an authoritarian state

Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say

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DEF CON @defcon.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

More early release goodies for you! The live music, pictures, short videos and a bunch more content from DC34 are ready for downloading on media.defcon.org. Front-load your weekend with some DEF CON vibes. And in that spirit, here’s another talk - Bruce Schneier’s presentation ‘Hacking AI’ […]

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DEF CON @defcon.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/09/2026

Let’s start the week with another early release talk from DEF CON 34 - this time it’s ‘ESP32 as a counter-surveillance platform’. The humble, reasonably-priced microcontroller, along with an emerging group of open-source applications, are helping democratize counter-surveillance. Enjoy, and […]

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Servelan @servelan.newsie.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/08/2026

Cities terminate Flock contracts at record pace in August - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/08…

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Hacker Memes @i0null.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

ngl i did not have bill gates being more critical about ai than even linus torvalds on my 2026 bingo card.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/08/2026

My boss just put it out there that I just flew across the planet, spoke at a stadium, organised a rager and closed out a bar, pushed code at 3am, and then woke up to give a 7a news interview before teaching a class.

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

I’ll be on NBC Chicago talking about the recent water (and other stuff) cyberattacks this evening. All the way groggily from Australia.

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DEF CON @defcon.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 26/08/2026

The DC34 early release talks roll on with Bill Swearingen’s presentation on defeating facial recognition with a little strategically applied style. Confound the panopticon and keep the look crispy. Wins all around. youtu.be/WyPmt8CE5L4 #defcon34 #defcon #facialrecognition

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Erik Uden 🚩 @erikuden.mastodon.de.ap.brid.gy · 21/10/2025

hm. i wonder what this may cause

A screenshot of a statistic titled “Crime: Mentions of suspects' origins by German media”

TV Reports mentioning origin in 2025: 5.4% Germans, 94.6% foreigners.

Newspaper reports mentioning origin in 2025: 9.2% Germans, 90.8% foreigners.

Police crime statistics in 2024: 65.7% Germans, 34.3% foreigners.

Source: Thomas Hestermann, Macromedia University of Applied Sciences.

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DEF CON @defcon.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

If you are in #singapore on Friday come hang out at the post #DefCon 34 Chill

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DEF CON @defcon.defcon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21/08/2026

For your weekend: The first early release talk from DEF CON 34 has made it to our YouTube channel. Please enjoy national treasure Cliff Stoll updating his 'Stalking the Wily Hacker' and casually dropping gems all over the place. If you haven't read 'The Cuckoo's Egg', this is your sign from […]

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