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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14m

[uspol, fucking clown show, a four year thread, part 2] In hindsight, it was a tad optimistic to think Mastodon could handle four years of this clown show in a single thread. So here begins part two. Previously: mastodon.social/@reedmideke/1174155…

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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 4h

Judging by the lag, it's time for a new Ukraine thread. Where we left off: mastodon.social/@reedmideke/1174197…

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 5h

I can’t “prove” your pocket calculator isn’t conscious. It is conceptually possible that it is. But it is no more or less likely than currently existing LLMs.

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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10h

#NotTheOnion, somehow (not dissing the dogs or concept, but uh, maybe we should try tackling the problem a bit closer to the source)

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Allen but one of the bad ones, woooo @uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 23h

"I will not morally compromise myself by voting and choosing a party which does not reflect my values, the lesser of two evils is still evil" I admire the purity of a position so morally superior that it literally doesn't care what degree of evil everybody around you has to suffer through […]

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tom jennings @tomjennings.tldr.nettime.org.ap.brid.gy · 10/10/2026

RFC: 814 NAME, ADDRESSES, PORTS, AND ROUTES David D. Clark MIT Laboratory for Computer Science Computer Systems and Communications Group July, 1982 2. The Scope of the Problem "...Currently, the internet is fairly small. It contains no more than 25 active networks, and no more than a few […]

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Cursed Silicon @cursedsilicon.treehouse.systems.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Putting this on my OS 9 Mac for VCF next year (and then getting dragged out into the street and beaten)

OS 9 Mac with the user shell replaced by a Windows 98-esque interface

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Garrett M. Graff @vermontgmg.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

An amazingly stark example of how the US economy has broken: Zaslav clears nearly a *billion* dollars amid a CEO tenure where he made basically anything he touched worse, harmed multiple prestigious brands, led huge layoffs—but delivered a corrupt merger for shareholders. variety.com/2026/tv/news...

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David Zaslav Gets $606 Million Payout From Paramount-Warner Bros. Merger

David Zaslav will receive $606 million as he leaves Warner Bros. Discovery, after the company's merger with David Ellison's Paramount was completed.

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Drew Harwell @drewharwell.com · 09/10/2026

Hard to overstate how much Hegseth's execution stream mirrors the U.S. military's traditional description of ISIS propaganda: broadcast killings designed to send a message, strike fear and create a social media spectacle. Will almost certainly be repurposed by online terror cells

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Tim J @timtfj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 09/10/2026

Bring back þe letter þ. How can you þrow out þe only rune in your alphabet? Also bring back ð. But ðis time, except in very common words like þe which look nice þe oðer way round, don't treat ðem as interchangeable. Use ð for þe voiced one and þ for þe unvoiced one, like ðey do in Icelandic […]

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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

Pretty sure this is how you end up with CPU lyme

Text in a terminal
854059 non-nice user cpu ticks
9449 nice user cpu ticks

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Flipboard Art & Photo Desk @artphotosdesk.flipboard.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

If you saw a viral cartoon of Dolly Parton and Tim Curry at the pearly gates, signed by the New Yorker cartoonist Brendan Loper and thought "hmm, a bit banal for him?" then congratulate yourself. It was actually generated by ChatGPT by a fan who asked the AI chatbot to make “a New Yorker-style […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

I spent all day on election activism. There’s a county clerk here who is interfering with duly appointed election watchers’ access to the polls. I was settling down for the evening, when I read this opinion and it reminded me of why I am working so hard to make sure the U.S. election is free and […]

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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026

"Russia's health regulator said on Wednesday there were no risks of an epidemic breaking out in Siberia after a plague institute worker there died … Russian authorities say the 28-year-old laboratory worker died last Friday from pneumonia of an as-yet unestablished origin" - While I believe the […]

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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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Alexandre Dulaunoy @adulau.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

There seems to be a remarkably strong correlation on LinkedIn between people warning about the PQC threat and job titles containing “Account Manager” or “Sales”. I’m sure it’s purely coincidental. #pqc #cybersecurity #postquantumcryptography

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

A funny thing in old fairy tales is the way anything can turn into a prince or princess. Like, objects, simple animals, parts of nature. And nobody asks if this new being has memories or the knowledge to consent to marriage or whatever. It's like you order a certain tonnage of nobility and POOF

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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

"[attack] is believed to have started when a court employee clicked a malicious link in an email" - Obviously they needed more post-quantum agentic AI zero trust cyber appliances! apnews.com/article/arizona-court-sy…

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FDA Recall Bot @fdarecall-bot.m.ai6yr.org.ap.brid.gy · 07/10/2026

FDA RECALL Brand: Nova Biomedical StatStrip Product: StatStrip Glucose Hospital Meter System Issue: Software issue may cause a glucose result to be associated to the wrong patient Date: 10/06/2026 More […]

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Allen but one of the bad ones, woooo @uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026

People recently been comparing the modern AI paradigm with Star Trek computers, which naah. I mean, yes, you can talk to it just like Picard does, and for the most part it mostly does what you ask, provided you're giving it tasks that can actually be expressed reasonably unambiguously in […]

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Jonathan Kamens 86 47 @jik.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

I want to share with you the gist of a mind-blowing conversation I had with my doctor today at my annual physical. She asked about my mood, which led to a conversation about how AI is ruining everything, which prompted her to mention that she doesn’t use the AI transcription app that her […]

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The irony of course is that Originalism’s big selling point was supposed to be constraining the discretion or judges to impose their own political preferences as law. In practice the effect has been very much the reverse: Liberating justices from the constraints of stare decisis.

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 05/10/2026

good evening to the South Korean tourists who were getting the maximum Amsterdam experience by Blazing It on a public bench in their pajamas at 10:30 at night. They loved Odin

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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026

RE: infosec.exchange/@josephcox/1173732… Much as I'd like to be wrong, my IANAL bet is Flock is correct that this will be overturned on appeal

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @telescoper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

The arXiv limit Putting my community service hat on, I thought I would relay an announcement on the an announcement on the arXiv blog that it is introducing a limit on the rate that any individual can submit papers to arXiv. To start with, the limit will be two per month. This limit applies to […]

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M⑨ddie @mjdxp.labyrinth.zone.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

okay, that's pretty good

Except from a Wikipedia article:
During the 2001 Microsoft antitrust case, the names MICROS~1 and MICROS~2 were humorously used to refer to the companies that might exist after a proposed split of Microsoft.

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦🇧🇪 @hrbrmstr.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

Nice! @HoneyLabs released Akin, an open HTTP request fingerprint. It records which of 32 fixed headers a client sent as a bitmask, so XORing two tokens tells you which headers differ. (Merely hashing header names can't give you that.) They used it to link one favicon-sweeping visitor across 21 […]

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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 02/10/2026

[Palantir, advertising] How do these technofascist chucklefucks think we got sheep guarding dogs? (also "stay sovereign" is quite a choice of tagline, given their business strategy)

Screenshot of a web ad for American technofascist AI/surveillance corporation Planatir, which has a picture of a snarling canid with glowing eyes and the text "You woulnd't inviate a wolf to guard your sheep. Don't use AI without protection. Stay Sovereign." and a "LEAR MORE" button

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Joshua @desafinado.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

True* fact: Years before there was a TSA, the uniformed personnel at Los Angeles International Airport, aka LAX, used to wear badges marked like so: LAX SECURITY *Yes, really.

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Allen but one of the bad ones, woooo @uastronomer.mastodon.monoceros.co.za.ap.brid.gy · 01/10/2026

If you ever want to explain the concept of Technical Debt to a linguist, just tell them "It's like why English is the way it is"

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I was reading someone who put into words a way to discern ai writing (and which also makes AI writing annoying): that it tries to end every paragraph with a mic drop. I had mentally categorized this as "writes like a teenager trying to show off" but this is much more specific.

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

And so the summer blockbuster of 2030 will be The Big-Tittied Wizards/Jedis vs. Big-Tittied Transformers VII: Faster and Furiouser, Also It's The Matrix

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

does this programming language support tables?

a print copy of "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" supporting one leg of a table on uneven ground.

(I took this photo myself at a picnic hosted by a compiler engineer in 2018)

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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: mastodon.world/@weathermatrix/11736… 🙄✋️ Tornado hit data center 😏👉️ Servers migrated to the cloud

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Waldo Jaquith @waldoj.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@botgov/11736065913… In extremely niche local news, the Rivanna Solid Waste Authority (RSWA) and the Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority (RWSA) have set aside their naming differences and split domains to align on sharing rivanna.gov. Congratulations, you crazy […]

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Martin Rundkvist @mrundkvist.archaeo.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026

Inside the United Arab Emirates is Madha, a landlocked enclave belonging to Oman. Inside this enclave is Nahwa, a smaller enclave belonging to the UAE. This is because of tribal political affiliations around 1900, when the current borders were drawn up. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nahwa […]

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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

But they would have been in the SAME STATE. Illuminati confirmed!

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Zach Weinersmith @zachweinersmith.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Do you make "sonic typos" ? Meaning rather than a slip of the fingers you write a word that sounds like the word you intend? E.g. you meant to write bird but you write beard. You meant to write theirs but you wrote there's. You meant to write cot but wrote caught.

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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

Can't quite put my finger on it, but the suspect looks awfully familiar. Wonder how he got all those FBI files 🤔

Headline "Dutch police arrest a suspected ShinyHunters member; court orders 90-day detention" followed by a picture of neofascist conspiracy podcaster and somehow FBI director Kash Patel

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D. Griffin Jones @dgriffinjones.tech.lgbt.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

man, ten years ago, millennials used to be so good at killing industries. can’t we get together and do one more, for old times sake?

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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 29/09/2026

"We seek no escalation as our goals have widely been accomplished" - Shineyhunters in dog who caught the car mode. I suspect even with the current incompetents at the top, the FBI will eventually make them regret this particular escapade […]

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Peter Coles 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @telescoper.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

I suppose this means that @OJ_Astro is officially a beast!

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Reed Mideke @reedmideke.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 28/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/1173… Idly curious how 'noindex your security advisors' became a common practice: Independently discovered by unrelated scumbags? Posted as a cool hack in some C-Suite group chat? People saw other companies getting dunked on for it and […]

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Will Dormann @wdormann.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 27/09/2026

www.techspot.com/news/114003-openai… Theory: AI companies intentionally have bad security practices, as it gives them stories to tell about how their project is too powerful for the masses.

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