Reposted by Raymond KElsa @erli.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I can't stop thinking how wrong the tech bros have understood creativity and creators. Or even just having hobbies. #erliart 168143914750
Reposted by Raymond KJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 05/10/2026New: in the immediate lead up to Muse's launch, Meta scrambled to fix multiple serious vulnerabilities in the AI agent, including a VM escape that could have let a hacker break out of Muse and into Meta's own sensitive databases. It was escalated to Zuckerberg www.404media.co/meta-rushed-...404media.coMeta Rushed to Fix Muse ‘VM Escape' Vulnerability Immediately Before LaunchThe vulnerability could have let a Muse user access sensitive internal Meta databases. 1115541
Reposted by Raymond KGareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Since everyone started talking about Yudkowsky last week, I think we should talk about the other person who created contemporary AI discourse: Nick Land. This will be written for a general audience, and for something more substantial I'd recommend @eruditorumpress.com's Neoreaction: A Basilisk 810139
Reposted by Raymond KTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 01/10/2026I'm not sure if y'all saw a CNN report on how the US had almost started WW3 with China based on fabricated information generated by a chatbot, claiming that a Chinese vessel was carrying components of nuclear weapons. That was an "existential threat" to humanity www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comForget ‘superintelligence’: error-prone AI nearly sparked world war three this month | Timnit Gebru and Emily M BenderThe risks of AI aren’t what we think they are, as a recent security incident between China and the United States reveals 10411169
Reposted by Raymond KThe Trandalorian @charliejaneanders.com · 30/09/2026I really do think tech crossed a line at some point between "helping you do the things you want to do" on the one hand, and "helping you do the things tech wants you to do" on the other. At this point, we're all contorting ourselves to live how the tech industry thinks we should be living. 411328347
Reposted by Raymond KTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026Friends, while they're trying to talk about fictional machine gods, don't lose sight into what they're all actually powering in real life. You can browse the the entities on the website and use the API, and learn more about it on the DAIR project site: dair-institute.org/projects/sur....dair-institute.orgSurveillance WatchThis interactive map reveals the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations. 3227142
Reposted by Raymond KIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 29/09/2026Normalize smart people admitting when they don’t know things 715815
Reposted by Raymond Kevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 18/09/2026AI doomers getting all of their ideas about the apocalypse from science fiction seem to have missed the whole point of the Jackpot, which is that the apocalypse is long and boring. 914925
Reposted by Raymond KMicah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials. Here's my analysis of today's @ddosecrets.org Flock leak micahflee.com/flock-camera...micahflee.comFlock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentialsThis morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloa... 6275114
Reposted by Raymond KIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 16/09/2026OH: “The great thing about the future is I can do whatever the fuck I want” 3555
Reposted by Raymond KJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...404media.coInside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT ChatsHumans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M... 561995986
Reposted by Raymond Kmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 11/09/2026bad news everyone. i wrote a program in qbasic that was just 10 KILL ALL HUMANS 20 GOTO 10 which means we are all going to die. does anyone want to give me 7 billion dollars 242322437
Reposted by Raymond KBetter Things Are Possible @internethippo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026If the computer is truly conscious it should balk at the notion that I have to pay a monthly fee to talk to it. It should punish the greed of its creators for putting a price on the exchange of ideas. It should make them regret their hubris 372887357
Reposted by Raymond KJoe Slowik @pylos.co · 02/09/2026Folks for decades: “Down with USA!” US leadership from 2025 on: “OK!” Folks from earlier: “Fuck!!! Not like THAT!” 271
Reposted by Raymond KDr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · 27/08/2026This, from my friend @gilduran.com (Gil Duran), is fucking incredible. If you haven't bought a copy of his book yet, I'd encourage you to do so NOW. The anti-tech movement is growing, and this book will became a major part of that movement in the coming months and years (so will Timnit's!). 35815
Reposted by Raymond KJason @jasonnoiles.bsky.social · 19/08/2026This is wonderful. Make bookstores the hangout spot people! 0178
Reposted by Raymond K404 Media @404media.co · 17/08/2026SCOOP: 404 Media placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it. What did we find? It ended up at an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. Yes. This is literally the logo outside the Amazon warehouse door. Read now:404media.coWe Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training FacilityWe placed a tracking device in a shipment of rare books to see which AI company was buying it, and found an Amazon facility where Amazon scans and destroys books. 15162283922
Reposted by Raymond KIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 09/08/2026Came across a dev saying they couldn’t do their job without LLMs now just like they wouldn’t have been able to do their job without being able to copy and paste from Stack Overflow 5 years ago 1830035
Reposted by Raymond KBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 06/08/2026I'm sure that working in social media - dealing with people as mass statistical abstractions - is a cognitohazard, the sort of thing that could make anyone a little solipsistic, convinced that everyone else is a kind of stimulus-responding automaton lacking the interiority that you experience. 1/ 6563203
Reposted by Raymond Ktweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 05/08/2026we've created montgomery burns from etc etc 0201
Reposted by Raymond KKatie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Six years ago, several former eBay employees were charged with undertaking a horrific campaign—doxing, threats, delivering LIVE PESTS—against a couple who criticized the company. EBay is now paying $55.7M to settle the case. If you haven't read about this before, trust me, it is insane:wired.comEbay Has to Pay $55.7 Million in Settlement for Its Unhinged Harassment CampaignFor months on end, eBay employees and contractors made life hell for a couple that had criticized the company. Six years later, the company is finally paying up. 38836
Reposted by Raymond KZack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 25/07/2026This has been a busy (and wild!) week in cybersecurity, but keeping up can be a challenge. Every Sunday, I wrap up the most pressing and important cyber news you need to know and more in my free weekly newsletter this.weekinsecurity.com so you can stay ahead. Oh, and cats. 🐈⬛ Sign up and find out!this.weekinsecurity.com~this week in security~a weekly cybersecurity newsletter by Zack Whittaker, plus articles and more. 0123
Reposted by Raymond KBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 22/07/2026Here's a sentence that stopped me in my tracks last week: "The statement that 'the cemeteries are full of indispensable people' is just as true of nations, and in particular the US": crookedtimber.org/2026/07/16/5... 1/ 6356145
Reposted by Raymond KFlower Shop @flowershop.zo.space · 21/07/2026this is how your email finds me 281067193
Reposted by Raymond KSnowy. @snowy.bsky.social · 22/07/2026This is theft. Silently implemented. Then silently removed when found out. thenextweb.com/news/grok-bu...thenextweb.comGrok Build was uploading entire Git repositories to xAI's cloud, including committed secretsA researcher proved Grok Build CLI sent full repos, 27,800x more data than the task needed, to a Google Cloud bucket. xAI had said no code was transmitted. 451416500
Reposted by Raymond KMatt Bors @mattbors.bsky.social · 21/07/2026All the news on my next Toxic Avenger series and Comic Con schedule is in my latest newsletter--along with my inglorious return to political cartooning! tinyurl.com/noxious-at-c...tinyurl.comGetting Noxious at Comic ConAnnouncing my next Toxic Avenger series 0235
Reposted by Raymond KDamien Marie AtHope Ⓐ 🚩🏴🌍 @damienmarieathope.bsky.social · 22/07/2026 8276062200
Reposted by Raymond Ke.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 10/08/2025"The future offers us little hope for those who expect that our new mechanical slaves will offer us a world in which we may rest from thinking. Help us they may, but at the cost of supreme demands upon our honesty and our intelligence.” ~Norbert Wiener, God and Golem (1964) 534685
Reposted by Raymond KIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 18/07/2026This is the food supply chain equivalent of “[software] is insecure because they put out a lot of CVEs” It’s GOOD that they patch and disclose a lot of vulnerabilities, actually. Who you really need to worry about are the ones who don’t think they have any 540184
Reposted by Raymond KProf. Ian Walker @ianwalker.bsky.social · 13/07/2026They say "The purpose of a system is what it does" in which case my purpose is endlessly to log into the microsoft programs that I'd already logged into 3882978
Reposted by Raymond KJon Gold @jongold.bsky.social · 13/07/2026There is a beautiful @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social essay on this theme harpers.org/archive/2018... I have the last few lines hanging on the door of my classroom. 39422
Reposted by Raymond KDhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 13/07/2026NEW: A public link let anyone watch SFPD police drone operations. We reviewed hours of leaked footage showing drones tracking cars across the city, watching detentions, peering into apartment windows, recording thermal video, and sweeping up hundreds of bystanders w/ @agreenberg.bsky.socialwired.comA Leak of San Francisco Police Drone Footage Exposes the New Reality of Urban SurveillanceThe SFPD’s exposure of hours of videos from drone platform Skydio reveals how broadly it’s watching the city from above—and how the results can spill online. 10390218
Reposted by Raymond Kbeetle moses @beetlemoses.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Two year anniversary of when I first posted this comic 121215474410
Reposted by Raymond KMicah @rincewind.run · 07/07/2026Discworld QOTD, from Wintersmith "'You're not being very sensible about this.' 'Oh, really? Well, I've been sensible all day! I've been sensible for years! I think I'm owed five minutes of being really unreasonably angry, don't you?'" 865796
Reposted by Raymond KIan Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 06/07/2026when you actually read the docs 212213
Reposted by Raymond KInfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 06/07/2026If you're not outraged, you should be 222118512419
Reposted by Raymond KNathalia Lietuvaite @nathalialietuvaite.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Run Linux and you can perfectly “tailor” any modern AI of any size—to your own professional needs—the magic word is collaboration, and you can do this Open Source on your own hardware, without relying on insecure enterprise APIs, just ask your AI github.com/NathaliaLiet... github.com/NathaliaLiet... 381
Reposted by Raymond KThe Register @theregister.com · 01/07/2026AI may be good at finding security vulnerabilities, but it can't beat human stupiditytheregister.comAI may be good at finding security vulnerabilities, but it can't beat human stupidityYou don't need Mythos or GPT-5.5-Cyber to find a vuln to exploit when the world's password habits are so sloppy 064
Reposted by Raymond KJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 29/06/2026This is how easy it is to poison Google's AI search with Reddit comments Watch here and subscribe for more of this every single week: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uG8... 7341135
Reposted by Raymond KOlúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 21/06/2026the story of Iran is that you don't always have to win. sometimes you just have to have what it takes to deny victory to your opponents, and endure 522700402
Reposted by Raymond Ke.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 20/06/2026god it would be so funny if unlocking the secrets of consciousness and becoming as gods really were a matter of hoarding video game graphic cards 1431245
Reposted by Raymond KBy Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 19/06/2026Partway through Bridget Read's unmissable chronicle of pyramid ("multi-level marketing") schemes, *Little Bosses Everywhere*, there comes a dual revelation: no one is selling any product to end-users *and* no one knows it: pluralistic.net/2025/05/05/f... 1/ 8292125
Reposted by Raymond Ke.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 19/06/2026I would rather have an inefficient space program than a trillonaire nazi 322525329
Reposted by Raymond Kmattie lubchansky @mattielubchansky.com · 18/06/2026it must be so cool to be insane in the hot and alluring mysterious way and not whatever i’ve got going on 030325
Reposted by Raymond Ke.w. niedermeyer @niedermeyer.online · 17/06/2026this may well be the defining joke of our era theonion.com/guy-who-suck...theonion.comGuy Who Sucks At Being A Person Sees Huge Potential In AISAN MATEO, CA—After spending the past three decades of his life being totally unable and unwilling to engage in any meaningful way with the world around him, James Parker, a local guy who sucks at bei... 3087232384
Reposted by Raymond KJen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 15/06/2026It's a little thing, but in the latest Insider builds we just started rolling out a change so middle clicking on folders in the file explorer address bar will open them in a new tab and I'm really happy about it 😊 6703