Programmer, photographer and FLOSS fan.
"When you try to hurl that word [woke] at my feet as if it were something dirty, something to run away from, something that I should be ashamed of, it won't work [...], becasue I will pick up that label and I will wear it as a badge of honour" - Matt Santos from The West Wing (paraphrased).
(Banner is the Tasman Glacier on a *very* nice day, Aoraki is just out of view. Profile photo is me.)
"There's so many good domestic reasons to do this. Without C-11, Canadian companies could defend their fellow Canadians from American data-theft and cash ripoffs by making alternative clients, jailbreaks, and other add-ons that disenshittified America's defective tech" -- @pluralistic
This is good advice to Canada, but it's equally good advise to the UK -- and the EU.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/12/disenshittification-nation-2/#heated-rivalry
Wired has a look at videos created on Grok. Includes knives being inserted into vaginas, “very young” people having sex. Around 10% are CSAM and still online. xAI declined to comment.
https://www.wired.com/story/grok-is-generating-sexual-content-far-more-graphic-than-whats-on-x/
This is still happening btw, roughly one a second. People are doing it to female UK MPs and cabinet members, and getting Grok to CC with the images.
Some Grok users, mostly men, began to demand to see bruising on the bodies of the women, and for blood to be added to the images. Requests to show women tied up and gagged were instantly granted.
‘Add blood, forced smile’
I asked Cisco why it is directly funding an AI tool being used to non-consensual undress and brutalise women and children, having this week invested in xAI. They replied No comment.
I have a list of other cybersecurity providers invested in xAI, I am working my way through those and plan to feature the key staff members involved in a write up.
The UK government is to enforce a law this week which will make it a criminal offence to supply tools designed to create non-consensual intimate images https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cq845glnvl1o
We love to see it--community-created harm reduction infrastructure in the face of the alarming integration of AI agents into the Windows operating system (which is currently the most reckless deployment environment) <3
Found at the Seattle Aquarium gift shop: A tale of greenwashed capitalism in three labels.
The overall vibes I’m getting from media on the X-slash-Twitter thing at the minute are:
“I really like Twitter despite everything because I have a huge audience, but I’m feeling pressured to leave because of the CSAM thing. If only Elon would come out and say the CSAM thing is fixed* then I wouldn’t have to leave or feel bad about it.”
(* Which, of course, Musk will)
This also applies to the national regulators. The idea that it’s crossed a line now, but it was fine before.
Saying ICE just needs more extensive training is like if a baby was waving a gun around and instead of saying "Holy shit that baby shouldn't have a gun" you tried to teach the baby proper trigger discipline.
I've watched it hundreds of times.
Okay it took 45+ minutes but they did come and the random drunk confused old man will not die of exposure tonight
hmmm. do you think steam link is going to work well on my oscilloscope
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Please #Report this sick #Gofundme for the #Murderer of #ReneeNicoleGood & share the info with your networks 👊
https://www.gofundme.com/f/ice-offuver-jonathan-ross
*Edit:
MAGANazi moved their goal to $550K last night.
PLEASE DO NOT DONATE A CENT.
Just keep reporting & asking folks in your networks (online & offline) to report too.
As 2 people here noted - this fundraiser is in violation of sections 8.8 and 8.10 of the GoFundMe terms of service.
It also has libelous & false statements, such as claiming that Renee Good was a domestic terrorist. You can use one or both reasons to report this fundraiser.
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#FuckICE #DefundMurderers #USpol #DomesticTerrorist #ArrestTheMurderer
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Please read this. The UK political & media establishment is asleep at the wheel. We have made ourselves wholly dependent on a Trump ally for our national security at the exact moment Trump is threatening to invade a NATO ally open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
me: do you sell ducks?
him: yes, but they're going quick
me: ok I'll take one
[later]
duck: quick
me: I see
