So it begins.

Danish pension fund to dump US treasuries "The US is basically not a good credit and long-term the US government finances are not sustainable," says chief investment officer.

Europe holds $8 trillion in USA bonds and equities. This is just the beginning.

https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/danish-pension-fund-akademikerpension-to-exit-us-treasuries-93CH-4455284

#USA #Dump

Fiancée just walked into my office and said "really wish Thanos would snap his fingers right about now" with absolutely no context. I think her day is going great.

My orchid looked pretty today
#orchids #bloomposting #FlowersOfMastodon #bloomscrolling

Sort of like saying GoogleMaps worked well until we tried to find the Gulf of Mexico?

I've had a lot of people ask how BlueSky compares to Mastodon and the Fediverse. I've tried to make the answer as simple and easy to understand as possible:

🦋 BlueSky is designed to give corporations and wealthy people full control of the network. All of its traffic has to flow through expensive-to-run corporate relays.

:Fediverse: The Fediverse is designed to give ordinary people control of the network. All of its traffic flows directly from one cheap-to-run server to another.

#FediTips

If you agree, PLEASE REPOST

Damn. 😳

The last time fascism produced a single good idea was when Hitler came up with the notion of shooting himself in the head.

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.”

Diary of Anne Frank
January 13, 1943

Freezing scientific funding isn’t abstract. In medicine, life or death is often dictated by time. Temporary delays can cause great harm.

Got to respect AOC…

“When a prison camp opens in your town, when a dreamer is disappeared from your classroom, when the President destroys what’s left of the Constitution, they will all say they didn’t know this was coming. I want the American people to know that they did.” #press #freedom #politics

Michelle Yeoh's character needs to be deposited in The Expanse universe where she could team up with Avasarala and destroy the Patriarchy somewhere.

#Section31 #TheExpanse

Sabot in the Age of AI

A list of offensive methods & strategic approaches for facilitating (algorithmic) sabotage, framework disruption, & intentional data poisoning.

Selected Tools & Frameworks

• Nepenthes — Endless crawler trap.
• Babble — Standalone LLM crawler tarpit.
• Markov Tarpit — Traps AI bots & feeds them useless data.
• Sarracenia — Loops bots into fake pages.
• Antlion — Express.js middleware for infinite sinkholes.
• Infinite Slop — Garbage web page generator.
• Poison the WeLLMs — Reverse proxy for LLM confusion.
• Marko — Dissociated Press CLI/lib.
• django-llm-poison — Serves poisoned content to crawlers.
• konterfAI — Model-poisoner for LLMs.
• Quixotic — Static site LLM confuser.
• toxicAInt — Replaces text with slop.
• Iocaine — Defense against unwanted scrapers.
• Caddy Defender — Blocks bots & pollutes training data.
• GzipChunk — Inserts compressed junk into live gzip streams.
• Chunchunmaru — Go-based web scraper tarpit.
• IED — ZIP bombs for web scrapers.
• FakeJPEG — Endless fake JPEGs.
• Pyison — AI crawler tarpit.
• HalluciGen — WP plugin that scrambles content.
• Spigot — Hierarchical Markov page generator.

This is a living resource — regularly updated to reflect the shifting terrain of collective techno-disobedience and algorithmic Luddism.

In 1950, smallpox killed over two million a year.

In 1959, the WHO launched the Smallpox Eradication Programme.

To eliminate smallpox, 80% of the world’s population would need to be vaccinated.

Epidemiologists from the Soviet Union and the United States of America worked side by side in the middle of a cold war.

In 1980, the WHO declared smallpox officially eradicated.

Look at what we can achieve when we all work together.

Don’t CW this. I beg you.

My wife is on Instagram. She just did this.
She heard there was weird stuff happening. She searched “#Republican” and “#Democrat”.

She had to do it herself to see if it was true.

It is.

She is beside herself.

This is the 2025 version of marching into CNN and telling them to broadcast only his stuff.

This is him taking over the NYT.

This is new age Oligarchy. This is Authoritarianism. This is Fascism2025.
Original Edit 9PM PST Jan 21: we’re in Canada, so this is worldwide? Or NA?
Edit 6:27AM Jan 21: BBC article confirmation of problem https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4g32yxpdz0o

It's another day to tap the sign.

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