What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

Now *this* is frightening. I've long said the greatest threat to privacy is not web cookies but government--more than ever this government and this evil empire, Palantir.
Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/technology/trump-palantir-data-americans.html?smid=tw-share

@Ask_aubry Whew. “more child exploitation because we’re racist” is a hell of a proposal.

Please share this widely. Including infosec. exchange. These assholes deserve to be named and shamed.

I'm a female cybersecurity professor now struggling for rent money survival and this asshole makes a rape "joke" (TW rape "joke") when I dare ask for compensation for tech reviewing and editing a book.

BTW, my commercial publishing experience is way more extensive than this asshole's. Tech reviewers get set fees for tech editing books (O'Reilly would pay me $300) and every editor I have ever worked with is either a freelancer paid set fees or a salaried employee.

Getting a speculative tiny cut from an author's speaking fees in the distant future was never the norm.

(Continued...)

@farbel Here is where you are misguided. Racism is a system used to perpetuate the ideology of White Supremacy. The Criminal Justice System is steeped in institutional Racism and the police are as well, having their history well established during the Enslavement and the fall of Reconstruction. So it doesn't matter the "color" of the offenders, since their actions were complicit in a system designed to oppress.

And so it begins.

No citations.
No complaints.
No laws broken.

They sent 20 armed cops to raid a drag show and throw everybody out into the rain. This is just pure police harassment for no other reason than they wanted to.

https://www.thepinknews.com/2025/05/06/pittsburgh-lgbt-bar-raid/

@GhostOnTheHalfShell the poetry is haunting. Yeah, the future is definitely the past.

The scary part is, there actually *is* an island, just a few miles past Alcatraz, where Americans cruelly housed unwanted immigrants until they proved…”useful”.
#uspol

Luke: “you knew my father?”

Obi-wan: “Oh yes. That guy was a dick. Accidentally born stuffed full of magic force-bugs, lucked out a few times pod racing as a child, basically peaked there. Grew up an entitled, incompetent jackass. Crap pilot, liability in a fight, couldn’t stop acting like some crybaby incel even after one of the most powerful women in the galaxy inexplicably took a liking to him, finally carved up a kindergarten and got made an alt-right hero for it. [smiles] Flammable tho.”

@SecureOwl this is among the most devious and effective lures I’ve ever seen. Simple and urgent.

I think your solution might be the only effective one, lol. I’m adding it to our security awareness training catalog immediately.

Interesting SMS reply lure, designed to fuel the anxieties of the recipient that they may have skipped out on an important engagement so they reply. The best way to become immune to such tactics is to make skipping meetings part of your MO.

A hateful bigot gets rewarded for traumatizing a Black child in the Autism spectrum.

Why is this woman getting $500,000 in donations for callinga 5 year old a Nigg@r? https://l.smartnews.com/p-kMP7p9u/sixSwi #BlackMastodon

@mttaggart I feel this. Mine are at that age where being seen with Dad might be a death sentence, but we happily stood in line together and compared notes to make sure we didn’t overlap!

The Signal Scandal Somehow Just Managed to Get Much Worse

Mike Waltz was photographed using Signal-compatible app "TM SGNL", made by the Israeli company TeleMessage.

https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-signal-scandal-somehow-just-managed-to-get-much-worse/sharetoken/5f748cec-d5c2-4a8f-bbbb-3a614ac85837

#uspol #uspolitics #signal #signalgate #mikewaltz #jdvance #trump #Cybersecurity #privacy #e2ee #infosec

All my college-era hallucinogenic drug history did not prepare me for a single Sovereign citizen conversation. They are a special kind of deranged. Holy Schnikeys Batman.

Trump officials, they're just like us!*

*put off verifying their Signal PIN

Reuters got a photo of Mike Waltz checking Signal in a cabinet meeting and hoo boy, that entire government is running on it

Edited to add: it's not even Signal, it is an app called TM SGNL which "captures" all the Signal messages and archives them... in plaintext... over unencrypted channels...

https://www.reutersconnect.com/item/us-national-security-advisor-mike-waltz-attends-a-cabinet-meeting-held-by-president-trump-at-the-white-house-in-washington/

https://www.404media.co/mike-waltz-accidentally-reveals-obscure-app-the-government-is-using-to-archive-signal-messages/

@hrbrmstr @saraislet you can go ahead and block me too—you’re out of context and out of pocket. I re-read this chain and at no point does Wendy (or anyone else for that matter) advocate or defend the position you accuse her of. While I agree that KN isn’t a political difference of opinion, but a moral one, the very idea that you would point at Wendy as a collaborator in hurting brown people is hurtful because it’s patently untrue on its face. Be mad, but be mad with facts, and you don’t have any here.

@wendynather @dangoodin @saraislet @paulehoffman - I can answer this one easily.

I would not have accepted any speaker who openly advocates hurting others.

Here is part of the Code of Conduct I have maintained and enforced at my discursive spaces:

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All are welcome regardless of race, age, experience, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, disability, national origin, religion, or creed.

Paradox of Tolerance Addressed:
- We treat Tolerance as a social contract and not as a moral standard.
- We do NOT tolerate intolerance.
- If you advocate ostracizing, oppressing, or otherwise hurting others, you will be banned.
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Speakers don't have to be perfect. By any means.

But they cannot have a history of abuse.
And they cannot advocate for the harm of others.

Kristi Noem is a massive advocate for harming others and has and continues to speak openly about doing so. She has been recorded and has had herself recorded advocating for the oppression of others multiple times. So much so that its her political platform.

It's not a hard line to walk at all.

It's a well paved modern walk lane through a scenic part of a walkable city.

#RSAC was in the wrong here and they have an opportunity to make right. They can publicly apologize and openly admonish and reject Kristi Noem and her positions.

I’m deeply honored to be recognized at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund’s 37th National Equal Justice Awards Dinner. This powerful evening celebrates the changemakers fighting for racial justice and equality—and I’m humbled to stand alongside them. https://www.naacpldf.org/events/nejad/nejad-2025/

@tinker Corporate is gonna have to learn a lesson about what happens when you lie down with dogs.

(You wake up with major security vulnerabilities and infrastructure built on PR and vibes.)