A year and a half ago, I came out to visit my NY family (my best friend's family) and NYmom wasn't sleeping well so I said heeeyy, I just happened to bring along some indica gummies that work lovely for that very purpose, but she's of a certain generation that's all "Don't try to get me into your casual wastrel drugs," but I said "just do a tiny nibble and see how it goes." So she tried it and slept really well that night, so, as we are in Enlightened New York, the next day the bestie and I went over to the dispensary downtown and got her her own bag of the local version. She took that but it didn't quite do as well as mine so she thought maybe the first go had just been an odd lucky confluence.

So anyway, I'm back a year and a half later and I open the fridge and the house is now HOUSE OF LEGAL WEED FOR ALL OCCASIONS.

Talk to your boomers about drugs.

Today I learned the French word “exploit” translates to ‘feat, or accomplishment’. So all you hackers out there should be proud!

#InformationSecurity
#InfoSec

Dear Dem Representatives, don’t give me outrage now. You knew they weren’t going to give you a vote, let alone an extension. Miss me with that.

#USPol

A very sad thing happened on Sept 10, at Utah University. Charlie Kirk, a tortured and struggling neo-Nazi podcaster has passed away, reportedly due to the anger he caused others through his massive, unyielding and incurable affliction with a mind crippling disease known as Trumpism sometimes referred to as MAGA DERANGEMENT SYNDROME. He was known to have driven people CRAZY by his raging obsession over trans people with his obvious paranoia reaching new heights as the women's liberation movement surpassed all goals and expectations of greatness and with the Golden Age of Feminism upon us perhaps like never before. May Charlie Kirk rest in piss.

There is no bottom. It's just unending narcissism and hatred.

There is money for ICE.
There is money for ballrooms.
There is money for golden toilets.
There is money for the president of Argentina.
There is money for prosecuting political enemies.
There is money for death camps.
There is money for DOGE.
There is money for new jets for Kristy Noem.
There is money for golf every weekend.
There is money for war with Venezuela.

There is no money for healthcare, housing, or food.

Making us suffer is a policy choice.

George Clooney is an actor.

Put him in the role of a surgeon in front of a camera, and he will do and say things the average non-surgeon viewer will agree are surgeonish. After an hour of that, we are, as average non-surgeon viewers, satisfied and entertained.

Put him in an operating theatre, and the patient will fucking die because he's not a surgeon and knows nothing about really doing surgery.

This is a post about LLMs.

🕵️‍♂️ Steganography Explained

Steganography is the art and science of hiding information in plain sight. Instead of encrypting data to make it unreadable, steganography conceals the very existence of the message by embedding it inside seemingly harmless files such as images, audio, video, or even text. To an untrained eye, everything looks normal — but beneath the surface, hidden data may exist 🔍.

In cybersecurity, steganography is a double-edged sword ⚖️. On one hand, it can be used legitimately to protect sensitive information, watermark digital content, or ensure secure communication in restrictive environments. On the other hand, it can be abused to covertly exfiltrate data, hide malicious instructions, or bypass security monitoring systems.

From a defensive perspective, understanding steganography is crucial for digital forensics and threat detection 🧠. Security analysts may encounter hidden data during investigations, malware analysis, or incident response, making steganalysis — the detection of hidden content — an important skill in modern cybersecurity operations.

#Steganography #CyberSecurity #DigitalForensics #InfoSec #BlueTeam

Aside:

As a kid, I would give people like Carville the old reverse "You are so well spoken." I'd drag the bit out for 10+ minutes.

👴🏻You are so well spoken!

👦🏿And *You* are so well spoken!

👴🏻Huh?

👦🏿Yes! Your speech! It's amazing! Each word, so clear! And your vocabulary is so good for a, umm for --

👴🏻English is my first language!

👦🏿Me too! But where did you learn to speak? Your sentence structure is phenomenal! The way you map ideas to speech is incredibly sophisticated for, um, your people!

👨🏼OK, we get it. That's enough. You've made your point.

👦🏿What point? Did I say something wrong?

👨🏼You're calling him racist.

👦🏿WHAT?!?! No! How did you get that from what I said? I didn't say the word racist once! You're jumping to conclusions! Not everything is racism. I'm just complimenting the man on his oratory skills and solid command of the English language! He talks like us!

The fact that “kalshi” autocorrects to “Malachi” as in “Children of the Corn”, tells me all I need to know.

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who actually told you so.

And then it will be rinse and repeat, onto the next grift.

She continues:

"Today the white supremacist views of many of the wealthiest and politically ambitious tech billionaires is on display almost daily. The recent release of some of the Epstein emails and files has confirmed the explicit nature of some of these connections."

Sherrilyn Ifill, president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, writes that my collaborator and I warned about these eugenicists a few years ago and were called all sorts of names. As she writes, we were "treated as extremists and conspiracy theorists." Even so-called "critics" of large language models came for me unsummoned as I spoke up about this. Marcus and LeCun were on the same side on this one, the side of attacking me for calling out these eugenicists.

https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/is-it-too-late

Women who work remotely are promoted at lower rates than men who do the same. 37% of women who work remotely 3+ days a week have been promoted in the past 2 years vs 49% of men. Among entry-level remote workers, 44% of men were promoted vs 25% of women.
https://fortune.com/2025/12/09/remote-work-lean-in-women-in-the-workplace-report-penalty/

These people are racists and sexists and Nazis.

This is not a judgement call. This is not based on a sophisticated, academic, subtle analysis of them replicating patterns from Weimar Germany.

This is what they fucking say.

It is not coded. It is not masked. It is not gray-area.

Charlie Kirk was a fucking racist sexist creep scumbag Nazi.

You want to install Turning Point in every high school, singing the Horst Wessel song to start each meeting?

You're a racist, and a sexist, and a Nazi.

You can refuse to provide official ID or biometric data for social media accounts requiring age verification.

Actually, I bet if everyone did refuse, and let their account dormant for a couple of weeks, you would suddenly see American Big Tech transforming into the fiercest defender of your privacy rights, using their powerful network of lobbyists to fight these invasive government regulations.

They need you more than you need them.
Force them to work for your rights.
Do not comply.

#Privacy #AgeVerification #Biometrics #AusPol #USpol

@MissConstrue indeed. I’ve heard the same, but also haven’t verified.

"Across the country, hospitals have started charging for self-administered questionnaires — brief surveys that screen for depression, food insecurity, domestic violence or other risks, said Caitlin Donovan...The screenings are supposed to flag patients who need extra support, but many people don’t learn about any potential fees until the bill arrives."

https://www.northcarolinahealthnews.org/2025/12/08/hospitals-charge-fee-for-questionnaire-you-filled-out/

#healthcare #clinics #hospitals #surveys #screenings #SDOH #MentalHealth #FoodInsecurity #housing #MedicalBills

227 Maaary Christmas
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#NBC227 #MaryJenkins #SandraClark #MarlaGibbs #JackeeHarry #ClassicSitcoms #RetroTV #HolidayEpisode #Television #Sitcoms #80sTelevision #ChristmasTV #Santa #MrsClaus #PopCultur #blackfedi #BlackMastodon #retro #vintage

Pretty crazy that nearly all of the EU Commission is still on X even as Elon Musk is literally talking about destroying the EU. You can leave X. It's really not that difficult.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:lohurgscqafxogwp3f7tsd3l/post/3m7gdnt766k26