IT security student. Programmer of digital duck tape, learning to write digital plumbing. Aspiring cryptographer. Personal research interests include zero-knowledge credentials (to counter online antisocial conduct while protecting privacy) and AV/image non-repudiation (to counter deepfakes).
Anti-exceptionalist egalitarian. Empirical pragmatist: evidence over ideology, results over rationalization. Theory is as good as the least of its falsifiability, its internal consistency, and its withstanding of attempted disproof. It is as useful as one is willing to revise or replace it when it falls.
This song is SO good haha!
This is a metal song literally about how good the food is 😆
The video is amazing and hilarious!
Watch it! :awesome: 👇
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nihFu0YjkcE
Here's the Bandcamp link to buy the song from this amazing group deserving our support if you like it: https://bloodywood.bandcamp.com/track/tadka
I feel like the general populace might not realize the importance of this idea that @pluralistic shares:
what Dan Davies calles an "accountability sink." The radiologist's job isn't really to oversee the AI's work, it's to take the blame for the AI's mistakes.
this human (sometimes only nominally) in the loop is central to law as a whole not being broken
it's also of utmost importance for weapons of war, where AI actually is having life and death impact right now, with non-hypotheticals like "how do we make sure the system doesn't kill innocents without repercussions"
because if there's no repercussions the system will end up externalizing on the way to maximizing other metrics
I just got back from Victoria, BC; a city I visit often. I'm always impressed by how many people commute by bike there. And it's not an accident, the city has invested in an amazing biking infrastructure that other North American cities could learn from: https://youtu.be/FKMDMekErQ0
Hey folks - some news: unfortunately we received a legal threat regarding this little project of ours, so need to put things on hold while we figure that out.
Will keep you posted - but its possible there may not be any more ACARS Drama :(
Thanks for the support though, and we’ll let you know if things change.
Axon is testing facial recognition technology in its body-worn cameras with a Canadian police department. This dangerous expansion of surveillance tech should alarm every community. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/axon-tests-face-recognition-body-worn-cameras
The Department of Justice (DOJ) plans to
👉 dismantle protections for trans and intersex people
in federal, state, and local prisons, jails, and youth detention facilities,
according to a government memo obtained by Prism.
The memo, dated Dec. 2, takes aim at existing standards of the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA)
that the department says do not comport with the Trump administration’s first-day executive order that,
among other things, targeted protections for trans people behind bars.
PREA was passed in 2003, and President Barack Obama added new protections for LGBTQIA+ people to the DOJ’s PREA rulebook in 2012.
The proposed changes would affect all facilities that are subject to PREA standards,
including adult prisons and jails,
lockups,
community confinement facilities such as halfway houses,
and juvenile facilities that are operated by the DOJ, state, or local governments
or by corporate or nonprofit organizations.
Facilities operated by other agencies,
such as the Department of Homeland Security,
are subject to their own detention standards.
https://prismreports.org/2025/12/04/prison-rape-elimination-act-trans-intersex-trump-doj/
Brian Daitzman provides a helpful summary of how the Trump administration's dealing with Putin re: Ukraine is about "Steve Witkoff’s guidance to Vladimir Putin’s top adviser reveal[ing] a foreign-policy process captured by private channels, Russian influence, and the abandonment of an ally at war."
#Trump #Putin #SteveWitkoff #JaredKushner #Russia #Ukraine #corruption #PutinsPoodle
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https://www.lincolnsquare.media/p/the-great-betrayal-how-a-us-envoy
"Steve Bannon, basically right up to the time Epstein died, was working with him on a combo rebrand/crisis comms effort to rehabilitate Epstein’s reputation. Yes! Bannon was working as Epstein’s image rehab specialist. The man at the center of all the anti-'elite', anti-'globalist' pedophiles was tight with Epstein and trying to help him come in from the sex offender cold."
~ Josh Marshall
#Epstein #Trump #Bannon #media #MAGA #ConspiracyTheories
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https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/steve-bannons-surprisingly-key-role-in-the-epstein-scandal
The following quote reminds me of this quote from @pluralistic: "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations."
from https://jonready.com/blog/posts/everyone-in-seattle-hates-ai.html
"Bring up #AI in a Seattle coffee shop now and people react like you're advocating #asbestos."
Microsoft, after embracing Elon Musk on stage at Build and in product, has abandoned their yearly diversity report. https://www.theverge.com/tech/838079/microsoft-diversity-and-inclusion-changes-notepad
@colincornaby Show me a YouTube video with an AI summary, and I’ll write a @ublockorigin filter for the summary. (AdGuard and Brave use the same filter syntax, btw.) However, given I haven’t seen own yet, perhaps someone ever has already written the filter.
It’s frustrating that they don’t allow creators to block those summaries for viewers of their videos, though.
If I could I'd disable the summaries - Gamers Nexus had a good video on how the AI summaries are synthesizing inaccurate recommendations from their reviews.
I'd also disable the auto dubbed videos. I get the intention and can see why YouTube wants to expand audiences but I have enough non dubbed content to go through. And YouTube pushing them hard is displacing the other stuff I typically watch on the site.
Gavin Newsom launches portal for California residents to snitch on federal agents who ‘abuse their authority’ | The Independent
RE: https://mas.to/@BruceMirken/115656542347729424
Lol,
Non Germans please note: the TÜV ist independent and has God like credibility in Germany.
Each individual car needs to pass their check to get the permission to drive on German roads, so they check lots of cars each year.
A short tale from way back when I worked at Apple: My team had a lot of lunchtime meetings and they usually got pizza to feed us lunch while we worked. There were two of us on the team who were vegetarian, so they'd order six or eight pizzas for the team and all of them would have meat except for the one meatless pizza they had for just the two of us. But everyone likes vegetarian pizza, so people would get in line, take what looked good which included the veggie pizza, and by the time I got to the veggie pizza it would be gone and I'd have no lunch (and the other vegetarian had the same problem, of course). They tried to get the non-vegetarian people to stop eating the veggie pizza, then tried to hide it so only we veggies could get it, but nothing worked. So I suggested they order four kinds of vegetarian pizzas and a couple pizzas with meat, and that worked out great and there was much rejoicing.
This is a post about gatekeeping disability accommodations.
