fidget
@eismc2.bsky.social
CTFer, SOC Goon, EFF Trivia Judge, bsidesLV SafetyOp Lead, bsidesden MC, HUMINT, CTI, Masochist, Internationally Recognized SME on Human Behavior, Speaker
Animals, poetry, pain, beauty, anarchy, Burn (the man and the world)
I have become the Abyss
Animals, poetry, pain, beauty, anarchy, Burn (the man and the world)
I have become the Abyss
Pinned
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[drops acid]: what if you could define new kinds of nothing?
January 31, 2025 at 11:45 AM
[drops acid]: what if you could define new kinds of nothing?
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Programming languages: "We are just a way to operate computers in a way that makes sense to humans."
Programming languages [takes a big joint hit]: "What if there were 5 kinds of nothingness?"
Programming languages [takes a big joint hit]: "What if there were 5 kinds of nothingness?"
January 31, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Programming languages: "We are just a way to operate computers in a way that makes sense to humans."
Programming languages [takes a big joint hit]: "What if there were 5 kinds of nothingness?"
Programming languages [takes a big joint hit]: "What if there were 5 kinds of nothingness?"
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Stopgenai.com we are a mutual aid collective raising funds for people that are/have been/will be impacted by this tech and the bubble that’s about to nuke us all.
December 1, 2025 at 5:55 PM
Stopgenai.com we are a mutual aid collective raising funds for people that are/have been/will be impacted by this tech and the bubble that’s about to nuke us all.
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Please Repost! We are in an era of huge gains in technology, discovery and data "sequestration". We need to be honest about what's happening and the terrible outcomes that could happen if we continue the 533 years of colonial extraction. www.science.org/content/arti...
How scientists are confronting the lingering imprint of colonialism
Science series to spotlight efforts to reduce parachute science, empower Global South countries
www.science.org
November 25, 2025 at 12:29 AM
Please Repost! We are in an era of huge gains in technology, discovery and data "sequestration". We need to be honest about what's happening and the terrible outcomes that could happen if we continue the 533 years of colonial extraction. www.science.org/content/arti...
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November 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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I'm generally really good at following back people who work in cyber and blocking all the spam follows, but somehow my follower count jumped.
Just followed everyone back!
(If I didn't follow you back and you work in tech cyber, I couldn't tell from your bio, sorry)
Just followed everyone back!
(If I didn't follow you back and you work in tech cyber, I couldn't tell from your bio, sorry)
November 25, 2025 at 2:27 AM
I'm generally really good at following back people who work in cyber and blocking all the spam follows, but somehow my follower count jumped.
Just followed everyone back!
(If I didn't follow you back and you work in tech cyber, I couldn't tell from your bio, sorry)
Just followed everyone back!
(If I didn't follow you back and you work in tech cyber, I couldn't tell from your bio, sorry)
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$5 says they're offloading this to mechanical turk workers now
November 24, 2025 at 11:39 PM
$5 says they're offloading this to mechanical turk workers now
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Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
November 24, 2025 at 11:17 PM
Founders on LinkedIn still seem to be struggling with the difference between telling people about their humble beginnings and admitting to straight up committing fraud.
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Sobering read
"The Valley of Death: Why $100,000 Is the New Poor
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Once I established that $136,500 is the real break-even point, I ran the numbers on what happens to a family climbing the ladder toward that number"
interesting analysis:
www.yesigiveafig.com/p/part-1-my-...
Part 1: My Life Is a Lie
How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America
www.yesigiveafig.com
November 24, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Sobering read
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Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪
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i don't know about y'all, but if i had to make up a "synthetic" experience I don't think I'd pick eating a late night mcd's right next to the dumpster in the parking lot
November 23, 2025 at 3:05 PM
i don't know about y'all, but if i had to make up a "synthetic" experience I don't think I'd pick eating a late night mcd's right next to the dumpster in the parking lot
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I've reached $130 of $700 due 11AM TODAY- about 6 hours left!
#PleaseShare, and help if you can? My life WILL END if I lose my room. No way to escape that.
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
#KeepFolksAlive
#PleaseShare, and help if you can? My life WILL END if I lose my room. No way to escape that.
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
#KeepFolksAlive
Multiply disabled heart patient in need of support!
$700 rent weekly, due 11AM Sundays
$300 monthly bills (phone, storage)
Please help if you can? I cannot survive the street AT ALL- need hygiene and privacy to eat and sleep.
paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EL5EB7BDZ3GTW
cash.app/$FalcoSkyWolf
$700 rent weekly, due 11AM Sundays
$300 monthly bills (phone, storage)
Please help if you can? I cannot survive the street AT ALL- need hygiene and privacy to eat and sleep.
paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EL5EB7BDZ3GTW
cash.app/$FalcoSkyWolf
November 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I've reached $130 of $700 due 11AM TODAY- about 6 hours left!
#PleaseShare, and help if you can? My life WILL END if I lose my room. No way to escape that.
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
#KeepFolksAlive
#PleaseShare, and help if you can? My life WILL END if I lose my room. No way to escape that.
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
#KeepFolksAlive
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Under 4 hours until due!
PLEASE help quickly if it's in your power to?
Sharing is great! It might help me find new people who CAN chip in. Please also chip in if you are able and inspired to?
PLEASE help quickly if it's in your power to?
Sharing is great! It might help me find new people who CAN chip in. Please also chip in if you are able and inspired to?
I've reached $130 of $700 due 11AM TODAY- about 6 hours left!
#PleaseShare, and help if you can? My life WILL END if I lose my room. No way to escape that.
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
#KeepFolksAlive
#PleaseShare, and help if you can? My life WILL END if I lose my room. No way to escape that.
#DisabilityCrowdFund
#MutualAidRequest
#KeepFolksAlive
Multiply disabled heart patient in need of support!
$700 rent weekly, due 11AM Sundays
$300 monthly bills (phone, storage)
Please help if you can? I cannot survive the street AT ALL- need hygiene and privacy to eat and sleep.
paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EL5EB7BDZ3GTW
cash.app/$FalcoSkyWolf
$700 rent weekly, due 11AM Sundays
$300 monthly bills (phone, storage)
Please help if you can? I cannot survive the street AT ALL- need hygiene and privacy to eat and sleep.
paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=EL5EB7BDZ3GTW
cash.app/$FalcoSkyWolf
November 23, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Under 4 hours until due!
PLEASE help quickly if it's in your power to?
Sharing is great! It might help me find new people who CAN chip in. Please also chip in if you are able and inspired to?
PLEASE help quickly if it's in your power to?
Sharing is great! It might help me find new people who CAN chip in. Please also chip in if you are able and inspired to?
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yup, it was on. Do not like. I unchecked the box.
November 20, 2025 at 6:01 PM
yup, it was on. Do not like. I unchecked the box.
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Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.
What if the A.I. bubble “is an inevitable part of developing and adopting a revolutionary tool that will fundamentally improve productivity and growth?” Mohamed El-Erian writes.
Opinion | A.I. Is a Bubble. Maybe That’s OK.
Investors’ excitement rightly reflects the potential transformation of the entire economy.
nyti.ms
November 20, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Goddamn dude, just go ahead knock 25 percent off my 401k and get on with it, I can't take much more of this.
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Yeah I can see why the symbol for the regime that murdered 11 mln people might be considered divisive by some.
November 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Yeah I can see why the symbol for the regime that murdered 11 mln people might be considered divisive by some.
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*takes a long, hard look at everyone on bluesky who has been foaming at the mouth to turn public roadways into a panopticon because nothing could possibly be worse than speeding*
very big story here: apnews.com/article/immi...
Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns
The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:47 PM
*takes a long, hard look at everyone on bluesky who has been foaming at the mouth to turn public roadways into a panopticon because nothing could possibly be worse than speeding*
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I really think this kind of thing is a bad idea, because who wants to start a relationship *with a doctor’s office* by realizing the first thing that happened in that relationship is that they tried to trick you?
I went to make a doctor’s appointment today and got transferred to an AI “person” and I can’t overstate my revulsion when it fooled me for the first ten seconds, so that I was trying to be friendly and pleasant, and I realized it I was trying to be polite to a machine.
November 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
I really think this kind of thing is a bad idea, because who wants to start a relationship *with a doctor’s office* by realizing the first thing that happened in that relationship is that they tried to trick you?
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"don't pay attention to any of that frivolous humanities education, STEM all the way - what, do you think you can hack a computer with poetry or something?"
apparently, yes
apparently, yes
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 7:16 PM
"don't pay attention to any of that frivolous humanities education, STEM all the way - what, do you think you can hack a computer with poetry or something?"
apparently, yes
apparently, yes
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actually doing nothing. Perhaps with the intention of killing genuine political activism in the most polite way possible. 🙃
November 20, 2025 at 5:20 PM
actually doing nothing. Perhaps with the intention of killing genuine political activism in the most polite way possible. 🙃
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class. If leadership know what it was like to make less than $300k.
Labor unions are supposed to be groups of *working class* people working together.
Most aren't led by working class people anymore.
These bureaucratic PMC co-opted unions exist to provide the façade of doing something while...
Labor unions are supposed to be groups of *working class* people working together.
Most aren't led by working class people anymore.
These bureaucratic PMC co-opted unions exist to provide the façade of doing something while...
November 20, 2025 at 5:19 PM
class. If leadership know what it was like to make less than $300k.
Labor unions are supposed to be groups of *working class* people working together.
Most aren't led by working class people anymore.
These bureaucratic PMC co-opted unions exist to provide the façade of doing something while...
Labor unions are supposed to be groups of *working class* people working together.
Most aren't led by working class people anymore.
These bureaucratic PMC co-opted unions exist to provide the façade of doing something while...
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effort to do anything remotely similar to what Stop Gen AI tries to do, I would have found it.
I keep trying to warn you, @jonshaffer.bsky.social.
Unions are only effective if their leadership hasn't been co-opted by the professional managerial...
I keep trying to warn you, @jonshaffer.bsky.social.
Unions are only effective if their leadership hasn't been co-opted by the professional managerial...
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
effort to do anything remotely similar to what Stop Gen AI tries to do, I would have found it.
I keep trying to warn you, @jonshaffer.bsky.social.
Unions are only effective if their leadership hasn't been co-opted by the professional managerial...
I keep trying to warn you, @jonshaffer.bsky.social.
Unions are only effective if their leadership hasn't been co-opted by the professional managerial...