Jed Davis 🏳️🌈🇺🇸😱
@xlerb.bsky.social
[he/him] [📍 San Francisco] [sad about computer, sad about politics, FIXME more topics go here]
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Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...
"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
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i’ve seen enough — EMERGENCY CATURDAY IS NOW IN EFFECT 🚨
December 5, 2025 at 3:23 AM
i’ve seen enough — EMERGENCY CATURDAY IS NOW IN EFFECT 🚨
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Raccoons enter a state of deep sleep called torpor, slowing their heart rate/metabolism to conserve energy during extreme cold, but can wake up/move around, often denning in sheltered spots for weeks at a time to wait out harsh weather. The raccoons here have been a no show for several nights.
December 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Raccoons enter a state of deep sleep called torpor, slowing their heart rate/metabolism to conserve energy during extreme cold, but can wake up/move around, often denning in sheltered spots for weeks at a time to wait out harsh weather. The raccoons here have been a no show for several nights.
Everyone taking about the National Security Strategy is kind of awkward because I keep reading it as Netscape Security Services.
December 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Everyone taking about the National Security Strategy is kind of awkward because I keep reading it as Netscape Security Services.
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"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
December 5, 2025 at 7:24 AM
"the government should try, convict and then kill the secretary of defense for the crime he very obviously seems to have committed" seems like a radical thing to say, but -- no, it's not. it's the actual penalty for what pete hegseth, a man who ordered death squads to murder civilians, has done.
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the thing is that blowing up drug boats is just murder. no law licenses it. it is just war crimes. but to say out loud what the penalty for committing them is puts us in the position of accusing high government officials of capital crimes.
it is critically important to be able to say the obvious.
it is critically important to be able to say the obvious.
December 5, 2025 at 7:21 AM
the thing is that blowing up drug boats is just murder. no law licenses it. it is just war crimes. but to say out loud what the penalty for committing them is puts us in the position of accusing high government officials of capital crimes.
it is critically important to be able to say the obvious.
it is critically important to be able to say the obvious.
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Imagine the amount of gender angst that would be happening on Fox News if Buttigieg had been the face of this.
December 5, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Imagine the amount of gender angst that would be happening on Fox News if Buttigieg had been the face of this.
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This isn't just true for artists of course. Lately it feels like we're about to slide over a waterfall and all you can do is try to see what equipment you can get ready as you near the precipice.
December 5, 2025 at 3:28 PM
This isn't just true for artists of course. Lately it feels like we're about to slide over a waterfall and all you can do is try to see what equipment you can get ready as you near the precipice.
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Hearing more and more stories about gig-work vanishing from artists in favor of AI. This was probably the low-hangingest fruit once you had pretty good image-gen AI, because it's often simple, not suuuuper creative work. But this sort of work is the backbone for a lot of arts careers.
December 5, 2025 at 3:26 PM
Hearing more and more stories about gig-work vanishing from artists in favor of AI. This was probably the low-hangingest fruit once you had pretty good image-gen AI, because it's often simple, not suuuuper creative work. But this sort of work is the backbone for a lot of arts careers.
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we are lucky that these fascist war criminals are total morons who are clearly going to be unable to install a durable authoritarian regime.
however, if these fascist war criminals do not face serious legal consequences, we will likely not be as lucky with the next round of fascist war criminals
however, if these fascist war criminals do not face serious legal consequences, we will likely not be as lucky with the next round of fascist war criminals
I just want some of these fucking people to face real consequences
December 5, 2025 at 5:31 AM
we are lucky that these fascist war criminals are total morons who are clearly going to be unable to install a durable authoritarian regime.
however, if these fascist war criminals do not face serious legal consequences, we will likely not be as lucky with the next round of fascist war criminals
however, if these fascist war criminals do not face serious legal consequences, we will likely not be as lucky with the next round of fascist war criminals
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Do you understand how bad this boat thing is?
I can't even joke about it. I joke about EVERYTHING. It's my go to coping mechanism. But I'm seeing people use black humor and it makes me ill.
I can't even joke about it. I joke about EVERYTHING. It's my go to coping mechanism. But I'm seeing people use black humor and it makes me ill.
December 5, 2025 at 3:44 AM
Do you understand how bad this boat thing is?
I can't even joke about it. I joke about EVERYTHING. It's my go to coping mechanism. But I'm seeing people use black humor and it makes me ill.
I can't even joke about it. I joke about EVERYTHING. It's my go to coping mechanism. But I'm seeing people use black humor and it makes me ill.
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The Supreme Court sided with this dissent:
Um.... This is an actual judicial opinion (dissenting in the TX gerrymandering case)
December 5, 2025 at 1:07 AM
The Supreme Court sided with this dissent:
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the intimate nature of the hoagie room
December 5, 2025 at 1:42 AM
the intimate nature of the hoagie room
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US 101/CA 1 interchange in Calif today. Sunny day, no wind.
The Bay took over the highway during this morning's #KingTides in Marin.
December 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
US 101/CA 1 interchange in Calif today. Sunny day, no wind.
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the shadow docket: it’s the worst
December 4, 2025 at 11:19 PM
the shadow docket: it’s the worst
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TIL the underground lab was built right next to all the craters from nuclear testing
December 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
TIL the underground lab was built right next to all the craters from nuclear testing
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The warning for an M5.9 earthquake near Dayton, NV this morning was an incorrect alert issued by the USGS ShakeAlert program. None of the stations in the Nevada Seismological Laboratory network detected any large earthquakes in Nevada this morning.
December 4, 2025 at 5:27 PM
The warning for an M5.9 earthquake near Dayton, NV this morning was an incorrect alert issued by the USGS ShakeAlert program. None of the stations in the Nevada Seismological Laboratory network detected any large earthquakes in Nevada this morning.
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Thing is, Cotton served, so I think he knows this and just doesn't care.
I will say, the fact that these guys aren't combatants already and their boat is just a boat. With no weapons. It becomes tricky to figure out when they're hors de combat when they were never, uh, de combat in the first place.
I will say, the fact that these guys aren't combatants already and their boat is just a boat. With no weapons. It becomes tricky to figure out when they're hors de combat when they were never, uh, de combat in the first place.
December 4, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Thing is, Cotton served, so I think he knows this and just doesn't care.
I will say, the fact that these guys aren't combatants already and their boat is just a boat. With no weapons. It becomes tricky to figure out when they're hors de combat when they were never, uh, de combat in the first place.
I will say, the fact that these guys aren't combatants already and their boat is just a boat. With no weapons. It becomes tricky to figure out when they're hors de combat when they were never, uh, de combat in the first place.
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Reminds me of when Jesse Helms in a hearing kept referring to Kim Jong Il as "Kim Jong the Second." So his staff wrote it out phonetically as "Kim Jong ILL" ... and naturally, he read it as "Kim Jong the Third."
-Often US prez needs to say "difficult" foreign name.
-Any COMPETENT prez, w competent staff, has close-enough version phonetically in text.
-Once Prez Carter welcomed Coptic Pope, Shenouda III, from Egypt
-Carter's text said "sheh-NOO-dah" (via consultation w Arabists)
DAMHIK. This is basic stuff.
-Any COMPETENT prez, w competent staff, has close-enough version phonetically in text.
-Once Prez Carter welcomed Coptic Pope, Shenouda III, from Egypt
-Carter's text said "sheh-NOO-dah" (via consultation w Arabists)
DAMHIK. This is basic stuff.
Trump tries to read President Tshisekedi's name
December 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Reminds me of when Jesse Helms in a hearing kept referring to Kim Jong Il as "Kim Jong the Second." So his staff wrote it out phonetically as "Kim Jong ILL" ... and naturally, he read it as "Kim Jong the Third."
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A lot of suicide attempts, especially among young people, are impulsive, which means that throwing up even temporary obstacles can save lives. It's not true that everyone who gets advice on how to kill themselves from an LLM would have figured it out anyway. These tools are causing avoidable deaths.
I am a suicide attempt survivor so I’m kind of selfishly interested in prevention and, again, while it may difficult to completely prevent IDEATION, what ChatGPT does (despite guardrails!) is *cheerlead and facilitate* completion. You can come back from ideation but not a chat-optimized completion.
This is not true. This is argument that pro-gun people use to discount red flag and waiting period laws. Ease of access and lethality (let alone cheerful instruction in the best method!) is the #1 predictor of attempts leading actual completion. The more barriers, the more people live.
December 4, 2025 at 5:03 PM
A lot of suicide attempts, especially among young people, are impulsive, which means that throwing up even temporary obstacles can save lives. It's not true that everyone who gets advice on how to kill themselves from an LLM would have figured it out anyway. These tools are causing avoidable deaths.
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REPORT: Lookups of 'frankincense' and 'myrrh' are up 3200% from this time last month.
December 4, 2025 at 8:08 PM
REPORT: Lookups of 'frankincense' and 'myrrh' are up 3200% from this time last month.
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DoD IG confirms the Secretary copied operational details from a SECRET//NOFORN CENTCOM brief into a 19-person Signal chat that included a journalist. This occurred 2–4 hours before U.S. strikes in Yemen.
December 4, 2025 at 4:18 PM
DoD IG confirms the Secretary copied operational details from a SECRET//NOFORN CENTCOM brief into a 19-person Signal chat that included a journalist. This occurred 2–4 hours before U.S. strikes in Yemen.
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that's because it has more people with security clearances in charge
the fucking furry con I’m spending the weekend volunteering at has better operational security than trump’s DoD and its not even close
December 4, 2025 at 5:23 PM
that's because it has more people with security clearances in charge
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What the fuck....?
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 4, 2025 at 5:53 PM
What the fuck....?
Speaking of seismic events: EBU general assembly allows 🇮🇱 in Eurovision 2026, 🇪🇸🇳🇱🇮🇪🇸🇮 immediately withdraw, 🇮🇸🇧🇪 to consider withdrawing, possibly more TK (see recent posts by @escdiscord.com).
December 4, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Speaking of seismic events: EBU general assembly allows 🇮🇱 in Eurovision 2026, 🇪🇸🇳🇱🇮🇪🇸🇮 immediately withdraw, 🇮🇸🇧🇪 to consider withdrawing, possibly more TK (see recent posts by @escdiscord.com).