Phil Meyerson (he/him)
@pmeyerson.bsky.social
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We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
October 1, 2025 at 2:38 PM
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
August 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hey, as a librarian I need to tell you:
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
Our funding depends on usage.
So go ahead and check out that book even if you don't think you'll finish it. No one will know. Check out that DVD even though you might not like it. Get ambitious in your quest for knowledge.
DC statehood is now an imperative. No more dicking around. Next Dem majority, get it done immediately.
August 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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The lack of differentiation between trusted and untrusted state and input is endlessly devilish in trying to secure this technology. It completely violates all security paradigms we've tried to enforce for coming on half a century
NEW: In a likely first, security researchers have shown how generative AI agents can be hijacked to cause physical consequences.
They tricked Google's Gemini AI into turning off smart home lights, opening windows, and turning on a boiler.
They hid instructions to the AI in a *calendar invitation*
They tricked Google's Gemini AI into turning off smart home lights, opening windows, and turning on a boiler.
They hid instructions to the AI in a *calendar invitation*
Hackers Hijacked Google’s Gemini AI With a Poisoned Calendar Invite to Take Over a Smart Home
For likely the first time ever, security researchers have shown how AI can be hacked to create real world havoc, allowing them to turn off lights, open smart shutters, and more.
www.wired.com
August 9, 2025 at 1:34 AM
The lack of differentiation between trusted and untrusted state and input is endlessly devilish in trying to secure this technology. It completely violates all security paradigms we've tried to enforce for coming on half a century
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You sure about this, Google?
August 9, 2025 at 1:55 AM
You sure about this, Google?
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This is a story EFF was made for.
Read about two security researchers' long road to disclose security vulnerabilities in popular digital locks: www.wired.com/story/secur...
Read about two security researchers' long road to disclose security vulnerabilities in popular digital locks: www.wired.com/story/secur...
August 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
This is a story EFF was made for.
Read about two security researchers' long road to disclose security vulnerabilities in popular digital locks: www.wired.com/story/secur...
Read about two security researchers' long road to disclose security vulnerabilities in popular digital locks: www.wired.com/story/secur...
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We are pleased to announce the final* schedule of talks for the 2025 Symposium on Election Security at the DEF CON Voting Village, August 8-10, in quiet, sleepy Las Vegas.
Hope to see you there!
www.mattblaze.org/papers/VV202...
* -subject to change
Hope to see you there!
www.mattblaze.org/papers/VV202...
* -subject to change
www.mattblaze.org
August 1, 2025 at 11:44 PM
We are pleased to announce the final* schedule of talks for the 2025 Symposium on Election Security at the DEF CON Voting Village, August 8-10, in quiet, sleepy Las Vegas.
Hope to see you there!
www.mattblaze.org/papers/VV202...
* -subject to change
Hope to see you there!
www.mattblaze.org/papers/VV202...
* -subject to change
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NEW: 60 years after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, its protections are being gutted.
@staceyabrams.com breaks down how we got here, what’s at stake, and how we fight back.
@staceyabrams.com breaks down how we got here, what’s at stake, and how we fight back.
The Storm Is Here: Inside the Attack on the Voting Rights Act
Our system has checks and balances, but they don’t run on autopilot.
open.substack.com
August 6, 2025 at 2:45 PM
NEW: 60 years after the Voting Rights Act was signed into law, its protections are being gutted.
@staceyabrams.com breaks down how we got here, what’s at stake, and how we fight back.
@staceyabrams.com breaks down how we got here, what’s at stake, and how we fight back.
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Earth at night viewed from space (watch fullscreen).
August 6, 2025 at 10:45 PM
Earth at night viewed from space (watch fullscreen).
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We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer.
As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free.
Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...
As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free.
Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...
August 6, 2025 at 2:00 PM
We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer.
As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free.
Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...
As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free.
Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...
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BREAKING NEWS: every joke Gen Xers have ever made about the kids bringing back Gregorian chants has been completely vindicated because my teenager is loudly listening to Enigma right now
August 6, 2025 at 2:15 PM
BREAKING NEWS: every joke Gen Xers have ever made about the kids bringing back Gregorian chants has been completely vindicated because my teenager is loudly listening to Enigma right now
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(DCNextGen is for youth 8-18 attending DEF CON) AI Chatbot Hacking! Ready to outsmart an AI and show it who's boss? Our CTF challenge puts your skills to the test as you coax a chatbot into spilling secrets it's sworn to keep. Come crack the code, snag the flags!
@defcon.bsky.social
@defcon.bsky.social
August 5, 2025 at 7:12 PM
(DCNextGen is for youth 8-18 attending DEF CON) AI Chatbot Hacking! Ready to outsmart an AI and show it who's boss? Our CTF challenge puts your skills to the test as you coax a chatbot into spilling secrets it's sworn to keep. Come crack the code, snag the flags!
@defcon.bsky.social
@defcon.bsky.social
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follow through accomplished 😏
sincerely grateful for your blessing 😊 newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/you-dont-own...
sincerely grateful for your blessing 😊 newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/you-dont-own...
July 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
follow through accomplished 😏
sincerely grateful for your blessing 😊 newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/you-dont-own...
sincerely grateful for your blessing 😊 newsletter.openhomefoundation.org/you-dont-own...
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Dragos just opened 21 positions in Australia, UK, and US/Canada. Not my team, not the hiring manager, but there is an array of roles
Dragos
job-boards.greenhouse.io
July 31, 2025 at 2:06 AM
Dragos just opened 21 positions in Australia, UK, and US/Canada. Not my team, not the hiring manager, but there is an array of roles
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"In his conversation with Senator Van Hollen, Aguilar recalled witnessing a woman dying before his eyes after being hit with a stun grenade fired by an American contractor. He said she died “Not from the IDF, not from starvation, not from trampling because Hamas incited a stampede. We killed her.”
New — I wrote about Lieutenant-Colonel Anthony Aguilar, a former contractor for the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation, and his harrowing stories of what he witnessed while being there under the guise of distributing food aid to starving Palestinian civilians:
The Green Beret of Gaza
Gaza Humanitarian Foundation contractor Anthony Aguilar describes witnessing war crimes.
www.thehandbasket.co
July 30, 2025 at 2:05 AM
"In his conversation with Senator Van Hollen, Aguilar recalled witnessing a woman dying before his eyes after being hit with a stun grenade fired by an American contractor. He said she died “Not from the IDF, not from starvation, not from trampling because Hamas incited a stampede. We killed her.”
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Successfully extracted 15 years of Goodreads data into @zotero.org, so I can now reclaim ownership of they from Amazon…
July 26, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Successfully extracted 15 years of Goodreads data into @zotero.org, so I can now reclaim ownership of they from Amazon…
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www.accuweather.com/en/health-we... 'Significant evidence' ties air pollution with dementia, study finds
'Significant evidence' ties air pollution with dementia, study finds
British researchers said they've found "significant evidence" of a long-suspected link between air pollution and dementia after studying data from nearly 30 million people across four continents.
www.accuweather.com
July 27, 2025 at 11:59 AM
www.accuweather.com/en/health-we... 'Significant evidence' ties air pollution with dementia, study finds
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Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)
Opinion | I Watched It Happen in Hungary. Now It’s Happening Here.
www.nytimes.com
July 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Former US ambassador to Hungary: "After years watching Hungary suffocate under the weight of its democratic collapse, I came to understand that the real danger of a strongman isn’t his tactics; it’s how others, especially those with power, justify their acquiescence." (h/t @bnovak.bsky.social)
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Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.
Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire
Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire
Amazon Ring Cashes in on Techno-Authoritarianism and Mass Surveillance
Ring founder Jamie Siminoff is back at the helm of the surveillance doorbell company, and with him is the surveillance-first-privacy-last approach that made Ring one of the most maligned tech devices....
www.eff.org
July 19, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Amazon Ring is introducing a new feature that would allow police to request live-stream access to people’s home security devices.
Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire
Helllll no. If you have one of those things, get rid of it. Kill it with fire
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My friend and colleague just said to me, "I'm sorry you go to so many inaccessible conferences." But the truth is that they're almost **ALL** inaccessible.
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If you're a meeting planner, please please please hire an inclusion coordinator. Then invite them into planning early AND LISTEN TO THEM.
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If you're a meeting planner, please please please hire an inclusion coordinator. Then invite them into planning early AND LISTEN TO THEM.
July 18, 2025 at 6:13 PM
My friend and colleague just said to me, "I'm sorry you go to so many inaccessible conferences." But the truth is that they're almost **ALL** inaccessible.
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If you're a meeting planner, please please please hire an inclusion coordinator. Then invite them into planning early AND LISTEN TO THEM.
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If you're a meeting planner, please please please hire an inclusion coordinator. Then invite them into planning early AND LISTEN TO THEM.
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The NAACP and Young, Gifted and Green are challenging the Shelby County Health Department’s decision to grant xAI an air permit for 15 gas turbines at its South Memphis data center, reports @cstephenson.bsky.social. The appeal filed by the @selc.bsky.social will put the permits on pause.
NAACP, others appeal xAI turbine permits for Memphis data center • Tennessee Lookout
The NAACP is challenging the Shelby County Health Department’s decision to grant xAI an air permit for gas turbines in South Memphis.
tennesseelookout.com
July 17, 2025 at 6:11 PM
The NAACP and Young, Gifted and Green are challenging the Shelby County Health Department’s decision to grant xAI an air permit for 15 gas turbines at its South Memphis data center, reports @cstephenson.bsky.social. The appeal filed by the @selc.bsky.social will put the permits on pause.
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ADVISORY: Statement, media avail. from unjustly detained U.S. veteran George Retes
Ventura County, CA—
Wed 7/16 at 3 pm PT, George Retes, U.S. citizen and Army veteran unjustly detained by federal agents during last week’s raid will hold a virtual press availability. 1/
Ventura County, CA—
Wed 7/16 at 3 pm PT, George Retes, U.S. citizen and Army veteran unjustly detained by federal agents during last week’s raid will hold a virtual press availability. 1/
July 15, 2025 at 11:04 PM
ADVISORY: Statement, media avail. from unjustly detained U.S. veteran George Retes
Ventura County, CA—
Wed 7/16 at 3 pm PT, George Retes, U.S. citizen and Army veteran unjustly detained by federal agents during last week’s raid will hold a virtual press availability. 1/
Ventura County, CA—
Wed 7/16 at 3 pm PT, George Retes, U.S. citizen and Army veteran unjustly detained by federal agents during last week’s raid will hold a virtual press availability. 1/
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Bravo to the @miamiherald.com for publishing this list in full www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...
Is your family member or client at Alligator Alcatraz? We obtained a list
The Trump and DeSantis administrations have refused to release a roster of detainees, none of whom seem to appear in ICE’s online database.
www.miamiherald.com
July 14, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Bravo to the @miamiherald.com for publishing this list in full www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...