Look at this graph. The share of national income going to the richest 10 percent was lowest (and share to lower 90 percent highest) when union membership was at its highest. As unions have weakened, inequality has widened. This is why we must build back union power.
In MY country (Al-bania?) we will encourage risky selfies as a way for stupid, annoying people to self dispose. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER.
This seems weirdly unsustainable at first, but it's OK because we're building a Dyson sphere around the solar system to host it.
Just fucking dîe already!
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Eventually the people will save themselves- probably not in my lifetime. But no one is “coming to save us” and if we don’t take action I guess we don’t deserve to be saved.
Regimes don’t last forever. Remember the Nuremberg Trials.
Resign? He should be arrested and put somewhere where he can’t toy with the health of millions of Americans based on crackpot theories from his worm eaten brain.
My question? When will RFK Jr face justice for withholding a proven life saving vaccine from millions of Americans?
Yet another pointless "use case" for the Edsel/CueCat of the 21st century... I am beginning to think there is a strong inverse correlation between the number of times someone says "blockchain" and IQ... cointelegraph.com/news/us-econ...
And this is (one big reason) why I am glad to be out of finance. Feels so predatory and icky.
More proof that this government does not care about ordinary Americans - what will it take for MAGA folks to get this through their red hatted heads????
Yet another "fantastic AI productivity savings don't really materialize" story... arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
Yet another browser malware story - and with the recent age verification laws in the UK and US, more people than usual will be looking for easy to use VPN software. Another bad side effect of misguided legislation. www.koi.security/blog/spyvpn-...
This imagery is the kind of thing you see in video games to let you know you’re in a totalitarian city or country.
It was only a matter of time before this started to happen. The torrent of AI slop on social media platforms was bad enough, but seeing the mainstream media making these kinds of blunders is really depressing another flashing red light for democracy/discourse. pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
Finally a use for… wait, still not it
I guess there is some poetic justice here - a Go module claiming to be a tool for brute forcing SSH turns out to be a credential stealer for its creator. Is there no honor amongst thieves? thehackernews.com/2025/08/mali...
f you think that the US is going to get "new policies to fight scams" while we have a convicted fraudster who is actively enriching himself from said scams in the White House, I have a bridge to sell you. www.bankinfosecurity.com/the-us-needs...
I am not sure why they buried the lede in this article: "Microsoft also warns against using the AI function for numerical calculations or in 'high-stakes scenarios' with legal, regulatory, and compliance implications, as COPILOT “can give incorrect responses.” www.theverge.com/news/761338/...
Agentic browser - be careful what you wish for, folks… the super duper intelligent taskable browser may not be listening only to YOUR instructions…
We are already seeing a Summer spike of Covid cases and a new variant could create even more cases in the Fall and Winter. We have the tools to deal with this, but our federal government is taking active steps to make sure we will have unnecessary suffering and death kottke.org/25/08/the-co...
Really looking forward to another rapid unplanned disassembly. arstechnica.com/space/2025/0...
If your heritage is Dennys for Fox News Uncles you need a new heritage.
A moment of silence for Agent 13…
This is just the beginning of what the radical right wants to do in reshaping America. It’s bad. It doesn’t protect anyone other than theocrats, tyrants and tycoons.
Age verification laws are not about “protecting the children” - they are a tool of censorship and oppression.
Better headline: Dead pedophile's convicted pimp is character witness for adjudicated rapist.
He’s rotting from the inside out.
That was one of the most batshit press conferences of Trump's public life. He brandished a photo of Putin and promised to deploy the US military to occupy Chicago, New York, and San Francisco. A sane country would be moving toward impeachment and removal right now.
Attackers are splitting QR codes in their emails into multiple images, which when analyzed separately are benign, but when reassembled for display, lead users to malicious links. Email security vendors need to adapt to this...https://cybersecuritynews.com/hackers-weaponize-qr-codes-embedded/
Threat actors hijacking once legit browser extensions and converting them to malware continues. Time for organizations to get control of what extensions are installed on corp browsers and for individuals to think twice about installing extensions... www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/chrome-...
The time when one could opt out of AI "features" or "enhancements" (and I use both terms very loosely) in everyday use software/services seems to be receding into the past. The AI cabal has forced all companies & individuals into 1 of the largest betas of tech ever. www.wired.com/story/adobe-...
I think I have just encountered the absolute rock bottom worst most exploitative fintech product out there. These apps skirt payday loan/usury laws and have the nerve to ask their customers for "tips" on top of the fees they charge. I think I need to wash my eyes. youtu.be/hBI_FLYfwmM?...
The problem here is how to deliver awareness training to folks like the man in this story who are outside of organization structures that can mandate them. AARP offers help but you need to seek it out.
This is 100% correct. “They” tout AI as a tool for the layperson. The same layperson who visits google dot com to search for the hostname or entire URL of their bank. It can be a useful tool for some cases, mostly for advanced users.
This story raises important issues about transcription tools for business leaders. Companies need to consider these tools' risks/benefits - and employees need guidance on the risks and proper use in the form of policies, education, and controls. www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g...
This blog post is definitely worth a read - incidents and outages being caused by DevOps folks under pressure to be "AI enabled 100X engineers" delegating too much power to AI tools and AIs misinterpreting their instructions to "get the job done" - no matter the cost. profero.io/blog/new-att...
It’s important to see Trump’s occupation of Washington, D.C., as a trial run for a possible military occupation of the United States. Be warned. https://robertreich.substack.com/p/the-trial-run
So glad to see my tax dollars funding this instead of PBS or mRNA vaccine research. #bigbeautifulbullshit
This is one example of something that needs further study and consideration as we rush headlong to adopt AI - deskilling of humans in all sorts of professions. I can't help that we are heading for the world depicted in the (now documentary) film "Idiocracy." www.medpagetoday.com/gastroentero...
More evidence of the willful and dangerous incompetency of the current administration when it comes to cybersecurity. www.wired.com/story/the-fi...
The lunatics have taken over the asylum in DC - our tax dollars paid for an important report on AI safety but we don't get to see it. The Biden administration was not keen on releasing this either, but you can bet your bippy that Trump &his minions ain't talking. www.wired.com/story/inside...
To the supposedly "good" Trump supporters - you are enabling this guy and his garbage followers. If that does not give you pause, you are also human garbage. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
This is how you do protest against dirtbag authoritarians. We could learn a lesson from the Baltic states. But we won't. Because we are divided and half the country welcomes their cruel, stupid overlords. www.atlasobscura.com/places/balti...
Dashlane is ending the free tier for its password manager in September - but a passward manager subscription is an excellent (and small) investment in your online security. Dashlane, Bitwarden and 1Password are all good options. www.dashlane.com/blog/dashlan...
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All the best - get well soon! We need you.
OK - this has to be one of the strangest (and stupidest) data breaches I have ever encountered (for reference, 1.2 million baht is about US$37,000). Wonder if the person responsible was sacked... thethaiger.com/hot-news/cri...
Wow... in Denmark, letters are so... twentieth century... www.postnord.dk/en/postnord-...
A clever new AI enabled supply chain attack which gets malicious code past GenAI tools by obfuscating it within legal disclaimers...https://hackread.com/legalpwn-attack-genai-tools-misclassify-malware-safe-code/
With the Trump regime turning their attention away from domestic right wing terrorists to protect us from law abiding immigrants, this is very concerning. www.wired.com/story/myster...
Threats from AI prompt injection are super charged by Agentic AI according to new research described at BlackHat. This is a whole new opportunity for less technically adept threat actors to create impactful attacks with real world effects. www.safebreach.com/blog/invitat...
Score one for nature. This jerk was out there to kill animals. They got him first. Seems fair to me. And a net positive for humanity.
Another story showing attackers' increasing use of malicious/fake/hijacked browser extensions as their entree into users' browsers - and their data and access. www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/m...
More evidence of the continuing war on both common sense and federal assistance to state and local governments. We are truly on our own, folks. statescoop.com/state-local-...
I just always assume that every interaction I have with another human being from now on has a 50% of being recorded, transcribed, and sent to the cloud. The Stasi would have loved this... www.wired.com/story/tiktok...
When this period of darkness has ended I hope that the cruel stupid evil people behind this are tried and punished. They are murderers.
Is there any AI company that is NOT basically a huge DDOS/copyright violation machine? Asking for a friend. blog.cloudflare.com/perplexity-i...
In my case, I resigned from the FBI InfraGard public private partnership after 20 years. The only thing I have to say to the FBI is “Where’s your warrant?”
Interesting poll on how adults use AI - while I was dismayed to see that search was the top use (LLMS are not search engines & hallucinate, people), the worst finding was the number of people using AI for companionship - this seems really unhealthy/potentially dangerous. apnews.com/article/ai-a...
Another potential AI related security issue for companies and individuals - shared conversations in ChatGPT were getting indexed by search engines, potentially sharing personal/company confidential info with the world. cybersecuritynews.com/chatgpt-conv...
Maybe the solution to the seemingly crappy job market here in the US is to move to the DPRK - these guys are seeming to have no problem getting well paying jobs in US companies and the political climate over there is becoming more and more comparable to the the US. www.bbc.com/news/article...
You'll need Google Translate for this one, but I think it is a great idea. Scams are everywhere - and education needs to be everywhere as well. www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/20...
Yup.
More work for vendor management teams as every company adds terms and conditions to allow them to use customer data for existing or vaporware AI features which serve more to inflate valuations and pricing than to add any value to their products. Make it stop... www.theregister.com/2025/07/18/l...
Interesting and timely work by the always needed EFF - in earlier times, I would have looked at this as a cool tool for people who live in (non US) authoritarian regimes to protect themselves. Times have changed. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
This Labor Day, workers need to stand together to fight against the criminals & oligarchs who have taken OUR country to turn it into their personal piggy bank. Instead of lying on the beach getting sunburned while our futures are being squandered, we need to get out & protest. maydaystrong.org
This is DPRK/USSR/CCP level stuff. Dont like the numbers? Fire the counter. Banana republic.
Yeah, cutting funding for CISA and hounding its best people out of their jobs was a wonderful idea. #Kakistocracy. cyberscoop.com/arizona-secr...
The wonderful new world of AI. I keep asking who the customers are going to be once all the jobs are gone. But CEOs don’t worry about this. They will have long gone with golden parachutes.
Alexa minus
Seems to me that for most CEOs, THIS is the most valuable use case for AI. nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/ai-is-alread...
Petty cheating at golf is a window into his rotted soul.
be safe out there, city friends
So Chat-GPT has made a "Study Mode" that actually looks like it could develop into a teaching tool. But you have to select it. Let me think - are most students more likely to use "Study Mode" or just have the LLM do the work for them? I dunno - this is a hard one... openai.com/index/chatgp...
I posted about Brazil's Pix pymts platform and how it seems worth emulating here to break the Visa/MC pymts duopoly harming us all. Well, the Trump administration has another idea - attack it and try to make Brazil adopt US style abuse of consumers/merchants. restofworld.org/2025/pix-bra...
Oh dear - fintechs seem to have been caught by the same biz plan that they used to gouge consumers - offer a product for a while at rock bottom prices, get consumers on board, destroy competition and then raise prices... like Uber, Grubhub and the rest. How... perfect. www.ft.com/content/85cc...
This administration does not care about protecting Americans. This administration cares only about cruelty and revenge.
As usual, the bad actors are the early adopters of new tech. I wonder how long it will be before we see AI ransomware negotiation bots interacting with the bad guys' bots, taking humans out of the process altogether... www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/ransomw...
Looks like it is time to update all the Apple devices... isc.sans.edu/diary/rss/32...
THIS is the most compelling use case for AI so far. nobody-wants-this.ghost.io/ai-is-alread...
THREE CHEERS FOR AI IN THE CLASSROOM!!! Wait... ... never mind. More evidence that education is not ready to integrate the AI "solutions" being shoved down the throats of teachers & students. We are gonna be paying for this bullshit long term... restofworld.org/2025/colombi...
Given the current US regime's distaste for providing assistance to local authorities in times of trouble, I think that National Guard units should be upping their cyber response capabilities and preparing to deal with events like this. statescoop.com/st-paul-mn-c...
The damage AI has down to lowercase Ls will take years to undo. Alfreds, Alberts and Allans need compensation.
The NYPD officer killed in yesterday’s mass shooting was part of an immigrant family. Wonder if Kristi Noem will highlight this. Immigrants make our country better and stronger.
Not sure how I feel about this. My inner Grandpa Simpson wants these young whippersnappers to learn to code like we did back in the day, dadgumit! On the other hand, Ai tools are part of the developer's arsenal. We need to provide training on these tools though. www.404media.co/meta-is-goin...
A good effort, but under this even more bought and paid for than usual regime, I fear that this has the chance of snowball in a blast furnace. prospect.org/economy/2025...
Welcome to the sane app. We love you guys and appreciate the important work you do. You save lives with science.
Being in tech and having a single modicum of critical thinking is just screaming "this isn't what LLMs are designed for" over and over as people shove a bunch of word predictors into critical decision making processes because some glorified used car salesmen told them it would fix all their problems
Really disturbing if true - more evidence that we do not really understand what is going on inside of LLMs and that "traits" (including dangerous ones) can be passed from model to model invisibly. We need unbiased research/regulation. But we got Pedo Felon. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
I guess this is only fair - after a spate of stories about lawyers submitting AI generated briefs full of hallucinatory citations to judges, we now get a story that turns the tables... news.bloomberglaw.com/business-and...
My soundtrack today will be all Tom Lehrer... combining sharp wit with politics (of the 60s), he was a national treasure - and we could use someone like him today. But he was definitely one of a kind. Hope he is busy Poisoning the Pigeons in the Park somewhere nice. www.cnn.com/2025/07/27/e...
Scotland has gained a special place in my heart. And they are the Michaelangelos of insults.
My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.
Yet Another trade “deal” from Trump that leaves tariffs much, much worse than before he took office. What a joke.
This is true community service. These people are heroes.
This woman is a damn hero 💞 Outside a Home Depot in Encinitas. “If you’re doing something right, take your *%#£|*% mask off!”
US government AI "policy" is being led by our racist FoxNews addicted uncle crossed with a shoplifter. www.wired.com/story/presid...
If you are getting pushback from management about replacing end of life software and hardware, show them this article. Attackers love EOL kit! therecord.media/sonicwall-sm...