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asrg@tldr.nettime.org ("ASRG") wrote:

"Trapping AI" – Operational Progress! 🕳️

Following the last update (https://tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/114742667183459482), we’re transitioning from planning to practice — amplifying both the scale and operational ferocity of our approach through the deployment of a new, more radically interventionist layer of complexity.

This intensified escalation — as outlined in the last update — is concretized in fakejpeg, which is now fully live and operational. From this point onward, every page generated by our standalone LLM crawler-tarpit embeds a garbage JPEG. Notably, within just a few hours of operation, this deployment has already yielded over 40,000 such images.

The integration of fakejpeg constitutes a critical deepening layer that amplifies both the strategic offensiveness and subversive ardor of our approach by enabling the ongoing targeted poisoning and coordinated dissemination of systematically crafted junk data within the operational workflows of AI systems.

fakejpeg repo: https://github.com/gw1urf/fakejpeg

See the tarpit in action: https://content.asrg.site/

Context and rationale: https://algorithmic-sabotage.github.io/asrg/trapping-ai/#expanding-the-offensiveness

Boosted by jwz:
w0bb1t@tldr.nettime.org ("mr.w0bb1t") wrote:

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
regocas ("Manuel Rego") wrote:

Some quick experiments playing with the new caret-animation and caret-shape CSS properties that @igalia is developing in Chromium as part of our collaboration with Bloomberg https://blogs.igalia.com/mrego/playing-with-the-new-caret-css-properties/

Attachments:

• gifv: Screencast of a block caret that uses a rainbow animation to change colors

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
robpike@hachyderm.io ("rob pike") wrote:

"We didn't include a printed manual because everything you need to know about this device can be found at this dead link."

Boosted by jwz:
lain@cyber.ms ("Lain Iwakura Bot") wrote:

📺 Serial Experiments Lain

🗓️ Season: S01E09
🎥 Episode: Protocol
🎬 Directed by: Akihiko Nishiyama
📅 Release Date: August 31, 1998
⏯ Frame: 0188

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
jonny@neuromatch.social ("jonny (good kind)") wrote:

Here is my flash talk from #SciPy #SciPy2025 - model free AI, just output random garbage directly

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1qzTAz5Y5QiGw6CMkefZBxi-E7FJ7TqSpP-UU1ip4YUE/edit?usp=sharing

https://github.com/sneakers-the-rat/gpu-free-ai

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
renardboy ("an actual bus") wrote:

I never understood why so many men associate with imagery of predatory animals.

My idealized version of my own masculinity is best represented by a tree. Patient. Immensely endurant. Self-sufficient. Unbothered by trivial, ephemereal affairs. Innately kind to the world around it.

I don't want to be a lion or a wolf or a shark, I want to be an ancient oak whose branches have sheltered countless birds and squirrels.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Unixbigot@aus.social ("Kit Bashir") wrote:

We thought the elder races were gone; extinct or transcended or estivating inside black holes until the frigid far future when their mainframes will run cooler. You’d be forgiven for overlooking that they ever existed except for the occasional hollowed-out asteroid, certain isotope imbalances in planetary crusts. And the wormhole network, of course.

Not gone, it turns out. Just, ah, 🐰semi-retired🐰. Not sure what we did to cheese them off, but now that they’ve implemented age-verification at the transit gates I’ve gotta solve this puzzle or walk home from Fomalhaut C. What have you got for thirteen across?

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
Crispius@infosec.exchange ("*|FNAME|* 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱") wrote:

@renardboy
With apologies.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
kenshirriff@oldbytes.space ("Ken Shirriff") wrote:

The Globus is a navigational instrument that uses a rotating globe to show the position of the Soyuz spacecraft above the Earth. Inside the Globus, a complicated system of gears and motors positions the globe. Jon Bruner from @lumafield created a three-dimensional X-ray scan for us. 1/4

Attachments:

• gifv: A three-dimensional X-ray rendering of the Globus. It is a rotating image in blues, greens, and orange on a black background. The sphere that forms the globe is the most visible feature, but the knobs and internal mechanisms are also visible.

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
froomkin@journa.host ("Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.org") wrote:

NEW from me: Washington Post Publisher Will Lewis Seeks to Crush Newsroom Dissent https://presswatchers.org/2025/07/washington-post-publisher-seeks-to-crush-newsroom-dissent/

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

@jwz oh, hey, that might be the same stuff that I'm seeing? https://overengineer.dev/blog/2025/07/11/dynamic-denial-of-crawlers/

I'm not really convinced that that's AI scrapers, though - it seems... way too weird for that - I wouldn't expect LLM companies to use a global botnet behind residential ISPs? I mean, they are shady companies, but THIS shady?

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

Porco Rosso 30th Anniversary: A look back at the inspiration of a Classic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9xFv7lwpGo

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

I just published a blog post on a very weird and intriguing traffic pattern I see on a web thingie I run. I'm not sure if it's the worst DDoS attempt I've seen in a while, or some very fascinating global crawler botnet. Either way, I hope this is at least fun to read.

https://overengineer.dev/blog/2025/07/11/dynamic-denial-of-crawlers/

jwz wrote:

DHS's war on skateboarding.

DHS is urging local police to consider a wide range of protest activity as violent tactics, including mundane acts like riding a bike or livestreaming a police encounter: Blaming intense media coverage and backlash to the...
https://jwz.org/b/ykrE

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
purplepadma@beige.party ("Charlotte Walker") wrote:

So Bluesky is about to require people to verify their age, which means sharing their real identity. I’ve no problem with people knowing my identity but then I’m not trying to hide from abusers. Or explore my gender. Or be a whistleblower. Or protest without getting arrested. Or or or… there are so many reasons people need anonymity.

Despite being myself online I am not keen to show Bluesky my scanned face or my bank card. So I guess I won’t be sticking around there.

I gave my advice before I left, which was “Switch to Mastodon, nobody there cares who you are, as long as you’re funny.”

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

Always follow the money.

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dangillmor ("Dan Gillmor") wrote:

Brazil is responding the old-fashioned, counterproductive way by matching Trump's tariffs in the other direction. A FAR better response: Adopt Cory Doctorow suggestion to make Brazil a tech jailbreak haven, helping tech users and putting a big dent in the the tech monopolists' power.
2/2

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Another day, another *"WTF is lodash doing in this bundle?!?"*

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

🥵 #Clipse #ChainsAndWhips #Music

https://music.apple.com/us/album/chains-whips/1816313639?i=1816313641

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

okay, this has real potential: https://www.the-independent.com/arts-entertainment/tv/news/larry-david-barack-obama-hbo-sketch-comedy-b2786733.html

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
JacquesC2@types.pl ("Jacques Carette") wrote:

It is weird to see the continuing fallacy in the software world that 'source code' is the most valuable asset, by far.

The most valuable asset is the knowledge, design decisions, rationale and intent encoded therein. Just because we don't have good languages to encode that does not change the value proposition.

That misplaced value equation is also at the root of the LLM-for-SE hype.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
mweagle@hachyderm.io ("Matt Weagle") wrote:

I don't know if "feral standardization" is a thing, but I feel like it should be.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
cwebber@social.coop ("Christine Lemmer-Webber") wrote:

New US directive for visa applicants turns social media feeds into political documents https://theconversation.com/new-us-directive-for-visa-applicants-turns-social-media-feeds-into-political-documents-260201

> In recent weeks, the US State Department implemented a policy requiring all university, technical training, or exchange program visa applicants to disclose their social media handles used over the past five years. The policy also requires these applicants to set their profiles to public.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
afrozenpeach@geek.gay ("Mattie Schraeder") wrote:

Just got laid off. If anyone is looking for a senior software engineer please reach out

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
workingclasshistory ("Working Class History") wrote:

#OtD 10 Jul 1985 the French intelligence service blew up the @greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior, in a Aotearoa/NZ, killing Fernando Pereira, a photographer. The ship was headed to protest against French nuclear testing https://stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8208/rainbow-warrior-blown-up

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"One Million Rising: Strategic Non-Cooperation to Fight Authoritarianism
Virtual Event · Hosted by No Kings"

https://mobilize.us/s/Txd0PH

jwz wrote:

RSS feed subscription regrets:

Add Wired for political coverage. Get: 15 headlines a day on "Great Amazon Prime deals".

Add Consequence for music news. Get: 5 headlines a day about every time Ozzy Osbourne farts.

(You may be surprised to learn that Ozzy Osbourne is still alive.)

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

I think the rate of suckers born per minute has been increasing in recent decades... 🤔

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Spot the dog! She's cleverly hidden, you might miss her! But I assure you, she is there!