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Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
davidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:

oh this is comedy gold. you can prompt-inject a chatbot via unicode fuckery

https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2024/hiding-and-finding-text-with-unicode-tags/

"which attacks are LLMs vulnerable to?" "yes"

Boosted by jwz:
QasimRashid ("Qasim Rashid, Esq.") wrote:

The DNC found a way to revoke David Hogg’s election to vice chair, despite him winning the nomination.

The Democratic Party establishment won’t endorse Zohran Mamdani, despite him winning the nomination.

And now the Minnesota DFL has found a way to revoke its endorsement of Minneapolis mayoral candidate Omar Fateh, despite him winning the nomination.

Democratic Party insiders keep crapping on its new & young leaders, yet wonders why young people are upset with the party & it has 26% approval😐

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ComicContext@mstdn.social ("Comics Outta Context") wrote:

#ComicsOutOfContextAfterDark

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nocontexttrek ("Star Trek Minus Context") wrote:

#StarTrek

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mwichary@mastodon.online ("Marcin Wichary") wrote:

I know this is not a real ligature, but it was fun to see today.

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renchap@oisaur.com ("Renaud Chaput") wrote:

And now thanks to @chaosexanima I can show you how the retractation works:
- you get a notification when someone quotes you
- on their post, you have a new menu to remove their quote of your post
- you confirm, and your quote is removed and shown as having been retracted
- the quote is no longer displayed on the original post

Boosted by jwz:
dnalounge@sfba.social ("DNA Lounge") wrote:

Drink Special @ Random Access: Currently Clean On POOP-SEC -- Cazadores tequila, ginger ale, pineapple, cherry

Attachments:

• gifv: d771c4f4c4f0e1ab.mp4

Boosted by jwz:
enkiv2@eldritch.cafe ("𒀭𒂗𒆠 ENKI ][e") wrote:

@flaviusb @zzt

Lambda calculus specifically has been used this way by multiple different generations of nerd-poseurs! Remember that early LISPers at Stanford started the "Knights of Lambda Calculus" secret society & then it turned out that most of them thought LISP and lambda calculus were the same thing.

(It's probably because of the influence of this group that the current crowd has attached itself)

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
catileptic@chaos.social ("Alex Ștefănescu") wrote:

Whether the genAI bubble with burst or fizzle, we are be left with precarious folx, deprofessionalized workers and data centers that gobble up unreasonable amounts of energy and natural resources.

Instead of waxing philosophical and quoting Wittgenstein, debating whether LLMs "understand" the shitposts they generate, we must address these burning issues.

Ameliorate the precariat. Practice social solidarity. Refuse & oppose the data centers.

https://www.structural-integrity.eu/crashing-hard-why-talking-about-bubbles-obscures-the-real-social-cost-of-overinvesting-into-artificial-intelligence/

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
EndIsraeliApartheid ("End Israeli Apartheid") wrote:

Jodie Ginsberg, head of the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), says today’s letter calling on Israel to ensure Palestinian journalists in Gaza are protected and allow foreign reporters into the Strip marks a “turning point”.

“It’s extremely welcome that nearly 30 governments have signed onto this statement,” Ginsberg told Al Jazeera.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLpLoP%5FnCbA

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
EndIsraeliApartheid ("End Israeli Apartheid") wrote:

Children in Gaza are begging their parents for food that no longer exists. Many haven’t eaten bread in weeks.

A new Amnesty International report accuses Israel of deliberately using starvation as a weapon of war - a claim Israel denies, even as doctors on the ground describe malnourished children, mothers unable to breastfeed, and babies dying within days of birth.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpqPguDl4mc

🕎 🇵🇸 ☮️
#Gaza #Palestine
#Press #News

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
dromografos@social.dromografos.report ("Δρομογράφος") wrote:

Scientists call for action to address air pollution from space launches

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/22/scientists-call-for-action-air-pollution-space-launches

“More pollutants are being released into the atmosphere from rockets and satellites than ever before. We’re in uncharted territory, as humans have never added this much pollution to the upper layers of the atmosphere. If left unregulated, it may have serious impacts on Earth’s atmosphere.”

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
kibcol1049@mstdn.social ("Col") wrote:

Protesters at the next mass demonstration against the ban on Palestine Action will withhold their details from officers to force en-masse processing at police stations in an effort to make it “practically impossible” to arrest everyone.

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Zionism is, and always has been, a genocidal, settler colonial project.

It is the justification for and the ideology behind the literal genocide that is being committed by Israel right now, at this very moment, against the Palestinian people. A genocide that is being live streamed in posts here and elsewhere by its victims.

To equate all Jews with Zionism, as Zionists do – in other words, to state that all Jews are genocidal settler-colonialists – is antisemitic.

(Equally, it is antisemitic to portray opposition to Zionism and genocide as antisemitic.)

TL; DR: Zionists are antisemites.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
Aseelsehwel@mas.to ("Aseelsehwel🇵🇸") wrote:

About the feeling of awaiting execution… I speak to you about this feeling that dwells in the heart of every Gazan!
The displacement of Gaza this time means losing it forever, means erasing it from the face of the earth, means that what awaits its people will be the harshest: extermination, displacement, slaughter, and arrest.
Be our voice, do something to stop them!
@palestine #StopGenocide #gaza #gazaunderattack

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
NouranKhaledGh ("Nouran 🍉") wrote:

We sleep and wake up every day to the sound of bombing.

The bombing sounds come closer and closer each day.

I'm still alive but I feel scared all the time.

It seems like the end is very near.

#gaza #palestine

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Avoid the US like the plague. https://freefree.ps/@faab64/115068447096730360

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
cathywilcox@theblower.au ("TheCathyWilcox") wrote:

Killing journalists.

My @smh cartoon.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
shantini@techhub.social ("Shantini") wrote:

Hi! We are looking for people to help post fundraisers 1-2 times a day. The occupation forces are now destroying Gaza city and the families we help are facing displacement and great danger.

We provide all the text, links, and verification.

DM me or email shantini29 at gmail if you can help.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
shantini@techhub.social ("Shantini") wrote:

Basically no support today. We have 1000 to go by Saturday to keep these families in Gaza fed and housed

#mutualaid
#MutualAidRequest

https://chuffed.org/project/hope-giving-circle

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

Got reminded today of one kitchen rule: for sweet things, if the recipe is American — half the sugar.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@Tooden I think these brave troops may be the only thing holding the Canadian army back from hopping a train down here and invading.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

To be fair, since the deployment of National Guard troops this month, there have been ZERO foreign military invasions of the Shake Shack at Union Station.

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

I'm unsure if there's a term for this, but I've noticed that people who gain success from building things tend to anoint themselves as the architects of everyone's lives. God complex comes close but not quite it. I saw it in real estate and I see it in tech.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

So does this takeover/invasion mean that every robbery, assault, etc that occurs on the streets of DC can now be blamed on the failure of the Trump administration's law enforcement policies?

Just wondering.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

These are just a few selected highlights. We had a great (if exhausting) time putting on the Village this year, and we hope you find the program interesting and helpful, whether you joined us in person or online.

#VotingVillage

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Prof. Michael Specter on practical vulnerabilities in deployed mobile voting systems.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=%5FBgAW-uxXYA&list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF&index=18

#VotingVillage

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

A new, simple attack against the Dominion ICX ballot-marking device, with Drew Springall, Philip Davis, and Marilyn Marks

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYL8X2SQIpU&list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF&index=14

#VotingVillage

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Philip Stark, professor of statistics at UC Berkeley, talked about Risk-Limiting Audits, probably the most important advance in securing elections of this century.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CI07TS5kQkU&list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF&index=8

#VotingVillage

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Turing Award winner Ron Rivest (yes, the "R" in RSA) talked about "Software Independence" for evidence-based elections.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31joiscFlUw&list=PLltrHIXltfGLotq79TBgIK9QK4O29Z2FF&index=7&

#VotingVillage