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The Great Audio Laundering: How AI Scammers are Highjacking the ACX Premium Market and Defrauding the Human Soul
The digital landscape of 2026 was supposed to be a golden age for the independent author, a time when the friction between a creative vision and a global audience finally dissolved into a seamless stream of data. We were promised a world where high-quality production was accessible to anyone with a story to tell and the capital to invest in professional…

The Great Audio Laundering: How AI Scammers are Highjacking the ACX Premium Market and Defrauding the Human Soul | David Boles, Blogs
The digital landscape of 2026 was supposed to be a golden age for the independent author, a time when the friction between a creative vision and a global audience finally dissolved into a seamless …

I guess the plans for Sunday swimming are off the table at the current temperatures. #Uckermark #coldswim

Reconstruction of the cold-blooded execution of Alex Pretti by ICE in Minneapolis:
"..while Mr. Pretti is on his knees and restrained, the agent standing directly above him appears to fire one shot at Mr. Pretti at close range. He immediately fires three additional shots."
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#ReleaseThursday #OpenSourceXmas A little present (to some of you)... Been meaning to release these recent additions before the holidays, but only getting around to it now. The most important new things are these:

Mumbai-based digital payments processor BillDesk agrees to acquire the Indian business of Worldline for an equity value of ~$70M, set to close in H2 2026 (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Billdesk to acquire Worldline’s India operations; deal values business at $70 million
Billdesk is set to acquire the India payments business of French payment giant Worldline for an estimated equity value of $70 million. In a press release Worldline said that it will be entering into a long-term technology and software pact with Billdesk, through which Worldline’s software stack will continue to remain operational in India. At an enterprise level the value of the deal was pegged at $43.6 million.

Tying up loose ends on the STM32MP2 PCIe board.
It's fully routed and I'm trying to fine tune the layer 3 power (and some ground) plane to provide good return current paths for the FPGA transceivers.
Left to right the pairs are two refclks (one from an LVDS oscillator and one from the SoC), SFP RX, and PCIe RX.
The actually-fast signals (PCIe and SFP) are fully ground referenced their entire length and have return path vias between L2 and L3 when they jump up to L1…

Every non-hype defense of #LLMs starts with "you must already understand your work really well." But the people vibe coding prototypes *don't*.
As a result they scale up thoughtlessness. "Bulking out" a slapdash idea with hallucinated details only displaces the real thinking that could have led to actual innovation. The very teams the tool was supposed to help instead…

Vibe prototyping isn't solving problems. It's creating new ones.
It's easy to prototype and so everyone is prototyping, without really knowing why they are doing it. The resultant noise drowns out thoughtful work.

What will people do when AI can handle most current white-collar tasks?
I don't know.
And that's the whole point.
Nobody knew what displaced agricultural workers would do, either,
-- until they did it.
The absence of a visible next chapter isn't evidence that there won't be one.
It's evidence that we're bad at predicting what humans will invent when constraints shift.

Everything is awesome (why I'm an optimist)
February is the month the internet decided we're all going to die. In the span of about two weeks, Matt Shumer's Something Big is Happening racked up over 80 million views on X with its breathless comparison of AI to the early days of COVID, telling his non-tech friends and

by accident i stumbled on this review by the #NSA on Bruce Schneiers "Applied Crypto" book from long ago.

Court records: the FBI subpoenaed X for details about Grok prompts a man allegedly used to create 200 sexual deepfakes of a woman he knew in real life (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/fbi-subpoenaed-x-to-get-grok-prompts-used-…

FBI Subpoenaed X to Get Grok Prompts Used to Create Nonconsensual Porn
The FBI obtained prompts used to make more than 200 sexual videos of a woman in a harassment case.