Tootfinder

Source: the perpetrators of a wiper attack on Stryker appear to have used Microsoft Intune to issue a "remote wipe" command against all connected devices (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/iran-bac…

My dishwasher informed me that it wants a software update
I think this is a trick

Beste Frage:
Wenn wir die Rechenzentren schon nicht verhindern können: Sind die für irgendwas nützlich nach der Revolution?
#LinkeUndTechnik
#CablesOfResistance

Belgian Prime Minister Bart De Wever, with longstanding ties to Russian officials, is blocking use of frozen Russian central bank assets worth over €185 billion held in Belgium, effectively protecting Kremlin interests and limiting aid to Ukraine.: https://benborges.xyz/2026/04/12/belgi

Endpoint-Management: „Operativ hilft es nicht, in Alarmismus zu verfallen“
Jürgen Sitzler ist seit 25 Jahren beim Sägenkonzern Stihl in der IT tätig. Im Interview mit heise online berichtet er aus dem Alltag eines Plattformmanagers.

RE: https://sfba.social/@drahardja/116394275247729227
All this. And note that Hungarians didn’t •just• vote; they organized the heck of themselves, they built coalition on top of coalition, they fought and finagled their way around state control, and •then• they voted.
The election wasn’t the •cause• of Orbšn’s defeat; it was the •tool•.

@… Who are you and why are you wasting our time by signing up for a Gaza Verification call?
CC @…

Asia markets open lower as oil surges after U.S. moves to blockade Iran ports
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/13/asia-pacific-market-us-iran-talks-blockade-oil-prices.html

Progress-based https://spacetimetech.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/progress-based

Progress-based
My happiness and moods are often progress-based. And by this, I mean that when I complete tasks, my brain rewards me with a sense of accomplishment (I have to assume it’s dopamine or whatever…

Half of seabirds are declining. Protecting marine flyways could help save them https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/half-of-seabirds-are-declining-protecting-marine-flyways-could-help-save-them/

Half of seabirds are declining. Protecting marine flyways could help save them
  Animals that cross borders often encounter conservation systems that stop at them. Migratory species move through jurisdictions with little regard for political boundaries, relying on habitats spread across large distances and governed by different rules. The result is patchy protection, overlapping threats, and declining populations. Seabirds make this problem clear. They range across entire […]

Just tried to translate “Whatchu talkin’ bout, Willis” into French in my head but lost count of all the “q”s. #ShowerThoughts

Running with the herd

Just Seeds
#bookmarks

On a recent trip to Italy, my @… app provedt to be far superior to the Google maps app, especially in ancient medieval cities like Venice where the streets are narrow and mobile reception patchy.
https://functional.cafe/@arianvp/116295171993320229
arianvp@functional.cafe - Google Maps also stopped showing connections that involve walks longer than 500 meters.   It'll just be like "no its impossible to reach the other end of Berlin in half an hour by public transport. You need to change 6 times". Because it refuses to let me cross a bridge to another busstation because US brained people dont believe in legs.

A un an de la présidentielle, un profond désir de changement chez les Français s’exprime dans une nouvelle enquête électorale
https://www.lemonde.fr/politique/article/2026/04/12/a-un-an-de-l…

A un an de la présidentielle, un profond désir de changement chez les Français s’exprime dans une nouvelle enquête électorale
A l’issue des municipales, le paysage politique est marqué par la perception favorable du RN et des préférences très polarisées des Français, révèle l’étude menée par Ipsos BVA-CESI Ecole d’ingénieurs pour « Le Monde », le Cevipof et la Fondation Jean Jaurès, publiée dimanche.

I have a particular fondness for Hungary because I spent a formative time studying there. It was just after The Wall came down. I had so many encounters that conveyed a sense of hope for a bright future. I imagine the squares of Budapest feel like that again right now. ↵

"Lots and lots of things scare me but you just get on with it. Fright can transform into petrol, you just have to use it to your advantage."
—Judi Dench
#acting #coaching #inspiration

Democratically elected corrupt and authoritarian leaders screw up the national interests they promised to serve, because they don't care about those.
Depending on their success of convincing the population of the External Enemy, most people sooner or later find out they've been fooled.

Hungary election results live: Orbšn concedes to Magyar's Tisza after projections show opposition winning two-thirds majority (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/hungary-election-2026-live-viktor-orbans-fidesz-faces-challenge-opposition-peter-2026-04-12/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260412/p52#a260412p52

"By parsing the GNSS logs, we reconstructed the full life of the vehicle from its production in a factory in China, through its operational life in the United Kingdom, to its final dismantling in Poland. Every movement and stop along the way is captured in the logs, giving a complete picture of the vehicle's journey."

From where I was sitting Wednesday, it looked like
the attorney general pretty much dared the House Democrats to impeach her.
Here’s how the New York Daily News put it, summarizing the AP’s coverage of her testimony before the House Judiciary Committee:
"Attorney General Pam Bondi launched into a passionate defense of President Donald Trump Wednesday
as she tried to turn the page from relentless criticism of the Justice Department’s handling of the Jeffrey Epste…

Pam Bondi is daring the Democrats to impeach her
The reasons for her contempt are secondary to the contempt itself.

"Solar reactor uses old battery acid to turn plastic waste into clean hydrogen"
#Hydrogen #SolarPower #Energy

Solar reactor uses old battery acid to turn plastic waste into clean hydrogen
Researchers have developed a solar-powered reactor to break down hard-to-recycle forms of plastic waste—such as drink bottles, nylon textiles and polyurethane foams—using acid recovered from old car batteries, and converting it into clean hydrogen fuel and valuable industrial chemicals. The results are reported in the journal Joule.

«Online-Sicherheitschecks: Schutz oder Risiko?
„Ist mein PC sicher?“ – eine Frage, die Millionen Menschen dazu bringt, Online-Tools zu nutzen, die genau das versprechen: einen schnellen Sicherheitscheck für Laptop, Smartphone oder Browser. Ein Klick, ein Scan, eine beruhigende Meldung – oder ein alarmierender Warnhinweis. […]»
Ich hatte auch daran geglaubt, als ich ano dazumal noch Windows nutzte.
✋

Online-Sicherheitschecks: Schutz oder Risiko?
„Ist mein PC sicher?“ – eine Frage, die Millionen Menschen dazu bringt, Online-Tools zu nutzen, die genau das versprechen: einen schnellen Sicherheitscheck

"Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon"
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/12/how-israeli-offensive-destroyed-entire-villages-in-lebanon

‘Everything is gone’: Israel destroys entire villages in Lebanon
Rights groups fear tactic of ‘domicide’ trialled in Gaza, where entire areas are made uninhabitable, is being used again

#Code reviews seem to be the biggest bottleneck in software development right now.
Open source package ecosystems are victims of their own success. There's a long tail of iffy packages that nobody has reviewed, and nobody wants to.
For the top projects, maintenance is tough. Stakes are high. Reviews are hard. Contributions are meh quality (even before LLMs). It's not just code, …

おはようございます :ablobcat_kurukuru:

Developers on AI coding: many show enthusiasm and now feel more like architects than construction workers, some think software jobs might actually grow, more (Clive Thompson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…

Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It
In the era of A.I. agents, many Silicon Valley programmers are now barely programming. Instead, what they’re doing is deeply, deeply weird.

„Der 2013 verstorbene Entwickler und Hacktivist Aaron Swartz soll befreundete Personen kurz vor seinem Tod eindringlich vor dem heutigen OpenAI-Chef gewarnt haben.
Swartz habe ihn laut den Recherchen explizit als „Soziopathen“ bezeichnet, dem man niemals trauen dürfe und der alles tun würde, um seine Ziele zu erreichen.“
Reportage erschüttert OpenAI: Schwere Vorwürfe gegen Sam Altman

Christopher Walken’s character in A View to a Kill (1985) demands $100 million from each microchip manufacturer industrialist
Coincidence??

Verschmähtes Paramount verklagt Warner Bros Discovery
Warner Bros Discovery will Warner Bros an Netflix verkaufen. Paramount will den gesamten WBD-Konzern haben. Nun geht es zu Gericht.
https://www.

Russian ballistic missiles rock Kyiv, target energy infrastructure across Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/13/russian-ballistic-missiles-rock-kyiv.html

RE: https://flipboard.social/@newsguyusa/116391881326692769
The United States has closed the Strait of Hormuz.
“THEY SAID TO ME, SIR, IT IS THE BEST CLOSING OF THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ EVER.”
Truly an Idiot Empire.

Water conservation works, but climate change is outpacing it: Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas show the future https://phys.org/news/2026-04-climate-outpacing-phoenix-denver-las.html

Water conservation works, but climate change is outpacing it: Phoenix, Denver and Las Vegas show the future
When a drought turns into an urban water crisis, a city's first step is often to limit lawn watering and launch a campaign to encourage everyone to conserve. It might raise water-use rates or offer incentives for installing low-flow devices.

Trump blasts Pope Leo for criticism of U.S. foreign policy
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/12/trump-pope-leo-catholic-church-iran.html

Thomas Piketty : « Comme en 1789 et en 1945, les gouvernants n’auront d’autre choix que de se tourner vers les plus fortunés » pour réduire la dette
https://www.lemonde.fr/idees/article/2026/04/11/thomas-piketty-1789-194…

Thomas Piketty : « Comme en 1789 et en 1945, les gouvernants n’auront d’autre choix que de se tourner vers les plus fortunés » pour réduire la dette
Pour faire face à la question de l’endettement, la France est riche et ses fondamentaux économiques restent solides. En revanche, les gouvernants devraient lutter contre le « conservatisme politique ambiant » et le comportement des plus fortunés, estime, dans sa chronique au « Monde », l’économiste Thomas Piketty.

"24 creatures get their first names and a shot at being protected"
#Animals #Conservation

24 creatures get their first names and a shot at being protected | The Optimist Daily
In Poland, 16 scientists gave 24 deep-sea creatures their first formal identities. Until now, none of them could legally be discussed, conserved, or protected.

The S&P 500 fell 1.5 percent on Thursday, as concerns grew about oil prices rising amid the prolonged conflict in the Middle East.
The Stoxx 600, a Pan-European index, fell 0.6 percent.
Stocks in Asia, where countries import vast quantities of oil and gas, slumped broadly on Thursday. Major benchmark indexes in Japan closed just over 1 percent lower, while Taiwan fell about 1.5 percent. The Hang Seng Index in Hong Kong fell a little less than 1 percent.

S&P 500 Slumps in Worst Day Since War Began
The stock index fell 1.5 percent on Thursday, as concerns continued to grow about oil prices rising amid the war in the Middle East.

I've updated (mostly culled) my list of Milwaukee Mastodon users.
This list used to be over 80 people, but the vast majority only posted in 2022/2023. A few straggled into 2024. I removed anyone who hasn't posted more than once in 2025.
It kind of sucks, but meh... it is what it is.
Also, I should try to find more people. And, move this off of GitHub at some point.

GitHub - raster/Mastodon-Milwaukee: A list of Milwaukee Mastodon users
A list of Milwaukee Mastodon users. Contribute to raster/Mastodon-Milwaukee development by creating an account on GitHub.

Gosh, the replies to this one...
🤣😂🤣
The Fediverse is awesome...
https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/116387503607084903
Ruth_Mottram - I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).
Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"
Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."

I guess I •will• gesture in a specific direction, however:
Item 2 (“it’s toxic by design, for profit”) points in the direction of some very different answers than the ones currently making their way through legislatures, regulatory bodies, school, and parenting circles.

The European Commission says "X has submitted remedies in relation to its blue check mark" in the EU and the commission will "assess" the proposed remedies (Gian Volpicelli/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Musk’s X to Alter Verification System in Europe, Commission Says
Elon Musk’s X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, has agreed to change its verification mechanism in the European Union following a fine of €120 million ($138 million).

Noch ein Streaming-Dienst: HBO Max startet in Deutschland
HBO Max kann jetzt in Deutschland gebucht werden. Wer „Harry Potter“ und „Game of Thrones“ in 4K sehen möchte, muss 17 Euro im Monat zahlen.
https://www.

Sehr beeindruckt, wie viele junge und ältere Aktivist*innen aus vielen Ländern bei #CablesOfResistance sind, noch bis morgen in Berlin.
Und wie viel Kompetenz hier ist zu den vielen Themen und Protesten rund um Big Tech, KI, Rechenzentren und noch viel mehr.
Ich habe den Eindruck, dies ist der Start von etwas.
Programm und Stream:

“AA: There is also a way to argue, on the flipside, that the project of Israel is essentially a project of assimilation into the Western world order—that there’s nothing inherently Jewish about what Israel is doing, and that it actually represents assimilation into a colonial framework. But then, of course, there’s a way to read this that’s very direct: This is what Jews are doing in the world. Secular Jews, religious Jews, cultural Jews, all kinds of Jews.
EL: You’re absolutely right…

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/115883445350346364
I think the technology could be used responsibly for narrow use cases (e.g. writing code is a narrow use case), with the very important caveat that the training data needs to be properly licensed and authors properly compensated (unless they licensed stuff free for commercial use); as well as companies offering it being transparent and honest about what LLMs actually do.
Anyway, even if that’s the case (and that’s a big if and certainly not the case today) I have serious doubts concerning the long-term financial sustainability of companies like idk Anthropic.

Antarctic fur seals now endangered as climate change reduces krill for pups https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/04/antarctic-fur-seals-now-endangered-as-climate-change-reduces-krill-for-pups/

Antarctic fur seals now endangered as climate change reduces krill for pups
Antarctic fur seals are the smallest of the polar seals and live almost exclusively on the island of South Georgia. The latest assessment by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the global conservation authority, upgraded fur seal extinction threat from least concern to endangered. The last assessment was carried out in 2014. Recent research […]

Mamdani Plans to Open City-Owned Grocery Store in East Harlem - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/nyregion/mamdani-city-owned-grocery-store-la-marqueta.html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/116387488901330358
An entire continent is willing good things to happen for the Hungarian people.

And yet for all this, item 1 is still true.
I’m not arguing for some specific answer to that; I’m just arguing that whatever we do, we need to hold items 2-6 in mind while we do it.

Apple is lowering its commission for its mainland China App Store from 30% to 25%, starting on March 15, "following discussions with the Chinese regulator" (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116377687987470957
“But you can still read your existing books! And jailbreak it to upload more!”
Imagine having a car that the manufacturer one day just declares that you can’t put gas in anymore.
To get gas you’d have to cut a hole into your car so you can sneak some in bypassing the inlet. But you can’t go to real gas stations anymore so you have to get gas in a back alley from some random guy.

Das Konferenzgeräusch 'umkippende Glasflasche' wurde durch 'fallendes Smartphone' ersetzt.
#CablesOfResistance hat bei der praktischen Umsetzung noch einiges vor sich.

Texas Counties Receive Subpoenas for Voters’ Records From Department of Homeland Security | Portside
https://portside.org/2026-04-12/texas-counties-receive-subpoenas-voters-records-department-homeland-security

Emperor penguins are now endangered amid climate change and melting ice https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2026/04/emperor-penguins-are-now-endangered-amid-climate-change-and-melting-ice/

Emperor penguins are now endangered amid climate change and melting ice
Emperor penguins are native to Antarctica, where record low sea ice over the last decade has dramatically changed their habitat. Populations of the world’s largest penguin have fallen so much that they have now officially moved from near threatened to endangered in the latest assessment by the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, the global […]

I had Jehovah's Witnesses round this morning (not a very common occurrence round here).
Them: "Do you ever think about the future?"
Me: "I'm a climate scientist, I think it about the future all the time.."

6. Further damning items 3 and 4, centralizing technological control is dangerous; systems like those propped up by the current age verification mania are the infrastructure of an authoritarian panopticon regardless of their putative purpose.

Docs: Binance investigators found accounts, including those of VIP Chinese traders and a suspected Iranian gold smuggler, helped move $1B to Iran-linked groups (Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/03/12/binance-accounts-iranian-entities-sa…

Inside the Binance accounts internal investigators say helped transfer more than $1 billion to Iran-linked entities: A 79-year-old VIP Chinese trader and a suspected Iranian gold smuggler
Compliance experts expressed surprise that Binance did not immediately restrict the accounts, most of which have since been offboarded.

I'm actually believing this, the main reason "AI" hype has become this big is tech people being impressed by it "writing code".
Then they were wrongly extrapolating capabilities to other fields (because "programming is super hard, harder than any other vocation, therefore 'AI' can do anything!!!1!"). To them, it clearly appears be god because they see themselves as gods—because they can write quicksort and linked lists or something.
Meanwhile, LLMs are only passable at generating code because it is laughably easy, mainly because programming languages and "best practices" are extremely verbose, repetitive and clunky; requiring endless boilerplate and infinite layer cakes to achieve even the most trivial things.
Because other people that don't care about that shit are so dependent on technology, it gets pushed to everyone without consent.
Kind of like a hubris ouroboros.

RE: https://systemli.social/@anneroth/116390317614844837
60 Slides in 30 Minuten: Geht.

Eric Swalwell Suspends Campaign for California Governor After Sexual Assault Allegations - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/12/us/eric-swalwell-suspends-california-governor-campaign.html

Mennonites from Belize spark deforestation fears with new settlement plans in Suriname https://news.mongabay.com/2026/04/mennonites-from-belize-spark-deforestation-fears-with-new-settlement-plans-in-suriname/

Mennonites from Belize spark deforestation fears with new settlement plans in Suriname
SHIPYARD, Belize — Mennonite families in Belize are preparing to move to Suriname to establish massive farming communities in a heavily forested area, multiple sources told Mongabay, raising concerns that they may soon be cutting down trees to grow crops. The deal could cost millions of dollars and cover more land than the U.S. city […]

I feel like this should be better known, especially by consumers of wildlife products.
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01121-7

5. Online spaces, including social media, are especially important in connecting kids who feel isolated with others who are like them. This has long been especially true for kids who are any and every variety of queer, and especially especially for trans kids. These kids may have no avenues in their own lives to even •acknowledge• their identity, much less find •support• for it. Sometimes online community can save lives.
Awareness of this puts 3 and 4 in a harsh and unfavorable light. Eroding child privacy in favor of parent control is extremely dangerous.

Japan approves an additional $4B in subsidies to Rapidus to bankroll the chipmaker's work for Fujitsu, taking the total state investment and fees to $16.3B (Mari Kiyohara/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

"if you were in charge of star trek, what would you do"
Episodic series in the exact style of the original 1960s Star Trek with two types of episodes only; "look at my cool mid-century furniture" and "let's visit a Nazi planet and beat everyone up".

Ganz neu im Programm von #cablesofresistance:
@… Gürses (@…) um 11:30, zusammen mit Cristina Cochior (@…

If you draw lines from point to point across the 'coin', you get a pentagram, so there's that...
Hans, Are We The Baddies? – Digby's Hullabaloo
https://digbysblog.net/2026/04/12/hans-are-we-the-baddies/

Rare Earth: The Joy of Soil
Episode webpage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002tbtc
Media file: http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/6/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download-rss/proto/http/vpid/p0nbc6sw.mp3

4. Philosophy of child-rearing aside, cries of “We must protect the children from [large, nebulous social threat]!!!” almost always become Trojan Horses, even if they don’t start out that way. The track record of such movements is just •terrible•. My alarm bells go off at that even if I agree that the topic at hand is in fact a problem.

Sources: ByteDance is working with Aolani Cloud to deploy 500 Nvidia Blackwell systems in Malaysia, featuring ~36,000 B200 chips and likely costing over $2.5B (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/chinas-bytedance-

Für Frühaufsteher*innen:
Ich rede gleich um 10 Uhr bei #cablesofresistance über #DigitaleGewalt und die aktuelle Diskussion über #Deepfakes.

3 women file civil rights complaints against Labor Secretary Chavez-DeRemer - oregonlive.com
https://www.oregonlive.com/politics/2026/04/3-women-file-civil-rights-complaints-against-labor-secretary-chavez-deremer.html

3. Control is a key concept here. I don’t want corporations controlling kids, but I’m not keen on regulators doing that any more than absolutely necessary — or even parents! (And yes, I am a parent.) The goal of raising healthy kids should be for them to develop healthy autonomy.
True, we don’t let toddlers wander onto the freeway so they can learn for themselves why that’s bad — but if control has a place in caring for kids, it should be carefully circumscribed, and always pointed in the direction of autonomy. Beware authoritarian tendencies in the nurturing of children.

Telus Digital confirms a security incident after ShinyHunters claimed to have stolen ~1PB of data from the Canadian outsourcing giant in a multimonth breach (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu

Update Iran war live: US military says it will block Iranian traffic in Hormuz
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/liveblog/2026/4/13/iran-war-live-us-military-to-block-iranian-port-traffic-in-hormuz-strait?traffic_source=rss

2a. “Screen time” is a misleading concept. Talk to me about “billionaires manipulate your brain” time.

Chinese chipmaker GigaDevice rose 54% in its Hong Kong debut after raising ~$600M in its IPO, and reported H1 2025 profit of ~$84M, up 14% from H2 2024 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-12/gigadevice-s…

Inside Vance’s Iran negotiations: No deal, but ‘friendly’ talks - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/04/12/jd-vance-inside-iran-negotiations/

2. This danger / toxicity is not a necessary, intrinsic property of social media; it happened by •design•. Social interaction doesn’t suddenly become a new kind of psychologically toxic just because it happens on a screen. That happens when huge amounts of investment money pour into exploiting the human vulnerability of humans, weaponizing our own psychology to turn our social needs into a money pump, sucking us dry for profit. It’s a business model in the same category as casinos and diet pills.

Oil prices surge past $103 a barrel after US announces blockade of Iran | Oil and Gas News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/4/13/oil-prices-surge-past-103-a-barrel-after-us-announces-blockade-of-iran?traffic_source=rss

Welcome to today’s edition of “Paul asks you to hold the follow thoughts simultaneously, despite their being in tension.”
1. Social media in its popular form is socially toxic and psychologically dangerous — probably for everyone, certainly for children and adolescents. The evidence on this is compelling, and in my view is not just moral panic reified as research. It’s probably a bad idea for kids / teens to be using it. (And again…maybe all of us.)

RE: https://toad.social/@wdlindsy/116393378368996692
“despite”…or “in part because of”?

I visited Budapest in the spring of 2024. It is an •incredible• place, not just the awe-inducing history visible everywhere in built environment, but the present: the vibrant life, the artistry and skill everywhere, the rich and varied intersections of cultures, the spirit, the marvelous people I met through seemingly every door I entered.
Sending Hungarians love and strength from Minneapolis today. You are amazing. Your home and your society are worth fighting for.
/end

But it also looks like Hungary has hope. Any cracks in that kind of concentration of power are good news. Big news.
Difficult days and difficult years ahead, yes — but days with promise, days following on what’s shaping up to be an incredible victory.
Rebecca Solnit says “Hope is not happiness or confidence or inner peace; it’s a commitment to search for possibilities.” So: here’s hoping!
2/

It looks like Hungary has a long road ahead: Orbšn will almost certainly fight the results and try to throw things into chaos, his party’s tentacles still run wide and deep throughout Hungarian institutions, getting Putinism out of the dark corners of power there will be like ending a bedbug infestation, and Orbšn’s likely replacement…um, well, he doesn’t seem like the greatest guy on earth.
EDIT: My first prediction above was wrong! I hope my others are too.
1/

RE: https://mastodon.social/@benroyce/116389416128065655
This is very good.

(The underlying logic here is that LLMs embed biases, so you take advantage of that fact by prompting an LLM to take on a spectrum of different demographic biases that correspond to population demographics, then ask the LLM a polling question in the context of each of those demographically weighted biases.
So yeah, from my OP it might sound like they’re replacing polling with stabbing themselves in the face, but •actually• they’re juggling a bunch of knives and •then• stabbing themselves in the face.)

I mean that as a cynical jab, yes, but also an analysis: with rare exceptions, politicians don’t lead; people lead and politicians follow. That is both their actual job (in a democracy, anyway) and their practical survival reality.
People get so confused about this, waiting for politicians to come around or to take charge — when what we need to do in the long term is reshape social reality around them, and leave them scrambling to keep up with us.

One of the important differences between popes and politicians is that popes are leaders. https://freeradical.zone/@richards1052/116388754313071072

OK, I looked at it in slightly more detail, and yes, my OP is basically a correct summary of what they’re doing.
Statistical Jesus wept.

I don’t know, perhaps I read too hastily and am misrepresenting what these people did. But at this point the nonsense is so severe I can believe it without even doing a double take