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"Israel and America’s war with Iran is not just a strategic throw of the dice. It is a fundamental shift in how power operates in a multipolar world. Though a transition toward new models of collective security remains theoretically possible, as the foundations of US global hegemony wither under Donald Trump the current trajectory favours entropy over order. The danger is not merely in acts of war, it is also in the chaos they leave behind."

Chaos engulfs Iran. What can Britain and Europe do?
Whether it is a democracy or a dictatorship, a state that loses a long war usually faces a dangerous reckoning. For four decades the ideological foundations of the Islamic Republic of Iran were anchor

Protect your privacy – browsers and search engines
 
Surveillance has always been a core part of fascist regimes. This is still true today, but is even more dangerous due to new data aggregation and AI technologies. The Internet sites you visit and the things you search for become a part of the larger surveillance database of your activities. You can take action now to reduce the risk to yourself, your friends and your loved ones while you browse the Internet. You should start now …

I think the new light bars on the front of Tesla and other new cars are silly (and perhaps even dangerous - I find that they diminish my ability to estimate distance to the vehicle at night.)
In any case, I wonder whether there is, or soon will be, modification kits to replicate Gort's visor's light bar, as seen in the clip below...

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/19/wildfire-smoke-far-more-dangerous-than-thought-say-scientists
The USA continuing to massively subsidize climate change acceleration via favors to coal and oil and …

Similarly, hostility to education cloaks itself as support by saying that education should be useful, should be practical, should be focused only on what students need, should be narrowed to what students need, should narrow students, should narrow students into being only what capitalism needs.
I wrote extensively about this dangerous line of thought here:
https://innig.net/teaching/liberal-arts-manifesto
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Invitation Is All You Need! Promptware Attacks Against LLM-Powered Assistants in Production Are Practical and Dangerous
Ben Nassi, Stav Cohen, Or Yair
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.12175

Invitation Is All You Need! Promptware Attacks Against LLM-Powered Assistants in Production Are Practical and Dangerous
The growing integration of LLMs into applications has introduced new security risks, notably known as Promptware - maliciously engineered prompts designed to manipulate LLMs to compromise the CIA triad of these applications. While prior research warned about a potential shift in the threat landscape for LLM-powered applications, the risk posed by Promptware is frequently perceived as low. In this paper, we investigate the risk Promptware poses to users of Gemini-powered assistants (web applicat…

A novel framework for disinfection analisys in drinking water networks
Daniele Laucelli, Lucia Vergine, Giuseppina Messa, Orazio Giustolisi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.14985 http…

A novel framework for disinfection analisys in drinking water networks
Disinfection in drinking water networks is performed to ensure water safety and potability. However, disinfectants can react with organic compounds present in the water networks. The reaction of disinfectants with such compounds generates byproducts that could be dangerous for human health. The compounds are generally endogenous, i.e., adhered or/and released by the pipe wall, and not introduced from reservoirs because water utilities efficiently monitor and manage their water quality. The pres…

The Guardian partners with Cambridge University to launch Secure Messaging in its app, protecting sources by making messages indistinguishable from other data (Katharine Viner/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/20…

Yet more dangerous advice from AI to a 13 year-old.
"Sexting With Gemini
Why did Google’s supposedly teen-friendly chatbot say it wanted to tie me up?"

Sexting With Gemini
Why did Google’s supposedly teen-friendly chatbot say it wanted to tie me up?

The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems
and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting
language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best
dangerous.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup in "The C Programming Language"

Musk playing entrepreneur with government subsidies....
"Meanwhile, accounts for the first quarter of this year show Tesla earned $595m from regulatory credits - almost 50% more than its net earnings of $409m - suggesting that without the subsidy Tesla would be operating in the red."

Revealed: The huge financial impact of Elon Musk's row with Donald Trump

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Surprise Chef:
🎵 Dangerous
#SurpriseChef
https://surprisechef.bandcamp.com/track/dangerous
https://open.spotify.com/track/0bo6RSCO8bQhucGe3BR848

PSA: 🥵 Idk who needs to hear this, but in a heatwave for the love of science use air conditioning. If you don’t have air conditioning, get a portable unit as soon as possible.
The climate is going to get hotter and heat can very easily kill you or a loved one or a pet; or cause permanent disability.
Heat is a lot more dangerous than cold temperatures; even if you’re “young and healthy”.
The climate is already fucked and has long reached a tipping point as far as humans go—our only bet is large-scale CO2 extraction.
Sacrificing your health “to save energy*” for an imaginary fight that we have already lost is stupid. It’s also one of those “individual responsibility” mindfucks—the culprits for pollution are industry maximizing profits and governments that are not acting.
Anyway, stay cool.
*note that AC uses overall a lot less energy than heating does

Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy, who has vehemently described the New York City subway as a hellscape, has been named to oversee NASA — putting him in charge of rocket ships that are far more dangerous than public transit.
After Donald Trump pulled the nomination of tech entrepreneur Jared Isaacman for the post, the president announced Duffy would be the interim NASA administrator.
Trump made the announcement on Truth Social, praising the former Real World cast member: “Sean i…

Man Afraid to Ride Subway Named Head of NASA
Trump has tapped Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as NASA administrator.

The Safety Gap Toolkit: Evaluating Hidden Dangers of Open-Source Models
Ann-Kathrin Dombrowski, Dillon Bowen, Adam Gleave, Chris Cundy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11544

The Safety Gap Toolkit: Evaluating Hidden Dangers of Open-Source Models
Open-weight large language models (LLMs) unlock huge benefits in innovation, personalization, privacy, and democratization. However, their core advantage - modifiability - opens the door to systemic risks: bad actors can trivially subvert current safeguards, turning beneficial models into tools for harm. This leads to a 'safety gap': the difference in dangerous capabilities between a model with intact safeguards and one that has been stripped of those safeguards. We open-source a toolkit to est…

"Zero-Click Prompt Injection":
https://calypsoai.com/insights/prompt-injection-attacks-what-you-need-to-know/
So instead of trying to trick an employee via phishing

We are truly living in a very dangerous idiocracy with insane, criminal, psychopathic assholes destroying our country.
#idiocracy #USPolitics
https://www.thenation.com/article/world/trump-evangelicals-christian-nationalists-iran-israel-end-times/

There's always a problem of referring to someone who should not be named.
Perhaps iconography might help, such as "🟠💩for 🧠s".
As in "Those who show up at immigration courts are not the dangerous thugs 🟠💩for 🧠s said were the targets"

If you always have all your digital stuff set to English you may not be aware of how often those of us who use multi-lingual interfaces come across bad auto-translation that force us to do a double-take. (worst case they can of course be very dangerous).

This is from an email log in Gmail today.

The label "Delstat" is presumable from "State" in English, meaning what condition/status the email is in.

But delstat in Swedish essentially refers to U.S.…

@… I have tried to avoid more coffee content (because it’s dangerous), but I’ll take your recommendation to check out Eckroth. 😄

Finished “Lloyd McNeil’s Last Ride” by Will Leitch.
Lloyd McNeil is a cop who has just been diagnosed with a terminal illness and weeks to live. Realizing his paltry assets and limited life insurance won’t help his son much, he learns that being killed on duty absolutely will. A plan is hatched. But charging into dangerous situations keeps making him a hero instead.
Enjoyable. Leitch always writes great characters.
4/5 stars ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️

Lloyd McNeil's Last Ride: A Novel
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE "Lloyd McNeil's Last…

Sorry for posting so many YouTube videos but this is great and geeky: a video essay about "Akira elevators", those platforms that travel horizontally and vertically at the same time. I remember the Half-Life example and the original from Akira. They are an awesome design but a bit like mechas they are futuristic tools that feel incredibly dangerous to build as a means to transport humans.

You know what truly annoys me?
Well, a lot of things, but here I'm thinking of people who enjoy killing little creatures.
And I'm not talking about killing some animal because it's actually dangerous, or is causing some real harm, or even because it stings painfully or is annoying like a fly. I'm talking about people who laugh when they kill a spider or a "bug" (which usually means some harmless beetle), because it dared show in their homestead.
Not to mention all the people who would prefer that all the harmless Polish snakes (and slow worms, because if it has no legs, then it's obviously a "snake") or they'll "bite the children".

Semantic-guided Masked Mutual Learning for Multi-modal Brain Tumor Segmentation with Arbitrary Missing Modalities
Guoyan Liang, Qin Zhou, Jingyuan Chen, Bingcang Huang, Kai Chen, Lin Gu, Zhe Wang, Sai Wu, Chang Yao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07592

Semantic-guided Masked Mutual Learning for Multi-modal Brain Tumor Segmentation with Arbitrary Missing Modalities
Malignant brain tumors have become an aggressive and dangerous disease that leads to death worldwide.Multi-modal MRI data is crucial for accurate brain tumor segmentation, but missing modalities common in clinical practice can severely degrade the segmentation performance. While incomplete multi-modal learning methods attempt to address this, learning robust and discriminative features from arbitrary missing modalities remains challenging. To address this challenge, we propose a novel Semantic-…

I imagined that when autocracy came to other countries that institutions,
especially press institutions,
fought back until it became really dangerous to do so.
Here in many instances it has seemed more like Trump was pushing on an open door
–like they were all eager to sell their souls to the Devil.
-- David Menschel

Primary 'em all. I don't know what Meng's expecting from her constituents, but I'll be damned if she things she can rely on MY vote.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:rbzy3issuaqfwgorq22z67aw/post/3lseqak6vck2c

The Ultimate Test of Superintelligent AI Agents: Can an AI Balance Care and Control in Asymmetric Relationships?
Djallel Bouneffouf, Matthew Riemer, Kush Varshney
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01813

The Ultimate Test of Superintelligent AI Agents: Can an AI Balance Care and Control in Asymmetric Relationships?
This paper introduces the Shepherd Test, a new conceptual test for assessing the moral and relational dimensions of superintelligent artificial agents. The test is inspired by human interactions with animals, where ethical considerations about care, manipulation, and consumption arise in contexts of asymmetric power and self-preservation. We argue that AI crosses an important, and potentially dangerous, threshold of intelligence when it exhibits the ability to manipulate, nurture, and instrumen…

Cybersecurity AI: The Dangerous Gap Between Automation and Autonomy
V\'ictor Mayoral-Vilches
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23592 https://

Cybersecurity AI: The Dangerous Gap Between Automation and Autonomy
The cybersecurity industry combines "automated" and "autonomous" AI, creating dangerous misconceptions about system capabilities. Recent milestones like XBOW topping HackerOne's leaderboard showcase impressive progress, yet these systems remain fundamentally semi-autonomous--requiring human oversight. Drawing from robotics principles, where the distinction between automation and autonomy is well-established, I take inspiration from prior work and establish a 6-level taxonomy (Level 0-5) disting…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Billy Bragg:
🎵 Love Gets Dangerous (BBC Session, 27 Jul 1983)
#BillyBragg
https://billybragg.bandcamp.com/track/love-gets-dangerous
https://open.spotify.com/track/5kSbTzBPORUeslNJDeVYlz
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🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Eden Burns & Christopher Tubbs:
🎵 Drums Are Dangerous
#EdenBurns #ChristopherTubbs
https://open.spotify.com/track/0vrPu8kJZqLXA7azusIDmn