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Q&A with Karen Attiah about getting fired from WaPo over her social media posts after Charlie Kirk's killing, her willingness to go back to WaPo, and more (Riddhi Setty/Columbia Journalism Review)
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Karen Attiah is ready to go back to the Washington Post.
“If there’s anybody that should feel awkward, it’s going to be the people involved in making this decision,” she says. If the situation doesn’t work out, she may become a martial-arts influencer or a “warrior priestess of some kind for the digital age.” 

RE: #ai #programming

There is more to #SolarPunk than solar panels and bikes. What we are talking about is being part of a living world. The hegemonic culture is one of hierarchical domination.
But many of the the cultures that hegemony suppresses bring a vibrancy to life. I don't buy yeast from the store, sealed in a plastic packet, a coffin for a living thing. I feed my sourdough. I am obligated to it, in a relationship with it, as the culture is reliant on me for it's survival. It speaks to me, with smell and color. I must pay attention. I have to learn it's nature, how it grows and eats at different temperatures informed by different times of the year. Mushrooms, yeast, kiefer, plants, independent things, things I can't control, life that is intertwined with my own.
But even my #bicycle speaks to me, which is something I hadn't considered until reading this and thinking about that framing.
It is not simply that "we need a different economic system." What we are talking about is a fundamentally different interpretation and experience of the world, from the hierarchical structure of death to a web of life, where even "inanimate" things become imbued with agency.
https://substack.com/app-link/post?publication_id=2936873&post_id=151655646

Angenommen ich kenne eine Seite mit folgenden Eigenschaften:
- tausende Nutzer:innen angemeldet, oft sehr (!) sensible Daten hinterlegt.
- Server mit längst veraltetem PHP
- Admin hat keinen Bock mehr.
Risiko eines Einbruchs ist aus meiner Sicht sehr hoch. Das würde mutmaßlich auch Bekannte von mir treffen.
Was kann man da machen? Ist das möglicherweise auc rechtlich relevante Fahrlässigkeit?

There could be different signs that projects are becoming #slopware. Some are more obvious, like having agent instructions that are more detailed than anything they ever wrote to humans. Some are less clear but perhaps even more ominous, like largely mature projects suddenly starting to churn out two releases a day, often with regressions that I don't even care to report anymore.
I used to think that my work as a #Gentoo packager was important. Now I feel that a large part of it resembles sitting at the end of a sewage pipe and trying to scrape something meaningful out of it all.
#NoAI

good morning!
did some early-morning ponding on the #pandemicPond this morning.
The water level was unusually low, so I started looking around for leaks or blocks. I have been wanting to cut down the vertical PVC at the top of the bog barrels to make it not stick out so much and blend in a little nicer and also because it would reduce the height for the pump, so increase flow.
Well it turns out that connection, where the black pipe goes into the white PVC in the barrel, was a little loose and some water was leaking out and adding to the evaporation budget.
So that gave me the push to do the small modifications on the top end of the pipe. It was also a good time since turning off the pump meant the top pond would drain into the bottom pond. When the system is full, that would normally cause the bottom pond to over flow, but since it was all low, no extra water was lost.
I cut the inlet down a few inches under the water in the bog barrel to move the T down and then cut another 6in from the top pipe to snug it all up.
Then I also tightened up the connections for the over flow/air valve and added an elbow to keep water from escaping out the valve outlet. Only took about 5 minutes. I have been wanting to do this for months. 😂
Result:
black pipe doesn't curl as high over the barrel ✅
no more leak from the PVC connection ✅
no more water escaping from the air valve ✅
noticeably more flow over the waterfall! ✅
Pump is back on and water is replenished from the rain barrel ✅
the fish are happy! 🐟 and me too. ✅
oh oh! did I tell you we have a new fish! The top pond fish had babies and it looks like one has survived to be big enough not to be cannibalized. 😂 It is very skittish and is still mostly black so I havent got a good picture of it yet.
#pondlife #diy #gardening #portalberni

Cybersecurity is a never-ending saga, so check out today's Metacurity to stay abreast of the latest twists and turns, including
--Nvidia launches AI safety coalition as open-weight debate intensifies,
--MSFT launches AI cyber defense platform,
--Hugging Face rife with deepfake abuse,
--Cyberattack hits Minnesota water systems,
--Claude chats indexed by Google,
--Bank of Baroda probes leak,
--ShinyHunters claims EY breach,
--Apple sued over fake wallet app,
--Hack steals 293.7m SUPRA tokens,
--GitHub and PyPI add new safeguards against supply-chain attacks,
--Malware incident disrupts South Carolina health system,
--Origin Energy says breach may affect 900,000 customers,
--Denmark plans emergency backup bank for catastrophic cyberattacks,
--Vatican prayer app exposed hundreds of thousands of user records,
--Apple patches 87 CVEs in iOS 26.6,
--AI is driving an explosion in software vulnerabilities,
--Cisco: Phishing and MFA bypass dominate incident response cases,
--Ariana Grande sues to identify hackers behind leaked music,
--Way Security raises $20 million for identity security platform,
--Cyera acquires Oasis Security for $1 billion to bolster AI identity protection,
--Tennessee puts Meta on trial over child safety claims,
--Binance accused of making fraud investigations more difficult,
--UNAIDS warns cyber threats are undermining HIV prevention and care
https://www.metacurity.com/nvidia-launches-ai-safety-coalition-as-open-weight-debate-intensifies/