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NFL suspends Justin Tucker for first 10 games of 2025 season for violation of personal conduct policy https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-suspends-free-agent-kicker-justin-tucker-for-first-10-games…

Judge rules DOGE can access personal data as unions claim invasion of privacy | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/judge-rules-doge-can-access-personal-data-as-unions-claim-invasion-of-privacy/

#privacy

How to Disappear: Secrets of the World’s Greatest Privacy Experts
Inside the world of extreme-privacy consultants, who, for the right fee, will make you and your personal information very hard to find

NFL suspends Justin Tucker: Ex-Ravens record-holder punished for violating league's personal conduct policy

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/ne…

Corporate Deal Making Made Easy: Just Give Donald Trump Personal Power To Approve All Strategic Decisions (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/06/25/corporate-deal-making-made-easy-just-give-donald-trump-personal-power-to-approve-all-strategic-decisions/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250626/p4#a250626p4

And it notes (para 32); “the diversity and severity of the risks associated with age assurance systems, especially when identity documents or special categories of personal data such as biometric data are processed”

from my link log —
I Got Plenty o’ Nuttin’: linear dependent types.
https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/conor.mcbride/PlentyO-CR.pdf
saved 2025-04-09

SpaceX is one of my personal inner conflicts.
I used to like seeing them doing cool shit, space is cool and we need more space.
But now the fact their CEO is an annoying nazi fuckwit has me cheering on successive Starship failures, praying it never works and becomes a personal embarrassment.

#Strukturdefizite bei #Staatsanwaltschaften und Behörden (z.B Personal, Equipment, etc.) erleichtern Steuerbetrug ungemein.
Anne Brorhilker führt das sehr anschaulich auf der #republica au…

Just found out a project I'd kind of forgotten about was actually published on #Spotify Pleasantly surprised with how it sounds!
Given how Spotify doesn't really vibe with my personal ethics I never use it... Probably adding to why I didn't know about this.

The US is finally building its National Database of Ruin.
https://theintercept.com/2025/05/22/intel-agencies-buying-data-portal-privacy/

U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data
The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.

Skill players headline my personal Dallas Cowboys All-Quarter Century team https://insidethestar.com/skill-players-headline-my-personal-dallas-cowboys-all-quarter-century-team

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

An explosive new whistleblower disclosure released Tuesday
alleges that, in his current position as a senior official in the Department of Justice (DOJ),
Emil Bove is willing to ignore federal law to give Trump what he wants.
https://popular.info/p/is-emil-bove-th

Is Emil Bove the most unethical judicial nominee in modern history?
President Trump nominated Emil Bove, his former personal attorney, to be a federal judge on the 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals — one of the most powerful judicial roles in the country.

"TikTok, Do Your Thing": User Reactions to Social Surveillance in the Public Sphere
Meira Gilbert, Miranda Wei, Lindah Kotut
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20884

"TikTok, Do Your Thing": User Reactions to Social Surveillance in the Public Sphere
'TikTok, Do Your Thing'' is a viral trend where users attempt to identify strangers they see in public via information crowd-sourcing. The trend started as early as 2021 and users typically engage with it for romantic purposes (similar to a ''Missed Connections'' personal advertisement). This practice includes acts of surveillance and identification in the public sphere, although by peers rather than governments or corporations. To understand users' reactions to this trend we conducted a quali�…

Some of these big retailer breaches have tended to surface in the Korean press first, now it's Papa John's.
https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2025-06-26/na…

Papa John's Korea confirms customer data breech exposing names, contact info, addresses
Pizza franchise Papa John's Korea has confirmed a customer data breach caused by a security vulnerability, prompting an official investigation by the Personal Information Protection Commission (PIPC).

'"Time handling is everywhere in software, but many programmers talk about the topic with dread and fear. Some warn about how difficult the topic is to understand, listing bizarre timezone edge cases as evidence of complexity. Others repeat advice like "just use UTC bro" as if it were an unconditional rule - if your program needs precise timekeeping or has user-facing datetime interactions, this advice will almost certainly cause bugs or confusing behavior. Here's a co…

#FreeLuigi

Calamus 13 "Calamus taste"
A celebration of nature in March, an entreaty to enjoy and nurture growth. Both botanical and metaphorical, our personal growth. Some lovely turns of phrase:
Gushes from the throats of birds
Frost-mellowed berries
But I'm here for the gay reading. The erotic is latent in all this burgeoning spring. But it's also more explicit. That first line "Calamus taste" sure is promising if we understand Calamus as a phallic symbol. Then there's the "pinks of love", the "young persons wandering out in the fields", the "love-buds".
It's not porny or anything but it's a little horny. The physical exuberance of springtime.
This poem got edited heavily down in later versions, and perhaps it needed it. But he eliminated one of my favorite lines, "I must change the strain". Gonna drop that in conversation next time I need to change the topic.

From Croatia:
'Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery' – Mladen Domazet
In the series #ProspectsForDegrowth

Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery
by Mladen Domazet1 When Mark asked me to contribute to this series, there was an instruction to try to point to any good prospects for degrowth in this conjuncture, and a lingering implication to u…

Apple says it blocked $2 billion in App Store fraud last year https://therecord.media/apple-billions-app-store-fraud

Leider werden viele Leute keinen Widerspruch bei Meta eingelegt haben gegen die KI-Verwendung ihrer Facebook/Instagram-Daten, weil sie dachten "Boah, schon wieder so ein nutzloser Ich-widerspreche Post der nicht funktioniert."
Bin da wohl nicht ganz unschuldig dran, hab vor 11 Jahren einen Scherz gepostet, den viele nicht erkannten (siehe ab Zeile 10)
#Meta

Bayesian Modeling for Aggregated Relational Data: A Unified Perspective
Owen G. Ward, Anna L. Smith, Tian Zheng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21353 https://…

Bayesian Modeling for Aggregated Relational Data: A Unified Perspective
Aggregated relational data is widely collected to study social network theory. It has been used to address a variety of key problems in fields such as sociology, public health and economics. ARD models enable researchers to estimate the size of hidden populations, estimate personal network sizes, understand global network structures and fit complex latent variable models to massive network data. Many of the successes of ARD models have been driven by the utilisation of Bayesian modeling, which …

Purism's $1,999 security-focused Liberty Phone, assembled in the US with decade-old specs and some US-made parts, exposes the gaps in US phone manufacturing (Ben Raab/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-t…

Amortizing personalization in virtual brain twins
Nina Baldy, Marmaduke M Woodman, Viktor K Jirsa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21155 https://

Amortizing personalization in virtual brain twins
Virtual brain twins are personalized digital models of individual human subject or patient's brains, allowing for mechanistic interpretation of neuroimaging data features. Training and inference with these models however presents a pair of challenges: large shared infrastructure do not allow for use of personal data and inference in clinical applications should not require significant resources. We introduce "anonymized personalization" to address both by expanding model priors to include perso…

An Early History of Toric Ideals
Serkan Ho\c{s}ten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18443 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.18443

An Early History of Toric Ideals
Toric ideals are everywhere. They have been in the commutative algebra lexicon since about 1990 when Bernd Sturmfels used the term. The early days of toric ideals and their Gröbner bases were full of new results and promising developments in their applications. Bernd has been consistently their biggest promoter through his own work and that of his collaborators and students. This article is a personal and subjective recalling of the first decade of toric ideals when Bernd played a central role.

Ticket sales for #NixCon2025 are open! 🎉 🎆
https://discourse.nixos.org/t/ticket-sales-started-for-nixcon-2025/64756

Beyond the Plane: A 3D Representation of Human Personal Space for Socially-Aware Robotics
Caio C. G. Ribeiro, Douglas G. Macharet
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13937

Beyond the Plane: A 3D Representation of Human Personal Space for Socially-Aware Robotics
The increasing presence of robots in human environments requires them to exhibit socially appropriate behavior, adhering to social norms. A critical aspect in this context is the concept of personal space, a psychological boundary around an individual that influences their comfort based on proximity. This concept extends to human-robot interaction, where robots must respect personal space to avoid causing discomfort. While much research has focused on modeling personal space in two dimensions, …

Wow. https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/04/28/how-california-sent-residents-personal-health-data-to-linkedin My opinion of LinkedIn was already vanishingly low (one way to ensure I won't read something is to po…

Interesting ExpressVPN offering fixed IPs https://www.expressvpn.com/features/dedicated-ip

Retrieval-Confused Generation is a Good Defender for Privacy Violation Attack of Large Language Models
Wanli Peng, Xin Chen, Hang Fu, XinYu He, Xue Yiming, Juan Wen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19889

Retrieval-Confused Generation is a Good Defender for Privacy Violation Attack of Large Language Models
Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have made a profound impact on our society and also raised new security concerns. Particularly, due to the remarkable inference ability of LLMs, the privacy violation attack (PVA), revealed by Staab et al., introduces serious personal privacy issues. Existing defense methods mainly leverage LLMs to anonymize the input query, which requires costly inference time and cannot gain satisfactory defense performance. Moreover, directly rejecting the PVA …

Replaced article(s) found for cs.CL. https://arxiv.org/list/cs.CL/new
[1/2]:
- Learning Evaluation Models from Large Language Models for Sequence Generation
Wang, Zhou, Chang, Liu, Zhang, Du, Xiao, Zhang, Zhu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.04386 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/110858347619335772
- MockLLM: A Multi-Agent Behavior Collaboration Framework for Online Job Seeking and Recruiting
Hongda Sun, Hongzhan Lin, Haiyu Yan, Yang Song, Xin Gao, Rui Yan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18113
- Capturing Style in Author and Document Representation
Enzo Terreau, Antoine Gourru, Julien Velcin
https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13358 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/112811825734411424
- Comparing Retrieval-Augmentation and Parameter-Efficient Fine-Tuning for Privacy-Preserving Perso...
Alireza Salemi, Hamed Zamani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.09510
- Learning to Rank for Multiple Retrieval-Augmented Models through Iterative Utility Maximization
Alireza Salemi, Hamed Zamani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.09942 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/113311129163471763
- A Troublemaker with Contagious Jailbreak Makes Chaos in Honest Towns
Tianyi Men, Pengfei Cao, Zhuoran Jin, Yubo Chen, Kang Liu, Jun Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.16155 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/113350851853547191
- SceneGenAgent: Precise Industrial Scene Generation with Coding Agent
Xiao Xia, Dan Zhang, Zibo Liao, Zhenyu Hou, Tianrui Sun, Jing Li, Ling Fu, Yuxiao Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.21909 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/113395761808224082
- Prompting with Phonemes: Enhancing LLMs' Multilinguality for Non-Latin Script Languages
Nguyen, Mahajan, Yadav, Salazar, Yu, Hashemi, Maheshwary
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.02398 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/113429970773753104
- CodeLutra: Boosting LLM Code Generation via Preference-Guided Refinement
Leitian Tao, Xiang Chen, Tong Yu, Tung Mai, Ryan Rossi, Yixuan Li, Saayan Mitra
https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.05199 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/113463056002627712
- OpenNER 1.0: Standardized Open-Access Named Entity Recognition Datasets in 50 Languages
Chester Palen-Michel, Maxwell Pickering, Maya Kruse, Jonne S\"alev\"a, Constantine Lignos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.09587 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/113644218384986889
- Do Large Language Models Advocate for Inferentialism?
Yuzuki Arai, Sho Tsugawa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.14501 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/113683825673436379
- Reward-Guided Speculative Decoding for Efficient LLM Reasoning
Liao, Xu, Dong, Li, Monz, Savarese, Sahoo, Xiong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.19324 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/113938656684817759
- Privacy Ripple Effects from Adding or Removing Personal Information in Language Model Training
Borkar, Jagielski, Lee, Mireshghallah, Smith, Choquette-Choo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15680 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114057719598830407
- Evaluating Large Language Models for Automated Clinical Abstraction in Pulmonary Embolism Registr...
Alwakeel, Buck, Martin, Aslam, Rajagopal, Pei, Podgoreanu, Lindsell, Wong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.21004 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114238829015127676
- LLM-Based Human-Agent Collaboration and Interaction Systems: A Survey
Zou, Huang, Wu, Chen, Miao, Nguyen, Zhou, Zhang, Fang, He, Li, Li, Jiang, Liu, Yu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.00753 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114453994824459151
- Search and Refine During Think: Autonomous Retrieval-Augmented Reasoning of LLMs
Yaorui Shi, Sihang Li, Chang Wu, Zhiyuan Liu, Junfeng Fang, Hengxing Cai, An Zhang, Xiang Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.11277 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114533276160074683
- A3 : an Analytical Low-Rank Approximation Framework for Attention
Wong, Zhang, Cao, Gimenes, Constantinides, Luk, Zhao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.12942 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114539100871221308
- Thinkless: LLM Learns When to Think
Gongfan Fang, Xinyin Ma, Xinchao Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13379 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114539110987186123
- Explainability of Large Language Models using SMILE: Statistical Model-agnostic Interpretability ...
Zeinab Dehghani, Mohammed Naveed Akram, Koorosh Aslansefat, Adil Khan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21657 initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCL_bot/114589890676312038
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At just 3 years old, I have a penthouse suite, 2 passive incomes, a personal chef and driver. Follow me for financial advice.

"There was once a programming environment made by Microsoft called Visual J . It allowed one to write, debug, and run Java code on Windows. Visual J was the first serious, usable, complete IDE Java ever had, at least until IntelliJ IDEA appeared in 2001."
https://deprogrammaticaipsum.com/w…

Write Anywhere, Run Once
Back in the days when I had a day job in the .NET galaxy, I had a colleague who was a terrific C# developer… born in the island of Java. Given the looks I got from him, I think I was the first to point this fact to him. Or maybe I just pissed him off. In any case, here go some personal anecdotes around Java, stretching back 23 years.

Dorothea Baur reflecting on #AI tech bros going all in on even your most personal data. Claiming to help you solve a problem which they helped create in the beginning:
"A breach of trust enabled by AI now becomes the justification for surveillance-based trust systems. And the very people who helped break the system are offering to fix it – in exchange for your iris. That’s not a safety fe…

🤣
»Wenn du eine Fregatte bist auf hoher See und 40 Seemeilen drum herum ist nichts und dann kommen plötzlich acht Ziele angeflogen mit Mach 7, dann können das unmöglich Waisenhäuser sein und Busse voller Nonnen, ... «
- Frank Sauer, ab Minute 26 im #SicherheitsPod Nr. 96

Folge #96 Spinnennetz, oder: was KI militärisch kann | Bundeswehr und Personal: Wunsch vs. Wirklichkeit - Sicherheitspod
“Sicherheitshalber” ist der Podcast zur sicherheitspolitischen Lage in Deutschland, Europa und der Welt. In Folge 96 diskutieren Thomas Wiegold, Ulrike Franke, Frank Sauer und Carlo Masala zuerst über einen Aspekt der ukrainischen Operation Spinnennetz, der etwas weniger mediale Aufmerksamkeit erfahren hat: die Nutzung von KI-gestützter Objekterkennung in Drohnen und das, was man “Autonomie in Waffensystemen” … Folge #96 Spinnennetz, oder: was KI militärisch kann | Bundeswehr …

Trotz mehr Personal bleibt der #Antragsstau beim #Windkraft-Ausbau in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern hoch.
2024 wurden zwar mehr Genehmigungen erteilt, ans Netz gingen aber nur 16 Anlagen. Über 1.150 #Windräder

Genehmigungsstau und Untätigkeitsklagen: Ausbau der Windkraftanlagen in MV trotz mehr Personal zu langsam
In Mecklenburg-Vorpommern steht und fällt der Ausbau der erneuerbaren Energien besonders bei Windkraftanlagen mit der Geschwindigkeit der Baugehmigungen. Trotz personeller Aufstockung in den Ämtern sei der Antragsstau laut Umweltminister Till Backhaus (SPD) aber kaum verringert worden.

Consent for Processing Personal Data in the Age of AI: Key Updates Across Asia-Pacific
https://fpf.org/blog/consent-for-processing-personal-data-in-the-age-of-ai-key-updates-across-asia-pacific/

Little one has reached an interesting stage of personal hygiene. She wants to shower instead of taking baths, but can't do it fully by herself.
So i have to poke my head and arms around the shower curtain, soap up her head, rinse her hair without getting water in her eyes, and try not to get myself completely drenched in the process or fling too much water around the bathroom.

https://mastodon.social/@noybeu/114693494985013191

Ex-Ravens PK Tucker gets 10-week suspension https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45591537/ex-ravens-kicker-justin-tucker-gets-10-week-ban-nfl

Russian hospital programmer gets 14 years for leaking soldier data to Ukraine https://therecord.media/russian-programmer-gets-14-years-for-leaking-info-to-ukraine

'Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery' – Mladen Domazet
In the series #ProspectsForDegrowth

Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery
by Mladen Domazet1 When Mark asked me to contribute to this series, there was an instruction to try to point to any good prospects for degrowth in this conjuncture, and a lingering implication to u…

Octopus is scaling up #V2G with a bundled package that includes electric vehicle (BYD Dolphin) leasing, a bidirectional AC wallbox and a smart tariff. This guarantees 'zero charging costs' for the entire lease period.
https://octopusev.c…

Power Pack Bundle
Octopus Electric Vehicles - home of electric vehicle leasing for personal or business, and the electric car bundle, including charging and cheap renewable electricity to help you on your journey to electric.

Investigation: healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island share sensitive data with Google, LinkedIn, and Snapchat via web trackers (The Markup)
https://themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2025/06/17/w…

We caught 4 more states sharing personal health data with Big Tech – The Markup
Healthcare exchanges in Nevada, Maine, Massachusetts and Rhode Island shared users’ sensitive health data with companies like Google and LinkedIn

Krugman continues:
❝While there is a cadre of Trumpist true believers who will obey the Leader under any circumstances, most of those doing the dirty work of undermining democracy and the rule of law are cowards and opportunists. They’re willing to participate in the destruction of America as we know it because they believe that many others will do the same. As a result, they believe that they are unlikely to face any personal consequences for their actions and may even be rewarded for their lawbreaking.
And what of those who oppose Trumpism? While there are heroes willing to take a stand against tyranny whatever the personal cost, most anti-Trumpists are reluctant to stick their necks out unless they believe that they are part of a widespread resistance that will grant them some measure of safety in numbers.
In other words, the victory or defeat of competitive authoritarianism will depend to a large extent on which side ordinary people believe will win. If Trump looks unstoppable, resistance will wither away and democracy will be lost. On the other hand, if he appears weak and stymied, resistance will grow and — just maybe — American democracy will survive.❞
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When you are in doubt about your personal security or the security of your loved ones in these times: have a look at the re-released "American Dragnet".
https://americandragnet.org/

An Early History of Toric Ideals
Serkan Ho\c{s}ten
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.18443 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.18443

An Early History of Toric Ideals
Toric ideals are everywhere. They have been in the commutative algebra lexicon since about 1990 when Bernd Sturmfels used the term. The early days of toric ideals and their Gröbner bases were full of new results and promising developments in their applications. Bernd has been consistently their biggest promoter through his own work and that of his collaborators and students. This article is a personal and subjective recalling of the first decade of toric ideals when Bernd played a central role.

"Pen vs. Keyboard? Why the Tool Doesn’t Matter as Much as You Think for Personal Knowledge Management" #KnowledgeManagement

Der Zug hatte die Verspätung so schön aufgeholt, mit der er gestartet war und war wieder pünktlich, unglaublich. Leider hat das den Zugführer so beschwingt, dass er in Wolfsburg durchgefahren ist. Sportliche Bremsung auf freier Strecke. Tonfall der Ansage: Unbeschreiblich.
Dann wurde etwas nachgedacht, das Personal sprintete an uns vorbei und jetzt - fahren wir wieder zurück. Großes Kino.
Alle hoffen, dass die nachfolgenden Züge informiert wurden.

Malicious LLM-Based Conversational AI Makes Users Reveal Personal Information
Xiao Zhan, Juan Carlos Carrillo, William Seymour, Jose Such
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11680

Malicious LLM-Based Conversational AI Makes Users Reveal Personal Information
LLM-based Conversational AIs (CAIs), also known as GenAI chatbots, like ChatGPT, are increasingly used across various domains, but they pose privacy risks, as users may disclose personal information during their conversations with CAIs. Recent research has demonstrated that LLM-based CAIs could be used for malicious purposes. However, a novel and particularly concerning type of malicious LLM application remains unexplored: an LLM-based CAI that is deliberately designed to extract personal infor…

Matt Gaetz's embarrassing texts to his mom about Trump, his personal finances exposed (Chris Nesi/New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2025/06/24/us-news/matt-gaetzs-texts-to-his-mom-about-trump-revealed/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250624/p140#a250624p140

Had ik jullie al verteld dat Quant best regelmatig met weinig resultaten al gelijk uitstekende resultaten voorschotelt?
Qwant - De [Franse] zoekmachine met respect voor uw privacy
#Quant

Kristi Noem's stupidity is an existential threat - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/raw-investigates/t…

Kristi Noem's stupidity is an existential threat
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” — Benjamin FranklinThe Trump administration just refused to allow an Australian writer entry to America because he’d penned articles on his personal blog critical of the administration’s support for the ...

Speziell medizinisches Personal sollte sich lieber mal eine Maske aufsetzten, denn nervige Fragen zu stellen.

The only feature I want from new personal tech is reduced total energy use. Maybe longer battery life.
So, the opposite of this shit.
https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/114374812564672612

from my link log —
Reliable system call interception with Linux seccomp.
https://blog.mggross.com/intercepting-syscalls/
saved 2025-01-05

Meet Alexius Chipalamwazani - 2023 Emerging NREN Programme (ENP) Participant!
At #TNC23, Alexius joined the ENP—a programme built to equip and empower emerging NREN representatives with the skills, knowledge, and community ties that will drive innovation back home.
In this interview, Alexius reflects on his ENP experience, how it shaped his growth, and the impact it’s had on Malawi’s NRE…

Reflections on the Emerging NREN Programme: a personal journey with the Malawian NREN | GÉANT CONNECT Online
Alexius Chipalamwazani from MAREN shares how the Emerging NREN Programme empowered him to drive innovation and lead IPv6 adoption in Malawi.

No one ever seems to mention how weirdly difficult the #WashingtonPost has made it to secure one's personal #privacy on their site.
☑️ Opt Out of Sale of Personal Information

Most viewed from what? People who rarely log in? People who rarely post? People named Adrian?
Sorry, LinkedIn, not buying into your bullshit to squeeze yet more personal data out of me.
Maybe do something to boost trust?

Cute skeleton app that embeds Godot into a native iOS app:
https://github.com/xander-carruth/swiftgodotkit-demo/tree/main

GitHub - xander-carruth/swiftgodotkit-demo: A demo of SwiftGodotKit's capabilities applied to my personal use cases
A demo of SwiftGodotKit's capabilities applied to my personal use cases - xander-carruth/swiftgodotkit-demo

Irec: A Metacognitive Scaffolding for Self-Regulated Learning through Just-in-Time Insight Recall: A Conceptual Framework and System Prototype
Xuefei Hou, Xizhao Tan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.20156

Irec: A Metacognitive Scaffolding for Self-Regulated Learning through Just-in-Time Insight Recall: A Conceptual Framework and System Prototype
The core challenge in learning has shifted from knowledge acquisition to effective Self-Regulated Learning (SRL): planning, monitoring, and reflecting on one's learning. Existing digital tools, however, inadequately support metacognitive reflection. Spaced Repetition Systems (SRS) use de-contextualized review, overlooking the role of context, while Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) tools require high manual maintenance. To address these challenges, this paper introduces "Insight Recall," a …

Stellenanzeigen für KI-Experten sind Mangelware
KI verspricht mehr Effizienz im Unternehmen. Jedoch sind nur wenige Unternehmen auf der Suche nach Personal mit KI-Know-how.
https://www.

– En allt större del av befolkningen blir ju äldre och behöver vård – men vem ska ta hand om dem? Det är en rubrik man vill se: ”Vem ska ta hand om de som byggde upp den välfärd som snart har raserats?”
https://www.dn.se/sverige/tuff-sommar-for-

Tuff sommar för omsorgen – färre händer för de äldre när personal utvisas
Äldreomsorgen står på randen till kaos när erfarna medarbetare tvingas lämna landet. Vem ska ta hand om de äldre när händerna blir allt färre?

The Meta AI app now shows a warning prompt before users share content to the public feed, after reports of users accidentally sharing chats with personal info (Katie Notopoulos/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/meta-ai-pu

Meta AI adds an extra step to prevent embarrassing overshares
Meta has added a new warning before you can post to Meta AI's public feed. It comes after BI reported that people appeared to be posting accidentally.

California SB 627 amended, passed.
Making a Misdemeanor:
⭐️ANY Law Enforcement officer, state or federal,
“shall not wear any mask or personal disguise while interacting with the public” (N95 ok)
⭐️“require (LE) officers to include their name or badge number on their uniforms”

Scam alert: ACCC phone numbers spoofed by scammers
The National Anti-Scam Centre (NASC) is warning Australians following reports that scammers have been impersonating phone numbers belonging to the ACCC in an attempt to steal personal information.
The ACCC and the NASC (which operates under the ACCC) have become aware of scammers using publicly available ACCC phone numbers, which are listed on the agency’s official website.
The ACCC phone numbers have been spoofed, which me…

Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery
by Mladen Domazet1 When Mark asked me to contribute to this series, there was an instruction to try to point to any good prospects for degrowth in this conjuncture, and a lingering implication to use my semiperipheral voice to inform the by-now-desperate comrades in the metropole. Combine that with a professional deformation to write essays when given…

Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery
by Mladen Domazet1 When Mark asked me to contribute to this series, there was an instruction to try to point to any good prospects for degrowth in this conjuncture, and a lingering implication to u…

Patriots WR Stefon Diggs prefers to keep 'personal life personal' regarding boat video https://www.nfl.com/news/patriots-wr-stefon-diggs-prefers-to-keep-personal-life-personal-regarding-boat-video

"He has identified three levels of human signals that we’ve lost in adopting AI into our communication. The first level is that of basic humanity signals, cues that speak to our authenticity as a human being like moments of vulnerability or personal rituals, which say to others, “This is me, I’m human.” The second level consists of attention and effort signals that prove “I cared enough to write this myself.” And the third level is ability signals which show our sense of humor, our comp…

You sound like ChatGPT
AI isn’t just impacting how we write — it’s changing how we speak and interact with others. And there’s only more to come.

Being autistic, sorry not sorry, I’m obsessed with this font Comic Mono (https://dtinth.github.io/comic-mono-font/) and I totally force it on my site! ♾️✨
Check it out at

I tried DuckDuckDo again these days for no reason in special. To my surprise, the search experienced there is much better than Google's. Not only there is less crap in the page, the results seemed even more relevant. It feels as good as old Google.
DuckDuckGo is now the default search engine in my personal browsers.

Let’s just for a second – purely hypothetical, of course – suppose there was a podcast where some random guy talks to people from the web community about their personal websites and what they’re curious and passionate about.
Who would you love to see as a guest? 🤔

Whatever is left of our constitutional rights and liberties exists mostly in the gaps between what the government knows about us. This is the beginning of the end. Soon, when conservatives are in charge, they'll make us follow their stupid, puritanical rules whether we like it or not, and when liberals are in charge, well, they'll make us follow [i]their[/i] stupid, puritanical rules whether we like it or not.
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U.S. Spy Agencies Are Getting a One-Stop Shop to Buy Your Most Sensitive Personal Data
The government wants to build a centralized platform where spy agencies can more easily buy private info about millions of people.

LiSec-RTF: Reinforcing RPL Resilience Against Routing Table Falsification Attack in 6LoWPAN
Shefali Goel, Vinod Kumar Verma, Abhishek Verma
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.17911

LiSec-RTF: Reinforcing RPL Resilience Against Routing Table Falsification Attack in 6LoWPAN
Routing Protocol for Low-Power and Lossy Networks (RPL) is an energy-efficient routing solution for IPv6 over Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Networks (6LoWPAN), recommended for resource-constrained devices. While RPL offers significant benefits, its security vulnerabilities pose challenges, particularly due to unauthenticated control messages used to establish and maintain routing information. These messages are susceptible to manipulation, enabling malicious nodes to inject false routing dat…

Climate messages focusing solely on personal behaviors, tend to make their recipients less likely to commit to collective actions like voting or demonstrating.
https://phys.org/news/2025-06-common-climate-messaging-backfires.html

Zuckerberg’s new Meta AI app gets personal in a very creepy way
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/05/05/meta-ai-privacy/
(Or :

We all perform tasks in our day-to-day work that are considered 'non-promotable' – these are crucial for project success, but they won't get you promoted. This is commonly known as 'glue work', a term coined by Tanya Reilly. Join Fatima Taj at this year's Berlin Buzzwords as she shares her personal experience of narrowly avoiding the trap of being permanently stuck with glue work, and explains how to handle similar situations.
Learn more:

Why AI can't possibly make you more productive; long
#AI and "productivity", some thoughts:
Productivity is a concept that isn't entirely meaningless outside the context of capitalism, but it's a concept that is heavily inflected in a capitalist context. In many uses today it effectively means "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations." This is not really what it should mean: even in an anarchist utopia, people would care about things like how many shirts they can produce in a week, although in an "I'd like to voluntarily help more people" way rather than an "I need to meet this quota to earn my survival" way. But let's roll with this definition for a second, because it's almost certainly what your boss means when they say "productivity", and understanding that word in a different (even if truer) sense is therefore inherently dangerous.
Accepting "productivity" to mean "satisfying your boss' expectations," I will now claim: the use of generative AI cannot increase your productivity.
Before I dive in, it's imperative to note that the big generative models which most people think of as constituting "AI" today are evil. They are 1: pouring fuel on our burning planet, 2: psychologically strip-mining a class of data laborers who are exploited for their precarity, 3: enclosing, exploiting, and polluting the digital commons, and 4: stealing labor from broad classes of people many of whom are otherwise glad to give that labor away for free provided they get a simple acknowledgement in return. Any of these four "ethical issues" should be enough *alone* to cause everyone to simply not use the technology. These ethical issues are the reason that I do not use generative AI right now, except for in extremely extenuating circumstances. These issues are also convincing for a wide range of people I talk to, from experts to those with no computer science background. So before I launch into a critique of the effectiveness of generative AI, I want to emphasize that such a critique should be entirely unnecessary.
But back to my thesis: generative AI cannot increase your productivity, where "productivity" has been defined as "how much you can satisfy and/or exceed your boss' expectations."
Why? In fact, what the fuck? Every AI booster I've met has claimed the opposite. They've given me personal examples of time saved by using generative AI. Some of them even truly believe this. Sometimes I even believe they saved time without horribly compromising on quality (and often, your boss doesn't care about quality anyways if the lack of quality is hard to measure of doesn't seem likely to impact short-term sales/feedback/revenue). So if generative AI genuinely lets you write more emails in a shorter period of time, or close more tickets, or something else along these lines, how can I say it isn't increasing your ability to meet your boss' expectations?
The problem is simple: your boss' expectations are not a fixed target. Never have been. In virtue of being someone who oversees and pays wages to others under capitalism, your boss' game has always been: pay you less than the worth of your labor, so that they can accumulate profit and this more capital to remain in charge instead of being forced into working for a wage themselves. Sure, there are layers of manservant caught in between who aren't fully in this mode, but they are irrelevant to this analysis. It matters not how much you please your manager if your CEO thinks your work is not worth the wages you are being paid. And using AI actively lowers the value of your work relative to your wages.
Why do I say that? It's actually true in several ways. The most obvious: using generative AI lowers the quality of your work, because the work it produces is shot through with errors, and when your job is reduced to proofreading slop, you are bound to tire a bit, relax your diligence, and let some mistakes through. More than you would have if you are actually doing and taking pride in the work. Examples are innumerable and frequent, from journalists to lawyers to programmers, and we laugh at them "haha how stupid to not check whether the books the AI reviewed for you actually existed!" but on a deeper level if we're honest we know we'd eventually make the same mistake ourselves (bonus game: spot the swipe-typing typos I missed in this post; I'm sure there will be some).
But using generative AI also lowers the value of your work in another much more frightening way: in this era of hype, it demonstrates to your boss that you could be replaced by AI. The more you use it, and no matter how much you can see that your human skills are really necessary to correct its mistakes, the more it appears to your boss that they should hire the AI instead of you. Or perhaps retain 10% of the people in roles like yours to manage the AI doing the other 90% of the work. Paradoxically, the *more* you get done in terms of raw output using generative AI, the more it looks to your boss as if there's an opportunity to get enough work done with even fewer expensive humans. Of course, the decision to fire you and lean more heavily into AI isn't really a good one for long-term profits and success, but the modern boss did not get where they are by considering long-term profits. By using AI, you are merely demonstrating your redundancy, and the more you get done with it, the more redundant you seem.
In fact, there's even a third dimension to this: by using generative AI, you're also providing its purveyors with invaluable training data that allows them to make it better at replacing you. It's generally quite shitty right now, but the more use it gets by competent & clever people, the better it can become at the tasks those specific people use it for. Using the currently-popular algorithm family, there are limits to this; I'm not saying it will eventually transcend the mediocrity it's entwined with. But it can absolutely go from underwhelmingly mediocre to almost-reasonably mediocre with the right training data, and data from prompting sessions is both rarer and more useful than the base datasets it's built on.
For all of these reasons, using generative AI in your job is a mistake that will likely lead to your future unemployment. To reiterate, you should already not be using it because it is evil and causes specific and inexcusable harms, but in case like so many you just don't care about those harms, I've just explained to you why for entirely selfish reasons you should not use it.
If you're in a position where your boss is forcing you to use it, my condolences. I suggest leaning into its failures instead of trying to get the most out of it, and as much as possible, showing your boss very clearly how it wastes your time and makes things slower. Also, point out the dangers of legal liability for its mistakes, and make sure your boss is aware of the degree to which any of your AI-eager coworkers are producing low-quality work that harms organizational goals.
Also, if you've read this far and aren't yet of an anarchist mindset, I encourage you to think about the implications of firing 75% of (at least the white-collar) workforce in order to make more profit while fueling the climate crisis and in most cases also propping up dictatorial figureheads in government. When *either* the AI bubble bursts *or* if the techbros get to live out the beginnings of their worker-replacement fantasies, there are going to be an unimaginable number of economically desperate people living in increasingly expensive times. I'm the kind of optimist who thinks that the resulting social crucible, though perhaps through terrible violence, will lead to deep social changes that effectively unseat from power the ultra-rich that continue to drag us all down this destructive path, and I think its worth some thinking now about what you might want the succeeding stable social configuration to look like so you can advocate towards that during points of malleability.
As others have said more eloquently, generative AI *should* be a technology that makes human lives on average easier, and it would be were it developed & controlled by humanists. The only reason that it's not, is that it's developed and controlled by terrible greedy people who use their unfairly hoarded wealth to immiserate the rest of us in order to maintain their dominance. In the long run, for our very survival, we need to depose them, and I look forward to what the term "generative AI" will mean after that finally happens.

Personalized LLM Decoding via Contrasting Personal Preference
Hyungjune Bu, Chanjoo Jung, Minjae Kang, Jaehyung Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12109 https:…

Personalized LLM Decoding via Contrasting Personal Preference
As large language models (LLMs) are progressively deployed in various real-world applications, personalization of LLMs has become increasingly important. While various approaches to LLM personalization such as prompt-based and training-based methods have been actively explored, the development of effective decoding-time algorithms remains largely overlooked, despite their demonstrated potential. In this paper, we propose CoPe (Contrasting Personal Preference), a novel decoding-time approach app…

Die Universität Wien scheint jetzt für Stellenausschreibungen eine feste Struktur zu haben. Die beginnt mit "Your personal sphere of play: ...".

#Plex, stop! I only have so much popcorn to eat while I watch all these new changes play out🍿
https://lemmy.ml/post/30839839

Dolphins WR Tyreek Hill, Olympic gold medalist Noah Lyles cancel race due to personal reasons https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-wr-tyreek-hill-olympic-gold-medalist-noah-lyles-cancel-race-due-to-personal-reasons

Njoki Njoroge Njehû
Principal Political Advisor – Movement Building, Pan-African Fight Inequality Alliance.
Begins with a series of Qs on personal experience of poverty/wealth.
Live in Age of Multiple Crises fed by global capitalism. No accidents: deliberate policies from IMF/WB, extraction, sacrifice of communities, over-consumption: by design peoples pushed back. It's systemic, driving inequality and climate collapse.
Those responsible have names.

Thinking about this 1997 Edmund White quote on Fresh Air today, talking about casual gay sex in the 1970s.
Nor did all this sex preclude intimacy. For those who never lived through that period, and most of those who did, are dead, the phrase "anonymous sex" might suggest unfeeling sex, devoid of emotion. And yet, as I can attest, to hole up in a room at the baths with a body, after having opened it up and wrung it dry, to lie, head propped on a guy's stomach just where the tan line bisects it, smoke a cigarette, and talk to him late into the night and early into the morning about your childhood, his unhappiness and love, your money worries, his plans for the future. Well, nothing is more personal, more emotional.
(This is him reading a quote from his novel The Farewell Symphony)

5 Days, 5 Stories: Using Technology to Promote Empathy in the Workplace
Russell Beale, Eugenia Sergueeva
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19495 https://

5 Days, 5 Stories: Using Technology to Promote Empathy in the Workplace
Empathy is widely recognized as a vital attribute for effective collaboration and communication in the workplace, yet developing empathic skills and fostering it among colleagues remains a challenge. This study explores the potential of a collaborative digital storytelling platform - In Your Shoes - designed to promote empathic listening and interpersonal understanding through the structured exchange of personal narratives. A one-week intervention was conducted with employees from multiple orga…

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

"Meanwhile [various] projects, are co-constructed, won or lost, implemented and written about using cloaked expressions and degrowth-like terminology.
"But the fear of openly speaking about justice, survival and revolution, the fear of being the first fool to shout ‘the emperor has no clothes’, keeps finely hairstyled Europeans in social positions, jobs – sometimes even offices of authority – and sense of self-worth."

Stories of expanded solidarity: the personal and the political in the degrowth perspective from the European periphery
by Mladen Domazet1 When Mark asked me to contribute to this series, there was an instruction to try to point to any good prospects for degrowth in this conjuncture, and a lingering implication to u…

Olympic gold medalist Noah Lyles calls off 100-meter race against Dolphins' Tyreek Hill for 'personal reasons'

https://www.cbsspor…

"Musk and his allies systematically built a false narrative of widespread fraud at the Social Security Administration based on misinterpreted data, using their claims to justify an aggressive effort to gain access to personal information on millions of Americans."
Gift link.

Inside DOGE’s Chaotic Takeover of Social Security
The drama offers a case study in how Elon Musk’s team sought to run a critical government agency through misinformation and social media blasts — and how longtime employees responded.

My personal rule is: if an app ever sends a notification to serve the app's business need, rather than conveying timely information, notifications get disabled.
I think I've disabled all news notifications as they just can't stop pushing celebrity nonsense.
https…

from my link log —
Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right: dissecting and dividing algebraic data structures.
https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/conor.mcbride/Dissect.pdf
saved 2025-04-14

Details from Ashley Parker and Michael Scherer’s study of Trump’s cellphone habits have a way of lingering in the mind.
The president’s personal number is “broadly circulated.”
He picks up calls from unknown numbers, and keeps a photograph of his own face on his lock screen.
The Cellphone in Chief is a “portal,” Parker and Scherer write,
but it’s also a mirror, a security blanket, and a vulnerability.
Their short psychological study suggests a man who is occasio…

Diggs deflects 'personal' questions on boat video https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/45487425/patriots-stefon-diggs-deflects-personal-boat-video-questions

Cloudflare open sourced an OAuth library mostly written by Claude, showing how AI handles mechanical implementation while humans guide with context and judgment (Max Mitchell)
https://www.maxemitchell.com/writings/i-read-all-of-cloudflares…

Max Mitchell's Personal Portfolio Website
Max Mitchell's personal portfolio website showcasing his photography, YouTube videos, coding projects, and work history.

reality_mining: Reality mining proximity network (2004)
A network of human proximities among students at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as measured by personal mobile phones. Nodes represent people (students from the Media Lab and the Sloan Business School) and an edge connects a pair if the two devices made a Bluetooth handshake at the time. Edges are timestamped.
This network has 96 nodes and 1086404 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Unweighted, Timestamps

StorySage: Conversational Autobiography Writing Powered by a Multi-Agent Framework
Shayan Talaei, Meijin Li, Kanu Grover, James Kent Hippler, Diyi Yang, Amin Saberi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14159

StorySage: Conversational Autobiography Writing Powered by a Multi-Agent Framework
Every individual carries a unique and personal life story shaped by their memories and experiences. However, these memories are often scattered and difficult to organize into a coherent narrative, a challenge that defines the task of autobiography writing. Existing conversational writing assistants tend to rely on generic user interactions and pre-defined guidelines, making it difficult for these systems to capture personal memories and develop a complete biography over time. We introduce Story…

It’s authoritarianism and in-your-face grift all in a neat little uniquely American package
That it it’s his personal brand, not the state, is just the cherry on top.
https://bsky.app/profile/scottlincicome.bsky.social/post/3lrqa6jslpy2x

Scott Lincicome (@scottlincicome.bsky.social)
So the guy who can singlehandedly set US tariffs on smartphones is launching his own US smartphone company do I have that right

On Wednesday,
the Washington Post
named the Economist’s Washington correspondent
Adam O’Neal as its next opinion editor.
In his announcement on Twitter, O’Neal parroted his new boss’ words from last February almost verbatim,
telling Post readers in a chummy front-facing camera announcement that:
[Washington Post opinion page writers and editors are] going to be stalwart advocates of free markets and personal liberties.
We’ll be unapologetically patri…

New Washington Post Opinion editor claims explicitly right-wing revamp isn’t ‘Ideological’
A breakdown of Bezos’ final coup and the bizarre pathology of right-wing ideologues really, really wanting you not to think they’re ideological.