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And just to be 100% clear, #LosAngeles is nailing it. Massive peaceful protests are great. That's absolutely unequivocally a good thing. So are burning cop cars. Diversity of tactics is critical.
Escalating radically at a protest with kids and grandmas is a shit thing to do. Don't do that unless it's absolutely necessary. Having kids and grandmas out protesting is important. Having them peacefully block vehicles with their bodies or occupy ICE facilitates *is* a strong thing. That is real. That's not virtue signaling, it does something... And sometimes that isn't enough. Sometimes things *need* to escalate to save people.
Diversity is good. Don't break the diversity of tactics *either way*. #LA seems to be doing a pretty good job right now or holding that balance. I hope to see more of that in every city.

Ask yourself: How many water bottles thrown at cops are worth keeping one innocent American* teen out of inhumane #ICE detention?
For anyone criticizing the #LA protests or suggesting they should stop for any reason, let's be clear about the stakes. Read this article (or my summary):
https://abcnews.go.com/US/massachusetts-teen-detained-ice-family-video-ice/story?id=122511685
This 18-year-old was snatched without a warrant, because he was in his dad's car and allegedly (possibly a lie or mistake) his dad drove recklessly. He's been in the US since he was 5, originally on a student visa that's since expired. He is an innocent American, by any reasonable definition of those two words*. Thankfully, he's since been released on bail, but he may yet be held indefinitely in ICE detention (in inhumane conditions that have been repeatedly documented) and/or separated from his family & friends and shipped off to Brazil where he last lived when he was 5 (ICE does not care whether he speaks Portuguese, has any family there, etc), all potentially without due process (though he seems to be getting that in this case). Even if this doesn't happen to Marcelo due to the media attention & protests, it is certainly happening to other innocent Americans throughout the country who aren't as lucky to have people standing up for them.
Here's Marcelo speaking about detention conditions and those he was detained with:
https://youtube.com/shorts/ZpZMUb9aEys?si=bpK-022CU7Acb5RY
Do you know how many kids like Marcelo were detained in LA yesterday? Probably zero, because of the protests, including their confrontational tactics. The most "violence" I've seen (from the protestors) is throwing a water bottle at a line of heavily-armored riot police. So the protests are working to protect the community. If you're suggesting a change in tactics, consider whether your suggested tactics (like pre-scheduled non-confrontational protests that have been happening for weeks) will protect the Marcelos of LA.
*Whether he's innocent or American should not in fact matter, but sadly it might to some reading this. If that's you, you've still got some growing up to do.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/15/uk-woefully-ill-protected-against-chinese-and-russian-undersea-cable-sabotage
UK ‘woefully’ ill-protected against Chinese and Russian undersea cable sabo…

"If your tactics disrupt the order of things under capitalism, you may well be accused of violence, because 'violence' is an elastic term often deployed to vilify people who threaten the status quo."
https://organizingmythoughts.org/protes…

Protest, Power, and the Violence Debate
"We are told we are experiencing peace, so long as everyone is cooperating."

The Minnesota assassinations, the attempted arson at Governor Shapiro's home, and the violent arrest of Senator Padilla are all straight out of the Jim Crow terrorism playbook. Same goes with cops aiming for journalists covering the ICE protests.
None of these are new tactics, just a new iteration.
-- Max Kennerly

Sources detail how X has used threats of lawsuits and high pressure tactics to motivate companies such as Amazon and Verizon to resume advertising on the site (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/x-twitt…

PhishDebate: An LLM-Based Multi-Agent Framework for Phishing Website Detection
Wenhao Li, Selvakumar Manickam, Yung-wey Chong, Shankar Karuppayah
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.15656 …

PhishDebate: An LLM-Based Multi-Agent Framework for Phishing Website Detection
Phishing websites continue to pose a significant cybersecurity threat, often leveraging deceptive structures, brand impersonation, and social engineering tactics to evade detection. While recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled improved phishing detection through contextual understanding, most existing approaches rely on single-agent classification facing the risks of hallucination and lack interpretability or robustness. To address these limitations, we propose PhishDebate…

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Joe Walsh: "Trump’s tactics are in fact communist. Many Republican elected officials do see this but turn the other way. Because the base of the party embraces these communist tactics. Again, so much of this can be attributed to the fact that the right had always had a thing for authoritarianism."

Sources detail how X has used threats of lawsuits and high pressure tactics to motivate companies such as Amazon and Verizon to resume advertising on the site (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/x-twitt…

ChatbotManip: A Dataset to Facilitate Evaluation and Oversight of Manipulative Chatbot Behaviour
Jack Contro, Simrat Deol, Yulan He, Martim Brand\~ao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12090

ChatbotManip: A Dataset to Facilitate Evaluation and Oversight of Manipulative Chatbot Behaviour
This paper introduces ChatbotManip, a novel dataset for studying manipulation in Chatbots. It contains simulated generated conversations between a chatbot and a (simulated) user, where the chatbot is explicitly asked to showcase manipulation tactics, persuade the user towards some goal, or simply be helpful. We consider a diverse set of chatbot manipulation contexts, from consumer and personal advice to citizen advice and controversial proposition argumentation. Each conversation is annotated b…

Watching this episode I kept wondering how they recreated the Golden Globes so realistically. I assumed heavy use of CGI but nope. Just clever tactics and huge effort.
https://www.indiewire.com/features/craft/the-studio-recreated-golden-glo…

'The Studio': How the Apple Series Recreated the Golden Globes
Yes, ‘The Studio’ did restage the Golden Globes from Scratch. Seth Rogen, Evan Goldberg, and team explain how.

Don't be evil #apple #scaretactics
Origineel bericht: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:fbtvg

Hope, that folks in #losangeles take a good look at tactics and strategies used in #hongkong in 2019
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Evaluating Large Language Models for Phishing Detection, Self-Consistency, Faithfulness, and Explainability
Shova Kuikel, Aritran Piplai, Palvi Aggarwal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13746

Evaluating Large Language Models for Phishing Detection, Self-Consistency, Faithfulness, and Explainability
Phishing attacks remain one of the most prevalent and persistent cybersecurity threat with attackers continuously evolving and intensifying tactics to evade the general detection system. Despite significant advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, faithfully reproducing the interpretable reasoning with classification and explainability that underpin phishing judgments remains challenging. Due to recent advancement in Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models (LLMs) sho…

When Experimental Economics Meets Large Language Models: Tactics with Evidence
Shu Wang, Zijun Yao, Shuhuai Zhang, Jianuo Gai, Tracy Xiao Liu, Songfa Zhong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.21371

When Experimental Economics Meets Large Language Models: Tactics with Evidence
Advancements in large language models (LLMs) have sparked a growing interest in measuring and understanding their behavior through experimental economics. However, there is still a lack of established guidelines for designing economic experiments for LLMs. By combining principles from experimental economics with insights from LLM research in artificial intelligence, we outline and discuss eight practical tactics for conducting experiments with LLMs. We further perform two sets of experiments to…

Researchers say tactics used to make AI more engaging, like making them more agreeable, can make chatbots reinforce harmful ideas, like encouraging drug use (Nitasha Tiku/Washington Post)

Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind
OpenAI, Meta and others want people to spend more time with AI chatbots, but there is growing evidence that they can hook users or reinforce harmful ideas.

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Feint Behaviors and Strategies: Formalization, Implementation and Evaluation
Feint behaviors refer to a set of deceptive behaviors in a nuanced manner, which enable players to obtain temporal and spatial advantages over opponents in competitive games. Such behaviors are crucial tactics in most competitive multi-player games (e.g., boxing, fencing, basketball, motor racing, etc.). However, existing literature does not provide a comprehensive (and/or concrete) formalization for Feint behaviors, and their implications on game strategies. In this work, we introduce the firs…

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Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Symbiosis of Agents is a large-scale installation by Baoyang Chen that embeds AI-driven robots in an immersive, mirror-lined arena, probing the tension between machine agency and artistic authorship. Drawing on early cybernetics, rule-based conceptual art, and seminal robotic works, it orchestrates fluid exchanges among robotic arms, quadruped machines, their environment, and the public. A three tier faith system pilots the ecology: micro-level adaptive tactics, meso-level narrative drives, and…

Evaluating Large Language Models for Phishing Detection, Self-Consistency, Faithfulness, and Explainability
Shova Kuikel, Aritran Piplai, Palvi Aggarwal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13746

Evaluating Large Language Models for Phishing Detection, Self-Consistency, Faithfulness, and Explainability
Phishing attacks remain one of the most prevalent and persistent cybersecurity threat with attackers continuously evolving and intensifying tactics to evade the general detection system. Despite significant advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, faithfully reproducing the interpretable reasoning with classification and explainability that underpin phishing judgments remains challenging. Due to recent advancement in Natural Language Processing, Large Language Models (LLMs) sho…

A great open-source community is about more than just code — it's about people, too. A strong company culture fosters engagement and growth. Join Jessie de Groot and Marion Nehring at this year's Berlin Buzzwords to explore how values such as kindness, collaboration and developer experience influence companies and communities. Gain practical insights into fostering inclusion, engagement, and long-term impact.
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From Culture to Open Source: Build Value-driven Communities
A great open-source community isn’t just about code—it’s about people. For us – Weaviators – we believe a strong company culture of kindness and collaboration is essential for building an inclusive and engaged open-source ecosystem. Join us to learn what you can do to ensure your culture extends beyond your organization and how your values translate into external impact. Based on real-life examples and tactics,, we will explore: - The connection between company culture and open-source…

Stephen Miller: 'the regime must use communist tactics — enforcing correct words and correct thinking and correct values — in order to fight, wait for it, “communist ideology.”'

Pro-Ukraine hacker group Black Owl poses ‘major threat’ to Russia, Kaspersky says https://therecord.media/pro-ukraine-hacker-group-black-owl-major-threat-russia

»How to survive Tear Gas without getting arrested. Tactics for civilians, not martyrs.« #LA #Protests #USA https://www.reddit.com/r/LosAngeles/s/a77BvO6UGD

'Embarrassment:' Trump admin asks judge to hide it's tactics for mass layoffs - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-doge-layoffs-judge/

Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Baoyang Chen, Xian Xu, Huamin Qu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02606 https://

Multi Layered Autonomy and AI Ecologies in Robotic Art Installations
Symbiosis of Agents is a large-scale installation by Baoyang Chen that embeds AI-driven robots in an immersive, mirror-lined arena, probing the tension between machine agency and artistic authorship. Drawing on early cybernetics, rule-based conceptual art, and seminal robotic works, it orchestrates fluid exchanges among robotic arms, quadruped machines, their environment, and the public. A three tier faith system pilots the ecology: micro-level adaptive tactics, meso-level narrative drives, and…

MultiPhishGuard: An LLM-based Multi-Agent System for Phishing Email Detection
Yinuo Xue, Eric Spero, Yun Sing Koh, Giovanni Russello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.23803

MultiPhishGuard: An LLM-based Multi-Agent System for Phishing Email Detection
Phishing email detection faces critical challenges from evolving adversarial tactics and heterogeneous attack patterns. Traditional detection methods, such as rule-based filters and denylists, often struggle to keep pace with these evolving tactics, leading to false negatives and compromised security. While machine learning approaches have improved detection accuracy, they still face challenges adapting to novel phishing strategies. We present MultiPhishGuard, a dynamic LLM-based multi-agent de…

From IOCs to Group Profiles: On the Specificity of Threat Group Behaviors in CTI Knowledge Bases
Aakanksha Saha, Martina Lindorfer, Juan Caballero
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10645

From IOCs to Group Profiles: On the Specificity of Threat Group Behaviors in CTI Knowledge Bases
Indicators of Compromise (IOCs) such as IP addresses, file hashes, and domain names are commonly used for threat detection and attribution. However, IOCs tend to be short-lived as they are easy to change. As a result, the cybersecurity community is shifting focus towards more persistent behavioral profiles, such as the Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and the software used by a threat group. However, the distinctiveness and completeness of such behavioral profiles remain largely unexp…

AURA: A Multi-Agent Intelligence Framework for Knowledge-Enhanced Cyber Threat Attribution
Nanda Rani, Sandeep Kumar Shukla
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10175

AURA: A Multi-Agent Intelligence Framework for Knowledge-Enhanced Cyber Threat Attribution
Effective attribution of Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) increasingly hinges on the ability to correlate behavioral patterns and reason over complex, varied threat intelligence artifacts. We present AURA (Attribution Using Retrieval-Augmented Agents), a multi-agent, knowledge-enhanced framework for automated and interpretable APT attribution. AURA ingests diverse threat data including Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs), Indicators of Compromise (IoCs), malware details, adversarial to…

FIST: A Structured Threat Modeling Framework for Fraud Incidents
Yu-Chen Dai, Lu-An Chen, Sy-Jye Her, Yu-Xian Jiang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05740 https:…

FIST: A Structured Threat Modeling Framework for Fraud Incidents
Fraudulent activities are rapidly evolving, employing increasingly diverse and sophisticated methods that pose serious threats to individuals, organizations, and society. This paper proposes the FIST Framework (Fraud Incident Structured Threat Framework), an innovative structured threat modeling methodology specifically designed for fraud scenarios. Inspired by MITRE ATT\&CK and DISARM, FIST systematically incorporates social engineering tactics, stage-based behavioral decomposition, and detail…