Tootfinder

Not cool at all what @… is doing: https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thi…

A Terrible Thing Happened to My Family (Pete Buttigieg/Pete Buttigieg's Substack)
https://petebuttigieg.substack.com/p/a-terrible-thing-happened-to-my-family
http://www.memeorandum.com/260626/p84#a260626p84

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Sonic Youth:
🎵 Kool Thing
#SonicYouth
https://toomanydjsrecords.bandcamp.com/track/kool-thing-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZozGivTAYsOwhy6LVHsPX

The good thing is that they have the Master Control Program on board, so they might make it!

The only thing I will give Carney credit for at this point is a building roster of Canadian military procurement decisions that have increased both our independence and our allyship with non-USA players.
The submarine deal is going to be a huge one both on the industrial capacity front and the impact on alliances. I suspect, and hope, that regardless of the decision, the open competition and dialogue it has created in both the European and Asian spheres will pay dividends to Canada's standing in the world.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/subs-germany-canada-economy-jobs-9.7213216

Weirdest thing. Today I saw a *woman* driving a CyberTruck.
The look on her face appeared to be sadness, or shame, or maybe embarrassment, or… fear?
(And I don’t even think she saw me flip her off.)

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is many different things to many different people
— but one thing that it definitely isn’t is a get-rich-quick scheme.
Since its debut on the public tickers back in early June,
SpaceX shares have sunk from a high of over $225 to a dismal $110 today, as compounding failures and overvaluation fears take their toll.
Overall, SpaceX is down nearly 30 percent compared to its opening stock price of $150
— and all those day-one rubes are now seeing re…

SpaceX Investors in Meltdown Over All the Money They've Lost
Elon Musk's most loyal acolytes are licking their wounds as SpaceX stock continues to hit new all-time lows.

So HuggingFace scraping GitHub is a thing.
"But it's all open source, right?"
No, no it's not. For example, https://github.com/aredridel/mulm does not give them the right to copy it for commercial purposes.
Software, however much we tend to think of it that way, has no "Public? Yes/no" bit.

You know that thing when you start a song, but don't know if you're in the mood for it, but as you're wondering, you don't turn off the song, and then the song finishes. That's how you know it's a good song

Finished a thing! It's the weekend!

OH! I forgot the whole "out of band" thing. Let me get into that.
When you put all this together you have a business owned by a church (or, in the Dutch case, an FFI) to interface with capitalism and then a community that's collectively controlled via the legal entity of a "church." (Again, I like the word "coven," but I'm trying to use the legal definition here.)
This gives you a community that exists partially outside of the dominant system. If this seems like a new idea, it is absolutely not. There are very insular religious communities all over. Many are really oppressive cults (go watch Wild Wild Country), others are insular religious communities (for which there is a lot of legitimate criticism, but I'm only talking about decipherability here) such as Haredim or Mennonites. In some ways Tribes match this also, with various tribal governments organizing things for members.
In all of these cases, there exists an element that is outside of the dominant system. This becomes somewhat "invisible." How well do you understand the inner workings of an Amish community? How much do you think a CEO cares or thinks about them?
There are many hidden worlds that only become revealed when they become a problem (such as when a cult leader tries to take over a county by spraying e. coli on a bunch of salad bars.) This can be good if you're trying to build a new society without attracting the attention, but insular communities can also permit abusive dynamics that could otherwise be identified by the larger society. So keep the risks in mind, and be active about preventing them. Hierarchy is dangerous, but hierarchy in hidden groups can be especially dangerous.

There's a large moth in the bedroom which I think is a species I've not seen for forty years; but the damn thing won't stay still long enough for me to get a good look!

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Prince:
🎵 Hot Thing (extended remix)
#Prince
https://moonclang.bandcamp.com/track/prince-hot-thing-acidized-by-moonclang
https://open.spotify.com/track/6HpPsCidc2enTdicqEmu7t

No.3) What's the biggest thing Pickens needs to prove? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/no-3-what-s-the-biggest-thing-pickens-needs-to-prove

Code that used to work but now doesn't is the bane of my existence. And yes, there are tests. That doesn't answer *why* this thing no longer works, despite no changes to the relevant files.
#Programming #Debugging

Entertaining and well-reasoned piece from @… on the stupidity and futility of age verification https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/19/shes…

Lies, Damn Lies and Database #Benchmarks
https://questdb.com/blog/lies-damn-lies-and-database-benchmarks/

The Bear continues to lean in to filming a 20 minute scene where getting a customer a napkin is the most dramatic thing to have ever happened.
#tv #theBear

“The International Criminal Court is prosecuting the former Philippines president [Rodrigo] Duterte for the exact same thing.”
'These Are Murders': Trump Killing Spree Hits At Least 185 | Common Dreams
https://www.commondreams.org/news/murder-spree-trump-boat-bombings

Pope Leo XIV just published his first encyclical. It is on the topic of AI, and I'll want to take a closer look. But one thing already - the Pope quotes Gandalf from The Lord of the Rings: “It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till.”

I know so many potheads... the cookie dough thing made me spit up my coffee. 😂
#humor #comedy

from my link log —
Ending respiratory infections.
https://blog.interceptfund.com/p/ending-respiratory-infections
saved 2026-06-25 https…

Ending respiratory infections
Introducing Intercept, a $500M bet to make respiratory infections like colds and flu a thing of the past.

the cool thing about cool things is they're things that are cool

This seems like an Ill Advised™ thing to post on social media. 😂
Alternately:
GAIL, NO!!!
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:dwt2ntmuye3zb3w3ie3b5zgu/post/3mparorwo4c23

Gail Simone (@gailsimone.bsky.social)
Some, no idea where to start. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Today's reading @… s article on surveillance and tech
https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/19/shes-dead-of-course/#consensus-hallu…

A bike path is the ultimate litmus test for whether a person is capable of self-governing.
To not park on a bike path is an easy, convenient task and one which we all recognize as the correct, appropriate thing to do. To not park on a bike path is objectively right. There are no situations other than dire emergencies, in which a person is not able to not park on a bike path. Simultaneously, parking on bike path is not prosecuted. Therefore the bike path presents itself as the apex exam…

wow, that #redButtonBlueButton thing fucks with my brain in ways i didn't expect.
https://xcancel.com/waitbutwhy/status/2047710215265730755

I asked my son to set up the new hose reel.
Sigh.

@… I feel you on the food thing. It's a shame, though understandable, that foods from other cultures generally become a caricature of themselves when transplanted.

One last example:
The first LLM code example that really made my eyes pop was early after the release of GPT, when somebody got it to combine Breakout with Conway’s Game of Life (a truly delightful idea). It worked!
Funny thing: the Breakout code and the Life code had a •completely• different style and flavor. Red flag. In about 15 minutes of web searching, I was able to find one of the projects (can’t remember if it was the Breakout or the Life half) which it had copied wholesale, with just a few variable renames. And the other half? It was in Python, but it used dictionaries where it really should have used objects — tons of `thing["prop"]` where it should have said `thing.prop`, and lots of other un-Pythonic stuff besides. It was a machine translate of code from another language, very likely Javascript.
The entire thing was a plagiarized Breakout and a plagiarized Game of Life, one transpiled, and all stuck together in a single run loop. To be fair, figuring out how to (1) run both halves of the logic from a single loop and (2) count the Life cells as Breakout bricks is work I'd cheer on from a second-semester intro CS student! It's not, however, quite what's being sold by these companies.
6/

Sensory challenges should be treated more like sports challenges: people don't ask if it is "useful" to play football or tennis or chess. Why not the same thing with pushing the limits of perception with novel visual prostheses? #BCI #NeuroTech

Good thing this is a short workweek 😮‍💨

I’ll probably delete this - but just as an experiment, I wanted to limited myself to 30 seconds - capturing the first thing that came out when I sat down with a 30-ish second limit in mind. :-)

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia | by Jake Orlowitz | May, 2026 | Medium https://medium.com/@jakeorlowitz/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

The only downside: our rental was a Jaycoo 7, which I found to be an abysmal thing (and yet the 3rd best selling car in the UK?) Avoid at all costs - it is a piece of shit.

Perpetually productive procrastination: always have multiple things to do, so you can procrastinate by doing another thing and then do the original thing as procrastination for the next thing.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@h4ckernews/116975103931551479
"The app gets around the model's weak math by handing the problem to an outside tool... The whole thing feels like a bit of a hack. In the end, language models only output text. So to m…

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TOMORA:
🎵 The Thing (Edit)
#NowPlaying #TOMORA
https://open.spotify.com/track/43EE1xyVwIskJP13cJZJ6j
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Die Temperatur einer Gesellschaft
Die #FAZ über "Do the right thing"

Spike Lees Filmklassiker „Do the Right Thing“: Rassismus und Katastrophe
Spike Lees „Do the Right Thing“ von 1989 erzählt von Rassismus, Vorurteilen und gesellschaftlichen Spannungen – und zeigt, wie schnell aus scheinbar alltäglichen Konflikten eine Katastrophe entstehen kann.

Every single thing I’ve seen some neighborhood car-brained “genius” complain about the rebuild of Lisbon Avenue is explained and/or debunked in the FAQs.
I just need to post this link in reply to every stupid comment.
https://engage.milwaukee.gov/lisbon

W. Lisbon Avenue
The City of Milwaukee is improving W. Lisbon Avenue from N. 100th St. to W. Burleigh St.

RE: https://unstable.systems/@jneen/116432399618474650
this is probably the best way I’ve seen my gripe with “modern” programming tools put
“AI” is just the latest thing in a long series of making everything ever more complicated for no good reason

Stayed up way too late last night. On the bright side basically ALL of my clothes are clean. Oh, except for a couple of my basic black T-shirts. Woke up too early this morning stuffed up with rhinitis which must be an allergy thing (??).

I wish LinkedIn bros were more upfront about what they want. I have no idea if this guy is asking for free labor, offering a sales pitch call, or offering a job interview
the only thing clear about this message is that apparently NVIDIA, NASA, and Etsy use a model router with no security team

Accidently rebooted my #homeassistant machine while it was doing updates - and now it is existing in a half-broken state.
Time to actually install HAOS on that thing, or virtualize the installation completely.

'Your tax dollars are being used for..' insert heinous thing. And our tax dollars are ALWAYS being used for fucked up shit, if you've noticed. Probably ever since tax dollars were invented. And what exactly are we supposed to do. Voting doesn't do shit. Some of the dollars go to where they need to, probably, or I figure not much would run, work, or happen. It's weird out there, man

So I've said 'yes' to a second big thing. This now means I'll have exactly zero time for my own stuff over the next academic year. All that hard-nosed management of workload out the window in exactly two emails.

Funding for scientific research and for broad provision of healthcare is such a clear moral good that it's hard to oppose
Yet, former senator from Nebraska
Ben Sasse was an opponent of funding the sort of thing that has helped him
https://bsky.app/profile/60minutes.bsk

60 Minutes (@60minutes.bsky.social)
With five cancers and a terminal diagnosis, Ben Sasse is in a clinical trial for a new drug that may be a breakthrough in pancreatic cancer treatment. cbsn.ws/3OseWcJ

No.3) What's the biggest thing Pickens needs to prove? https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/no-3-what-s-the-biggest-thing-pickens-needs-to-prove

Bill Belichick: Tom Brady leaving New England in 2020 was 'absolutely the right thing for him to do' https://www.nfl.com/news/bill-belichick-tom-brady-leaving-new-england-2020-absolutely-right-thing-for-him

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Amerie:
🎵 1 Thing
#Amerie
https://cyborg-garfunkel.bandcamp.com/track/amerie-1-thing-cyborg-garfunkel-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1mnqraQ8oV8MX92rdOFLWW

Happy Towel Day!
"the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have."
#TowelDay #GeekPrideDay

A bigger flop than the Edsel. At least the Edsel's fenders didn't fall off in the car wash.
https://www.jalopnik.com/2220957/tesla-cybertruck-flop-edsel/

OpenAI's Head of Strategic Futures, Dean Ball, has posted on X to complain about a Chinese company publishing an open AI. OpenAI thinks that open AI is a bad idea, and here are some arguments:
"Open-weight models are inherently decelerationist [slowing down AI development], and ... in the end, open-weight models deter further AI capex."
Good.
Oh wait, you meant that as a bad thing?
"One probable outcome of an open-weight-model-dominant world is ful…

I hate doing any form of rendering on GPUs, the whole thing is convoluted as hell, and finding what you are doing wrong is pure suffering

@… yes, really loud here in Shepherd Park. Awful thing to do.

Definitely enjoyed this today with my morning coffee! Felt like he was taking to me 😜
My favorite thing about @… 's vids are that the art is always at the center. https://

Ewen Bell 📸 (@ewen@social.ewenbell.com)
"A Long Chat About Learning The Art of Photography" https://youtu.be/x480fxJoFlw Several weeks back I asked for thoughts on what people wished they understood a little earlier in their photography...

RE: https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/116975954404750385
I'm of two minds about this.
On the one hand, I quite like it.
On the other, there's the old thing about the problem not being algorythms, as everything is an algor…

After All the Raiders' Changes, 1 Thing Returned to Normal https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-after-all-changes-1-thing-returned-normal

Distinct legal existence:
This is a distinct legal entity, such as an LLC. Your "church" will need a governing body to run the legal entity it's formed under. However you decide to do this, it must be spelled out clearly in filing forms. There are a lot of ways to "govern" a community, and, since diversity allows evolution, I'm not going to describe any of them.
Basically, all you need is *some* legal incorporation. This is important for the legal aspect (if you are trying to subvert the legal framework within the legal framework). You will need this in order to own bank accounts and property collectively, and you may need this to remove or reduce the influence of the dominant system on your collective governance of finances and property.
If you, on the other hand, just have a communal squat that operates economically entirely in black markets then I don't know why you're reading this.
(Fun fact, which I'm skipping to because I don't want to forget it: As I understand it, The Church of the Subgenious skipped a lot of this by including "paying taxes" in their definition of their church. They pay their taxes every year, and the IRS rejects their payment, which proves they're a church. OK, back to what I was talking about...)
Edit: One thing I forgot about this. There must be *at least 3 /unrelated/ people* named on the legal documents. That is the minimum number to be a legal church.

Great insight from @…
“I feel like if I could stay focused on one thing I could get it done faster, but on the other hand I feel like my brain knows what it's doing, and maybe it sends me on these "side-quests" for a good reason.”

“The huge yellow somethings went unnoticed at Goonhilly, they passed over Cape Canaveral without a blip, Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them—which was a pity because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking for all these years.” — HHGG

Small island nation that voted themselves out of the only thing that made them matter is doing yet another fucking stupid thing.
Just another day.

I'm moving my followers from @… to this account because I wasn't active there for too long and the account got frozen. I didn't even know that that was a thing. I could appeal it, but don't want to. I will keep a fond memory of that place.

Wut? A campaign aimed at UK Boots shoppers involved infrastructure in Romania with phishing content hosted on a compromised Bolivian gov't site, with emails sent using a legit bulk mailing app that attackers installed on a compromised UK business terminal server.

Got a Boots email offering 'free gift beauty sample pack'? Well, 8.8 million of us got the same thing from Romanian hackers looking to steal our credit cards (and more)
A fake Boots giveaway reached nearly 9 million inboxes as hackers turned compromised systems into phishing machines

It's probably my personal social media bubble, but the codeburg terms thing is getting way more attention than I'd have guessed. People are free to restrict usage of their services and do so all the time - how many services don't allow nudity, for example? There are plenty of niche forges just like there are plenty of niche mastodon instances. Codeburg can do what they want.

I’ve treated kids with gunshot wounds, vaccine-preventable infections, and chronic diseases.
I’m Democrat Dr. Annie Andrews and I’m running for U.S. Senate to defeat Lindsey Graham. 
I’ve been a doctor for almost 20 years. I’m no stranger to tough fights.
And with MAGA chaos in the White House, I’m fed up and taking a stand to stop the BS.
Lindsey Graham is the posterboy for Washington corruption. He’s been in the Senate for half my life and doesn’t have a damn thing …

Elect Annie Andrews
Donate to send Annie to the Senate!

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Everything But The Girl:
🎵 Missing
#NowPlaying #EverythingButTheGirl
https://kataa.bandcamp.com/track/everything-but-the-girl-missing-kataa-remix
https://open.spotify.com/track/1LLYmUrNeb77HTwtr4e2Wr

After a couple re-rollings of #MerrilyWeRollAlong I realized… which is probably obvious to other observant people… (SPOILERS)…
Gussie ruins everything, doesn’t she?
The only thing she doesn’t ruin is Mary not getting Frank. #Sondheim

Jim Acosta Just Did the Thing Trump Won't Stop Bragging About
#uspol

I check out @… every now and then but I think I just don't like the format of short videos. It's sort of a jarring experience and (nothing against loops) I don't know if it's a good thing for my brain.
Contrast that to Pixelfed where it is still images, and there is a stillness to it... it's a image, no motion, no sound, and you can stare at …

day so far:
boss: have you done the thing?
me: ne. can't. micrsft MFA is brk, can't lg in
boss: how are you talking to me?
me: ut on c w cached credentias. sti cant reach wii th
boss: why can't you work on that pc with cached credentials?
me: credentias ny fr utk nt teams r cnfuence
boss: wtf is utk?
me: OutLOOK
boss: ok so write some emails then.
me: can't. LaPtOP L O P K and ; Keys are bOrK.
boss: how did you type t…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #JazzTheatre
Cal Tjader:
🎵 This Couldn't Be the Real Thing
#CalTjader
https://open.spotify.com/track/43scQYNeIL1wYwjrVvhqTV

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Courtney Barnett:
🎵 One Thing At A Time
#CourtneyBarnett
https://courtneybarnett.bandcamp.com/track/one-thing-at-a-time
https://open.spotify.com/track/2o2s7sFRf9XByKXoV0Qw6e

@… was really loud here in Shepherd Park. Really stupid thing to do.

Inspired by this post, I have decided that as my contribution to destroying literacy, I will henceforth be using the word “littoral” as a replacement for “literal”
So for example, “I made it up” appears to be a littoral quote.
Going forward I will be refusing to acknowledge that’s what I’m doing
https://…

Popular Front recently did a piece on the current conflicts in Ethiopia:
https://popularfront.substack.com/p/everything-you-didnt-know-about-the
It's a good primer for anyone who's unfamiliar, but is definitely lacking if you know any Ethiopian folks or pay attention to much news out of the Horn of Africa.
The interplay between authoritarian liberal nationalism, as represented by Abiy Ahmed and his government, and tribal federalism , represented by various tribal factions, reads to me very similarly to the liberalization of Europe (enclosure of the commons, a push to sacrifice ethnic identities for nationalist ones, etc). Like the liberalization of, say, France, it's a lot more complicated than "old thing bad, new thing good."
Liberalism was violent and authoritarian. It often sacrificed leftists. Liberalism's focus on borders and national identity led directly to pogroms and Nazism. Similarly, liberalization of Ethiopia has led to genocide and ethnic cleansing.
People think of "the terror" in France as a leftist thing, but it wasn't. It was a Liberal thing, centrist extremism, carried out against right and left.
I understand that tribal federalism is also not a good system, but I don't have a ton of depth so I'm not going to try to explain it. During the European Liberal revolutionary period of 1848, ethnic minorities would often side with some monarch or emperor against liberalism out of fear of liberal nationalism. It makes sense to support a system that's bad if your other option is a nationalism that erases your identity.
But even in Europe at that time, anarchism offered an alternative but that alternative often also drew from simply a different branch of liberalism that also suppressed culture and identity. Today the world is different. Democratic Confederalism offers a solution to *exactly* this problem, tested for more than a decade in Syria and developing now in Myanmar.
But the cross pollination between Syria and Myanmar in terms of fighters really made the ideological cross pollination possible. I don't think anything like that is happening now in Ethiopia.
Eurocentrism makes it easy to ignore what's happening now, but Addis Ababa is the seat of the African Union Commission. Ethiopia is a major military power in the region, so these developments carry a lot of weight. Especially as the US collapses and the world becomes more multipolar, the development of regional powers like Ethiopia will have a big impact on how that part of the continent develops.
If any folks are more familiar with Ethiopia than I am (which shouldn't be hard since I'm basically not), please correct me or add context if anything is missing or wrong.

Michael Irvin Takes Issue With Stephen Jones, Cowboys 'Flexing' on George Pickens https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/michael-irvin-issue-stephen-jones-cowboys-flexing-george-pickens

The fun thing about people trying to put nasty comments on my blog is that as a moderator, I just delete em before anyone else ever sees em. Must've taken a while to write that one up, too 😂

Is competitive napping a thing? I think I could go pro.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Busta Rhymes:
🎵 Do My Thing
#BustaRhymes
https://dirtyneedlz.bandcamp.com/track/do-my-thing-dirty-needlz-dreams-about-her-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/1YkuvVW6PB39B1197BASqY

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116623365748048798
“My guess is it is not as ubiquitous as the nightly news, legislators, and the frantic calls from university administrators make it seem.”
…
“Urgency is meant to flood the mind of the customer so they can’t take a pause to consider whether the thing that’s being sold really needs to be bought.”
Thank you, Sonja Drimmer — and Baldur for sharing the link.
1/2

The Raiders' 2026 Schedule Made 1 Thing Clearer https://www.si.com/nfl/raiders/onsi/las-vegas-2026-schedule-made-1-thing-clearer

Trump reveals the 'one thing' he and Mark Cuban have in common at TrumpRX event (New York Post)
https://nypost.com/2026/05/18/us-news/trump-reveals-the-one-thing-he-and-mark-cuban-have-in-common-at-trumprx-event/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260519/p21#a260519p21

“I think that many businesses felt that the Trump administration was going to be pro-business. And, you know, with the tariff situation, somehow the pro-business thing got lost.”
Trump’s Tariffs Have Created an Economic Sh*tshow Beyond Your Wildest Imagination
https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trump-tariffs-florsheim-shoes

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #AmbientFocus
Romance:
🎵 Crying Is The Only Thing That Gets Me Through
#Romance
https://youmustrememberthis.bandcamp.com/track/crying-is-the-only-thing-that-gets-me-through
https://open.spotify.com/track/2EKNKtpHBIl5RxpbQUvOdh

Cowboys have 3 players that could evolve in 2026 https://insidethestar.com/cowboys-have-3-players-that-could-evolve-in-2026

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
David Bowie:
🎵 Future Legend
#DavidBowie
https://marclowe.bandcamp.com/track/future-legend-sweet-thing-candidate-rip-david-bowie
https://open.spotify.com/track/7sfzf3LlJRgeKQK0vdOrJE

For years, a few economists and financial analysts have pointed to the fact that the amount of money being spent on AI continues to rise as evidence that the AI bubble is unsustainable.
The thing is, investors are fine with rising costs if there’s enough revenue coming in to justify the spending, which for AI development has already eclipsed $1.6 trillion as of 2026.
But whether we’re looking at data centers, digital ad revenue, or the cost of inference,
the kind of revenue …

Investors Laying Groundwork to Profit Massively When Economy Collapses
Economy update: the AI bubble is so big that a record amount of money is now being bet on the S&P 500 collapsing sometime in the near future.

The security industry is somewhat unique. It's probably the only industry created by the worker as a threat. If you talk to hackers who were in the scene before Operation Sundevil, you'll realize that it's always been a Bullshit Job.
Folks in L0ft and cDc were hacking companies and basically blackmailing them into paying for their services. Operation Sundevil "straightened up" the industry. Some people went to prison, some people build security services companies. Pretty much anyone who actually believed in the manifesto was locked up or edged out.
Using the Graeber framework here, hackers are partially duct tapers and partially goons. The critical thing here is that the industry was basically created to give money to people who would otherwise destroy the system.
Neuroatypical folks have always been forced to the margins of society, but computers gave us a super power. Now we were extremely dangerous. Tech, especially hackers, have always been paid a lot to minimize the risk of developing a class consciousness.
Graeber talked about this. Kings and nobles would often find some job or title that they could bestow on potential enemies in order to keep them close, to defang them. What better role than sheriff, a type of goon, for a rebel?
We turned it in to a whole thing. Not only did hackers make their own industry and force everyone else to accept it, we even created a whole parallel box ticker industry of "compliance" as a side effect.
The Hacker's Manifesto was decontectualized and made a fun artifact of the past. We were sold a story of "good hackers" who "protected grandma from the bad hackers." But the whole industry always existed to keep us on a leash. The funny thing is that it was a leash that we made ourselves.
But now we're seeing massive layoffs in tech, even in security. Now that we're this far in, everyone has forgotten the history. Leadership doesn't understand what security people do, so they think that LLMs can replace us. But the people in the industry now, the ones who came to it as a career, don't understand the history.
There was always a split for these weird outsiders, these people who couldn't fit in to the system but now had power over it. Some wanted in and they were willing to use extortion to get in, and others wanted to destroy the system to set everyone free.
Operation Sundevil, and the industry that evolved out of it, existed to neutralize those revolutionary elements by offering extortionists a safe entry. Extortionists trusted the capitalists to not stab them in the back the same way capitalists have stabbed everyone in the back through all of history. Now my LinkedIn feed is full of Meta layoffs, and I wonder if that class consciousness is starting to click for anyone yet.

The thing I truly love about this episode of Futurama is that it was such a fucking bummer that they retconned it 😂
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:oaxkkzgee5ot3f4mgw7w7yai/post/3mqxe3zo4qk2v

Joe Slowik (@pylos.co)
Them: “There is no greater story of sadness and loyalty than Argos awaiting Odysseus” You and me, who KNOW:

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Sonic Youth:
🎵 Kool Thing
#SonicYouth
https://toomanydjsrecords.bandcamp.com/track/kool-thing-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1ZozGivTAYsOwhy6LVHsPX

I think the thing that's hardest for me with the AI thing is that I've never really wanted a slave.

Ok, I was thinking I didn’t have anything for this, but then I was reminded by a couple of posts that folks have made that my focus on maintaining the house climate is extremely “Dad” energy 😂, making sure windows are closed or that we start cooling early in the day so we have thermal inertia.
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Ryan Nanni (@celebrityhottub.bsky.social)
It is time once again to discuss the Most Dad Things we have done in the past year. A couple of reminders: - gender is a social construct, anyone can do Dad Things - you need not be a parent to do a Dad Thing - the definition of a Dad Thing is entirely subjective and maybe made up I’ll go first:

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The Promise Ring:
🎵 Is This Thing On?
#ThePromiseRing
https://atomiccalifornia.bandcamp.com/track/the-promise-ring-is-this-thing-on
https://open.spotify.com/track/5dgyKLZKxfreuDaDQwEj9U

So one of the authors is Nicholas Carlini, who works for Anthropic. This is basically an ad for the three letter agencies to use Claude. It massively over-promises compared to what the actual paper says.
But, it is important. First, this is really about silencing people. The threat of identification is designed to make people afraid to talk online. There's a massive asymmetry between the fascists and the people. The fascists are weird racists and pedophiles who are obsessed with control. No one likes them. No one likes their ideas, because their ideas are creepy and bad.
When they talk about their ideas, that people should be murdered or kidnaped based on their skin color, that there should be a national dress code, that people's sex lives should be monitored, that children should be treated like objects that are owned by the parent (specifically, one parent), that people with different skin color or uteri should be considered as livestock, people fucking hate it because it's awful. When we talk about our ideas, that everyone should be able to eat and take care of themselves, that people who can't take care of themselves should be taken care of, that we should live in a society that values life, that we should live in harmony with nature, people like those ideas. When fascists out us for talking about those ideas, people support us. When we out people who are working as fascist goons those people have to face social consequences.
Everyone hates these people. The US government is currently less popular than it has ever been. The only way they can keep power is by making everyone think that they aren't extraordinarily unpopular. The only way to do that, the way authoritarian have always done it, is to make everyone afraid to talk.
But, yes, what this paper is saying is actually kind of bad. It looks like people who don't take any precautions at all in separating identities can be identified about 30% of the time (based on the results). It's unclear how this will actually work in the real world. Larger corpses will probably have more data, making connecting things easier.
This isn't as good as a human trying to dox someone. It's not going to work as well. It may only work in a small number of cases. There will be false positives (just like there are with people doing the work). It's probably not cheaper than hiring people. But it does mean that you can just dump money into a machine that has no ethical framework and get data out. That's the point. It's hard to find humans who will do evil shit like help dictatorships target human rights activists, but if a machine can do it for twice the price then it's a better deal for the dictatorship.
For most people, you just shouldn't care. This isn't for you. As long as you keep doing what you're doing, and you can keep everyone else doing what they're doing, then there aren't enough resources to actually target you. Even if they know who you are, there are just too many people who hate them and too few goons.
For people who might actually be targeted, there are a lot of things. First, keep in mind what you're putting into anonymous accounts. Any feature that's connected to your real life is a feature that can be extracted to identify you. This has always been true, it just may be easier to find now. Your identities should be totally siloed. It's also harder to identify you if you're writing anonymously as a collective. Collectives are better anyway because they can help check your thinking. When you write as a collective, you can help clean up each other's personal details and language. A collective develops its own voice, which is distinct from individual contributors. If you do this, and you also present your work as being from one "person," then it becomes even harder for anyone (systems or individuals) to really figure it out.
I'm not going to do a full deep dive on this because I just don't have time, but your existing threat model should *already cover these threats* if you need to make sure your writing remains anonymous.
This paper doesn't present any novel methodologies. It just extracts a bunch of features, which a human would extract as notes, and tries to correlate those between identities, which is how human researchers work. Linguistic forensics were mentioned (not by name) in the paper, but the actual methodology doesn't actually seem to use them.
So a thing with less ethics can do a worse job for more money (when adjusted for the real, not investor deflated, price of tokens). It's worth knowing. It's not the end of the world, but it is a good reminder to check your threat model and make sure it's up to date.

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Chuck Prophet:
🎵 Summertime Thing
#ChuckProphet
https://chuckprophet.bandcamp.com/track/summertime-thing-2
https://open.spotify.com/track/1cip9sLyXtKxDoUonU3uAP

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Kamui Wada:
🎵 Luv Thing
#KamuiWada
#newRelease 🆕 single
https://inthehouserecs.bandcamp.com/track/luv-thing
https://open.spotify.com/track/5HavBczUvij9u3jElWhcst

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Dyke Drama:
🎵 The Thing I Do Best
#DykeDrama
https://dykedrama.bandcamp.com/track/the-thing-i-do-best
https://open.spotify.com/track/7p0VmnuVUoN8mWpnmFs1wW