Microsoft, Google, Red Hat, Grafana and LlamaIndex all shipped verified live credentials to public GitHub. I built the pipeline that found them: Gemini 2.5 distilled into regex, then TruffleHog with…

I help run records sites — public records made findable, a row in a table with a port number and a traffic stat. Then a removals queue stopped being a noun. What's in the queue is people, and for…

Yesterday 28 June 2026, I had the honor of speaking at the YMCA National Planning Forum in Alwaye, Kerala. We tackled a big topic: how Artificial Intelligence fits into a historic service…

An urbanist named Devon Zuegel compares an aerial photo of the city center of Siena, Italy with a Houston freeway interchange (specifically, the eastern intersection of I-10 and I-610). Both occupy…

Her boss called it “girl talk.” She had just discovered the largest geological feature on Earth, a 10,000-mile mountain range running down the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. Marie Tharp mapped 70% of…

W Social has been experiencing major technical problems for over a week: it is effectively a ghost town, filled with thousands of new accounts that cannot use the platform.

My Boy, The Engineer, who has worked in transport all his life, has internalised the NATO alphabet [ whc prev ] to ensure better comms over crackly, lossy, phone-line. That prevlink also hat-tips…

Tech bros still dominate the discussions about so-called “AI” with false claims. Even most “AI”-critical researchers spend much of their time meticulously debunking (always…

Editor’s note: First published by Mad in America on June 19th As a systemic psychotherapist, I believe that human distress needs to be understood in its relational and social context. The…

Sony is deleting 551 purchased StudioCanal movies from PlayStation libraries on September 1, 2026 with zero refunds. Here's the full technical and legal breakdown This post first appeared at - The…

Or the lack thereof.

/////////////////// le bonne (ident)idee /////////////////// idk man maybe it was just me but like, the naughty stuff the older kids new, or grown up things or whatever, it's not like they were…

The most popular technology may not be the best. In 1989 Richard P. Gabriel coined the term Worse is Better , a clearly humorous take on certain tendencies in software development and design as he…

Discord is running a limited trial with Incode for facial age estimation and ID scanning. Here is what the vendor actually does, what are the privacy concerns This post first appeared at - The…

Our society has a messed up body image problem overall.

chaoticevilspacewitch:toocoolforhole:this trend of shitting on peer-reviewed academic studies in favor of tweeting “we already knew this was happening” is so soul-crushing. not to be an elitist cunt,…

AI-generated poetry is preferable to human-written poetry? Oh, we are actually done for. The authors describe the reason in the results: The AI poems are more accessible. My house is full of cowards…

I have never changed my mind so quickly and thoroughly as I have about the f’ing arch. Now that I’ve seen it, I support it completely. It is the perfect monument to the man and the…

The performance cult wants everyone to be exceptional. The data, and basic organisational reality, suggest otherwise.

How Peace, Prosperity, and Evolution Are Quietly Ending Human Civilization As We Know It

In 2023 veteran games writer and video personality Jeff Gerstmann decided to make a ranked list of every NES game released in North America. And then he did. In 2013 critic Tevis Thompson wrote :…

It turns out we're not crazy after all. Heatsinks are beautiful, and artist Kristian Kragelund agrees. This artwork uses discarded heatsinks to provoke thought on some of our biggest modern…

I think I'm probably gonna go to the grave bitter than tech bros and the billionaire class are starting to make me hate robots. Robots (in fiction) have been my beloved little guys, my conduit, my…

Writing this on a Beyoğlu day under siege again, sigh. The whole neighborhood is locked down just because some people want to celebrate who they are… We started packing today and I’ll be…

My pastor recently recommended the book Leadership and Self-Deception (The Arbinger Institute (c) 2000, 3d ed 2018), which I read this past week. While the book does not acknowledge Christianity…

Hack Your Summer I learned about this initiative from DJ Patil this morning: It’s a 4-week, high-velocity production sprint for undergraduate students, graduate students, and recent graduates who…

Via: Engadget: Thanks to the rise of AI, a new kind of surveillance camera has rapidly proliferated across the United States. Typically referred to as automated license plate readers, or ALPRs,…

Introducing The Grumpystack Analogue Public Licence. It's like the creative commons Attribution-Sharealike, but: You are not permitted to process, store, or transmit the licensed material using a…

Lior Div runs an AI cybersecurity company. He wrote something this week that the AI industry needs to read twice. AI doesn’t scale by removing people. It scales by moving them closer. That is…

Yesterday, I was listening to a podcast by Doctor Mike about transgender healthcare. It's excellent, and I highly recommend it. But at one point, they're talking about the relationship between being…

One can't deny an assertion without a reasonable understanding of what's been asserted. To deny an assertion because "it sounds wrong" would be sheer intellectual arrogance, no? "It's wrong because…

There seems to be a dawning realization that our social inventions - institutions, norms, culture, processes - are invented just as our products are. At that point of realization, some people become…

For several years while working at Google I was part of Alphabet Workers Union . I wholeheartedly believe that big tech needs curbs on its power and the union is the most likely path towards making…

Bullshit Jobs: A Theory is a 2018 book by the American anthropologist David Graeber that postulates the existence of meaningless jobs which cause psychological harm. He contends that over half of…

A good piece has been posted Sunday on Radio‑Canada by Jeff Yates analyzing the notorious Hatfield manifesto as based on hatred of women, and how misogyny becomes the driver of violence. What…

Some time ago I vented about A.I. in a post named Assistive Incompetence . All my posts are written from a humanist and disinterested perspective. I have no control whatsoever about what people do…

kirkwallguy:also in an era where games like bg3 are patching its characters to be less mean so they can be more fuckable, or games like veilguard are ignoring the series’ previous nuance in…

This week we've had a series of terrific articles that celebrate Free and Open Source software, we discuss Valve's Steam Machine, and we discuss ways of opting out of the retail regime…

It was the vividness that was impressed on me first. I saw her halving the tablets with a knife on the table top of her sewing machine. She mumbled about making it last and prioritizing patriarch’s…

A peril of the mind: that of losing the power of thinking otherwise than polemically, as if one were facing an audience and in presence of the enemy. — Paul Valéry, The Collected Works of Paul…

A Docker container on a Gitea build runner can break out to root on the host, the setting built to stop that does nothing, and there is no patch yet. CVSS 9.9. A working proof of concept went public…

THE YOUTH WILL TALK SHIT ABOUT OUR GOVERNMENT (YES THEY HONESTLY SUCK) YET WILL COMMIT BLATANT HYPOCRISY IN FRONT OF YOUR VERY OWN EYES AND PUT OUT THE BIGGEST SMILE ON YOUR FACE. I AM HONESTLY…

Anxious and risk-averse, young Americans are embracing the nanny state.

"Junk journaling" has been a trending term on the internet crafting space for a while. As you can infer from the term, "junk journaling" is the creative practice of collaging with materials that…

The Most Engangered Species of All is White People Paul Craig Roberts Hanne Herland, the executive director of the highly […]

smallfawn sells JD.com login tools to other reward-farmers. By design, the buyer cannot log a victim in without calling smallfawn's own server, and the plaintext passwords are relayed there three…

Continuing our look at the final four Canons of the proceedings of the 1215 Fourth Lateran Council, we come to Canon 68, which wanted to make sure everyone knew who a Jew (or Muslim) was, so they…

Talking open-source software, Android's future, AI, and the philosophy behind a prolific F-Droid developer

It's often said that a night vision camera lets you see ghosts and paranormal activity that's not visible to the naked human eye, but how true is this claim?