Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

Billy Joel Reveals ‘Piano Man’ Is About a Revolting, Cronenberg-Esque Piano-Human Hybrid Driven by Primitive, Uncontrollable Impulses https://thehardtimes.net/music/billy-joel-reveals-piano-man-is-about-a-revolting-cronenberg-esque-piano-human-hybrid-driven-by-primitive-uncontrollable-impulses/

There's been a LOT of anti-trans stuff bubbling up this last week, but the worst one by far:

Kansas Sends Letters To Trans People Demanding The Immediate Surrender Of Drivers Licenses https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sends-letters-to-trans-people

They're accelerating this stuff. And if you're like "whew, guess I'm glad I'm not in Kansas!"

There are people who *are* in Kansas and not everyone has an easy choice in the matter. And also they're invalidating birth certificates, too, and that's much harder to deal with.

And this is just the prototype. They want to roll this out nationally, and where they can, internationally.

We should all be alarmed.

With all the discussion around detecting when a code repo contains commits authored by an LLM, I think it is important to note commits like the following in Mozilla Firefox from 2 weeks ago:

"Bug 2011195 - When an agent commits, don't add itself as author"

https://github.com/mozilla-firefox/firefox/commit/71cc24b6a400dbd434e4df37087960d94b764791

I don't think it's a good think that Mozilla seem to be explicitly encouraging unattributed LLM code in Firefox.

ssh is an obscure but widely-deployed command. It stands for Secure Snake Home and was made in the 90s to securely play snake online

I made a massively multiplayer backend for it with support for thousands of concurrent snake players

ssh snakes.run to join!

This is sad 😢

https://github.com/mozilla/bedrock/commit/d459addab846d8144b61939b7f4310eb80c5470e#diff-a24e74e4595fa85440a2f4e7e5dcfe68aba6e1e593aef05a2d35581a91423847

#firefox #privacy #mozilla #foss #opensource #web

Knew I had it somewhere from the Octodon! Welcome to the new folks...

Silly PR person. Unicorns are imaginary illusions created to scam investors and enrich billionaire-wannabes.

Also, it's unfathomable to me that anyone overseas would risk their privacy and security to increasingly authoritarian US borders crossing goons.

A tale in 3 pictures. In which our hero wonders if he can and doesn't stop to ask if he should.

#c #programming

Understanding the "News Cycle"

Breaking News!
Broken News... 😢
Slowly Mending News.
News. Coming to Terms With Itself.
News. Setting New Boundaries.

News? Forgetting Past Mistakes, Growing Reckless Again.

Breaking News!

time to update your fucking threat models.

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@munin/116127669866441825

Welp. Looks like it's gonna be "Anthropic is now a de-facto chattel of the US Military and all your queries to it are now subject to their interference"

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/25/tech/anthropic-safety-policy-change

Knowledge of queer stuff is actively kept from us, and the descriptions of our experiences are often done by people outside of our community.

#meme #anarchism #anarchyMeme

Everybody wins in this battle!!!

#AltText #comic #cute #furry #plush #pooltoy

There's a lot of stuff about AI-generated image, video, or text "tells", but—as with good old Photoshopped images and emailed urban legends—the most reliable method is not to look at the content itself, but *find the original source*.

The source may show the content was:

- real but taken out of context (e.g. had a caption attached stating something false)
- real but unethically produced (e.g. posed/harassed wildlife)
- real and by an actual human being who should be credited
- originally from an ad agency, special effects artist, satire site, obscure TV show, generative AI, etc.
- called out as false by people in the comments

Scientists have detected another possible Monday arriving as early as next week. If true, this will be the 9th Monday this year. They warn that there are a little over 3 days left to prepare.

Mondays can be bad. Hug those you love and help them through it. Spend these remaining days wisely.

Spot on ...

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