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Photos: Thousands march across Europe to demand end to Israel’s war on Gaza | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2026/10/10/photos-thousands-march-across-europe-to-demand-end-to-israels-war-on-gaza?traffic_source=rss

The Kennedy Center names new artistic director, amid concerns
https://www.kpbs.org/news/arts-culture/2026/10/10/the-kennedy-center-names-new-artistic-director-amid-concerns?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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> “Amazon is a very AI-friendly company, to the tune of $50 billion invested in OpenAI,” Cage said Saturday during a panel on the Empire Stage at New York Comic Con. “I am not an AI-friendly actor, so it’s like, connect those dots! I’m not a member of their club. I didn’t sign the waiver to let him use AI on ‘Spider Noir.’ I’m probably not going to be working with that studio again, but that’s okay.”
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> Amazon canceled the superhero series after just one season last month, days before the first weekend of the Emmy Awards, where it had earned 11 nominations (the most of any Prime Video program this year). The cancellation was a shocker to many in the industry, considering the series amassed 2.6 billion minutes viewed in its first six weeks and earned praise from critics and audiences alike.

when you want to slopify your most popular series so bad you self-immolate when its star tells you fuck no

anyway, good on Nick Cage for being on the right side of AI https://flipboard.com/@variety/variety-h2bfsrg0z/-/a-48NiA-94RauczPGq3XfkEQ%3Aa%3A1819762525-%2F0

@fesshole wake up babe, new fartcore album just dropped

Ledger wallet tampering suspected after reports of crypto thefts
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1009294/ledger-wallet-tampering-suspected-after-reports-of-crypto-thefts?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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RE: https://infosec.exchange/@kevinrothrock/117392361235791156

❤️ most enjoyable

U.S. Army caught off guard by Hegseth’s order to make firing squad execution public
https://www.ctvnews.ca/world/article/us-army-caught-off-guard-by-hegseths-order-to-make-firing-squad-execution-public/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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RE: https://assemblag.es/@inquiline/117415292624456151

They had me in the first half, not gonna lie...

But the attention and exploration the writer gives to the idea that anthropocentric science and measurement (and surveillance) is not some kind of conservationist panacea is very gratifying.

Too many good quotes to pick one. Just read.

Anthropic is cutting off its internal evaluations from the internet
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009286/anthropic-is-cutting-off-its-internal-evaluations-from-the-internet?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Lego video from #IRAN Specially for FCK #PeteHegseth #nemoradio #yt

https://youtu.be/NMQ4rIncFJw

#nemoradio

Russia, China block US push to expand Sudan arms embargo nationwide at UN
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-911225?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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LG’s RGB LED TV is good for certain situations, but an OLED is better
https://www.theverge.com/tech/1008957/lg-mrgb95b-rgb-led-tv-review?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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AI agent makers are promising privacy — will they deliver?
https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/1009051/privacy-ai-agent-promises-openai-meta-muse-dots?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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If you want a measure of what's important in life, look at the different reactions you get when you announce:

- A new car,
- A new job,
- Winning something,
- A new relationship,
- Being pregnant.

Some quick thoughts on Unit Testing ActivityPub

I'll be radically honest here - I never really got the idea of "Test Driven Development". I'm much more of a "telnet into production and damn the consequences" kind of guy. Look, it's much more fun and my cardiologist recommends severe shocks every now and again.

The essence of unit testing is pretty simple:

1. Feed a function some data
2. See how it responds

Send it good data and if it returns "true" the test passes. Send it bad data and make sure it returns false. Easy peasy lemon squeezy.

As part of my NLnet funded work on ActivityBot, I'm writing some proper tests for my bot framework. I am hopeful that some of them will be useful to other projects doing similar things.

There are four major classes of tests - here are the problems I've found while writing them.

Basic text validation

A basic test might be how to validate that an ActivityPub username is valid. Typically it would be something like @edent@mastodon.social - what assumptions do we make with that? It starts with an @ and has another @ somewhere in it, dividing into two parts, the user and the server. The server has to be a valid domain name - but that can include non-ASCII Internationalised Domain Names and Emoji domains.

What about the user part? Is it just A-Z and 0-9? Can it have dots? What about apostrophes like an email address?

Basically, how easy is it find the specifications for all the various component parts of ActivityPub? Not very!

Message validation

What does a WebFinger response look like? Which parts are mandatory and what values can they contain?

With any message that your project generates, how can you be sure that other ActivityPub servers will understand it?

Similarly, when we receive a follow message from an external server, what should it look like?

There are some JSON Schemas which can be used to validate some type of messages.

But, again, there are many scattered specifications.

Signature verification

As I've written about before, HTTP Signatures are difficult. There are two main problems. The first is verifying signatures.

In order to do that, you need to gather a bunch of signatures and then find a way to replay them into the test. So I'm in the process of saving signatures which I can then share with others.

The second problem is generating signatures. Sure, you can run tests on the signatures - but there's only one real way to test where's they're acceptable…

Communicating with others

Passing tests means nothing if you can't communicate with others and they can't communicate with you.

Some tests are easier than others. Sending a signed request should be easy and repeatable. But receiving messages isn't easily automated. It requires being able to control an external server and asking that to send messages.

With the Mastodon API it is possible to make requests which will interact with your server - but only if it is a public server.

Putting it all together

I'm putting all my tests online. I'm also sharing a collection of messages and signatures which you can use in your tests.

I'd love to know if you find them useful.

"What, then, of this sneering claim advanced by the hecklers, by the detractors of philosophy and the enemies of wisdom, mere boys all of them, what of this claim they shout, that brevity is the soul of wit? This is my reply to them, if only they will fall silent long enough to hear: the purpose of rhetoric is not to clearly communicate an idea to a weak and inferior mind unworthy of your insight, but rather to convince the audience that you are in possession of the most words, which is like being in possession of the most wealth, but better and more philosophical. The aim of rhetoric is to draw out your speech to such lengths that no-one can remember what it was about to begin with, and cannot grasp the chain of logic presented, as the many disparate thoughts slip through their weak unphilosophical fingers; for you have put so little information into each individual clause that it is impossible to seize upon any one of them as objectionable. By such a method, one comes at last to a conclusion that brings the audience such relief, such joy of liberation from the deluge, that they will agree to everything you propose if only you will shut up and let them go home. So truly, we must come inevitably to the conclusion, that brevity is the soul of the Theban; it is the soul of the Spartan and of every sort of barbarian that is not Athenian, and Athenians are the best and smartest people to be found anywhere upon the earth, and the Athenian philosophers are the very bestest of all people anywhere, because they have the most words, which is better than the most anything else, by virtue of the fact that I really like words and I'm the smartest man here so my opinions are the most correct. Anyway, back on topic: why so-called 'scientists' who say the sun is hot are very stupid." – Athenian philosopher

RE: https://mstdn.social/@locuta/117416023334789471

Verdel schrijft ook over de shadowban die zij van Musk heeft gekregen:

"Over censuur gesproken: het lijkt er op dat ik een shadowban heb op Twitter en daar ben ik nogal boos over. In die zin staan drie dingen die uitleg vereisen: waarom ik nog op Twitter zit, waarom ik denk daar een shadowban te hebben en wat een shadowban überhaupt is. (...)

Anyhow: normaliter krijgen de dagverslagen op Twitter zo'n 40.000 tot 80.000 views per dag. Sinds vorige week is dat ineens gekelderd naar 15.000-20.000. Ik zie ook andere mensen die toevalligerwijs misschien niet altijd even positief zijn over Trump (of juist positief zijn over Oekraïne) klagen dat hun bereik ineens heel laag is. Veel volgers zeggen dat ze actief naar mijn profiel moeten gaan om mijn berichten te zien te krijgen. En ja, ik heb hier eerder over geklaagd, want het is al een paar keer eerder gebeurd, MAAR HET IS NU IN DE MAAND VOOR DE MIDTERMS. En dat is vast allemaal gewoon ontzettend toevallig, dat er van het ene op het andere moment tienduizenden mensen per dág minder mijn berichten te zien krijgen. Over informatie-oorlog gesproken..."

dus abonneer op de nieuwsbrief! @locuta

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Hemos creado estos cartelillos para la convocatoria de huelga, pueden encontrar las imágenes en alta resolución asi como versiones con y sin logos en el enlace. Son libres de uso
https://cloud.anartist.org/s/tZWjG5aePydnArn

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@lcamtuf/117411437382236087

This thread wins the day...

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