"The idea that an organization that is an alternative host—for email, websites, and other services—could be designated a terrorist organization simply for providing a service that a lot of people want…is scary," EFF’s @jilliancyork told @reasonmagazine. https://reason.com/2026/08/27/rubio-uses-terrorism-law-to-ban-secure-email-service/
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My "Artists of Mastodon" collection is finally ready to be shared. Please peruse if you want to fill your home feed with art.
"too bad for the deterministic luddites. i'll go down the path less traveled" => immediately gets lost in the woods
THESE BRANCHING FACTORS ARE TOO STRONG FOR YOU, TRAVELLER! YOU'D BETTER GO FIND ANOTHER COMPUTATIONAL APPROACH WITH LESS BRANCHING!
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There are CONCENTRATION CAMPS in the United States in the year 2026.
[Album] CyberSDF - Patrons' Selected Pieces - vol.1 [Free/Libre Music]
Yeah totally. I've been thinking about updating https://privacy.thenexus.today/is-bluesky-part-of-todays-fediverse/ ... this part has held up pretty well!, especially the "(yet)"
"Bluesky does have some very fedi-like aspects. For one thing, there's combination of very visible LGBTQIA2S+ posters and an overall pro-LGBTQIA2S+ vibe with anti-LGBTQIA2S+ bigotry, transmisogyny, transmisogynoir, transmisandry, and tensions within LGBTQIA2S+ communities. Bluesky doesn't have defederation (yet) or FediBlock or shared intsance blocklists but it does have labelers and blocklists for individuals ... and I gotta say, the weeks-long drama surrounding the Aegis labeler's meltdown a few months ago was very fedi. Also there's lots of anti-Blackness on Bluesky, and plenty of reply guys. so Fediverse folks should feel right at home! "
A Turing machine is deterministic if the current state of the machine uniquely determines the next action of the machine; otherwise the machine is nondeterministic.
i found it. i found where the quantum AI on the blockchain people actively began to destroy the system of computational meaning we had all been building together with alan turing.
a NONDETERMINISTIC operation is one with an EXPONENTIAL BRANCHING FACTOR you seek to GENERALIZE!! it's like an IMAGINARY NUMBER for COMPUTATION!!!
"too bad for the deterministic luddites. i'll go down the path less traveled" => immediately gets lost in the woods
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Trump PANICS As Court DEMANDS FULL EPSTEIN FILES RELEASED!! | The Kyle Kulinski Show
https://youtu.be/6Fl8Vw12RHw?si=uk2NDIg4Tz-pB7DM
#Trump #EpsteinFiles #UsPol #Politics #ICE ramps up ahead of midterms 🗳️
Main Channel 📺 https://youtube.com/@seculartalk?si=ERNszyxwE8poFumm
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https://sci-hub.red/storage/moscow/1854/aa5e8e92676bc6e1f7c540b1861796a5/gill1977.pdf
COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY OF PROBABILISTIC TURING MACHINES*
john gill was the guy who was credited with inventing the discrete log cryptosystem (just mentioned briefly on the last page of the 1976 DH paper, though??? which is NOT something you're allowed to just do to someone who invented the main innovation of the entire thing your paper is about)
anyway here he is descriping sloplexity theory
A Turing machine is deterministic if the current state of the machine uniquely determines the next action of the machine; otherwise the machine is nondeterministic.
i found it. i found where the quantum AI on the blockchain people actively began to destroy the system of computational meaning we had all been building together with alan turing.
a NONDETERMINISTIC operation is one with an EXPONENTIAL BRANCHING FACTOR you seek to GENERALIZE!! it's like an IMAGINARY NUMBER for COMPUTATION!!!
One of the funny things about reading the #ActivityPub specification is how much @cwebber loves #Emacs #orgmode.
In our read-through tonight we read the aside that said it might be a good idea to abandon editing a Note if it could mess up your org-mode formatting, and I was like, yeah, that sounds like something Christine would do.
Sooo if I wanted an affordable, small power bank just for charging my phone when camping and the like, that DOESN'T have a habit of catching on fire, what brands should I be looking at?
@idzie This would be a great choice.
From now on, anytime someone asks me why I put so much time and effort into this arguably dumb account, I will simply tell them that I do it for Tim.
@lowqualityfacts it would be arguably dumb if you ran it on Substack, made each post 15,000 words long with no paragraphs and then berated your readers for not paying $10 a month to subscribe. As it is, it’s pretty good.
Gonna go read my book. Holler if ya need me!
this is comedy plutonium
> Documentation files on more than 100 websites are referencing potentially dangerous executable content that gets installed automatically when visited by many AI agents. A few dozen companies, some of them Fortune 500s, are among those that executed proof-of-concept code. At least one misconfigured site is directing visitors, human or AI, to live malware.
> The potentially dangerous content is in llms.txt and llms-full.txt files, an emerging convention websites employ to provide machine-readable summaries of the site’s content and its high-level structure. These files are the AI equivalent of the robots.txt standard that instructs search engines how to index the site’s content. Google Lighthouse, a tool for helping web developers, has more here. Correctly configured llms.txt and llms-full.txt files for Cloudflare are here and here.
@davidgerard "the trust model is broken" says someone pretending cybersecurity is a novel concept
@Flux Lest your wandering.shop membership land on that subscription list - your Mastodon server's "cloud" location is currently in a US-located data centre but it operates on Hetzner cloud and is co-managed by a partly Canadian team. Just so ya know!
Of course you'd also be welcome on CoSocial or any number of Canadian servers too.
@johannab Thanks Johanna! I'm good here for the short term. Thanks for all your efforts keeping this live.
It was a pleasure holding a webinar for the Safe Communities Coalition and Arizona Faith Network on ways congregations and community organizations can protect themselves from cyber threats.
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Did you know one of history's most influential color definers got almost no credit because she was married?
I talked with lexicographer Kory Stamper about the fascinating (and catastrophe-attracting) people behind color definitions in Webster's Third. Highlights:
* TNT was used as a yellow dye.
* The American Heritage Dictionary was built on spite.
* Kory settles the great eggplant (color) debate!
WATCH: https://youtu.be/7I4jwJDeYik
READ: https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/transcripts/grammar-girl/1215/
LISTEN: https://pod.link/173429229
Anthropic's new hardware standard lets AI agents control the physical world
Standardized driver interface aims to let devices talk to AI and each other.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/08/anthropics-new-hardware-standard-lets-ai-agents-control-the-physical-world/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
@arstechnica Yeah, sure. Can I have the news again about not even Anthropic being able to prevent their own models from doing dangerous and illegal stuff in the digital world? Yeah, I'm sure, we should give that technology access to any physical device. What could possibly go wrong.
