Everything is a very expensive exercise in vanity.

An updated list of Firefox settings to change in about:config to rid your Firefox of any AI activity:

user_pref("browser.ml.enable", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.chat.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.chat.sidebar", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.chat.menu", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.chat.page", false);
user_pref("extensions.ml.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled", false);
user_pref("browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled", false);
user_pref("pdfjs.enableAltTextModelDownload", false);
user_pref("pdfjs.enableGuessAltText", false);

Over 60,000 women sign a letter in support of trans women & calling out “false feminism”
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/over-60000-women-sign-a-letter-in-support-of-trans-women-calling-out-false-feminism/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into LGBTQ Nation @lgbtq-nation-LGBTQNation

I actually ran one of the malicious payloads on a real PC this evening. It doesn’t work. Due to an error in the code - almost certainly introduced by an LLM - the network traffic doesn’t actually parse correctly so the attacker can’t do anything remotely.

I’ve been getting a lot of Chinese spam and I know it’s spam because nobody uses my Mandarin name other than spammers and scammers (and Chinese teachers), and I’m really enjoying saying ‘can you please speak English to me I don’t understand Chinese’ in Mandarin and then hanging up when I hear them start speaking English very slowly before they realize what I’ve just tried to make them do

Flight-tracking is a powerful tool for government transparency. We’ll show you how to do it. https://theintercept.com/2025/11/14/fbi-kash-patel-private-jet-tracking

I dunno if anybody has done a write up of it but there’s a pretty big Russian disinformation operation that runs on the Fediverse

If you search on Mastodon for t.me/RussianBaZa you’ll find some of it. I’ve been playing a whackamole with them on my server to keep them off.

We report: after the fact, we think we drove through the rainbow, or by it, or under it. We cannot recall how it went exactly, although there were a lot of light and colours, and the rain glittered. And then, the rainbow faded so soon anyway, the whole moment felt like a dream.

@cory @kissane as a heads up, Bring Her Back has a Lot of hurting children

Attorney General Bonta Files Motion for Preliminary Injunction to Preserve Solar for All Funding https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-files-motion-preliminary-injunction-preserve-solar-all

am sorry but Kash Patel always looks coked out of his mind.

https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-kash-patel-dan-bongino-waived-polygraph

#USpol #FBI

" #Epstein’s human trafficking organization depended entirely on the wealth management industry (WMI). It was how he obtained the capital to build it, and it was how he hid his activities from the authorities. And none of this was an abuse of the industry; it is precisely how the WMI is designed to work. Nor is it an abuse of the law, because both American and international law has been carefully designed to accomodate the WMI."

#USPol #Politics #Wealth #Capitalism

https://jacobin.com/2025/11/epstein-trafficking-law-taxes-capitalism

It's the weekend, baby
#StarTrek

As shutdown ends, dubious CDC panel gets back to dismantling vaccine schedule
Pediatricians are calling for members to be replaced and all their decisions reversed.
https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/11/as-shutdown-ends-dubious-cdc-panel-gets-back-to-dismantling-vaccine-schedule/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

#FootpathFriday

#photography