AI Design Logic

by Twonks

Secret Panel HERE 😳 https://tinyview.com/mrlovenstein/2026/07/12/meat-cute

German discount supermarket chain Lidl notified customers in Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands that attackers stole their personal information in a breach at a service provider.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/lidl-discloses-online-shop-breach-after-service-provider-hack/

Vinton Cerf, widely considered one of the "fathers of the Internet" for his role in co-creating the TCP/IP protocols, will step down from his role as Google’s chief internet evangelist next week, Techcrunch reports. The character The Architect in the movie Matrix Reloaded was apparently based on Cerf and looks remarkably like him, btw.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/06/30/the-father-of-the-internet-is-finally-retiring/

I smiled when I read this because a few years back I was on a flight home to DC from San Francisco, and I learned as I was waiting to board that Vint was going to be sitting right next to me on the flight. Alas, my hopes were dashed when Vint -- who was flying standby -- got bumped again after graciously bumping himself from previous flight. He got pretty upset at this, and I was bummed, too. I posted about it at the time on Xitter, and someone replied: "It's ok, I'm sure he'll just automatically find another route."

https://x.com/briankrebs/status/833052259839856640

Every year, the HDMI Consortium meets with hardware manufacturers to plan where to place HDMI ports on monitors. Through a rigorous series of testing, they ensure that each monitor has its port locations optimized to be impossible to plug the HDMI cable in without turning the whole monitor around and eyeballing the port like some kind of spaceship docking procedure.

When they have all agreed on the best location, they go out for pizza.

@liebach @jpmens After twenty years on Linux, this image finally helped me:

I am not opposed to healthy scientific inquiry into the supernatural as such.

However, "shooting the strange entity to see what happens" does not strike me as the best approach.

#Germany #folktale #folklore
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/The_Glowing_Man_in_the_Cherry_Tree

@GuerillaOntologist it is, thank you. Mastodon in general has been far more helpful here than any search engine 😀 Consensus seems to be ensure there's no asbestos behind (there isn't) and go slowly and carefully with a very sharp bit

business protip: if any task is discovered and needs to be done, demonstrate your professionalism by asking why it isn't done already. The most successful business leaders honed this skill in the back of their parents' cars.

@SilkOm @info nur so geht es und nur so kann man sich von diesen Abhaengigkeiten loesen

@Alice They except you're entreatie's?

People who protest, people who show the fuck up to city council meetings, people who write letters and make calls, people who organize are achieving victories all over the US. One data center after another is getting canceled, one ICE "warehouse" concentration camp after another. We've forced the mutiny of preverts to backtrack and change tactics. We've beaten them in court countless times.

We get to choose victory or defeat.

#AI #Flock #50501movement

@ohmu On social media side, Dreher's platform says

"Help pass legislation to ban addictive feeds, endless scroll, and other problematic features of kids’ social media accounts, without requiring kids to provide more sensitive age-verification data to these companies"

The last part sounds good but then again most of the supporters of the addictive social media bill this year claimed that it wouldn't require age verification (even though the language in practice meant that companies would do age verification). So, it's worth probing, but definitely grounds for concern

Also his platform has

"Work on data privacy legislation that gives all users the right to opt-out of certain kinds of data collection and to put strict timeframes on others"

No no no no, opt-out is not a good basis for privacy legislation. Even the Bad Washington Privacy Act was at least partially opt-in! Disappointing.

And, not doing anything to counter the idea that he's big-tech friendly.

@mavu @pndc @bencurthoys

No-one need fall for anything; there's a perfectly reasonable discussion to be had about the reach of any country's powers.

My latest books cartoon for @theguardian.com@bsky.brid.gy
Many more here: www.theguardian.com/profile/tom-gauld

RE: https://social.kit.edu/@arrti/116894282294142730

Vor dem Hintergrund wieder zunehmender #Menschenrechtsverletzungen in undemokratischen sowie in einigen demokratischen Staaten wird auch am #KITKarlsruhe die Frage diskutiert, ob #Forschungskooperationen mit Einrichtungen dieser Länder ethisch noch vertretbar sind.

Die KIT-Academy for Responsible Research, Teaching and Innovation @arrti nimmt das zum Anlass für die Diskussionsveranstaltung "Ist legitim, was legal ist? #Ethos und #Freiheit der #Wissenschaft".

New: The LAPD, the third-largest police department in the United States, let its contract with surveillance giant Flock expire this weekend, citing "serious concerns" with civil liberties and privacy.

Flock said it was surprised by the move, but it's not clear if the company's license plate readers will immediately cease recording.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/13/lapd-lets-contract-with-surveillance-giant-flock-expire-citing-serious-concerns-over-civil-liberties-and-privacy/

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@juh

Meine Worte von gestern:

https://det.social/@AchimTheobald/116900333769117825

@researchfairy @otfrom I hate when Star Trek "j/k lol"s their way out of a hole with some sort of causality paradox type thing.