me 2023: i'm shocked how willing people are to catch the virus that gives you brain fog

me 2026: i'm shocked how willing people are to use the machine that deskills you

maybe i should stop being shocked

RE: https://mastodon.social/@tazgetroete/117389132438620306

Aber Elif Eralp..!

RE: https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/117389685527198954

They've become Nazis. And the US continue to be full partners.

Also, media should be reporting all of Israel's actions as variations of:

- US-backed Israel...
- US-backed Zionism...
- US-backed IDF...
- US-backed Genocide...

But of course, yes, it also seems most governments are still willing to just let it happen.

#Israel #Genocide #Palestine #Lebanon #US

if this post gets 70 likes I will:

MAKE A HOLE IN THE SPHERE

"In 2019, the year of Jacinda Ardern's Wellbeing Budget, core government spending was 28% of GDP. Seven years on, it is 32.6%, and we are told we have just lived through austerity."

#OliverHartwich, 2026

https://thespinoff.co.nz/politics/06-10-2026/should-the-government-be-spending-less-a-debate-between-a-neoliberal-and-a-progressive

But where is the lion's share of that money going? Not to any of the things the left is advocating public spending on (infrastructure, public services, etc). All this demonstrates is that GDP isn't a meaningful thing to measure against when assessing spending.

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⚠️ Hinweis an andere #Fediverse-Admins: Wir sehen gerade eine auffällige Welle automatisierter Fake-Anmeldungen.

Muster:
* Zufallsnamen wie `FadRuwir`, `IpybVoxem`, `FaquCorar`
* Wegwerf-Maildomains wie `qaoloty.com`, `2mail.co`, `onionmail.org`
* auffällig viele Tor-/Proxy-Verbindungen
* 0 Beiträge, 0 Follower
* generische Bewerbungstexte wie „Ich möchte Teil der deutschsprachigen Community werden …“

Besonders perfide: Teilweise werden offenbar echte Bios anderer Fediverse-/Bluesky-Nutzer.innen kopiert. So wirkt die Anmeldung auf den ersten Blick erstaunlich glaubwürdig.

Ein einzelnes Merkmal beweist natürlich nichts. In dieser Kombination sieht es aber sehr nach automatisierter Account-Erstellung aus.

Schaut euch neue Registrierungen derzeit besser etwas genauer an und tauscht Beobachtungen gern unter den Instanzen aus.

#Mastodon #FediverseAdmin #Spam #Bots #Moderation

it’s an absolute cliché to the point of being a catchphrase for various communities of people over the years, but the conceptual space contained by the phrase “sharing is caring” deserves more than a every time you hear it. sharing is caring. it’s an explicit component in the act of a person or group of people sharing something with another person our group of people; care is built-in. somebody cares enough to share this, whatever it is, with whomever they’re sharing it with.

they may care about the thing they’re sharing. they may care about the person they’re sharing it with. probably both, based on my experiences.

it is fundamentally an act of care to share.

@peopleshistreh @Veggies https://thesparrowsnest.org.uk/

@catsalad Being somewhere in between, my backpack has an analogous collection of stuff.

@collin 🫂

Sparrow's Nest set up at Sumac Centre with lots of material on the history of the centre and @Veggies

Vulnerability in agents from Google and others exposes structural flaw in MCP

Trust gaps in the new protocol spread malicious prompts from one agent to another.
https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/10/vulnerability-in-agents-from-google-and-others-exposes-structural-flaw-in-mcp/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

@mastodonmigration Get out and Vote!!!
The polls don't vote, you do.

OpenAI “rogue” agent activities found on Wikimedia projects

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2026/10/05/openai-rogue-agent-activities-found-on-wikimedia-projects/

Why is this acceptable? You need to be able to press charges against OpenAI or any AI company that is running a "rogue" agent for hacking or similar malicious attacks. If a normal human does this, they are held responsible. So, the same responsibility should apply here and charges should be pressed against the CTO/CEO/CSO.

@dvzrv thanks, you should come and visit! 😁

Trick or Treating used to be so simple. You'd knock on a stranger's door. If you were pure of heart, they'd reward you with a hot dog. If they deemed you unworthy, they'd kill you.

The movie "Her" but remade as a comedy to match current AI abilities and flaws

@sundogplanets Spirit Sands Manitoba can give you a taste of that. You can drive to the trail head. In past years you could take a horse drawn wagon ride through part of the sands.

https://www.gov.mb.ca/sd/pubs/parks-protected-spaces/park_info/spruce_woods_spirit.pdf has some official information.

Besides being somewhat close to you, it’s also close to where RASC Winnipeg hosts an annual star party (same Spruce Woods park). I wouldn’t be surprised if you know it.

The implication is that anything more than 25% is absurd, anywhere, anytime. But to accept this logic requires completely ignoring context.

That was a prescription for *Britain*, not Aotearoa, a society with a much bigger population. At a time when much of their utilities and other resources were still publicly-owned. Trying to use this factule as a benchmark for a heavily corporatised Aotearoa in 2026 is beyond nonsense.

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@catsalad as in, to set it on fire?