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Digital certificates, crypto (that's _cryptography_, not anything currency-related), drumming, singing, photography, foxes. She/her. All opinions mine.

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Move to Thrive Interest-Free Loan | HFLS | Hebrew Free Loan Society | Learn More “Move to Thrive” interest-free loans offer support to LGBTQ+ families navigating moving costs.

Are you a trans person in the US looking to relocate from a high-risk state to a lower risk state?

Did you know there’s a $10,000 no-interest loan you can apply for to help you do that?

Link here and more info in thread below

hfls.org/move-to-thri...

14.03.2026 19:44 👍 19 🔁 25 💬 1 📌 1
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Operation Epstein Fury latest

TRUMP: We don't need your warships.

TRUMP: Can we borrow some warships?

14.03.2026 19:42 👍 79 🔁 18 💬 5 📌 0
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Unpaid carers ordered to repay benefits despite DWP knowing rules were unlawful Officials sent out repayment letters to about 1,400 people relying on discredited guidance that had been scrapped

Unpaid carers ordered to repay benefits despite DWP knowing rules were unlawful

14.03.2026 13:41 👍 3 🔁 10 💬 1 📌 0

Last week Trump said he didn't need Britain's help because he'd already won this war. So we mustn't let him push the UK around now.

Any decision on the deployment of our Armed Forces should be made in the UK's national interest and subject to a vote in Parliament.

14.03.2026 17:30 👍 548 🔁 138 💬 41 📌 8
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‘I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff’: professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI As AI has upended the way students learn, academics worry about the future of the humanities - and society at large

I'm one of many professors quoted in this report from Alice Speri. I really appreciate The Guardian taking an angle which has basically eluded every other major outlet.

10.03.2026 15:11 👍 848 🔁 329 💬 15 📌 27
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OK this is nuts.

A vulnerability in the Companies House website that let *anyone* with an account view ***ANY COMPANY'S DASHBOARD***, see all personal info and - I think - modify company records.

13.03.2026 17:44 👍 341 🔁 123 💬 19 📌 28
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Companies House vulnerability enabled company hijacking A major flaw in the Companies House website enabled free access to the “dashboard” of any of the five million registered companies. See it used in this video.

The potential security breaches here are staggering. Companies House could be in a lot of trouble.

"A major vulnerability in the Companies House website enabled free access to the "dashboard" of any of the five million registered companies. It revealed directors' home addresses and email addresses"

13.03.2026 22:15 👍 67 🔁 28 💬 4 📌 5

Jeff Bezos is spying on you to determine the maximum amount of wealth he can extract from you. Tell him what he can do with himself.

14.03.2026 03:46 👍 216 🔁 81 💬 8 📌 1

This is absolutely bonkers and infuriating.

Must-read reporting by ProPublica.

14.03.2026 13:33 👍 2117 🔁 987 💬 76 📌 92
A display of tote bags with the three word slogan - Stockport Isn’t Shit.

A display of tote bags with the three word slogan - Stockport Isn’t Shit.

Stockport Tourist Board’s new slogan is a winner. Snappy AND mostly accurate. It’s the new “I <3 NY”.

14.03.2026 11:59 👍 146 🔁 43 💬 8 📌 7

They blew up USAid and doomed millions to an agonizing death but a video of them being an idiot on camera is causing reputational damage

14.03.2026 04:46 👍 4982 🔁 1394 💬 74 📌 23
Mark zuckerberg

Mark zuckerberg

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Instagram is ending its end-to-end encrypted messaging feature on May 8, 2026.

They said the feature was rarely used, and ending it means the platform can access more message content for "safety checks".

14.03.2026 14:42 👍 19 🔁 6 💬 2 📌 3
Text reads chem test today, I’m prepared to cheat on the whole thing. They’re already in the classroom and it seems too late to stop them from cheating.

Text reads chem test today, I’m prepared to cheat on the whole thing. They’re already in the classroom and it seems too late to stop them from cheating.

They’ve decided to cheat with ChatGPT, saying: “Hello chat, I’m going to upload four pictures and a couple of minutes (they probably meant in.. omg 😭) I need you to give me the answers for every problem, do not explain how to get the answer, just show me the answer and the slight work for it if it needs it. If it’s an ABCD question, immediately give me the answer.” 

ChatGPT replies: “Got it” and gives them the instructions back in full and tells them to go ahead and upload the images.

They’ve decided to cheat with ChatGPT, saying: “Hello chat, I’m going to upload four pictures and a couple of minutes (they probably meant in.. omg 😭) I need you to give me the answers for every problem, do not explain how to get the answer, just show me the answer and the slight work for it if it needs it. If it’s an ABCD question, immediately give me the answer.” ChatGPT replies: “Got it” and gives them the instructions back in full and tells them to go ahead and upload the images.

They got their test back, their result is an F, who could’ve seen that coming right?

They got their test back, their result is an F, who could’ve seen that coming right?

This text to ChatGPT reads: Chat let me know how I got an F. 

ChatGPT: You probably got an F, because many of the answers I gave you earlier were wrong.

It then proceeds to show them the correct answers from the test.

This text to ChatGPT reads: Chat let me know how I got an F. ChatGPT: You probably got an F, because many of the answers I gave you earlier were wrong. It then proceeds to show them the correct answers from the test.

A story in four parts. 😭

14.03.2026 11:05 👍 989 🔁 211 💬 31 📌 54

Um, Dungeon Master University (same people as D&D in a Castle) are setting up in the UK (Darlington) under the name Dungeon Master University Branch Campus. They're also calling themselves "DMU".. Two questions.

11.03.2026 02:45 👍 12 🔁 1 💬 6 📌 7
Anthony's TV

Anthony's TV

This is the default configuration of Samsung TV. GB News has bought prime spot.

What this meant was that racist chat entered my front room yesterday ("foreign NHS workers can't speak English").at 6.30pm with my six year old listening.

How can Ofcom just sit back and let this happen?

14.03.2026 10:54 👍 823 🔁 307 💬 104 📌 53

The Science, Innovation & Tech committee have written the most amazing letter to DSIT/UKRI/STFC:

"What is clear is that, despite your assertions to the contrary... widespread cuts have been proposed before adequate consultation with those affected was undertaken. This is wholly unacceptable" 💪🔭⚛️🧪

12.03.2026 16:22 👍 113 🔁 58 💬 4 📌 8

Arrest quotas

Palantir selected “targets”

No warrants

Random detainments

Despicable

14.03.2026 04:07 👍 1733 🔁 759 💬 34 📌 36
On the right of the image is a sheer cliff face marked with vertical striations; talus lies at its base. The left of the image is in almost total darkness, and the background is deep space.

On the right of the image is a sheer cliff face marked with vertical striations; talus lies at its base. The left of the image is in almost total darkness, and the background is deep space.

This is a cliff on comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.

It's about 1 km tall.

If you jumped from the top, it would take you 47 minutes to reach the bottom, and you'd probably be OK.

13.03.2026 18:58 👍 998 🔁 317 💬 39 📌 40
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Danny Bones: the AI rapper funded by a far-right party Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real

His anti-Muslim and pro-mass-deportation videos have gone viral with millions of views. Advance UK, the far-right party led by Ben Habib, paid the anonymous group behind him to produce a range of propaganda pieces. But English-Nationalist “rapper” Danny Bones doesn't actually exist @tbij.bsky.social

13.03.2026 23:01 👍 62 🔁 42 💬 3 📌 6
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13.03.2026 22:30 👍 263 🔁 43 💬 1 📌 1
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"Faster than a speeding bullet."

I love watching border collies work.

13.03.2026 16:22 👍 1618 🔁 435 💬 61 📌 117

“[T]he Government has offered no evidence whatsoever that Powell committed any crime other than displeasing the President.” - Judge James Boasberg

13.03.2026 19:38 👍 450 🔁 128 💬 1 📌 4
The Scottish edition of the Sunday Express newspaper published a front page article by Paula Murray on 8 March 2009, "Anniversary Shame of Dunblane Survivors",[1] which was critical of survivors of the Dunblane massacre, by then aged 18 and 19, for posting "shocking blogs and photographs of themselves on the Internet". The "shocking" content, read from the survivors' social networking pages, with Bebo being mentioned in the article, included colloquial language and some swearing, mentions of sex and alcohol and joking references to a confrontation (interpreted by the tabloid as a "boast" about "getting in fights") and to being a "Scottish terrorist" in London. The article received a great deal of negative attention given the tenuous grounds for making the attacks. Survivors and members of the public complained to the UK Press Complaints Commission.[2][3][4]

The Scottish edition of the Sunday Express newspaper published a front page article by Paula Murray on 8 March 2009, "Anniversary Shame of Dunblane Survivors",[1] which was critical of survivors of the Dunblane massacre, by then aged 18 and 19, for posting "shocking blogs and photographs of themselves on the Internet". The "shocking" content, read from the survivors' social networking pages, with Bebo being mentioned in the article, included colloquial language and some swearing, mentions of sex and alcohol and joking references to a confrontation (interpreted by the tabloid as a "boast" about "getting in fights") and to being a "Scottish terrorist" in London. The article received a great deal of negative attention given the tenuous grounds for making the attacks. Survivors and members of the public complained to the UK Press Complaints Commission.[2][3][4]

Today was the 30th anniversary of Scotland’s first and only school shooting, which is also a day to remember how a right-wing tabloid cyberstalked the survivors waiting for them to turn 18, in order to run a front page smear attack on them for…having grown up to be normal teenagers on the internet.

13.03.2026 19:24 👍 147 🔁 70 💬 6 📌 5

people think that it's safer to have the car drive when they're drunk because Tesla told them the car can drive for them, with a massive nudge nudge wink wink over the legality of that; sure they should know better but Tesla should get sued off the face of the planet for enabling this

13.03.2026 19:43 👍 15 🔁 6 💬 0 📌 0

This is a lovely bit of writing. Badgers are awesome.

12.03.2026 18:44 👍 30 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0

(2/2) What I did know was that it was to be guided by the overarching values of fuelling creativity, driving collaboration and igniting compassion. These values are even more important in the age of AI, a technology that has the same potential to liberate and cause harm #Web37

12.03.2026 20:40 👍 94 🔁 23 💬 0 📌 1

(1/2) 37 years ago today I submitted my proposal for the World Wide Web 🎂. Today, Rosemary & I spoke with students in New Orleans at Walter Isaacson's Digital History Class @tulaneu.bsky.social. I was asked, as I often am, if I ever could have foreseen where we’d be today. I could not.

12.03.2026 20:40 👍 210 🔁 72 💬 10 📌 7

Every single parent who had a child in that school should sue every single teacher that works at that school should sue. There should be an extremely large class action lawsuit against open AI. And if possible, the entire community of Tumbler Ridge should sue.

12.03.2026 20:45 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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I am continuing to push for better access to medicines where there are currently shortages.

Medicines that support those with ADHD and menopause are life-changing, and it is unacceptable for constituents to be left without the care they need.

12.03.2026 17:13 👍 7 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
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*The Stanford-Ketamine Classic Five-Foot Shelf

*Collect Them All

(first editions preferred)

12.03.2026 21:19 👍 83 🔁 10 💬 0 📌 0