Heads up: someone's trying to hack Discord accounts via a fake game. If you get asked to run something that wants admin rights, and its not a regular installer, click No!
www.virustotal.com/gui/file/9cc...
Random fallout from Dear Leader's diktats of late: a popular database of language analysis is being cleansed of things they don't approve of. #language #science #politics
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Look, I’ve said before that President Trump doesn’t give a shit about anything, that he’s basically retired, and you don’t just have to take my word for it: you can take his!
This feels, somehow, endstage.
Either his or ours.
This seems worth posting, given the current climate. #politics #freespeech #censorship
Fellow #sysadmin folks... always be checking your cloud spend, and your network/VPN configs! Had some traffic going to an AWS endpoint, that shouldn't have, and that cost a couple bucks. #networking #cloudcomputing
Ack, I meant DOD, or I guess the DOW now???
Also... something disturbing. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Section 2d(ii) directs DHS to have all the States prepare a "quick reaction force" within their National Guards, to be deployed at-will. Not sure it qualifies as martial law, but pretty close?
Something flying under the radar here: a 1000+ VOIP providers are getting disconnected by the FCC for lacking robocall counter-measures. There are a lot of smaller business providers that are impacted: might see some legitimate phone lines and alarm call-outs go dark.
www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/c...
Cynical take: we might as well pass a law that requires a conspicuous & decent portrait of the President in all homes, schools, and places of business. Then the government can sell approved pics and frames at the Post Office to give them income. And then we'll be like those "other countries"! (sigh)
You know... with all the redefining of truth, science, geography, etc, it's hard to remember that hurricanes still exist, and need to be tracked and studied properly. And whoever gets hit by one is probably f-ed due to FEMA resources being used for internment.
www.nhc.noaa.gov/graphics_at5...
From Camarillo to Carpinteria, firing tear gas and less lethals at children, congressman being denied entry by soldiers, and one lone man tries to stop a military convoy with his El Camino.
Raids are still happening over L.A. today, btw, and Santa Ana is being hit especially hard right now.
Encountered a "Patty" AI order taker at Burger King earlier today. Mostly worked, but still needed to involve the drive-thru person, who was not a fan of the new system. I get why they're trying it, but it is a bit weird. #AI #automation
Found a decent NYT article on the situation in Iran right now. There's a sizable diaspora here in Los Angeles: I'm curious what they're thinking about all of this. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/21/w...
Breaking: The Trevor Project received a stop-work order last night on its contract with the national 988 suicide prevention hotline. The Trump administration is eliminating the option for LGBTQ callers to the hotline to press 3 and connect with someone who specializes in LGBTQ mental health.
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HOMEWORK MACHINE The Homework Machine, oh the Homework Machine Most perfect contraption that's ever been seen. Just put in your homework, then drop in a dime, Snap on the switch, and in ten seconds' time, Your homework comes out, quick and clean as can be. Here it is — "nine plus four?" and the answer is "three." Three? Oh me ... I guess it's not as perfect As I thought it would be.
shel silverstein on the LLM, 1981
nymag.com/intelligence... This showed up on Hacker News today. #technology #media
there's going to be legislation introduced based on this shooting almost immediately
Friend of mine was trying to roll cigarettes, and as a lark, I asked one of the LLMs about it. The results were both useful and entertaining. 😀 #ai
On Saturday, April 5, it's estimated millions of Americans took to the streets for “Hands Off!” demonstrations. Even with conservative estimates, we’re talking one of the largest mobilizations in recent American history.
But you’d barely know it happened.
this is a staggering amount of money to build camps—suggesting that building & running a gulag will be the primary function of the otherwise gutted Trump-state
in last fiscal yr: "D.H.S. allocated about $3.4 billion for the entire custody operation overseen by ICE"
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/u...
A rash of new international travel advisories warn that trans and non-binary people face heightened barriers to enter the US. Ireland and Portugal are among the latest nations to caution the community.
"Adjusting for inflation, tenure-track faculty are now paid 10.2 % less than before Covid... While 'median pay increases for most higher education employees in 2024–25 remained strong, they have dropped...” www.insidehighered.com/news/quick-t... #edsky #highered
www.kickstarter.com/projects/sar...
Been following this series for a few years now. Basically two nerds in love, and their cats! #book #kickstarter #aww
3 dead so far at Krome ICE detention center in Florida. Max capacity was 500, they have over 4,000 and not enough water and food. Reports say they get 1 cup of water per day.
These are already death camps.
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english.elpais.com/usa/2025-04-...
I asked it about the "reciprocal" #tariffs introduced today. There was something else I saw about the percentages indicating perceived trade deficits, so I included that in the prompt.
Okay, a co-worker found this gem in the mix of things...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=acjw...
At least #BlueSky is doing #AprilFools. Google didn't seem to have anything up but ads inside Roblox (which I don't think is a joke), and Reddit didn't do r/place this year after the "Fuck Spez" mess. ThinkGeek's long dead now. Slashdot has some headlines, but unclear how many of those are jokes...
Two more LLM responses: one involving the war plans leak; the other involving a plan to get rid of courts hostile to Trump.
