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I keep hearing AI proponents say that it's critical to develop these AI-using skills *now*, because otherwise you'll be left behind.

But isn't the whole point that AI means you can just let all your skills atrophy and let the magic box do things for you?

Any AI system that you can't just sit down and use is *surely* not the True AI. ;-)

“I’m a guy who has been running independent websites and dealing with ad networks for more than 15 years and this book demystified a lot for me.”

https://tedium.co/2025/08/07/ari-paparo-yield-google-antitrust-review/

Elite universities are caving to Trump’s authoritarian demands. Here’s what you can do to fight back: https://indivisible.org/resource/elite-universities-are-caving-trumps-authoritarian-demands-what-you-can-do-next?source=mastodon

Two years ago when researchers found and publicly exposed an intentional backdoor in a TETRA encryption algorithm used to secure radio communications for police/military/intel agencies around the world -- the algorithm involved a key advertised as one strength but secretly reduced to 32 bits -- the European organization that produced the algorithm told users that to secure their communications they could deploy an end-to-end encryption solution on top of the backdoor'd algorithm. Now the same researchers say they found a security problem with the end-to-end solution as well -- another reduced key. Here's my story for Wired:

https://www.wired.com/story/encryption-made-for-police-and-military-radios-may-be-easily-cracked-researchers-find/

Google calendar can be poisoned with invisible, malicious Gemini prompts:

https://www.darkreading.com/cyberattacks-data-breaches/google-gemini-ai-bot-hijacks-smart-homes

Do I have to stop clicking on calendar invitations? What are the alternatives?

If Google can't get security or "AI" right, what hope is there that anyone will?

Get the schools to teach this stuff, and then you'll have compliant people entering the workplace who need subscription for these services to do anything. Brilliant!

"We can blend CS with design, ethics, systems thinking, and human-computer interaction..."

I really can't believe they dropped "ethics" in there with a straight face. Of course, their ethics are probably different from mine. 🤔

We're going to need journalists to stop talking about synthetic text extruding machines as if they have *thoughts* or *stances* that they are *trying* to *communicate*. ChatGPT can't *admit* anything, nor *self-report*. Gah.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/chatgpt-chatbot-psychology-manic-episodes-57452d14

Psst... looking for a new club to join? 👀

Great news, ours is looking for new members: https://codeberg.org

#Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching #YouTube - https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/06/australia-completely-loses-the-plot-plans-to-ban-kids-from-watching-youtube/ "The end result will be that Australia has basically taught a generation of teenagers not to trust the government, that their internet regulators are completely out of touch, and that laws are stupid."

I just passed 50,000 followers here -- more than I ever had on Twitter -- and I am hugely grateful to all of you.

I also have at least 10x the genuine engagement here that I ever got on Twitter.

I have just been introduced to Sharon Goldman's AI journalism and it's some of the funniest shit I've seen in my life.

She's really out there prompting ChatGPT to write what reads like Kindle Unlimited-tier softcore erotica and getting paid.

Even her "About" page on LinkedIn has two em-dashes and one --, so like, what's going on here? Local journalist can't write five sentences without an LLM? What are DOING out here?

This just in: my friends chucked out a shitty "CO2" #sensor.

Actually a breathalyzer:

https://hackaday.com/2023/02/18/anatomy-of-a-fake-co2-sensor/

It's a really pretty design! And while the man in the video says it's useless, I actually started a CO2 sensor project this winter, but I didn't have a display or case.
Now I guess I do!

But it turns out driving a matrix of #LCD segments is surprisingly difficult.

Here's a picture of connections. Wish me luck figuring out.

#electronics #ReverseEngineering #environment

Catching a real world and *unexpected* #Cellbroadcast message revealed some minor bugs in #phosh and its mobile settings but those were easy to spotted and fixes will land for 0.49. Overall #ModemManager, #cbd, and #phosh picked the message up as expected (and the channel setting worked as well):

✨ new on #TheFutureIsFederated 🚀

« In this age of #technofeudalism every writer who covers technology - especially resistance to #BigTech - should disclose their tech stack. Here's mine »

🔗 : https://news.elenarossini.com/technofeudalism-disclosing-my-tech-stack/

Basically, a love letter to #FOSS and the #Fediverse… with room for improvement (especially on the hardware front)

#selfhosting #GoToSocial #Mastodon #NextCloud #Pixelfed #PeerTube #Signal #YunoHost #DeGoogle #LeaveSubstack #resist #resistance #broligarchy

“What we’re learning is that two of the country's most popular home improvement stores are contributing to the massive surveillance dragnet coordinated by Flock Safety,” putting customers at risk “whether it's cops stalking their exes or aggressive ICE agents targeting yard workers,” EFF’s Dave Maass told @404mediaco.
https://www.404media.co/home-depot-and-lowes-share-data-from-hundreds-of-ai-cameras-with-cops/

🔴 Brand new Tom the Dancing Bug comic now up on Boing Boing
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YOU'LL BE SHOCKED BY THE TRUE, TOP-SECRET STORY OF TRUMP AND EPSTEIN ISLAND!
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https://boingboing.net/2025/08/06/tom-the-dancing-bug-youll-be-shocked-by-the-true-top-secret-story-of-trump-and-epstein-island.html

Sitting squarely in the middle of the Venn Diagram of "Stupid" and "Evil" is this guy, and all who think like him.

https://www.rand.org/pubs/commentary/2025/07/iran-and-the-logic-of-limited-wars.html

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