PSA: Be Careful Around Free File Converters, They Might Contain Malware
These file-conversion tools often work as advertised, but ultimately pair the converted file with a program designed to secretly hijack the victim’s computer, the FBI warns.Michael Kan (PCMag)
Once, Mutter Gauerken summoned a plague-cloud to bring doom to a village.
#MythologyMonday #Germany #folktale #folklore #WildHunt
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How are inflation or tariffs affecting your shopping and budget? NPR wants to know
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/nx-s1-5336716/income-shopping-inflation-tariffs-purchases?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Google Maps switched to local-only Timeline storage in December.
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How Dave Brubeck’s "Time Out" Changed Jazz
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How Dave Brubeck's Time Out Changed Jazz
Music video essay maestro Polyphonic is back. What I dig about his videos is that he takes on some of the true warhorses of modern popular music and manages to find something new to say.OC (Openculture.com)
How the Ph.D. Project, and 45 colleges, became a target of the Trump administration
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/nx-s1-5330715/trump-phd-college-university-investigation-dei-diversity?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-npr
If we can't stand together, our universities will fall separately.
freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngul…
Columbia University’s shame
They should be ashamed by their cowardice. Trump threatened and Columbia caved. The US president has made no secret of his intent to control what is studied, thought, and debated. His administratio…Pharyngula
Makes it all the more eearie ... I need to learn more about this building? Town? Leviathan?
I think I must know it as an icon never named from art and stories, but I had no idea that anything real that looked like this existed somewhere.
I was looking into the history of this place and found this interesting video with some footage from 44 of correspondents who stayed in the area as they tried to get in to Paris to cover the war.
Some of them died in their efforts. It's especially arresting because it's in color.
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Mont-Saint-Michel 1944 - with comments by Jack Lieb (in color and HD)
The american cameraman Jack Lieb is commenting the pictures taken at Mont St. Michel in 1944, just after the Normandy landings. Under other you can see the w...YouTube
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One of the interesting things about Mont St Michel is that there's two of them. Sort of.
There is Mont St Michel in Normandy and, over the other side of the English Channel, there is St Michael's Mount in Cornwall. They are both tidal islands with medieval buildings on them and they share a name, though I will admit that the French version is the more impressive looking of the two.
amazing place!
There is an odd indie film from the 1990s that was filmed there: rottentomatoes.com/m/mindwalk
Mindwalk | Rotten Tomatoes
Jack Edwards (Sam Waterston) is a disillusioned former presidential candidate who escapes to France to see his friend Thomas Harriman (John Heard), an expatriate poet. They travel to Mont Saint-Michel, speaking philosophically about their lives.Rotten Tomatoes
AH! I remember that, or at least the ads for it before the movies at the little art house cinema I hung out at as a teen. It has that actor from Law and Order in it for some reason.
I don't remember if it was any good, but it has a "vibe" that's attractive.
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TruthOut [Mar 21] -- In move reminiscent of anti-gay witch-hunts of 1950s-60s when servicemembers had to deny they had "homosexual tendencies," military announces plans to ask ALL servicemembers to deny they exhibit “symptoms" of gender dysphoria. [@rikiwilchins.bsky.social]
Military Plans to Investigate ...
Military Plans to Investigate GIs for “Symptoms” of Being Trans
The court filing signals a shift from targeting openly trans troops to potentially investigating those who are closeted.Erin Reed (Truthout)
F1 reminds us it's entertainment, not just engineering and sport.
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/03/d…
Driver intrigue, V10 rumors, and a good sprint weekend? F1 in Shanghai.
F1 reminds us it’s entertainment, not just engineering and sport.Jonathan M. Gitlin (Ars Technica)
tbf the cybertruck does have that mecha polygonal look
...it just needs more polygons...
San Mateo Bridge, San Mateo, CA, 2024.
All the pixels, none of the rush hour, at flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/54…
San Mateo Bridge
Foster City. CA 9 November 2024 Rodenstock 40mm/4.0 HR-Digaron-W lens (@ f/6.3), Phase One IQ4-150 back (@ ISO 50), Cambo 1250 camera (3 mm vertical shift). No emulsions were harmed in the making of this image. P0003544Flickr
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Good news, as a computer toucher in Security, I'll have work as long as I want it.
Bad news: same.
Pull quote:
"AI Coding Assistants as Critical Infrastructure
A 2024 GitHub survey found that nearly all enterprise developers (97%) are using Generative AI coding tools"
Tl;Dr - "rules files" are shared in OSS projects and rarely reviewed. They provide easy prompt injection to get the AI code gen to do payload injection for the attacker.
"AIs want the future to be like the past, and AIs make the future like the past. If the training data is full of human bias, then the predictions will also be full of human bias, and then the outcomes will be full of human bias, and when those outcomes are copraphagically fed back into the training data, you get new, highly concentrated human/machine bias.”
From @pluralistic pluralistic.net/2025/03/18/asb…
#ai
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*The Coasters* - Charlie Brown
Hi,I have done this work with love for all of you to enjoy all music lovers that time.At no time have made nonprofit, any time you do not want to use ilegall...YouTube
I've just announced my new (blazing-fast) kernel for implicit surfaces: mattkeeter.com/projects/fidget
It's got something for everyone: Cool graphs! Multithreaded WebAssembly! Terrible mesh topology! JIT compilers!
After three years, I'm excited to finally show it off to a wider audience 😎
Ich habe seit 37 Stunden nicht mehr so gelacht, wie nach diesem Post von Ricarda Lang. Wo und für was auch immer sie künftig antritt - meine Stimme hat sie sicher!
#politik #humor #ricardalang #blackrot
How many people died in school shootings for this bullshit? It's pathetic. You guys just love guns not the responsibility that comes with having a gun.
More and more accounts critical of the Turkish regime being blocked by Twitter.
Twitter is a tool for and by authoritarians.
social.heise.de/@heiseonline/1…
heise online (@heiseonline@social.heise.de)
Proteste in der Türkei: Immer mehr regierungskritische Accounts auf X gesperrt Auf dem Kurznachrichtendienst X wurden in den vergangenen Tagen zahlreiche Accounts von Organisationen gesperrt, die Proteste gegen die Regierung organisieren.Heise Medien on Mastodon
Posting again, because OMFG.
Original post:
I'm sorry WHAT?!
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"The #Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans
U.S. national-security leaders included me in a group chat about upcoming military strikes in Yemen. I didn’t think it could be real. Then the bombs started falling."
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![‘Every day and night’
The US has offered few specifics on the sites it is striking during its campaign, and has not yet confirmed any air raids on Sanaa.
A defence official told the AFP news agency: “CENTCOM [US Central Command] is conduct- ing strikes across multiple locations of Iran-backed Houthi locations every day and night in Yemen.”
‘Waltz said the recent US attacks have “taken out key Houthi leadership”, including the head of their missile programme.
“We’ve hit their headquarters,” Waltz said. “We’ve hit communications nodes, weapons facto- ries and even some of their over-the-water drone production facilities.”
The Houthis have dismissed the US claims that it is targeting military sites in Yemen as a “com- plete lie and slander”.
The Houthi government in Yemen said: “The pictures, scenes, evidence, types of victims, and testimonies of survivors from the targeted sites confirm that it is targeting residential neighbour- hoods and innocent civilians, and provide conclusive evidence that the US is deliberately taking the lives of defenceless civilians and destroying the capabilities of our people.”
The Houthis also said the latest US attacks will not deter them from supporting Palestinians in Gaza and that the country will also support Lebanon and Hezbollah, if necessary.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES](https://friendica.rogueproject.org/photo/preview/640/344513 "‘Every day and night’
The US has offered few specifics on the sites it is striking during its campaign, and has not yet confirmed any air raids on Sanaa.
A defence official told the AFP news agency: “CENTCOM [US Central Command] is conduct- ing strikes across multiple locations of Iran-backed Houthi locations every day and night in Yemen.”
‘Waltz said the recent US attacks have “taken out key Houthi leadership”, including the head of their missile programme.
“We’ve hit their headquarters,” Waltz said. “We’ve hit communications nodes, weapons facto- ries and even some of their over-the-water drone production facilities.”
The Houthis have dismissed the US claims that it is targeting military sites in Yemen as a “com- plete lie and slander”.
The Houthi government in Yemen said: “The pictures, scenes, evidence, types of victims, and testimonies of survivors from the targeted sites confirm that it is targeting residential neighbour- hoods and innocent civilians, and provide conclusive evidence that the US is deliberately taking the lives of defenceless civilians and destroying the capabilities of our people.”
The Houthis also said the latest US attacks will not deter them from supporting Palestinians in Gaza and that the country will also support Lebanon and Hezbollah, if necessary.
SOURCE: AL JAZEERA AND NEWS AGENCIES")
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Trump loves Big Tech; and more!
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*.
Catch me in #SANDIEGO TONIGHT (Mar 24):
And in CHICAGO with PETER SAGAL on Apr 2:
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More tour dates here:
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Authors on Tap: Cory Doctorow and Peter Sagal
Indie bookstore located in the historic Fine Arts Building on Chicago's Michigan Avenue. Where books and music meet.exileinbookville.com
The U.S. and Russia are holding talks in Saudi Arabia on a Black Sea ceasefire
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/24/g-s1-55443/us-russia-ukraine-black-sea-ceasefire-talks-saudi-arabia?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into World News @world-news-npr
The sight of the CEOs of Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, and Tiktok arranged in a decorative semicircle behind Trump on the dais on inauguration day was the final repudiation of the Obama-era notion that tech was somehow committed to democracy (or the Democrats).
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#DavidBowie #MickJagger
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David Bowie & Mick Jagger - Dancing In The Street (Official Video)
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Ugh, crypto, then AI…now quantum computing is going to be the next investment bubble con, isn’t it?
From @bstacey: icosahedron.website/@bstacey/1…
Blake C. Stacey (@bstacey@icosahedron.website)
"D-Wave's claim that its quantum computers can solve problems that would take hundreds of years on classical machines have been undermined by two separate research groups showing that even an ordinary laptop can perform similar calculations" https:/…Icosahedron
…and cryptocurrency was never currency, and artificial intelligence was never intelligent, so I’d say this proves my point!
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But I was actually responding today to your request for games relating to folklore and hope my response can be of help.
You think 8 million is bad. There are 100s of millions of people in the US. That's an even bigger number. Therefore we all presumably "deserve" (and will get) even less.
Justice, which exists, and is real, is precisely the ability of a system to extend fairness to those who may appear to "deserve" it *least.* That is the test.
Failure in this is reversion beyond the rule of law.
I am saying nothing revelatory. These words feel redundant.
another cool one it apparently doesn't know is "externalities"
governance by red wavy underline 😁 it does, on the other hand, know "gaslighting" 🤣
because i'm an ornery cuss, i've been keeping track of these as i find them
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Dan (@dank@jorts.horse)
firefox' dictionary is vocabulary vanity sizing, it has to be how is philtrum not in itjorts.horse
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Snoopy's style explored at new exhibition
A new exhibition in Paris celebrates the history of fashion, as worn by Snoopy and the Peanuts gang. “Snoopy In Style,” which opens Saturday, pays tribute to Charles M.Nicki Finlay (AP News)
DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy
There is no way to know what a buyer will want to do with the reams of genetic information it has collected. Customers, meanwhile, still have no way to change their underlying genetic data.
404media.co/dna-of-15-million-…
#news #science #health #medicine #tech #technology #security #privacy #dna #23andme
So happy I decided to never use that service due to a concern that something like this would happen.
I asked them to provide an anonymous means of payment out of this concern. Fuck them.
TOSs mean shit, they can and often do change.
Jérôme
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