Tim de Sousa

Gibson should change the quote - "the creeps find their own uses for things"

UNIVERSITY OF SAN FRANCISCO Office of Public Safety Crime Safety Advisory: Suspicious Occurrence Reported Dear USF Community, We want to make you aware of recent reports of a suspicious occurrence on and around campus. Multiple community members have reported contact from an individual, described as male and wearing Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses, who has approached women with unwanted comments and inappropriate dating questions. Reports indicate that this individual may be attempting to post these interactions online under the account name "pickuplines.pov" on TikTok, Instagram, and possibly other social media platforms. While no threats or acts of violence have been reported, we want our community to stay informed and take steps to support one another. If you encounter this individual or any suspicious activity: Take immediate action to report the incident at the time it occurs by calling Public Safety Dispatch. .

Actual safety notice from my alma mater:

Ray-Ban Meta sunglasses being used exactly as everyone expected

The techbros are not okay (it’s a completely open campus…not all the buildings, obviously)

ChatGPT Encouraged Suicidal Teen Not To Seek Help, Lawsuit Claims As reported by the New York Times, a new complaint from the parents of a teen who died by suicide outlines the conversations he had with the chatbot in the months leading up to his death.

I'm not kidding on this. This is not just bizarre, it's deeply unethical.

"Sir, people are going insane by talking to our chatbot and getting into a self affirmation feedback spiral".

"Really? Cool cool cool - make it sexier"

"What"

"SEXIEEEEERRRRRR"

“I asked chat GPT”

Cyber-attacks rise by 50% in past year, UK security agency says Officials say increased dependence on technology leaves society more vulnerable to threats such as ransomware

Cyber-attacks rise by 50% in past year, UK security agency says

Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now with added AI slop “Single JobSeeker just hit $400 a week. Let me know how you’d go if you were getting that little and were randomly not paid.” This comment, from the

Shame and harm at every JobSeeker turn – and now with added AI slop australiainstitute.org.au/post/shame-a...

How one academic unravelled Deloitte’s AI errors “I would’ve studied that book if it existed” – the moment welfare academic Chris Rudge knew he had sprung AI fictions in a consultancy report.

Nice to see Chris Rudge get the recognition he deserves www.afr.com/politics/how...

The bachelor's handbag!

Absolutely unhinged endurance. Your kid is a total beast.

oh my god.

This is frankly an insane amount of athleticism - the cycling equivalent of running a marathon. Was he even riding a road bike?

As I wrote before the legislation even hit parliament www.theguardian.com/media/articl...

Nah, just my regular weekend training ride. Just because I do it every week doesn’t mean I don’t spend the afternoon lying on the couch and moaning extravagantly.

Just off his own bat, apparently. Solo ride.

I couldn’t do this on my best day after months of training.

This is totally bonkers. This teenager is doing a one day 140km ride with basically no prep and he’s going to make it. Meanwhile I did 36km after riding for 15 years this morning and I can barely walk. Oh, to be young.

BBC article text: “Discord, a messaging platform popular with gamers, says official ID photos of around 70,000 users have potentially been leaked after a cyber-attack. The platform, which has more than 200 million users worldwide, says hackers had targeted a firm that helped to verify the ages of its users but the Discord platform itself was not breached. People can provide ID photos to verify their age on Discord - a networking hub for players to chat and share files with others in the gaming community. The leaked data may involve personal information, partial credit card details and messages that were exchanged with Discord's customer service agents, the San-Francisco-based company says.”

When people warn about the privacy and security risks of mandating digital age verification, this is exactly what they mean. It’s not hypothetical www.bbc.com/news/article...

There was a point in my career where a breach of 10K records was the largest breach in Australian history. Now we routinely have so many multi mil breaches that companies want to shrug at 70K? But 70K people is a *lot* of people.

I am extremely reluctant to find out what this relates to.

Don’t tell me what to do!

University caught out using AI to wrongly accuse students of cheating with AI An Australian university has accused thousands of its students of cheating with artificial intelligence. The problem? Many have done nothing wrong.

I now allocate a tutorial to critical ai literacy, in the weeks before a major essay is due. Most students know the slop is slop, and quickly learn it is planet-boiling slop. If unis can not educate students about ai what the fuck is the point is my view.

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10...

I hope that this silly thread improves your day somewhat.

Anyway, my dog has a better social life than most people.

A watercolour of Daisy, a small oodle.

Finally, Daisy, who is a an absolute darling.

He weighs 1.2 kg, that is frankly ridiculous!

A watercolour of Jet the cavoodle puppy.

Jet the cavoodle puppy, who is too young and small to actually walk anywhere but his owner is a sweetheart who carries him for walks twice a day.

A watercolour of Fenchurch and Sydney in yin yang configuration.

Fenchurch and Sydney in the midst of battle.

A watercolour of Bennet the puppy on her first day out.

Bennet, whom we met on her first walk ever. Fenchurch and some other little fluffy dogs taught her how to run and do zoomies.

A ink and wash of Leo, a little fluffy dog.

This is Leo, a well dressed floof.