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rfk jr has personally instructed the cdc to acknowled that studies have not ruled out the possibility that between the earth and mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit

If you use GMail, AI (Gemini) was turned on yesterday by default and now scans all of your content for machine learning. To turn off, go to Settings>General and scroll down. Uncheck the box for "Smart features."

There's other "Smart" add-ons as well, but that's the one that reads your content.

It always cheers me up to contemplate the fact that least-worst member of the Golden Dawn, W.B. Yeats, threw Aleister Crowley down the stairs once.

He had it coming.

I've been using poetry based jailbreaks for years now and am mostly just upset that someone blew up my spot. One of those things that only works until foundation labs start trying to train for refusals to poetic prompt-hacking

Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."

https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1

Dear All Have you seen Prof Biscuit recently? Professor Biscuit is roaming Main Building or more likely, is asleep somewhere cosy. Have you seen him recently? If so, could he be persuaded to be returned to the Bursary, please?

They're also responsible for one of the best emails I've ever received, when the college office sent out a plea for sightings of Professor Biscuit while conveniently forgetting to mention that he was a cat...(I won't comment on how often a similar email might have gone out about human Professors...)

actuallychloehayes › millennials 20h serious question for the millennials... my older cousin said she used to 'burn' cds for her crush. like... with ? was that a ritual? did it work? you guys were literally practicing witchcraft just to get a text back. i'm scared of y'all. Q 2.9K

My favorite piece of content today.

Cows have rough tongues like a cat's but way longer and more prehensile. They can open locks/pens with them and steal stuff out of your pockets. A curious cow can get into a LOT of things with their tongue which is why cow-proofing things is important in science ^^ But it's also adorable 🥰

oh. no.

I have a fun hypothetical for the technical among us! (For certain values of fun, heh.) The scenario: You run a website. It doesn't have a mobile app: the only way to access it is in-browser. You are deeply, morally opposed to any form of invasive tracking or data-gathering on your users.

fuck. <3

This is incredibly informative. If you don’t know what Makaton is: it’s a “system” that steals, breaks, copyrights, and sells signs from various sign languages. But it’s also a lot worse than that.

some guys at the turn of the 20th century felt bad that economists didn't do calculus like the physicists did and we've all been paying for it since

A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive: L'OREAL 6,204,444 followers Promoted We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al. WELCOME TO NVIDIA L'ORÉAL GROUPE

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

*reads replies*
*looks it up*
ah. not a cryptographic key-signing party then.

oof. that sounds... yup.

why, so that (if you don't ship to my country) you can continue to send me marketing forever from a store i can't buy from?

What countries do you ship to? A full list of the countries where we ship glasses is available on the Payment Page. When you click on the Country drop-down window, you will see the list of countries.

i truly hate companies who do this. not only do i have to sign up, choose a product, go through nearly every purchase step to find out whether i can afford the shipping, i also have to do so to find out if you ship to me at all?

Trojan Room coffee pot - Wikipedia

the last time a smart coffee device was cool was in 1991

citation: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trojan_...

Alice was a friend, a mentor, and a guide to so many in the disability community, and especially in the realms of disability and technology and disabled-led design.

This one hurts bad, but some of her last words were "Don't let the bastards grind you down. I love you all."

Gonna try to hold that.

fuck. her memory for a revolution.

we also don't have data about how much increased engagement with medicare for new, stress-related illnesses the NDIS and its bureaucratic and political surroundings are causing (haha only serious)

Evidence of ancient tree-climbing 'drop crocs' found in Australia Scientists say the crocodiles hunted like leopards by climbing trees and killing prey below.

Okay, Australian scientists, you're just trolling us now, right? www.bbc.com/news/article...

excellent title, concept, and execution. i raise a hot dog to you.

how are you finding graphene?

still not good communication

Audiences: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, Academics, Businesses, Carers and guardians, Community groups, Contracted Service Providers, Families, General public, Health professionals, Health workforce, Men, Non-government organisations, Parents, Seniors, Women, Young people

i can't help but feel like there might be a stakeholder group they forgot to mention. one that might be closer to this issue than "businesses" or "general public".

you can put "noai." on the front of the duckduckgo link. it's ridiculous that you'd have to, but it still works
noai.duckduckgo.com

i hope that student has had a very happy life after school, whether or not she turned out to be trans. (i didn't know her well enough to contact her after, and her name was too generic to look up. if she did keep her then name and pronouns. after all, i didn't keep mine!)

another queer student in my year level (two years younger than the student i just mentioned) was openly butch, and in the yearbook was voted "most likely to be a man." and that is as close as i came to any awareness of transmasculinity in my school years.