Over at [@WIRED](
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 ), reporters like Vittoria Elliott are doing excellent work documenting Musk's takeover of the federal government In this piece, she tracks down the names of the people Musk has installed at various agencies these guys are all 19 to 24 year old engineers -- one is a Thiel fellow Story here:
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The Young, Inexperienced Engineers Aiding Elon Musk’s Government Takeover
Engineers between 19 and 24, most linked to Musk’s companies, are playing a key role as he seizes control of federal infrastructure.
 Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/L2C7d
US media has traditionally been far more clear-eyed about antidemocratic purges abroad so here's an exercise in how a US correspondent might describe the events of the last week in Washington, were it occurring overseas
Doomsday Scenario
Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government
Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now
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I"m doing this as we speak torrenting the entire 102-gig English text of Wikipedia so I have a local copy
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This is terrible, and expectedly so, from an administration that is following the fascist playbook of hitting hard on media outlets to get them in line It’s depressing and angering that CBS is going along with it anticipatory obedience by major media is of course dreadful Gift link:
CBS News Set to Hand Over Transcript of ‘60 Minutes’ Interview to F.C.C.
The broadcaster had declined previous requests by the Trump campaign to release the unedited transcript of an interview with Vice President Kamala ...
Some thoughts of mine on how to cycle in NYC without having your bike stolen the tl;dr - buy an older used bike that's cheap, and ... - ... and brand new high-end lock that's expensive https://www.reddit.com/r/NYCbike/comments/1idyf4a/comment/ma53hcm/
Software folks Wired is running a short survey asking about whether you ever use AI in your coding if you're interested, give 'em your feedback:
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AI and the Future of Programming
Via the Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group (@npub1mwgn...zng5) ... ... here's a list of code designed to poison the well for AI web-scrapers
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Attached: 1 image ## **Sabot in the Age of AI** A list of offensive methods & strategic approaches for facilitating (algorithmic) sabotage, frame...
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Fantastic piece at @npub1mmj3...6teu about the Syrian trade in the drug captagon ... ... and how for years the Assad regime masterminded the production and dissemination of the drug to nearby countries ... ... to destabilize them. Those chickens came home to roost in the regime's fall
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How Assad’s Trade in Captagon Fueled His Downfall
Right up to its collapse, the regime lied about its role in the drug’s production and distribution
A hacker developed an "infinite maze" to trap web-crawlers/scrapers from AI companies basically, if the server code detects that a web crawler from an AI firm is trying to scrape the site ... ... the code begins spinning up an infinite, nesting warren of new sham pages, filled with random text so the crawler gets stuck crawling and scraping endless and meaningless pages fun @Jason Koebler piece at @404 Media
404 Media
Developer Creates Infinite Maze That Traps AI Training Bots
"Nepenthes generates random links that always point back to itself - the crawler downloads those new links. Nepenthes happily just returns more and...
Behold Sophie O'Neill's "embroidery journal" each day she stitches an icon representing something she did, felt or experienced by the end of the the year the whole thing is a gorgeous aide memoire Item #1 in my latest "Linkfest" newsletter, free to read and subscribe here:
Linkfest #30: Greyscale Gelato, the "Ott Derivimeter", and Vangelis' Ambient Music For Surgeries
Hello again! Time once again for "the opposite of doomscrolling” — my latest “Linkfest”, for which I cruise the endless overpasses of the G...
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