Thomas Dickerson @elfprince13@mumak.app

Domain registrar giant Namecheap had their email account breached Sunday night. The attackers used their access to send DHL phishing emails that tried to steal crypto.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/namecheaps-email-hacked-to-send-metamask-dhl-phishing-emails/

So let me get this straight: You own the email account for a huge domain registrar, and the best use you can put it to is sending DHL phishing? Namecheap got off easy here, if this is all that happened.

Image description:
A 2x4 matrix of tweet screenshots. Left column labeled at the top "disease outbreak", right column labeled "murdered by cops". Each subsequent row shows two tweets from the same author. First row, under "disease outbreak", a tweet author named Sharon quips "I call bullshit! Just trying to scare people to stay inside..." punctuated with a middle finger emoji. Under "murdered by cops", the same Sharon says "They said get in the house. Fkn listen." Description continued below.

Keep an eye on https://www.reddit.com/r/bing/ for examples of the new Bing going off the rails

The New Yorker has a piece about Grothendieck.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/05/16/the-mysterious-disappearance-of-a-revolutionary-mathematician

My wife signed us up for a couples/marriage course at church that meets Wednesday nights for a month but my D&D group is going to meet in person rather than Zoom this Wednesday so my question is can I duck out of the marriage seminar an hour or so early to go play D&D or is that going to be a thing

“Did anyone call me?!”
#SuperbOwl

#SuperbOwlSunday
#wildlife #OwlsOfMastodon #birdsofmastodon #Birds #Owl #Nature #birdphotography #AYearForArt #Photooftheday #WildlifePhotography #Birdwatching #Seattle #WashingtonState #PNW #Spring #SpringIntoArt #SpringForArt
https://pixels.com/featured/are-you-talking-to-me-barred-owl-ez-lorenz-imagery.html?product=metal-print

Boost if NOT watching the Super Bowl rn, lol

Well, that’s a new one. Comcast (who I don’t have for internet) managed to drill through my main power supply and knocked the house offline. Lovely.

@elfprince13 @regehr @dev smashing the stack without fun or profit 😭

In the early 2000s, I spent several years working on how to preventing an avian flu pandemic.

We have a lot more tools now, but the risk hasn't gone away.

Zeynep Tufecki's recent piece is worth reading:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/03/opinion/bird-flu-h5n1-pandemic.html?unlocked_article_code=vbNqFKP_JsiKa1TX9pSYFee2tUh934DShGXk_Wz7ob7DvKVQDn7Pty8ZEArCalMtnHGbGCAm43mQlWZSvpwUfxHUWiw6_QuPWzcw7wpw-iAYElqFYygqnXiCQw5YHJ3my_fCu8n9XhYQhOVlEkBClJKtnqs9Y2I-dq9H-yJuxZ2ar-ry57aQ_n8EEE1ZUBuKM0GWHaC1owMkWaGhoouTV3tDGJLFYbd1jPgWISbj-5fhF4UBs_iX71kfTyq0gO1p0Mg-WlhiK212KAMMFY2QPJTdvYC7kw5BKGV0-wytzKDzwf8OzI2_EljyMc9JTd2IXnMC9C_9GP4wUvIdWlmWbA&smid=share-url

uhhh so there is such a thing as GPT Killing Words and there are multiple that specifically, solely come from Twitch Plays Pokémon https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldmagikarp-plus-prompt-generation

But Black folk are disproportionately stopped, searched, charged, and arrested, tried, and convicted for drugs.

On bail: If you are arrested while poor and Black, you may be in jail *over a year* before trial. 600K+ folk in jail today are pre-trial. 😢

You will be locked up with folks my size. You will very likely be assaulted.

Even if you are innocent... An officer will offer you a way out of your year of hell: just admit your "guilt" and get out today!

@tomw

I suspect that writing certifiably produced before 2021 will be considered differently than writing produced afterwards, at least for some time.

Like low background steel for writing. 🤷🏿‍♂️

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

@elfprince13 @FinalOverdrive @mekkaokereke

Visiting Beaufort's National Historical Park of the Reconstruction taught me a lot, eg. Rep. Small's much huger contribution than I ever learned up North.

By 1878: Laura Towne noted in her diary: “Political times are simply frightful. Men are shot at, hounded down, trapped and held til certain meetings are over and intimidated in every possible way.”

https://history.house.gov/People/Detail/21764

https://www.nps.gov/reer/planyourvisit/index.htm

It’s very funny to me that the dominant Twentieth Century conception of AI was a slightly awkward nerd with an inhuman mastery of facts and logic, when what we actually got is smooth-talking bullshit artists who can’t do eighth-grade math.

That rollercoaster feeling when someone boots your post and this is also an opportunity to notice that you have a typo in it.