en Sat, 04 Jul 2026 04:48:52 +0000 800 https://f-droid.org/2026/07/01/adv-malware.html Thu, 02 Jul 2026 19:50:52 +0000








FDroid are, rightly, going hard against Android Developer Verification: "If you are running Android 8 or higher, a virus has been
installed on your device and is silently awaiting remote activation.
Over the past few months, devices around the world have been infected
with this novel strain, with as many as 4 billion Android handsets and
tablets estimated to have already been contaminated, meaning that around
half of all humanity may be at risk from this threat."]]> 799 https://www.medialens.org/2026/whitewash-media-silence-over-starmers-gaza-legacy/ Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:08:31 +0000 genocide and crimes against humanity is stunning. Searches of British
newspapers using the Nexis database reveal that in the first 24 hours of
Starmer resigning, there were 1,485 mentions of him. Only 30 of these
had any reference to Gaza. Several of these were reports of Irish rap
trio Kneecap saying farewell in Irish to Starmer"]]> 798 https://moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/where-to-find-the-colors-your-screen-cant-show-you/ Sun, 21 Jun 2026 11:34:04 +0000 real world. You probably saw some of them today, but I can’t show them
to you on a screen. A digital photograph can’t capture them, and your
screen can’t display them. No game you’ve ever played has contained
them. Unless you have specialized equipment, they are entirely absent
from the digital world."]]> 797 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/19/uk-social-media-ban-under-16s-big-tech-age-verification Sat, 20 Jun 2026 09:03:13 +0000 serious about protecting children, they should roll back
age-verification policies and start targeting the systems that
incentivise mass surveillance. Instead of building an internet where
every user must ID themselves before being able to speak or consume
information, we should work to build an online world where everyone,
especially young people, can engage freely without being exploited for
corporate profit."]]> 796 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6DKRf-fAAM Sat, 13 Jun 2026 10:37:50 +0000 795 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZhCi_AssQMg Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:29:08 +0000 794 https://www.theatlantic.com/philosophy/2026/06/no-artificial-intelligence-is-not-conscious/687378/ Thu, 04 Jun 2026 09:01:01 +0000 constitution? Perhaps the most fruitful way to think about it is as an
84-page character sheet for a role-playing game. LLMs can generate
dialogue for Julius Caesar because many books about him exist in the
training data those models used. Claude’s constitution serves a similar
role for delineating the helpful-chatbot character that customers
interact with when they’re using Anthropic’s products. To do this
effectively, Anthropic does not simply add the document to the training
data, or include it as part of the hidden stage directions that preface
each conversation a user has. The company says it uses the document when
fine-tuning the model; this involves an automated process where the
sentences emitted by the model are checked for consistency with the
document and the model is u…]]> 793 https://www.medialens.org/2026/media-myopia-as-we-hurtle-towards-climate-oblivion/ Sun, 31 May 2026 11:02:20 +0000


Our media continues to report on bullshit while ignoring the story: "Imagine that, instead of focusing on
short-term melodramas, leading news organisations rigorously probed
politicians, day in and day out, about the climate crisis.



Imagine that news editors and journalists
relentlessly challenged the government about current policies that are
bringing us closer to the brink of climate chaos.



Imagine that reporters investigated and
exposed the deep reluctance and state-corporate obstacles, including the
establishment media, that are blocking alternatives to climate
Armageddon.



Imagine, in other words, that we had a
sane media system. That could just mean the difference between human
survival and human erasure."]]> 792 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4jRnYfigc3I Mon, 25 May 2026 13:45:19 +0000 791 https://ifloz.substack.com/p/nobody-wants-to-come-to-america-mate Mon, 18 May 2026 10:31:52 +0000 question, then came in with the kill shot dressed up as polite analysis: “If you’re going to see regime change to stop this war, forget about seeing it in Iran. You need to see it in America.” --Pause on that for a second.That
is a Chinese academic, on British television, telling Piers Morgan that
the path to global stability runs not through Tehran but through
Washington. That the bloke in the Oval Office, the geriatric grift
artist with the Diet Coke button and the nuclear codes, is the
destabilising force. Not the Ayatollah. Not Xi. Not Putin. Not Kim. The
bankrupt steak salesman from Queens.And what’s wild is, he’s not wrong.]]> 790 https://www.terrygodier.com/the-boring-internet Thu, 14 May 2026 22:31:51 +0000 gut it for shareholders. Nobody can call an all-hands meeting and
explain that, going forward, the protocol will prioritize video.]]> 789 https://www.theverge.com/ai-artificial-intelligence/917380/ai-monetization-anthropic-openai-token-economics-revenue Fri, 24 Apr 2026 09:02:17 +0000 788 https://www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/nft-metaverse-ai-weirdos Tue, 21 Apr 2026 08:29:04 +0000 787 https://www.medialens.org/2026/nuclear-genocide-the-threat-and-the-ceasefire/ Sun, 19 Apr 2026 23:27:59 +0000 provoked a display of deep-seated solidarity and compassion that defied
decades of propaganda demonising the Iranian people as ‘animals’,
‘savages’ and ‘primitives’. Clearly, very few of us are willing to
tolerate the threat of nuclear genocide. In these grim times, when it
sometimes feels like humanity has completely lost its way, that is
something to celebrate."]]> 786 https://samkriss.substack.com/p/reading-is-magic Sun, 12 Apr 2026 18:24:15 +0000 assume a literate population; people who are willing to think in
abstract terms about the kind of world they want to live in. Without
that, democracy becomes a kind of tribal headcount, or a struggle for
state resources between competing patronage networks. This is what lies
behind a lot of the growing liberal panic over the decline of literacy.
For a growing chorus of people who write in the Atlantic,
we’re recoiling into pre-Enlightenment conditions of absolute
domination. A population that can no longer think for itself will end up
voluntarily ceding power to strongmen or demagogues. The end of
literacy is the end of public reason. A post-literate world will be
unreasonable, irrational, full of anger and madness, and people eating
each other in the streets."]]> 785 https://www.terrygodier.com/the-last-quiet-thing Fri, 10 Apr 2026 21:47:46 +0000 car updates itself overnight, and sometimes when you start it in the
morning, the interface has rearranged itself, as if someone broke in and
reorganized your dashboard while you slept.]]> 784 https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/shameless-guesses-not-hallucinations Tue, 17 Mar 2026 10:01:58 +0000
AIs say false things for the same reason you do.

At least, I did. In school, I would take multiple choice tests. When I didn’t know the answer to a question, I would guess.]]> 783 https://tboteproject.com/ Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:59:20 +0000 782 https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/11/modal-dialog-a-palooza/#autoplay-videos Thu, 12 Mar 2026 00:11:59 +0000 fuck themselves, then a chatbot is obviously the most efficient way of
delivering the service. It's not just that a chatbot charges less to
tell people to go fuck themselves than a human being – the chatbot
itself means "go fuck yourself." A chatbot is basically a "go fuck yourself" emoji. Perhaps this is why every AI icon looks like a butthole"]]> 781 https://www.medialens.org/2026/how-on-earth-do-you-justify-that-laura-kuenssbergs-selective-empathy/ Wed, 11 Mar 2026 17:50:50 +0000 Enemies of the West, such as the Soviet Union (and now Russia), North
Korea or China. These victims garner considerable media attention in the
propaganda system, marked by sympathy, indignation and fury. Their
suffering is humanised, described in detail, and used to generate moral
outrage directed at the offending regimes or governments, often as part
of a concerted attempt to topple them for the benefit of Western
geostrategic interests.---



‘Unworthy’ victims, by contrast, are people who are killed or whose
democratic aspirations are crushed by the West or ‘our allies’; such as
Suharto’s Indonesia in the 1960s, Pinochet’s Chile in the 1970s, the
US-backed Indonesian invasion of East Timor in 1975, and Israel in the
present day. These victims are less prominent, even absent, in western
media coverage or are often discounted as ‘collateral damage’: a lesser
kind of human, robbed of their individuality, their …]]>