Mastodawn

I am 82 now. Should I need a wheelchair, I have instructed my family and friends that they can take me to the Mall, Zoo or Gardens, but please, not to a nightclub, because I will not fit in there. #personalsafety

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Eric Maugendre on collectives Apr 7

"We then survey statistical lower bounds that, we argue, constitute a compelling case against the possibility of designing high-accuracy LAIMs with strong security guarantees."

On the Impossible Safety of Large AI Models
https://arxiv.org/abs/2209.15259

#generativeAI #chatBots #LLMs #safety #personalSafety #robustness #genAI #accuracy

On the Impossible Safety of Large AI Models

Large AI Models (LAIMs), of which large language models are the most prominent recent example, showcase some impressive performance. However they have been empirically found to pose serious security issues. This paper systematizes our knowledge about the fundamental impossibility of building arbitrarily accurate and secure machine learning models. More precisely, we identify key challenging features of many of today's machine learning settings. Namely, high accuracy seems to require memorizing large training datasets, which are often user-generated and highly heterogeneous, with both sensitive information and fake users. We then survey statistical lower bounds that, we argue, constitute a compelling case against the possibility of designing high-accuracy LAIMs with strong security guarantees.

arXiv.org

Chaincoder Apr 3

This Is What a Personal Surveillance System Actually Looks Like

You stop thinking of it as surveillance. It becomes “the system.” Just part of how things run.

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/04/03/this-is-what-a-personal-surveillance-system-actually-looks-like/

FurballsNHairballs Mar 22

One added bonus of ICE helping TSA.
You get a chance to lose your phone and be detained for having anti Trump, anti- fascist,anti-ICE, actually anything democratic in tone anywhere on your phone.
Best to travel with a burner phone with attorney contact numbers and close relative numbers only
No biometerics for security...passwords only
They can force a biometric , not a password....at least that is been mentioned before.
#ice
#tsa
#airports
#personalsafety
#cellphone

Chaincoder Mar 22

OSINT Isn’t About Skill Anymore. It’s About Systems

There’s a moment, if you spend enough time in this space, where your attention changes. You stop looking at individual data points as things to extract. You start seeing them as inputs to a larger structure.

https://cha1nc0der.wordpress.com/2026/03/21/osint-isnt-about-skill-anymore-its-about-systems/

Front Page Mar 19

His last name was spelled backwards on his Facebook Dating profile. Her mom figured out why from the parking lot just in time.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.upworthy.com/pn-facebook-dating-mom-googled-date-battery-charges/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=pn-facebook-dating-mom-googled-date-battery-charges

Dale Yeager Mar 19

“There aren’t many non-fictions, self-help books that I would consider “page-turners,” but that’s exactly what Dale Yeager has written." Marjory Abrams, former Editor in Chief, Bottom Line Personal https://www.amazon.com/Profiling-Your-Life-Criminal-Dangerous/dp/B0D2Z7BZXN/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8

profilingyourlife #personalsafety #selfdefense #forensicpsychology #protectyourfamily #criminalprofiling #truecrime #daleyeager

Dale Yeager Mar 1

Profiling Your Life: How to Use Criminal Profiling to Protect Yourself and Your Family from Dangerous People by Dale Yeager Understanding the minds of criminals, assessing personal safety threats, and practical safety strategies. Audible. https://tinyurl.com/yc36c7hp profilingyourlife #personalsafety #selfdefense #forensicpsychology #protectyourfamily #criminalprofiling #truecrime #daleyeager

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Eric Maugendre on collectives Feb 24

Collective adaptive goes virtuous circle:
- sharing information,
- creating opportunities for people to share the "messy details" of their experience,
- inquiring into team member’s ways "to expand what goes well",
- drawing from the capacity across the work collective.

https://www.infoq.com/articles/adapt-surprises-software-reliant-businesses/

#collectives #teamWork #workCulture #facilitation #management #IT #DevOps #resilience #engineering #fallBack #recovery #psychologicalSafety #personalSafety #safety #feedback #joy #curiosity

Prepare to Be Unprepared: Investing in Capacity to Adapt to Surprises in Software-Reliant Businesses

This article explores understanding what makes incidents so rare (when and how they do not happen) and so minor (over how much worse they can be) and deliberately enhancing what makes that possible.

InfoQ

Dale Yeager Feb 17

Profiling Your Life: How to Use Criminal Profiling to Protect Yourself and Your Family from Dangerous People by Dale Yeager Understanding the minds of criminals, assessing personal safety threats, and practical safety strategies. Audible. https://tinyurl.com/yc36c7hp #profilingyourlife #personalsafety #selfdefense #forensicpsychology #protectyourfamily #criminalprofiling #truecrime #daleyeager