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Annual repost of this real document from the Government of the Commonwealth of Australia.

TIL about the “Free Speech Flag”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Speech_Flag

It’s an encoding of a secret key – 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0 – that was used to copy protect HD DVDs and Blue Ray discs in the mid-2000s. This key was considered a so called “illegal number” since publishing it was tantamount to breaking a legally protected encryption scheme.

The flag consists of five colours whose RGB hex values are the first 15 bytes of the secret key and the C0 is printed in the lower right.

Bubble Jammer
Wired - Mysterious Fari language numbers shortwave transmissions traced to Panzer Kaserne, a US military installation in Böblingen, Germany. https://www.wired.com/story/a-mysterious-numbers-station-is-broadcasting-through-the-iran-war/
A Mysterious Numbers Station Is Broadcasting Through the Iran War

First heard as US and Israeli strikes on Iran began, the shortwave broadcast has since been traced to a US military base in Germany—but its purpose and its operator remain unclear.

WIRED

Nine times out of ten, the word ‘decimate’ is used incorrectly.

Descriptive/prescriptive, flammable/inflammable, let’s call the whole thing off.

Trump doesn’t take a salary because that is chump change compared to manufacturing a crisis which tanks the stock market, buying low and then selling high once he backs down then the stock market recovers.

It’s an infinite money glitch.

ios user interfaces have become truly nihilistic. buttons on top of buttons. text on top of text. multiple inscrutable hamburgers. nothing has any meaning and all human action is futile
A man used LLMs to generate hundreds of thousands of "songs", then used bots to stream them billions of times, to collect $8m in royalties. https://www.justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/north-carolina-man-pleads-guilty-music-streaming-fraud-aided-artificial-intelligence-0 Is there a better metaphor for late-stage capitalism than burning resources to make songs that are never listened to, then steaming them to robots that will never hear them, ad infinitum?

I hung this painting in the hall to my studio because I didn’t know what to do with it. It wasn’t done, but …? My daughter added googly eyes. This is indeed what it needed. Collaboration! 🤘🏼🥰🥳

#art #painting #silly