I have been feeding fake data about myself into every system I encounter since I was a teenager.

A data broker's portrait of me as a sixty-something businesswoman who drinks bud light proves that my history is a useless, contradictory mess as a result.

It's shitposting elevated to performance art.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Nein.

Oh this is delightful writing: "Musk has a powerful reality-distortion field, but the fact that physics hates satellite broadband cannot be overcome by shitposting, cosmetic surgery, buying elections, or wanting it really badly."

"Even space travel is useful as a scientific enterprise, while space colonization is unbelievably stupid and impractical, and has dogshit unit-economics that put even AI in the shade"

https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/24/geometry-hates-cars/#dogshit-unit-economics

As a child, I was taken from my home and imprisoned without cause. Today, in Florida, it’s happening again. People are being held in cruel conditions, denied dignity and due process. We can’t look away. We can’t wait for things to get better on their own.

Please join me in calling for the immediate closure of Alligator Alcatraz by signing the petition below. Your voice could help bring this injustice to an end. 

https://www.thepetitionsite.com/983/564/587/?TAP=2430&source_id=AlligatorAlcatraz

So the EU is better than Switzerland - amazing news, given the source. 😉

Background on the Swiss surveillance law that's worse than the US: 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/switzerland-surveillance-plan

Thanks @jonah @chillybot for tagging us.

A few days ago I came across this amazing bug report against Whisper, the LLM-based transcription tool: 'Complete silence is always hallucinated as "ترجمة نانسي قنقر" in Arabic which translates as "Translation by Nancy Qunqar"'

https://github.com/openai/whisper/discussions/2608

More about the problem in this thread https://xcancel.com/SheriefFYI/status/1756694564109423035

Thanks for the pointer, @itamarst (in https://hachyderm.io/@itamarst/114874924215640058 )