RE: https://scholar.social/@gedankenstuecke/116300653239211563

In for a penny, in for a pound. After not writing in German for ~15 years, let alone in a journalistic register, I did two articles in two days. It's fun to feel some of that "muscle memory" come back. 😅

Paul Krugman:

"When officers of a company or people close to them exploit confidential information for personal financial gain, that’s (illegal) insider trading. But we have another word for situations in which people with access to confidential info regarding national security exploit that info for profit. That word is “treason.”

There’s a broader lesson here: You can’t trust a corrupt govt to protect national security. And our govt is now utterly corrupt."

https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/treason-in-the-futures-markets?r=4bv4c
#UsPol

A popular Python library just became a backdoor to your entire machine

https://www.xda-developers.com/popular-python-library-backdoor-machine/

It's one of the most popular Python libraries for interacting with large language models [...] It has over 40,000 stars on GitHub, and it's an important dependency in a lot of AI tooling. It's also been compromised on PyPI, and the malicious versions are stealing everything they can find on your machine.

Sorry but... 🍿

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116274161758622263

“Companies like SpaceX have stated repeatedly that their method is to “move fast and break things.” They are now close to breaking the atmosphere, the night sky and anything on the ground or in space that their satellites and rockets fall on or crash into.

Earth’s orbital space is a finite resource. There is an evolving set of international guidelines for operating in outer space, grounded in a set of high-level international rules. Yet, those rules and guidelines are inadequate.

One corporation based in one country should not be allowed to ruin orbit, the night sky, and the atmosphere for everyone else in the world.”

If you have a pet and a carpet or rugs you should have a metal carpet rake for pet hair.

I just removed what seems to be an entire dog from our living room rug.

Flashback to September 2024. Mori Point, California.

This is the hike that made me fall in love with coastal hiking, and absolutely led to my desire to hike the 411-mile Oregon Coast Trail in 2025.

#Hiking #California

seeing another round of "don't favorite posts on fedi"

folks it is a kind and lovely thing to favorite someone's post and anyone who tells you not to be kind and lovely has told you something about themself

it's true that it doesn't particulary increase the distribution of your post but the idea that we're all here to get things distributed as far as possible is pretty weird

Wrote about maintaining a human web and how the human.json project & the 'AI' blacklist for uBlock made browsing the web a bit better.

https://tzovar.as/maintaining-a-human-web-with-humans-json-aiblacklist/

#smallWeb #ai

«Microsoft and Google are working hard to make sure you hate email and hate building a website. But we don’t have to obey. We can enjoy writing lightweight HTML and sending quick emails to each other. We have the right to read, write, and have social fun without Javascript and centralized platforms. We have the duty to keep this torch lit.»

Honestly, the whole small/indie web has been the most fun I've had with technology in a long while.

https://ploum.net/2026-03-20-social-smolnet.html

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