"These are terrible numbers, but also, these are some genuinely impressive accounting gimmicks...." - you can say that again, @pluralistic; I think anyone with an iota of common sense would agree that this bullshit should be illegal.
We cannot allow "By the authority vested in me by being rich I declare that I am now even richer!" randos to control the common, even global #economy.
It's fucking bonkers.
We say "fucking" to keep Google's AI from fscking up search results with AI. And now we can say "gravy" to throw off the AI scrapers?
Fucking gravy.
Thank you @aj for cluing me in.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:n2okvbdq33c32ekbv6hfzdg2/post/3lsvh7cupqk2z
For anyone wondering why #gravy has been trending: AI hucksters are trawling through your social media posts for training data and trends. And you know what can gum up the gears of an automated sentence generator? Posts that use the word gravy out of context. #auspol #ChatGPT #AI #LLM
If I have to see this goddamn "spatial ability" argument one more time. Get more specific. What type of spatial ability you absolute clowns. Exactly what task, and explain how you address the spatial ability conflation with gender problems. Explain why and how these diffs vanish when you include all the spatial tasks THAT RESEARCHERS REMOVED BECAUSE GIRLS WERE GOOD AT THEM
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10648-023-09728-2
Spatial ability has long been regarded as important in STEM, and mental rotation, a subcategory of spatial ability, is widely accepted as the cognitive ability with the largest gender difference in favor of men. Multiple meta-analyses of various tests of spatial ability have found large gender differences in outcomes of the mental rotation test (MRT). In this paper, we argue that more recent literature suggests that the MRT is not a valid measure of mental rotation ability. More importantly, we argue that the construct of “spatial ability” itself has been co-constructed with gender, and thus has not been devised in a neutral way, but in a manner that is influenced by gender beliefs. We discuss that though spatial thinking is also required in feminized fields, past research has cast spatial ability as only necessary in masculinized STEM fields. Due to a prevailing belief that spatial ability was an inherently male ability, researchers “selectively bred” some spatial assessment instruments to maximize gender differences, rather than to precisely measure a spatial construct. We argue that such instruments, of which the MRT is one, cannot validly assess between-group differences, and ideas about biological or evolutionary causes of sex differences in spatial ability lack empirical evidence. Instead, the co-construction of gender and spatial ability better explains observed patterns. We also provide recommendations for spatial researchers moving forward.
Microsoft will launch next month a private preview of a new Windows technology that will allow antivirus and security tools to run without kernel access (because of the CrowdStrike incident)
Several EDR vendors are working with Microsoft to test the new technology
Resilience isn’t optional—it’s a strategic imperative. In today’s threat landscape, organizations can’t afford to treat resilience as a reactive measure. It must be built into the foundation of how systems are designed, secured and managed
Critical Citrix Netscaler "Citrix Bleed 2" flaw actively exploited
A critical vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler devices, dubbed "Citrix Bleed 2" (CVE-2025-5777), is now being actively exploited by threat actors according to ReliaQuest, raising concerns of a repeat of the devastating 2023 "Citrix Bleed" campaign that affected major companies like Boeing and Comcast's 36 million customers.
**This is now important and URGENT. Your Citrix NetScaler ADC or Gateway, exposed on the internet, they are actively attacked and exploited. After patching, you must terminate all active ICA and PCoIP sessions since they may already be compromised by attackers.**
#cybersecurity #infosec #attack #activeexploit
https://beyondmachines.net/event_details/critical-citrix-netscaler-citrix-bleed-2-flaw-actively-exploited-4-y-j-i-q/gD2P6Ple2L
A critical vulnerability in Citrix NetScaler devices, dubbed "Citrix Bleed 2" (CVE-2025-5777), is now being actively exploited by threat actors according to ReliaQuest, raising concerns of a repeat of the devastating 2023 "Citrix Bleed" campaign that affected major companies like Boeing and Comcast's 36 million customers.
On the CrowdStrike AI layoffs:
"These were not underperformers. Many of them were relatively new hires. [...] So, AI has literally killed many jobs at CrowdStrike this week. I'm fortunate to be among the survivors, but I don't know for how long."
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-ai-is-killing-jobs-in-the-tech-f39
Ugh, here we go. People in the U.S. will get sicker more often, overall health and average life expectancy (US currently ranks 48th or so) will further decline. But because that impact will individually be subtle and compound only over years, the idiot population won’t make the connection.
Next on the chopping block: MMR vaccines. So yeah, young kids and infants are actually going to die. USA, USA.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/26/health/rfk-jr-vaccines-acip-cdc.html
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