#PSA: If your profile pic is a sick or battered child, then I'm not going to accept your follow request (and I might block or even report you depending on how bad the photo is).

I get like a dozen of these requests per day, and I *really* don't want to see photos of bleeding children¹ scattered throughout my timeline.

¹ same goes for profile pics of genitals, gore, guns, etc.

Getting to use my #RedTeamTools swag sooner than I expected 😁

It also makes an easily recognizable luggage tag 😋

This is extremely, extremely alarming.

Look, if you show up for a protest and you slash car tires and break a security camera, you do that understanding that there may be personal consequences — and for vandalizing gov property, as the price of civil disobedience, maybe you accept your 9-month sentence + probation.

You do not accept a 50- or 70- or 100-year sentence. Many murderers get less time than that. If they murdered Alex Pretti or Renee Good, they apparently get no time at all.

This isn’t justice. It’s suppression. It’s authoritarianism.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced

If there was a Fedi-Dating platform...

1. what features would you find most valuable?

2. what features do you like from existing dating sites?

3. and what features do you dislike from existing dating sites?

4. what safety features would you need in order to feel safe on the platform?

#AskFedi #Dating #LGBTQ+

Using LLMs is like driving a big-ass gas truck.

No one *should* do it, but it can be useful, and you—as an individual—shouldn't *really* feel that bad for doing it under limited circumstances.

But please remember, using it feeds some of the worst companies in history, and *they* (and especially their decision-makers) need to be held responsible for their destructive practices. Every dollar in their pockets helps promote more late-stage capitalism and fascism.

Lastly, If you *do* use it, don't drive like an asshole.

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Credentials: years spent working both for and against various AI companies.

*braces for backlash*

#AI #LLMs

Wow, remember when we were all outraged by tech bros pumping NFTs?

Those were simpler times.

New, from me: 'Popa' Botnet Linked to Publicly Traded Israeli Firm

"For the past four years, a sprawling Android-based botnet called Popa has forced millions of consumer TV boxes to relay Internet traffic linked to advertising fraud, account takeovers, and mass data-scraping efforts. This week, researchers from multiple security firms concluded that the Popa botnet is linked to NetNut, a “residential proxy” provider operated by the publicly-traded Israeli firm Alarum Technologies Ltd [NASDAQ: ALAR]."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/popa-botnet-linked-to-publicly-traded-israeli-firm/

There is an incredible amount of interesting data and findings in the reports on Popa released this week. For example, the proxy detection service Spur told me they recently scraped the LG and Samsung app stores and found that each had approximately 3,000 apps available for download. Spur said it found that more than 42 percent of apps available for download via the webOS operating system on LG smart TVs include SDKs that turn one’s television into an always-on residential proxy node. More than a quarter of the apps made for Samsung’s Tizen operating system had similar residential proxy components, Spur found.

#proxy #popa #botnet #lg #samsung

Get yourself a hottie who drinks strawberry margaritas?

(unrelated: I like strawberry margaritas)