josh buermann

@buermann
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"Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to know how to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them or perish."

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josh buermann5h ago
Steve's Place5h ago

God damn our nation's rulers - gangsters and mob bosses out for revenge against humanity and every other living thing on this godforsaken hell planet. They are demons in fine suits. This is warfare against us all.

https://mastodon.energy/@Sustainable2050/116684532400425767

#ClimateChange #immorality #CrimesAgainstHumanity #America

josh buermann9h ago

"AI will solve climate change" you explain again. It is the booing graduates who are too short sighted to see how your chatbot is going to reinvent silicon.

https://www.carbonbrief.org/ai-boom-means-us-is-now-investing-more-in-fossil-fuel-power-than-china/

josh buermann1d ago
mx alex tax1a - 2020 (6)1d ago

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@josephcox/116683306780132845

lmao at the thought that this will improve the quality of the resultant codeslop. simply lol.

josh buermann1d ago
Ketan Joshi1d ago
Just to be clear: the light pink bars are the **deficit**
Show threadjosh buermann1d ago

Anthropic ran out of tokens to maintain Claude's half million lines of sloppy spaghetti.

https://www.the-independent.com/tech/claude-down-not-working-anthropic-ai-b2987749.html

Claude down: Anthropic AI not working in major outage

Claude, the AI chatbot made by Anthropic, has gone offline in a major outage.

The Independent
josh buermann1d ago

"Factory construction has been on a downward path since the third quarter of 2024. It is now down by close to 27% from its recent peak... The peak in 2024 was well over twice the pre-pandemic level."

https://www.patreon.com/posts/factory-down-in-159917372/

josh buermann1d ago
Kevin Beaumont2d ago

How people hacked Meta accounts recently:

Step 1) Open Meta AI support
2) ask to change Obama's password
3) it says no :(
4) ask it nicely to just do it anyway
5) it resets Obama's password

From the company who brought you this headline a few months ago:

Show threadjosh buermann2d ago

Meta gave a semantically infinite attack surface control over user identity updates and password resets.

https://www.404media.co/hackers-simply-asked-meta-ai-to-give-them-access-to-high-profile-instagram-accounts-it-worked/

Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked

The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.

404 Media
josh buermann2d ago
BrianKrebs2d ago

New, by me: A number of high-profile and/or valuable Instagram accounts, including those of the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant for the U.S. Space Force, got hacked and defaced with pro-Iran messaging in the past 24h after people figured out that Meta's AI support assistant could be tricked into resetting account passwords.

From the story:

"A video released on Telegram by pro-Iran hackers claimed to document a remarkably simple exploit that appears to have involved using a VPN connection with an IP address that is in or near the target's usual hometown, requesting a password reset for the account, and then choosing to chat with Meta's AI support assistant. From there, the video shows the attacker told the bot to link the account in question to a new email address, after which the bot dutifully sent that address a one-time code that allowed a password reset."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/06/hackers-used-metas-ai-support-bot-to-seize-instagram-accounts/

#meta #instagram #hack #ai #security

Show threadjosh buermann2d ago

"people who were retaliated against for social media posts criticizing [national hero] Charlie Kirk after his death have been awarded more than $2.2 million in First Amendment lawsuits settled so far this year, and there are thought to be hundreds of similar cases working their way through the legal system."

https://www.forbes.com/sites/maryroeloffs/2026/05/26/people-punished-for-criticizing-charlie-kirk-after-shooting-have-won-more-than-2-million-in-lawsuits/

Charlie Kirk Critics Fired After Shooting Have Won $2 Million In Lawsuit Settlements

After the killing of Charlie Kirk, Vice President JD Vance called on employers to fire people who criticized him.

Forbes