RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mezza_Notte/116731959539032297

First I've heard of this. Friend in mainland confirmed this is true. Stores won't even label 250 on price tags.

Insults in Chinese are swift and brutal. We have quite the insult culture.

My fav insult is still "you won't have a good death"

Think about all the layers in that. Cantonese insults are particularly brutal too.

Cantonese swearing and insults is probably worthy of an entire thread.

Salad dog hopes you're all keeping cool and hydrated!

#dog #dogs #dogsofmastodon #humor #humour

My newest tarot card is done and was pre-released today on my patreon page. https://www.patreon.com/sylviaritter - many thanks to all patrons 💚!

This means the Suit of Swords is now complete . Fourteen cards will also be painted, Suit of Cups, and then the full deck is complete.

Featuring - 🌊 Two of Swords 🌊

#art #mastoart #fediart #tarot #animals #nature #digitalArt #noai #water #ocean #wildlife #krita #blender

pink, fluffy pink!!!

I am very much not yet oversaturated by these vibrant colours.. I’m sure it will get old some time, but still has to emerge :D #photography #infrared

This toy designer was a genius: A wind-up toy that detects edges purely mechanically! Human intelligence beats Artificial Intelligence.
Edit: Minor typo corrected.

#ai #aihype #noai #stemeducation #FediLZ #tech #mint

From the WTAF dept:

Malware developers are now adding text about nuclear and biological weapons to their spyware to evade AI-based security scanners.

tl;dr: The inclusion of content that LLMs are trained to refuse -- such as information about nukes and bioweapons -- can effectively prevent the LLM from continuing to analyze the threat.

"This header appears designed for AI-mediated analysis, not for Node, Bun, or Python. It attempts to derail scanners or analyst copilots that feed the beginning of a file to a language model without clearly isolating the content as untrusted data. In weak pipelines, this can cause refusal behavior, prompt confusion, context pollution, or premature classification before the scanner reaches the actual malware."

https://socket.dev/blog/mini-shai-hulud-miasma-and-hades-worms-target-bioinformatics-and-mcp-developers-via-malicious

IDK why, but this reminds me of the Calvin & Hobbes cartoon where Calvin asks his mom for stuff she will never give him in a million years, and then he just asks for a cookie.