Timothy McVeigh won as his “ideas” now permeate right-wing terrorists and even elements of the Republican Party. Powerful column by Michelle Goldberg.

“As it happens, in the hours after the Oklahoma City bombing, before the authorities knew who McVeigh was, he was pulled over during a routine traffic stop and then arrested for carrying a gun without a permit. In 2019, however, Oklahoma legalized permitless carry. Under the new law, McVeigh would have been let go.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/08/opinion/timothy-mcveigh-mass-shootings.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

As someone who has participated in multi-year edit wars over, yes, Nazi shit, I will say that my biggest concern here isn’t about unedited LLM text hitting wikipedia articles—that’s v bad but probably largely fixable—but with the way Talk page sophistry is about to become absolutely fucking unmanageable as malicious editors set chatbots to do their infinite argumentation for them

To generalize: LLMs on the web’s surfaces are bad. LLMs in the backstage are much worse.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/v7bdba/ai-is-tearing-wikipedia-apart

“Multimodal infrastructure that makes walking, biking and transit enjoyable is a huge economic advantage for cities. Smart cities know this and are building this infrastructure to be more competitive.” — @BrentToderian on CBC radio.

#cities #urbanism #transportation #mobility
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-110-daybreak-south/clip/15970361-a-bc-transportation-consultant-shares-perspective-peoples-attitudes

#Slack has disclosed a #breach of their private #GitHub repositories that occurred on December 27, 2022

https://slack.com/intl/en-au/blog/news/slack-security-update

Of note, measures have been taken to prevent Search Engine indexing of the official Slack notification. Details here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/slacks-private-github-code-repositories-stolen-over-holidays/