Hey, cis dudes. I need you to show up as allies at trans #pride events this month. Don’t make a big deal out of it. Don’t expect to win awards for it. Don’t hit on people. Don’t make it about you. Just swell our numbers.

And stand between us and the cops and transphobes, please.

#boost welcome.

All spaces should be safe for all women.

Any attempt to designate specific safe spaces for women as a benevolent gift of the patriarchy (outside of which boys will be boys) harms women.

Any attempt to carve out exceptions to who counts as sufficiently a woman to deserve safety as a woman (especially legislated for by the governments and courts of the patriarchy) harms women.

If a 56-year old white man can understand this, anyone who claims not to is a liar or a dimwit.

Sabot in the Age of AI

A list of offensive methods & strategic approaches for facilitating (algorithmic) sabotage, framework disruption, & intentional data poisoning.

Selected Tools & Frameworks

• Nepenthes — Endless crawler trap.
• Babble — Standalone LLM crawler tarpit.
• Markov Tarpit — Traps AI bots & feeds them useless data.
• Sarracenia — Loops bots into fake pages.
• Antlion — Express.js middleware for infinite sinkholes.
• Infinite Slop — Garbage web page generator.
• Poison the WeLLMs — Reverse proxy for LLM confusion.
• Marko — Dissociated Press CLI/lib.
• django-llm-poison — Serves poisoned content to crawlers.
• konterfAI — Model-poisoner for LLMs.
• Quixotic — Static site LLM confuser.
• toxicAInt — Replaces text with slop.
• Iocaine — Defense against unwanted scrapers.
• Caddy Defender — Blocks bots & pollutes training data.
• GzipChunk — Inserts compressed junk into live gzip streams.
• Chunchunmaru — Go-based web scraper tarpit.
• IED — ZIP bombs for web scrapers.
• FakeJPEG — Endless fake JPEGs.
• Pyison — AI crawler tarpit.
• HalluciGen — WP plugin that scrambles content.
• Spigot — Hierarchical Markov page generator.

This is a living resource — regularly updated to reflect the shifting terrain of collective techno-disobedience and algorithmic Luddism.

Mastodon UIs are breaking attribution in several ways. For context, I think the internet is worse when it's 5 websites consisting mainly of screenshots of the others. And that's the easy thing, so that's what's going to happen.

For example, there's this screenshot going round. It seems to be from Andrew Feeney, but when I visit phpc.social I don't see it in his timeline. So I went to find it in cwebber's timeline. Ooops. Which cweber?

So the first issue is that the display and screenshot lose the actual identifier. When Twitter was the name-granting authority, [@]cwebber was unique, but now everyone can be cwebber[@] their.own.instance.

The second issue is the default reply form blends things together. Should I read Andrew's reasonable post as saying both Kevlin and Cwebber did that, or is he telling Kevlin that's what cwebber did?

When I copy this to my blog, what's the appropriate level of digging to do to fairly cite it?