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Emilio 💻📲5h ago

emptywheel 6h ago

After Mamadani wins tomorrow it'd be cool if some of his people made a successor political vehicle to Teen Vogue, for which there's clearly a market.

Emilio 💻📲5h ago

5h ago

No, I don't want generative AI anywhere.

I don't want AI to write.
I don't want AI to draw.
I don't want AI to learn.
And I certainly don't want AI to make any decisions for me or about me.

Now our governments (using OUR money) are following the AI tech bros into the AI-Hell pit! 🫠

Please stop this madness already!

#NoAI

Emilio 💻📲5h ago

Electronic Frontier Foundation 5h ago

Flock Safety audit logs obtained and analyzed by EFF reveal that law enforcement agencies across the US have used language perpetuating harmful stereotypes against Romani people when searching the nationwide ALPR network. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/license-plate-surveillance-logs-reveal-racist-policing-against-romani-people

License Plate Surveillance Logs Reveal Racist Policing Against Romani People

More than 80 law enforcement agencies across the United States have used language perpetuating harmful stereotypes against Romani people when searching the nationwide Flock Safety automated license plate reader (ALPR) network, according to audit logs obtained and analyzed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Emilio 💻📲6h ago

Ars Technica 9h ago

Google removes Gemma models from AI Studio after GOP Senator’s complaint
Sen. Marsha Blackburn says Gemma concocted sexual misconduct allegations against her.
https://arstechnica.com/google/2025/11/google-removes-gemma-models-from-ai-studio-after-gop-senators-complaint/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Emilio 💻📲6h ago

Electronic Frontier Foundation 8h ago

Attempts to put guardrails around license plate reader tech have failed for decades, EFF’s Sarah Hamid told Louisville Public Media. “There are so many different pathways, and there's so many different holes that are so difficult to plug.” https://www.lpm.org/investigate/2025-11-03/louisville-police-share-data-with-national-immigration-dragnet

Louisville police share data with national immigration dragnet

Louisville Metro Police collect data through license plate readers and share it with thousands of law enforcement agencies.

LPM

Emilio 💻📲7h ago

Steve Herman 8h ago

Paramount has renewed Jon Stewart’s deal to continue hosting Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” once a week through the 2026 midterms, resolving months of speculation about the media company’s plans for the late-night show. https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/03/media/jon-stewart-paramount-daily-show-comedy-central-cbs

Paramount renews Jon Stewart’s ‘Daily Show’ hosting gig, resolving speculation about his future

Paramount has renewed Stewart’s deal to continue hosting Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” resolving months of speculation about the media company’s plans for the late-night show.

CNN

So I guess Cloudflare is now at least filtering out the names of the domains used as control servers for the Aisuru botnet. The botnet has been using Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 DNS and has radically affected these top domain results. When I looked yesterday I believe I saw (but failed to screenshot) three Aisuru C2s in the top 10. h/t @profdiggity

Emilio 💻📲8h ago

Scott Williams 🐧8h ago

Things were bad economically in the US before the government shutdown. This is data from August:

Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/sp/ter01-the-united-states-of-unemployment/