Thomas Pynching

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“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930

This thread is the best breakdown of the Claude source leak I’ve seen. Just incredible stuff.

The part of the Claude dump where the Anthropic people instruct their slopbot to lie about being a slopbot.
The English-language edition of Wikipedia is blacklisting https://Archive.today after the controversial archive site was used to direct a distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack against a blog. As if DDoSing a blog wasn’t bad enough, the archive site also tampered with web snapshots. https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/
Attention Required!

X said it suspended 800 million accounts in 2024 for spam and manipulation, warning that state-backed influence campaigns are widespread, with Russia the most active, followed by Iran and China.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/09/x-suspends-accounts-massive-scale-manipulation-attempts-russia

#Ukraine #Russia #X #Twitter #Musk #Iran #China

I see it's once again time to post this: https://taggart-tech.com/discord-alternatives
Discord Alternatives, Ranked

Building an online community takes more than tools. But the right tool can make all the difference.

#Minneapolis: Barricades have been put up by community members to create an autonomous grieving zone on the block that Renee Good was killed by federal agent Jonathan Ross yesterday. At least one protest is planned for tonight and healing circles are happening.

ICE Agents Alter Tactics, Work With Impunity While Violating US Citizen’s Rights in Minnesota

https://unicornriot.ninja/2026/ice-agents-alter-tactics-work-with-impunity-while-violating-us-citizens-rights-in-minnesota/

ICE Agents Alter Tactics, Work With Impunity While Violating US Citizen’s Rights in Minnesota - UNICORN RIOT

Under the Trump Administration's quota-driven mass deportation plan, separation ordinances and legal protections no longer appear to matter.

UNICORN RIOT
"You cannot resist what you do not know, and the more you know, the better you can protect yourself and resist against the normalization of mass surveillance today," says digital rights activist Esra'a Al Shafei. She found FinFisher spyware on her device more than a decade ago. Now she's made it her mission to surveil the companies providing surveillanceware, their customers, and their funders. https://www.theregister.com/2025/11/08/mozilla_fellow_al_shafei/
Who's watching the watchers? This Mozilla fellow, and her Surveillance Watch map

interview: Esra'a Al Shafei spoke with The Reg about the spy tech 'global trade'

The Register

We recently published a lesser known article by David Graeber written in 2013 called - Buncombe.

Here is the piece and an extract.

https://davidgraeber.org/articles/buncombe

After months in the coming - Leak Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List https://www.wired.com/story/hack-exposes-kansas-city-kansas-polices-secret-misconduct-list/ #DDoSecrets

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Hack Exposes Kansas City’s Secret Police Misconduct List

A major breach of the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department reveals, for the first time, a list of alleged officer misconduct including dishonesty, sexual harassment, excessive force, and false arrest.

WIRED