for the civically apathetic, the civically disengaged, the civically ignorant, and anyone who finds it difficult to understand politics in a social democracy I have a primer you should use if you want to have an OK life instead of a shit life:

option 1: simplistic ethical voting

vote for the person on the ballot who has the least money.

option 2: simplistic selfish voting

vote for the person on the ballot who has the closest amount of money to you.

How's that AI coding going for you? Ah... I see.

Wired: McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants' Data to Hackers Using the Password ‘123456’

"... Carroll and Curry, hackers with a long track record of independent security testing, discovered that simple web-based vulnerabilities—including guessing one laughably weak password—allowed them to access a Paradox.ai account and query the company's databases that held every McHire user's chats with Olivia. The data appears to include as many as 64 million records, including applicants' names, email addresses, and phone numbers...."

https://www.wired.com/story/mcdonalds-ai-hiring-chat-bot-paradoxai/

#ai #cybersecurity #llm

Thank you LA Taco for this list of volunteer opportunities/needs in LA! ❤️

https://lataco.com/los-angeles-volunteeer-immigration

#LosAngeles #ICE #immigration #uspol

Just here to remind everyone that the thing calling itself Mechahitler is the same thing people are using as a free therapist every single day.

This was a great idea, and will turn out fine.

Hilding Neilson just gave a mind-blowing talk on "Indigenizing the Drake Equation". I will spend a lot of time thinking about this, he made a lot of incredibly good points about how incredibly biased our thinking about searching for aliens is.

Main point: we're not looking for "civilizations", we're looking for breaks from Nature. We can only detect "civilizations" that are like us: doing terrible damage to their environments.

#IAUS399

“I am going to find out who ate your faces,” sobs man who defunded warning system for face eating leopards.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/07/ted-cruz-trump-weather-forecasting-cuts