Dan Sugalski

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Guy who bakes, snarks, writes, and codes.

Currently at Google (my second search engine employer!), previously at Bloomberg.

One time Perl 6 pumpking, lo these many years ago, as well as core perl contributor and part-time VMS perl port maintainer. I have written the occasional article, mostly on perl. (but once upon a time long ago on the Amiga. Those were the days...)

Cute little pie avatar commissioned from https://socel.net/@heyheymomo

Currently not in France. Dammit.

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ICE Is Targeting the Lawyers of Immigrant Children

After freezing payments and demanding client data, the Trump administration attempted to raid the nonprofit offices of attorneys for unaccompanied immigrant children last week as its anti-migrant campaign increasingly turns its focus toward minors.

RE: https://indieweb.social/@tchambers/116755228311993684

I've long thought #chatbots are the perfect #disinformation delivery vehicle.

Tim Chambers and Will Robinson have the proof that this is so, based on a recent election.

This may not even be intentional at this point, but it's bad enough already, and once this is weaponized... Scary times!

Any corporate fine that is defined as some absolute dollar amount, and not a proportion of annual global revenue, amounts to permission for dominant companies to continue to trespass, while preventing smaller companies from doing the same.

Dollar amounts that would destroy businesses are nothing more than small change behind the couch for megacorps.

Those kinds of fines are unjust.

Reporting to coworkers after I come back from a furry convention like:

Sainte-Cécile Cathedral in Albi, France 🇫🇷, often described as world’s largest brick cathedral and from outside, it looks more like a fortress than a church.

Construction began in 1282, after Albigensian Crusade, and cathedral was built in Southern French Gothic style using local red-orange foraine bricks — large, flat bricks typical of the region.

Its massive exterior was designed to project strength, with thick walls, rounded towers, and very few openings compared to many Gothic cathedrals.

It's getting bad. Like 80+% of our instance applications are AI-generated now, and it's a huge waste of time to action them.

There seem to be several different models, and they all use throwaway email providers and VPNs.

We have one model that just "wants community" in a couple sentences, one that is looking for "tech-minded, open source friends", one that just spews word-salad, one that copies and pastes other people's bios, and at least a couple that try various plausible messages.

The better they get, the more resources it takes us to identify and reject them.

They're like fucking fruit flies.

Traps

😈📊 MONSTERDON TOOT VOLUME: Last 16 Weeks
Total toots
#1: 3,967 toots, Hercules (1983)
#2: 3,577 toots, The Adventures of Hercules (1985)
#3: 3,289 toots, The Golden Voyage of Sinbad (1973)
#4: 3,204 toots, Invasion: UFO (1980)
#5: 3,069 toots, Reptilian (1999)
...
☢️ #6: 2,987 toots, In the Year 2889 (1969)

🧵 3/5

#DevilInTheDetails

For everyone asking how close the Trump Phone is to the HTC U24 Pro, here’s the inside view.

The answer is: very.

The internals line up almost part for part, down to the board layout, cameras, shields, cables, and battery placement. This is what a rebrand looks like when the back cover comes off.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/117789/teardown-confirms-the-trump-phone-is-a-gold-painted-htc-u24-pro

Norway knows how to do it, the UK knows how to do it...

"Norway crown princess's son sentenced to 4 years in prison after rape conviction

Marius Borg Høiby faced 40 charges including assault and drug-related crimes"

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/norway-royals-borg-hoiby-sentencing-9.7235354

Norway crown princess's son sentenced to 4 years in prison after rape conviction | CBC News

Marius Borg Høiby, the eldest son of Norway's Crown Princess Mette-Marit, was sentenced to four years in prison Monday after being convicted of rape.

CBC