ceoln @ceoln@qoto.org

You are driving a German 🇩🇪 car to an Italian 🇮🇹 coffeeshop to drink Brazilian 🇧🇷 Coffee and then going home buying Chinese 🇨🇳 takeaway to sit on a Swedish 🇸🇪 sofa in front of a Korean 🇰🇷 TV to watch US 🇺🇸 shows and all the while complaining that your neighbor is an Immigrant.

Pull yourself together.

#mastodon #mastoart #europe

What should I dream about? I will abide by the results of this poll.

#StableDiffusion #AIArt #AIGenerated #AI #GenerativeAI #GenerativeArt

radness levels are holding at 82%

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gotta catch 'em all [@estherschindler]

The other morning, my 8-year-old announced that to "be a scientist", you must have two slap bands, three glow sticks and four or more small fossils.

First of all, why was I not given this package after my defense and second, have I been practicing science illicitly this entire time??

“AI hype is built on high test scores. Those tests are flawed.” https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/08/30/1078670/large-language-models-arent-people-lets-stop-testing-them-like-they-were/

I love my father in law, when he’s not sending me music videos after a few drinks on the weekend he’s sending me photos of things he loves, today it’s photos of his cat, Findus, who is one year old today.

Euston, we have a problem.

Any successful venture is bound to gather hangers on. Army ants have an unparalleled entourage of dependent and associated species. Like a circus or a legion of Roman soldiers the ants are preceded, followed and infiltrated by over 500 species thus far described, and undoubtedly many other that have so far escaped our notice.

Ant birds enliven the canopy announcing the oncoming host. They feed on the myriad small arthropods and animals flushed from the rainforest by the ants. 1/

Texas Republicans busted at meeting with white nationalists https://www.rawstory.com/nick-fuentes-2665851327/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #news

Worth noting.

Liz Cheney is warning all that Jim Jordan was a "leader" in Trump's attempted coup. She also stated if House GOP make Jordan Speaker it means Republicans could no longer be "counted on to defend the Constitution.” She's 100% right. My CNN article: https://www.cnn.com/2023/10/08/opinions/jim-jordan-liz-cheney-house-speaker-race-obeidallah

NEW: The same day FTX declared bankruptcy, someone began stealing hundreds of millions of dollars in crypto from its coffers. @agreenberg got the inside scoop on the wild scramble to keep the hackers from stealing another $1B. At one point, this involved putting nearly $500 million on a USB cold wallet owned by an outside adviser who got so freaked out about the fortune he was holding, he called 911: https://www.wired.com/story/ftx-1-billion-crypto-heist/

M4.2 Earthquake

PUGET SOUND REGION, WASHINGTON, Mon 09 Oct 2023 02:21:09 UTC
#AureFreePress #Earthquake
https://www.emsc-csem.org/Earthquake/earthquake.php?id=1563689

Hey, I'll be at the New York Comic Con this Sunday, October 15.
10am-12pm: National Cartoonists Society, Table 4106, selling/signing/sketching TTDB books
2pm-3pm: Z2 Comics, Table 4509, signing for The Illustrated Al: The Songs of "Weird Al" Yankovic
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https://tomdbug.wpcomstaging.com/2023/10/08/ruben-bolling-at-new-york-comic-con/

🚨 Breaking! 🚨

Today Amnesty International releases the 'Predator Files: Caught in the Net' report. It reveals brazen targeting of civil society, politicians and officials!

The investigation is part of the ‘#PredatorFiles’ project, in partnership with the @EICnetwork.

Between February and June 2023, on both X and Facebook an actor targeted dozens of institutions and individuals. Among the targets of Predator spyware are United Nations (UN) officials, a Senator and Congressman in the USA and the Presidents of the European Parliament and Taiwan.

The cyber-surveillance weapon used for targeting was an invasive spyware tool called Predator, which was developed and sold by the Intellexa alliance. This alliance, which has advertised itself as “EU based and regulated”.`

An attacker-controlled X (previously Twitter) account, named ‘@Joseph_Gordon16', shared many of the identified attack links which aimed to infect targets with the Predator spyware.`

The investigation found that the '@Joseph_Gordon16' attacker account had close links to Viet Nam and may have been acting on behalf of Vietnamese authorities or interest groups.

The investigation also uncovered evidence that a company within the Intellexa alliance signed a multi-million euro deal for “infection solutions” with Viet Nam’s Ministry of Public Security (MOPS) in early 2020, codenamed “Angler Fish”.

Amnesty's report can be read at: https://securitylab.amnesty.org/latest/2023/10/predator-files-spyware-scandal-reveals-brazen-targeting-of-civil-society-politicians-and-officials/

Amnesty's Security Lab will publish new Predator IOC's soon for defenders to use and hunt for Predator. https://docs.mvt.re/en/latest/