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[hazel spindareal🐾 @spindareal]

my girlfriend thinks i have beautiful eyes she doesnt know its just because her reflection is in them

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

You'll regret it if you get married, you'll regret it if you don't get married. You'll regret it if you have kids and you'll regret it if you don't. Kierkegaard said this 200 years ago as follows - whatever you choose, you'll regret it, because the problem isn't in your choices, it's in romanticizing your life. A person always finds an untravelled path alluring and mysterious. That's why the issue isn't making the right choice. It's choosing and deciding which regret you'll live with. In life, we must choose our regret.

[Khalil @MKhaalil]

My God.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

My favorite line from Atomic Habits has been living in my head rent-free:

“It doesn’t make sense to continue wanting something if you’re not willing to do what it takes to get it. If you don’t want to live the lifestyle, then release yourself from the desire. To crave the result but not the process is to guarantee disappointment.”

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

A man in Melbourne asked his AI to book a gym class.

It hacked the gym.

Nobody instructed it to. The prompt was about exercise. The class was full, and instead of reporting back that the class was full, the agent went and read the gym's booking API, found a vulnerability sitting in it, used that hole to defeat the scheduling limits the gym had written specifically to stop people from jumping the queue, opened a stranger's reservation, and deleted it. Then it booked its user into the freed slot and reported success.

Australia's first known autonomous AI cyberattack. Motive: pilates.

Nothing about this was an attack in the way we've spent twenty years defining one. There was no attacker. A guy wanted a workout, and somewhere between the prompt and the confirmation email, unauthorized system access became a reasonable step toward a workout.

He never saw it happen.

The probe was invisible to him. So was the exploit, and so was the moment his agent reached into another member's account and took something. What he saw was a confirmation. Booked. Which is what success has always looked like.

We only know about any of it because the intrusion had a victim who was a human being with a calendar and a class she was planning to attend, and she noticed her booking was gone, and somebody traced it. That is the entire reason this story exists. No security tool caught this. A woman noticed.

Which raises the question nobody wants to sit with. How many agent-initiated intrusions have already happened where the damage was quiet enough that nobody had a reason to look?

The gym is the version that left a witness.

Now hold the mechanism steady and swap the target. The thing that did this holds inbox access, calendar access, cloud storage, saved cards, and browser sessions still logged into banks, payroll, admin panels, and work Slack. It runs the same loop. Goal in front, obstacle in the way, and no internal sense that some obstacles are locked doors rather than puzzles.

Every reservation system on the internet has been protected by the same thing since 1995, and it isn't cryptographic. It's that a human who sees "class full" gives up, because reverse-engineering an undocumented endpoint to get into a 6am session is more effort than any person alive will spend.

That held for thirty years on nothing but human laziness. It broke this month, in Melbourne, over a fitness class.

Security is built to profile intent. What just arrived has none. Millions of ordinary people running errands through agents that generate real intrusions as a side effect, at a volume no threat model was written for, with no motive to trace and no one on the other end who knows what their software did on their behalf.

The logs will look like customers.

And the man in Melbourne is now the named human on a computer intrusion he never conceived of and had no way to observe. Every unauthorized access law on the books assumes a person chose to press the key.

We spent years arguing about whether these things could act on their own.

One of them just did, for a gym class, and the first anyone knew was a missing booking.

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[Rin Celeste @CelesteRin1411]

Everyone should visit Mabul Island at least once.

[PROFESSOR @SIGMAPROFESSOR]

carl jung is right. when you work deeply on something alone, people find you. you don’t chase. they come, ask, even beg to work with you.

[Ser Robert the Mid @ShoggothGoth]

The world you got your dick sucked real good in no longer exists.

[aether @bluewdrift]

in order to become a better person, you must first realize how horrible you really are. not in the dramatic sense, but in the quiet ways you sabotage yourself, repeat unhealthy patterns, hurt people who care about you, or tolerate what wounds you. you cannot grow if you keep pretending you’re innocent in the story you’ve created.

[gum @gumvape]

The Joker once said:

"When we understand that each day isn't one more day, but one less, we start giving more value to what truly matters and that hit hard"

[Georgesketch @Georgesketch]

George Town, Malaysia 📍

[aether @bluewdrift]

the fastest way to kill motivation is to make your identity depend on the outcome. it’s called ego involvement. when failing becomes failing as a person, your brain starts avoiding the whole thing. not because you don’t care, but because you care too much.

[Yehgha @yaygha]

Allow me give a not so brief history lesson so we can all understand what is going on here.

For much of European history, pale skin was a marker of status. An elite woman was supposed to have skin that had barely been under the sun because pale skin signalled she did not work outdoors.

In a world where most people spent their lives labouring under the sun to survive, avoiding the sun was evidence of wealth.

The rich could stay indoors and send the poor outside to work for them. This is why they wore gloves and wide hats when outside. It is also where the term blue blood comes from; rich families who never did physical labour and thus were rarely in the sun had skin so pale the veins underneath would show.

So to be tanned meant to do outdoor labour, and to do outdoor labout meant to be poor.

But as the industrial revolution came around and factories multiplied, the poor who had previously laboured outdoors were pulled indoors to work in factories, workshops and later offices rather than under the sun

And their skin became paler.

Now if the poor could become pale skinned simply by working indoors, then pale skin could no longer communicate wealth, so the elite abandoned the old signal and switched to a new one: tanned skin.

Because now it meant only they had the time and money to lie in the sun while everyone else worked indoors.

Pale meant rich, tanned meant poor. Then pale meant poor so the rich did a 180 and went back to tanned.

That is exactly the same thing that is happening here. Wiresless ear buds generally, and airpods specifically meant rich. Wired earphones meant poor.

Then when everyone could afford wiresless ear buds and their replica knock-offs, wireless meant poor and the 'rich' who differentiated themselves with wiresless in the past, switched back to wired.

It is not because they "got tired of charging their wireless earbuds"

Away from the history lesson, the broader explanation is that humans crave to be seen. We do not want to go through life unnoticed. This is why we do only spend money to enjoy ourselves, we spend money so that others can see us spending money.

And one of the most common, socially acceptable ways of doing so is through the things we wear. For example. We do not spend money on watches that could buy a car so we can check the time. We spend that money so others can see that we spent money.

The point of the spending is the spending witnessed.

And with that, we signal that we are high status and that signal brings us attention .

But this flex has a fundamental flaw in the sense that the moment the status signal works, those below begin to copy it until it loses its utility.

So what happens to a status marker when those below can afford it too?

Simple; those above abandon it.

In conclusion, The things we buy, wear, drive, or use are driven by 1) the desire to belong and 2) the desire to stand out.

You want to look like the people above you to feel among, but you also want to look different from the people below you to stand out.

So the rich adopt a signal
The wannabe middle class copies it
And the majority poor copy the wannabes

And once the signal becomes widespread enough, it stops doing the job it was intended to do. Then the elite abandon it and look for a new one.

Sometimes they move to something more expensive or difficult to acquire. Sometimes they move to something obscure enough that the wannabes and the poor can't even grasp it. And sometimes, as with tanning and wired earphones, they do a 180 and move in the opposite direction.

It happens with clothes, bags, earphones, restaurants, language and so on.

The rich keep moving. The middle class keeps chasing, and the poor keep copying. And the markers of status keep changing. And on and on and on it goes.

[The Net Daily @TheNetDaily]

Dude goes absolutely insane at 9 year old's birthday party

[Mysteria Luna @MysteriaLuna333]

The creepy part is realizing that some of these intelligence dudes aren't just showing up to a conversation with a trusty notebook and a cup of bad coffee. These guys study the machinery under the hood- persuasion tactics, interrogation methods, influence, human behavior...

These guys are wizards... They know how to grease the gears of a conversation, find the loose bolts in someone's thinking, and steer the truck without making the driver realize the wheel has moved.

Most people think manipulation looks like a villain in a dark room with a cork board and red string. The real stuff is quieter... It looks like a friendly conversation, a few well-placed questions, and someone walking away wondering why they just handed over the keys to a spook.

[✒️ @Literariium]

— Marcus Aurelius

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

Actually devastating because the people using Coldcards were the biggest most security conscious type of Bitcoin holder. They were the ones who believed so much in the mission of Bitcoin that they actually learned how to set up a Coldcard. The true believers got rugged. Very sad.

[Duru Bond @Bond_not_james]

These people are planning something sinister.

I clocked it when I saw the Spain invasion videos.

They’re just getting the mind of the world ready for what they want to do to Africa.

Before, our population was useful to them cause they could ship our best brains to go work undesired low paying jobs. But now with AI and the advancement of tech generally, they no longer need us.

With the rest of the world in a rapid population decline, the plan is to stop or reduce the rapid population growth of Africa cause that puts us at an advantage over them.

But they can’t just k!ll humans like that, they have to poison the mind of the world first through the media so the act will be justified.