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[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.

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

I felt Miley Cyrus when she said:
"I didn't talk badly about you. I talked about what you did to me. If that makes you look bad, that's between you and your behavior. Because telling the truth about my experience isn't bitterness. It's clarity. And I'm not responsible for protecting someone's image when they had no problem damaging my peace."
Sometimes the truth only sounds harsh because someone benefited from the silence

[Imperio Estoico. @ImperioEstoico]

Una mamá primeriza tiene su primer período después de dar a luz.


Después de ver esto, entenderás lo que significa casarte con el hombre adecuado

[cнєєкυ⋆｡🪐˚ ⋆ @Okay_Bye___]

The inside of my brain when someone starts explaining rules of a card game

[End3of6Days9 (Helen) 🇺🇸 @end3of6days9]

This mom came up with the smartest way to keep her four young kids well-behaved in public… and it’s about so much more than just surviving the grocery store.

She created the “Compliment Game.” The goal is for her kids to earn real compliments about their manners and kindness — holding doors, helping strangers, being polite. Those compliments turn into a treat once they get home.

What I love most is the bigger picture. She’s not just managing chaos in the moment. She’s actively teaching her children how to be kind and respectful to other people, and that kind of training is going to shape them into much better adults one day.

This feels like one of those small parenting ideas that can have a lasting impact.

[mahrukh @parhloumahrukh]

Eid al-Adha used to be the highlight, now the Day of Arafah feels even more meaningful and quietly, we’ve changed without even noticing.

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

How to sleep during a UK heatwave:

Open the window (invites 400 moths).
Turn on the fan (just blows hot air around).
Remove all sheets.
Accept that sleep is a concept from a past life.
Just wait for the 5:00 AM birds to mock you.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Your kid goes quiet and glassy-eyed the second CoComelon comes on, then falls apart when you turn it off. There is a reason for both. The episodes are tested on real toddlers in a lab until they are impossible to look away from, and the speed they run at measurably dents a young child’s self-control.

A 2022 New York Times story laid out how the testing works. The company behind the show, Moonbug, puts a toddler in a room with two screens. One plays a CoComelon episode. The other plays something boring on purpose, like a grown-up doing chores. Every time the kid’s eyes drift to the boring screen, they mark that exact second and rework the episode until nothing pulls the child’s attention away.

CoComelon sits at number two on the whole platform’s most-watched list. Only one channel beats it. People have hit play more than 220 billion times, and an American company bought the thing for close to 3 billion dollars. All of that buys one goal: keep eyes on the screen. So the show cuts to a brand-new scene every one to three seconds.

Scientists at the University of Virginia measured what that kind of speed does. In 2011 they took 60 four-year-olds. Some watched nine minutes of a fast cartoon that switched scenes every 11 seconds, and the rest watched a slow, calm show or just drew with crayons. The minute it ended, the fast-cartoon kids did clearly worse at things like waiting for a treat and solving a little puzzle, the self-control a four-year-old is still building. CoComelon runs several times faster than the cartoon in that test. A separate study tracked more than 2,600 kids for years and found that each daily hour of TV before age 3 lined up with about a 9 percent higher chance of attention problems by age 7.

I want to be straight about the limits. That tracking study shows the two things travel together, and it cannot prove the TV caused the problems. The Virginia dip was short-term, measured minutes after watching, with no proof of lasting damage. Plenty of pediatricians add that every screen is built to grab a kid, and CoComelon is simply the biggest one pulling it off. The official advice has not moved: no screens before 18 months, apart from video calls with family.

It is the same scene the meme is built on. The kid is calm while it plays, then loses it the second the screen goes dark. The people who built CoComelon spent real money making sure it works exactly like that. The screaming when you turn it off is the product doing its job.

[Preethi Kasireddy @iam_preethi]

Pregnancy gets 9 months of attention. Labor gets a hospital stay. Postpartum gets one 15 minute checkup at 6 weeks.

But postpartum is the longest medical event of your life. Your hormones don't return to baseline for at least 6 months (longer if you are BF). Your pelvic floor takes a year (at least). Your bone density takes longer. Your brain is remodeling itself for years. You're metabolically recovering for as long as you breastfeed.

We have completely undercounted what this season actually is. And too many women are doing it all alone.

[Achilles99 @Achill_es99]

A completely innocent 29-year-old man chased down and stabbed to death in broad daylight because some teenage gang members (Stokey16) got a text telling them to put “notches on your blade” or get kicked out. Random target. No reason. Just pure evil for clout.
The part where Joshua collides with the little girl on roller skates while running for his life, then actually pauses to check if she’s okay before they catch up and stab him… that’s heartbreaking. He was trying to get into a shop for safety and still showed basic human decency in his final moments.
Theo Momodu (who admitted it), Taylar Isaac, and David Kerrigan all got life sentences. Good. But it doesn’t bring Joshua back, and it doesn’t fix the broken culture that turns kids into killers over gang nonsense.
Senseless waste of life. Rest in peace to Joshua White. This kind of street garbage needs to stop.

[TJ Bongiorno @TJ_Bongiorno]

My son is 2.5 yrs old almost to the day and if I’m being honest I would freeze time forever right now if I could

This age has to be the peak experience for a parent

Everything is exciting

Everything is funny

Unlimited energy & curiosity

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

Your children always wanting to be in your room, in your space, or just near you is really a sign that they feel safe with you. They love your presence, your energy, and the comfort of home you created for them. That’s not something to take lightly. Job well done.

[No filter Skin @NoFilterSkin]

If you’re a millennial parent you probably:

- Apologize to your kids when you’re wrong
- Explain the “why” behind your rules
- Let them feel their feelings
- Say “I love you” every single day out loud
- Hug them after discipline instead of sending them to their room

We’re not soft. We’re breaking cycles with intention.

[Cernovich @Cernovich]

Way to increase your kids vocabulary and inner life is begin vocalizing to them early. “We are walking down a hill. This is a hill.” When getting dressed, “Do you want pants? Give me your right leg, this is your right leg.” Always be narrating to them.

[AYESHA @syedayeshaaaa]

Arafah is coming. It's time to be "delusional" in your Dua. Ask Al-Wahhab for the impossible. Hazrat Suleman (AS) asked for a kingdom that no one else could ever own. If He can give a kingdom to him, He can rewrite your entire destiny. Be greedy, ask for everything

[• @yducknow]

life after changing the sheets, tidying up your room, taking a shower, and doing skincare

[Lorenzo Davids @UrbanLo]

This is what humans do. We are humans.

[Ibrahim Khan @Ibrahimifg]

We started homeschooling our kids a few months ago.
Nobody warned me I'd be homeschooling myself as well:

You want your kids to do hifdh revision daily? Brilliant... Except your 8-year-old has clocked that you haven't opened your mushaf since Ramadan. Try motivating them after that.

You want self-disciplined, focused kids? Cool. They're watching you scroll on the sofa after Isha every single night. Kids don't listen to lectures. They copy behaviour.
You want them to have great manners? Good luck when you're arguing with your spouse over who forgot the Sainsbury's hummus.

You want them praying Fajr with khushu? Well, are you going to fajr in the masjid?

Every single thing we ask of our kids, they reflect right back at us. Like a mirror you didn't ask for and can't return.

Turns out we're not homeschooling the kids.

The kids are homeschooling us.

[Vala Afshar @ValaAfshar]

“Speak to your children as if they are the wisest, kindest, most beautiful and magical humans on earth, for what they believe is what they will become.”

[jz2 @mixedgrass666]

Vacation brain is awesome. All I did was eat and drink and walk around and not deny myself anything so my brain is like “wow great town. I should move here. It would probably be like this every day”