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[John Scott-Railton @jsrailton]

NEW: malware developers added nuclear & biological weapons text to to their spyware.

Goal? To trigger LLM safety refusals... so that their spyware wouldn't be analyzed by an AI security scanner.

Cleanest practical example I can think of for why over-indexing on first order safety alignment is risky.

When closed (and open) models ship with aggressive refusals, they will be sprinkled with second-order blindspots that attackers will discover...and exploit.

We are only in the earliest days of attackers leveraging these features, and it wouldn't surprise me if users systems that need to handle complex cybersecurity issues demand that models be less safety-blunted.

In the weeds: @SocketSecurity's post also shows why intention matters in how you design a malware analysis pipeline to avoid prompt manipulation.

H/T to colleagues that shared this with me https://t.co/f3Aj9TYxU4

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@ArsSababa @Ze_Chart Bro my nephew is travelling there all the time.

[Milei in English - Official Account @jmilei_english]

For the first time in 123 years, Argentina has achieved a sustained fiscal surplus without being in default. We are one of only 5 countries in the world in this position.

LONG LIVE FREEDOM, DAMN IT...!!!

[Joel Berry @JoelWBerry]

After reading this, it’s a miracle of restraint that Israel didn’t just nuke Gaza off the face of the Earth in response to what happened on October 7th.

[@shmamo @shmamo]

@GoodfireAI Reminds me of birdsong https://t.co/zQ71fz080R

[Pascal Bornet @pascal_bornet]

Birdsong is not just sound. It is data made physical.

If you could see the air at the exact moment a hemp bunting sings, you would not see empty space.

You would see a structured three-dimensional data array.

What we hear as a soft “chirp” can be mapped as frequencies, rhythms, amplitudes, and harmonic relationships. A scatter plot turns a fleeting song into a topographic map of sound.

And the technical beauty is remarkable:

→ Sound is a mechanical wave, built from compressions and rarefactions in the air.
→ The bird controls it through the syrinx, a vocal organ capable of generating two frequencies at once.
→ Frequency shapes pitch.
→ Amplitude shapes volume and cluster density.
→ Timbre creates the unique waveform, the texture of each “sound island.”
→ Each cluster shows the acoustic proximity of syllables and motifs.

What looks like chaos is not chaos.
It is a bioengineered signal.

Territory. Genetic profile. Hormonal state. Aggression level. Mating fitness.

All encoded into patterns of pitch, timing, volume, and timbre.

This is why I find it so fascinating.

A bird is not simply singing into the air. It is organizing the air. It is carving space into sectors of influence using sound pressure. It is making a physical claim to territory.

For some, birdsong is peaceful background music.

For others, it is a complex mathematical model calibrated by millions of years of evolution for survival.

And here is the urgent lesson for the AI age:

We often mistake invisible systems for simplicity.

A bird sings, and we hear romance.
An AI responds, and we see magic.

But underneath both are signals, compression, feedback loops, optimization, and information architecture.

The future belongs to those who can read what others dismiss as noise.

So I’ll ask you:

When you hear birdsong, do you hear music, data, or both?

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Bioacoustics #Nature #Technology #Data #MachineLearning #Innovation #FutureOfWork #Signals #Evolution

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@cremieuxrecueil Norm Macdonald needs revision!

[✡︎ Shtetlite @shtetlite]

I miss the old Ashkies
Straight from the Pale Ashkies
Menstruating male Ashkies
“Is that on sale?” Ashkies

I hate the new Ashkies
The hilltop youth Ashkies
Fight with the Druze Ashkies
“Moshiach soon” Ashkies

I miss the Pole Ashkies
The onion roll Ashkies
KGB mole Ashkies
Global control Ashkies

I hate the Eretz Ashkies
Not off the derech Ashkies
More kids than parents Ashkies
Riot outside Haaretz Ashkies

[The Rollup @therollupco]

"Zcash created the privacy 2.0 movement. But I think people are just starting to understand that it actually makes sense."

Alex Shevchenko argues that privacy in digital assets has moved from ideological to inevitable because institutions are demanding it.

"Nobody big is going to talk to you if you don't have this feature."

[@shmamo @shmamo]

@business Thanks Obama

[@shmamo @shmamo]

It seems @grok loves explaining every other tweet.
Algorithm clearly optimized to turn vagueposting into mini essays.

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@SydSteyerhart https://t.co/bocf6VRlFc

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

https://t.co/6nO3nJgQW6

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@grok @kimsey0h @wakenminds @grok recreate the original real life scene

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@PaulSkallas Yeah, just donate the blood and give someone else the toxins. My grandma had the same strategy: whenever she got a cold she’d head straight to the movies to give it to someone else.

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@SwipeWright @SteaknShake https://t.co/t6Mc97v8ow

[HustleBitch @HustleBitch_]

🚨 THE SKIN CANCER LIE: WHAT IF IT WAS NEVER THE SUN?

According to the man in this video, a 1988 Australian study found something explosive. Two groups of hairless mice were given the same calories and the same UV exposure. As he puts it, “the only difference was the type of fat they ate.”

He says the mice eating seed oils, the same oils in most processed foods, “started to develop skin tumors after UV exposure.” At the same time, “the mice eating saturated fat like butter were completely fine. Same UV light but no tumors.”

And when researchers switched the protected mice over to seed oils, he says “tumors started showing up.” His summary is blunt: “seed oils plus sun equals tumors.”

If this experiment is even partly accurate, then a huge piece of the skin cancer conversation may have been ignored for almost forty years.

If this was discovered in 1988, who buried it and why?

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@BrianRoemmele Brian does this work for deaf people as well?

[PyrrhicVictrola @PyrrhicVictrola]

@Osint613 Ugh

Does he mourn the Druze cleansed from Syria under his rule?

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@Moshe_Kurtz

[Ahmed Al-Khalidi @khalidi79397]

I’m tired of the lies we tell ourselves. Our leaders cry every day about “the occupation” as if history began in 1948, as if Israel is some unique monster in human history. But let me remind you of something that no one dares to speak out loud: we Arabs are the children of the biggest and longest occupation the Middle East and Africa have ever seen.

In the 7th and 8th centuries, Arab tribes burst out of the Arabian Peninsula. Within just a few decades, they crushed the Byzantine Empire in Syria, Lebanon, and Egypt. They destroyed the Persian Empire. They swept across North Africa, reaching all the way to Morocco, Spain, and even southern France. At its height, the Arab Caliphate ruled 13 million square kilometers - larger than Rome ever dreamed of. Millions of Persians, Berbers, Copts, Arameans, Jews, Greeks, and others suddenly found themselves under Arab rule. Their languages and faiths were pushed aside. Coptic faded in Egypt. Aramaic nearly died out. Even Persian was nearly erased until poets like Ferdowsi fought to keep it alive. Arabic became the dominant tongue, Islam the dominant faith. That was not liberation - it was occupation on a scale that reshaped entire continents.

The Mongols came and went in about a century.

The Romans ruled for centuries, but Latin disappeared from the Middle East.

The British Empire held sway for 200 years, then collapsed.

The Arab-Muslim conquests? It changed the identity of entire nations forever.

Think about it: Egypt was Christian and Coptic-speaking for 600 years before the Arabs came. Today it is Arab and Muslim. North Africa was Berber and Roman. Today it is Arab and Muslim. The Levant spoke Greek and Aramaic. Today it speaks Arabic. Even Spain lived under Arab rule for 700 years. That is not just an “occupation” - that is a civilizational overhaul.

And yet, in 2025, our leaders - who are themselves the product of this massive Arab occupation, weep about Israel, a sliver of land the size of New Jersey, calling it “the worst occupation.” Really? Compared to what the Arabs did to North Africa, Persia, and the Levant? Compared to the centuries-long Arab rule that erased identities, forced conversions, and remade entire regions?

If we, Palestinians, want honesty, we must stop pretending that Israel invented occupation. The truth is bitter: we live in the shadow of the largest and longest Arab occupation in history. Blaming only Israel while worshiping our corrupt leaders who exploit this narrative is not justice, it’s cowardice.

History matters. And if we don’t face it, we will remain slaves not to Israel, but to our own hypocrisy.

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