Armed private security for me, social workers, violence interrupters, and defunded police for thee

The EU’s “Going Dark” group is pushing for mass surveillance. This secretive initiative wants to: - Store your calls, texts, and online activity without suspicion - Break encryption, making your private chats accessible - Force phone and car makers to build surveillance into devices Why it matters: It threatens your privacy and free speech. The group works behind closed doors, ignoring court rulings and civil rights. We need transparency and protection for our digital freedom. Lesrn more:

Brave folks found prompt injection bulbs too. We practice responsible disclosure, so filed a report with Perplexity. I hope our engineer wins a bug bounty. “Agentic” must not mean some reddit post can prompt-inject to pwn your bank/crypto/health-data/&c.

@ByrneStorm tl;dr a small U.S. platform had five minutes of downtime in its IP geoblock. Ofcom freaked out and sent a demand. We told the WH. The WH asked us to tell them who was responsible. Threatening Americans with jail time over maintenance downtime is outrageous. Enough is enough.

This is insane! Section 453 in the House appropriations bill, as many in MAHA have been speaking about, gives pesticide companies a partial liability shield. When an amendment was introduced to remove it, the chairman didn’t count votes—he just listened to the “Ayes” and “Noes” and decided which side sounded louder. There was no recorded vote, and we have no idea what the actual vote count was. We don’t know who supported removing the shield and who backed it. This is not how government is supposed to work.

Harvard and MIT Study: AI Models Are Not Ready to Make Scientific Discoveries, by @Alber_RomGar

Beautiful Sponsored Image from @ether_fi in @Brave.

1/ Blockchains are bottlenecked by state updates. We surveyed Firewood, MerkleDB, NOMT, LVMT, & QMDB: Huge advances in I/O and proofs, yet ALL fall orders of magnitude short of our 3M updates/sec for true 1M+ TPS. Enter AlDBaran, smashing 48M/sec!

💥💥It’s going to be two Indian women at the Chess World Cup finals! Divya and Koneru 🇮🇳 beat two really good players from China 🇨🇳 ! Divya is 19 years old and Koneru is 38. Should be a fascinating match!

Oh lordy, what a timeline.