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Cyberattacks on water systems expand to 12 states as South Dakota, Georgia announce incidents

Water utilities in at least 12 states have reported cyberattacks on their operational technology, as the scope of a campaign allegedly linked to Iranian hackers continues to grow.

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what is to be done?

as a computer dork, I find myself with a great deal of ambivalence about the plausible reorganization back into the older pattern where people in the "make computer do shit" field are presumptively (and probably correctly, idk) considered tools of MIC authoritarianism on the left

Who could it be?

we've created montgomery burns from etc etc

tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · 2h ago

this is going to end up banal but what a world it would have been if the people who YOLO'd consumer LLMs with the pitch "this can automate the boring shit you don't want to do" had a definition of "boring shit" that was "set up AWS creds" instead of "art, music, socializing, raising children"

this is going to end up banal but what a world it would have been if the people who YOLO'd consumer LLMs with the pitch "this can automate the boring shit you don't want to do" had a definition of "boring shit" that was "set up AWS creds" instead of "art, music, socializing, raising children"

Eugene Vinitsky 🍒@eugenevinitsky.bsky.social · 3h ago

I actually configure AWS correctly now due to embedded chatbots

Categorization is not just feedforward and at the "end" of cortex. It is an interplay between feedforward and feedback signals and areas. Dynamic reversal of IT-PFC information flow orchestrates visual categorization under perceptual uncertainty doi.org/10.1016/j.pn... #neuroscience

This is team player shit, beat the bad guys shit. I love it. No fucking around with it, just let's go.

Evan Sutton@evansutton.bsky.social · 5h ago

I encourage all of us to have the grace and focus shown in this going up within minutes of the race being called.

The thing about proposing guardrails for U.S. police agencies is that — as body cameras, civilian oversight boards, efforts to ban lethal holds, and more have shown — police don't really _do_ guardrails.

evacide@evacide.bsky.social · 3h ago

You cannot make mass surveillance "safe" or "good" by adding more guardrails. The only way to make Flock safe is to get rid of Flock. www.gpb.org/news/2026/08...

"In that way, they are not really as similar to ancient Egyptian mummies as, in the heat of the moment, on social media, I may have suggested them to be." ok I like (am terrified by) where this is going

amy brown@amybrown.xyz · 4h ago

it's heeeeeere, you may now read my essay about how i achieved the millennial dream of home ownership and immediately lost my mind on nextdoor. thanks to the @oaklandreviewofbooks.org crew for their ongoing support of me being Like This

"it looks like you're using an adblocker to visit our site." yep! ha ha! it rocks!

I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...

We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector

In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...

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why'd we call them "influencers" when "gig celebrity" was right there

I suspect my enthusiasm will be, ah, not universally shared, especially at first, and those flexposts are going to eat a lot of shit for quite a while, but I'm super excited about this

City of Somerville@cityofsomerville.bsky.social · 6h ago

After over a year spent engaging community members, analyzing traffic patterns and signal options, testing emergency and public transit operations, and finalizing plans, the City is set to begin implementing a new, safer street design later this month or early August.

not that I'm starting a tech company ever again but evaluation and the generation of of RL signals for less-trivially machine-verifiable problems is a whole big swimming pool of money for people who can crack it

Sung Kim@sungkim.bsky.social · 6h ago

Google may acqui-hire Mechanize They build environments and evals for frontier coding agents. In these environments, models carry out software engineering work such as building a feature, deploying an application, or debugging an issue in an unfamiliar codebase.

Its good actually when Democrats come together after a primary and acknowledge that Republicans are actually the real threat and should be kept out of office at all costs.

a hero, that's who.

doleful moo of a cow@oulipien.bsky.social · 7h ago

Steve Martin's "King Tut" just came on at the gym who is DOING this

it's time we asked, what does Madonna want with all these babies

Brian Anderson@bganderson.bsky.social · 7h ago

I suddenly realized how much you can change the feel of a Madonna song with a very small alternation. "But I made up my mind, I'm keeping your baby."

in Madonna's "Music" what if instead of "hey Mr. DJ put a record on I want to dance with my baby" it was "hey Mr. DJ put a record on I want to dance with _a_ baby"? Wouldn't that be wholesome? Aw, Madonna bopping around with an infant.

There was once a boy named Milo who didn't know what to do with himself—not just sometimes, but always.

Our Ennobled and Innocent Taco Bell vs their Sinister Disease-Ridden Chipotle

Matt Novak@paleofuture.bsky.social · yesterday

“Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. removed jalapeños from multiple stores in Minnesota after learning the peppers may be linked to a salmonella outbreak in the state that’s sickened 110 people.”

moon's been covered in candy wrappers and cigarette butts for ages now. shotgun shells. waterlogged stacks of porn mags. real shame. think of the moon bears!

Shiv Ramdas Mens Rice Activist@nameshiv.bsky.social · 8h ago

genuinely unable to understand why the SpaceX moon debris thing is even a news item

Can’t believe the more electable candidate lost the election

“Boston is a threat to the country.”

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 17h ago

Trump: "The thing they should look at is blue states and blue cities. Cities run by Democrats. Because that's really the threat to the country. Because they're a disaster."

Electability is just another version of playing to the Baileys: constraining real choices to please imaginary people who don't support your stated goals

Deva Woodly@devawo.bsky.social · 10h ago

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

this is clickbait garbage a) it wasn't ~dronez~ stuff, it was the same vanilla GPS jamming that has occurred at WSMR for decades b) a crew should *absolutely* be capable of conducting a nonprecision approach to an ILS, *ESPECIALLY* if there's a NOTAM out for PNT jamming

Katie Drummond@katie-drummond.bsky.social · 6d ago

A routine medical flight, on a clear night, ended with a plane crash that killed all four people onboard. Investigators say it's the first known US civilian plane crash tied to electronic warfare. This won't be the last story of its kind. A must-read from @jeffwise.bsky.social for @wired.com

I wake I take my meds I scream about strong partisanship and weak parties I sleep I wake

MI is on to step two. in september, you get to see if I move on to step two sorta grimly or basically happily!

tweety fish@sifu.tweety.fish · 2w ago

electability arguments are always but always bullshit that is trying to snow you. vote--and advocate as vigorously as you can for--your preference in the primary, vote against the greater evil in the general. anybody who presents a different option takes you for a rube.

Third: In the absence of clear direct benefits, people are just going to focus on the losses. Any use of AI to justify layoffs will blow back on the big tech companies, even if they're not the ones conducting layoffs. Execs think they can discipline their labor forces for free. They're wrong.

i know votes are still being counted but the more i look at this michigan senate map the more it becomes clear that it kind of looks like a mitten