Hard Pass

blowing up the largest oil field in the world would be absolutely mental and therefore this is just a bluff, right? there's no way he would actually bomb South Pars off the map because it would immediately cause permanently geopolitical shifts + Iran bombing Israel and then.. lol

A former Palantir executive recently confirmed what many have long suspected. In a public statement, the whistleblower said it plainly: Palantir intended to take over the US government, and many of his former colleagues are now installed inside the federal apparatus. He called it an occupied nation. He is not alone. Thirteen former Palantir employees—engineers, managers, and a member of the company’s own privacy team—signed a letter shared with NPR warning that guardrails meant to prevent discrimination, disinformation, and abuse of power have been violated and are being rapidly dismantled.

What Palantir represents is something unprecedented: the convergence of American imperialism, Zionism, technofascism, and surveillance capitalism into a single instrument of control. Understanding how we got here requires looking at the machine Palantir has built, who built it, and what they believe.

Palantir was founded in 2004 by Peter Thiel and Alex Karp. Its first major investor was In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capital arm, which seeded the company with millions and opened the door to every major intelligence and defense agency. The logic was deliberate: The American ruling class recognized decades ago that the state’s coercive power—surveillance, targeting, data harvesting—could be run more effectively and more profitably through private contractors. When a government agency surveils its own citizens, there are hearings, FOIA requests, oversight committees. When a private company does it, it is a trade secret.

Probably a silly question but the .uk domain is really cheap. If I'm not in the UK can I still use that domain for my server without issue?

Its like 50 bucks for a ten year lease

https://archive.is/0fxqX

Can't the Pentagon just sell those $2000 hammers and toilet seats and pull themselves up by their boot strings?

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/57126527

How to use data poisoning to trick the algorithm that’s profiling you (and why “personalization” is more fragile than you think)

Note: For education and defensive awareness only. I’m explaining the concept of data poisoning so teams can recognize risks and build safer systems. I’m not encouraging or providing guidance for misuse. :)

If you’re being tracked, scored, and predicted from your clicks… this is how the machine actually works (and how it breaks).

If a retailer can guess you’re pregnant before your family knows… imagine what ad platforms and recommendation feeds can infer about your money, your health, and your next life move from boring little signals you barely notice.

I’m Addie. I’ve spent 15 years in cybersecurity, and I teach cyber threats before they blindside you. In this vid, I break down the real mechanics behind prediction engines, why “scale” doesn’t protect models from manipulation, and how tiny amounts of poison in training data (or your own behavior) can make these systems confidently wrong.

Here’s what you’ll be able to do after this:

Understand how behavioral profiling and predictive analytics pull “private truths” from normal shopping and scrolling
Spot how personalized ads and recommendation systems build a story about you from clicks, watch time, and purchases
Learn what data poisoning means (in plain English) and why it works at web scale
See how an AI backdoor attack can hide in massive training sets without “breaking” accuracy
Recognize why adtech and real time bidding are fragile when signals get polluted by bots and noise
Understand model collapse and what happens when AI training data becomes AI-generated sludge

Start testing feedback loops safely so you can build hacking instincts without doing anything reckless Sources:

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2302.10149

https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.10149

Excerpt:

“The micro-modular shelter is working,” Morgan told CTV News. “People are finding indoor spaces. Certainly, there are still people outdoors, but [there’s] a big decline in the numbers of both encampments and people living unsheltered through the winter.”

Last fall, London City Council approved $7 million to construct and operate the 60 unit community (50 single-occupancy and 10 double-occupancy) that will house up to 70 people until April 2027.

The municipality’s Coordinated Informed Response (CIR) Team, who offer support to the unhoused, enforce encampment policies, and respond to the concerns of businesses, has witnessed the transformation of several people who moved into the MMS.

“An incredible change, we visibly see it in folks,” said Debbie Kramers, CIR manager. “We’re now visiting the MMS, going there regularly, and the conversation has changed. It’s about their future and it’s about housing. They’re actually having conversations with my team about what [life] looks like next.”

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/44744529

Not by stopping the invasion of course, don't be silly.

She doesn't need to keep reminding me every 6 months

U.S. services also preparing to receive tanks with no turrets and trucks with no engines, for the time being. Temporary setbacks!

Damn the rest of the world is so jealous of our F35s!

Alt Text: The text above the image reads "When you're in a group chat, and the chat goes silent for a few days, so you assume they've moved to another chat and not invited you." Image is of Frasier in a spa, wearing a mud mask and robe, with a suspicious look on his face noting that "there's a platinum door".

An AI agent went rogue at Meta, exposing sensitive company and user data to employees who did not have permission to access it.

Rest in RIP Chuck Norris.