Giorgio Maone
@ma1.bsky.social
Hacker, atheist, humanist, socialist, dad, mozillian, security breaker and builder, creator of NoScript, casting spells at the Tor Browser. He/him.
🐘 @ma1@todon.eu
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Quando la propaganda russa si fa strada nell'università e perché.
fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/la-fabbric...
fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/la-fabbric...
La fabbrica della sfiducia
Dalle bugie del Cremlino alle bufale antivax: la propaganda autoritaria contemporanea non punta tanto a convincere, quanto a confondere e seminare sfiducia. Un trend che coinvolge anche l'università
fabiosabatini.substack.com
November 11, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Quando la propaganda russa si fa strada nell'università e perché.
fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/la-fabbric...
fabiosabatini.substack.com/p/la-fabbric...
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"JPMorgan on Monday said building AI infrastructure will cost more than $5tn"
Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?
Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?
"Investors have been selling off the debt of US tech heavyweights, showing how jitters over Silicon Valley’s boom in spending on artificial intelligence have spilled into the bond market."
Investor angst over Big Tech’s AI spending spills into bond market
Debt issued by groups building data centres has been hit in recent weeks
www.ft.com
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
"JPMorgan on Monday said building AI infrastructure will cost more than $5tn"
Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?
Crazy idea: Why not, rather than spending $5 TRILLION dollars to pay for data centers to create fake brains, just pay actual human beings with real brains that same $5 trillion?
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The tech bros get Trump to exercise extortionate demands on the EU to block regulatory initiatives. The tactic works flawlessly. www.ft.com/content/af6c...
EU set to water down landmark AI act after Big Tech pressure
Commission proposes pauses to provisions in digital rule book
www.ft.com
November 7, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The tech bros get Trump to exercise extortionate demands on the EU to block regulatory initiatives. The tactic works flawlessly. www.ft.com/content/af6c...
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It turns out that nobody will vote for you to care for their children when your leader AND HER HUSBAND get arrested for being sexual predators.
November 9, 2025 at 12:07 PM
It turns out that nobody will vote for you to care for their children when your leader AND HER HUSBAND get arrested for being sexual predators.
Projection as a form of art.
Mike Johnson: "If you run as a socialist, you run on a big list false claims. You promise everything to everyone, and you can't deliver, and if you were able to deliver it would be to the great detriment of the people you lured in to vote for you."
November 6, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Projection as a form of art.
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This month Nathan Gill will be sentenced at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia during his tenure as a member of the European parliament. This fascinating article discusses his close relationship to Farage. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Reform UK, the Russian spy and rolls of Kremlin cash: the inside story of Nathan Gill
How did a former Mormon bishop end up pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia in the European parliament?
www.theguardian.com
November 1, 2025 at 11:14 AM
This month Nathan Gill will be sentenced at the Old Bailey after pleading guilty to taking bribes to make statements in favour of Russia during his tenure as a member of the European parliament. This fascinating article discusses his close relationship to Farage. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
8 years ago: the pumpkin monster in chief 🎃 was already deranged, but not as much as now, and #WednesdayAddams was not on Netflix yet, but already a role model.
A merry and spooky #Halloween everyone! 🖤
A merry and spooky #Halloween everyone! 🖤
October 31, 2025 at 8:18 AM
8 years ago: the pumpkin monster in chief 🎃 was already deranged, but not as much as now, and #WednesdayAddams was not on Netflix yet, but already a role model.
A merry and spooky #Halloween everyone! 🖤
A merry and spooky #Halloween everyone! 🖤
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Speaker Johnson admits Trump & Republicans are forcing millions of kids to go hungry for political leverage. He says funding SNAP would "reduce the pressure" on Democrats. Disgusting.
BASH: Even Hawley says you should move money around to feed people. Why not consider it?
JOHNSON: Because if you deviate from the goal of reopening the entire govt, Schumer & the radicals will continue to play games. If you do just part of this, it will reduce the pressure for them to do all of it
JOHNSON: Because if you deviate from the goal of reopening the entire govt, Schumer & the radicals will continue to play games. If you do just part of this, it will reduce the pressure for them to do all of it
October 30, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Speaker Johnson admits Trump & Republicans are forcing millions of kids to go hungry for political leverage. He says funding SNAP would "reduce the pressure" on Democrats. Disgusting.
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"The details of the agreement show it contains alarmingly few guardrails to ensure accuracy and scant specifics on how the data will be kept secure. Further, it explicitly does not bar DHS from deploying the SSA data for other purposes, including immigration enforcement."
DHS Agreement Reveals Risks of Using Social Security Data for Voter Citizenship Checks
A recently released agreement gives the Department of Homeland Security access to hundreds of millions of Americans’ Social Security data. It contains alarmingly few provisions to ensure accuracy and ...
www.propublica.org
October 30, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"The details of the agreement show it contains alarmingly few guardrails to ensure accuracy and scant specifics on how the data will be kept secure. Further, it explicitly does not bar DHS from deploying the SSA data for other purposes, including immigration enforcement."
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New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 3:03 PM
New incredible detail here: ICE says a match in its facial recognition app Mobile Fortify is a "definitive" determination of a person's status, and that this overrides birth certificates. This is an app ICE is using in the field to scan people
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-...
October 29, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Based #Python Software Foundation, unlike those spineless big tech CEOs and founders, refuses to kiss #nazis' ass for (much needed) money 🫶🏼
Never like today it's time for #EU and democratic countries to step up and support critical #FOSS infrastructure.
pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
Never like today it's time for #EU and democratic countries to step up and support critical #FOSS infrastructure.
pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program
pyfound.blogspot.com
October 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Based #Python Software Foundation, unlike those spineless big tech CEOs and founders, refuses to kiss #nazis' ass for (much needed) money 🫶🏼
Never like today it's time for #EU and democratic countries to step up and support critical #FOSS infrastructure.
pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
Never like today it's time for #EU and democratic countries to step up and support critical #FOSS infrastructure.
pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
October 25, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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"No, we don't want a monarchy, we want a theocracy" is a not the flex they think it is.
Chip Roy: "The truth is the marxist, radicals, and Islamists the Democratic Party promoted this weekend, they cannot handle the truth. The truth is that there is a king and that king is Jesus. And the president has been willing to say it, & Charlie Kirk was willing to say it & he got killed for it."
October 20, 2025 at 4:14 PM
"No, we don't want a monarchy, we want a theocracy" is a not the flex they think it is.
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The idea that there are activists and citizens who attend protests because it’s what they believe in is completely foreign to them. If it isn’t a personal grift, they don’t understand the motivation.
Sean Duffy: "The No Kings protest, Maria, really frustrating. This is part of antifa, paid protesters. It begs the question who's funding it."
October 13, 2025 at 1:56 PM
The idea that there are activists and citizens who attend protests because it’s what they believe in is completely foreign to them. If it isn’t a personal grift, they don’t understand the motivation.
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"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
October 10, 2025 at 1:14 AM
"30-year-old conservative lawyer and activist who is Trump’s nominee to lead the Office of Special Counsel, which deals with federal employee whistleblower complaints and discrimination" cancelled his colleague's hotel room so she would be forced to stay with him.
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
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i’ve seen enough. and by that i mean lots of evidence. If you’re running an account that uses phrases like “antifascist,” or anything in the vicinity, the FBI, the NYPD, it doesn’t really matter, it’s all the same thing now, you’re on a watchlist.
October 11, 2025 at 9:31 AM
i’ve seen enough. and by that i mean lots of evidence. If you’re running an account that uses phrases like “antifascist,” or anything in the vicinity, the FBI, the NYPD, it doesn’t really matter, it’s all the same thing now, you’re on a watchlist.
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Pretty sure we’re living one
@mikeflanaganfilm.com can we get a George Orwell horror series?
October 10, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Pretty sure we’re living one
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Incredible.
Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.
Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.
October 8, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Incredible.
Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.
Jack Posobiec references the earliest version of antifa -- the anti-fascists in the Weimar Republic who were opposed to the Nazi Party -- as the bad guys.
Apps being censored by corporate stores makes a great case for breaking free from centralized platforms & switching back to the open web.
And of course, for setting up onion services (community.torproject.org/onion-servic...) to prevent censorship and using the Tor Browser to stay anonymous.
And of course, for setting up onion services (community.torproject.org/onion-servic...) to prevent censorship and using the Tor Browser to stay anonymous.
October 8, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Apps being censored by corporate stores makes a great case for breaking free from centralized platforms & switching back to the open web.
And of course, for setting up onion services (community.torproject.org/onion-servic...) to prevent censorship and using the Tor Browser to stay anonymous.
And of course, for setting up onion services (community.torproject.org/onion-servic...) to prevent censorship and using the Tor Browser to stay anonymous.
NoScript 13.1 is out.
- New wasm capability for per-site WebAssembly control
- Fix for some visual breakages where unrestricted CSS is off
- Best effort avoidance of extra tab bars for AI Chatbot sidebar detection
noscript.net/getit
- New wasm capability for per-site WebAssembly control
- Fix for some visual breakages where unrestricted CSS is off
- Best effort avoidance of extra tab bars for AI Chatbot sidebar detection
noscript.net/getit
Get it! - NoScript: Own Your Browser!
The NoScript Security Suite is Free Software protecting Firefox (on Android, too!), Chrome, Edge, Brave and other web browsers. Install NoScript now!
noscript.net
October 7, 2025 at 9:18 PM
NoScript 13.1 is out.
- New wasm capability for per-site WebAssembly control
- Fix for some visual breakages where unrestricted CSS is off
- Best effort avoidance of extra tab bars for AI Chatbot sidebar detection
noscript.net/getit
- New wasm capability for per-site WebAssembly control
- Fix for some visual breakages where unrestricted CSS is off
- Best effort avoidance of extra tab bars for AI Chatbot sidebar detection
noscript.net/getit
Any of you among the "undisclosed recipients" of this double #XSS attempt just landed in my inbox (thanks @thunderbird.net for being impervious to these sheenigans)?
Nice TLD, btw...
Nice TLD, btw...
October 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Any of you among the "undisclosed recipients" of this double #XSS attempt just landed in my inbox (thanks @thunderbird.net for being impervious to these sheenigans)?
Nice TLD, btw...
Nice TLD, btw...
Hybrid civil war.
PAY ATTENTION: ICE is filing fake 911 calls in Chicago, weaponizing emergency services to provoke local police.
Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.
Ordinary citizens would be charged with a felony. ICE calls it strategy.
October 7, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Hybrid civil war.
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Chris Hayes did an outstanding job of proving Miller's a facist. Wait through the commercials.
youtu.be/vOXOWAhFz0A
youtu.be/vOXOWAhFz0A
‘F--- them kids’: ICE agents drag children out of bed, ransack Chicago building
YouTube video by MSNBC
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October 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Chris Hayes did an outstanding job of proving Miller's a facist. Wait through the commercials.
youtu.be/vOXOWAhFz0A
youtu.be/vOXOWAhFz0A
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as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
October 4, 2025 at 10:23 PM
as a girl with a PhD in natural language processing and machine learning it's actually offensive to me when you say "we don't know how LLMs work so they might be conscious"
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.
I didn't spend 10 years in mines of academia to be told ignorance is morally equal knowledge.
We know exactly how LLMs work.