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NEW: Your "end-to-end encrypted" poop pictures taken by this $599 (+ subscription) smart toilet camera are actually not end-to-end encrypted.
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techcrunch.com/2025/12/03/e...
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‘End-to-end encrypted’ smart toilet camera is not actually end-to-end encrypted | TechCrunch
Kohler, the makers of a smart toilet camera, can access customers' data stored on its servers, and can use customers’ bowl pictures to train AI.
techcrunch.com
December 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
NEW: Your "end-to-end encrypted" poop pictures taken by this $599 (+ subscription) smart toilet camera are actually not end-to-end encrypted.
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cryptography is a mathematical system for transforming problems which aren't key-management problems into key-management problems
November 22, 2025 at 2:15 AM
cryptography is a mathematical system for transforming problems which aren't key-management problems into key-management problems
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The jury — which feasted on sandwiches for lunch on Thursday, according to a person familiar with jury lunches
BREAKING: JUSTICE DEPARTMENT EATS A LOSS IN 'SANDWICH GUY' CASE AS JURORS FIND DEFENDANT NOT GUILTY www.nbcnews.com/politics/jus...
Jury acquits D.C. 'sandwich guy' charged with chucking a sub at a federal agent
Sean Dunn faced single misdemeanor offense after federal grand jurors refused to indict him on the felony charge sought by prosecutors.
www.nbcnews.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
The jury — which feasted on sandwiches for lunch on Thursday, according to a person familiar with jury lunches
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he thinks they’re for petting 🥺
October 26, 2024 at 1:10 PM
he thinks they’re for petting 🥺
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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-...
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One of Elon Musk's big gripes with Wikipedia is that his entry there has a whole section on his salute during his inauguration speech earlier this year. His Grokipedia entry doesn't mention it at all, but the "Nazi salute" Grokipedia entry says this:
![On January 20, 2025, during a rally celebrating Donald Trump's second inauguration, Elon Musk extended his right arm twice in a straight-armed gesture while speaking, which multiple observers and media outlets likened to the Nazi salute, igniting debates over intent, free speech limits, and historical symbolism.[78] Musk responded by posting jokes referencing Nazi figures like Rudolf Hess and Joseph Goebbels, dismissing critics and framing accusations as overreactions, while some supporters claimed it evoked a Roman salute adopted by fascists rather than a direct Nazi reference; neo-Nazi accounts online praised the gesture as validation.[79] German officials and historians, citing the gesture's post-1919 fascist codification, condemned it unequivocally, underscoring transatlantic divides in interpreting such acts amid 2024-2025 discussions of ironic or revivalist uses.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5siz7r23475fek2mj6p5zhzw/bafkreiatxp5tswjoj5loixff7prwx7emh2tlbbrsxih5jitjxekomwqroy@jpeg)
October 28, 2025 at 12:01 AM
One of Elon Musk's big gripes with Wikipedia is that his entry there has a whole section on his salute during his inauguration speech earlier this year. His Grokipedia entry doesn't mention it at all, but the "Nazi salute" Grokipedia entry says this:
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Gov is shutdown. Let’s see who picks it up this time 🤣
October 2, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Gov is shutdown. Let’s see who picks it up this time 🤣
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the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry
September 26, 2025 at 5:05 PM
the Command & Conquer series is 30 years old today we so have an excuse to share this iconic moment with Tim Curry
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This only happens to you once
September 26, 2025 at 7:39 PM
This only happens to you once
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my partner has been watching Death Comes to Pemberley on Amazon prime and says their subtitles must be AI now
September 23, 2025 at 8:14 AM
my partner has been watching Death Comes to Pemberley on Amazon prime and says their subtitles must be AI now
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Excellent @stephenharrison.com piece about Wikipedia, breaking news, and the right wing outrage machine that's kicked into high gear around articles about Charlie Kirk and the killing of Iryna Zarutska.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
September 17, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Excellent @stephenharrison.com piece about Wikipedia, breaking news, and the right wing outrage machine that's kicked into high gear around articles about Charlie Kirk and the killing of Iryna Zarutska.
slate.com/technology/2...
slate.com/technology/2...
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Half the time I see news articles about "Wikipedia is trying to delete X!", I go look at the discussion and it's
September 10, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Half the time I see news articles about "Wikipedia is trying to delete X!", I go look at the discussion and it's
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Don't get me wrong. I'm an AI optimist. But sometimes, when I talk with people who work for the AI heavilyweights, they sound like the people I talked to at Facebook before 2017. They thought they could do only good. They only listened to their leader. Believed his words. Then it went horribly wrong
September 8, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Don't get me wrong. I'm an AI optimist. But sometimes, when I talk with people who work for the AI heavilyweights, they sound like the people I talked to at Facebook before 2017. They thought they could do only good. They only listened to their leader. Believed his words. Then it went horribly wrong
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Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
September 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.
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Couple responses saying they don't understand the jargon in this post. Sorry! Basically: Justin Sun bought a huge amount of the cryptocurrency created by World Liberty Finanical, a Trump family project. That cryptocurrency was recently just made available for trading, meaning those tokens Sun
The Trumps' World Liberty Financial project has frozen WLFI tokens in wallet addresses belonging to Justin Sun that contain ~$100 million (on paper) in unlocked WLFI. Sun is a major backer of the project, which the Trumps say they founded to stop "debanking".
September 4, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Couple responses saying they don't understand the jargon in this post. Sorry! Basically: Justin Sun bought a huge amount of the cryptocurrency created by World Liberty Finanical, a Trump family project. That cryptocurrency was recently just made available for trading, meaning those tokens Sun
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i constantly think about this post
September 3, 2025 at 3:15 AM
i constantly think about this post
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Looks like Google won't be selling Chrome and cutting off Mozilla - the (230 page) ruling on the antitrust case is out, my notes here simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/3/a...
gov.uscourts.dcd.223205.1436.0_1.pdf
Here's the 230 page PDF ruling on the 2023 United States v. Google LLC federal antitrust case - the case that could have resulted in Google selling off Chrome and …
simonwillison.net
September 3, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Looks like Google won't be selling Chrome and cutting off Mozilla - the (230 page) ruling on the antitrust case is out, my notes here simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/3/a...
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something poetic about cinematographers looking for the best image stabilization in hardware while digital animators are searching for the most believable camera shake in software
September 3, 2025 at 9:19 AM
something poetic about cinematographers looking for the best image stabilization in hardware while digital animators are searching for the most believable camera shake in software
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Some notes on the insecurity baked into Perplexity's Comet "AI Browser" - the Brave security team reported serious prompt injection vulnerabilities in it, but Brave themselves are developing a similar feature that looks doomed to have similar problems simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/25/...
Agentic Browser Security: Indirect Prompt Injection in Perplexity Comet
The security team from Brave took a look at Comet, the LLM-powered "agentic browser" extension from Perplexity, and unsurprisingly found security holes you can drive a truck through. The vulnerability...
simonwillison.net
August 25, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Some notes on the insecurity baked into Perplexity's Comet "AI Browser" - the Brave security team reported serious prompt injection vulnerabilities in it, but Brave themselves are developing a similar feature that looks doomed to have similar problems simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/25/...
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We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it.
If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago as Trump eyes crackdown
President Donald Trump said Chicago is his next likely target to crack down on urban crime. Military planning has been ongoing for weeks, officials say.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
We’re 7 months in, and “Pentagon plans military deployment in Chicago” is a headline in the Washington Post. And because it’s city number three, we’re already numbing to it.
If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
If you read this about any other democracy in the world, you’d conclude that it was well on the road to a dictatorship.
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A friend of mine is a fan of the French Revolution and it’s been fascinating learning that its original leaders kept raising the bar on purity and dedication to the cause until they all ended up being guillotined as well.
It makes the modern left make a lot more sense. It’s a leftist pattern.
It makes the modern left make a lot more sense. It’s a leftist pattern.
August 23, 2025 at 10:09 PM
A friend of mine is a fan of the French Revolution and it’s been fascinating learning that its original leaders kept raising the bar on purity and dedication to the cause until they all ended up being guillotined as well.
It makes the modern left make a lot more sense. It’s a leftist pattern.
It makes the modern left make a lot more sense. It’s a leftist pattern.
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I really wish I'd kept track of how many people in my life I've gotten to stop flying the confederate flag, just by showing them the declaration of secession for their home state, and showing them that the confederate flag was only used for the 4 years of war.
It's in the hundreds.
It's in the hundreds.
mekka okereke :verified: (@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io)
I don't want to talk about Black history yet. I want to talk about why if you grew up in the North or West, your high school history book likely talked about the "Articles of Secession,"
but if you ...
hachyderm.io
August 18, 2025 at 6:23 AM
I really wish I'd kept track of how many people in my life I've gotten to stop flying the confederate flag, just by showing them the declaration of secession for their home state, and showing them that the confederate flag was only used for the 4 years of war.
It's in the hundreds.
It's in the hundreds.
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Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.
August 12, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Not sure how many scientists here have tried Claude Code or similar command line coding assistants. I had a complicated family property tax problem that was best solved by a brute force Monte Carlo simulation approach, so I spent a few days coding up and analyzing a model with Claude Code.
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Perplexity (valued at $18B) just made an offer to buy Chrome (valued at $20-50B) from Google for $34.5B. "Analysts say the (FTC) judge is unlikely to force the company to sell Chrome, though he gave little indication of which way he was leaning"
www.wsj.com
August 13, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Perplexity (valued at $18B) just made an offer to buy Chrome (valued at $20-50B) from Google for $34.5B. "Analysts say the (FTC) judge is unlikely to force the company to sell Chrome, though he gave little indication of which way he was leaning"