Mads Toftum
@q42.bsky.social
$dayjob is AWS / DevOps / infosec related
Apache Software Foundation Member (part of root@ many moons ago)
Free time spent on photography and cooking.
@quasi42 in the twitters
@q42 on Flickr.
Apache Software Foundation Member (part of root@ many moons ago)
Free time spent on photography and cooking.
@quasi42 in the twitters
@q42 on Flickr.
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New from me: The same tactics marketers use to get you to find their toothbrushes or photography business on Google were also used by Jeffrey Epstein & co. to try to launder his reputation online. SEO to try to cover up the most infamous pedophile ring.
www.theverge.com/report/82231...
www.theverge.com/report/82231...
How Jeffrey Epstein used SEO to bury news about his crimes
“the google page is not good,” Epstein wrote
www.theverge.com
November 17, 2025 at 7:38 PM
New from me: The same tactics marketers use to get you to find their toothbrushes or photography business on Google were also used by Jeffrey Epstein & co. to try to launder his reputation online. SEO to try to cover up the most infamous pedophile ring.
www.theverge.com/report/82231...
www.theverge.com/report/82231...
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The message seems to be that one must love one's own country before one can love any other. But this week let us do whatever small act we can to "Love Ukraine."
Poetry • by Volodymyr Sosiura
Reminder: 🇷🇺Their goal isn't territory! Their goal is the elimination of Ukraine as a nation!
Thread 1/3🧵
Poetry • by Volodymyr Sosiura
Reminder: 🇷🇺Their goal isn't territory! Their goal is the elimination of Ukraine as a nation!
Thread 1/3🧵
November 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
The message seems to be that one must love one's own country before one can love any other. But this week let us do whatever small act we can to "Love Ukraine."
Poetry • by Volodymyr Sosiura
Reminder: 🇷🇺Their goal isn't territory! Their goal is the elimination of Ukraine as a nation!
Thread 1/3🧵
Poetry • by Volodymyr Sosiura
Reminder: 🇷🇺Their goal isn't territory! Their goal is the elimination of Ukraine as a nation!
Thread 1/3🧵
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(comic) We’re just finishing up… said every meeting ever
November 17, 2025 at 4:19 PM
(comic) We’re just finishing up… said every meeting ever
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Two explosions targeted a railway line that connects Poland and Ukraine. Prime Minister Tusk is calling these attacks “an unprecedented act of sabotage aimed at the security of the Polish state and its citizens.”
www.reuters.com/world/explos...
www.reuters.com/world/explos...
Polish PM says railway track blast was 'unprecedented act of sabotage'
An explosion that damaged a Polish railway track on a route to Ukraine was an "unprecedented act of sabotage", Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Monday, and he vowed to catch those responsible for an incident he said could have ended in tragedy.
www.reuters.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Two explosions targeted a railway line that connects Poland and Ukraine. Prime Minister Tusk is calling these attacks “an unprecedented act of sabotage aimed at the security of the Polish state and its citizens.”
www.reuters.com/world/explos...
www.reuters.com/world/explos...
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Yep. Disconnect the grounding from how people learn & search online (and offline, by threatening teachers & shutting down libraries) … then make truth be whatever you want.
Hard to find a clearer distillation of the gen ai project.
White nationalist talking points and racial pseudoscience: welcome to Elon Musk’s Grokipedia
World’s richest person wanted to ‘purge’ propaganda from Wikipedia, so he created a compendium of racist disinformation
www.theguardian.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Yep. Disconnect the grounding from how people learn & search online (and offline, by threatening teachers & shutting down libraries) … then make truth be whatever you want.
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Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.
November 16, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Brush your teeth after eating these or else you'll get calculus.
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For all you writers out there:
November 15, 2025 at 8:09 PM
For all you writers out there:
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I don’t mind the idea of AI doing my dishes because that’s the stuff I want to be disrupted.
But it doesn’t have to look human to do this! Look at our little roombas. They do a good little job, and should they turn evil, and it would be hard for them to punch us in the face.
But it doesn’t have to look human to do this! Look at our little roombas. They do a good little job, and should they turn evil, and it would be hard for them to punch us in the face.
November 15, 2025 at 8:53 PM
I don’t mind the idea of AI doing my dishes because that’s the stuff I want to be disrupted.
But it doesn’t have to look human to do this! Look at our little roombas. They do a good little job, and should they turn evil, and it would be hard for them to punch us in the face.
But it doesn’t have to look human to do this! Look at our little roombas. They do a good little job, and should they turn evil, and it would be hard for them to punch us in the face.
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😂
Malcolm Nance said these sound like the titles of porn movies.
November 16, 2025 at 7:02 AM
😂
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Christian Adams @Adamstoon1 on the #BBC #Trump #ChildrenInNeed @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
November 15, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Christian Adams @Adamstoon1 on the #BBC #Trump #ChildrenInNeed @Telegraph – political cartoon gallery in London original-political-cartoon.com
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I am no arsonist, but I must admit, watching the Republican party burn down is quite the spectacle.
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I am no arsonist, but I must admit, watching the Republican party burn down is quite the spectacle.
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As a German & American, I wish our citizens were half as mobilized about our own corruption scandals as Ukrainians are about theirs. Look at Schröder, Schwesig, MAGA grift… We must demand consequences too. Stop fighting corruption & democracy doesn’t just decline. It gets taken.
November 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
As a German & American, I wish our citizens were half as mobilized about our own corruption scandals as Ukrainians are about theirs. Look at Schröder, Schwesig, MAGA grift… We must demand consequences too. Stop fighting corruption & democracy doesn’t just decline. It gets taken.
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If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
November 13, 2025 at 1:49 PM
If you need me, tap me on the shoulder. I’ll be happily working all day listening to this on a loop.
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Amazon Inspector detected over 150,000 malicious packages in npm linked to a tea.xyz token farming campaign, representing one of the largest supply chain security incidents in open source history.
Amazon Inspector detects over 150,000 malicious packages linked to token farming campaign
Amazon Inspector detected over 150,000 malicious packages in npm linked to a tea.xyz token farming campaign, representing one of the largest supply chain security incidents in open source history.
aws-news.com
November 14, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Amazon Inspector detected over 150,000 malicious packages in npm linked to a tea.xyz token farming campaign, representing one of the largest supply chain security incidents in open source history.
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"Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying."– Terry Pratchett
November 14, 2025 at 1:12 AM
"Satire is meant to ridicule power. If you are laughing at people who are hurting, it's not satire, it's bullying."– Terry Pratchett
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Trump orders distraction, and Pete Hegseth delivers.
Trump's campaign message of "America First" and "no more expensive wars" actually meant "let's have a new war in South America".
According to CBS News, Venezuela has 200,000 troops and millions of reservists ready.
Will Congress agree to this?
Trump's campaign message of "America First" and "no more expensive wars" actually meant "let's have a new war in South America".
According to CBS News, Venezuela has 200,000 troops and millions of reservists ready.
Will Congress agree to this?
November 14, 2025 at 6:01 AM
Trump orders distraction, and Pete Hegseth delivers.
Trump's campaign message of "America First" and "no more expensive wars" actually meant "let's have a new war in South America".
According to CBS News, Venezuela has 200,000 troops and millions of reservists ready.
Will Congress agree to this?
Trump's campaign message of "America First" and "no more expensive wars" actually meant "let's have a new war in South America".
According to CBS News, Venezuela has 200,000 troops and millions of reservists ready.
Will Congress agree to this?