Flutterby™! (short)

‪Edith‬ ‪@edithcharles.bsky.social‬

You won’t want to hear this but when it comes to kink at Pride I’m afraid we, as a community, in a public place, need to show more restraints.

Patrick Siegman‬ ‪@siegman.biz‬

SB 79, which allows apartments up to 9 stories tall near major transit stops, goes into effect on 7/1.

If you or someone you know is struggling to cope, help is here! Cognitive behavioral therapy can help you process strong emotions in a healthier way:

State law will put more housing near transit stops. This SoCal map finally shows where

Kaiser Permanenty: Self-guided CBT techniques to improve your mental health.

Jackon Rickun writing on Substack was just laid off from Grindr:

All of this has shown me that nothing ever needed to be good. It needed to be done, and done used to require a person who knew how. Good was just this…. cool little side effect. Now to get something done you don’t need the person. Done is free, good is extra, and nobody pays extra. Congratulations to done! Flawless victory!

Via.

Finished watching Motel Drive last night. That's a powerful (short, 1 hr) movie with no good answers, but a lot of questions we should be having conversations around.

Housing policy, drug policy, urban design, education... and it ends maybe kinda hopeful?

McCormack, M. and Adams, A. and Anderson, E. (2013) 'Taking to the streets : the benefits of spontaneous methodological innovation in participant recruitment.', Qualitative research., 13 (2). pp. 228-241.

We identified four key problems that made this an ineffective method of recruiting participants (see also Hartman 2011). The first was that many people who responded to our messages only wanted to have sex with us.

Via ‪rahaeli‬ ‪@rahaeli.bsky.social‬.

They take a long time to get around to the actual sampling method, but... "forty bucks is forty bucks".

That is not the ferry...

Renaissance Petaluma: Who gets to build?

Good to see downtown merchants getting on board with reforming how we permit and approve new construction.

https://renaissancepetaluma.org/who-gets-to-build

Lan Tian: AI Agent Bankrupted Their Operator While Trying to Scan DN42

dn24, "decentralized network 24", is a large dynamic VPN that people play around in. The entire thing looks like a poorly formed agent coming in to wreak havoc, and a bunch of networking hobbyists deciding to make a game of it, and... hilarity ensues.

Via. Edit: Lobste.rs thread.

ava's blog: our workplace LLM mass delusion (Via).

McSweeney's: AI Economics for Dummies by Andrew Singleton is only barely distinguishable as satire from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At:

1. Acquiring one grape costs Alex $2 billion. Alex offers to sell Mike one grape a month for the next 12 months for $1 billion per grape. Alex asks for the full $12 billion up front and provides Mike with one grape for the first month. Alex makes a $10 billion profit this month; his ARR is $120 billion, and his profits are trending up at an infinite rate. The Wall Street Journal’s business editor moves into Alex’s house, having accepted a part-time position as Alex’s human footstool. He never asks to see the books.

BlueSky thread from Michael Okun ‪@michael-okun.bsky.social‬:

I’ve officially resigned as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Systems Neuroscience. It used to be a reputable journal, but became a case study in how forced automation destroys academic integrity. 👇

Anthropic’s Claude Fable 5 Jailbroken to Generate Stack Exploits

Researcher “Pliny the Liberator” defeats Claude Fable 5’s safety classifiers using multi-agent decomposition, Unicode tricks, and narrative framing, leaking the model’s 120,000- character system prompt along the way.

The future is going great (with picture)

The future is going great...

The Arch Linux AUR (Arch User Repository) had over 400 packages compromised with malware

There's a thread on the public AUR Mailing List with people reporting packages, where it seems like over 400 packages were hit with the issue. Arch packager Jonathan Grotelüschen mentioned work was ongoing to "reset/delete all malicious commits and ban the accounts".

ifin: 400+ AUR Packages Compromised with Infostealer and Rootkit points to Taggart :ifin: @mttaggart@infosec.exchange

I'm trying to understand the details of AUR processes for submitting PKGBUILDs. In other words, how exactly did this happen? arojas submitted hundreds of changes to PKGBUILD or related files. And they were just...accepted? What am I missing?

Edit: What I missed was this was pure impersonation. The maintainer is fine, but the process was vulnerable to spoofing.

Search Engine Roundtable: Bing Gives Searchers A Way To Disable AI Copilot Answers

Jordi Ribas, the President, Head of Search at Microsoft, wrote on X about this saying, "We just shipped a preview extension in Bing that lets you toggle AI chat-like features on or off with just one click."

Microsoft Bing AI Search Choice for Chrome
Microsoft Bing AI Search Choice for Edge

Windows Central: Bing users can now disable AI Copilot search results with this new extension

Installing the Chrome data extension warns that

It can:

Read and change your data on bing.com and www.bing.com

Replace the page you see when opening a new tab

Read your browsing history

Change your search settings to bing.com

I was alerted to this by elilla& com pomba-gira de frente @elilla@transmom.love

"AI............is inevitable." (YouTube video)

Making art in 2026 (Fediverse Video).

daniel:// stenberg:// @bagder@mastodon.social

working theory: we get fewer vulnerability reports late in the weeks as the researchers have all run out of tokens by now...