Federated

Had a hell of a Halloween party and got to play drinking games with a bunch of my queer swordfighting friends!

MythicRatatoskr: An Yggdrasil-enabled backdoor deployed in a UAC-0099-Sandworm collaboration https://www.welivesecurity.com/en/eset-research/mythicratatoskr-yggdrasil-enabled-backdoor-deployed-uac0099-sandworm-collaboration/

Jack Bruce’s Harmony Row; more prog than you might know | #Loudersound

🔗 https://www.loudersound.com/music/albums/jack-bruce-harmony-row-prog

#Albums #Music

#SilentSunday #Photography

Left populists make me mad cause I believe they actually want to solve the problems they speak about. So not caring enough to propose good solutions is perplexing. What exactly is the goal?

Voor de vroege vogels (na het verzetten van de klok), het is een extra lange #luiezondagochtend . We hebben het vandaag over internationale artiesten in deze #muziekquiz.

Je mag vandaag inzenden tot 18 uur!

https://luiezondagochtend.nl/quiz/international-artists-day

I really hope that someone way smarter than me, ports OpenZFS to NetBSD.

Pushing Bluetooth Out To 12 Kilometers
https://hackaday.com/2026/10/24/pushing-bluetooth-out-to-12-kilometers/

AI Can Write the Words, But Who Takes the Responsibility?

In my point of view, AI can help with writing blogs and content or other work. But a lot of content and theory that sounds important is really fake, because it has no proof behind it. Humans were already doing this long before AI: people have always written things that only sound important, either to look smart or simply out of foolishness. AI is only a tool, and it makes this easier to do. Companies also want us to see AI as something human, something that has feelings. So I want to ask: what is a feeling? In technical terms, emotions and feelings are chemical reactions, a kind of process happening in the body and brain. Humans are made of atoms, and AI is a process too. Seen this way, we could say that humans are also a kind of AI. I am not trying to define humans here, but this is where the question leads.
AI is good at writing blogs and content, and at other jobs. But I want us to stop and think about how content and its influence affect humans. Can fake or misleading information affect a person's mental health? And who takes responsibility for it? AI companies seem careful about presenting AI as medical care, and the question of responsibility is still unresolved. Providers of AI chatbots face growing scrutiny from advocacy groups and lawmakers over the effects of chatbots on mental health, especially for children. Researchers at Northeastern University found that safeguards have improved around suicide and self-harm, but companies have not extended the same protections to almost every other mental health condition. So companies are acting, but unevenly, and probably under pressure.
Some research shows that anxiety and stress go up with AI use. A survey of 20,847 people in the US found that those who use chatbots for emotional support or other personal reasons were more likely to report symptoms of depression or anxiety. But this shows an association, not cause and effect. A study of high school students in Indonesia found a similar link, but its authors said causality cannot be established because of the study design. A study of health-science students in the UAE suggested that chatbot use is linked to higher depression and anxiety, which likely reflects help-seeking rather than causation. In other words, people who already feel anxious may be the ones who turn to AI.
Other research shows that AI can help. In a randomized trial of 210 adults, a chatbot called Therabot, fine-tuned by mental health experts, reduced depression symptoms by 51% and anxiety symptoms by 31% in participants with those conditions. But this was a chatbot built for therapy and monitored by researchers, not a general chatbot. So what is the main cause? The research does not give one clear answer. It may depend on who is using AI, how they use it, and whether the tool was designed for mental health at all.
My confusion, and my point of view, is this: if someone needs help, they will find help. The real question is what they will find, and who is responsible when it goes wrong.
Sources

Using AI for advice or other personal reasons is linked to depression and anxiety (NBC News)
The Association Between AI Chatbot Use and Anxiety Among High School Adolescents in Yogyakarta
AI-chatbot use and mental well-being among UAE health-sciences students (F1000Research)
Therabot clinical trial summary (2 Minute Medicine, study published in NEJM AI)
For most mental health conditions, AI remains a liability (Northeastern University)
AI Chatbots Face Rising Legal and Legislative Scrutiny (Kelley Drye)

Redbone
"New Blue Sermonette" (LP Version)
Columbia Records
1970

#NativeAmerican #IndigenousMusic #Indigenous #Rock #70sMusic #Music

Two emergency cybersecurity proposals in one week in Japan:

- LDP (ruling party): a PM-led cyber response HQ, AI defense, attribution and takedowns, and considering domestic communications data
- Team Mirai: a cyber accident investigation board, vendor security duties, fines for negligent leaks, and a safe harbor for good-faith research

We test both against this year's breach data.

https://japancyberwatch.com/articles/japan-ldp-team-mirai-cyber-proposals-2026

#infosec #japan #policy

Wenn man so durch diese geleakten AfD-Mails liest wird einem erst klar wie viele Spinner die sich eintreten. Also nicht, dass das sowieso ein Sammelbecken voller gefährlicher Spinner wäre, aber die Anzahl der Leute die haarscharf an einer voll ausgebildeten Psychose langgrinden und da Mails hinschicken ist schon wirklich hoch.

Sucht mal nach "Putin" und guckt einfach mal welche Randos da ihren Scheiß bei denen abladen. Extrem viele auch einfach von ganz normalen t-online oder gmx Mailadressen. Oder besonders geil: Von der info@-Mailbox des eigenen Unternehmens.

Überall sind nur noch absolute Volldullis unterwegs.

O sută de persoane arestate la #Barcelona, după jafuri și incendieri în centrul orașului.
Aproximativ un sfert dintre cei reținuți sunt minori.

🔗 https://wp.me/p9KpFA-5LCX

#Știri #Spania #Catalonia

"May the force be with Duo" https://www.reddit.com/r/iPhoneDuo/comments/1xeos8e/may_the_force_be_with_duo/

Astronaut spotlight

William G. Gregory (Retired)
Date of Birth: 14/05/1957
Nationality: American
Agency: National Aeronautics and Space Administration
First flight: 02/03/1995
Last flight: 02/03/1995

William George "Borneo" Gregory is an American retired NASA astronaut and United States Air Force lieutenant colonel.

The man was not made for the woman onely, but the woman also for the man; yet hath God endowed her with gifts equall, if not superiour.

-- Rachel Speght (A Mouzell for Melastomus, 1617 (circa))

#feminism #quotes

is "doomscrolling" a valid hobby?

I post this, and four minutes later, it uploads. Awesome.

It's up. Audio version too.

The day after my abortion, I go to church

Blood & Water
Yoda Olinyk

#Poetry #YolaOlinyk #ThimbleLiteraryMagazine #Abortion #Church

https://www.thimblelitmag.com/2026/07/19/blood-water/

#raddle

PRIME → TIME [💯]
Raddle #608 • Oct 25, 2026

🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢🙌 https://raddle.quest/608

Today, a #Bánkövi and a #Wolf world premieres #Liszt and #Dupré from #Budapest https://www.worldconcerthall.com/en/schedule/a_bankovi_and_a_wolf_world_premieres_liszt_and_dupre_from_budapest/94583/ #wch

You have not taken anything away from me. I have what I've always had. I have you.

— not another d&d podcast

https://manipurosint.mataroa.blog/blog/battalions-kna-likely-alignment/

Article on the 3rd Battalion of the Kuki National Army and their suspected link to the recent attack on Khamenlok amended.

A recent Indian Army operation on the camp has yielded a huge cache of weapons and 17 unauthorized cadres have been arrested following the deadly attack.
#OSINT #Manipur

if an orb is in the forest and there is no paranormal detective to find it, does it really exist?

You're free now. I'm sorry I couldn't be free with you.

Very cool "Humble Bundle":
EC Archives (Not the full set - but the *important* ones: Tales From the Crypt, Vault of Horror, and Haunt of Fear. .PDF format.
$18 (USD)... (compare to a-zon $13+ each - and I'm not sure if proprietory (sp?) format or not)...
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/ec-archives-tales-from-crypt-dark-horse-ec-comics-books?hmb_source=&hmb_medium=product_tile&hmb_campaign=mosaic_section_1_layout_index_1_layout_type_threes_tile_index_2_c_ecarchivestalesfromcryptdarkhorseeccomics_bookbundle

You'll regret this forever

#BCpoli

Good luck with that, my mother said

Another Job of Work
David Mason

#Poetry #DavidMason #TheSonneteer #Nineteen #Hashish #1974 #War #Cannery

https://thesonneteer.substack.com/p/another-job-of-work

Follow up #international le nouveau genre #Europe
https://www.courrierinternational.com/article/reportage-rien-d-autre-que-la-victoire-en-serbie-la-liste-etudiante-croit-en-ses-chances_280851