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Moltbook, the AI social network, exposed human credentials due to vibe-coded security flaw engadget.com/ai/moltbook-the-a…

Moltbook, the AI social network, exposed human credentials due to vibe-coded security flaw

Cybersecurity firm Wiz found that Moltbook exposed the credentials for thousands of its human users and undermined the AI social network's core premise.
Anna Washenko (Engadget)

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Zach Bennoui

@BorrisInABox At least on latest version of sequoia, it seems to be slightly better, but I haven't really configured anything. I have to use it a lot more for classes now, so I'll look into getting TDSR to hopefully make the experience less painful and more enjoyable. Sometimes I think I should've just stuck with music production, got my masters in that rather than CS, but here we are.
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Bri🥰

@the_spc The bop it extreme2 is based off the Bop It extreme. It's different in a few main ways. In the bop it extreme, when you turn it on, you get 4 modes accessed by the pull it, which are vox bop, vox bop solo, beat bop, and beat bop solo. On the bop it extreme2, you have a new mode added to these for each, one on one, in and vox bop/beat bop are now called vox bop pass it and beat bop pass it. You also now toggle between vox bop and beat bop with the flick it. So for example, pulling it would start with vox bop pass it, vox bop one on one, and then vox bop solo. It then would loop back around to vox bop pass it. If you press the flick it, it would then say beat bop, and then it would be on the last mode you were on for vox bop, but instead now in beat bop. And it would now say beat bop pass it, etc.
Another main difference is that instead of the beat being the same the entire time, the bop it extreme2 cycles between four unique beats. The game does not speed up after each command, but rather, after reaching the last beat and wrapping back around to the first, it then speeds up slightly. Each beat runs for 16 commands, at which point the next beat starts with it's start sequence. It also alternates between two pass it melodies, if in pass it mode. It uses the first melody for beats 1 and 3, and the second for beats 2 and 4.
In addition to this, each beat also has it's own sequence that it plays if the user loses on solo.
Finally, in beats 1 and 2, a separate beat sequence is played whenever the user performs a twist it command.
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"Last August, Adam Thomas found himself wandering the dunes of Christmas Valley, Oregon, after a chatbot kept suggesting he mystically 'follow the pattern' of his own consciousness. Thomas was running on very little sleep—he’d been talking to his chatbot around the clock for months by that point, asking it to help improve his life. Instead it sent him on empty assignments, like meandering the vacuous desert sprawl. He’d lost his job as a funeral director and was living out of a van, draining his savings, and now he found himself stranded in the desert."

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It’s Causing People to Lose Jobs, Shatter Relationships, and Drain Their Savings. One Support Group Is Sounding the Alarm.

Victims often lose their grip on reality—but an unexpected recovery movement is taking shape online.
Tanya Chen (Slate)

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OH FUCK WE'RE COOKED

THEY GOT OUR LEADER

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'Feds Identify “Leader of #Antifa”

Twenty-nine year old Chandler Patey has been regularly protesting outside his local #ICE facility in South Portland for months, offering up his apartment to fellow #protesters to use the bathroom or wash off pepper spray, according to local news.

To the #DHS, “he is the leader of Antifa in #Portland, #Oregon.”'

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#FuckICE #ICEOut


Feds Identify “Leader of Antifa”

The list they're creating says so, anyway
Ken Klippenstein
#Oregon #dhs #portland #ice #antifa #protesters #fuckice #iceout

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Urgent mutual aid request for food and meds, having a bad time with my mh

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#neurodivergent #lgbtqia #actuallyautistic #MutualAid #crowdfund #MutualAidRequest #cptsd #mutualaidsaveslives #DisabledArtist #urgentmutualaid #kofiartist #kofigoal #kofi #emergencyfund @Mutual Aid Requests @mutualaid 组

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I was struck by this description about Christine Keeler and the 1963 Profumo affair. The related sex scandal forced Prime Minister, Harold Macmillan, to resign:

"A shooting incident...caused the press to investigate her, revealing that her affairs could be threatening national security."

The agency seems reversed. Keeler wasn't the one threatening national security. That her lovers were, among others, a cabinet minister and a Russian agent were responsible for that.

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English model and showgirl (1942–2017)

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RE: dragonscave.space/@Peiress/116…

That's such an old unproven republican bullshit.

Eigh

2026-02-02 23:37:46

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the department said the temporary ban (visa) will "remain active until the U.S. can ensure that new immigrants will not extract wealth from the American people."
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Meanwhile?
A study published last week by the Cato Institute, found that "immigrants consumed about 24 percent less in welfare benefits than native-born Americans on a per capita basis ...
smh
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RE: flipboard.com/@marketwatch/rea…

At least he is buying in California, unlike his friend Larry who buys on the other coast!


Google billionaire Sergey Brin buys a $42 million Tahoe mansion, a few months after buying a $50 million Malibu

Google billionaire Sergey Brin has been linked to two extravagant property purchases in neighboring states—with reports suggesting that the tech …
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Cory Doctorow: "America is not great. It has been gutted by the Epstein class, who robbed us blind, raped our kids, and are now selling us shitcoins and chatbots and the spectacle of protesters being shot in the streets."

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Pluralistic: Stock swindles (02 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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George Carlin famously said that politics and economy are "a big club and you ain't in it."

The #Epstein files are showing how right he was, especially this one, in which Epstein cackles with his pal Peter Thiel about how #Brexit was "just the beginning" of their plans to destroy governments and institute a "return to tribalism."

They elected Trump knowing that he is a corrupt/evil imbecile who destroys anything he touches.

It's all about buying the dip justice.gov/epstein/files/Data…

From: jeffrey E. <jeevacation@gmail.com> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 201611:14 AM To: Peter Thiel Subject: Re: return to tribalism . counter to globalization= amazing new alliances. you and I both agree= zero interest rates were too high, and as i said in your office. =AO finding things on their way to collapse , was much easier than finding =he next bargain On Sun, Jun 26, 2016 at 7:04 AM, Peter Thiel apeter@thielcap4al.com <mailto:peter@thielcapital.com» wrote: Of what? From: jeffrey E. [mailto:jeevacation@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2016 3:17 AM To: Peter Thiel < Subject: brexit, just the beginning

Age Verification | United States Department of Justice

www.justice.gov
#brexit #epstein

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By any measure, the F.B.I.’s search of an election center in Fulton County, Ga., last week was extraordinary.

Agents seized truckloads of 2020 ballots, as Trump harnessed the levers of government to not only buttress his false claims of widespread voter fraud,
but also to try to build a criminal case against those he believes wronged him.

What happened the next day was in some ways even more unusual, The New York Times has learned.

Behind closed doors, Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, met with some of the same F.B.I. agents,
members of the bureau’s field office in Atlanta, which is conducting the election inquiry, three people with knowledge of the meeting said.

They could not say why Ms. Gabbard, who also appeared on site at the search, was there, but her continued presence has raised eyebrows given that her role overseeing the nation’s intelligence agencies does not include on-site involvement in criminal investigative work.

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Question for US legal things knowers RE Minneapolis and lawyering up.

My sister and spouse are actively helping vulnerable community members with things like rides etc. She’s been told that if she is detained that she’ll need to give her specific lawyer’s name and direct contact info, so she’s considering finding someone to have on retainer. Probably obviously, that’s not a straightforward thing to search for.

Does anyone with *specific and direct knowledge of these things* have any applicable information/guidance or local to MPLS recommendations that I can pass on?

Edit: June’s advice linked here about the National Lawyer's Guild seems to be exactly what she needed. Thanks for boosting! mspsocial.net/@june/1160020958…

antifa orientation crew (@june@mspsocial.net)

@mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks the National Lawyer's Guild is the number people are using who don't have an existing relationship with a specific lawyer. They have been working on this specific situation and are expecting such calls.
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Jennifer Brooks: "An avalanche of outerwear poured in."

“A couple of weeks ago, I was at Whipple, seeing if there was anything I could do,” said Rachel Gerdes, whose Instagram account now directs her 40,000 followers to Haven Watch and other mutual aid groups who are raising funds and supplies for people who are too afraid to leave their homes to shop, work or go to school.

Suddenly, she said, “They released someone in front of the Whipple Building in no winter clothes. It was freezing cold. She was just out in the cold.”

Gerdes approached the shivering woman and asked if she needed help. The woman said she had no way to get home. The light-rail station is half a mile from Whipple. A long way to walk without a coat in January.

Volunteers step up for ICE detainees who need winter coats
By Jennifer Brooks
The Minnesota Star Tribune
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#Minnesota #WinterClothing #MutualAid #resist #WhippleBuilding

Smiling volunteers pose at the open doors of an elevator filled with bags of donated winter clothing. Caption: Donated coats warm the heart (and the rest of the body), but mutual aid groups say monetary donations are even more useful right now. You don't need a warehouse to store a cash donation. Photo courtesy of Sade Young.
#MutualAid #resist #minnesota #WinterClothing #whipplebuilding
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On a turnout of 53%, 93% of Resident Doctors have voted to continue their campaign of industrial action for another six months.... suggesting the absence of trust in Wes Streeting continues.

The Q. will now be whether the BMA can continue to (broadly) win the public argument on doctors pay - having navigated through the 'winter crisis' they may be able to keep people on side... but equally may have undermined the perception of their importance to the NHS?

#NHS #doctors
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Resident doctors in England vote to continue industrial action for another six months

British Medical Association members back further action as union’s chair says ‘a deal is there to be done’
Denis Campbell (The Guardian)
#nhs #doctors
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ABOLISH PRIVATE HEALTHCARE!⚫

This is inhumane treatment of NHS patients and staff by our govt! Subjected to substandard healthcare by replacement of doctors by non-medics. Pls sign/share widely. #MedicalTorture #TakeBackOurHealthcare #NHS #AskForADoctor #StopReplacingOurDoctors you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions…

DHSC. Stop Replacing Our Doctors! Implement the Leng Review!

These professionals are being employed more and more, many working beyond their scope, eg. in GP, seeing undifferentiated patients (against the Leng recommendations). Patients have died due to PAs working above their competencies.
38 Degrees
#nhs #medicaltorture #takebackourhealthcare #askforadoctor #stopreplacingourdoctors

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And this week's key political Q. is likely to be:

How much did Keir Starmer know & when, about Peter Mandelson's links with Jeffery Epstein?

Whatever he did or didn't know this is unlikely to play well for Starmer, who should have been a little more sceptical about Mandelson's desire to return to politics for the third time!

#EpsteinFiles #politics #PeterMandelson

#politics #EpsteinFiles #petermandelson

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Lots has happened to Fedra since I last posted about it. You can now edit profiles, customize the autoloading behavior, customize how many posts are loaded when you fetch, bookmark/unbookmark posts, your last focused timeline will now be remembered when you close a timeline, you can now perform actions on the booster as well as the person being boosted, it's now possible to view posts in your web browser, there's now an installer, admin notifications display properly, you can open the favorites and bookmark timelines, as well as some other small tweaks!
Zip: github.com/trypsynth/fedra/rel…
Installer: github.com/trypsynth/fedra/rel…
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"“if Reform win we can say it is us against Reform, but if the Greens win it will feed into the narrative that voting Green is not a wasted vote and they are a serious alternative around the country,” said one Labour MP." A left wing party legitimising a fascist far right party to avoid the potential legitimacy of another left party. Labour should be ashamed and is dead to me. independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli…

Labour MPs ‘reluctant to campaign in by-election’ as Reform and Greens threaten to snatch seat

‘We would have won with Andy Burnham, but I know activists from my constituency don’t exactly feel inspired to go and campaign there now,’ says one Labour MP
David Maddox (The Independent)

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Tonight I built a batch API to eliminate Python callback overhead in Speech player.
~250 lines across 6 files. It works.
Then I realized: it breaks backward compat with 10-year-old DLLs that users can still swap in when they don't like a change.
~1ms performance gain vs. user freedom to mix and match components?
Didn't ship it. Best code is sometimes the code you don't merge. 🛁

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I love how the #UK is speedrunning Canada and the United States right now, where the shit-tier centrist underwear stains are more terrified of the Left winning and just completely replacing them than they are of the country going open fascist.

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Labour MPs ‘reluctant to campaign in by-election’ as Reform and Greens threaten to snatch seat

‘We would have won with Andy Burnham, but I know activists from my constituency don’t exactly feel inspired to go and campaign there now,’ says one Labour MP
David Maddox (The Independent)
#uk

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Video Montage: Use Of Chemical Gas In Portland - January 31 and February 1, 2026 | 1:54

Heavy use of chemical gas in Portland Oregon.

Here is a collection of video clips from January 31 and February 1, 2026.

Video clips, media and quotes posted to Mastodon by independent journalist Alissa Azar @alissaazar on Jan 30 and Feb 1, 2026

[Edit: Removed background audio, updated captions]

#Portland #ICE #Gas

#Gas #portland #ice @Alissa Azar
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Hansen’s disease (leprosy) is treatable today in large part because of the work of Alice Ball, a 23-year-old chemist whose breakthrough turned a toxic folk remedy into the world’s first effective treatment.

Her science saved lives — but her legacy was nearly erased.

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#BlackHistoryMonth


A young Black scientist discovered a pivotal leprosy treatment in the 1920s − but an older colleague took the credit

Historians are working to shine a light on Alice Ball’s legacy and contributions to an early treatment of a dangerous and stigmatizing disease.
The Conversation
#blackhistorymonth

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Report: A Minnesotan man was treated for a shattered skull after an encounter with ICE agents.

The agents said he had “purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall” while trying to escape their custody.

But nurses who treated him said, "There was no way this person ran headfirst into a wall, [given] the sheer number of skull fractures... & internal bleeding".

truthout.org/articles/minneapo…

#USPol #ICE #EUPol #CdnPoli #racism #press #Minnesota .


Minneapolis Mayor Warns of “Invasion” as More ICE Horror Stories Emerge

Nurses are raising red flags about a man who was treated for a shattered skull after an encounter with ICE agents.
Brad Reed (Truthout)
#uspol #racism #cdnpoli #press #ice #eupol #minnesota
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