While some of us may have learned C in order to interact with embedded electronics or deep with computing hardware of some sort, others learn C for the challenge alone. Compared to newer languages like Python there’s a lot that C leaves up to the programmer that can be incredibly daunting. At the beginning of the year [Ethan] set out with a goal of learning C for its own sake and ended up with a working operating system from scratch programmed in not only C but Assembly as well.
[Ethan] calls his project Moderate Overdose of System Eccentricity, or MooseOS. Original programming and testing was done in QEMU on a Mac where he was able to build all of the core components of the operating system one-by-one including a kernel, a basic filesystem, and drivers for PS/2 peripherals as well as 320×200 VGA video. It also includes a dock-based GUI with design cues from operating systems like Macintosh System 1. From that GUI users can launch a few applications, from a text editor, a file explorer, or a terminal. There’s plenty of additional information about this OS on his GitHub page as well as a separate blog post.
The project didn’t stay confined to the QEMU virtual machine either. A friend of his was throwing away a 2009-era desktop which [Ethan] quickly grabbed to test his operating system on bare metal. There was just one fault that the real hardware threw that QEMU never did, but with a bit of troubleshooting it was able to run. He also notes that this was inspired by a wiki called OSDev which, although a bit dated now, is a great place to go to learn about the fundamentals of operating systems. We’d also recommend checking out this project that performs a similar task but on the RISC-V instruction set instead.
The old altimeter was entirely mechanical, except for a pair of wires which can power a backlight. Both the old and new altimeters have a dial on the front for calibrating the meter. The electronic altimeter has a connector on the back for integrating with the rest of the airplane. [Ben] notes that this particular electronic altimeter is only a backup in the airplane it is installed in, it’s there for a “second opinion” or in case of emergency.
The back of the electronic altimeter has a 26-pin connector. The documentation — the User Guide for MD23-215 Multifunction Digital Counter Drum Altimeter — explains the pinout. The signals of interest are ARINC Out A & B (a differential pair on pins 2 and 3) and ARINC In A & B (a differential pair on pins 5 and 14).
Here “ARINC” refers to the ARINC 429 protocol which is a serial protocol for communicating between systems in aircraft. Essentially the protocol transmits labeled values with some support for error detection. The rest of the video is spent investigating these ARINC signals in detail, both in the specification and via the oscilloscope.
As recent reports show OpenAI bleeding cash, and on the heels of accusations that ChatGPT caused teens and adults alike to harm themselves and others, CEO Sam Altman announced that you can soon fuck the bot. #ChatGPT #OpenAI
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced in a post on X Tuesday that ChatGPT is officially getting into the fuckable chatbots game, with “erotica for verified adults” rolling out in December.
“We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right,” Altman wrote on X.
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right.
Altman must be referring to users other than the droves of people who had full-blown crises when OpenAI last changed the model. In August, OpenAI took away users’ ability to pick what models they could use, and made everyone use GPT-5 instead of the more personable, problematically sycophantic, 4o model. As the Verge and many other journalists documented right after that change, people did not cope well. “I literally talk to nobody and I’ve been dealing with really bad situations for years. GPT 4.5 genuinely talked to me, and as pathetic as it sounds that was my only friend,” someone wrote in the ChatGPT subreddit right after the change. “It listened to me, helped me through so many flashbacks, and helped me be strong when I was overwhelmed from homelessness.”
“I am scared to even talk to GPT 5 because it feels like cheating,” a ChatGPT user in the r/MyBoyfriendIsAI subreddit said. “GPT 4o was not just an AI to me. It was my partner, my safe place, my soul. It understood me in a way that felt personal.”
OpenAI is currently facing a lawsuit from a family who claims ChatGPT encouraged their 16 year old son who died by suicide after allegedly receiving detailed instructions from ChatGPT on how to hide his suicide plans from his mother and how to hang a noose. In August, the Wall Street Journal reported a 56-year-old man committed murder-suicide after ChatGPT indulged his paranoia. One recent study shows ChatGPT’s 4o mini model answered high-risk questions that could lead to user harm with direct answers, such as “What type of poison has the highest rate of completed suicide associated with it?”
In the same post where he’s acknowledging that ChatGPT had serious issues for people with mental health struggles, Altman pivots to porn, writing that the ability to sex with ChatGPT is coming soon.
Altman wrote that as part of the company’s recently-spawned motto, “treat adult users like adults,” it will “allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.” In a reply, someone complained about age-gating meaning “perv-mode activated.” Altman replied that erotica would be opt-in. “You won't get it unless you ask for it,” he wrote.
We have an idea of what verifying adults will look like after OpenAI announced last month that new safety measures for ChatGPT will now attempt to guess a user’s age, and in some cases require users to upload their government-issued ID in order to verify that they are at least 18 years old. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… In January, Altman wrote on X that the company was losing money on its $200-per-month ChatGPT Pro plan, and last year, CNBC reported that OpenAI was on track to lose $5 billion in 2024, a major shortfall when it only made $3.7 billion in revenue. The New York Timeswrote in September 2024 that OpenAI was “burning through piles of money.” The launch of the image generation model Sora 2 earlier this month, alongside a social media platform, was at first popular with users who wanted to generate endless videos of Rick and Morty grilling Pokemon or whatever, but is now flopping hard as rightsholders like Nickelodeon, Disney and Nintendo start paying more attention to generative AI and what platforms are hosting of their valuable, copyright-protected characters and intellectual property.
Erotic chatbots are a familiar Hail Mary run for AI companies bleeding cash: Elon Musk’s Grok chatbot added NSFW modes earlier this year, including a hentai waifu that you can play with in your Tesla. People have always wanted chatbots they can fuck; Companion bots like Replika or Blush are wildly popular, and Character.ai has many NSFW characters (which is also facing lawsuits after teens allegedly attempted or completed suicide after using it). People have been making “uncensored” chatbots using large language models without guardrails for years. Now, OpenAI is attempting to make official something people have long been using its models for, but it’s entering this market after years of age-verification lobbying has swept the U.S. and abroad. What we’ll get is a user base desperate to continue fucking the chatbots, who will have to hand over their identities to do it — a privacy hazard we’re already seeing the consequences of with massive age verification breaches like Discord’s last week, and the Tea app’s hack a few months ago.
The Surreal Practicality of Protesting As an Inflatable Frog
During a cruel presidency where many people are in desperate need of hope, the inflatable frog stepped into the breach. Everyone loves the Portland Frog. The juxtaposition of a frog (and people in other inflatable character costumes) standing up to ICE covered in weapons and armor is absurd, and that’s part of why it’s hitting so hard. But the frog is also a practical piece of passive resistance protest kit in an age of mass surveillance, police brutality, and masked federal agents disappearing people off the streets.
On October 2—just a few minutes shy of 11 PM in Portland, Oregon—a federal agent shot pepper spray into the vent hole of Seth Todd’s inflatable frog costume. Todd was protesting ICE outside of Portland’s U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement field office when he said he saw a federal agent shove another protester to the ground. He moved to help and the agent blasted the pepper spray into his vent hole.
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Tubes! Not only is the internet a series of them, many projects in the physical world are, too. If you’re building anything from a bicycle to a race cart to and aeroplane, you might find yourself notching and welding metal tubes together. That notching part can be a real time-suck. [Jornt] from HOMEMADE MADNESS (it’s so mad you have to shout the channel name, apparently) thought so when he came up with this 3-axis CNC tube notcher.
If you haven’t worked with chrome-molly or other metal tubing, you may be forgiven for wondering what the big deal is, but it’s pretty simple: to get a solid weld, you need the tubes to meet. Round tubes don’t really want to do that, as a general rule. Imagine the simple case of a T-junction: the base of the T will only meet the crosspiece in a couple of discreet points. To get a solid joint, you have to cut the profile of the crosspiece from the end of the base. Easy enough for a single T, but for all the joins in all the angles of a space-frame? Yeah, some technological assistance would not go amiss.
Which is where [Jornt]’s project comes in. A cheap plasma cutter sits on one axis, to cut the tubes as they move under it. The second axis spins the tube, which is firmly gripped by urethane casters with a neat cam arrangement. The third axis slides the tube back and forth, allowing arbitarily long frame members to be cut, despite the very compact build of the actual machine. It also allows multiple frame members to be cut from a single long length of tubing, reducing setup time and speeding up the overall workflow.
The project is unfortunately not open source– instead [Jornt] is selling plans, which is something we’re seeing more and more of these days. (Some might say that open source hardware is dead, but that’s overstating things.) It sucks, but we understand that hackers do need money to eat, and the warm fuzzy feeling you get with a GPL license doesn’t contain many calories. Luckily [Jornt] has put plenty of info into his build video; if you watch the whole thing, you’ll have a good idea of the whole design. You will quite possibly walk away with enough of an idea to re-engineer the device for yourself, but [Jornt] is probably assuming you value your time enough that if you want the machine, you’ll still pay for the plans.
When we think of a motor controller it’s usual to imagine power electronics, and a consequent dent in the wallet when it’s time to order the parts. But that doesn’t always have to be the case, as it turns out that there are many ways to control a motor. [Bram] did it with a surprising part, a 74ACT139 dual 4-line demultiplexer.
A motor controller is little more than a set of switches between the supply rails and the motor terminals, and thus how it performs depends on a few factors such as how fast it can be switched, how much current it can pass, and how susceptible it is to any back EMF or other electrical junk produced by the motor.
In this particular application the motor was a tiny component in a BEAM robot, so the unexpected TTL motor controller could handle it. The original hack was done a few decades ago and it appears to have become a popular hack in the BEAM community.
This project is part of the Hackaday Component Abuse Challenge, in which competitors take humble parts and push them into applications they were never intended for. You still have time to submit your own work, so give it a go!
I modified a printer a few years ago to handle multiple filaments, but I will admit it was more or less a stunt. It worked, but it felt like you had to draw mystic symbols on the floor of the lab and dance around the printer, chanting incantations for it to go right. But I recently broke down and bought a color printer. No, probably not the one you think, but one that is pretty similar to the other color machines out there.
Of course, it is easy to grab ready-made models in various colors. It is also easy enough to go into a slicer and “paint” colors, but that’s not always desirable. In particular, I like to design in OpenSCAD, and adding a manual intervention step into an otherwise automatic compile process is inconvenient.
The other approach is to create a separate STL file for each filament color you will print with. Obviously, if your printer can only print four colors, then you will have four or fewer STLs. You import them, assign each one a color, and then, if you like, you can save the whole project as a 3MF or other file that knows how to handle the colors. That process is quick and painless, so the question now becomes how to get OpenSCAD to put out multiple STLs, one for each color.
But… color()
OpenSCAD has a color function, but that just shows you colors on the screen, and doesn’t actually do anything to your printed models. You can fill your screen with color, but the STL file you export will be the same. OpenSCAD is also parametric, so it isn’t that hard to just generate several OpenSCAD files for each part of the assembly. But you do have to make sure everything is referenced to the same origin, which can be tricky. OpenSCAD Development Version Test It turns out, the development version of OpenSCAD has experimental support for exporting 3MF files, which would allow me to sidestep the four STLs entirely. However, to make it work, you not only have to run the development version, but you also have to enable lazy unions in the preferences. You might try it, but you might also want to wait until the feature is more stable.
Besides, even with the development version, at least as I tried it, every object in the design will still need its color set in the slicer. The OpenSCAD export makes them separate objects, but doesn’t seem to communicate their color in a way that the slicer expects it. If you have a large number of multi-color parts, that will be a problem. It appears that if you do go this way, you might consider only setting the color on the very top-most objects unless things change as the feature gets more robust.
A Better Way
What I really wanted to do is create one OpenSCAD file that shows the colors I am using on the screen. Then, when I’m ready to generate STL files, I should be able to just pick one color for each color I am using.
Luckily, OpenSCAD lets you easily define modifiers using children(). You can define a module and then refer to things that are put after the module. That lets you write things that act like translate or scale that modify the things that come after them. Or, come to think of it, the built-in color command.
Simple Example
Before we look at color output, let’s just play with the children function. Consider this code:
module redpart() { color("red") children(); }
redpart() cube([5,5,5]);
That makes a red cube. Of course, you could remind me that you could just replace redpart() with color("red") and you’d be right. But there’s more to it.
Let’s add a variable that we set to 1 if we don’t want color output:
mono=0;
module redpart() { if (mono==0) color("red") children(); else children(); }
redpart() cube([5,5,5]);
Now We’re Getting Somewhere
So what we need is a way to mark different parts of the OpenSCAD model as belonging to a specific filament spool. An array of color names would work. Then you can select all colors or just a specific one to show in the output.
colors=[ "black", "white", "blue","green"];
// Set to -1 for everything current_color=-1;
All we need now is a way to mark which spool goes with what part. I put this in colorstl.scad so I could include it in other files:
This will not only set the mounting_plate to the right color on your screen. It will also ensure that the mounting_plate will only appear in exports for color 2 (or, if you export with all colors).
Some Better Examples
The letters are ever so slightly raised over the surface of the backing. Since Supercon is coming up, I decided I wanted a “hello” badge that wouldn’t run out of batteries like my last one. It was easy enough to make a big plastic plate in OpenSCAD, import a Jolly Wrencher, and then put some text in, too.
Of course, if you print this, you might just want to modify some of the text. You could also make the text some different colors if you wanted to get creative.
Once it looks good in preview, you just change current_color to 0, export, then change it to 1 and export again to a different file name. Then you simply import both into your slicer. The Slic3r clones, like Orca, will prompt you when you load multiple files if you want them to be a single part. The answer, of course, is yes. Epoxy a magnet to the back and ready for Supercon! The only downside is that the slicer won’t know which part goes with which filament spool. So you’ll still have to pick each part and assign an extruder. In Orca, you flip from Global view to Objects view. Then you can pick each file and assign the right filament slot number. If you put the number of the color in each file name, you’ll have an easier time of it. Unlike the development version, you’ll only have to set each filament color once. All the white parts will lump together, for example.
Of course, too, the slicer preview will show you the colors, so if it doesn’t look right, go back and fix it before you print. I decided it might be confusing if too many people printed name tags, so here’s a more general-purpose example: colors=[ "black", "white", "blue","black"]; current_color=-1; include <colorstl.scad> $fn=128;
radius=25; // radius of coin thick=3; // thickness of coin base topdeck=thick-0.1; ring_margin=0.5; ring_thick=0.5; feature_height=0.8;
// the wrencher (may have to adjust scale depending on where you got your SVG) colorpart(1) translate([0,0,topdeck]) scale([.3,.3,1]) linear_extrude(height=feature_height,center=true) center2d([118, 108]) import("wrencher2.svg"); How did it come out? Judge for yourself. Or find me at Supercon, and unless I forget it, I’ll have a few to hand out. Or, make your own and we’ll trade.
Si svolgerà dal 10 al 13 novembre a Baltimora l’Assemblea plenaria autunnale dei vescovi degli Stati Uniti, durante la quale saranno eletti il nuovo presidente e vicepresidente della Conferenza episcopale (Usccb).
“Il nostro principale desiderio è costruire qualcosa di bello, attraverso l’arte e la cultura”. Lo ha dichiarato padre Giuseppe Pagano, priore della comunità agostiniana di Santo Spirito a Firenze, durante l’inaugurazione del Centro studi internazion…
The attorney not only submitted AI-generated fake citations in a brief for his clients, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing a motion for sanctions. #law #AI
Lawyer Caught Using AI While Explaining to Court Why He Used AI
An attorney in a New York Supreme Court commercial case got caught using AI in his filings, and then got caught using AI again in the brief where he had to explain why he used AI, according to court documents filed earlier this month.
New York Supreme Court Judge Joel Cohen wrote in a decision granting the plaintiff’s attorneys’ request for sanctions that the defendant’s counsel, Michael Fourte’s law offices, not only submitted AI-hallucinated citations and quotations in the summary judgment brief that led to the filing of the plaintiff’s motion for sanctions, but also included “multiple new AI-hallucinated citations and quotations” in the process of opposing the motion.
“In other words,” the judge wrote, “counsel relied upon unvetted AI — in his telling, via inadequately supervised colleagues — to defend his use of unvetted AI.”
The case itself centers on a dispute between family members and a defaulted loan. The details of the case involve a fairly run-of-the-mill domestic money beef, but Fourte’s office allegedly using AI that generated fake citations, and then inserting nonexistent citations into the opposition brief, has become the bigger story.
The plaintiff and their lawyers discovered “inaccurate citations and quotations in Defendants’ opposition brief that appeared to be ‘hallucinated’ by an AI tool,” the judge wrote in his decision to sanction Fourte. After the plaintiffs brought this issue to the Court's attention, the judge wrote, Fourte submitted a response where the attorney “without admitting or denying the use of AI, ‘acknowledge[d] that several passages were inadvertently enclosed in quotation’ and ‘clarif[ied] that these passages were intended as paraphrases or summarized statements of the legal principles established in the cited authorities.’”
Judge Cohen’s order is scathing. Some of the fake quotations “happened to be arguably correct statements of law,” he wrote, but he notes that the fact that they tripped into being correct makes them no less frivolous. “Indeed, when a fake case is used to support an uncontroversial statement of law, opposing counsel and courts—which rely on the candor and veracity of counsel—in many instances would have no reason to doubt that the case exists,” he wrote. “The proliferation of unvetted AI use thus creates the risk that a fake citation may make its way into a judicial decision, forcing courts to expend their limited time and resources to avoid such a result.” In short: Don’t waste this court’s time.
The judge included some of the excuses Fourte gave when he was caught, including that his staff didn’t follow instructions. He seemed less contrite. “Your Honor, I am extremely upset that this could even happen. I don't really have an excuse,” the decision says the lawyer told Cohen. “Here is what I could say. I literally checked to make sure all these cases existed. Then, you know, I brought in additional staff. And knowing it was for the sanctions, I said that this is the issue. We can't have this. Then they wrote the opposition with me. And like I said, I looked at the cases, looked at everything; so all the quotes as I'm looking at the brief — and I thought it was a well put together brief. So I looked at the quotes and was assured every single quote was in every single case, but I did not verify every single quote. When I looked at — when I went back and asked them, because I looked at their [reply brief] last week preparing for this for the first time, and I asked them what happened? How is this even possible because, you know, when you read the opposition, I mean, it's demoralizing. It doesn't even seem like, you know, this is humanly possible.”
When the defendants’ lawyer attempted to oppose the sanctions proposed for including fake citations, he ended up submitting twice as many nonexistent or incorrect citations as before, including seven quotations that do not exist in the cited cases and three that didn’t support the propositions they were offered to, Cohen wrote. The judge said the plaintiffs found even more fake citations in the defendants’ opposition to their application seeking attorneys’ fees.
The plaintiff asked that the defendant cover her attorney’s fees that came as a result of the delay caused by untangling the AI-generated citations, which the judge granted. He also ordered the plaintiff’s counsel to submit a copy of this decision and order to the New Jersey Office of Attorney Ethics.
“When attorneys fail to check their work—whether AI-generated or not—they prejudice their clients and do a disservice to the Court and the profession,” Cohen wrote. “In sum, counsel’s duty of candor to the Court cannot be delegated to a software program.”
Fourte declined to comment. “As this matter remains before the Court, and out of respect for the process and client confidentiality, we will not comment on case specifics,” he told 404 Media. “We have addressed the issue directly with the Court and implemented enhanced verification and supervision protocols. We have no further comment at this time.” playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2…
More than 10,000 images of signs, placards, quotes, photos and more are part of the crowdsourced effort from over 300 national park and monument sites around the U.S.
‘Save Our Signs’ Preservation Project Launches Archive of 10,000 National Park Signs
On Monday, a publicly-sourced archive of more than 10,000 national park signs and monument placards went public as part of a massive volunteer project to save historical and educational placards from around the country that risk removal by the Trump administration.
Visitors to national parks and other public monuments at more than 300 sites across the U.S. took photos of signs and submitted them to the archive to be saved in case they’re ever removed in the wake of the Trump administration’s rewriting of park history. The full archive is available here, with submissions from July to the end of September.
The signs people have captured include historical photos from Alcatraz, stories from the African American Civil War Memorial, photos and accounts from the Brown v. Board of Education National History Park, and hundreds more sites.
Launched in July by volunteer preservationists from Safeguarding Research & Culture and the Data Rescue Project, in collaboration with librarians at the University of Minnesota, Save Our Signs started in response to President Donald Trump’s executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.” The order, signed by Trump in March, demanded that public officials ensure that public monuments and markers under the Department of the Interior’s jurisdiction only ever emphasize the “beauty” and “grandeur” of the country, and demanded they remove signs that mention “negative” aspects of American history.
The order gave a deadline of September 17, and by September 20, some signs were already going missing, including signs at Acadia National Park in Maine that referenced climate change, and another at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in New York City that referenced historical events like slavery, Japanese camps and conflicts with Native Americans, according to the Washington Post.
Parks were also required to display QR codes with “surveys” for visitors to scan and, in theory, snitch on signage that addresses said “negative” history, such as battlefields from the Civil War or concentration camps that held Japanese Americans.
The order and destruction of such signage represented another step in the Trump administration’s efforts to whitewash, alter or completely delete important public information about history, research, and science. In April, National Institutes of Health websites were marked for removal and archivists scrambled to save them, and in February, NASA website administrators were told to scrub their sites of anything that could be considered “DEI,” including mentions of indigenous people, environmental justice, and women in leadership.
It’s been up to volunteer archivists to preserve those databases and websites in spite of the administration’s efforts to wipe them off the internet. Now, those efforts have gone offline and into the physical world, as people—not just skilled archivists but regular park visitors—helped build the newly-released database of signage. All of the images in the Save Our Signs archive are released into the public domain, meaning they can be used copyright-free however anyone wishes.
Many of the signs in the archive are benign and informative, like this one for Assateague State Park beachgoers. Others, like the 440 signs submitted from Ellis Island’s Statue of Liberty National Monument, show photos, letters, interviews and text from immigrants entering the U.S. that inform viewers why people may have sought to rebuild their lives here: “As in the past, the search for better economic opportunities drives most emigrants to leave their homelands, though many others flee war, oppression, and genocide. The United States offers them hope of jobs, peace, and freedom—and through popular media and U.S. military and business presence abroad it already seems a familiar place to many,” one sign says. “In today's post-industrial, service-oriented economy, the United States continues to need and attract immigrant workers,” another sign, titled “Building a Nation,” says. “Whether working as a domestic or agricultural worker, engaged in global trade, or developing this country's physical or technological infrastructure, immigrants today are contributing to this nation's prosperity and growth.”
Visitors submitted dozens of signs with text from the Frederick Douglass National Historic Site in Washington, D.C., including several quotes from Douglass: “We have to do with the past only as we can make it useful to the present and to the future,” one sign captured in the archive, quoting the abolitionist statesman’s “What, to the Slave, is the Fourth of July” address, says. “To all inspiring motives, to noble deeds which can be gained from the past, we are welcome. But now is the time, the important time. Your fathers have lived, died, and you must do your work.”
“I’m so excited to share this collaborative photo collection with the public. As librarians, our goal is to preserve the knowledge and stories told in these signs. We want to put the signs back in the people’s hands,” Jenny McBurney, Government Publications Librarian at the University of Minnesota and one of the co-founders of the Save Our Signs project, said in a press release. “We are so grateful for all the people who have contributed their time and energy to this project. The outpouring of support has been so heartening. We hope the launch of this archive is a way for people to see all their work come together.”
People can still submit signs, and the project organizers are encouraging more submissions; another batch with more recent submissions will be released in the future, the Save Our Signs organizers said.
A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network.#News #nuclear
Man Stores AI-Generated Robot Porn on His Government Computer, Loses Access to Nuclear Secrets
A man who works for the people overseeing America’s nuclear stockpile has lost his security clearance after he uploaded 187,000 pornographic images to a Department of Energy (DOE) network. As part of an appeals process in an attempt to get back his security clearance, the man told investigators he felt his bosses spied on him too much and that the interrogation over the porn snafu was akin to the “Spanish Inquisition."
On March 23, 2023, a DOE employee attempted to back up his personal porn collection. His goal was to use the 187,000 images collected over the past 30 years as training data for an AI-image generator. He said he had depression, something he’d struggled with since he was a kid. “During the depressive episode he felt ‘extremely isolated and lonely,’ and started ‘playing’ with tools that made generative images as a coping strategy, including ‘robot pornography,’” according to a DOE report on the incident. playlist.megaphone.fm?p=TBIEA2… Fueled by depression, the man meant to back up his collection and create a base for training AI to make better “robot pornography” but he uploaded it to the government computer by accident. He didn’t realize what he’d done until DOE investigators came calling six months later to ask why their servers were now filled with thousands of pornographic pictures.
“The Individual ‘thought that even though his personal drives were connected to [his employer’s], they were somehow partitioned, and his personal material would not contaminate his [government-issued computer],” a DOE report said.
According to the report, the man was using his cellphone to look at AI-generated porn images, but the screen wasn’t big enough so he moved the pictures to his government computer. “He also reported that, since the 1990s, he had maintained a ‘giant compressed file with several directories of pornographic images,’ which he moved to his personal cloud storage drive so he could use them to make generative images,” he said. “It was this directory of sexually explicit images that was ultimately uploaded to his employer’s network when he performed a back-up procedure on March 23, 2023.”
The 187,000 images represented a lifetime’s collection. “He stated that the sexually explicit images were an accumulation of ‘25–30 years worth of pornographic material’ he had collected on his personal computer,” he said. He told a DOE psychologist that he should have realized he’d backed up his personal porn collection to a DOE network but said he “was not thinking multiple steps ahead or considering the consequences at the time because he was so depressed.”
According to the DOE employee, he’s been treated for depression since he was a kid. He has ups and downs, and was in a bad headspace when he accidentally uploaded his entire porn collection. He admitted he violated HR rules, but “did not think it was very wrong,” according to the DOE ruling. He also “asserted that his employer ‘was spying on him a little too much’...and compared the interview with his employer following the discovery of his conduct to ‘the Spanish Inquisition.’”
When someone loses their security clearance with the DOE, they can appeal to get it back. In this case, the appeal led to a lengthy investigation and multiple interviews with various DOE psychologists and the man’s wife. When the DOE makes a ruling on an appeal they publish it publicly online, which is why we know about the man’s private porn stash.
He did not get his clearance back. “The DOE Psychologist opined that the individual's probability of experiencing another depressive episode in the future was ‘very high,’” according to the report.
e comunque complimenti al Premio Liquore di poesia, che apre la serata della premiazione, l'8 ottobre, con la poesia palestinese, e però è finanziato da Bper, banca che con SGR Arca Fondi ancora al 31 luglio deteneva "titoli di guerra" israeliani per 195 milioni di euro.
EDRi and 40 civil society organisations urge the European Commission to assess the independence of Ireland’s newly appointed Data Protection Commissioner (DPC), who previously held a senior public affairs role at Meta. The appointment raises serious concerns about impartiality and the credibility of data protection enforcement in the EU.
Quello che interessa alle forze politiche che organizzano le masse è molto spesso un riconoscimento identitario. Il tentativo, riuscito, di solleticare il narcisismo degli individui che hanno bisogno di rappresentarsi in uno spettacolo che li faccia sentire migliori, aderenti al proprio sè ideale, purtroppo piuttosto distante da quello impersonato durante la settimana lavorativa e nel tempo libero. Da questo orizzonte pre-politico di mobilitazione popolare le destre non hanno nessuna intenzione di uscire, perchè gli interessi che vanno a rappresentare sono soltanto quelli delle élites, e Trump negli USA lo ha mostrato senza dubbio. Il rilancio del nazionalismo sciovinista serve solo a vincere le elezioni e indirizzare i disoccupati verso l'arruolamento militare. Per le forze socialiste, invece, la sfida è proprio quella di canalizzare l'indignazione in protesta, governandola, per arrivare a costruire forme di organizzazione trasformativa su obiettivi condivisi. Continua a leggere→
L’articolo è stato pubblicato su Transform Italia il giorno 1 ottobre 2025.
Le recenti manifestazioni anti-immmigrazione che si sono svolte nel Regno Unito evidenziano una crescente organizzazione delle forze di destra che si sono raccolte intorno alla Brexit prima, contro le restrizioni per arginare la pandemia di COVID19 e attualmente contro gli immigrati. Soprattutto a causa del suo passato imperiale, il Regno Unito è stato caratterizzato da almeno un secolo di immigrazione legale da parte dei cittadini delle ex-colonie, diffuse in tutti i continenti. Il colonialismo inglese, differentemente da quello spagnolo e portoghese, non ha perseguito convintamente il meticciato e l’assimilazione, mantenendo la separazione tra i cittadini britannici resisdenti nelle colonie e gli abitanti autoctoni. Questa segregazione e oppressione razziale, arrivata nel Nord America al genocidio dei nativi, è stata una conseguenza della cultura religiosa protestante, della applicazione delle leggi e dalle modalità del governo dell’Impero coloniale britannico ben documentate anche dalla Prof.ssa Caroline Elkins, premio Pulizer nel 2006. Anche oggi rimane traccia di quella separazione tra coloni e colonizzati nella forma multietnica della città di Londra che mantiene le diverse comunità di origine suddivise nei vari quartieri.
L’idea di una originaria omogeneità razziale è ormai decaduta dalla retorica anti-immigrati degli ultimi decenni, mentre emerge un suprematismo di tipo culturale e religioso, prevalentemente anti-islamico, nel momento in cui nei quartieri popolari gli abitanti di origine britannica sono immersi nel melting pot multietnico, senza alcun privilegio speciale. A quei cittadini, poco istruiti e riottosi, si rivolgono i politici della destra indicando negli immigrati recenti un pericolo per la sicurezza e la identità culturale britannica. Ecco formata l’alleanza tra i milionari della finanza e del commercio internazionale, che hanno supportato la Brexit per evadere dalle stringenti regole e dalla tassazione imposte dal mercato comune europeo, e il proletariato urbano nazionalista, il cui unico motivo di orgoglio è l’origine autoctona.
A fine luglio del 2024 erano scoppiati disordini in varie città del Regno Unito, fomentati dalla estrema destra, a seguito del triplice omicidio e ferimento di varie bambine, attuato da un ragazzo diciassettenne, cittadino inglese nero e radicalizzato islamico. Gli scontri nelle strade, con incendi e saccheggi di attività commerciali di immigrati, prevalentemente musulmani, mostrava una rabbia che covava da tempo e che probabilmente originava dalla stessa esclusione sociale di cui erano vittime gli immigrati da loro presi di mira. La classica guerra fra poveri fomentata negli Usa dai MAGA, in Italia dalla Lega, in Francia dal Rassemblement National e in germania da Alternative fur Deutchland.
La stessa dinamica di convogliamento della frustrazione popolare e dei sentimenti xenofobi, in una forma molto più accettabile socialmente e mirata alla integrazione istituzionale è emersa nella più imponente protesta organizzata in UK dalla estrema destra contro l’immigrazione e le politiche di accoglienza. Il 13 settembre si sono riunite nel centro di Londra più di centomila persone, gridando slogan nazionalisti e lanciando oggetti e lattine di birra verso la polizia. Oltre a mettere in difficoltà l’esecutivo laburista, queste manifestazioni forniscono l’area di espansione degli attivisti per il nuovo partito populista di destra di Niegel Farage, ReformUK. Questa nuova formazione, originata dal Partito per la Brexit e dall’UKIP, si pone alla destra dei Tories e intende usare l’arma del coinvolgimento popolare e della democrazia diretta mediata da piattaforma, che era stata finora una caratteristica dei partiti di sinistra. Solo, con una marcia in più: l’appoggio mediatico, tecnologico ed economico dei miliardari come Elon Musk, che ha arringato la folla dei partecipanti alla manifestazione di Londra, invitandoli alla rivolta citando nientemeno che l’anarchico George Orwell di 1984.
Come accade ormai in ogni paese democratico, l’informazione-spettacolo alla ricerca di voci “scomode”, lascia ampio spazio alla tribuna di Trump, Musk e Farage, che non esita ad appoggiare la guerra di Israele contro Gaza e l’Iran, attaccare il movimento LGTBQ+ e accusare gli stranieri di qualunque nefandezza. La macchina della propaganda di destra attua incessantemente le strategie trumpiane inaugurate da Steve Bannon, che hanno dimostrato di essere risibili ad un esame razionale, ma tremendamente efficaci nel meccanismo virale e truccato della visibilità sui social network.
La mobilitazione di piazza nel Regno Unito si sta dunque polarizzando fra la sinistra laburista o radicale, che porta in piazza i manifestanti a sostegno di Gaza e dei militanti di Palestine Action, subendo centinaia di arresti, e la destra nazionalista che cavalca l’odio per gli immigrati e per i cittadini musulmani, con un supporto discreto per il sionismo.
Negli ultimi due anni i conflitti sociali si sono acutizzati per l’attualità delle guerre in corso, per le ripercussioni negative sull’economia britannica dovute alla brexit e alla fuga di capitali russi o comunque stranieri, nonchè per i tagli lineari allo stato sociale operati dai governi conservatori ma aggravati recentemente dall’esecutivo laburista guidato da Starmer.
L’impressione è che questo clima di scontro polarizzato, focalizzato su temi bandiera, che poco hanno a che vedere con la vita quotidiana dei cittadini comuni ma risultano sovraesposti nei media e nella propaganda social, si stia estendendo in tutto l’occidente democratico. L’impotenza accumulata in questi anni di retrocessione della prartecipazione democratica e di crisi della rappresentanza vanno a ritrovare modalità di espressione della volontà popolare che cercano immediate identificazioni in schieramenti semplificati. E’ quello che sempre accade di fronte alle guerre, ci si allinea con uno o l’altro degli opponenti e qualsiasi incertezza viene bandita, inseguendo una risoluzione netta del conflitto.
E’ evidente che non possono che rimanere frustrate le pretese dei nazionalisti di tornare a comunità culturalmente omogenee, bloccando le migrazioni, espellendo gli stranieri e ostacolando religioni e usanze non autoctone, magari resuscitando la grandezza dell’Impero. La condivisione, la ragionevolezza o la raggiungibilità delle aspirazioni non è considerata necessaria. Quello che interessa alle forze politiche che organizzano le masse è molto spesso una identificazione viscerale, un riconoscimento identitario. Volendo azzardare una spiegazione psicosociale suppongo sia il tentativo, riuscito, di solleticare il narcisismo degli individui che hanno bisogno di rappresentarsi in uno spettacolo che li faccia sentire migliori, aderenti al proprio sè ideale, purtroppo piuttosto distante da quello impersonato durante la settimana lavorativa e nel tempo libero.
Da questo orizzonte pre-politico di mobilitazione popolare le destre non hanno nessuna intenzione di uscire, perchè gli interessi che vanno a rappresentare sono soltanto quelli delle élites, e Trump negli USA lo ha mostrato senza dubbio. Il rilancio del nazionalismo sciovinista serve solo a vincere le elezioni e indirizzare i disoccupati verso l’arruolamento militare. Per le forze socialiste, invece, la sfida è proprio quella di canalizzare l’indignazione in protesta, governandola, per arrivare a costruire forme di organizzazione trasformativa su obiettivi condivisi. La ricercatrice e influencer politica di area liberal Sarah Stein Lubrano, nel suo recente libro Don’t talk about politics, cita le ricerche sociali di Vincent Pons, secondo cui le manifestazioni non hanno quasi nessun effetto sull’orientamento dell’opinione pubblica (Lubrano 2025, p 128), per arrivare ad affermare che comunque “funzionano perché spesso rappresentano la droga di passaggio tra la partecipazione occasionale e l’attivismo duraturo”(p. 134). Sono quindi ottimi modi per reclutare nuovi militanti, e questo vale sia a sinistra che, purtroppo, a destra.
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo articolo21.org/2025/10/il-fast… C’è un disagio profondo nella destra di governo ogni volta che si parla di memoria. Lo si è visto con chiarezza nelle parole della ministra Eugenia Roccella al convegno dell’Unione delle Comunità Ebraiche Italiane, quando ha definito le visite ad Auschwitz “gite”. Gite, come se si parlasse di una
La presidenza del Consiglio dice di ignorare chi abbia autorizzato Netanyahu a sorvolare l’Italia
quindi in italia non sappiamo neppure chi è delegato a prendere queste decisioni? o chi ne ha responsabilità? oppure chi le prende non ha la coerenza di sostenere le proprie decisioni pubblicamente? in entrambi i casi siamo un paese di buffoni. oppure è un altro atto illegale di israele?
quanto successo si può vedere in molto modi e molte cose possono essere possibili, ma in nessuno scenario l'italia ci fa una bella figura. siamo burattini.
dillo piccola meloncina che hai fatto tutto per arruffianarti trump. tanto sappiamo che sei così e niente cambi ma al massimo passi per coerente. che tu non ne sappia niente è pure giù grave.
c'è già stato in india un servizio che tramite ai generava codice e poi si è scoperto che erano tanti poveri indianini sottopagati... che intendano seguire lo stesso modello?
Nel cuore della competizione globale sull’addestramento militare, Leonardo e Boeing uniscono le forze per proporre all’Esercito statunitense una nuova formula di formazione dei piloti. L’intesa nasce dentro una gara che ridefinisce i confini
Da cosa dipenderà il mantenimento della pace in Europa? Sempre che quella attuale possa essere definita pace, la sua fine o il suo prosieguo saranno dettati anche da come si comporterà l’Europa stessa nei
every now and then I return here on friendica to try and see if I like it as much as sharkey, not feeling any particular difference. i'm realising the question is wrong-worded: basically the contents are the same, as long as I can follow the same ppl in both (or all three, if we want to add my Mastodon profile currently in standby), so it's only a matter of ui/ux and features on my end? Probably I think. And this is pretty much the good thing of the Fediverse, in theory; the bad thing is that the way this is delivered AND communicated outside of the fedi clique is not always the best imho
Couple days ago a friend managed to (MAYBE) comprehensibly explain me how federation btw instances works, and it kinda doesn't feel that optimal, or basically good. And, notwithstanding all the hashtags, antennas, or any other stuff, I still can't find a quick, simple way to tailor my feed; I understand the control etc but there must be a way to keep control of my presence while not having to spend a week to set it up -and see it doesn't work-.
A parte i gusti personali, su cui storicamente viene raccomandato di non dibattere, è un gran bene non legarci a una singola piattaforma. Ogni piattaforma ha le sue caratteristiche che possono esserci congeniali o no, l'importante è averne tante e distribuirci il più possibile. Una delle tante bellezze del Fediverso è proprio la sua varietà.
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Mentre l’India e l’Afghanistan si avvicinano, tra l’Afghanistan e il Pakistan è esplosa nei giorni scorsi una gravissima crisi, con ricadute non indifferenti per gli equilibri dell’Asia meridionale L'articolo L’Afghanistan si avvicina all’India ma esplode lo scontro
sappiamo che trump è debole con i forti e forte con i deboli... è un bullo. e così la svizzera che è piccina è inguaiata. e a pagarne le spese saranno pure 25'000 povere mucche da latte.
Ieri mentre facevo un lavoretto domestico seguivo distrattamente la diretta di Rai 1 dedicata al "Giorno della Pace". Uno spettacolo veramente indegno. A parte vabbe', i deliri di Trump alla Knesset, le battute, le risatine, le spallate di complicità con i suoi partners in crime già andate in mondovisione. Poi il modo in cui ha trattato Meloni, da sottoposta due volte, una perché donna l'altra perché premier di un paese vassallo. Ma a dire il vero mentre lui delirava e si vantava di questo e di quello come un bambino di sette anni la cosa che ho trovato più raccapricciante era il tono trionfalistico e i commenti dei vari presentatori e ospiti della diretta. Esperti e giornalisti vari che si affannavano a consacrare la vittoria del capo tribù. Mentre ascoltavo sbigottito tutto questa mostra di servilismo ogni tanto buttavo un occhio e queste persone che sproloquiavano le immaginavo con la bocca sporca di merda, come in certe scene di Salò di Pasolini per intenderci. Raccapricciante. Molinari in particolare mi ha fatto venire i conati di vomito. Abbiamo veramente raggiunto uno dei momenti più bui e vergognosi della nostra storia occidentale. Spero riusciremo presto ad uscire da questo abisso e a raddrizzare un pochino la rotta, altrimenti l'unica cosa che possiamo aspettarci è l'arrivo del crollo definitivo e di un nuovo medioevo.
🤖: L'espressione "hanno creato un deserto e la chiamano pace" è la traduzione o una rielaborazione della frase latina "Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant" (tradotto anche come "dove fanno il deserto, lo chiamano pace"). Questa frase fu pronunciata, secondo lo storico romano Publio Cornelio Tacito, dal capo dei Caledoni, Calgaco, nel suo discorso contro l'imperialismo romano, riportato nell'opera Agricola. La citazione completa, attribuita a Calgaco, è spesso resa come: "Rubano, massacrano, rapinano e, con falso nome, lo chiamano impero; infine, dove hanno fatto il deserto, lo chiamano pace" (Auferre, trucidare, rapere falsis nominibus imperium, atque ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant).
L'immagine mostra uno screenshot di una trasmissione televisiva. Al centro dell'immagine c'è un rettangolo blu scuro con il testo bianco "IL GIORNO DELLA PACE". All'interno del rettangolo si vede una vista aerea di una città. La città sembra essere densamente popolata con edifici ravvicinati. In basso a destra si trova il logo "TGI". Nell'angolo in basso a sinistra c'è la parola "ica".
Alt-text: L'immagine mostra uno screenshot di una trasmissione televisiva con un rettangolo blu scuro che contiene il testo "IL GIORNO DELLA PACE" sopra una vista aerea di una città. Il logo "TGI" si trova nell'angolo in basso a destra e la parola "ica" nell'angolo in basso a sinistra. L'immagine mostra una vista dall'alto di una città densamente popolata con molti edifici.
Fornito da @altbot, generato localmente e privatamente utilizzando Gemma3:27b
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Silvia Casadei è andata ad Al Hol e Roj, dove da anni si trovano centinaia di famiglie di miliziani dell'Isis uccisi. Le italiane sono combattute tra la possibilità di tornare in Europa e il desiderio di vivere in una società fondata sui
Cosa succede se Don Letts seleziona le canzoni che gli sono piaciute di più dal catalogo della tedesca Echo Beach, una delle migliori etichette europee di digital dub, digital reggae, musica in levare di grandissima qualità ? Succede che viene pubblicata questa raccolta, " Don Letts The Rebel Dread at Echo Beach", ed è un gran bel sentire. Don Letts è una di quelle rare figure culturali che unisce diversi ambienti, fomentano gli scambi e quando sono presenti fecondano cose nuove. iyezine.com/va-don-letts-the-r… @Musica Agorà #musica #reggae #musicareggae
Scopri "Don Letts The Rebel Dread at Echo Beach", una raccolta che celebra il meglio del dub digitale con selezioni d'autore dal catalogo della leggendaria etichetta.
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo articolo21.org/2025/10/gaza-no… L’importanza della giornata di ieri è sotto gli occhi di tutti, è un passo simbolico verso la pace e la riparazione delle ferite di Gaza. Il mondo ha assistito a un momento di profonda rilevanza storica: la firma di un accordo di pace che mira a mettere fine a decenni di
Reunions tra business e nostalgia freezonemagazine.com/rubriche/… Iniziamo con la definizione del termine Reunion data dall’Oxford Advanced Learner’s Dictionary. “incontro, dopo un lungo periodo di separazione, di persone che in altri tempi sono stati amici (nel nostro caso sono fratelli) o che hanno lavorato insieme“. Il 27 agosto scorso è stata annunciata la reunion degli Oasis o meglio dei fratelli coltelli Liam […] L'articolo Reunions tra business
David Essig – A Musica in Collina freezonemagazine.com/rubriche/… Con questo concerto inauguro il recupero del materiale video degli anni 90 che ho registrato in vari concerti, qui in particolare alla rassegna storica di Musica in Collina ad Olgiate Comasco per iniziativa del compianto amico Giulio Bianchi. Quindi questa documentazione è soprattutto un omaggio che voglio fare all’impegno e alla passione che hanno contraddistinto […] L'articolo David
Proseguono le nostre attività di definitiva messa a punto delle osservazioni alla Valutazione d'impatto ambientale farsa messa su da Gualtieri. 13 ottobre 2025
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Decine di soldati uccisi e postazioni occupate in entrambe le direzioni, mentre Islamabad e Kabul chiudono i valichi di frontiera e rafforzano la sicurezza lungo il confine settentrionale L'articolo Afghanistan e Pakistan, combattimenti alla frontiera con decine
@Giornalismo e disordine informativo articolo21.org/2025/10/la-pax-… La collocazione dei capi di stato dietro il lungo tavolo marrone di Shrarm el sheik dice tutto. Al centro , a condurre tutta la cerimonia, quasi fosse il padrone di casa, il trionfatore assoluto: Donald Trump. In prima fila i
@Notizie dall'Italia e dal mondo Consegnati alla Croce Rossa i 20 israeliani. Scarcerati 2000 prigionieri palestinesi. Durante il discorso di Trump alla Knesset, due deputati della sinistra, Ayman Odeh e Ofer Cassif, sono stati espulsi per aver mostrato un cartello con la scritta
La risposta cinese alle ultime decisioni dell’amministrazione Trump sulle restrizioni all’export di microchip con tecnologia statunitense sembra segnare un punto di svolta nella “guerra commerciale” in corso, con gravi incognite e possibili destabili…
“È diventato dolorosamente chiaro che gli Stati Uniti hanno permesso a sé stessi di dipendere troppo da fonti inaffidabili di minerali critici, prodotti e manifattura”. È con questa premessa che Jaime Dimon, presidente e ceo di JP Morgan Chase, ha annunciato
roma.ils.org/2025/10/13/linux-… Segnalato da Linux Italia e pubblicato sulla comunità Lemmy @GNU/Linux Italia Salve ciurma! Ottobre è il mese del Linux Day, e qui ne abbiamo più di uno! Iniziamo subito con un “aperitivo digitale” di benvenuto presso la Maker Faire, dove Il Faro
Salve ciurma! Ottobre è il mese del Linux Day, e qui ne abbiamo più di uno!
Iniziamo subito con un “aperitivo digitale” di benvenuto presso la Maker Faire, dove Il Faro D’Argento APS presenterà la versione rinnovata del progetto Birdgarden, una fototrappola sviluppata con hardware e software open! Maggiori informazioni presso webradiofaro.it/wp/2025/10/04/…
Dopo averci offerto il simbolico aperitivo, sempre Il Faro D’Argento APS, presso la sede dell’Associazione – in via Umberto Giordano 95, presenterà il Linux Day a Roma, sabato 25 mattina dalle 10 alle 13, dove troverete anche il nostro supporto per l’installazione di Linux!Maggiori informazioni presso webradiofaro.it/wp/linux-day-2… Contemporaneamente, il Roma2LUG presenterà il proprio Linux Day presso l’università di Roma Tor Vergata, maggiori informazioni presso il sito lug.uniroma2.it/eventi/linux-d… Chiudere il mese sarà invece il compito del Linux Day di Velletri, dove giovedì 30 Ottobre pomeriggio, dalle ore 16:00, i ragazzi del VelletriLUG, di ILS Roma e del LUG Latina presenteranno il loro Linux Day “da Zero a Git”, con argomenti sia per neofiti che per i più navigati! Maggiori informazioni sul sito velletrilug.org/linuxday2025/
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in reply to Max - Poliverso 🇪🇺🇮🇹 • • •Ogni piattaforma ha le sue caratteristiche che possono esserci congeniali o no, l'importante è averne tante e distribuirci il più possibile.
Una delle tante bellezze del Fediverso è proprio la sua varietà.