ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

I think every designer should write a love letter to a font at least once in their lifetime.

This is mine: A 150-year-old font you have likely never heard of, and one you probably saw earlier today.

https://aresluna.org/the-hardest-working-font-in-manhattan/

Before I was fired tonight, I was in charge of information security for VA.gov, which has millions of users per month and stores and processes huge amounts of veterans' personal information. I've been told by people I've worked with that I'm the best at what I do of anyone they've ever worked with. Now there will be _no one_ in charge of information security for VA.gov.
Does this seem like improving government efficiency?
#politics #USPol #DOGE #USDS #VA #infosec
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thanks to @Mnewton we found it! it's by http://campbellwhyte.com/ 1/2

Originally posted by @karlykingsley.bsky.social and updated with alt text:

Correct. If the birthdate field contains corrupt or mismatched data, it defaults to 1875-05-20, which serves as a flag. May 20, 1875, is the day the international standards and metrics treaty was signed. Everything is a conspiracy when you don’t know how anything works.

During the night, a Russian drone carrying a high-explosive warhead struck the protective sarcophagus covering Reactor No. 4 at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. Fortunately, radiation levels inside and outside the facility remain normal and stable, according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The sarcophagus was originally constructed to contain radioactive contamination following the catastrophic 1986 Chernobyl disaster.

Scientists say AI has crossed a critical 'red line' after demonstrating how two popular large language models could clone themselves.
https://www.space.com/space-exploration/tech/ai-can-now-replicate-itself-a-milestone-that-has-experts-terrified

Resistance is futile.

Going up

Here's a #MicroscopyMonday segmentation of some neurons from the optic lobe, or visual processing area of the #Drosophila fruit fly's brain. The #connectome for the full optic lobe was released in 2024 by #HHMIJanelia, Google, and the University of Cambridge, with support from the Wellcome Trust.

President Trump has finally united the nation. Unfortunately for him the nation he united is Canada.

How reporting would sound like about the USA over the last two weeks if it was a banana republic and not the USA:

https://www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-junta-establishes-him-as-head-of-government

This is your timely reminder that you can download an offline copy of the whole Wikipedia.

And you really likely probably should.
Here's how: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/113872764752277451

#USpol #Wikipedia

By me @Forbes: Zero-click WhatsApp spyware attack confirmed by Meta. Great start to the weekend...

#infosec

https://www.forbes.com/sites/daveywinder/2025/02/01/whatsapp-hack-attack-confirmed-by-meta-what-you-need-to-know/

What do I do for a living? Like many of you, my primary occupation is entering passwords and two-factor codes into a variety of apps and websites all day long.

The four naked eye #planets and the Moon over Bochum, Germany, this evening - no 'alignment' as falsely claimed but nice to have them all at the same convenient time though in different directions.

Perpetual reminder that the entire business model of LLM-based chatbots, no matter their nationality, is based on intellectual property theft and this gem from XKCD:

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM

So I'm waiting for my flight to Christchurch and someone's Bluetooth headphones were not secured so my partner and I just Rickrolled them 😂

Other adult activities I do include leaving my tax return to the last minute and wondering how it's got to the point where I have coworkers who weren't born when I started my career.

I thought you all could benefit from the wisdom of these anonymous philosophers today. I know I did.