Notices by Kevin Beaumont (gossithedog@cyberplace.social)

I feel sorry for the guy bringing back The Onion as he’s been basically being made redundant by current events. https://buddycarter.house.gov/uploadedfiles/redwhitebluelandact.pdf

A 25-year-old who's worked for Elon Musk companies now has direct control over a Treasury system disbursements from which amount to a fifth of the US economy. He has high-level admin privileges on a mainframe housing all the code. Access granted as debt ceiling crisis looms, officials in charge of the area have resigned in protest.

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-associate-bfs-federal-payment-system/

For those wondering, he didn’t apply for a job - he was installed by DOGE, similar to USAID takeover.

Trump signed an executive order allowing DOGE to effectively do whatever it wants, so now you have Elon running around installing people.

A 19 year old has been given admin access to the core US treasury financial system by Elon Musk’s DOGE.

He goes by the name of “Mr. Big Balls” online, is on Russian forums, and has tried to purchase DDoS botnets.

Elon has said sharing this information is illegal, so please do not press the boost button.

https://www.wired.com/story/edward-coristine-tesla-sexy-path-networks-doge/

OpenAI complaining about the things they stole being allegedly stolen and Mark Zuckerberg complaining about lack of privacy is just.. chefs kiss. https://www.404media.co/zuckerberg-says-everything-i-say-leaks-in-leaked-meeting-audio/

Spammers, joining Mastodon to pretend to be Elon Musk is like trying to spread Nazism at a socialist party. But thanks for the laugh.

Yes, it would be terrible if AI refused to answer questions about certain subjects.

The Fediverse - the network of decentralised social network apps - has grown almost 40% over the last few weeks in terms of active users (almost all of which are new user accounts), and the increase currently shows no sign of slowing down.

So few people are using Apple Intelligence that Apple are turning it on by default.

USE THY SLOP

https://mastodon.social/@lapcatsoftware/113867927916483708

I might as well save this image for the first person who voted for Trump and gets deported.

UK announces it put billions of pounds into generative AI today to inject it into a growth economy it says - after being told by entirely unbiased tech companies it is that good. We’re building an “AI supercomputer”.

In other news, what is actually happening on the ground:

2032: UK unveils AI super computer from Capita after going £7bn over budget.

When Mark Zuckerberg recently released his video announcing the policy changes that specifically allow minority groups (and only minority groups) to be targeted for abuse, he was wearing a $1m watch.

So this is incredibly damning re Paypal's Honey. Also, lol. Uninstall this Chrome/Edge addon.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vc4yL3YTwWk

My #plushtodon got part refunded and hasn’t appeared and I don’t know why, Christmas is cancelled*

cyberpunk 2077 real life update just dropped

If anybody is wondering this advert is real, it’s running in San Francisco.

The company is called Artisan. If you google them, all the reviews are horrible and suggest they are a scam company.

Every CPU vulnerability summarized with new logo

New video game nasty media target dropped https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/ironic-suspect-unitedhealthcare-slaying-played-video-game-killer-rcna183550

Mastodon isn't perfect.

But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use

has no venture capital investors

has no shareholders to answer to

has no growth targets

with a web interface with zero tracking cookies

and mobile apps with zero trackers at all

with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety

is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.