Ericka Simone

We are in a very dangerous time, when "AI" security companies are competing to prove that their technology will provide returns on investment. The industry has always been broken. There has always been an incentive to inflate the importance of vulnerabilities, but there was always a risk of burning hard earned trust. In the end, a lot of folks decided it wasn't worth it.

But "AI" companies haven't worked to earn that trust. They have something to prove, right now, or they don't exist. So now everything is critical, "impossible to find without AI," and so on. Blah2shell sells, and now everyone wants their little vuln labeled that way regardless of the complexity or risk.

Burning trust in security is the absolute worst thing you can possibly do in terms of tech. I'm worried about where things are going right now.

There have always been more bugs than we can fix. We've had to triage. If we break that, we flood maintainers until they burn out. Our job is not to fix everything. It's to filter information for the people who do.

But right now I'm reading vuln reports that aren't distinguishing between a 100% reliable and trivial exploit like log4shell and complex memory corruption bugs that are incredibly noisy and basically impossible to exploit with ASLR. ASLR is like 25 years old. You have to do better than a simple buffer overflow now to get a shell.

But people have shit to sell, so we have more noise. Again, "we've put the attenuator on the wrong side of the equation."

@atomicpoet Leontyne Price is my hero. My personal Betty white. Black Maria Callas. I really hope I get to meet her before she leaves this plane.

Actually following that George Takai account and responding to that account as if that man even knows what mastodon really is, is peak corny white liberal behavior. Especially considering he never beat those charges of being a creep in 2017.

In the same way Taylor Lorenz being the most followed “journalist” oh this always abandoned platform. You’re really not serious about anything. Just another follower. Brick in the wall.

So easily led astray/directly into useless, fake bullshit.

Robert Sims said he believes some of the criticism of U.S. Rep. Bennie Thomspon from Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves and State Auditor Shad White is because of Thompson's role in the U.S. House's Jan. 6 committee.

"So now, they want to redistrict so they can get him out.”

https://www.mississippifreepress.org/leflore-county-democrats-stress-urgency-to-voters-at-23rd-beans-and-greens-dinner/

The hysterectomy was supposed to be done in September the latest. It is going into November.

America (as a whole) is the ghetto.

@atomicpoet sounds like us all the time.

@ErickaSimone It is. I hope you can find slivers of rest from the exertion of discovering who has empathy and who is too protective of their ego.

So disappointed and disgusted.

@corbden I wrote this a long time ago
It still comes up all the time.
Apols for any broken images
https://noodlemaz.wordpress.com/2018/12/19/misandry-fantasy/

There is no such thing as misandry in a violently patriarchal world. A patriarchal world that is openly protecting and hiding known pedophiles and rapists.

There is no “stereotype” when 97% of documented rapes in America are at the hands of a man. Predominantly WHITE men. Some ARE IN PRESIDENTIAL OFFICE.

If women do not want to share their space with you, you check the reason why. You WILL NOT BLAME WOMEN FOR WANTING TO PROTECT THEMSELVES.

From: @corbden
https://defcon.social/@corbden/117502379507851574

zomg, scroll down, I love Julie's "what you love" / "paid to do" diagrams. And who doesn't love a good Venn vs. Euler explainer?
https://www.juliepeasley.com/post/9-may-2024

Just trying to stay positive. You guys give me good reason. Still hard to do in this type of world though.

oooh, this is so cool, you can see the marcescence in the autumn leaves in infrared! Healthy leaves are bright pink, while withering leaves are golden-yellow, as they reflect less IR.

The last photo is an un-edited crop directly from the camera, you can see how most leaves are more blue than pink. The blue channel of that camera captures just IR, while the others capture IR + their respective colour, resulting in more blue -> more IR. #photography #infrared

@Pixelix Hi guys, would be great if we could report Pixelfed accounts if they're clearly impostor accounts. Like directly in the Pixelix app. Just saw an account with really bad AI photos of Sandra Bullock claiming to be Sandra Bullock 😅 Had to use the Pixelfed web UI to do the report.

#pixelfed #pixelix

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Today's #Muppets GIF of the Day is...

https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-ai-is-devastating-higher-education-but-the-system-was-already-broken-292988

I don't think I've seen a more scathing review of the situation in higher education than this. Makes me cringe and say "surely it can't be that bad" even though I consider myself a horrible curmudgeon who sees universities as deeply flawed institutions equivalent to basically a hedge fund that teaches classes for tax reasons. Yet this is someone deep inside current universities, so they'd know more than I would I guess. Yikes!