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Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.

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Thank you!!

What were some of the things you thought impossible?

Instead of "the left isn't paying enough attention to these machine gods" they're claiming to build, perhaps we should write an article about how effective altruists brand themselves "left", ask who is writing these articles, and trace their cults and sources of funding.

He added, “You can’t review with AI, and you can’t have a conversation with it,” and “AI might be able to answer ‘I played this way because the win rate was high’, but that way you can never have a masterful game.”

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Lee Sedol said that winning and losing is not everything in Go. He said, “Go doesn’t end the moment the outcome is decided,” and “The most creative moves come out during review.”

On the heels of this post last night, I wrote about using the term "concentration camp" and why it matters.

Can a LetterBoxd review win a Pulitzer?

Wandering the island of Sciathos, Greece in the evening. The amazing stone work is evident in the winding path and the buildings that line it.

The most potent weapon in the hands of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed. — Steve Biko

Pic of the day

#photography

A rabbit in overalls and a goat in pants are sitting on the ground drawing pictures. The rabbit is saying “ART POSES A THREAT TO CORPORATOLRATIC SYSTEMS BECAUSE A PURPOSE OF ART IS TO REMIND THE INDIVIDUAL OF THEIR INHERENT AUTONOMY.”, the goat adds “THEIR HUMANITY.”

Make Art (1/4)

there is a reason why eg misogynistic men make great informants, or why white people betray movements, every axis you are privileged on becomes an avenue for you to choose your class interest over solidarity.

but as I've been arguing since this began, they vastly overestimated their own forces and vastly underestimated ours. In LA we saw an uprising on par with e.g Baltimore in 2014 against their forces, but in MPLS we have seen a total social reconfiguration, absolute autonomous revolutionary action

Anyone defending Dem leadership is a fascist collaborator block the time for arguing is LONG over, they dont deserve your precious energy or attention they are world historically lost and will spend the rest of their lives with that knowledge a heavier shame than any retort you can come up with

Drawing by a 5 year old girl at the ICE Children’s Concentration Camp in Dilley, TX. This child turned 5 in detention & has spent almost 20% of her life jailed along with 4 of her siblings. (1/26/26)
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'Unimaginable Cruelty': ICE Denies Father's Request to Attend Son's Funeral One family member blames ICE for Wael Tarabishi's death from a degenerative genetic disease. "They killed him when they took his father away," she said.

ICE "denied a detained Texas man's request for temporary release to attend this Thursday's planned funeral for his" son.

"Maher was his caregiver, his father, his best friend, his everything."

ICE "killed him when they took his father away."
#Texas #USA #Incarceration #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

when I am surrounded by my neighbors in these moments I know that love is constituted by this resilient care, the shared belief made material that we belong to each other and will fight for one another, no matter the cost.

I like that we still name storms and hurricanes. It's not much, but it's an acknowledgement of the animacy of the world.

Yesterday, I drove refugees that had been shipped off to Texas all the way back home to St. Paul

Seeing them reunite with their families reminded me this is their home.

So keep sending them to Texas. I’ll keep driving ‘em back and introducing them to Bucc-ee’s and KC barbecue along the way.

Tomorrow’s front page of the Minnesota Star Tribune: Jan. 23, 2026

Before I came, I asked a local friend if the cold (it's going to be -20 or so in the coming days) would stop people from coming out. "No, we'll be there. It's ICE who can't handle it."

Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...

"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."

surreal times

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ProPublica reviewed months of Fox News coverage and 700+ social media videos from Portland protests. The found that Fox repeatedly aired 2020 footage and labeled it 2025. Trump watched, announced the National Guard was coming, and said the city looked like "World War II."

People keep wondering why they're going after Venezuela. It's because they want to do regime change and control its oil, then use a big tract of land there to keep a tax free "network state" that looks like Dubai but operates like Rhodesia. They are saying this out loud! Believe them!

Grasping to benign gods as gods,

grasping to evil demons as demons,

and the stirrings of hope and fear in the mind

are the personal māras that arise from oneself,

none other than the self-originated mind.

—Machik Labdron

Beautiful.

"Here there is nothing to remove, nor the slightest thing to add.

See the real correctly. If seen correctly, liberation."

It’s not all bad news. Suffering has a cause, and since it has a cause, it can cease. The cause is ignorance. When we see the world correctly, as Maitreyanātha wrote:

"We need to stop thinking there is something or someone that will rescue us from samsara. Even the Buddha could not eliminate the world’s suffering. We need to liberate ourselves. No one else can do this for us."

Spinning Class How to go nowhere fast

"The modern exercise of spinning is a perfect example of samsara. One sits on a stationary bicycle, pedals furiously, making huge effort to go nowhere."

—Acarya Malcolm Smith

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