Remembering how Greta Thunberg was immediately called an antisemite for holding a cute octopus doll on a photo in 2023.

Yet Elon Musk doing a full on sieg heil twice is reported as just "Meh, who knows", despite his documented history of repeatedly flirting with the far right.

Funny how that works lately, almost like accusations of antisemitism have been weaponised to silence those who speak up to power.

Sabot in the Age of AI

Here is a curated list of strategies, offensive methods, and tactics for (algorithmic) sabotage, disruption, and deliberate poisoning.

🔻 iocaine
The deadliest AI poison—iocaine generates garbage rather than slowing crawlers.
🔗 git.madhouse-project.org/alger

🔻 Nepenthes
A tarpit designed to catch web crawlers, especially those scraping for LLMs. It devours anything that gets too close. @aaron
🔗 zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/

🔻 Quixotic
Feeds fake content to bots and robots.txt-ignoring #LLM scrapers. @marcusb
🔗 marcusb.org/hacks/quixotic.htm

🔻 Poison the WeLLMs
A reverse-proxy that serves diassociated-press style reimaginings of your upstream pages, poisoning any LLMs that scrape your content. @mike
🔗 codeberg.org/MikeCoats/poison-

🔻 Django-llm-poison
A django app that poisons content when served to #AI bots. @Fingel
🔗 github.com/Fingel/django-llm-p

🔻 KonterfAI
A model poisoner that generates nonsense content to degenerate LLMs.
🔗 codeberg.org/konterfai/konterf

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US politics, computer touching, and protecting transgender people 

If you are not transgender, and you are in charge of software decisions and demographic information, here is a free tip:

Unless it is critically necessary to the function of your software, the best thing you can do to protect trans people at this time is **not collect any gender information.**

There are almost zero cases where gender is relevant to the function of a piece of software. If your knee-jerk reaction is that your software does need it, please examine if that's really true, or if you just assumed.

Many non-transgender people think gender is a way to distinguish individuals. I search demographic records professionally. That isn't an adequate way to distinguish people from each other, it provides very little information. Many also feel gender is just a basic trait everything should ask about. Please recall that the safest approach to handling any sensitive data is to not store it at all.

If you have questions about something I've said here, please ask. I will answer your questions and we can talk about how to meet your goals.

Amount Currently Raised (Dental): $227

Let’s keep this “short” :)
Thanks to a generous person, I’ve made my goal, but I’m going to keep this post going for hopefully future appointments and of course life expenses

I’m hoping with the new insurance kicking in next month I hope that I don’t have to worry about paying the $146 for my meds, but I’ll have to continue to pay the $12/mo for the bullshit subscription fee 🙄

As always thank you for the help

The move is still happening but currently on hold so any help with that is also appreciated by getting things off my list ❤️

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Amazon: amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/19TE

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Researchers find a protein in the hemolymph (analogous to blood) of Australian oysters which has antimicrobial properties, including against biofilms of Streptococcus pneumoniae, a common cause of pneumonia. The oysters likely evolved the peptide to help prevent infection by similar microbes, and the discovery could help down the road in the development of antibiotics and antiseptics useful to humans! #clamFacts
theguardian.com/science/2025/j

they despise that i remain a cutie patootie

Timberborn is fucking awesome. I love beavers.

⚠️ Boosts appreciated, urgent! ⚠️ 

Boston furries, can you please reach out if you've got space for a friend for a couple of days?

They got SA'd while at ANE and got kicked out from their home. They're not in a good spot rn and really need somewhere to crash.

Please boost!

ROFLMAO.

Claude decided to crawl one of the sites on my new server, where known bots are redirected to an iocaine maze. Claude has been in the maze for 13k requests so far, over the course of 30 minutes.

I will need to fine tune the rate limiting, because it didn't hit any rate limits - it scanned using 902 different client IPs. So simply rate limiting by IP doesn't fly. I'll rate limit by (possibly normalized) agent (they all used the same UA).

Over the course of this 30 minutes, it downloaded about ~300 times less data than if I would've let it scrape the real thing, and each request took about the tenth of the time to serve than the real thing would have. So I saved bandwidth, saved processing time, likely saved RAM too, and served garbage to Claude.

Job well done.

Had a dream recently that there was a new mode of agda called "purple agda", and it was this string diagram proof assistant thing with some absolutely wild unicode ligatures to represent the string diagram aspect. And the lines of the string diagram were colored purple, hence the name. I made a mock-up of what it sorta looked like, and I remember just being horrified when thinking about how you would even write or edit a program in this mode lmao

I dindt know the science diversity gorilla from future was in a book called 1984 I wonder if Blizzard knows

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Youngest Child misspoke "Death Boyardee" and that sounds like a great metal band name.

Hi #Chicago neighbors! As you probably already know, we are expecting sub-zero temperatures early next week. Edgewater #MutualAid Network will be connecting unhoused people in our area with temporary shelter. We are $400 away from our goal of $2700 to provide several unhoused neighbors with hotel rooms during these freezing cold nights. Every little bit helps! Funds beyond our goal will help us provide cold weather gear, OTC medication, and other necessities.

hcb.hackclub.com/donations/sta

Organized Communities Against Deportations (OCAD) is an undocumented-led group that organizes against deportations, detention, criminalization, and incarceration, of Black, brown, and immigrant communities in #Chicago and surrounding areas.

organizedcommunities.org/donat

The incoming administration is threatening immigration raids in #Chicago, where I live. Is anybody organizing rapid-response protests? I'd like to participate, but need notification.

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