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"boost libs" always makes me go 'hehe booost' in my head. Video for reference.
youtu.be/6QImRCsCSu0

Good News, ICE Raids 

ICE was turned away from a Chicago elementary school. They were not allowed on site and they did not detain anyone. This is why resistance is important, and how we can actively fight.

Edit: The school district has said that ICE did not come to the school, but Secret Service. This was a miscommunication by the district. The article has been updated.

news.wttw.com/2025/01/24/ice-a

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I wish I could see plus plus some grass rn, but I gotta C++ instead.

so uh
we don't have any dishes
and we don't have enough money to order delivery because we have to get stuff for the new house and pay for a uhaul and we are toeing the fuck out of the line for that
i cannot rectify the first right now but help with the second would be nice
cash.app/$twilightsparkleirl
paypal.me/syntheticgarden
ko-fi.com/automated_system

edit: wife had to be rushed to the ER after experiencing sudden heart issues, which is stretching things out even thinner
things are bad. they can be good again but they are not great right now

MUTUAL AID POST TO MOVE - :boost_ok: [866/1400] 

I'm giving up on my original goal of securing a car before I move, because being in this town is severely affecting my mental health. Please read and share if you can.

UPDATE: Someone completed my GoFundMe but I had to use that money to catch up on bills and invest in myself so I can start making money independently again.

Edit- as I save my own money/pay bills where I live, I'll be adding and taking from this fund!

gofund.me/196cbc0e

Japanese researchers develop peptide preventing #COVID19 infections

> they have developed a peptide that can bind to the spike proteins of #SARSCoV2 to prevent COVID-19 infections. ... The peptide can be stored in powder form at room temperature and be administered to patients through inhalation by dissolving it in physiological saline and converting it into a fine spray using a nebulizer.

archive.md/2025.01.23-032815/h

hey so my gf and i are having very hard times its looking pretty scary. neither of us can get work, her debit card got stolen, i have an emergency dental appointment today, weve been struggling to get food... sky falling etc. idk what else to really do. i hate doing this im sorry.

cashapp $guromoarbucks
ko-fi.com/winguro
guroscanner.itch.io

anything helps. thank u <3

URGENT: Bastion needs your help!

Hello all, this is Bastion's husband, Krechevskoy.

Bastion has been detained by ICE while entering the US. They are scared and alone, and they need your help.

gofundme.com/f/urgent-save-bas

Please, if you can spare even a small amount or share this link, it would mean the world to us.

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

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 to **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.

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

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