i’m not a physicist but iiuc orbiting the sun is actually pretty necessary 🤔

The colors match? It’s true the color next to the Côte d’Ivoire label does correspond with a blob which could overlap with the country’s actual location, but… none of the countries depicted here correspond with the shapes of any actual countries. The entire thing is generative slop.

Jeffrey Graham is the person who’s presentation included this slide.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/30/government-map-mislabels-african-countries

i see you’re replying to the joke comments but ignoring the ones posted many hours earlier which helpfully explain what is wrong with the premise of your post (eg, this and this and this).

Fake news? On my social media??

I’m surprised that this post is still up so many hours after i (and i’m sure others) reported it, especially given the large number of moderators that this community has.

New York State not New York City.

I don’t know why Mamdani is pictured

the text in this image is also just flat-out wrong: the proposed legislation does not actually “ban AI from answering questions” on these subjects at all, as this post claims it does.

https://www.nysenate.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2026/kristen-gonzalez/ny-state-senator-kristen-gonzalez-her-bill-address-ai explains that her bill is strictly about impersonating licensed professionals:

We have documented instances of AI chatbots providing false medical license numbers to users and documented cases of real harm from AI chatbots providing misinformation. This is what my common-sense legislation addresses—protecting users from misinformation, scams, and fraud. This legislation does not prohibit a user from asking a chatbot questions or receiving general information and advice, as long as the chatbot is not presenting that information as a licensed professional. It would also not prohibit licensed professionals from consulting AI technology in the course of their work.

640B ought to be enough for anybody

MICROS~1

It is risky to carry encrypted devices across the border which you are not prepared to give them the passwords to.

In most cases they won’t ask you to decrypt anything, but they do sometimes randomly and when they do if you refuse then you can/will be denied entry and/or they’ll keep the device(s) indefinitely.

One approach to avoid this problem is to create an encrypted disk image (your operating system hopefully comes with a program to do this, you shouldn’t need to install anything) and then store it online somewhere and then download it after you’ve crossed the border. Read about how to pick a strong yet memorable passphrase.

It was reported last year that the US was going to start requiring that you disclose all of your social media accounts used in the previous five years, but that did not actually go into effect in December as it had been announced that it would. Something along those lines could still happen later this year though: Here and here are articles from March and May of this year about it.

The Bullshit thing about these phishing email tests is if you look at the actual headers they are allowed past the server level spam filters and in a back door to your email address. They would never pass the basic filters.

Being able to bypass the automated filtering is entirely logical, because they are testing and training humans and not the spam filters.

They are not even training you for reality.

They are training you to be the next line of defense after the automated filters are defeated. Which is, obviously, a thing which does happen frequently - eg, in every real phishing attack which succeeds.

These “online safety” companies create this baloney meat training so that your IT manager can say they are doing something, and your company can report compliance with whatever code they are responsible to, so they can be insured.

There is some truth to that, but on the other hand at any large enough organization many people will still fail these tests. And, even if you’re sure that you’re too smart for them, don’t you think that being periodically subjected to these tests probably does actually make some people a bit more cautious?

so hopefully there will be some local opposition present.

update: https://www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/07/03/wicklow-hotel-cancels-secretive-peter-thiel-conference/ ✨

i would be surprised if it is true that “If you don’t remove that it shows your personal account to anyone who receives it so that they can chat directly with you”, and a search just now didn’t find anything to substantiate that.

It’s a very recent change

is it though? if so, how do you actually find out the profile name from the si parameter?

obviously tracking parameters from URLs should be removed in any case, but afaict only google can use this to find which user generated the link.

after some more reading i found conflicting reports but i think this might actually be happening; apparently it is only visible in the app?

roll safe dot png

the margin between leave and remain being a bit higher among voters who have since died than it was during the referendum a decade ago isn’t really surprising at all, it just reflects the fact that leave voters skewed older.

also “excluding don’t know” for both sides of the graph makes no sense; there should be a “didn’t vote” category on the left and a “not sure” category on the right.

What? Is there some explanation missing here?

whoosh