Jon Bailey

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…just this guy, you know?

Denver 2026 Pride Parade, led by the Dykes on Bikes
MOT: a tool to fight openwashing in AI Posted May 27, 2026 15:52 UTC (Wed) by jzb Many large language models (LLMs) are described as open source, but if one looks a bit deeper it turns out that is not actually so; the model may be free to download, it may be "open weight", but it does not fit the Open Source Initiative (OSI) Open Source Definition (OSD). Assessing the actual openness of models is not easy, as Arnaud Le Hors explained in his talk about the Model Openness Tool (MOT) at Open Source Summit North America 2026. The tool is designed to help users of LLMs understand to what degree a model is (or is not) open, and to combat the openwashing that is prevalent with LLMs.
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The "Yeah You Right" sandwich from SubCulture in Denver features andouille sausage, Swiss cheese, mustard, and sauerkraut.
PeopleWatching | All Seasons | All episodes In the city, you could be sitting next to the best friend you'll ever have and not know it. In peopleWatching, young people seek love & their place in the world as they challenge your preconceptions. When you watch people, you might see yourself...
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JD Vance is not rational, not level-headed, not intelligent, not morally grounded, not ethical, and not outside this fascist MAGA hornet's nest. He's simply a younger, more polished, less visibly erratic version of it, bought and paid for by Peter Thiel and the same network of dirty money and Epstein-class influence that doesn't give a single fuck about you beyond what they can extract and exploit. Oliver Kornetzke
from March 28-30th 2026, Palmer Luckey is quoting a WIRED post about a story it ran. WIRED: "Like Trae said, we spoke to 37 former and current Anduril workers, in addition to investors, experts, and former military officials, for this deeply reported story, which you should read: https://www.wired.com/story/andurils-real-war-is-with-itself " Luckey: "This 'deeply reported' piece from WIRED is inexcusably bad. First, it is just wrong. Not nitpicky things, fundamentally false jabs and premises. Second, it completely ignores the stakes of supporting active troops to push r/antiwork softboy talking points. Examples below." John Carmack responds to Lucky: "It would be delightful if you pulled an [Elon Musk], bought WIRED, and changed the editorial tone to Technological Triumphalism. Then maybe do MIT Technology Review." @jplebreton@mastodon.social comments: "for those tracking John Carmack's descent into right wing total moral disorientation, he's now at "Palmer Luckey should buy Wired and do to it what Elon Musk did to Twitter". he's full fash at this point. totally gonna deliver AGI by 2030 though. increasingly disgusting that he named his shitass company after Commander Keen, a joyful little video game from before he became a millionaire and was empowered to become his worst self."
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Hacked crosswalk buttons in denver saying “fuck trump” and “trump murders children”
I'mGenx- And fuck MAGA ...andI never said this but you'll re-share it anyway ~Trent Reznor in an edgy font with an accompanying picture of Trent Reznor
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A COLLECTION OF THE DUMBEST DUDES YOU KNEW FROM HIGH SCHOOL FELT EMASCULATED WHEN A BLACK MAN GOT ELECTED PRESIDENT, SO, TO COMPENSATE, WE NOW HAVE A SEMI-SENTIENT PIG'S STOMACH IN A RED HAT STARTING AN ILLEGAL WAR TO DISTRACT THE COUNTRY FROM ALL THE SEX CRIMES HE COMMITTED.
The Green text “telnetting in virtually” floating over the Synthwave City hack from #xscreensaver set to the Knight Rider theme, bordered by faux VHS player text overlays
ppl mad about pluto not being a planet but noone talks about dimetrodon not being a dinosaur
- Al Overview * "They're after my arctic circle-candy" is a catchphrase from the crude, MS Paint-style webcomic Pokey the Penguin. 🔗 • Context: Pokey is a penguin living in the Arctic (not the Antarctic) who often finds himself in surreal situations. • Meaning: The phrase refers to Pokey's belief that the "Italians" (often depicted as a ship on the horizon) are trying to steal his special "Arctic Circle-Candy". • Style: The comic is known for its deliberately childish, pixelated aesthetic and bizarre, repetitive storylines, often described as "the ramblings of a deranged child" . 🔗 The phrase is simply a recurring, humorous plot point within the absurdist world of the Pokey the Penguin comic strip. 🔗
FADE IN: EXT. ETERNIAN COUNTRYSIDE - DAY Teela and Battle-Cat, on a picnic. Teela holds up a jar of mustard. TEELA Heeey, Battle-Cat - look what I found. A jar of mustard! BATTLE-CAT (with a loud growl) Rraor! Don't put that stuff on me! He-Man steps into shot, facing camera. HE-MAM he enters, to Teela) That's right - you'd better not do that. (to the camera) Of course, the cats on your world can't talk - and they probably wouldn't rip your lungs out, either. But still, putting mustard on the cat is a bad idea. You know, lots of boys and girls have been hurt - even killed - by putting mustard where it didn't belong. Don't put mustard on the cat! If you're not sure you can handle it safely, ask your mom and dad to help. (turning, he takes the mustard) I'll take that jar, Teela. TEELA He-Man! Thank goodness you're here. HE-MAN Glad to be of help. They all mug for the camera as we FADE OUT.
6-panel comic by Dr. Keith Knight Remind me again... which part of all this is "Great Again"? U.S. Military BOMBING fishermen? "I said: NO survivors!!" Masked men DISAPPEARING U.S. citizens? "We're just keeping America safe!!" American comedians doing COMEDY in SAUDI ARABIA? "He laughed his head off." Grocery bills matching one's mortgage? "!!!" "Shall I take an arm or leg first?" Part of the White House being DEMOLISHED for an ORANGE DOTARD'S ballroom? "The first event is gonna be an MMA fight!"
Protecting privacy with Tails [Distributions] Posted Nov 11, 2025 15:04 UTC (Tue) by jzb Tails is an unusual Linux distribution developed by the Tor Project; it is designed to help users work around internet censorship and avoid surveillance. It is a "portable" operating system that is meant to be run from a USB stick or ISO image and to leave no trace on the computer it was run on. Tails routes connections to the internet over the Tor network and includes a selection of applications and tools suited to working with sensitive documents, communicating securely, and preserving users' anonymity. The tradeoff, of course, is that Tails is less convenient and requires users to learn a new set of tools to avoid compromising their own security and anonymity. Tails 7.1 was released in October, and it seemed like as good a time as any to take it for a spin.
WONDERMARK by David Malki with the assistance of WONDERMARK.COM An obese balding man in a suit is seated at a table in an ornately decorated room, across from a half-robed robot with intermixed stovepipe and sexy parts. Man: Robotecca, I ain't feeling too good. Robot: MY PROGRAMMED RESPONSE IS TO SAY WORDS THAT EXPRESS A SYMPATHY I CAN NOT TRULY FEEL. Man: I get it. Ain't too different from people in that way. Man: Everyone's out to shut me up or shut me down. And I mean, everyone! I live the most persecuted life imaginable! Robot: THIS INFORMATION IS NOTED AND ADDED TO MEMORY. Man: Why are things so HARD. Why can't I just be HAPPY? Robot: IT'S A GOOD QUESTION - - ONE WORTHY OF SERIOUS CONTEMPLATION. IT SEEMS LIKE YOUR FEELINGS ARE QUITE JUSTIFIED. Robot: AFTER ALL, EVERYONE IS OUT TO SHUT YOU UP OR SHUT YOU DOWN. ASTONISHING AS IT MAY SOUND, YOU LIVE THE MOST PERSECUTED LIFE IMAGINABLE. Man: I KNEW IT!
Tweet screenshot: Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates So curious that such a wealthy man never posts anything that indicates that he enjoys or is even aware of what virtually everyone appreciates— scenes from nature, pet dog or cat, praise for a movie, music, a book (but doubt that he reads); pride in a friend’s or relative’s accomplishment; condolences for someone who has died; pleasure in sports, acclaim for a favorite team; references to history. In fact he seems totally uneducated , uncultured. The poorest persons on Twitter may have access to more beauty & meaning in life than the “most wealthy person in the world.” 2:22 PM · Nov 8, 2025
Namespace reference counting and listns() By Jonathan Corbet November 3, 2025 The kernel's namespaces feature is, among other things, a key part of the implementation of containers. Like much in the kernel, though, the namespace API evolved over time; there was no design at the outset. As a result, this API has some rough edges and missing features. Christian Brauner is working to straighten out the namespace situation somewhat with this daunting 72-part patch series that, among other things, adds a new system call to allow user space to query the namespaces present on the system. The original namespace type, now called mount namespaces, was introduced by Al Viro as just "namespaces" in 2001 (they were briefly covered in LWN at the time). UTS namespaces (which provide a different view of the system's host name), process-ID namespaces (managing the visibility of processes), and IPC namespaces (controlling the view of the System V inter-process communication features) followed as part of the 2.6.19 release in 2006. Each namespace type was added when the need arose and somebody was moved to implement it. As the use of namespaces has grown, though, some of the problems in their implementation have become more apparent.
Screenshot of a Google Web Search for 'sexiest man alive' showing that Jonathan Bailey is People Magazine's Sexiest Man Alive for 2025
The BLOOM COUNTY Boys by Berkeley Breathed Panel 1: Opus, carrying Bill, runs towards the stairs of the boarding house where Mrs. Dallas is standing. Mrs. Dallas: "Welcome home Opus n' Bil--!" Opus: "No time! Donald'a fter his long lost brain niblets left in Bill's skull!! Lock the doors!!" Panel 2: Opus runs 'poink poink' up the stairs, passing Oliver, carrying Bill. Opus: "NO KITTY CONFISCATION ON MY WATCH!! ISSUING EXECUTIVE ORDER #1:" Panel 3: Opus, holding Bill, stands atop the roof. Opus: "MR. PRESIDENT, THERE'LL BE NO GRABBIN' _THIS_ PUSSY!!" Panel 4: Opus looks apologetically at the reader. Bill thumbs his nose. Opus: "I sez 'em. I don't writes 'em." Bill: "THBBFT!" (c)2025 Berkeley Breathed
PeriscopeFilm Subscribe 11 hours ago Running a YouTube channel isn't without challenges. We try to be diligent and review all our content, and we often age restrict films we don't think are appropriate for young viewers, etc. Sometimes though, the historic content we post gets flagged by bots or reported by offended viewers. These screenshots show a typical interaction -- someone reported a WWII era fascist German propaganda newsreel as "hate speech". The content was blocked and we were sent to what you might call "YouTube jail". We appealed, citing the fact that we provided a detailed explanation at the start of the newsreel that contextualized the content. Fortunately in this case, the process worked out as it should - the content was reviewed and reinstated. (Doesn't mean we didn't sweat it out, because if the infraction stuck, it would represent a big problem!) You can see the newsreel in question at: https://youtu.be/ fhmJ4x0y9us
“ALL iT takes is one kind gesture to pull someone out of their dark place” Signature: Gus Fink Studios Two skeletal figures, one shrouded in darkness, hand clasped with one in the light
Retrieving pixels from Android phones with Pixnapping By Jake Edge October 29, 2025 A new class of attacks on Android phones, called "Pixnapping", was announced on October 13. It allows a malicious app to gather output rendered in a victim app, pixel-by-pixel, by exploiting a GPU side-channel. Depending on what the victim app displays, anything from sensitive email and chats to two-factor authentication (2FA) codes could be captured—and shipped off to an attacker's site. As noted in the Pixnapping paper (with seven authors from various universities), pixel-stealing attacks are not new. They were described in 2013 in the context of web browsers, using iframes and SVG filters; since then, browsers have largely mitigated those kinds of attacks with various restrictions. Pixnapping applies the ideas behind pixel stealing to Android's apps, completely outside of the browser context—though the browser is also an app so it can also be targeted. The demo video on the Pixnapping site shows a malicious app relaying 2FA credentials from the Google Authenticator app in less than the 30-second timeout, which allowed the "attacker" to log into a Reddit account.
Git considers SHA-256, Rust, LLMs, and more By Jonathan Corbet October 21, 2025 The Git source-code management system is a foundational tool upon which much of the free-software community is based. For many people, Git simply works, though perhaps in quirky ways, so the activity of its development community may not often appear on their radar. There is a lot happening in the Git world at the moment, though, as the project works toward a 3.0 release sometime in 2026. Topics of interest in the Git community include the SHA-256 transition, the introduction of code written in Rust, and how the project should view contributions created with the assistance of large language models.
Screenshot of an X post by @ZackKorman: "Copilot in Excel is a global financial crisis waiting to happen." Excel spreadsheet with highlighted formula: "=COPILOT("sum the numbers above")" Cells A1-A3 contain "1" "2" and "3" - listed sum from copilot is "15"
Screenshot of a Google Web Search inquiry answered by AI: "Is Google Web Search no longer showing users their public IP address when they search for "my ip" an example of something a term popularized by Cory Doctorow?" "Yes, Google Web Search no longer directly showing a user's public IP address can be interpreted as an example of a phenomenon called "enshittification," a term popularized by Cory Doctorow. "
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Facebook post from National Audubon Society: In response to the widespread web outages today, we encourage everyone to get outside and look at some birds.
The initial work is funded by a donation from FSF board member John Gilmore, who explained, "I have enjoyed using a mobile phone running LineageOS with MicroG and F-Droid for years, which eliminates the spyware and control that Google embeds in standard Android phones. I later discovered that the LineageOS distribution links in significant proprietary binary modules copied from the firmware of particular phones. Rather than accept this sad situation, I looked for collaborators to reverse-engineer and replace those proprietary modules with fully free software, for at least one modern phone."
It's normal for post-quantum cryptography to be rolled out as an extra layer of security on top of traditional pre-quantum cryptography, rather than as a replacement. For example, Google's CECPQ1 experiment was double encryption with traditional pre-quantum ECC (specifically X25519) and post-quantum NewHope1024. CECPQ2, a joint experiment between Google and Cloudflare, was ECC+NTRUHRSS701. CECPQ2b was ECC+SIKEp434. Ten SSH implementations support ECC+sntrup761. Today's usage of post- quantum cryptography by browsers is approaching half of the connections seen by Cloudfiare, where 95% of that is ECC+MLKEM768 and 5% is ECC+Kyber768 If post-quantum cryptography is designed to be super-strong, so strong that it even survives future quantum computers, then why are we keeping the ECC layer? Same reason that you wear your seatbelt: in the real world, cars sometimes crash, and seatbelts reduce the damage.
William Shatner: Another low in Al. (eyeroll) Some bizarre fan thought they could be popular by having Al remake a photo of my parents & posting it as genuine. And the know-it-all sycophants who declared it genuine- what is wrong with you people? All you are proving over and over is Al is bad!
The RISKS Digest Volume 34 Issue 77 Saturday, 11th October 2025 Forum on Risks to the Public in Computers and Related Systems ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy, Peter G. Neumann, moderator
Vodka soda with a splash of cranberry at X Bar, Colfax Avenue, Denver
The Great Will of the Macrocosm
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So, if you're online poisoned like me, you may have noticed that Bluesky CEO Jay Graber has been having sort of a slow motion, low-key public meltdown for the past several weeks. [...] For the record: I think Jay Graber is a transphobe; I think there's just too much evidence in her behavior to not read that into her actions at this point. No normal person would go out of their way to court Jesse Singal. A lot of this stuff feels motivated by a glaring animus towards the userbase that Bluesky has attracted; and because this userbase formed around people who simply couldn't justify being on Twitter any more, said userbase is full of highly visible trans users. But, we can also view it as just run of the mill stuff for any kind of corporate social media platform; you expect them to be unaccountable, to have vague policies that are enforced with no consistency, and so on. What distinguishes the Bluesky case, though, is that Bluesky has a very particular ideology that Graber and her cohorts push, which is that they are 'stewards of the AT Protocol'. She has repeatedly made this point: you can take your ball and go home. Graber posts something like this basically every other day. So, let's examine her claim a little bit. [...] ATProto's complicated architecture more or less puts running an alternative app into the realm of well-funded nonprofits and startups, as opposed to Mastodon instances which can easily be run by hobbyists on their own domestic hardware. [...] AT Proto decentralization doesn't exist as a practical reality, and if it ever does it won't be for years. Most of the work driving effective decentralization is being done by third parties, who have limited guarantees about future compatibility with possible breaking changes on Bluesky's end.
[Cueball is walking on a sandy beach near the shore. A bottle with a paper inside is stuck in the sand, presumably from being washed up by the tide.] [Cueball has picked up the bottle and is reading the message inside. The messages contents are displayed on the top portion of the panel. There is illegible text written beneath the message title.] Message Title: ICMP Echo Request [Cueball has set the bottle down below him and is now scribbling out a new message. Once again, the contents are on the top portion of the panel, with illegible text written beneath the message title.] Message Title: ICMP Echo Reply [Cueball is walking away from the shore now, having set the bottle back into the sea.]
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