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A extensively modified and feature-rich fork of Reticulum MeshChat by Liam Cottle.

This project is independent from the original Reticulum MeshChat project and is not affiliated with it.

LXMF is a simple and flexible messaging format and delivery protocol that allows a wide variety of implementations, while using as little bandwidth as possible. It is built on top of Reticulum and offers zero-conf message routing, end-to-end encryption and Forward Secrecy, and can be transported over any kind of medium that Reticulum supports.

LXMF is efficient enough that it can deliver messages over extremely low-bandwidth systems such as packet radio or LoRa. Encrypted LXMF messages can also be encoded as QR-codes or text-based URIs, allowing completely analog paper message transport.

User-facing clients built on LXMF include:

Sideband
MeshChat
Nomad Network

“AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs”

“We told people before, and after, to be careful, that the AI is going to be (or was) biased, and nothing helped,” Naaman said. “Their attitudes about the issues still shifted.”

2. If it is "nuts" to dismiss this experience, then it would be "nuts" to dismiss mine: I have seen many, many high profile people in tech, who I have respect for, take absolutely unhinged risks with LLM technology that they have never, in decades-long careers, taken with any other tool or technology. It reads like a kind of cognitive decline. It's scary. And many of these people are leaders who use their influence to steamroll objections to these tools because they're "obviously" so good

Around the world, cultural workers are striking, protesting, running campaigns and mobilizing in relation to the use of AI in the workplace, such as Hollywood writers, game performers in the US and voice actors in Brazil. This tracker aims to document strikes, protests, campaigns and mobilizations by cultural workers — broadly understood as the arts, culture and media sectors — in relation to AI around the world.

Who is Jessica Foster? The pro-Trump influencer created by AI that made Republicans fall in love

Every week, sometimes more than once, we are taking calls or messages about the same single situation facing an activist(s) post arrest. It is this:

They have taken their phone to a protest, were arrested, cops took their phone (often a lot more interested in phone than owner), phone was on at the time.

Here's what we tell them: It does not matter if you use the best E2EE app (Signal is common) and have a 9x9 18 line pattern unlock, it's time to act like it's game over.

Here's why.

In complete secrecy, Iranian authorities bought FindFace, a Russian facial recognition software, in 2019, as confirmed by contracts obtained by Forbidden Stories and its partners.
FindFace can identify faces in public spaces in a matter of seconds and run them through databases maintained by the regime's security services.
The Iranian security apparatus is attempting to conceal this acquisition with shell companies.
Several security agencies are involved, including the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps and the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence.

The Cost of Data Center Infrastructures Powering AI and the People Paying the Price

For many countries, the growing demand for AI and the resulting surge in data centers promises economic growth, technological advancements, and new job opportunities. But as this surge outpaces regulations and strains local resources, communities are questioning whether the human, environmental, and infrastructure costs are worth the supposed progress.

Times New Resistance autocorrects specific words as they are typed. For example, the word ICE autocorrects to the Goon Squad and the word Trump autocorrects to Donald Trump is a felon.

Cory labels people’s values and their prioritization as “purity politics” (referring back to the black and white strawman the started this part of his post with) and then pulls a really interesting spin here: Many people criticizing LLMs come from a somewhat leftist (in contrast to Cory’s libertarian) background. Cory intentionally frames those leftist thoughts that put politics based on values as “neoliberal ideology” that reduces “all politics to personal consumption choices”. This is narrativecly clever: Tell those stupid leftists that they are just neoliberals, the thing they hate! Awesome.

AI companies like Anthropic and Meta are hiring social media creators to post sponsored content on apps like Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and LinkedIn.
Companies including Microsoft and Google have paid creators between $400,000 and $600,000 for long-term partnerships spanning several months, CNBC has learned.
AI companies have increased advertising considerably, spending more than $1 billion on digital ads in the U.S. in 2025, according to Sensor Tower, up 126% from 2024.

Find the exact name of your device, either from Control Panel | Devices and Printers or by running ffmpeg:

C:\utils>ffmpeg -list_devices true -f dshow -i dummy -hide_banner
[dshow @ 0000022fd7ac8440] DirectShow video devices (some may be both video and audio devices)
[dshow @ 0000022fd7ac8440] "USB 2.0 CAMERA"

Run ffmpeg to show the dialog:

ffmpeg -f dshow -show_video_device_dialog true -i video="USB 2.0 CAMERA"

As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts

Cultural practices of collective ownership over natural resources have been around for quite some time. Do these ways of working have a digital counterpart? It may seem simple at first. To translate cultural practices of collective ownership into the digital realm, just use a Creative Commons license to allow others to make use of your work, share further modifications, and contribute to the wealth of the digital commons. That’s it.

Some stories are just too good to be true.

Welcome to the Hypermedia Protocol: a decentralized publishing and discussion network

HTML Zine Club is a community for people who are interested in making hand-made webpages and fun Internet visual culture! This club provides participants with care-based html & css instructions and an opportunity to unravel their personal stories into a web document, introducing artistic potentials in the basic coding.

PeerWeb is a revolutionary way to host and share websites using WebTorrent technology. Instead of relying on centralized servers, websites are distributed across a peer-to-peer network, making them censorship-resistant and always available.

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I am being a bit cheeky, but I really do think this is a powerful psychological force that shapes orgs far more than we realize: it can be emotionally damaging to have people tell you “no” or question your ideas, and leadership means getting that •all the time•. People in management / executive positions — who are in fact very much people, all too human — will go to great lengths to protect their own psyches from the injury of pushback.

This is a •powerful• force in orgs.

I was trained as a poet, but I have become a reader of the machine. I like to cultivate the “boteity” of the computer: producing surprising results for the human. Crevices where something without ego, without logic (other than that of the programmer), and without reason, a full immanence, expresses itself.

These poems are the result of a Markov chain generated through Python. Sometimes in the poem, the text generated by the Markov chain appears without modifications. Sometimes the script repeats, alliterates, shifts words or verses from the result that the chain provides. The database includes texts from literature, philosophy, history, academic writings, and novels.