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Soatok

@soatok.bsky.social

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30-something gay furry with an interest in cryptography and software security. Mastodon: https://furry.engineer/@soatok Blog: https://soatok.blog 🎨 https://mrjimmydafloof.bsky.social

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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · Nov 25

Dhole Moments (a play on "dull moments") is my blog.

Here's a short thread about it, some of its highlights, and noteworthy things that have happened related to it.

(Some are at least mildly interesting, I promise.)

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Dhole Moments - Software, Security, Cryptography, and Furries

Writings about information security, cryptography, software, and humanity, from a member of the furry fandom with a dhole fursona.

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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 13m

If talking about this topic is going to get me erroneously placed on moderation lists by lazy and stupid dipshits who can't be bothered to actually read the words of the people they're banishing for other people, I'm going to increase the thing.

Also, bsky.app/profile/soat...

Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · May 7

I'm sorry but if you think an "artificial general intelligence" will be here by 2027 you are a gullible fucking rube.

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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 15m

When the goddamn AI bubble pops, the technology will continue to exist. It's not going away. The horses have already left the barn.

But the artificial hype? Brought on by people who think you can use it to take humanity out of human labor and print infinite productivity? I won't miss it.

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heikadog @heika.dog · 20m

i've said it before so of course i can't find it when i search up "T&S" from me, but people don't realize that when you make a moderation list you're **doing** T&S!!! so when you make a list of AI slop or whatever someone's bound to take it seriously and use it along with the mistakes you make!!!

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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 20m

Here's something more for you to read, courtesy @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...

Criticism of AI is not the same as posting slop.

Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

pluralistic.net

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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 20h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBCu... #AI #bubble

Big Tech Is Faking Revenue

YouTube video by Sasha Yanshin

www.youtube.com

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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 22m

Was it this post? Linking to a video talking about how incestuous and possibly criminal the AI bubble is?

bsky.app/profile/soat...

Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 20h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBCu... #AI #bubble

Big Tech Is Faking Revenue

YouTube video by Sasha Yanshin

www.youtube.com

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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 24m

I swear some of y'all that operate moderation lists are dumber than a tumbled stone.

When have I *ever* posted AI slop?

Soatok was added to a "Block AI Slop" list, according to ClearSky.

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Sean Connell @slcpgh.bsky.social · 1d

Because it deserves alt text:

REPUBLICANS:
Stop calling everyone you disagree with a NAZI!
Calling people Nazis is hateful and divisive!
Oh, I guess EVERYONE is a Nazi now!???
Using the term Nazi is offensive to everyone who suffered
You're just watering down the word Nazi and that's so problematic
REPUBLICAN LEAKED CHAT (ACTUAL TEXTS):
I love Hitler
room 1488
Everyone that votes no is going to the gas chamber
*Hey, come on in. Take a nice shower and relax. Boom - they're dead
expecting the Jew to be honest
watermelon people
fat stinkyJew
I'm ready to watch people burn
Stay in the closet f*ggot
Can we fix the showers?
Gas chambers don't fit the Hitler aesthetic
patreon.com/pizzacakecomic

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PizzaCake @pizzacakecomic.bsky.social · 1d

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Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 2h

LOL all morning picturing some finance quant slouched at his desk prompting Dalle, like, "make me a picture of pikachu having sex with the Apple logo" or whatever tf those guys use these things for, then throwing up his hands like "WHY WON'T THIS FIND ALPHA?!"

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Screenshot of headline and first two paragraphs of linked article, saying "Griffin Says GenAI Fails to Help Hedge Funds Beat Markets. Generative artificial intelligence isn’t helping hedge funds produce market-beating returns and isn’t meaningfully impacting the industry so far, according to billionaire Ken Griffin.

“With GenAI there are clearly ways it enhances productivity, but for uncovering alpha it just falls short,” Griffin, the founder of hedge fund giant Citadel, said Wednesday at the JPMorgan Robin Hood Investors Conference in New York."

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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 19h

tfw your 1,000-word tweets aren't working

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That Anonymous Coward @thatac.bsky.social · 6h

Gee it sure seems like some federal officers just threatened to arrest a citizen based on her talking mean to them.
Calling them a bitch isn't illegal but abusing your position and threatening arrest for it... yeah I think that might be.

Perhaps ICE Barbie would like to explain her racist ass goons

LorennaCleary.bsky.social @lorennacleary.bsky.social · 13h

She gets all the flowers. I mean ALL of them. If we see her, we immediately have to give her flowers.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

yesterday on twitter, some of the biggest far right doxxing users were suspended and then elon musk caught wind, and reinstated them. get everyone you can off twitter. it is firmly a pro-doxxing-if-you’re-far-right platform

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onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

the most unsurprising thing in the world is now every rightwinger, all yhe way up to JD vance, have explicitely defended this and the statements made by those in this group. and that’s by design, every single rightwinger is now an extremist nazi

onion person @junlper.beer · 1d

these people know how extreme they are

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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 17h

“The Defense Department has confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America,” the Pentagon Press Association said

Oct. 15, 2025
PENTAGON PRESS ASSOCIATION
STATEMENT
Today, the Defense Department confiscated the badges of the Pentagon reporters from virtually every major media organization in America. It did this because reporters would not sign onto a new media policy over its implicit threat of criminalizing national security reporting and exposing those who sign it to potential prosecution.
The Pentagon Press Association's members are still committed to reporting on the U.S. military. But make no mistake, today, Oct. 15, 2025 is a dark day for press freedom that raises concerns about a weakening U.S. commitment to transparency in governance, to public accountability at the Pentagon and to free speech for all.
PPA

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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 1d

The Dreamseeker’s Vision of Tomorrow

Since I have your attention for the moment, I'd like you to ask yourself a question: What is it that drives you in life? Do you yearn for the feeling of safety? By seeking power, status, wealth, and fame? Is it cravings for pleasure that motivate your actions?…

The Dreamseeker’s Vision of Tomorrow

Since I have your attention for the moment, I'd like you to ask yourself a question: What is it that drives you in life? Do you yearn for the feeling of safety? By seeking power, status, wealth, and fame? Is it cravings for pleasure that motivate your actions? Does a sense of obligation to others, or even your past self, that informs your decisions?

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PureKoor ➡ AFC @purekoor.art · 1d

This is every conservative "furry" private-ish telegram group chat lol

Politico @politico.com · 1d

EXCLUSIVE: Thousands of leaked messages show leaders of Young Republican groups joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape in a private Telegram chat.

Inside rising GOP leaders’ racist chats — obtained by POLITICO and spanning more than 7 months👇

‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat

Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.

www.politico.com

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Santiago Mayer @santiagomayer.com · 1d

Young Democrats: hey maybe don’t kidnap my international friends

Young Republicans:

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Chise @sailorrooscout.bsky.social · 1d

Well now, would you look at that?

A massive study of NEARLY 300,000 people in the United States found that receiving an updated 2024-2025 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine REDUCED people’s risk of severe disease AND death in ALL age groups, REGARDLESS of immunity from prior infection or vaccination.

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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 20h

www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBCu... #AI #bubble

Big Tech Is Faking Revenue

YouTube video by Sasha Yanshin

www.youtube.com

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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 20h

Which is to say:

They pair well together.

Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 20h

I mean, anonymous credentials and ZK implementations both tend to involve pairings in practice.

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Bill Stewart @billstewart.bsky.social · 21h

Doesn't even have to get as fancy as full ZK;
Chaum's "Credentials Without Identity" can do most of the things that want Is-A-Human and Is-Old-Enough.

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Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 23h

It's just deeply horrifying when people who are working on this sort of problem eschew ZK entirely D:

Soatok @soatok.bsky.social · 23h

I wrote about this not long ago, btw

soatok.blog/2025/07/31/a...

Age Verification Doesn’t Need to Be a Privacy Footgun - Dhole Moments

“Won’t someone think of the poor children?” they say, clutching their pearls as they enact another stupid law that will harm the privacy of every adult on Earth and create Prior R…

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