Mike Fulk
@mikefulk.bsky.social
Fulk IT - https://www.youtube.com/@Fulk-it/podcasts
Ad conterendum inimicos tuos. Vide eos pellendos coram te, et audi lamentationes mulierum eorum.
Currently, watching the AI bubble about to burst. Fulk It! Check my little podcast out.
Ad conterendum inimicos tuos. Vide eos pellendos coram te, et audi lamentationes mulierum eorum.
Currently, watching the AI bubble about to burst. Fulk It! Check my little podcast out.
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Episode 19: S2 Cyber Attack With An AI Centipede?
YouTube video by Mike Fulk
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Fulk It rant time again! This one is about AI influence campaigns that look a lot like official reports on "sophisticated cyber attacks." AI centipede makes another appearance, and no they still do not work if you're wondering.
youtu.be/d_ey-gsKatA
youtu.be/d_ey-gsKatA
Brilliant take.
"Fuck AI. It’s something that’s making everything worse in every single way — I don’t get it ... what the fuck are we doing?"
— Rian Johnson
(via THR)
— Rian Johnson
(via THR)
November 21, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Brilliant take.
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Apple Maps got a big iOS 26 upgrade for an essential feature
Apple Maps got a big iOS 26 upgrade for an essential feature
Apple Maps recently gained several new features in iOS 26, but the one that could make the biggest impact for users involves an essential app function: search. Here’s what’s new.
more…
9to5mac.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Apple Maps got a big iOS 26 upgrade for an essential feature
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iOS 26.1’s Apple Wallet ID feature may be the gift that keeps giving
iOS 26.1’s Apple Wallet ID feature may be the gift that keeps giving
Last week Apple launched a new feature for iOS 26.1 users: Digital ID in Apple Wallet. Here’s why the new feature could become a gift that keeps giving.
more…
9to5mac.com
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
iOS 26.1’s Apple Wallet ID feature may be the gift that keeps giving
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In which Patton Oswalt tells Jay Mohr Joe Rogan is like the new L Ron Hubbard
November 21, 2025 at 6:39 PM
In which Patton Oswalt tells Jay Mohr Joe Rogan is like the new L Ron Hubbard
The beauty of misinformation at scale. The benefits of us all having instant access to unvetted info right in our pockets. Good times.
NEW: Officials at the Indian Health Service have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations for patients.
The Indian Health Service Is Flagging Vaccine-Related Speech. Doctors Say They’re Being Censored.
Officials have deemed terms like “immunizations” and “vaccines” risky “buzzwords” that require approval to be used in social media posts, pamphlets and presentations.
www.propublica.org
November 21, 2025 at 3:13 PM
The beauty of misinformation at scale. The benefits of us all having instant access to unvetted info right in our pockets. Good times.
Bubble doesn't pop until the well connected get a chance to cash out first.
November 21, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Bubble doesn't pop until the well connected get a chance to cash out first.
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BREAKING: The UN climate talks COP30 have been evacuated due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil.
November 20, 2025 at 6:40 PM
BREAKING: The UN climate talks COP30 have been evacuated due to a fire breaking out inside the venue in Belém, Brazil.
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How will those after us make sense of anything? How do we know what’s real anymore? Every institution, government, media, clergy, academia, feels/been compromised. #sensemaking
"Coast Guard denies report it won’t classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols" thehill.com/policy/defen...
"Coast Guard denies report it won’t classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols" thehill.com/policy/defen...
thehill.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:01 PM
How will those after us make sense of anything? How do we know what’s real anymore? Every institution, government, media, clergy, academia, feels/been compromised. #sensemaking
"Coast Guard denies report it won’t classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols" thehill.com/policy/defen...
"Coast Guard denies report it won’t classify swastikas, nooses as hate symbols" thehill.com/policy/defen...
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In GenAI bubble news, only 2% of Canadian firms are seeing a return on their investment in GenAI. Firms are struggling to find an effective use for the tech & to see promised gains. Maybe time to reconsider the AI hype?
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
Just 2% of Canadian businesses got return on generative AI investments, survey shows
KPMG poll finds only a handful of businesses seeing benefits from technology despite widespread adoption
www.theglobeandmail.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:51 PM
In GenAI bubble news, only 2% of Canadian firms are seeing a return on their investment in GenAI. Firms are struggling to find an effective use for the tech & to see promised gains. Maybe time to reconsider the AI hype?
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
www.theglobeandmail.com/business/art...
We are North Korea.
US employers add a surprising 119,000 jobs in September according to data delayed for weeks by the government shutdown.
U.S. employers added surprisingly solid 119,000 jobs in September, government says in delayed report
U.S. employers added a suprisingly solid 119,000 jobs in September, the government said, issuing a key economic report that had been delayed seven weeks by the federal government shutdown.
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 1:43 PM
We are North Korea.
Nice hat, Mr. CEO. And too little too late on this minor point you're trying to make. Should have stood up for this 5 years ago.
November 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Nice hat, Mr. CEO. And too little too late on this minor point you're trying to make. Should have stood up for this 5 years ago.
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We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
November 18, 2025 at 1:31 PM
We want to speak directly to members of the Military and the Intelligence Community.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
The American people need you to stand up for our laws and our Constitution.
Don’t give up the ship.
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EXCLUSIVE: In letters sent to Apple, Google, and Microsoft this week, Pornhub’s parent company urged the tech giants to support device-based age verification in their app stores and across their operating systems, WIRED has learned. www.wired.com/story/pornhu...
Pornhub Is Urging Tech Giants to Enact Device-Based Age Verification
The company sent letters to Apple, Google, and Microsoft pushing for an alternative way to keep minors from viewing porn, as US and UK laws have caused its traffic to plummet.
www.wired.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 PM
EXCLUSIVE: In letters sent to Apple, Google, and Microsoft this week, Pornhub’s parent company urged the tech giants to support device-based age verification in their app stores and across their operating systems, WIRED has learned. www.wired.com/story/pornhu...
Went to the CDC page to verify. Curious about this bullet, because aren't the CDC the very health authorities they reference?
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
November 20, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Went to the CDC page to verify. Curious about this bullet, because aren't the CDC the very health authorities they reference?
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
www.cdc.gov/vaccine-safe...
This is about as wrong as you can get, not even sure why I'm entertaining it. Wrong on so many levels. Speaking about "AI" as if it is one thing, speaking about output as if we have a good test to accurately score all outputs, and believing in the output without verifying. We know LLM's always lie.
That was not the issue. My point was, that AI usually spits out what the current consensus is on a particular topic. Based on data it has scraped from a lot of sources. And on average it does a rather nice job at that. I don't expect it to be 100% accurate, similar to other information sources.
November 20, 2025 at 11:24 AM
This is about as wrong as you can get, not even sure why I'm entertaining it. Wrong on so many levels. Speaking about "AI" as if it is one thing, speaking about output as if we have a good test to accurately score all outputs, and believing in the output without verifying. We know LLM's always lie.
I’m living in bizarro land
The lunatics are running the asylum.
Spent last Friday at a conference on the Digital Dark Ages and have been working on a paper on agnotology in this realm specifically and now the antivax cranks in power literally changed the government website today.
Spent last Friday at a conference on the Digital Dark Ages and have been working on a paper on agnotology in this realm specifically and now the antivax cranks in power literally changed the government website today.
November 20, 2025 at 9:55 AM
I’m living in bizarro land
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I've seen claims that Darren Grimes used a faked photograph in this blogpost, so I've decided to take a closer look, see if an elected official would be low enough to use a fake image to promote anti-immigrant sentiment (the answer will shock you!)
www.darrengrimes.com/p/exclusive-...
www.darrengrimes.com/p/exclusive-...
EXCLUSIVE: DURHAM FILES PROVE LABOUR USES COUNTY AS MIGRANT DUMPING GROUND WHILE HIDING TRUTH IN PARLIAMENT
The “fair share” is a fantasy. Wealthy Southern councils sit in their leafy enclaves while County Durham is packed. Now whistleblower files reveal the truth Labour wanted buried!
www.darrengrimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 9:34 AM
I've seen claims that Darren Grimes used a faked photograph in this blogpost, so I've decided to take a closer look, see if an elected official would be low enough to use a fake image to promote anti-immigrant sentiment (the answer will shock you!)
www.darrengrimes.com/p/exclusive-...
www.darrengrimes.com/p/exclusive-...
Matt Taibbi will surely save Freedom of Speech for us all. Surely.
Ok Matt Taibbi has posted.
November 20, 2025 at 2:07 AM
Matt Taibbi will surely save Freedom of Speech for us all. Surely.
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“You are not allowed to give up.”
- Alexei Navalny
- Alexei Navalny
Honoring Courage
And the Power of Joy and Optimism
open.substack.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:02 AM
“You are not allowed to give up.”
- Alexei Navalny
- Alexei Navalny
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Incredible stuff happening over at DHS, which is...talking to tech platforms ab deepfakes & disinfo? 👀 👀
Matt Taibbi hasn't yet spoken. Neither has Shellenberger. Mike Benz is posting about "The BBC, The CIA & The Marshall Plan Of The Mind".
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
Matt Taibbi hasn't yet spoken. Neither has Shellenberger. Mike Benz is posting about "The BBC, The CIA & The Marshall Plan Of The Mind".
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
November 19, 2025 at 9:27 PM
Incredible stuff happening over at DHS, which is...talking to tech platforms ab deepfakes & disinfo? 👀 👀
Matt Taibbi hasn't yet spoken. Neither has Shellenberger. Mike Benz is posting about "The BBC, The CIA & The Marshall Plan Of The Mind".
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
Matt Taibbi hasn't yet spoken. Neither has Shellenberger. Mike Benz is posting about "The BBC, The CIA & The Marshall Plan Of The Mind".
www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/crime/3...
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Also @gorskon.bsky.social and @joho.bsky.social who've been calling out these shitbirds from their perches at:
sciencebasedmedicine.org
For instance:
sciencebasedmedicine.org/to-deny-the-...
sciencebasedmedicine.org
For instance:
sciencebasedmedicine.org/to-deny-the-...
To Deny The Role of Social Media In Propagating Misinformation is a Form of Germ Theory Denial, Not For Pathogens, But For Ideas
MAHA disinformation agents clearly understand the power of social media, and anyone who genuinely wishes to oppose them moving forward needs to as well.
sciencebasedmedicine.org
November 20, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Also @gorskon.bsky.social and @joho.bsky.social who've been calling out these shitbirds from their perches at:
sciencebasedmedicine.org
For instance:
sciencebasedmedicine.org/to-deny-the-...
sciencebasedmedicine.org
For instance:
sciencebasedmedicine.org/to-deny-the-...
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A little belatedly sharing this piece that I published in @chronicle.com 's Opinion Forum (sorry full text is paywalled)
www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
November 20, 2025 at 12:46 AM
A little belatedly sharing this piece that I published in @chronicle.com 's Opinion Forum (sorry full text is paywalled)
www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
www.chronicle.com/article/how-...
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#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Summers Will Not Finish Semester of Teaching as Harvard Investigates Epstein Ties | News | The Harvard Crimson
Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey E. Epstein.
www.thecrimson.com
November 20, 2025 at 12:30 AM
#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Bumping this again, it deserves it.
A someone who has written extensively about the eugenic roots that permeates those who claim to be building so-called artificial general intelligence, I'm here to tell you to please NOT compare criticism against corporations claiming to build a machine god, with eugenics. The audacity.
November 19, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Bumping this again, it deserves it.
This should turn out just fine. No worries here.
A draft EO shows President Trump plans to grant the federal government sole power to regulate AI and create an "AI Litigation Task Force" overseen by the AG (Tina Nguyen/The Verge)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 19, 2025 at 11:47 PM
This should turn out just fine. No worries here.