Monika Viktorova
@mviktoro.bsky.social
we fight dystopia by resisting cynicism and apathy #tech #aiethics #humanrights #UBI #booksky #crafts
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Monika Viktorova
@mviktoro.bsky.social
· Nov 25
Are you curious about what #ai policy will look like in 2025? Join me and this awesome panel of speakers tomorrow to chat about the state of #AI & #genAI and what policies like the #AIAct and Executive Order will look like next year for organizations big and small
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Between X and almost all of the legacy media, it sure seems like the bet that you can simply buy up a media source and replace it with an openly white supremacist and pro-fascist version of the source and very few people will blink or change their media consumption habits was a good one.
November 20, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Between X and almost all of the legacy media, it sure seems like the bet that you can simply buy up a media source and replace it with an openly white supremacist and pro-fascist version of the source and very few people will blink or change their media consumption habits was a good one.
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You know how whenever you get trolled on here or even if someone’s just being a jerk, people say “block ‘em” because that’s practically the only safeguard here?
Yeah so anyway I did that & now I have a new stalker because of how that person reacted to being blocked.
They have dozens of accounts.
Yeah so anyway I did that & now I have a new stalker because of how that person reacted to being blocked.
They have dozens of accounts.
November 20, 2025 at 3:36 AM
You know how whenever you get trolled on here or even if someone’s just being a jerk, people say “block ‘em” because that’s practically the only safeguard here?
Yeah so anyway I did that & now I have a new stalker because of how that person reacted to being blocked.
They have dozens of accounts.
Yeah so anyway I did that & now I have a new stalker because of how that person reacted to being blocked.
They have dozens of accounts.
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I've said it before and I will say it again. There is no way to secure a system when it's potential attack surface is *all of language*
Looks like LLMs are *very* vulnerable to attack via poetic allusion: "curated poetic prompts yielded high attack-success rates (ASR), with some providers exceeding 90% ..."
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
https://arxiv.org/html/2511.15304v1
November 20, 2025 at 5:23 PM
I've said it before and I will say it again. There is no way to secure a system when it's potential attack surface is *all of language*
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Feels good seeing someone adversarially interoperate with a company whose business model is "we will not interoperate with anyone"
AirPods’ best features come to Android and Linux with free app
AirPods’ best features come to Android and Linux with free app
This free app unlocks the best AirPods features on Android.
buff.ly
November 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Feels good seeing someone adversarially interoperate with a company whose business model is "we will not interoperate with anyone"
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Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
The Pig Is in the White House
This is what consequence-free misogyny looks like.
www.theatlantic.com
November 20, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Bless @sophiegilbert.bsky.social @theatlantic.com: "The past decade has been a gloomy lesson in how limited a proportion of men actually see women as equal human beings...The fish rots from the head. The pig is in the Oval Office." www.theatlantic.com/culture/2025...
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#MorningVibe
Chemists in England have created a gel that can repair and regenerate tooth enamel, opening up new possibilities for effective and long-lasting dental treatment.
Funding science is a wonderful thing. www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-gel-regr...
Chemists in England have created a gel that can repair and regenerate tooth enamel, opening up new possibilities for effective and long-lasting dental treatment.
Funding science is a wonderful thing. www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-gel-regr...
New Gel Regrows Dental Enamel–Which Humans Cannot Do–and Could Revolutionize Tooth Care
Enamel does not regenerate; once you lose it it's gone forever. There is currently no solution available that can effectively regrow it.
www.goodnewsnetwork.org
November 20, 2025 at 12:33 PM
#MorningVibe
Chemists in England have created a gel that can repair and regenerate tooth enamel, opening up new possibilities for effective and long-lasting dental treatment.
Funding science is a wonderful thing. www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-gel-regr...
Chemists in England have created a gel that can repair and regenerate tooth enamel, opening up new possibilities for effective and long-lasting dental treatment.
Funding science is a wonderful thing. www.goodnewsnetwork.org/new-gel-regr...
The corollary to this is actively finding new hobbies without setting goals for improvement/mastery, but just doing things for the sake of exploration & play
Introing no-pressure hobbies into my life was a game changer
Introing no-pressure hobbies into my life was a game changer
No shade to anyone, but I deliberately avoid making my hobbies & passions my job, bc I've found the second my income depends on an activity I enjoy, I don't enjoy it any more. Anyone else?
#neurodivergent #neurospicy #autism #adhd #audhd #witchsky
#neurodivergent #neurospicy #autism #adhd #audhd #witchsky
November 20, 2025 at 3:00 PM
The corollary to this is actively finding new hobbies without setting goals for improvement/mastery, but just doing things for the sake of exploration & play
Introing no-pressure hobbies into my life was a game changer
Introing no-pressure hobbies into my life was a game changer
Unrelated but hilarious finish:
“The slop hydra rears its head, vomiting into one part of life after another…if one AI-made album is removed from Spotify, six more may take its place. In the near future, we may find ourselves wading through a daily flood of slop, drowning.”
“The slop hydra rears its head, vomiting into one part of life after another…if one AI-made album is removed from Spotify, six more may take its place. In the near future, we may find ourselves wading through a daily flood of slop, drowning.”
Amazon vs Perplexity: the AI agent war has arrived
A lawsuit over automated shopping reveals a deeper struggle over who will control the next generation of AI and what happens when autonomous agents start acting on our behalf
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Unrelated but hilarious finish:
“The slop hydra rears its head, vomiting into one part of life after another…if one AI-made album is removed from Spotify, six more may take its place. In the near future, we may find ourselves wading through a daily flood of slop, drowning.”
“The slop hydra rears its head, vomiting into one part of life after another…if one AI-made album is removed from Spotify, six more may take its place. In the near future, we may find ourselves wading through a daily flood of slop, drowning.”
I haven’t seen good numbers on electrified trucking being a sustainable endeavour given the size of the batteries we need for them but for short haul + other adjustments to the logistics chain they would make a meaningful impact
"The rise of China’s electric truck sector is one of the more under-reported stories in the global energy transition" 💯
apnews.com/article/chin...
apnews.com/article/chin...
China's diesel trucks are shifting to electric. That could change global LNG and diesel demand
China is rapidly replacing its aging diesel trucks with electric models, signaling a major shift in the world’s largest vehicle market.
apnews.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I haven’t seen good numbers on electrified trucking being a sustainable endeavour given the size of the batteries we need for them but for short haul + other adjustments to the logistics chain they would make a meaningful impact
Gemini’s output to a short story prompt here reads auspiciously of Rothfuss
"The silence in the observation booth was heavy, textured, and smelled faintly of stale coffee and ozone. It wasn’t a true silence, of course; the low hum of the ventilation scrubbers and the frantic, rhythmic tapping of analysts on haptic keyboards provided a constant, anxious undercurrent."
November 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Gemini’s output to a short story prompt here reads auspiciously of Rothfuss
Didn’t think I’d live long enough to see Brexit deniers but here we are
November 20, 2025 at 2:40 PM
Didn’t think I’d live long enough to see Brexit deniers but here we are
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They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
November 19, 2025 at 12:16 PM
They make games and movies like they used to. So many of them. Same with books.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
But the mechanisms you learned about them were totally gutted and changed to only amplify shit that's already popular.
It's still there! You're just mostly on your own to find it.
Not France proudly sitting at second last place in English skills
November 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Not France proudly sitting at second last place in English skills
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Не знам дали на някой му направи впечатление, че официално безработните в България вече са над 5,5%.
357 500 души са без работа. За хората... СВИНЕ!
357 500 души са без работа. За хората... СВИНЕ!
November 20, 2025 at 4:25 AM
Не знам дали на някой му направи впечатление, че официално безработните в България вече са над 5,5%.
357 500 души са без работа. За хората... СВИНЕ!
357 500 души са без работа. За хората... СВИНЕ!
this is the only kind of gender reveal I’d want to be invited to, do not drop an rsvp for me unless it involves crispy fowl
Some people are saying deep fry turkey gender reveal and why would you even put that out there.
November 20, 2025 at 5:17 AM
this is the only kind of gender reveal I’d want to be invited to, do not drop an rsvp for me unless it involves crispy fowl
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Looks like their plan to boost productivity by ushering everyone back to the office in an ongoing pandemic didn't play out as expected
ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
November 20, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Looks like their plan to boost productivity by ushering everyone back to the office in an ongoing pandemic didn't play out as expected
ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
ottawacitizen.com/public-servi...
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When my brain is clocking the safety level of new-to-me dudes, there are three groups:
- would be violent towards me
- wouldn't be violent towards me himself but would watch another man be violent towards me and not do anything about it
- would actually help me fight back if anyone tries creep shit
- would be violent towards me
- wouldn't be violent towards me himself but would watch another man be violent towards me and not do anything about it
- would actually help me fight back if anyone tries creep shit
November 18, 2025 at 11:55 PM
When my brain is clocking the safety level of new-to-me dudes, there are three groups:
- would be violent towards me
- wouldn't be violent towards me himself but would watch another man be violent towards me and not do anything about it
- would actually help me fight back if anyone tries creep shit
- would be violent towards me
- wouldn't be violent towards me himself but would watch another man be violent towards me and not do anything about it
- would actually help me fight back if anyone tries creep shit
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This is how rape culture and a patriarchy works. The loudest, most extroverted men get deference from the ones who prefer to avoid conflict and want to stay in the good graces of the bully. And the consequence is whatever the bullies want to do to women, it’s allowed through complicit silence.
November 18, 2025 at 4:49 AM
This is how rape culture and a patriarchy works. The loudest, most extroverted men get deference from the ones who prefer to avoid conflict and want to stay in the good graces of the bully. And the consequence is whatever the bullies want to do to women, it’s allowed through complicit silence.
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I hope men understand that it is very very rare for anyone who is not a woman’s lover, close friend, or relative to stand up for her when another man insults her in a room of other men. It is incredibly unusual. They may not join in the bullying, but they’re unwilling to step in to stop it.
November 18, 2025 at 4:39 AM
I hope men understand that it is very very rare for anyone who is not a woman’s lover, close friend, or relative to stand up for her when another man insults her in a room of other men. It is incredibly unusual. They may not join in the bullying, but they’re unwilling to step in to stop it.
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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Kubernetes Cluster Goes Mobile in Pet Carrier
Kubernetes Cluster Goes Mobile in Pet Carrier
Hackaday Article
hackaday.com
November 19, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Kubernetes Cluster Goes Mobile in Pet Carrier
The next decade is going to be figuring out how to sift out slop from useable / reliable info in absolutely every information channel
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.
November 20, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The next decade is going to be figuring out how to sift out slop from useable / reliable info in absolutely every information channel
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The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
![Excerpt from a BBC article: ""We usually work, 10, 11 or 12 hours a day," says a 49-year-old woman from Jiangxi unwilling to give her name. "On Sundays we work around three hours less."
She is in an alleyway, where a dozen people are huddled around a row of bulletin boards.
They are reading the job ads on the board, while examining the stitching on a pair of chinos draped over it.
This is Shein's supply chain. The factories are contracted to make clothes on order - some small, some big. If the chinos are a hit, orders will ramp up and so must production. Factories then hire temporary workers to meet the demand their permanent staff cannot fulfil.
The migrant worker from Jiangxi is looking for a short-term contract - and the chinos are an option.
"We earn so little. The cost of living is now so high," she says, adding that she hopes to make enough to send back to her two children who are living with their grandparents.
"We get paid per piece," she explains. "It depends how difficult the item is. Something simple like a t-shirt is one-two yuan [less than a dollar] per piece and I can make around a dozen in an hour.""](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:ks3gpa6ftoyaq7hmf6c4qx4c/bafkreiber7g4o5pujmzmjjzsp5dkz7blfexburuwjispfpv6dki7akjb7a@jpeg)
November 20, 2025 at 12:07 AM
The people who make Shein's clothes labor for ten to twelve hours per day (in violation of China's labor laws), some up to seven days a week, and earn as little as 15 to 30 cents per t-shirt.
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Editorial about the ultraprocessed food oligopoly putting profit before health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
November 19, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Editorial about the ultraprocessed food oligopoly putting profit before health www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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“Nearly 1 in 3 women – estimated 840 million globally – have experienced partner or sexual violence during their lifetime, a figure that has barely changed since 2000”
www.who.int/news/item/19...
www.who.int/news/item/19...
Lifetime toll: 840 million women faced partner or sexual violence
Violence against women remains one of the world’s most persistent and under-addressed human rights crises, with very little progress in two decades, according to a landmark report released today by th...
www.who.int
November 19, 2025 at 8:46 PM
“Nearly 1 in 3 women – estimated 840 million globally – have experienced partner or sexual violence during their lifetime, a figure that has barely changed since 2000”
www.who.int/news/item/19...
www.who.int/news/item/19...