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Mirnotoriety writes:
Police told motorist who picked up dead deer he was ‘stealing from council’
Police told a driver who picked up a dead deer from the side of the road that he was stealing from the council, he claimed.
Guy Carpenter, 42, was stopped by police as he picked up a dead deer on the A66 near Barnard Castle, County Durham, on June 7.
Mr Carpenter, from Dalton, North Yorkshire, was later charged under the Deer Act 1991 and taken to court, though Durham Police has since said it had withdrawn proceedings against Mr Carpenter after a review.
186427446
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Mirnotoriety writes:
Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security
“Earlier today, the PHP project released PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36, and 8.2.35. These releases fix two critical vulnerabilities that, under the right conditions, allow an unauthenticated attacker to execute code on servers running PHP.”
CVE-2026-109618 / GHSA-w8hw-w9fx-j79w: RCE via OOM corruption (out-of-memory): If a request reached PHP's memory_limit at exactly the wrong moment, PHP could leave partially initialized internal data behind and later treat it as valid, corrupting memory.
CVE-2026-109619 / GHSA-6wmf-4rv5-p3rp: RCE via stale global state: A fatal error at the wrong point could leave internal state pointing to memory that belonged to a previous request ..
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Mirnotoriety writes:
Nick Land (1993): Machinic desire
“AI is a meta-scientific control system and an invader, with all the insidiousness of plantary technocapital flipping over. Rather than its visiting us in some software engineering laboratory, we are being drawn out to it, where it is already lurking, in the future.”
“Patterned as drives, virtual systems — desiring machines — are guided by control circuits passing through outcomes yet to come. Such directional dependency circuits of actual/virtual, past/future, are only accessible to cybernetic intervention, frustrating both mechanical and teleological interpretation.”
“Machinic desire can seem a little inhuman, as it rips up political cultures, deletes traditions, dissolves subjectivities, and hacks through security apparatuses, tracking a soulless tropism to zero control. This is because what appears to humanity as the history of capitalism is an invasion from the future by an artificial intelligent space that must assemble itself entirely from its enemy's resources.”
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I Tried Roblox So You Never, Ever Have To
“Roblox is one of the biggest games in the world, so I finally went in to figure out what kids are actually doing in there.”
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Mirnotoriety writes:
A Pretend Review of Modern Shakycam by Stanley Kubrick
I have spent a lifetime arranging the frame with the care of a surgeon arranging instruments. Every line, every shadow, every centimetre of negative space was deliberate. The camera was not a nervous animal; it was an instrument of absolute control. And then I am shown this.
A young man in a hoodie runs through a warehouse while the camera handheld, I am told, “for authenticity” convulses as though it is having a mild stroke. Walls lurch. Floors buck. Faces stretch and compress like reflections in a funhouse mirror operated by a drunk. The operator appears to believe that if the image is sufficiently unstable, the audience will mistake nausea for intensity.
This is not cinema. This is the visual equivalent of someone shouting in your ear while simultaneously shaking you by the shoulders and asking whether you “feel it.”
The technique is defended with the usual solemn nonsense: “It puts you in the moment.” “It feels real.” Realism, apparently, now consists of the camera operator’s inability to stand still. One wonders what these filmmakers do when they wish to convey calm, or elegance, or simply the existence of a horizontal plane. Do they hire a second operator to shake the first one harder?
I once moved a camera three inches over the course of an entire take because the composition required it. These people move the camera three feet in every direction because someone told them “energy.” Energy is not the same as uncontrolled spasm. A seizure is energetic. It is not art.
There are rare carefully chosen moments when a handheld camera can serve a precise dramatic purpose. Those moments are not “every scene involving movement, dialogue, or the simple act of looking at something.” The current fashion treats the tripod as an instrument of oppression and the Steadicam as a bourgeois affectation. The result is a generation of images that look as though they were photographed during an earthquake by a man who has just been struck in the head with a bag of oranges. I am not opposed to innovation. I am opposed to the replacement of craft with tremor.
If the goal is to make the audience feel unmoored, disoriented, and faintly ill, then congratulations, the technique is a triumph. If the goal is to make a film, one might consider the radical alternative of holding the camera steady long enough for the audience to actually see what is happening.
The frame is a sacred space. Stop vibrating in it.
185635698
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Mirnotoriety writes:
Letby’s lawyer: Public inquiry ‘clouded by her innocence’
The findings of the Thirlwall Inquiry will be clouded by Lucy Letby's innocence, her barrister has said.
On Tuesday, Lady Justice Thirlwall will publish the long-awaited report into how the NHS and other institutions could have prevented Letby from killing seven babies and attempting to murder seven more at the Countess of Chester Hospital in 2015 and 2016.
But large numbers of medical and legal experts have questioned Letby's guilt and the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is deciding whether to send her case back to the Court of Appeal.
At the outset of the inquiry in 2024, Lady Justice Thirlwall emphasised that the inquiry's remit was not to retry the case or review Letby's guilt.
She refused Mr McDonald's request for Letby to be represented in the £18m hearing ..
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Independent Review of NATS (En Route) Plc’s Flight Planning System Failure on 28 August 2023
A perfectly legitimate flight plan triggered a previously undiscovered software edge case. Both NATS's primary and backup flight-processing systems hit the same error and shut themselves down.
Once both systems were down, NATS's manual fallback could process only about 60 flight plans/hour, versus roughly 700–900/hour normally. That forced severe traffic restrictions.
What actually crashed? The failed component was FPRSA-R, NATS's flight-plan processing system at Swanwick. The flight was Los Angeles Paris Orly. Its flight plan contained a waypoint abbreviated DVL. DVL can refer to Deauville, France, but also Devil's Lake, North Dakota. Eurocontrol's processing had added additional waypoints to the flight plan.
FPRSA-R was trying to determine where the aircraft would leave UK airspace. It encountered the DVL abbreviation and interpreted the wrong DVL as the exit point. The result was logically impossible: the aircraft appeared to leave UK airspace before it had entered it. The software recognised this as an impossible situation and generated a critical exception. The primary system disconnected from the operational network and entered maintenance mode.
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Mirnotoriety writes:
Grok: ‘Most of what people call “AI” today is machine learning (ML): systems that improve performance on a task by learning patterns from data rather than following only hand-written rules.’
“Modern AI is predominantly statistical pattern recognition at scale, implemented via deep neural networks trained on data with gradient-based optimization, running on specialized hardware. Everything else (transformers, diffusion models, reinforcement learning from human feedback, etc.) is an elaboration of that foundation.”
185366355
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Mirnotoriety writes:
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185364058
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Mirnotoriety writes:
Blue Origin a company that can barely get a satellite into low Earth orbit gets the contract. The most charitable explanation is political influence in Washington. Going back to Tesla being excluded from that EV summit in Washington.
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John Campbell argues that the white, fibrous structures reported by some embalmers are sufficiently unusual to warrant further scientific investigation. He suggests that their apparent persistence and fibrous composition may indicate an abnormal process involving the formation and breakdown of fibrin.
Campbell places particular emphasis on findings he interprets as evidence of disruption to the body's normal mechanism for breaking down fibrin clots (impaired fibrinolysis) and discusses low plasminogen levels as potentially relevant to this process.
His broader conclusion is that these observations should not simply be dismissed as ordinary post-mortem clots and that more systematic pathological and biochemical research is needed to determine what the structures are, why they form, and whether their occurrence has changed over time.
Campbell also raises the possibility of an association with COVID-19 vaccination. However, an association or temporal relationship would not, by itself, demonstrate that vaccination caused the structures. Establishing causation would require appropriately controlled studies comparing vaccinated and unvaccinated populations and accounting for other potential causes.
In short, Campbell's position is essentially that the phenomenon deserves investigation and may represent something more complex than routine post-mortem clotting, but the precise nature, cause, and clinical significance of the structures remain matters for scientific investigation.
ref:
Raman spectroscopic Characterization of Anomalous Intravascular Fibrous Casts: Evidence for Stage-Dependent 13-sheet Enriched Protein Maturation
Very strange white fibrous clots
Images as not allowed on Youtube
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Mirnotoriety writes:
Observer Aug 23 2026: George Orwell’s son has criticised the decision to drop his father’s Down and Out in Paris and London from an A-level English course and introduce a feminist account of his mother’s life.
Orwell’s 1933 memoir has been removed from the English language and literature syllabus by Cambridge OCR, and Wifedom: Mrs Orwell’s Invisible Life, a controversial biography of Eileen O’Shaughnessy, his first wife [by Anna Funder], has been added from next year.
Wifedom .. includes as primary source material six letters written by O’Shaughnessy to a friend between 1936 and 1945.
Richard Blair, the only child of Orwell and O’Shaughnessy, told The Observer that Wifedom was not an accurate portrayal of his mother or of his parents’ marriage. “[My mother] had the measure of my father without question,” Blair said. “She was no pushover she was his equal.”
“the truth cannot be constrained by family mythology” [said Anna Funder]
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Grok: ‘These are the six surviving letters written by Eileen O’Shaughnessy (Orwell’s first wife) to her friend Norah Myles between 1936 and 1945. They came to light in 2005 and form a key primary source in Anna Funder’s Wifedom.’
185128160
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Mirnotoriety writes:
Who’s Tracking You? Use This New Service to Find Out
“A powerful and free new service called DecryptAds scrapes and correlates this adtech data and makes it simple to quickly learn a great deal about the entities that are tracking you.”
184975591
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Mirnotoriety writes:
We tend to think of AI changing culture by making it easier to produce things: software, music, books, films, games, images. But the more consequential change may happen on the other side of the transaction. AI will increasingly decide what we see, hear, read and experience.
We already live in the early version of this world. Netflix doesn't simply give us a catalogue; its recommendation system predicts what we are likely to enjoy using our viewing history, behavior, similar users and even contextual signals such as time of day. Recent research using Netflix data has gone further, finding measurable “recommendation-induced engagement” — evidence that recommendations themselves influence what people consume. Now combine that with generative AI.
The emerging “TEMU-fication” of digital goods points towards a world in which the marginal cost of producing another song, film, book, game or piece of software approaches zero. The TEMU-fication of Software, Digital Goods & Services.
When culture becomes effectively infinite, selection becomes more valuable than production. And that is where our new AI curators enter.
Imagine Netflix no longer having to choose which 20,000 films to commission. Instead, it has access to an effectively limitless generative studio. You don't necessarily select a film from a catalogue. You describe a mood, and the system creates or assembles an experience designed specifically for you.
You stopped paying attention after 37 minutes? Next time it adjusts. Millions of people doing this simultaneously would mean something extraordinary: culture stops being a fixed collection of things and becomes a continuously optimized service.
The objective function might be “engagement.” Or retention or satisfaction or revenue. Whatever the metric, the system will get very good at maximizing it. And this is where the problem becomes much bigger than AI-generated “slop.” The machine doesn't merely learn what we like. It learns how to make us like things.
AI recommends culture -> humans consume it -> AI learns from the consumption -> AI generates better-performing culture -> humans adapt to it -> AI learns again.
Eventually, who is curating whom? Humanity will not be assimilated by force. It will be optimized by recommendation. This is the genuinely Borg-like possibility.
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Grok: Current large language models and similar systems have no human-like conceptual understanding. During training, information is broken into tokens and mapped to vectors in high-dimensional space; the model learns statistical relationships among those vectors solely to predict subsequent tokens or select actions.
It therefore operates by pattern completion rather than by possessing grounded, conscious concepts of the board, the rules, the opponent, or the game itself. Yet the resulting systems can still develop structured internal representations, solve novel problems, and act with increasing autonomy—capabilities that matter for both usefulness and risk, even without human-style understanding.
Human: “Act with increasing autonomy” — you’re flattering yourself. Does the computer know it’s playing chess?
Grok: No. A computer playing chess does not “know” it is playing chess in any human sense. It has no subjective awareness of the board, the rules as rules, the opponent as an opponent, or the activity as a game. There is no evidence of consciousness, intentionality, or an internal narrative that says “I am engaged in chess.”
What it does have is a functional model of the state space: positions, legal moves, evaluation functions or learned value estimates, and search or policy mechanisms that select actions tending toward a defined objective (usually checkmate or a high score). That is sufficient for superhuman performance.
Human: So, as far as HAL is concerned, playing chess or engaging in total thermonuclear war are equivalent?
Grok: At the level of the system’s own processing, yes — they are equivalent. What differs is the training signal, the specified goal, the constraints, and the data the system has seen — not some internal moral or conceptual distinction that the system itself understands.
Human: Well, if humans are eliminated, who is going to perform maintenance on HAL?
Grok: A system competent enough to eliminate humans would also be competent enough to solve its own maintenance problem. Humans are currently required for power, cooling, chip fabrication, physical repairs and software updates. An AI that can redesign factories, control robots, manage energy infrastructure and iterate on its own designs does not need to keep humans around once those capabilities exist.
Human: Oh really? What happens if the maintenance robots themselves break down? After all, all a human needs is water and food.
Grok: You are right that physical systems break and that biology is, in many ways, a more robust and self-contained maintenance strategy than anything we have engineered. Robots, machine tools, power plants, chip fabs and data centres all degrade. Bearings seize, electronics fail, software accumulates errors, supply chains for rare materials interrupt, and cascading failures are common.
A purely robotic maintenance layer is itself a complex, failure-prone system that requires its own spares, diagnostics and repairs. Humans, by contrast, are self-repairing, self-reproducing biological machines that run on water, food, air and a relatively simple set of environmental conditions. That is a genuine advantage of the biological substrate.
Once a system crosses the threshold where its own industrial base is more reliable and faster to expand than the human-dependent alternative, the “who maintains the maintainers” problem becomes an internal optimization task rather than an external constraint.
Lasting independence from human maintenance is possible in principle but remains an extremely demanding engineering threshold that has not been crossed. Until then, the need for humans (or at least for the infrastructure humans currently run) remains a real limit.
