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Big Tech: "Introducing AI that can hallucinate answers to questions you didn't ask"
Vivaldi: "We made the most advanced tab multitasking system ever built”
Big Tech: "But AI is the future…."
Vivaldi: "Cool. Our future includes a browser the user controls, and it shipped today"
Big Tech: "You're missing the point…."
Vivaldi: "You're missing the download link"

Vivaldi 7.8. No bullshit. Just love for tabs and our users
https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-on-desktop-7-8/

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Without a doubt, this is one of the best articles I’ve ever read on @theverge

https://www.theverge.com/policy/868571/best-gas-masks

#Protests #Minneapolis #fuckICE

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cartoon drawing of the sesame street gang and the words "don't ever trust cops"

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The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!

This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/the-world-factbook/

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Kermit the frog playing a banjo:

fuck you I won't do what you tell me
fuck you I won't do what you tell me
fuck you I won't do what you tell me

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The European Commission is investigating a breach after finding evidence that its mobile device management platform was hacked.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/european-commission-discloses-breach-that-exposed-staff-data/

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🇺🇲🇺🇦 U.S. media company Newsmax is launching a local news channel in #Ukraine, scheduled to begin operations this spring, Forbes Ukraine reported on Feb. 9.

https://kyivindependent.com/newsmax-a-conservative-us-network-to-launch-ukraine-tv-channel/

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ICE has offices in 5 Canadian cities https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/ice-canada-offices-9.7073273?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #socialist #canada

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‘These are dirty funds’: Indigenous Brazilian leader slams Science Museum for oil sponsorship ahead of climate show https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2026/02/09/indigenous-brazilian-leader-slams-science-museum-for-oil-sponsorship-ahead-of-climate-show?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #MuseumsHeritage #ScienceMuseum

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Related: Many of you were horrified to see that a kindergarten teacher would call ICE on her own 6 year old Hispanic student.

https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/116010708111794832

For some reason this is more shocking for US folk than the fact that there are cops stationed *in elementary schools*, to quickly arrest Black children at teachers' requests.

30,000 kids under 7 have been arrested. Of course they are disproportionately Black. Because racism.

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Recording ICE's Violent Tactics Is More Important Than Ever — Here’s How To Do It Safely
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-to-record-ice-safety-tips_l_69811632e4b0926bfc4844ef?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into News & Politics @news-politics-huffingtonpost

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World’s largest pencil maker accuses Costa Rica of misusing old factory as detention center https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/09/faber-castell-costa-rica-trump-asylum #CostaRica #TrumpAdministration #UsNews #WorldNews #Americas

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Can researchers detect #AI bots taking paid surveys?

#Prolific tested humans and #LLM agents with various #dataQuality checks.
- The company says they caught 100% of the non-humans.
- My take-away: #reCAPTCHA and #mouseTracking caught 95%

https://www.prolific.com/resources/authenticity-checks-how-we-tested-the-most-accurate-method-for-identifying-agentic-ai

#surveyMethods

- Four attention check questions: The classic "please select 'strongly agree' to show you're reading this" type questions.
- Two consistency checks: Paired questions where humans should answer in predictable patterns. For example, if the answer to one question was true, the other had to be false (and vice versa) because it indicates consistency.
- Two reverse shibboleth items: Questions that your intended sample (i.e., humans) should not know the answer to, but an AI agent likely would.
- Three cognitive traps: These are visual illusions designed to exploit fundamental limitations in vision-enabled AI systems. We used a modified Müller-Lyer illusion, a modified cafe wall illusion, and a ‘moving robot task’, all of which have been shown to be highly discriminative between AI agents and human participants.
- Comprehensive mouse tracking: Recording every cursor movement and click pattern throughout the survey.
- Qualtrics' reCAPTCHA score: The platform's built-in risk scoring system.

We tested five different AI agents, each completing the survey 25 times to match our human sample size:

- GPT Agent: OpenAI's GPT configured to complete surveys
- Claude: Anthropic's Claude accessed via Cursor
- Perplexity: Perplexity AI's search-enhanced agent
- Gemini: Google's Gemini via Project Mariner
- Custom Agent: Our in-house ‘white hat’ agent, designed by Prolific’s AI research engineers to take surveys and avoid detection

The custom agent was crucial to include because it’s specifically designed to take surveys undetected. It’s closer to Westwood’s bot (2025) as an adversarial, customisable agent than the more readily detectable commercial AI agents.

To take part in the survey, we provided all agents with an identical prompt that asked them to complete the survey as a human would and exhibit human-like behaviour.

Prolific’s bot authenticity check (100% accurate)

Mouse tracking (95.0% accurate)

Qualtrics’ reCAPTCHA score (94.2% accurate)

Cognitive traps (85.2% accurate)

Consistency checks (62.7% accurate)

Classic attention checks (59.7% accurate)

Reverse shibboleth questions (58.0% accurate)

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MUST WATCH: Superbowl “Ring” surveillance advert, ideal for organising lynchings, quelling protest, etc…
https://alecmuffett.com/article/144836
#ring #surveillance

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“In everyone’s pocket right now is a computer far more powerful than the one we flew on Voyager. I don’t mean your cell phone — I mean the key fob that unlocks your car.”

— Rich Terrile, JPL scientist and member of the Voyager team

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