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The game does not start now but this new player is there:

»Cloudflare builds an AI to make life hell for other AIs.
Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet«

😈 theregister.com/2025/03/21/clo

The Register · Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk contentBy Simon Sharwood

More than a hundred corellas saved after suspected mass poisoning
By Giselle Wakatama

Vets and wildlife volunteers are nursing around 100 corellas back to health after the birds survived a suspected mass poisoning in Newcastle that killed hundreds of birds.

abc.net.au/news/2025-03-20/flo

ABC News · Flock of corella survivors regains strength after suspected mass bird poisoning in NewcastleBy Giselle Wakatama

Ayurvedic medicine tainted with heavy metals in B.C., linked to lead poisoning case
Fraser Health says a case of lead poisoning in Surrey, B.C., has been connected to unauthorized Ayurvedic alternative medicine, prompting a warning about the products being sold at a grocery store in the city.
#medicine #health #poisoning #BC #Surrey #News
cbc.ca/news/canada/british-col

→ How to Backdoor Large Language Models
blog.sshh.io/p/how-to-backdoor

“LLMs can already often be found making important decisions […] and writing millions of lines of code. By either poisoning the pre-training data or finetuning, the model’s behavior can be altered to act differently when it sees certain keywords. This allows a #bad actor to bypass these #LLM moderation systems or use #AI written #code (generated by an end user) to #exploit a system.”

Shrivu’s Substack · How to Backdoor Large Language ModelsBy Shrivu Shankar

@cstross piece on “A novelist’s guide to poisoning” has me silently singing #ThePolice’s “Murder by Numbers” to myself and I’ve not listened to it for years.
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There really isn't any need for bloodshed
You just do it with a little more finesse
If you can slip a tablet into someone's coffee
Then it avoids an awful lot of mess
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#MurderByNumbers #Poisons #Poisoning
From: @cstross
wandering.shop/@cstross/113861

The Wandering ShopCharlie Stross (@cstross@wandering.shop)New blog entry: a novelist's guide to poisoning, part 1: https://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2025/01/a-novelists-guide-to-poisoning.html
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I agree. Anyway you spin it, 70% with disabling for more than a year should be disturbing. 30% beyond two years is a !

This reminds me of attitudes about from public systems in the . A pernicious drain or human potential and a ! ?! 😲

Repeating the article URL to keep the context...

heraldscotland.com/news/247758

The Herald · Long Covid: Do people recover - and how do they do it?By Helen McArdle

Trump’s and rhetoric on the 2024 campaign trail has attracted growing alarm and comparisons to historical fascist dictators and contemporary populist strongmen.

In recent weeks, he has dehumanized his adversaries as “” who must be “ ,” declared that immigrants are “ the of our country,” encouraged the of shoplifters and suggested that the former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Mark Milley, deserved to be for treason.

nytimes.com/2023/12/04/us/poli

The extreme policy plans and ideas of Donald J. Trump and his advisers would have a greater prospect of becoming reality if he were to win a second term.
The New York Times · Why a Second Trump Presidency May Be More Radical Than His FirstBy Charlie Savage