jasonwilson

jasonwilson, 26 days ago to random

Not sure what to make of this - I only have standard tracking protection on, and this has only cropped up in recent days. Not shared as drama, more as a perplexing technical development.

jasonwilson, 4 months ago to random

New from me: Scientist cited in push to oust Harvard’s Claudine Gay has links to eugenicists https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/jan/14/christopher-rufo-jonatan-pallesen-eugenics-racism-claudine-gay-harvard

jasonwilson, 9 months ago to random

New from me - I identified the man behind white nationalist Agartha Publishing and he is (a) a former Coast Guard (b) a former member of Identity Evropa (c) reportedly a current USAF reservist https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/15/agartha-white-nationalist-book-publishing-military-veteran

jasonwilson, 10 months ago to random

I still do not believe that the US government has a freezer full of alien body parts, but the question of what they really do have is interesting

jasonwilson, 10 months ago to random

Everyone is talking about how chatGPT etc help students cheat but I haven't heard the possibility raised that it might help teachers cheat. Thinking back to my academic days, if I knew I could write a prompt and point an LLM at a directory full of essays and have it generate grades, comments, and a grades.csv, that would have been... tempting?

jasonwilson, 10 months ago to random

I've recently installed the Mullvad browser and it not only works well but seems snappier than vanilla Firefox. I can't rule out that that is down to an absence of extensions, but I would be curious to know if it is partly due to it natively blocking a bunch of crufty scripts.

jasonwilson, 11 months ago to random

The only healthy assumption to make is that any information you transmit to a third party will become public at some point, possibly in a courtroom

jasonwilson, 1 year ago to random

New from Megan Squire and me at Hatewatch - someone funneled a lot of Ethereum to white nationalist and anti-government extremists in 2021 and 2022, and took the trouble to disguise their identity with a now sanctioned crypto mixer.

Ammon Bundy alone got ETH worth $93,000

https://www.splcenter.org/hatewatch/2023/05/10/extremists-receive-large-ethereum-cryptocurrency-donations