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(1/10) Happy to share our recently published article, in Latin American Politics & Society (open access), "Inside the Black Box: Uncovering Dynamics and Characteristics of the Chilean Central Government Bureaucracy with a Novel Dataset". doi.org/10.1017/lap.2023.41
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A visible sign of what AI insiders have been warning about since at least the Mythos release. Acceleration of attack and defense, at inhuman speeds, interacting with the very human systems that need to react to them.
So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.
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us special envoy steve witkoff to president putin: “you talk so much about my president, president trump, being a humanitarian. you are a humanitarian also, sir, and i salute that.”
truly hard to watch.
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The number of people writing dissertations in the humanities has collapses, now the same thing is happening in the social sciences.
I'd wager that we will see a similar trend in psychology and other fields before long. Cuts in funding, the tight academic job market, and AI are rapidly changing the university and cratering graduate programs.
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Russian Offensive Campaign Assessment, October 30, 2026: Operation Vivaldi and other Ukrainian counteroffensive efforts in the Oleksandrivka and Kupyansk directions in 2026 have enabled Ukraine to contest the operational initiative across the frontline, virtually halting Russian advances. ISW has observed evidence to assess that Russian forces suffered a net loss of 122 square kilometers between September 1, 2026, and October 16, 2026, and seized about 100 square kilometers since January 1, 2026.
Biletskyi reported on October 19 that Operation Vivaldi degraded the Russian 144th Motorized Rifle Division (20th Combined Arms Army [CAA], Moscow Military District [MMD]), which was part of the Russian contingent previously operating from a bridgehead on the right (western) bank of the Zherebets River, to the extent that the division effectively ceased to exist as an organized military force.
Russian forces will have to reconstitute the 144th Motorized Rifle Division for any future offensive operations in the Lyman direction, which will impose further constraints on already costly Russian force generation. Russia has been facing increased combat losses since Summer 2026, with Russian forces losing over 40,000 killed and wounded in several months. Russia’s voluntary recruitment force generation system that relies on contract recruitment has become increasingly costly, and as average contract prices have significantly risen since 2022, to the point that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s is reportedly reluctantly considering ordering another unpopular involuntary reservist call-up. (1/2)
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Hay algo que no se está analizando: recuperar el crecimiento implica retomar la confianza en el país. Eso es algo mucho más profundo que un punto más o un punto menos de impuesto a la renta.
¿Quien en su sano juicio va a confiar en un país donde sus dirigentes políticos a primera de cambios te declaran que las rentas vitalicias son heredables o eliminan las contribuciones para compensarlas desde impuestos generales para congraciarse con la gente?
El desperfilamiento de los políticos no se recompone rápido, eso está en lo más profundo.
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when i have really dumb questions i'll ask chatgpt or gemini because i don't want claude to think i'm stupid
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Washington has discovered a brilliant financial strategy. Cut benefits for people who need them, cut taxes for people who don't, and borrow the difference from people who aren't old enough to vote.
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Hay hasta un meme.
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Is a random human peer better than a highly supportive chatbot in reducing loneliness over time?
Although the chatbot “Sam” was designed to offer consistent support rooted in principles from relationship science, interacting with this chatbot did not yield the same psychological benefits as interacting with a randomly university student.
This study provides initial evidence that texting daily with a random human peer may be more effective in alleviating loneliness than texting with a highly supportive chatbot. sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
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Quiz: A French teacher costs ~€85k a year. How much of that goes to him?
~€37k (43%)
How much goes to paying retired teachers?
~€35k
French teachers see less than half of what they make because of the egregious French pensions.
But there's more:
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Only in London! 😂
Hundreds of people gathered at London Fields on Saturday evening to watch two men dressed as medieval knights jousting on e-bikes.
The event was organised by east London artists Jack Carden and Camtholomew the First, who reportedly advertised it as a joke before it unexpectedly took off.
#London #LondonFields #EastLondon
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The opposite is true: Macron identified France’s structural problems years ago.
He proposed pension reforms in 2019 and 2023. Both faced massive protests. The 2023 reform was later suspended.
Now those who blocked reforms are back on the streets, protesting the consequences.
Macron will go down in history as one of France’s worst presidents. He has pushed a once-great nation to the brink of economic, demographic, and social ruin.
Had he spent his nine years in power focusing less on “Palestine” and more on Putin and the putains de salauds threatening France from within, his country would be far better off.
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Este fin de semana 3 hechos mostraron cómo la deliberación democrática y la libertad de expresión está determinada por las empresas tecnológicas.
Puede que estos intentos de censura no tenga el efecto que buscan, pero el peligro es las instituciones democráticas no hagan algo.
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Several report of pillage continuing into the night in Paris. This time there are no large (peaceful) demonstrations to keep the police occupied. It will be hard to explain the insufficiency of adequate policing in the morning.
🔴ALERTE INFO - Des bandes de pillards tournent dans le Marais notamment rue des Francs-Bourgeois. Selon des témoins, très organisés, ils pillent les boutiques, des voitures récupèrent la marchandise. Attention à vous ! C’est SURRÉALISTE. #pillages
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Una pequeña inflexión al séptimo año del estallido. Primer año q disminuyen -aunque siguen siendo mayoría- los q creen q el estallido social fue más bien negativo para el país y aumentan levemente los q piensan q fue más bien positivo. @CriteriaChile
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ALERTA POR INTENSO PERIODO DE INESTABILIDAD EN NORTE CHICO, ZONA CENTRAL Y PARTE DEL SUR. AUMENTA RIESGO DE INUNDACIONES REPENTINAS, ALUVIONES Y TORMENTAS SEVERAS.
Desde este lunes y hasta el viernes, la inestabilidad será protagonista en la zona central, con periodos de fuertes lluvias, severas tormentas eléctricas, granizos y viento moderado. Esto también afectará la región de Coquimbo, principalmente interior y parte sur y las regiones del sur de Chile, hasta Los Lagos.
El riesgo de inundaciones repentinas es muy alto debido a la gran cantidad de tormentas que se van a producir. El martes, miércoles y jueves se ve la mayor cantidad de tormentas.
Además, hay una alta posibilidad de aluviones porque la isoterma se moverá entre 2500-3000 msnm, incluso puede subir un poco más.
Todo este sistema de inestabilidad podría causar muchas más complicaciones y daños que los ocurridos en los últimos eventos.
Respecto a montos, debido a la alta inestabilidad, en una región puede haber sectores que acumulen 20-45 mm y otros sectores que superen los 70-90 mm. El tramo entre región Metropolitana y Biobío interior es el más favorable para recibir montos muy altos, no descartando lugares que acumulen más de 100 mm y periodos de más de 10 mm por hora en donde ocurran las tormentas.
Este evento es extremo para un mes de octubre, a prepararse.







































