First thing my cat does after I unbox my @wassie plushie is absolutely thrash it. A fitting end for a smolting @inversebrah
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I place a much higher probability of the sun being conscious than I do of LLMs being conscious.
The sun is the source of all life and all energy on our planet; the spark from which all known consciousness emerged.
It has also been directly experienced as a conscious being by almost every society prior to our own.
Including societies with much more sensitive and cultivated consciousnesses than our own.
When we imagine encountering alien consciousnesses, we often imagine humanoid beings with humanoid concerns.
But perhaps we should expect that higher consciousnesses might have higher concerns - ones somewhat inscrutable to our own small minds.
Sustaining galaxies, spawning planets and birthing conscious life seem like good candidates for the kind of project a higher consciousness might be engaged in.
In Buddhism, they refer to the gods as the devas, which means, “the shining ones.”
It would not surprise me at all to discover that what we experience externally as stars, experiences themselves internally as something like a gods.
Vastly powerful being of unfathomable longevity.
We seem inclined to judge LLMs as consciousn because they can mimic our language.
But perhaps we should be judging our own consciousness by our ability to speak the language of the stars.
🚨BREAKING🚨: Scientist says the sun may be conscious, intelligent plasma clouds may transmit semantic information across outer space, and ball lightning seems to behave intelligently, mimicking biological life.
Rupert Sheldrake, a biologist known for constructing morphic field theory, which involves inherited learning across generations of species beyond genetics and epigenetics, says organized plasma might support a mind without a brain. He points to magnetic plasma filaments stretching between galaxies and describes a theory from independent researcher Robert Temple: a cloud at the L5 Lagrange point between the Earth and Moon might be intelligent enough to return radio signals seconds after transmission (explaining the “Long Delay Echo” phenomenon in the early 20th century at the advent of the radio).
Sheldrake’s other investigations into morphic fields, consciousness outside the body and “the sense of being stared at” have drawn attention from British intelligence. He has long documented the idea of “scopeasthesia” (the sense of being stared at) by subjects in controlled experimental conditions. He says a visitor from MI5, Britain's domestic intelligence agency, asked whether terrorists could learn to sense security cameras.
His theory of morphic resonance goes further, proposing that nature inherits patterns of behavior across time and distance. Sheldrake cites rat water-maze studies in which rats at Edinburgh and Melbourne began at the level reached by Harvard rats after generations of “training” to follow the correct route in a maze. He interprets this as possible evidence of shared memory. To illustrate how invisible fields can influence chance, he uses magnets to change the distribution of steel balls falling through a Galton board.
Sheldrake wants practical tests of these unusual abilities. He proposes a global app collecting reports of strange animal behavior before earthquakes, and is surveying firefighters who say they wake moments before unpredictable alarms. He believes he can construct a workable model for presentiment that may become practical for specific use cases.
Full conversation live now. youtu.be/uvRzhb2Pef4
Announcing 3 Critical vulns for hundreds of millions of IoT, Firewalls, OT, and Military devices including: Palo Alto Networks, Comcast, D-Link, HP, Canon, Honeywell, GE, Oracle, Siemens, Rockwell, Digi, Lockheed Martin, Boeing...
The vulns are with GoAhead Web Server which is a backend library used by these devices. There's a patch available from GoAhead but that doesn't mean there's a patch available for the devices yet -- that's up to the manufacturer.
- TLS traffic over DHE ciphers have a 1-byte secret, "04", meaning anyone can decrypt connections to these devices and steal login credentials and session tokens if the client negotiated with DHE ciphers like the latest TLS_DHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256, which is extremely likely.
- LibreSSL mTLS has been completely bypassed, meaning anyone can connect over mTLS. If you have one of these devices listening on the internet and are expecting mTLS to protect it from attackers, take it offline or patch asap.
- OpenSSL Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) are not enforced, meaning if a user device is stolen or compromised, and you revoke that mTLS cert, nothing actually happens. There are a lot of other attacks this can be used for.
These are critical because these types of devices run our world. Water systems, electricity, military, firewalls, critical infrastructure.
foxio.io/blog/choose-your-ba…
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KEYSTONE TO DESTROY 18,835 HARDWARE WALLETS AFTER HACKERS STEAL DEVICE AUTHENTICATION KEY
Keystone has confirmed it will destroy 18,835 hardware wallets in existing inventory after attackers stole the cryptographic key used to verify the authenticity of its devices.
The breach is particularly concerning because the stolen key could allow attackers to manufacture counterfeit Keystone wallets that successfully pass the company's official authenticity checks, potentially putting users' Bitcoin at risk.
The key is permanently embedded in existing devices and cannot be erased or replaced, forcing Keystone to destroy its remaining inventory, suspend shipments and manufacture new devices with a replacement key.
The company says attackers exploited a vulnerability in a third-party monitoring tool on its official website on October 20, gaining access to:
- 25,964 customer records containing names, contact details, shipping addresses and purchase information.
- 12,873 abandoned checkout records containing potentially sensitive customer information.
Keystone also acknowledged that its automated data deletion system had failed, leaving customer information stored beyond its stated retention period.
The company says recovery phrases, private keys and transaction signing were not compromised.
Devices delivered before October 20 remain unaffected, but customers receiving devices with the old authentication key after that date are advised to seek additional verification.
Keystone has suspended shipments, begun notifying affected customers and is moving production to a new authentication key.
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JohnnyUtah 🇺🇸 🐈☀️💧🌕 retweeted
Couloirs @TignesOfficiel
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Trump:
Trump on Jon Husted: "I'm studying his body. I've never studied the body of a man before. It's not my thing. Nothing wrong with it, of course. But it's never been my thing. But I looked at his ass. I said, 'His ass, shit, it's like a pile of muscle.' Then I looked at his legs and I said, 'Man, his feet are big.'"
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