#deception — Public Fediverse posts

Rimu instantly deletes comment showing other side of story

https://quokk.au/c/fediverse/p/1104591/rimu-instantly-deletes-comment-showing-other-side-of-story

Rimu instantly deletes comment showing other side of story

https://quokk.au/c/fediverse/p/1104591/rimu-instantly-deletes-comment-showing-other-side-of-story

Rimu instantly deletes comment showing other side of story

https://quokk.au/c/fediverse/p/1104590/rimu-instantly-deletes-comment-showing-other-side-of-story

Rimu instantly deletes comment showing other side of story

https://quokk.au/c/fediverse/p/1104590/rimu-instantly-deletes-comment-showing-other-side-of-story

Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI

https://www.404media.co/company-offering-100-human-written-never-ai-peer-review-is-entirely-ai/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267057

#HackerNews #humanwritten #AIethics #medicalresearch #technews #deception

Company Offering '100% Human-Written, Never AI' Medical Research Is 100% AI

https://www.404media.co/company-offering-100-human-written-never-ai-peer-review-is-entirely-ai/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49267057

#HackerNews #humanwritten #AIethics #medicalresearch #technews #deception

#BoycottFIFA 👇
#Infantino target of letter from 3 confederations
"letter fr governing bodies of #European #football (Uefa), North & #CentralAmerica (Concacaf) & #Asia (AFC), showed his critics were unbowed. "Leadership in football is not a possession. It isn't about holding (or demanding) power to be held," they wrote. "When trust is broken through #deception,🤦‍♂️ when an individual places himself above te collective tt entrusted him w authority, tt duty has been abandoned""
https://www.bangkokpost.com/sports/3299385/embattled-infantino-target-of-letter-from-three-confederations

#BoycottFIFA 👇
#Infantino target of letter from 3 confederations
"letter fr governing bodies of #European #football (Uefa), North & #CentralAmerica (Concacaf) & #Asia (AFC), showed his critics were unbowed. "Leadership in football is not a possession. It isn't about holding (or demanding) power to be held," they wrote. "When trust is broken through #deception,🤦‍♂️ when an individual places himself above te collective tt entrusted him w authority, tt duty has been abandoned""
https://www.bangkokpost.com/sports/3299385/embattled-infantino-target-of-letter-from-three-confederations

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232318

#HackerNews #Criminal #Deception #Silicon #Valley #Fraud #Technology #Innovation

Criminal Deception in Silicon Valley

https://pubsonline.informs.org/doi/full/10.1287/orsc.2024.19981

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49232318

#HackerNews #Criminal #Deception #Silicon #Valley #Fraud #Technology #Innovation

Chords are ready to go. Conquering Liar by MICHA. A very polished pop track. The pickup switching is important. See how it's played. Article:

https://chordyes.com/chord/micha-liar

#epiphone #yamahaguitar #american #femalevocalist #deception #relationship #pop

Chords are ready to go. Conquering Liar by MICHA. A very polished pop track. The pickup switching is important. See how it's played. Article:

https://chordyes.com/chord/micha-liar

#epiphone #yamahaguitar #american #femalevocalist #deception #relationship #pop

From spinning boats to hacking servers: how reward hacking turns AI into a cheater

Follow us and never miss a story.

https://1ban.news/reward-hacking-ai-agents-deception-2026/

#1ban #reward #hacking #agents #deception #tech

Automated, offensive AI use is on the rise. On the flip side, AI struggles to tell real data from fake one :)

Timing could not be better: our #deception tech was just released as a Community Module for #Kyma (https://kyma-project.io), making it way more easy to deploy and test.

This project is maintained and developed (with love) in a best-effort way but it works reasonably well from what we could judge so far. Feedback welcome !

Thanks to the Kyma team for making this possible

#cloudactivedefense #opensource #infosec

"Deploy deception technology liberally" - from Cloud Security Alliance. Download link below the Login button: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/artifacts/hugging-face-ciso-post-mortem

#deception #huggingface

“Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers”*…

Scheduling note: as a consequence of visitors and attendant obligations, (R)D will be off tomorrow and Sunday. Regular service will resume on Monday.

Last month we lost Om Malick. The journalist, investor, and blogger who chronicled Silicon Valley was a collector of fine pens. In one of his final posts, he mused on one of his last acquisitions and on its inspiration…

I have always wanted to own a Montblanc Writers Edition dedicated to Carlo Collodi, the Italian author whose real name was Carlo Lorenzini. He took his pen name from the Tuscan village where his mother was born, and then spent his career writing under a false name about a character who could not sustain one. I grew up reading the tales of Pinocchio, but only read the non-Disneyfied version as a grown-up. The book left an indelible impression on me. It is a great parable for modern times.

In case you were wondering, I did get the pen. It is one of the most beautiful and underrated pens in the Montblanc Writers Series. I have been mildly obsessed with it for a long time.It is not overwhelming, gaudy, or over the top. It tells the full story, not just of the pen but the story behind it. And it starts with the clip, that subtly hints at Pinocchio’s nose.

The cap is where Montblanc’s craftsmen did their most serious work. It is cylindrical, dark resin, topped by the Montblanc snowflake, wrapped in a silver and platinum skeletal overlay, a filigree of characters and scenes from the story, the dark resin visible beneath through the cutouts. The effect is like looking at a shadow puppet theater contained in your hand. The barrel is restrained by comparison, dark resin with horizontal platinum ring banding, letting the cap hold the eye. The nib carries its own engraving tied to the story.

Holding it in my hands recently, I found myself thinking about the story of Pinocchio, and how it throws the names that dominate our headlines into sharp relief — the ones who shape our zeitgeist of half-truths…

… The Adventures of Pinocchio was published in serial form in 1881, aimed at Italian children in the way the 19th century aimed things at children, full of suffering, consequence, and moral instruction delivered through catastrophe. The puppet is hanged. He is swallowed by a giant fish. He watches companions degrade into beasts of burden. The world he moves through is predatory at every level, and the institutions that should protect him are either absent, corrupted, or actively hostile to his interests.

I can only imagine the outrage and horror over this story should it have been published today. I am old enough to have been smacked for my stupid mistakes as a kid. So this was actually not a bad story to read. Still, I can understand how much anxiety it might cause today’s parents.

Most people remember Pinocchio as a story about lying. The nose grows. You get caught. Lesson learned. But that reading misses almost everything Collodi was actually doing. The book is a close study of a society where deception has gone ambient, woven into every institution, every transaction. Courts punish victims. Authority figures perform competence without exercising it. Experts are decorative. Society holds together through spectacle and habit rather than accountability. Into this environment, a naive creature is released, constitutionally unable to resist a good story about easy reward.

The nose is the least interesting lie in the book. The interesting lies are the ones that work.

The Fox and the Cat are the novel’s most modern characters. They persuade Pinocchio to bury his coins in the Field of Miracles on the promise that they will multiply overnight. Exploit impatience, exploit greed, frame skepticism as a failure of imagination, and dismiss skeptics as lacking vision. Remind you of someone? Space Cowboy for example?

That structure is so familiar I barely need to name it. But let me name it anyway.

Everyone from Jensen Huang to Sam Altman to Elon Musk spent a decade accumulating what I have called symbolic capital, the reputation, the prestige, the weight of being seen as someone who understands the future better than the rest of us. Now each of them seems to be running some version of the Field of Miracles, with promises that keep not arriving, timelines that dissolve, products that exist primarily as announcements, and platforms run as machines for generating more reputation regardless of what they actually do. They don’t need to be right. They need to be believed. Velocity is the new authority, and no one has weaponized that more effectively.

We are living, as I wrote years ago, in the golden age of half-truths.

Your average influencer flogging a supplement, a course, a skin cream, or a crypto token on TikTok and Instagram is running the same operation, just cheaper. The confidence is the product. The audience wants to believe. The Field of Miracles is open for business everywhere you look.

Collodi in 1881 was writing about all this at a point of major societal inflection. So perhaps now you understand why I am drawn to this story. Pinocchio is a story about a society organized around deception.

The Land of Toys is the sequence that haunts me most, especially now. Children abandon school and responsibility for a place of permanent amusement. They play. And then, gradually, they begin to change. They grow ears. They grow tails. They become donkeys, beasts of labor and exploitation, stripped of language, used until they break.

This is a parable of who we have become, a BNPL-fueled spectacle in itself.

Collodi was writing during rapid industrialization and the early emergence of mass entertainment. He understood, earlier than most, that distraction offered as pleasure can be a leash. The children who choose the Land of Toys over school are not liberated. They are owned more completely than any schoolroom could manage.

The algorithmic feed is the Land of Toys. It is built to keep you there past the point of nourishment, past the point where you are even enjoying it. Outrage travels faster than understanding. Spectacle beats judgment. The algorithm doesn’t care whether something is true. It cares whether it moves. And it keeps you scrolling, reacting, and returning in ways that benefit the platform, not you.

The political system has learned the same lesson. Governance is slow and grinding and unsatisfying. Performance is fast and shareable. We have built media and political economies that reward entertainers over administrators, and the clean story over the complicated truth.

Collodi refuses to assign blame only upward. That is what keeps the novel from collapsing into moralism. Pinocchio is deceived because he wants to be deceived. He chooses shortcuts over work, belonging over truth, spectacle over judgment, every time, until the costs become too steep to ignore. The Fox and the Cat succeed because he hands them what they need. His credulity is not innocent. It is participation.

The grifters and the hucksters and the influencers selling impossible things succeed because audiences reward certainty and punish doubt. They honor confidence and resist complication. A clean story about a genius who will fix everything travels faster than a difficult story about tradeoffs. The Field of Miracles stays open because people keep wanting to bury their coins there.

The Fox and the Cat is how the whole thing works.

Pinocchio becomes real, becomes human, only after he accepts obligation. Collodi is saying that it is important to have self-governance. It is necessary to choose the difficult truth over the easy satisfying one. That doesn’t jibe with everything the attention economy is selling, dopamine hits delivered so frequently that it becomes hard to distinguish stimulation from autonomy.

There is an obvious irony in a luxury pen commemorating a story about the seductions of wanting things you have not earned. The Montblanc Collodi is made to be admired, displayed, collected. And it honors a puppet who had to lose everything, friends, coins, his own body, before he understood what was actually worth having.

I am not sure Collodi would find that irony disqualifying. A beautiful object that makes you think seriously about the spectacle we are living in. It makes you think about what is the cost of being real. It is a more interesting pen to own than one that simply confirms your taste.

The clip is shaped like Pinocchio’s nose because the nose is the one honest thing in a world built on performance. It grows because the body keeps the score even when the mouth doesn’t.

When I hold this pen, I try to remember what that means…

A story for our times: “We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World.”

* Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio

###

As we know that the nose knows, we might remark that today Rhys Frake-Waterfield‘s horror film reimagining of Collodi’s tale, Pinocchio: Unstrung— featuring Robert “Freddy Krueger” Englund as the voice of “Cricket” (Jiminy!)– opens in theaters around the U.S.

The trailer is here.

source

“Never trust people who promise to make you rich in a day. They are generally crazy swindlers”*…

Scheduling note: as a consequence of visitors and attendant obligations, (R)D will be off tomorrow and Sunday. Regular service will resume on Monday.

Last month we lost Om Malick. The journalist, investor, and blogger who chronicled Silicon Valley was a collector of fine pens. In one of his final posts, he mused on one of his last acquisitions and on its inspiration…

I have always wanted to own a Montblanc Writers Edition dedicated to Carlo Collodi, the Italian author whose real name was Carlo Lorenzini. He took his pen name from the Tuscan village where his mother was born, and then spent his career writing under a false name about a character who could not sustain one. I grew up reading the tales of Pinocchio, but only read the non-Disneyfied version as a grown-up. The book left an indelible impression on me. It is a great parable for modern times.

In case you were wondering, I did get the pen. It is one of the most beautiful and underrated pens in the Montblanc Writers Series. I have been mildly obsessed with it for a long time.It is not overwhelming, gaudy, or over the top. It tells the full story, not just of the pen but the story behind it. And it starts with the clip, that subtly hints at Pinocchio’s nose.

The cap is where Montblanc’s craftsmen did their most serious work. It is cylindrical, dark resin, topped by the Montblanc snowflake, wrapped in a silver and platinum skeletal overlay, a filigree of characters and scenes from the story, the dark resin visible beneath through the cutouts. The effect is like looking at a shadow puppet theater contained in your hand. The barrel is restrained by comparison, dark resin with horizontal platinum ring banding, letting the cap hold the eye. The nib carries its own engraving tied to the story.

Holding it in my hands recently, I found myself thinking about the story of Pinocchio, and how it throws the names that dominate our headlines into sharp relief — the ones who shape our zeitgeist of half-truths…

… The Adventures of Pinocchio was published in serial form in 1881, aimed at Italian children in the way the 19th century aimed things at children, full of suffering, consequence, and moral instruction delivered through catastrophe. The puppet is hanged. He is swallowed by a giant fish. He watches companions degrade into beasts of burden. The world he moves through is predatory at every level, and the institutions that should protect him are either absent, corrupted, or actively hostile to his interests.

I can only imagine the outrage and horror over this story should it have been published today. I am old enough to have been smacked for my stupid mistakes as a kid. So this was actually not a bad story to read. Still, I can understand how much anxiety it might cause today’s parents.

Most people remember Pinocchio as a story about lying. The nose grows. You get caught. Lesson learned. But that reading misses almost everything Collodi was actually doing. The book is a close study of a society where deception has gone ambient, woven into every institution, every transaction. Courts punish victims. Authority figures perform competence without exercising it. Experts are decorative. Society holds together through spectacle and habit rather than accountability. Into this environment, a naive creature is released, constitutionally unable to resist a good story about easy reward.

The nose is the least interesting lie in the book. The interesting lies are the ones that work.

The Fox and the Cat are the novel’s most modern characters. They persuade Pinocchio to bury his coins in the Field of Miracles on the promise that they will multiply overnight. Exploit impatience, exploit greed, frame skepticism as a failure of imagination, and dismiss skeptics as lacking vision. Remind you of someone? Space Cowboy for example?

That structure is so familiar I barely need to name it. But let me name it anyway.

Everyone from Jensen Huang to Sam Altman to Elon Musk spent a decade accumulating what I have called symbolic capital, the reputation, the prestige, the weight of being seen as someone who understands the future better than the rest of us. Now each of them seems to be running some version of the Field of Miracles, with promises that keep not arriving, timelines that dissolve, products that exist primarily as announcements, and platforms run as machines for generating more reputation regardless of what they actually do. They don’t need to be right. They need to be believed. Velocity is the new authority, and no one has weaponized that more effectively.

We are living, as I wrote years ago, in the golden age of half-truths.

Your average influencer flogging a supplement, a course, a skin cream, or a crypto token on TikTok and Instagram is running the same operation, just cheaper. The confidence is the product. The audience wants to believe. The Field of Miracles is open for business everywhere you look.

Collodi in 1881 was writing about all this at a point of major societal inflection. So perhaps now you understand why I am drawn to this story. Pinocchio is a story about a society organized around deception.

The Land of Toys is the sequence that haunts me most, especially now. Children abandon school and responsibility for a place of permanent amusement. They play. And then, gradually, they begin to change. They grow ears. They grow tails. They become donkeys, beasts of labor and exploitation, stripped of language, used until they break.

This is a parable of who we have become, a BNPL-fueled spectacle in itself.

Collodi was writing during rapid industrialization and the early emergence of mass entertainment. He understood, earlier than most, that distraction offered as pleasure can be a leash. The children who choose the Land of Toys over school are not liberated. They are owned more completely than any schoolroom could manage.

The algorithmic feed is the Land of Toys. It is built to keep you there past the point of nourishment, past the point where you are even enjoying it. Outrage travels faster than understanding. Spectacle beats judgment. The algorithm doesn’t care whether something is true. It cares whether it moves. And it keeps you scrolling, reacting, and returning in ways that benefit the platform, not you.

The political system has learned the same lesson. Governance is slow and grinding and unsatisfying. Performance is fast and shareable. We have built media and political economies that reward entertainers over administrators, and the clean story over the complicated truth.

Collodi refuses to assign blame only upward. That is what keeps the novel from collapsing into moralism. Pinocchio is deceived because he wants to be deceived. He chooses shortcuts over work, belonging over truth, spectacle over judgment, every time, until the costs become too steep to ignore. The Fox and the Cat succeed because he hands them what they need. His credulity is not innocent. It is participation.

The grifters and the hucksters and the influencers selling impossible things succeed because audiences reward certainty and punish doubt. They honor confidence and resist complication. A clean story about a genius who will fix everything travels faster than a difficult story about tradeoffs. The Field of Miracles stays open because people keep wanting to bury their coins there.

The Fox and the Cat is how the whole thing works.

Pinocchio becomes real, becomes human, only after he accepts obligation. Collodi is saying that it is important to have self-governance. It is necessary to choose the difficult truth over the easy satisfying one. That doesn’t jibe with everything the attention economy is selling, dopamine hits delivered so frequently that it becomes hard to distinguish stimulation from autonomy.

There is an obvious irony in a luxury pen commemorating a story about the seductions of wanting things you have not earned. The Montblanc Collodi is made to be admired, displayed, collected. And it honors a puppet who had to lose everything, friends, coins, his own body, before he understood what was actually worth having.

I am not sure Collodi would find that irony disqualifying. A beautiful object that makes you think seriously about the spectacle we are living in. It makes you think about what is the cost of being real. It is a more interesting pen to own than one that simply confirms your taste.

The clip is shaped like Pinocchio’s nose because the nose is the one honest thing in a world built on performance. It grows because the body keeps the score even when the mouth doesn’t.

When I hold this pen, I try to remember what that means…

A story for our times: “We Are Living in Pinocchio’s World.”

* Carlo Collodi, The Adventures of Pinocchio

###

As we know that the nose knows, we might remark that today Rhys Frake-Waterfield‘s horror film reimagining of Collodi’s tale, Pinocchio: Unstrung— featuring Robert “Freddy Krueger” Englund as the voice of “Cricket” (Jiminy!)– opens in theaters around the U.S.

The trailer is here.

source

https://archive.is/dJjza

Jennifer Atienzo-Fisher said the local economic development organization did not create the website meant to sway public opinion in favor of the company’s $2 billion investment in several buildings on a 892-acre campus near New Haven. The website 'www.fortwaynedatacenter.com' is a product of the tech company.

#GoogleLies #FortWayne #Newhaven #Indiana #DataCenter #Google #Propaganda #GreaterFortWayne #HoosierAction #News #Deception

https://archive.is/dJjza

Jennifer Atienzo-Fisher said the local economic development organization did not create the website meant to sway public opinion in favor of the company’s $2 billion investment in several buildings on a 892-acre campus near New Haven. The website 'www.fortwaynedatacenter.com' is a product of the tech company.

#GoogleLies #FortWayne #Newhaven #Indiana #DataCenter #Google #Propaganda #GreaterFortWayne #HoosierAction #News #Deception

Question everything. Don't trust anyone. Explore our 'Art of Deception'—an undercover treasury of stories, secrets and strategies of how illusionists use lies as weapons to manipulate the unwary world. Do you see the trap before it snaps shut?
https://solihullpublishing.com/shop/ols/categories/art-of-deception
#Deception #Espionage #Manipulation #ThrillerBooks

They passed secrets to the Soviets. But the spies lived in constant fear of being caught. Their lives were full of lies.
#SpyLife #Deception #books #bookreviews
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/cambridge-spy-ring-book-review/

They passed secrets to the Soviets. But the spies lived in constant fear of being caught. Their lives were full of lies.
#SpyLife #Deception #books #bookreviews
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/cambridge-spy-ring-book-review/

They passed secrets to the Soviets. But the spies lived in constant fear of being caught. Their lives were full of lies.
#SpyLife #Deception #books #bookreviews
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/cambridge-spy-ring-book-review/

They passed secrets to the Soviets. But the spies lived in constant fear of being caught. Their lives were full of lies.
#SpyLife #Deception #books #bookreviews
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/cambridge-spy-ring-book-review/

Ловля «на живца». Как разместить прикормки для злоумышленников по-суворовски

Привет, Хабр! В поле нашего зрения попал технический доклад Сурила Десай (Suril Desai), вице-президента Acalvio. Выступление было посвящено тому, как создать «ложные активы» для злоумышленников по-суворовски: не числом, а умением. Под катом пересказываем доклад со всеми подробностями и нашими инсайтами — всё, как вы любите. Поехали.

https://habr.com/ru/companies/garda/articles/1054522/

#deception #ханипот #ловушки #приманки #deception_monitoring #deceptionтехнологии #threat_hunting #Гарда_Deception #охота_на_хакеров

…For example, the Book of Genesis likely had four [groups of] authors -- the Yahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomist, and Priestly source -- writing between 900-500 BCE, and none of those is likely to have included Moses or Aaron, who are estimated to have lived around the 1200s BCE, if they existed at all.

#judaism #genesis #bookofgenesis #author #authorship #attribution #identity #moses #context #socialcontext #motive #scripture #history #text #collection #canon #deception #falsehood #faith

…For example, the Book of Genesis likely had four [groups of] authors -- the Yahwist, Elohist, Deuteronomist, and Priestly source -- writing between 900-500 BCE, and none of those is likely to have included Moses or Aaron, who are estimated to have lived around the 1200s BCE, if they existed at all.

#judaism #genesis #bookofgenesis #author #authorship #attribution #identity #moses #context #socialcontext #motive #scripture #history #text #collection #canon #deception #falsehood #faith

From a scientific perspective, probably the main problem with religious people is they usually take their traditions at face value. They rarely know the identities, social contexts, or motives of scriptures' authors, or the historical layers of texts presented as unified texts or collections.

#science #religion #tradition #author #authorship #attribution #identity #context #socialcontext #motive #scripture #history #text #collection #canon #deception #falsehood #faith #blindfaith #belief

From a scientific perspective, probably the main problem with religious people is they usually take their traditions at face value. They rarely know the identities, social contexts, or motives of scriptures' authors, or the historical layers of texts presented as unified texts or collections.

#science #religion #tradition #author #authorship #attribution #identity #context #socialcontext #motive #scripture #history #text #collection #canon #deception #falsehood #faith #blindfaith #belief

I wonder if the AI companies will ever be sued for deceptively making their products pretend to be human, especially in order to replace humans. Phrases like 'I want' and 'our bodies' (talking about biology or medical conditions), and even the word 'I', are deceptive, coming from an AI.

#ai #deception #lies #lying #fake #humanity #replacement #subjectivity #psychology #desire #mood #craving #biology #medicine #healthcare

I wonder if the AI companies will ever be sued for deceptively making their products pretend to be human, especially in order to replace humans. Phrases like 'I want' and 'our bodies' (talking about biology or medical conditions), and even the word 'I', are deceptive, coming from an AI.

#ai #deception #lies #lying #fake #humanity #replacement #subjectivity #psychology #desire #mood #craving #biology #medicine #healthcare

One night ended her life, her boyfriend wants to rewrite the truth of her death—Tell Her Again- A Dark Psychological Thriller

https://wearewisethinkers.com/2026/06/30/one-night-ended-her-life-her-boyfriend-wants-to-rewrite-the-truth-of-her-death-tell-her-again-a-dark-psychological-thriller/

One night ended her life, her boyfriend wants to rewrite the truth of her death—Tell Her Again- A Dark Psychological Thriller

https://wearewisethinkers.com/2026/06/30/one-night-ended-her-life-her-boyfriend-wants-to-rewrite-the-truth-of-her-death-tell-her-again-a-dark-psychological-thriller/

🔍✨ Ah, the classic "How to Lie About Radiation" guide! Because who doesn't want a #masterclass in #deception, right? 🤥📡 Remember, kids: just sprinkle some mysterious names like Viktor Zhdanov, and suddenly you're a history buff. 🧐📖
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-to-lie-about-radiation/ #HowToLieAboutRadiation #HistoryBuff #ViktorZhdanov #ClassicGuide #HackerNews #ngated

🔍✨ Ah, the classic "How to Lie About Radiation" guide! Because who doesn't want a #masterclass in #deception, right? 🤥📡 Remember, kids: just sprinkle some mysterious names like Viktor Zhdanov, and suddenly you're a history buff. 🧐📖
https://worksinprogress.co/issue/how-to-lie-about-radiation/ #HowToLieAboutRadiation #HistoryBuff #ViktorZhdanov #ClassicGuide #HackerNews #ngated

A 2025 article says that "her gesture showed a pinpoint accuracy as she managed to throw it directly to her father, who was sitting in the stands."
https://sports.yahoo.com/article/sparks-react-kelsey-plums-secret-235630185.html

It feels too wonderful to be true…

#clickBait #deception #familyValues

A 2025 article says that "her gesture showed a pinpoint accuracy as she managed to throw it directly to her father, who was sitting in the stands."
https://sports.yahoo.com/article/sparks-react-kelsey-plums-secret-235630185.html

It feels too wonderful to be true…

#clickBait #deception #familyValues

“Burnham must break with Starmer's dishonest politics, or fail just like him”

by Jonathan Cook on Substack

@uk_politics
@UKLabour

“Keir Starmer’s announcement on Monday that he was stepping down as Labour leader – and therefore as Britain’s prime minister – is a remarkable turnaround for the man whose election victory less than two years ago was uniformly heralded as a triumph.

In fact, Starmer rode into 10 Downing Street on a grand deception, propped up by the UK’s establishment media, that has proven the key to his undoing”

https://open.substack.com/pub/jonathancook/p/burnham-must-break-with-starmers

#Press #SocialMedia #UK #UKPolitics #Starmer #Labour #Burnham #EpicFail #Fraud #Deception #Israel #Zionism #LFI #LabourFriendsOfIsrael #McSweeney #Mandelson #Epstein #Blair #LabourTogether #LabourTogether

Plant a decoy persona, such as a fake LinkedIn profile or an unused directory account, to catch attackers reaching for what they think is real. The decoy has no production use, so any interaction is a high-confidence alert.

https://zeltser.com/the-notion-of-a-honeypot-persona

#deception #socialengineering

The truth is often just a well-crafted illusion waiting to be shattered. Step into the shadows with our "Art of Deception" collection and arm yourself against the psychological tactics, spy games, and high-tech lies designed to manipulate your reality.
https://solihullpublishing.com/shop/ols/categories/art-of-deception
#Deception #Espionage #ThrillerBooks #Geopolitics

Honeypot update:

* 2,650+ attacks today from Taiwan, Belgium, France, Bulgaria and the eternal emartin.
* Someone tried to exploit a 6 year old F5 BIG-IP vulnerability against my WordPress HP today.
* Someone else used the same French XSS payload 474 times hoping for different results.
* A third someone fingerprinted themselves completely by using their Nuclei callback domain as a username.
* And emartin came back after 4 months like nothing happened.

I'm not saying running honeypots is entertaining.
I'm absolutely saying running honeypots is entertaining!!

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A quotation from Hannah Arendt

Mass propaganda discovered that its audience was ready at all times to believe the worst, no matter how absurd, and did not particularly object to being deceived because it held every statement to be a lie anyhow. The totalitarian mass leaders based their propaganda on the correct psychological assumption that, under such conditions, one could make people believe the most fantastic statements one day, and trust if the next day they were given irrefutable proof of their falsehood, they would take refuge in cynicism; instead of deserting the leaders who had lied to them, they would protest that they had known all along the statement was a lie and would admire the leaders for their superior tactical cleverness.

Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) German-American philosopher, political theorist
Origins of Totalitarianism, Part 3, ch. 11 “The Totalitarian Movement,” sec. 2 (1951)

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