Facebook users still living in their own 2024 AI bubble as companies layoff thousands of people outside.
This really puts in the perspective how different the perception of AI is still within different communities.
my company got breached
the attacker had access for 11 days
on day 3 he emailed our IT helpdesk
complained that the VPN was slow
our helpdesk reset his password
upgraded his access tier to fix the "connectivity issue"
and closed the ticket as resolved
CSAT score: 5 stars
we found this in the logs during forensics
the attacker had rated our IT support
excellent
I can NOT overemphasize this enough:
DO NOT TRUST EMAILS
DO NOT TRUST PHONE CALLS
DO NOT TRUST SMS MESSAGES
DO NOT TRUST CHAT MESSAGES
DO NOT TRUST INCOMING COMMUNICATIONS!
Any message saying there is a security problem with an account that needs to be urgently fixed is a 🚩
European governments are moving away from WhatsApp and Signal for official communications and switching to their own secure messaging systems that they fully control.
Countries including France, Germany, Belgium, Poland, the Netherlands and Luxembourg have adopted in-house platforms such as BEAM, Wire and Matrix-based tools.
The European Commission will complete its switch by the end of 2026, and NATO already runs its own dedicated system.
The issue is not encryption strength. Both WhatsApp and Signal use strong end-to-end encryption, their real concern is that these apps are run by US companies under US law and the governments want complete control over servers, metadata, data and access rules.
For individuals and organisations wanting the same level of control, Wire is a strong and accessible choice. It is Swiss-made, open-source, uses modern encryption, and can be self-hosted so your data stays under your control.
It is already used by thousands of German officials.
Rare aesthetic:
Your friend who hasn’t reached out in years tries to reconnect, then asks if you play Minecraft.
As a VTuber, you know about the Minecraft scam and call them out for account hijacking.
They call you, probably intending to extort, but instead compliment your voice, flirt, and say your pfp is cute.
You tell them to give your friend their account back and add you on main if they want to be friends, but their fear of rejection kicks in. They tell you to commit uninstall and run away, unfriending you.
Please be careful what links you click from “Friends”
A senior engineer with 15 years of experience told me she starts panicking on the 20th of every month.
I asked why.
She said her GitHub Copilot AI credits are almost exhausted by then, and without it, she literally cannot deliver work anymore.
15 years of experience. Panicking because an AI subscription is running low.
And I’m not laughing at her. I’m thinking about what this actually means.
Every company right now is quietly building a workforce that is 100% dependent on AI to write code, make decks, draft emails, do literally everything they used to do with their own hands and brain.
And the AI providers know this.
Once that dependency is deep enough and it already is for a lot of people, you will pay whatever they charge. Because the alternative is not being able to do your job at all.
We’ve seen it with cloud, with SaaS, with every platform that became infrastructure.
The difference this time is it’s not companies locked into a vendor. It’s individual human beings locked out of their own skills.