My Bape Product.

A patriotic film in China backfired because a growing number of Han Chinese don’t see the Manchu-origin Qing dynasty as a part of their history. buff.ly/BrRNVOV

He thinks bullet shot by a central asian is more deadly than a bullet shot by a bihari. Classic boomer

New favourite clip from Japanese news just dropped

I often get vile hate mail from zios, but there's a definite uptick of late, in both volume and threat level. Below is an example, but this person listed what appears to be a legitimate email address. I don't know if it's a real name either. But I'm putting it out there because people who send these kinds of threats should be pulled into the light, especially given the recent threats to @NerdeenKiswani's life.

Kerala, Breasts, and the Tax that Wasn't. A long read on Kerala's historical clothing practices and the (silly) "breast tax" controversy: waatcoconut.substack.com/p/k…

Apparently workers in China have been creating “colleagues.skill” to distill their coworkers hoping to make them redundant hence saving themselves. In response someone has recently invented an “anti-distillation.skill” that has gone viral on GitHub.🤣

Mamata Banerjee repeatedly asked the crowd whether they had stood in the SIR queue, but there was no response. Growing visibly frustrated, she questioned why no one was replying. TMC leaders on stage then urged the crowd to raise their hands, yet no one responded. It clearly reflected a disconnect between Mamata Banerjee and the issues she was raising, as the crowd showed little engagement.

“Several human mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) lineages were identified, including K1a1b1a, which matches the 1978 official collector′s mitogenome, H2a2 (i.e. the lineage of the mtDNA reference sequence rRCS), H1b, which is common in Western Eurasia, and H33, which is prevalent in the Near East and frequent among the Druze”

How Wharton MBAs feel when they find a family HVAC business with no website and the founder has no idea what Claude is

Then some people on right wing twitter wonder why Satyajit Ray used to make movies on poor people saar . Imagine the situation in 1960s India!

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Software horror: litellm PyPI supply chain attack. Simple `pip install litellm` was enough to exfiltrate SSH keys, AWS/GCP/Azure creds, Kubernetes configs, git credentials, env vars (all your API keys), shell history, crypto wallets, SSL private keys, CI/CD secrets, database passwords. LiteLLM itself has 97 million downloads per month which is already terrible, but much worse, the contagion spreads to any project that depends on litellm. For example, if you did `pip install dspy` (which depended on litellm>=1.64.0), you'd also be pwnd. Same for any other large project that depended on litellm. Afaict the poisoned version was up for only less than ~1 hour. The attack had a bug which led to its discovery - Callum McMahon was using an MCP plugin inside Cursor that pulled in litellm as a transitive dependency. When litellm 1.82.8 installed, their machine ran out of RAM and crashed. So if the attacker didn't vibe code this attack it could have been undetected for many days or weeks. Supply chain attacks like this are basically the scariest thing imaginable in modern software. Every time you install any depedency you could be pulling in a poisoned package anywhere deep inside its entire depedency tree. This is especially risky with large projects that might have lots and lots of dependencies. The credentials that do get stolen in each attack can then be used to take over more accounts and compromise more packages. Classical software engineering would have you believe that dependencies are good (we're building pyramids from bricks), but imo this has to be re-evaluated, and it's why I've been so growingly averse to them, preferring to use LLMs to "yoink" functionality when it's simple enough and possible.

Bigo Live was a mistake.

这个画面真的成现实了

Khamenei: “There is nothing to be proud of Iran's ancient history, such as Cyrus [the Great]. That history is false and illusory". x.com/jalovemila/status/2035…

>Indian Muslim doctor using groyper schizospeak to argue why Egypt should become a theocracy to be honest half of the groypers on this app might be Pakistani, Bangladeshi, and Indian Muslims so it shouldn't be surprising

Does he even know he’s Supreme leader?