I haven't seen this particular phishing approach before.
I examined the attachment with VScode. The "contract" is a large, base64-encoded image. There are no scripts. The only function of the email is to trick you into supplying your Microsoft credentials.

#satire
https://theshovel.com.au/2024/05/09/government-announces-investment-in-gas-fired-wind-turbines/

The coders at Android/Google have delivered me another "enhancement" I did not ask for.

#AI from my LinkedIn feed.

Frank Stella, one of America’s great artists, whose career intersected — and helped catalyze — some of the most significant upheavals in 20th century art, died Saturday at his home in Manhattan. He was 87.
https://archive.ph/NitUf#selection-1911.0-1913.193

I often use the word 'seldom'. I'm feeling old after reading this.
#linguistics

#advertising #web
We've all been there.
https://theshovel.com.au/2024/04/23/woman-who-visited-furniture-website-served-ads/

#politics #US
How quickly the people who get their news from social media forget.
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/continued-trump-admin-turnover-forces-expansion-of-departure-wall-1224576067610

I really don't want any smart devices in my life.
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/i-m-watching-you-bitch-how-even-the-smart-fridge-is-being-used-as-a-weapon-of-family-violence-20240427-p5fmyu.html

@th3j35t3r The 'X' to close an image is too close to the 'fold-back' widget in the top-right corner. Half the time i end up activating teh fold-back instead of landing on the 'X'.

#Politics #SCOTUS

Not discussed much today - HOW WE NEED IMMUNITY FROM DONALD TRUMP.

This is what happens when you train an #AI LLM exclusively on the writings and speeches of Reid Hoffman.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgD2gmwCS10

I went to the dentist for my bi-annual cleaning this morning. My Garmin Fenix watch auto-detected a nap while I was lying there, relaxing. 😂

Meute - Live in Paris.
https://youtu.be/2loN0JFZa0Y

This is from a Google paper on the ethics of #AI assistants. It doesn't mention the total conflict between an advertising-driven business and the AI assistants it is developing. If you can't trust it now to put your interests ahead of advertisers, what chance is there that you can trust the answers to "where should I go tonight?", "who should I vote for?", "what should I eat?", "can I trust this financial advisor?"
https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/ethics-of-advanced-ai-assistants/the-ethics-of-advanced-ai-assistants-2024-i.pdf

News flash from The Guardian.

#politics
This is the kind of fear-mongering that I receive everyday from the GOP. (I don't know how I got on their distribution list.)

#running
Today I ran the Cohasset 10K road race for the second time. It's a lovely, scenic run - partly along the Atlantic coast. Plenty of townsfolk turn out to support their neighbors and absolute strangers. It's a hilly course, with 90m total ascent. I managed to shave over 5 minutes off last year's time, yet still came third in the M70-79 division with 57:04. The guy half a minute ahead of me was 77, so I have some work to do! (I'm 72.)

#ThrowbackThursday
A very popular program on Australian TV - Why Is It So, with Professor Julius Sumner Miller.

#ThrowbackThursday