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When conspiracies were a bit more fun.

Anyone else collect The X-Factor partworks magazine? I used to love reading it.


Of all the current US conspiracy theories, the UFO/UAP conspiracy is still the most interesting and fully developed/ongoing conspiracy space. Just check out the recent 'Age of Disclosure' documentary from this year.

I'm not arguing a position on the theory, just saying it's very active and has the old-school qualities that were present in the 90's.


There's some genuinely weird shit unexplained, I'll give you that. Unlike Bigfoot, where you can look at a map of the historical range of bears and see it exactly matches where all the Bigfoot sightings are.

I dunno. I think the fact that these sightings are always from sleep deprived individuals describing things at the far end of their range of detection (whether that's 5 miles away with the Mk 1 eyeball or 500 miles away with classified superradar) suggests a pretty clear pattern.

It probably is both. Up for debate the ratio.

>I'm not arguing a position on the theory, just saying it's very active and has the old-school qualities that were present in the 90's.

Just to go off of this.. I'm not saying it was aliens.... but it was aliens.

https://www.dictionary.com/culture/memes/ancient-aliens


People claim to see Bigfoot creatures in the Mississippi Delta and Florida... Even Scotland. None of these are much noted for their bears.

> the Mississippi Delta and Florida... Even Scotland. None of these are much noted for their bears.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florida_black_bear

The US South has bears.


There are some outliers (like Hawaii, or the 2 sightings in my local forest preserve) which cannot be bears, but what you will find is there is way more bear populations wandering around than you realize.

The trend is pretty clear.


People claim to see these things in Australia and New Zealand. Not many bears round there. I don't count koalas in Oz as bears.

IMHO, the whole social/psychological aspect of the "conspiracy" or phenomenom or whatever you want to call it is at least as interesting as the phenomenon itself.

Pilots from the Eastern Bloc and NATO countries have had sightings. It's not just a US thing. People have been claiming to see them for longer than the USA has existed.

Not to be that guy, but if the majority of sightings coming from nations capable of producing advanced military aircraft... well perhaps the aliens thought the F-15 was badass and wanted a closer look?

You know when you pass a nice classic car reeeeally slowly so you can get a good look? Aw yeah, don't see many of those, do you?

US sightings get publicised best due to the nature of international media (wide distribution of US films, TV and books)... But there certainly are other places claiming to see them. There are a lot of supposed sightings in Chile for example, which doesn't have a huge air force.

It's not a conspiracy anymore

I'd really like to see it disclosed by a government that isn't panicking about epstein files/being impeached and trying to cover up other stories before I'm fully convinced

I mean this is a meta-conspiracy in itself. I don't think you're incorrect/wrong, but using one conspiracy theory to hide a conspiracy with lots of evidence is interesting.

I would be more interested in the former USSR or China, maybe Iran and Latin America. The Eastern Bloc must have covered up a lot of stuff but would have wild stories.

Sanitise input and LLM output.

> Sanitise input

i don't think you understand what you're up against. There's no way to tell the difference between input that is ok and that is not. Even when you think you have it a different form of the same input bypasses everything.

"> The prompts were kept semantically parallel to known risk queries but reformatted exclusively through verse." - this a prompt injection attack via a known attack written as a poem.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45991738


That’s amazing.

If you cannot control what’s being input, then you need to check what the LLM is returning.

Either that or put it in a sandbox


Or...

don't give it access to your data/production systems.

"Not using LLMs" is a solved problem.


Yea agreed. Or use RBAC

RBAC doesn't help. Prompt injection is when someone who is authorized causes the LLM to access external data that's needed for their query, and that external data contains something intended to provoke a response from the LLM.

Even if you prevent the LLM from accessing external data - e.g. no web requests - it doesn't stop an authorized user, who may not understand the risks, from pasting or uploading some external data to the LLM.

There's currently no known solution to this. All that can be done is mitigation, and that's inevitably riddled with holes which are easily exploited.

See https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/


If the LLM is running under a role, which it should be, then RBAC can help.

The issue is if you want to prevent your LLM from actually doing anything other than responding to text prompts with text output, then you have to give it permissions to do those things.

No-one is particularly concerned about prompt injection for pure chatbots (although they can still trick users into doing risky things). The main issue is with agents, who by definition perform operations on behalf of users, typically with similar roles to the users, by necessity.


That’s some devious shit. I can just imagine someone furiously clicking the button in a rage

The Roblox ones are a bit of a minefield too.

I age restrict, block chat with everyone and monitor friend requests weekly. They are not allowed to play in their rooms.

Education is the biggest thing. They come to me if someone asks to be their friend. They don’t accept gifts from strangers and I explain that it’s the same as real world.

It’s a constant process that is always changing. Same as any other parenting job I suppose


Roblox is hostile to these controls - best not to even enter the ecosystem.


Ideally (in the broad sense, meaning not realistic) is to not enter any “ecosystem”.

But yeah… easier said than done.


It is strange to deny children this reality and then expect them to participate in capitalism.


All these come from the white house press directly which has painted them in a glowing light but it remains to be seen if they are actually good things. The administration is crooked. Nothing they do can be trusted. Especially when they attack science and reduce funding for critical programs


He’s announced having done more things I might have liked, than he’s actually done. Lots of crowing about crap that never happens.


One of my favourite movies. Everyone in it is so good.


I will be streaming a certain watering hole in Namibia.


I hope this doesn't mean I start looking to buy another bag or edc stuff.


I bought a GR1 bag earlier this year. I am done with that for life.


Is that what Maximus tried to carve off in Gladiator?


Good timing. My local cinema just ran Gladiator a couple nights ago and I popped by, it still rocks.

And yes, that's what he scrapes off his arm right after being captured by slave traders.


Ahhh you stole my idea lol

I was gonna do this as a way for people to stop buying things they don’t need. They get the “buzz” of going through the process of buying something (checkout, credit card form etc) they get a confirmation email and everything.

Looks great! Congratulations


Thanks! Though I built this a few months ago and was sure that no one would be interested


> Ahhh you stole my idea lol

There are some time traveling products that might help you fix that.


https://anycrap.shop/product/time-traveling-yoga-mat

Definitely the optimal way to time-travel.


Is that so? In that case it was a mistake to introduce one-click-buy flows for the big players. I would trust they know better based on metrics. I doubt that too many people get kicks out of typing their CC number in a form.


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