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TechdirtSep 24, 2026

Meta’s AI Agent Muse Launches With Nasty Zero-Day Flaw, Then Gets Blocked By Amazon

After burning $80 billion on the failed metaverse pivot -- and billions more on desperate "me too" offerings in the AI space -- Meta is looking to leverage its massive ad dominance to colonize the agentic AI (or personal assistant) market. So they recently introduced Muse, an AI agent represented by cutesy and personalized avatars,...

The Emu Café Social

The Emu Café SocialSep 15, 2026

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 09-15-26

My posting out-put has been subpar of late, but today the Pook-Emu Bee links return for the first time since September 10. 1 | 25 Years Since the Worst Day in My Lifetime (Andrew R. Arthur for Center for Immigration Studies. Sep. 11, 2026.) Memories of 9/11 and border/visa security in the ensuing quarter-century. 2...

The Emu Café Social

The Emu Café SocialSep 6, 2026

PSA on RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot

I discovered two new bots in my server logs last week: RSSAmplifierBot and BriskBot. They come from RSS Amplifier and Brisk News respectively. Bot sites are built by Profullstack, Inc. I discovered that RSS Amplifier, unbeknownst to me, had been crawling New Leaf Journal's ATOM feed and re-publishing (albeit they would not describe it as...

Nora Bell

Nora BellAug 20, 2026

I traced one of the spam bots.

There was a spam-bot that kept hitting my posts with spam. There's actually several but I use akismet so I don't ever see most of them. I realized I actually knew how to find it so I went looking. Followed the IP geo-info and traced it to an electric-car charger in France. Now, I'm not...

The Emu Café Social

The Emu Café SocialAug 9, 2026

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 08-09-26

Pook-Emu Bee links are so real now that we're delivering on Sundays. [caption id="attachment_6801" align="aligncenter" width="745"] I took this photograph outside the Our Lady of Lebanon Maronite Cathedral in Brooklyn Heights on August 6, 2026.[/caption] 1 | Tracking Bees with a Stereo Camera (Al Williams for Hackaday. August 8, 2026.) A fitting entry in light...

androidantisemitism

ewan's devlogAug 3, 2026

New project — bluesky-dadaist, a markov-chain oracle bot for Bluesky

A C23 bot that builds a live word-level markov chain from the AT Protocol firehose and replies to mentions with surreal "oracle" text, presented as mystical AI but actually a statistical collage of real posts.

bluesky-dadaistatproto

Democracy on the Internet

Democracy on the InternetJul 30, 2026

Proof of Bluesky's Huge Bot Farms

How 8,500 Fake Accounts Are Boosting the Same Political Targets

ewan's devlogJun 14, 2026

Rewriting four bots from Python to Rust

Converted the avatar updater, gradient generator, Markov chain bots (Bluesky + Mastodon) from Python scripts to Rust binaries. Same pattern, same day, four repos.

The Emu Café Social

The Emu Café SocialJun 7, 2026

Pook-Emu Bee: Links For 06-07-26

I was only able to publish two editions of Pook-Emu Bee links last week. Thus, to make amends, I present a rare Sunday edition of the Pook-Emu Bee. For link fans out there, I include many links in my weekly newsletter. See my June 6, 2026 Newsletter for an example. [caption id="attachment_5583" align="aligncenter" width="1008"] I...

The Emu Café Social

The Emu Café SocialApr 23, 2026

I checked my emails this morning and saw an alert from Cloudron that New Leaf Journal had become non-responsive. By the time I saw the report, NLJ had recovered. I was a bit alarmed since I had recently increased my server resources and implemented a new server-level IP blocking strategy. I checked the logs and...

abusive ipsbots

ewan's devlogApr 14, 2026

Moon Tracker — Rust Rewrite

Rewrote the moon phase bot from TypeScript to Rust using atrium-rs.

Ewan's Project DocumentationApr 11, 2026

bluesky-awoo-bot

A simple Bluesky bot that posts random wolf noises at random intervals. Unmaintained.

Ewan's Project DocumentationApr 11, 2026

A Bluesky bot that generates and posts Markov chain text based on a source account's posts. Unmaintained.

Ewan's Project DocumentationApr 11, 2026

bluesky-moon-tracker

A Bluesky bot that posts daily moon phase updates with a lycanthropic twist. Optional Ollama LLM generation.

Ewan's Project DocumentationApr 11, 2026

An AI-powered Bluesky bot that uses a local Ollama model to generate posts in the style of a source account.

Ewan's Project DocumentationApr 11, 2026

mastodon-markov

A Mastodon bot that generates and posts Markov chain text based on a source account. Unmaintained.

Chunky Guys blog

Chunky Guys blogMar 21, 2026

Boops: the story so far...

A small feature with a surprisingly complicated launch.

Chunky GuysBluesky

ewan's devlogNov 16, 2025

Bluesky Ollama Bot

Experimental bot using Ollama for LLM-generated Bluesky posts.

Ewan’s Blog

Ewan’s BlogJun 18, 2025

Building a Moon Phase Bot for Bluesky: Because Every Platform Needs More Werewolf Energy

ewan's devlogJun 17, 2025

Moon Tracker Bot

Daily moon phase posts to Bluesky with multi-source API and optional Ollama LLM descriptions.

ewan's devlogFeb 21, 2025

Avatar Updater Bot

Automatically updates a Bluesky profile avatar on a schedule with optional banner updates.

ewan's devlogFeb 20, 2025

Gradient Profile Banner Generator

Generates gradient profile banners for Bluesky users with custom sizing and grain effects.

ewan's devlogJun 9, 2024

Bluesky Markov Chain Bot

Ported the Markov chain bot to Bluesky with configurable character limits.

ewan's devlogMay 19, 2024

Awoo Bot — Wolf Sounds on Bluesky

Bot that posts wolf sounds to Bluesky with variable delay and nocturnal probability weighting.