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Curmudgeonly computer security person. Opinions (and the like) are mine.

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Attacks leave dead vs killed

09.03.2026 03:21 πŸ‘ 8862 πŸ” 2380 πŸ’¬ 124 πŸ“Œ 119
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So much for regime change?

09.03.2026 00:59 πŸ‘ 364 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 4
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β€œthe cost of gas doubling is a small price to pay” is an incredibly funny thing to say as the head of a political movement that in many ways is still built on a nationwide psychosis triggered by having to go about four weeks without a haircut six years ago.

08.03.2026 23:13 πŸ‘ 3293 πŸ” 674 πŸ’¬ 56 πŸ“Œ 31
Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event

Marco Rubio hanging out with Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio at the "Shield of the Americas" event, in case you were still thinking it had some sort of legitimate purpose

08.03.2026 05:45 πŸ‘ 5811 πŸ” 2476 πŸ’¬ 437 πŸ“Œ 377
β€œThere’s unbelievable footage of a fighter pilot shot down over Kuwait, in a bright and cheery mood as locals approach her there in that dust bowl. They thank her for what she’s doing, and offer her help (thank goodness she didn’t land in Minneapolis).

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β€œThere’s unbelievable footage of a fighter pilot shot down over Kuwait, in a bright and cheery mood as locals approach her there in that dust bowl. They thank her for what she’s doing, and offer her help (thank goodness she didn’t land in Minneapolis). β€œ

Nellie Bowles in the Free Press.
She implies we should’ve warmly greeted the men who arrived in the thousands to terrorize our schools, neighborhoods, workplaces; smash car windows and drag people through them; bash in doors without warrants; fuck up our economy.
FOH with this unAmerican shit

08.03.2026 18:32 πŸ‘ 48 πŸ” 8 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 3
The plaintiffs’ lawyers also asked Mr. Fox about some grants flagged in his original ChatGPT search, like one for a documentary about the 1873 massacre in Colfax, La., where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of former Confederates and Ku Klux Klan members.

ChatGPT had deemed it β€œD.E.I.” Mr. Fox said he agreed. β€œBecause it focuses on exclusively anti-Black violence, which is a race,” he said.

The plaintiffs’ lawyers also asked Mr. Fox about some grants flagged in his original ChatGPT search, like one for a documentary about the 1873 massacre in Colfax, La., where dozens of Black men were murdered by a mob of former Confederates and Ku Klux Klan members. ChatGPT had deemed it β€œD.E.I.” Mr. Fox said he agreed. β€œBecause it focuses on exclusively anti-Black violence, which is a race,” he said.

There's an obvious parallel between what's happening now with ICE and CBP to this racist violence of the 1870s, which led to a non-functioning electoral college in 1876. That's presumably what the current administration is hoping to do again.

08.03.2026 17:59 πŸ‘ 45 πŸ” 12 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

An astonishingly literal example of racist discrimination. These people carefully set up a racism computer and pressed Go.

08.03.2026 17:55 πŸ‘ 424 πŸ” 71 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 0

The below quote is from Hegseth's pastor, Brooks Potteiger, speaking at one of Hegseth's prayer gatherings at the Pentagon. This is what they think about Tomahawk missiles that fall:

08.03.2026 17:28 πŸ‘ 395 πŸ” 163 πŸ’¬ 22 πŸ“Œ 56
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You are mistaken, we do not respond to legal requests from anywhere other than the Swiss authorities.

It is unlikely that one could build a business through ignoring the laws of the jurisdiction that it is in. The mail provider you're moving to included.

06.03.2026 18:30 πŸ‘ 615 πŸ” 101 πŸ’¬ 19 πŸ“Œ 39

Will Lindsey Graham fight?

Will AIPAC donors suit up?

How about Pete Kegseth and his cosplay Crusaders?

Oh, no, it'll be civilians and soldiers who die.

08.03.2026 15:12 πŸ‘ 513 πŸ” 132 πŸ’¬ 50 πŸ“Œ 10

It is sad yet unsurprising that the only science the Trump administration believes in is using AI to drop bombs in brown people.

08.03.2026 15:13 πŸ‘ 57 πŸ” 11 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

President threatens to block all legislation in order to disenfranchise large numbers of married women, others donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

08.03.2026 14:10 πŸ‘ 558 πŸ” 280 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 21

THREAD: I got laid off from NYMag/Vulture after 14 years. The family lost 75% of income + medical. Now mzs.press bookstore, once a side project. is do-or-die for Judith & I. I feel weird telling you this because others are doing much worse. But if you could like or share this, we'd be so grateful!

08.03.2026 00:29 πŸ‘ 5791 πŸ” 3366 πŸ’¬ 278 πŸ“Œ 226

People only behave like this if they don't think there will be consequences. Our job, as a society, is to make sure they *do* face consequences.

07.03.2026 22:40 πŸ‘ 67 πŸ” 35 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

NARRATOR (from the future): He sent troops to Iran.

07.03.2026 22:56 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Trump saluting a flag-draped casket carried by soldiers, wearing his standard ill fitting suit and a white baseball hat that says USA in gold letters visible from space

Trump saluting a flag-draped casket carried by soldiers, wearing his standard ill fitting suit and a white baseball hat that says USA in gold letters visible from space

I think it's great that the president put on his most solemnly branded baseball cap to receive the returning coffins of soldiers killed in the unnecessary war he launched to distract from his failing presidency and pedophilia scandal.

Look at that gold-like letting. Classy as shit.

07.03.2026 21:53 πŸ‘ 5697 πŸ” 1242 πŸ’¬ 374 πŸ“Œ 147

Thing that really gets my goat is the way people are eager to fund this bullshit but you need eleven layers of analysis and a ton of collateral if you want to open a small grocery store in a food desert.

07.03.2026 15:55 πŸ‘ 3941 πŸ” 915 πŸ’¬ 53 πŸ“Œ 12
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just fwiw, here are the arguments being made, in order:

1. iran has apologized to its neighbors and admitted it lost
2. this is unprecedented and because of me
3. iran has not surrendered and will collapse if it doesn’t admit it lost
4. i am going to bomb iran more and worse until it surrenders

07.03.2026 11:45 πŸ‘ 962 πŸ” 250 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 39

I’ve seen people be fired for this kind of thing tbh.

I’m sorry no software is good enough to have such a fragile ego about it.

And frankly, if you’re using AI to do most of your output, you VERY MUCH can stand to take it less personally.

07.03.2026 05:40 πŸ‘ 22 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Bluesky devs mocking their own user base and getting overly defensive about vibe coding is a REALLY bad look.

I work on extremely public work and when users don’t like what we do, my job is to stfu and listen.

It’s at minimum incredibly unprofessional to be doing this rn.

07.03.2026 05:34 πŸ‘ 56 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Fuck this AI slop

06.03.2026 20:10 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 15 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 1

NARRATOR: Except nothing was done about it until the tyrants running the USA were finally deposed.

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the "nuh uh" presidency

06.03.2026 23:34 πŸ‘ 179 πŸ” 25 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 0

This story is wild. As far as I can tell from the body camera clips I watched, the footage shows MPD special operations strategizing their forcible entry into private property without a warrant, based on the say-so of a political appointee with nothing more than a stack of print outs.

06.03.2026 23:35 πŸ‘ 699 πŸ” 220 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 4
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Police body cam footage shows DOGE knew Institute of Peace was private property during raid Footage obtained by The Handbasket’s lawsuit shows a hostile takeover on March 17, 2025.

SCOOP β€” Body camera footage obtained as a result of my lawsuit against the DC Metropolitan PD confirms DOGE and the Trump administration openly admitted they were entering private property when they raided the building on March 17, 2025. That didn't stop MPD from breaking down the doors.

My report:

06.03.2026 22:04 πŸ‘ 8909 πŸ” 3321 πŸ’¬ 106 πŸ“Œ 125

My university received a few years ago the promise of the largest single gift to a public university in U.S. history. It was equivalent to 12 hours of bombing Iran.

06.03.2026 04:10 πŸ‘ 1693 πŸ” 442 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 11

Everyone needs to be talking about this.

06.03.2026 03:39 πŸ‘ 1357 πŸ” 690 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 1

β€œAnthropic has much more in common with the Department of War than we have differences” is a genuinely stunning statement given current events both at home and abroad

06.03.2026 03:13 πŸ‘ 414 πŸ” 67 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 5

Elected Democrat Thrilled He Doesn't Have To Do Anything

05.03.2026 21:50 πŸ‘ 3375 πŸ” 566 πŸ’¬ 23 πŸ“Œ 2