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“5th circuit shadow people” is now cannon.

09.03.2026 04:22 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

People over 50 will also recognize this as a “Clear and Present Danger”.

24.02.2026 03:07 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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Exclusive: New US military-led group aided Mexico's hunt for 'El Mencho' cartel boss A new U.S.-military-led task force specializing in intelligence collection on drug cartels played a role in the Mexican military raid on Sunday that killed the Mexican drug lord known as 'El Mencho,' ...

We are apparently doing a Sicario, from the movie Sicario, which warned us about the dangers of doing a Sicario. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

24.02.2026 03:04 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I've been receiving scam "Google Security" phone calls for a while but they were always from people. Today I got one from an AI voice chat bot.

AI is truly taking over all of the entry-level service jobs. :-)

15.02.2026 23:51 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Wow, blast from the past. If anyone needs me I’ll be in the basement with some glow sticks.

10.01.2026 06:05 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Why do courts require pleadings to be signed?

10.12.2025 18:19 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I listened to an interview from The Modern Warfare Institute with a J1 in the Rangers - basically the toughest, baddest Human Resources person in the Army. It got me thinking, what other mundane-sounding positions exist in elite military units? Seems like a @lethalityjane.bsky.social question.

28.11.2025 03:27 👍 10 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 1

Blowback is (classically) when your own side believes the disinformation that you secretly planted to disrupt the other side. More generally, it’s the unforeseen negative consequences of covert actions.

None of this is blowback.

28.11.2025 01:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0
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Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.

Paging @riana.bsky.social. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

22.11.2025 05:08 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
An empty table.

An empty table.

Dang it. I should have expected this. What was just there… a book?

12.11.2025 23:33 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A hardback copy of the book “There is no Antimemetics Division” sitting on a table.

A hardback copy of the book “There is no Antimemetics Division” sitting on a table.

Received my copy of @qntm.org’s “There is no Antimemetics Division”.

12.11.2025 23:31 👍 19 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

I'd like to thank this site for informing me that PowerWash Simulator 2 exists.

27.10.2025 22:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

There is a sequel?!?!?!

27.10.2025 21:23 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

That’s a popular opinion among people who have not worked in banking or financial compliance or law enforcement - and it’s not true. The people I used to deal with at FBI vastly preferred crypto investigations because of how easy it was (in most cases) to track the $$$ relative to offshore banking.

27.10.2025 16:04 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You can’t, generally speaking, prove negative claims about bribes or anything else.

You can’t prove that you are not the hidden beneficial owner of a bank account somewhere in the world. You can’t prove you don’t have the key to a safe deposit box full of gold bars. Etc etc etc.

27.10.2025 15:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

This is the kind of filing that lawyers love and everyone else hates - an appellate court staying a stay from one if its own panels, which stopped one (and maybe two but probably not) TROs which themselves prevented government action.

25.10.2025 04:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Later in the week, I verified that the text exchange had genuinely been with Halligan—or, at least, with Halligan’s phone. I obtained her cell phone number from an independent source and added the number as a contact on my phone. Signal immediately associated the phone number with the “Lindsey Halligan” account with which I had been texting.

Later in the week, I verified that the text exchange had genuinely been with Halligan—or, at least, with Halligan’s phone. I obtained her cell phone number from an independent source and added the number as a contact on my phone. Signal immediately associated the phone number with the “Lindsey Halligan” account with which I had been texting.

There are several interesting things in this paragraph.

21.10.2025 03:45 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

You confidently wrote something legally impossible (voter recall of a NY elected official) would happen. Now you're asserting the Governor will do something you didn't even know existed before I mentioned it.

17.10.2025 05:02 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

And before people start commenting - the governor’s removal provision exists but has not been used in either a very long time or ever, so that’s highly unlikely as well.

17.10.2025 03:11 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

New York state law does not have a provision for recalling elected officials. So, no that’s not going to happen.

17.10.2025 03:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Another instance where I think "well, we can't expect a random person to remember 1973", and then click through to find the author is a Harvard professor of government studies.

09.10.2025 20:03 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Charlie Javice Sentenced to 85 Months in Prison for Fraud

Part of the Forbes-to-Prison pipeline:
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/29/b...

30.09.2025 01:32 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Which part, the CFAA claim?

23.09.2025 05:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It also really united Americans in the 1950s, the 1860s, and (if you will grant me a bit of liberty with the historical record) every damn time it was used other than WW2.

There‘s also the famously successful A-TEAM program for an example of non-military govt service. Look it up.

22.09.2025 01:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We all, of course, fondly recall how compulsory service united the country from 1969-73.

22.09.2025 01:13 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It’s the sort of thing that Dave Winer or Douglas Copeland would have written in 1994.

19.09.2025 18:43 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Mike Tyson punching Mr. Beast is the healing moment this country needed.

16.09.2025 06:29 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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An interesting newspaper correction:

14.09.2025 21:43 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A photo of Maru the cat, wearing a cardboard box as though it was a cape.  I’ll miss you, Maru.

A photo of Maru the cat, wearing a cardboard box as though it was a cape. I’ll miss you, Maru.

He will be missed.

11.09.2025 17:43 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

It will be fine.*

* Offer not available in all states.

26.08.2025 05:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0