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Dale Bustad

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divmain on x. Working at @socket.dev. Fmr Salesforce, Vercel, Microsoft, Formidable, non-tech NGO. Core values: kindness, partnership, & creation. Political aficionado, musician, person of faith, devoted learner. Might occasionally post about my dog.

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Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

Screenshot of a CNN segment shared by Acyn. A split-screen shows commentator Lydia Moynihan on the left and Kevin O’Leary on the right during a heated exchange. The chyron reads, “Obama: Dems need to avoid scolding and ‘virtue-signaling.’” The post quotes O’Leary referencing China and concentration camps, and McGowan responding about West Virginia.

I spent my childhood inside of American concentration camps. I know one when I see one. And that is what ICE is building.

17.02.2026 21:00 👍 36782 🔁 11225 💬 1003 📌 380
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Two CBP Agents Identified in Alex Pretti Shooting The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raym...

This article is a very good example of why "more training" and "more vetting" isn't the answer. Jesus Ochoa and Raymundo Gutierrez joined Border Patrol in 2018 and 2014 respectively. These aren't new agents. www.propublica.org/article/alex...

01.02.2026 22:02 👍 5474 🔁 1754 💬 152 📌 107

Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was an “ultimate sin,” said one of the people.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” this person said.

Although Machado ultimately said she was dedicating the award to Trump, her acceptance of the prize was an “ultimate sin,” said one of the people. “If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” this person said.

WH sources say Venezuela's opposition leader committed the "ultimate sin": She accepted the Nobel Peace prize.

“If she had turned it down and said, ‘I can’t accept it because it’s Donald Trump’s,’ she’d be the president of Venezuela today,” one said.

www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

05.01.2026 03:02 👍 8227 🔁 2965 💬 544 📌 1782

You can watch our blog for the exact timing of what we detected and when. But that’s the mechanics of it.

26.11.2025 20:57 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Folks would have seen a warning in sfw within minutes of the original publish, when automated scanning detected the potential malware and it was marked as “potential malware”. Further along in the malware campaign, human review was roughly happening in realtime, so sfw was blocking more quickly.

26.11.2025 20:57 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0

sfw blocks as soon as a package is marked as malware in our system. When that happens varies a bit, depending on when the malicious package is detected and when it undergoes human review.

26.11.2025 20:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
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🚨 Open source supply chain attacks are exploding.

Starting today, that ends.

We’re releasing Socket Firewall — FREE, zero-config, CLI that blocks malware before it lands on your laptop or CI.

Just run:

npm i -g sfw
sfw npm install lodash

Works for: npm, yarn, pnpm, pip, uv, and cargo.

30.09.2025 18:06 👍 45 🔁 12 💬 7 📌 3

The free version blocks malware only. We're also rolling out an enterprise version that, among other things, will allow configurable blocking policies.

30.09.2025 20:16 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Maintainer compromises used to be rare. Now they’re happening at an alarming rate, as seen in recent attacks. Today we’re giving developers a new layer of defense with Socket Firewall, a free tool that blocks malicious dependencies at install time.

30.09.2025 17:21 👍 9 🔁 2 💬 1 📌 0
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Trump Quietly Plans To Liquidate Public Lands To Finance His Sovereign Wealth Fund President Donald Trump’s executive order to create a sovereign wealth fund requires that the United States come up with heaps of cash quickly, which may make selling out and selling off public lands i...

The actions that Trump has taken against marginalized people are inarguably worse but, for some reason, the thought that they’re pursuing the liquidation public lands (read as "sell off national parks to be privately developed") really hurts my heart.

25.02.2025 09:21 👍 8 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Thanks @mapquest.com!

24.02.2025 19:49 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Ok here’s a thread of feeds that aren’t topic themed but utilitarian and do things like show you different versions of your timeline or provide services that should be official Bluesky features. 🧵

27.11.2024 19:25 👍 1112 🔁 548 💬 265 📌 66
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Our current energy system is extremely wasteful.

More than 2/3 of primary energy inputs end up as waste heat.

Yet the customer has to pay for all of the energy in the left hand side of this chart to get the small amount of energy converted to energy services.

11.11.2024 09:45 👍 135 🔁 43 💬 11 📌 7