All your base are belong to us.
All your base are belong to us.
The Justice Department released additional documents related to late, disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, including FBI interview notes about unverified allegations against Donald Trump
The wait for a new console-PC platform might be getting even longer
Vinay Prasad has been an a noxious influence on public health and drug regulation. Good riddance. UCSF should not take him back. He should wander in the wilderness forever. www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/h...
Fun thing to think about very briefly: who currently has better lawyers, the United States or Nintendo
Can we bet on who wins?
Russia trying to kill Americans is just so ho-hum.
"Fascists just donβt care about economics. To them, itβs entirely secondary to the project of racial domination. They can sound vaguely βpopulistβ and anti-corporate at times, ruthlessly capitalist at others. But in reality theyβre neither."
βTo date, the company's tech has been deployed to identifyΒ activists, track abortion visits,Β stalk women,Β and reinforce racial profiling. Security issues further exacerbated privacy concerns after activistsΒ discovered Flock accidentally exposed live camera feeds on the internet.β
Opinion: Bluesky is a dangerous echo chamber because no one wants to hear from me, specifically
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What possible reason would anyone who is paying one shred of attention have to believe anything this fraudulent administration says about voluntarily REFUNDING the spoils of their fraudulent activities?
Fantastic resource right here
On March 6, the Indonesian government announced plans to βdelay accessβ to social media accounts for children under 16. Learn more about these plans in our Global Social Media Age Restriction Tracker, which now tracks efforts to restrict or ban teens from social media in 42 countries.
Your regular reminder that there's a profession where the employees are so violent, so untrustworthy, that they are required by law to have personal video supervision every time they interact with the general public, just so there is any sort of factual record of what occurs.
DC MPD Edition
As I have said since Feb 2025, Trump is in office to solve Putin's problems. How else are you going to ensure that Putin's failed state becomes prosperous? it is already having to be propped up by China.
Strongly-put, but much true:
Universities should stand up for our shared principlesβdemocracy, equality, promoting the general welfare, academic freedom...and good-faith, honest engagement.
Prasad did not uphold those ideals.
UCSF should judge him; we as members of civil society should.
Trump really doesnβt want Americans (especially his Fox News base) to hear anything negative about Putin, whom heβs always slobbering with praise.
New Pervert Glasses just dropped
βThis is the first oil and gas crisis-slash-pricing scare in which clean alternatives to oil and gas are fully price-competitive.β
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This is making the rounds again, and I was amused to reread the thread and see that it was shortly before our book came out. Lots has happened in the past 10 months, but the message of this thread still holds.
Strongly recommend calling your US senators today to tell them:
1. Publicly call for Sheehy to be expelled from the Senate for assaulting a protestor.
2. DO NOT vote to confirm Mullin for DHS.
Find your senators at reps.fyi
"Will soon be sent"
Zero prior planning, zero situational awareness. Fucking bigoted clownasses playing War.
AI is supercharging surveillance, and the law has not caught up with it.
Links 3/6/26
Links for you. Science: The Scientists Groveling to Trump Are Kidding Themselves. The government has pulled back from massive cuts to the NIH, but itβs still destroying scientific research. So why are some groups appeasing the president? (excellent) FDA chief Marty Makary saysβ¦
I promise I looked for some good news for this week's infosec roundup.
I uh...didn't find much.
The White House finally released its 7-page cybersecurity strategy. It includes "Americans re-elected President Trump," "President Trump's leadership" and "President Trump's actions," the last of those four times. It does not mention the leaderless Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
New levels of bootlicking unlocked daily