The average red state receives $1.24 in federal funds for every $1 contributed to the federal kitty. www.moneygeek.com/resources/st...

Something nerdy and pleasant to interrupt the morning doomscroll. #HobbitDay

Best thing I heard today, "Do not besmirch my hobby and my country with your treason masquerading as performative patriotism." I love smart #friends.

Insult to injury, now Hind Rajab's mother is in hiding for trying to speak publicly about the slaughter of her family by Israeli forces. mastodon.social/@QasimRashid... (Background, since it got so little press in the US: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Killing...) #Genocide

Well worth a repost. Note he backed the rampant vote suppression in North Carolina. Has to make sure he can keep day trading while on the taxpayer clock.

I love this title of an actual Princeton peer-reviewed study. A good read, following a frustrating two weeks at work where OpenAI models incorrectly performed 57% of the calculations I gave them. arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07484 #MachineBullshit

Very solid research here supporting the simplest way to help the working poor: give them some cash. (Not a popular idea in my home country where it's assumed everyone is on the grift.) www.nber.org/papers/w34152

For the third time this week. Congratulations #OpenAI. You've managed to create a computer that is bad at math. #ChatGPT5 (Part of an ongoing project to test various AI models' accuracy.)

I am so angry about this. My friend's mom, born in DC, now 86 yo, has been braving the heat every day to protest, just like she and many others of her generation did all through the 60s and 70s...way before this rich kid from Santa Monica was even born. #DCStatehood

The military occupation is happening now. DC was my home for a decade, a thriving and beloved city commonly used as a pawn for political maneuvering. (I recall a Senate Committee raiding our elementary education budget to gold-leaf some federal building.) Everyone should be protesting this.

End of an era. :( #IAmOld help.aol.com/articles/dial-up-internet-to-be-discontinued

An unarmed veteran was attacked from behind, sustaining injuries and being dragged into a Portland ice building.

Finally some coverage on this incident at #BlackHat #HackerSummerCamp: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

So this happened in Vegas #BlackHat #HackerSummerCamp. Tom Alexandrovich, Executive Director of Israel National Cyber Defense, got arrested during a child sex sting operation by LVPD. No diplomatic immunity, but still quietly released and allowed to fly home before this press release. More below.

Are you going to @defcon.bsky.social?? We'll be giving away 9500 print copies of Phrack! Come by main stage Sunday @ noon to see @vacci.ne @richinseattle.bsky.social and chompie talk hacker history! This will mark the first time Phrack staff appear together on DEF CON’s main stage.

Excellent roundup of how the cashless economy feeds the surveillance state and debt slavery. This is an area where a grassroots effort to push back on invasive daily apps could reap huge benefits. #PaymentChoiceAct csrl.org/wp-content/u...

For anyone who hasn't deleted Facebook & Instagram (or at least isolated login to a VM web browser)... www.theverge.com/meta/694685/...

The really disturbing part is that this is so groundbreaking. Yes, we should all own the rights to ourselves. Anything less is a form of slavery: securityaffairs.com/179464/laws-...

To all my anti-regulation friends, a reminder that companies & governments will do anything they can get away, such as Samsung's deployment of Israeli spyware on all of their phones sold in West Asia and North Africa (WANA)...because there's no law to stop it. smex.org/open-letter-...

Premise is goofy going in, but some very interesting statistics buried in the middle.

Time and time again my investigations have shown that if police have unchecked access to a tool it will be abused, because they are only human. If it isn't checking up on their SOs, it's something like this: www.404media.co/a-texas-cop-...

Excellent thread on updates of what is happening in courtrooms. ICE is now refusing to identify themselves, interrupting court proceedings, and arresting anyone who protests or even tries to observe.

The dangerous facet of more and more of these cases every day is normalization. We have to react. Too many people I know are shutting out politics. We can't.

Safety report on an AI system, ".. it sometimes takes extremely harmful actions like attempting to ...blackmail people it believes are trying to shut it down." It's not like they didn't warn us about #skynet. techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/a...

US sources need a lot more reporting on the brutal civilian cost of Russia's invasion of Ukraine. I was there months before the invasion through the first year. Most of what is coming out of our White House right now on the topic is pure rewriting of history. www.thetimes.com/world/russia...

Once again my investigative team brought the receipts. Trump's IRS nominee just lied in his confirmation hearing about promising favors to tax scammers. We have the tapes to prove it.

People really don't understand how broken the student loan system is in the US. Today, after decades of "plan" changes every time the administration changed, I have now paid off everything I borrowed at the interest rate I signed for.... ...and somehow still owe more than I originally borrowed. 1/

Hadnagy's defamation lawsuit against #DefCon has been dismissed because "allegations of sexual misconduct have ultimately been shown to be true." Yet another predator allowed to operate in #InfoSec for years while defenders like me remain ostracized. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

An earlier comment bears repeating: Lies incur a debt to the truth. Reposting nonsense, no matter how much we wish it to be true, undercuts credibility & trust. People ask how to fight back? Start with donating the time & effort to fact-check during your daily scroll.

This is a critically important voting rights case in the US. Also important: the loser challenged votes only in hevily democratic counties. Shouldn't any ruling be applied uniformly?

Jfc, the "archive" function of #TM-SGNL (the texting app 49's team is using) employs hard-coded passwords. There's nothing wrong with running your own instance of #Signal, but any competent coder could modify the code securely and NOT outsource the job to #Israel.

Important to note *one* of the many disinformation campaigns. They are documented & proven many times over.

UPDATE Malta is still blocking entry of this civilian humanitarian aid ship which was hit with a drone attack last night. #Stage19 #23de44go

This looks familiar: a dark money funded propaganda campaign aimed at the poor and fearful to influence an election outcome.

Way to go #CreeNation getting ahead of Maga-esque antics in Alberta. The world needs more strong, principled leadership like this.

Thank you @msnbc.com for showing how so many of the vilified federal workers truly have a servant's heart, trying to make the world better. Even for the pragmatists, USAID's work was critical in showing the strength and charity of the US to populations who otherwise hear only anti-US propaganda.

Jfc. Waking up to this. Please investigate and assist. #31PO47TB #Stage19

So hope this catches on more. End the data feed.

In search algorithm manipulation news, when searching YT for the original News 4 video, nine of my ten test profiles only came up with followup stories defending ICE's actions. (But the OG vid is on kfor.com, which continues excellent reporting of this case.) youtu.be/DUMJqz53YW0?...

Been interested in the last part of this quote for awhile, what need of humans does fascism appeal to? Security? Righteousness? Shoutout from the physicist in me to @bjchippindale.bsky.social's take that economics breaking conservation of energy, though like language, I'm not sure it applies.

One part of NY's 2019 criminal justice reforms that hasn't gotten clawed back yet is a law that says cops can't arrest and lock people up on low-level charges—they have to give them an appearance ticket. The NYPD response, it seems, has been to simply ignore the law. hellgatenyc.com/nypd-unlawfu...

Expect a lot more of this: kfor.com/news/local/w...

"ICE" is now threatening bystanders who questioned the arrest. No good can come from officers refusing to identify themselves to any citizen who asks. It is our right to protect our neighbors from illegal kidnapping. augustafreepress.com/news/plain-c...

What could possibly go wrong? (Clearly I haven't been following Garcia v Character Technologies Inc. as closely as I should of been.)

Still trying to figure out how this became acceptable behavior from a sitting US president.

History is not on the side of anyone who treats children like this. gothamist.com/news/4-year-...

Regardless of the conspiracy theories, most feds I know sacrifice higher pay for a higher cause. The loss of three more federal prosecutors for refusing to cave to partisan demands hurts us all. #USPolitics #Corruption

Heard in the background, "That's not a Wonder Woman!" Something that's been on my mind lately: no matter how hard you try, you can never make some people happy.

Interesting story from @404media.co on FBI's failure to locate records of a $250,000 "hacking tools" purchase. No mention that the "charity" selling the tools is run by notorious grifter Chris Hadnagy. Curious what the FBI actually bought, if anything. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

No matter how bleak things seem there are good things in life, such as where I get to end an otherwise crappy week.