I'm taking a bit of a social media break. Y'all be good to each other.

🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy: How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?

Oh hell yeah buddy. Who the fuck needs serious people doing oversight of intelligence. Bent that knee. FUCK INDEPENDENT BODIES OF GOVERNMENT WOOOOOOOOOOOO LETS GOOOOOOO FUCK INSTITUTIONS JUST FUCKING LIGHT THAT SHIT ON FIRE WHO EVEN CARES ANYMORE NOTHING MATTERS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

@proton.me has deleted but here it is in case you’re wondering why you should definitely not trust them with your email

We need to return to the intelligence community being a bunch of weird nerds doing even weirder jock shit.

Cultural exchange

Pete Hegseth Faces Difficult Confirmation Hearing theonion.com/pete-he...

Russ Vought is one of the most dangerous nominees because of his competency. There are plenty of stories about the chaotic evil nominees that will wreak havoc through bumbling incompetency, but Vought is the lawful evil bastard that will break this country with laser-focused intention.

Russ Vought is getting his hearing to be director of the OMB as we speak. He is the most dangerous Trump nominee who hasn't broken through in the headlines. Project 2025 and Schedule F/civil service purge architect, Christian Nationalist, sword of the dictatorial presidency. Thread:

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justice alito, make me editor of PornHub and let me bundle insane fanfiction about the Illuminati alongside hardcore pornography and i will save this nation

I am once again reminding everyone that “general” is the adjective in “attorney general.” Calling an attorney general “general” is like calling an in-house general counsel “general.” Also reminding folks that when Ted Cruz was Texas solicitor general, he begged his wife to call him “general.”

Just a reminder: Yes, we should celebrate the ceasefire. But no, you absolutely do not have to give Trump credit for the Israel/Gaza ceasefire, if for no other reason than his intentional exclusion and antagonizing of Palestinians with the Abraham Accords helped get us into this mess to begin with.

Working out a scenario where Pornhub has to launch a prestigious monthly print magazine in order to stay online in Tennessee. This is how we bring the business back: ransoming access to stepsister-stuck-in-washing-machine content with long-form literary criticism and Malcolm Harris book excerpts.

Pete Hegseth is the kind of guy you used to send on a Crusade so he’d stop bothering you and die from incompetence

I think this point needs some amplification. Military force is never an end in itself; it is always in the service of some end. But the mechanism of how to achieve a human behavioral end from a use of violence/force is not straightforward or automatic.

Live streams from the last ShmooCon security conference, which took place last week, are available on YouTube www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

I think it’s very important for Republican women to know that Pete Hegseth’s accuser is a married mom and a highly respected Republican aide, who went to the police immediately after the assault. They still don’t believe her. Your fascism will not save you from their misogyny.

Skeleton Crew was so good. I will gladly take Star Wars: Space Goonies over a hundred seasons of Book of Boba Fett.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — Yonhap news agency says South Korea's impeached President Yoon has been detained.

Breaking: South Korean authorities arrested President Yoon at 10:33 a.m.

If I had a nickel for every time Yoon turned his lights off and pretended not to be home until the police got bored and went away, I'd have two nickels. Which is weird because you wouldn't have expected it to work the first time either.

My crumb is getting better. Higher hydration seems to be helping, as well as final proofing in a baguette pan that can go straight into the oven instead of requiring a fumbly transfer.

Mexico has sent a position paper to the UNSC on the right to self-defense under the UN Charter. It insists that one State may not use force against a non-State actor on the territory of another State without the latter's consent, and rejects the "unwilling or unable" doctrine.

New: Just days before the inauguration, the Securities and Exchange Commission has sued Elon Musk for not disclosing his early share purchases of Twitter stock. Story coming...

More people voted for this ban than there are trans girls playing in competitive sports

So what XHS is thinking right now isn’t “what will the govt tell us to do about this” but “how can we avoid the govt telling us what to do about this” because by that stage its *already* a problem for them.

One important thing here: much Chinese censorship isn’t centralized. It’s carried out by individual apps working toward what they think the govt wants, about 1/3rd of staff at any social media site are on censorship/content duty.

it'll be a little while not out of any cunning plot but because the censorship apparatus isn't prepared for a high-volume of English posts. But this isn't a *help* for Xiaohongshu right now, it's a giant pain-in-the-ass potential political problem that their people will be sweating about.

Did you know 99.6% of Chinese people are happy with their jobs? Search “China 996” to find out more.

Spite and anger is gonna get me through the next four years.

Hey folks, just a reminder that one of the first things an extremism researcher will tell you is that vicarious trauma is real, and no you absolutely do not have to watch that extremist video.

The Justice Department and FBI announced a law enforcement operation that, alongside international partners, deleted “PlugX” malware from thousands of infected computers worldwide implanted by Chinese hackers known as “Mustang Panda” or “Twill Typhoon." www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justi...

Need to go back to a time when the reach of your crazy brain rotting conspiracy theory was limited by how many times you could xerox your manifesto before it become completely unreadable from photocopy noise

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BREAKING: Judge Aileen Cannon rejects Donald Trump's request to keep Volume One (Jan. 6 case) of Special Counsel Smith's blocked beyond midnight. Background: substack.com/@chrisgeidne...

Trump-appointed Judge Aileen Cannon declines to lawlessly block the release of Jack Smith's report on Trump's election interference, saying she is "constrained" from doing so and taking a little snipe at DOJ along the way.

Midnights (Jack Smith’s Version)

I made a Doom source port that runs within a PDF file. PDFs support Javascript, so Emscripten is used to compile Doom to asm.js, which is then run within the PDF engine. Input/output is done by manipulating text input fields. doompdf.pages.dev/doom.pdf github.com/ading2210/do...

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Tale as old as time: "Advocates for increased offensive measures need to clarify what precisely they want to do, experts said." https://bit.ly/4jdj8Hw

it's extremely funny that the tiktokkers are fleeing to rednote