Oh, you thought the Guardians were going to lose on AL Central clinch day?

“The stones were an unreliable guide to action, since what was not shown could be more important than what was selectively presented.”

I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different. Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.

For class C, SAV (Savannah/Hilton Head) is amazing. For Class B, probably SFO but LGA earns the “most improved” award. I could talk about non-towered airports all day, that might only be interesting to GA flyers.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

100% this.

How your message finds me:

Current mood: incandescent rage “Children who are deaf or hard of hearing will no longer benefit from an early intervention program run by states after everyone who worked on the program at CDC was laid off.” apnews.com/article/publ...

Some context for my comment above about higher ed as a valuable export: In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

One of my unpopular opinions: Apple’s walled garden app store is more secure, prevents billions in fraud every year, and should never be forced to open up.

Multiple people, including SECDEF, should lose their jobs over this. Not a mere theoretical risk; full on breach of U.S. government data. It happened. Was any of it classified? Probably. That’s what congressional investigations can find out. www.reuters.com/world/us/hac...

"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.

“It’s national insecurity, not national security.” Song of the summer

Siri show me “moral hazard” www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling port 22.

Remember when President Hoover signed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act into law in June of 1930, prompting retaliatory tariffs by many other countries? Something happened the next year, I think? Something important… ah, lost it. Maybe someone else remembers their history.

Many great Gene Hackman movies have been mentioned by people celebrating his life and work. I want to draw your attention to Heist, which also includes the amazing Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, and Danny DeVito.

Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war. Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

Bob Kuttner is mad about Trump stopping enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Bob Kuttner is mad because he *co-wrote* the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Great essay where Bob laments not just expanded corruption but wonders whether the public even cares: prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

The American woman arrested last year for assisting DPRK IT Workers pled guilty. but.. Did you know the original a search warrant for her home mentioned a TikTok that happened to show her laptop farm? lol oops www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/a...

Oh my god, they just unintentionally wrecked a ton of red team playbooks at the NSA popular.info/p/the-nsas-b...

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2025/02/05/u...

Molly White does amazing work. Support it if you have the means.

the ai bot isn’t “admitting” its secrets to you or “revealing” its creators intentions it’s just a word generating machine generating words the only meaning is that which you read into it and imo that should be none

In 2021, Congress gave state and local governments $1 billion for cyber improvements. The program has been transformative, but it expires next year. My new @therecordmedia.bsky.social story explores what it's accomplished and what will happen if it isn't renewed: therecord.media/federal-mone...

Who wants to be next? (Waifu arrest footage released by WSJ) www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...

Who wants to be next? www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...

Thanks to @patrickhowelloneill.com for the Cybersecurity Main Feed. With so many folks moving over here it is starting to feel like the good old days at that other place.

Heads up to new Bluesky folks: I am not the Canadian climate scientist Paul Beckwith. I am the cybersecurity leader for a company with quirky commercials you have all seen many times. Bluesky is the only social media I actually use, otherwise I keep a very low profile. Views all mine yada yada.

Congrats on 10M users!

Electric vs Gas xkcd.com/2948

100th USWNT cap for Rose Lavelle What a player. Great skills and mentality.

“What the American public doesn’t know is what makes them the American public.” Ray Zielinsky, Tommy Boy

What's kind of amazing is that we're actually living through a huge technology revolution where our entire power grid is being replaced by solar panels and battery storage and you hear less about it in the press than you did about the totally fake "tech" of NFTs

I think @meredithmeredith.bsky.social does a great job at Signal and I every time I hear her speak I learn something new.

post a PERFECT album from the 90s that isn’t nirvana or pearl jam or soundgarden or alice in chains

If you go hiking, put a length of fiber-optic cable in your backpack. If you get lost, simply take the cable and bury it. A backhoe will eventually find you.

Hey @kenwhite.bsky.social we are close to the same age. How do you think the youngs would react if we said their media diet of TikTok and whatever has resulted in incorrect, brainwashy opinions about the economy and foreign policy, so we should control what they can watch? Their ageism is gross.

what's happened in guatemala over the last sixish months is truly wild and has deserved more coverage from US outlets imo! huge relief that arévalo will actually be able to take office

Great late equalizer for Luis Diaz. Hoping for all the best for his father’s safe return. YNWA

We will never undermine our privacy promises and the encryption they rely on. Our position remains the same: we will do whatever we can to continue ensuring people in the UK can use Signal, but if the choice came down to being forced to build a backdoor, or leaving, we would leave.

As a private pilot, you develop appreciation for air traffic controllers. They suffer greatly during every government shutdown. It’s already a tough and stressful job, and they have to work without pay. This breathtakingly stupid habit of brinksmanship (largely by one party) should never occur.

The pub quiz asked which heavenly body orbited the sun at 1 AU and I said the Moon and they said no the answer is the Earth and I said that is literally the only thing in the universe that is not a heavenly body and they did not give me the point and yes I am still sore about it.

“It’s a library, only the stupid or the evil are afraid of those.” - Iain M. Banks