"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

One more from the Larchives before bed. Enjoy :)

Let’s go @blueteamcon.com ! I’m speaking at 1230 today about why some incidents are more expensive than others, and what orgs can do about it

Important things to know: 1) Blaha does this every year since she started running for office. It is honestly #MarketingGoals 2) LOOK IN THE MAGNIFYING GLASS. SHE USED BIGGER BEANS.

Cartoon: 'Weird' Hell Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social . Hope folks enjoy :)

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We're all stuck in barb wire thongs

This is a very important article and @evacide.bsky.social brings up a very great point. Many relationships are one sided when it comes to technical knowledge. Who set up the home thermostat? the wifi? the IOT garage door? Show me an IOT thing, I can come up with how it can be a vector for abuse.

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You really should read this article on how criminal groups routinely bypass EDR. This isn’t state stuff. I see it all the time, and have for a while. The sad truth is EDR is one rung in defense in depth and it surviving tampering is a perpetual cat mouse game. www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/e...

Are you based in France, Germany, or Netherlands? Speak French, German, and/or Arabic? Interested in cyber insurance? My team is hiring! libertymutual1.avature.net/LSMCareers/F...

Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

Offer received and accepted, funemployment ends homies. I release my employment jelly to the wild now, thank you friend.

Social media researchers: you can't test the effects of UX tweaks on user behavior by populating a synthetic platform with virtual agents instantiated by LLMs *that have been trained on social media platforms without these tweaks*

American critical infrastructure is ten thousand small businesses in a trenchcoat.

I’m playing a CTF with my bestie, as one does, and she pointed out that challenges that use generative AI violate the cardinal rule of CTFs, which is that everything that is in there is there because someone put it there on purpose As a longtime player and author, that is genuinely really upsetting

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

If you send me a 3000 word essay based on a 20 word prompt you are transferring information in an incredibly inefficient way. I'm going to have no idea what you actually wanted to convey. Just send me the prompt. I promise the outcome will be better.

If you're going to send me something written by an LLM then save us all time and resources and just send me your prompt instead. I'll value a text that says "Heartfelt condolence message with reference to a list of events" more, because this way I at least actually know what you were thinking

Had a blast making this TCP Header cross stitch (pattern available at stitch.website

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

I hate that we got the machines that badly attempt to simulate human cognition in ways that ghouls are using to justify marginalizing human intellect and talent, well *before* we got the ones that can genuinely do a good job of cleaning your house

Heard from a colleague spending a few months in the Netherlands. "Went on a 35-mile bike ride today, entirely on bike paths, through all kinds of landscapes. Turns out I love biking, I'm just scared of biking with cars." 😢

Hey Chicago-area peeps, I’m coming to Blue Team Con!

Trying not to let work and personal bleed too much into eachother, but want to make sure this gets out and has good reach. If you've got on-prem SharePoint, please go do the things, because this is *nasty*: msrc.microsoft.com/blog/2025/07...

It is a contradiction in terms to suggest that you can politely tell someone that you do not care about their feelings, because the definition of polite is showing consideration for and deference to those feelings. I don't know how you can fail to understand this.

You know what emergent tech of the last decade actually works well, and was adopted by millions? 3D printing. It’s great! So many applications. But also nobody is sneering at you for not having or utilizing 3D printing. Nobody is trying to sneak a 3D printer into your garage without your consent

Hey #MilSky a cyber journo needs help!

I’ve been doing this for a long time and I have concluded that you cannot get anyone who isn’t into science to consider a career in science. You *can* better identify those who are into science and help them not lose interest by the time they choose GCSEs, but that’s less PR friendly.

I used to have time for defeatism on this subject and then after 2 weeks of lockdown the canals of venice were clear enough to see fish and the dolphins were back in the Ganga so yeah, the climate doomerism also now feels like an op

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Absolutely excellent writing on Nazis, Space Nazis, Drive Thru RPG and Rebel Scum. It's a long thread, but very much worth your time. ( as a complete side comment, social media is a curse, but blesses us with such easy access to professional writing/thinking )

I got permission to share this, and I'm extremely grateful for that. The Onion got this letter from one of our subscribers in Alaska. She works with dementia patients and decided to leave a copy in the car for each one. This email made my year. Read it and you'll see what I mean. People are good.

The whole “self-appointed HOA leadership” thing is why so many people bounced off of Mastodon and came here. Super-cool to see that happening again.

Maintainers don't have an obligation to provide you with free, reliable software indefinitely. We can abandon projects whenever we want for any reason at all without warning and it is on you, the business, to perform due diligence. It isn't on us unless you're paying us.

If you, a business, are reliant on an open source project to function it is YOUR responsibility to assess and ensure the health of that project by either contributing to it yourself or by using an alternative if project health cannot be guaranteed.

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Sorry you have to go around, this hallway is closed. Jean has been very busy doing important work and she needs her rest

Concurrently terrifying and erotic Goodnight

It's like the social version of living with standardized vaccinations for so long nobody really understands what it was like before. It's like that but with feminism. You lived under the benefits activists fought for that you have no frame of reference for its absence.

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Yeah, this explains a lot.

I told you we’d be back

Best misspelling of my name I’ve ever seen. Thank you Starbucks barista for making my day. 💜

A friend just asked me what I do to stay hopeful and I told him one of my favorite strategies…I stay hopeful by remembering that no one has any idea what the fuck is going to happen, so as long as we don’t know, we gotta do what we can.

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