And here is my latest. open.substack.com/pub/karenatt...

Some brief thoughts on the Anthropic settlement, and why I think most authors should claim their share of the settlement if they can, inadequate though I think it is: whatever.scalzi.com/2025/10/02/a...

shooting my shot 🏀 we’re hiring & here’s the lowdown. this would be a great role for someone beginning or mid career. pls apply or pass on to anyone u know who might fit! (it is my current position, i am moving to other projects within the same team & would be training this person)

This is an excellent article on the limitations of AI, even when trained for a single task

If you're a federal worker and you want to talk, you can find me on Signal at Vittoria89.82 using a non-work phone. We can speak anonymously.

NEW: In the lead-up to Trump’s second term, a PA businessman hired Tom Homan as a consultant and said he could put together a group of companies wanting to get in line to win contracts for a massive immigration enforcement plan, sources said.

Managing your team’s stress is as important as managing your team’s budget. #ciso www.bbc.com/news/article...

NEW: Y Combinator used to be a haven for weird, risk taking startups that defined new categories. Now it's pumping out hundreds of AI startups into what its former CEO calls a bubble. A bunch of recent YC grads told me what the incubator is like in the AI age. www.inc.com/sam-blum/how...

Tip for Civil Society: Never Negotiate. Always make them do the bad thing. Don’t help them do it, but make their choice either: do something really bad, or nothing at all https://alecmuffett.com/article/115274

Larry Ellison envisions a surveillance state in which techbros rule. '“Citizens will be on their best behavior, because we’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on,” Ellison said in an hour-long Q&A during Oracle’s Financial Analyst Meeting last week.'

If you will be in the Philadelphia area around Halloween, please come to Drew Conry-Murray's book signing at Narberth Bookshop! He'll be reading from The Haunting of Edward Drake. Oct 30th at 7pm. @drewcm.bsky.social

ICE has erected a gate to keep protesters out. They are blocking a public street, despite the Broadview Fire Department ordering ICE to tear it down. Join us at 1930 Beach Street. 7-9 AM. Tell Broadview to tear this fence down.

#BoycottNexstar #BoycottSinclair Do your patriotic duty.

And in my slightly nerdier newsletter take, I suggest that we need to think of Google search more as infrastructure than as a product. That will let us build the robust marketplace we want on top of its data. buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin/...

Had a great conversation with David Johnson and Brandon Levene on The Job Security Podcast about what it's like to take years of security practitioner experience into the classroom. Thanks so much for having me! jobsecurity.buzzsprout.com/2523845/epis...

Kali Linux 2025.3 released with 10 new tools, wifi enhancements www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securit...

As always, support your local station. They need it more than you know. And, if you can swing it, adopt a station in another state: adoptastation.org

Humble Bundle: Cisco Networking and Certification by Cisco Press and Pearson. @humblebundle.com #AlwaysBeLabbing www.humblebundle.com/books/cisco-...

When the new IT manager doesn't respect the 6500...

Seen on the DC metro:

If you’d like to voice your opinion, you can call Sinclair Broadcasting Group at 410-568-1500. Since Sinclair’s revenue comes from TV ads, the strongest way to hit their bottom line

Trump blames Tylenol for autism. Science doesn't back him up www.npr.org/sections/sho...

The president has informed me that reporting on his crypto scams is not in the public interest. by Brendan Carr

New: The Trump family is now worth an estimated $10 billion, having nearly doubled its net worth since last year’s election. @danalexander21.bsky.social, @kylekhanmullins.bsky.social for @forbes.com

Illegally profiting from the Presidency. The Criminal in Chief has had a lucrative heist.

Cancelling disney (and paramount) is working. Keep it up. It is painful at first but after actually you do it, it's ok. They offered 6 months for 2.99/ea and I didn't take it. NOW is the time to cancel and be heard.

NEW: @makenakelly.bsky.social reports it like it is www.wired.com/story/brenda...

The Kimmel suspension is a much bigger deal than you know. It's really about a growing alliance between Trump and the companies that own America's local TV stations - like Nexstar - to turn local TV into Trump propaganda. 1/ Let me tell you the short story. It's chilling.

Three Philly collar counties are rushing to protect LGBTQ residents from discrimination locally as the Trump administration targets the community with both rhetoric and policies.

haven't got any work done for an hour because I can't stop chuckling at my own intro: "Risk management is a lot like Warhammer 40K. Partly because it’s a nightmarish dystopia dominated by mutant cyborgs, but mainly because in order to play, you have to have a lot of expensive models"

By mainstreaming conspiracies and threatening election workers, the far-right extremist movement is attempting to destabilize democratic institutions. 🗳️ We advocate for policymakers to advance legislation that would secure and expand access to the ballot box for all U.S. citizens.

When I first started teaching Media Literacy 20 years ago, we were warning about this kind of consolidation. And here we are. Also, if you haven't already watched John Oliver's Sinclair piece, highly recommend. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GvtN...

Kenosha, Wisconsin Saturday, October 18 NO KINGS 2.0 Electric Boogaloo

Poughkeepsie New York Saturday, October 18 NO KINGS

Luckily, Sinclair has a helpful database of all their stations, so you can see if they're operating in your area and respond accordingly. sbgi.net/tv-stations/

The Oversight Committee is launching an investigation into ABC, Sinclair, and the FCC. We will not be intimidated and we will defend the First Amendment.

Trump Spends Entire U.K. Trip Trying To Figure Out Where He Knows Prince Andrew From

It's pretty easy to cancel your Disney+ subscription, and a coordinated, national day of cancellations would send a very clear message about our values as Americans.

💻 Linux isn’t just an OS, it’s a career multiplier. Mastering Linux opens doors to: SysAdmin 🚀 DevOps ⚙️ Cybersecurity 🔐 Cloud ☁️ If you’re in tech and don’t know Linux, you’re leaving opportunities on the table.

This is the playbook, folks. If you're not paying attention now and doing something about it, then you're going to have to sit down the rest of your life because democracy is being taken away. Do not be quiet in this moment.

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Decent start, now also explain how you're going to break up the TV-station conglomerates that gave Carr the leverage

It doesn't have to be everyone summoning that courage, which is good because courage is a virtue in short supply. It just has to be ENOUGH of us.

Folks, when I say the regime is desperate, I do not mean that it is defanged or beaten. I mean that the means of its dismantling are exposed, and they know it, and fear it. We still have to be courageous enough to do that dismantling, and it only happens if we summon that courage and do that work.

The Trump administration knew that the vast majority of the 230+ Venezuelan immigrants it sent to El Salvador in mid-March had not been convicted of crimes in the U.S. before it labeled them as terrorists and deported them, according to Homeland Security data. (Published May)

Python doesn’t come easy for me—and maybe not for you either. That’s why I’m learning in public and live streaming the journey. 📺 Subscribe here: youtube.com/@artofneteng 🔔 Hit the bell to get notified when we go live. Who’s in? #NetworkAutomation #NetworkEngineering #python

I've seen this exhibit. It's really well done and doesn't flinch from the hard truths about our country's history. It's disgusting and Orwellian that the Trump administration wants to take it down.

A mainstream outlet finally does more than repeat the official BS statement from ICE about the shooting of Silvero Villegas-Gonzalez. This man's death should be a national scandal. Grateful for indy journalists who questioned the official narrative that corporate outlets mindlessly echoed last week.