Hell yeah

Hell yeah 39 whips just sneezed my back out

In Ukraine, when a funeral procession with a fallen soldier goes by, everyone stops whatever they are doing to stand silently. Traffic stops. Public transportation stops. Conversation stops. In Lviv, people take this tradition a step further. Most people the procession passes take a knee.

I'm sorry the guy changing the rules on the fly is named what

I’m not arguing with no account defending AI. My grandmother lives in an area being environmentally compromised currently by an ai data center. I remember the color of the lake before they built it and the sludge I see in it when I go to see her. Shut the fuck up about “the benefits of AI” forever.

If you are enabling and coming to rely on AI workflows in production, you better have a plan for how to maintain operations when (not if) they disappear. Either through temporary service outage or a company that disappears overnight, you're exposed to significant risk without a tested backup plan.

Okay a second CBP / ICE chopper is up and again despite claiming security is their mission they are milling about residential areas for no purpose positively identified as AS-350 B3 N3947A globe.adsbexchange.com?icao=~2b09e4 #NoIce #NFL #KNUQ #DHS #CBP #nikon #goon

If you are enabling and coming to rely on AI workflows in production, you better have a plan for how to maintain operations when (not if) they disappear. Either through temporary service outage or a company that disappears overnight, you're exposed to significant risk without a tested backup plan.

oh btw if you need the CIA World Factbook because they took it down with no warning because we can't have nice things, here's where you can get the PDF for the 2024-2025 edition: annas-archive.li/md5/92d7b783...

I love Trek but I can't countenance giving CBS a damned dollar anymore. I'll see Academy on the high seas, I guess.

It remains hilarious to me that every threat briefing is mentioning ClickFix like it's some special unblockable move all criminals have unlocked.

My god, her testimony. It’s just infuriating. youtu.be/E5-m5u0qzDU?...

"Single" sign on might be the greatest lie infosec ever told.

Preach, brother Joe:

I am claiming Taggart's Razor: Never ascribe to AI what can be explained by organic human incompetence.

🚨HOLY CRAP. The Trump admin just took a SLEDGEHAMMER to due process, largely eliminating the Board of Immigration Appeals process and MANDATING DISMISSAL of ALL appeals (which cost $1,000 thanks to OBBBA) filed after tomorrow unless a majority of the BIA votes to hear the case.

In the land of the dotenv committers, the regex user is king.

The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions! This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...

Most of the Washington Post’s tech reporters were laid off today, including me. I have loved my time at the paper, which is where I wanted to work from age 15. I take some consolation in not being among the survivors who will have to work harder with less for fewer readers. On to better things.

This study—from Anthropic, no less—is rather damning of the entire generative AI project. In code creation, the realm where it should shine, not only were the time gains marginal, but developers understood their code far, far less. And they didn't even have more fun doing the work!

It's that time again:

This is your reluctant grownup reminding you that your dishwasher has a filter and you probably haven't cleaned it recently.

Congrats to @hope.net on their 501(c)(3) not-for-profit status!

Oh no Signal is down which means my urge to finally set up a proper XMPP server is now in a race with Signal recovery.

Today's shenanigans are all the more reason to use Visual Studio Code, the *safe* text editor!

Today's shenanigans are all the more reason to use Visual Studio Code, the *safe* text editor!

Oh cool; Azure's having a day. I'm sure the agentic pipelines are blameless.

I have never ever been this burnt out, not even the pandemic did this much damage to my morale and energy. Higher education is a hellscape, in the gAI age. And so many of us seem unable to see this tech critically/through the lenses of labor/ethics/technofascism.

So I looked into it, and the United Nations Detention Unit, which is the part of the Hague Penitentiary Institution's Scheveningen location used by the International Criminal Court, is pretty cushy. en.wikipedia.org/wik... Just y'know, when we're thinking about travel destinations for folks.

Amen, Your Holiness

Notepad++ versions and update mechanisms have been compromised since September. Please update to 8.9.1 wherever you have this tool. It's unclear what malicious versions of the tool might do. I Recommend activating incident response for affected hosts. notepad-plus-plus.or...

I think about what an LA mayor could do and just cry

There is...a lot of FUD floating around with this story. A settlement is not evidence; Google has any number of reasons to not want to go to court on this. But the research on this has been fairly robust, and we've yet to see evidence of microphone eavesdropping as claimed here.

Maybe we just blocklist VSCode? If your devs are vibecoding, may I suggest an alternative computing platform for them: www.koi.ai/blog/mali...

There is...a lot of FUD floating around with this story. A settlement is not evidence; Google has any number of reasons to not want to go to court on this. But the research on this has been fairly robust, and we've yet to see evidence of microphone eavesdropping as claimed here.

A reminder that the Kennedy Center is the literal and legal and congressional designated presidential memorial to JFK. This would be like Trump tearing down the Lincoln Memorial to build something “better.”

BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.

I just got tear gassed along with thousands of union members, many of whom had their families with them. Federal agents at the ICE facility tear gassed children. We must abolish ICE, DHS, and we must have prosecutions. I expect to see enforcement of our city code prohibiting the use of tear gas.

Federal judge has ordered the release of Liam Ramos (the bunny hat boy) and his father. A brief and rather remarkable order. Clearly written to be shared widely, so please do. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Bahahahaha. I can't breathe.

you, yes you, are not qualified to give opsec advice to people whom you do not have a threat model for nor even remotely know personally

legislators should be staging sit-ins, they should not leave the fucking chambers until there are votes on impeachment. make your colleagues defend this piece of shit on the record. show history what you fucking did in this moment you god damned cowards

This is a grotesquerie.

no fan of jeffries, but holy shit is this article misleading. in the press briefing he calls for "a prohibition that DHS cannot *detain* or deport American citizens", and his focus throughout the briefing is on the detainment part

LAPD is the worst, part nine hojillion. Here in LA we've had no illusions our local police would ever be helpful against the feds.

Can we just tell all of the "Signal is an op" guys that all of the real high-opsec organizing is being done on some Telegram channel so they can all go there and cosplay at each other?

Joint statement from Kubernetes Steering and Security Response Committees: In March 2026, Kubernetes will retire Ingress NGINX, a piece of critical infrastructure for about half of cloud native environments. This is an emergency. Please pay attention. kubernetes.io/blog/2026/01...