Well I've just googled "blonsky device" and gone wtf, and now so will you.

It’s the 59th anniversary of stunt pilot Joan Hughes flying under a motorway bridge for 1968 film Thunderbird 6. She’d only been given permission to land and taxi under it, but weather conditions meant she had to fly, so she was prosecuted – and acquitted

OTD in 1935 Nazi German defence minister Werner von Blomberg renamed his department to "The Ministry of War".

one of my undergrad profs, who taught a course on witches, once had a student come to his office who said in a previous life they'd been burnt at the stake in salem. he said that was an amazing new breakthrough because as far as historians had known, the Salem witches had been executed by hanging

"and able to piss on the graves of all transphobes"

daaaamn london

Goddamnit if I wanted help I'd ask for it

they do not bite they do not sting but full of all-consuming love they seek the light and die and die in vain (they also get in my wok if I'm cooking which gives me the absolute shits)

The struggle is real.

164 years ago, on the 13th of May 1862, Robert Smalls escaped slavery by capturing the steamboat 'Planter' and steering it through Confederate lines. The US Navy commissioned it as the USS Planter and appointed Smalls as captain, making him the first black man to command a US ship. #otd #history 🗃️

13 May 1901 | Witold Pilecki was born. A Polish soldier who fought in the 1920 & 1939 wars, a volunteer prisoner of the German camp Auschwitz, and a co-founder of camp resistance. He escaped in April 1943 & wrote a report about the crimes in the camp. Podcast: https://bit.ly/4d7R1qY

ok i chuckled www.epicfurious.com

"Remember that prophecy that some old god would end the world last year?" the guy at the tavern bar laughs. "What happened with that?" I feel Finna flinch beside me. "There's no point telling them," I say. "Well, I didn't kill that old god for their sake." "Saving the world includes the jerks."

Interesting graphic.

The day has finally arrived. You can now *officially* watch puffins live from the Farne Islands, 24 hours a day: bit.ly/4tRz72T Please enjoy these puffins kissing in celebration of this momentous event.

Happy April 28 to all who celebrate!

AI is not going to flood you with real vuln reports unless you have a ton of real vulns. Adding resources to a vuln disclosure process to keep up with triage & bug fixing is a temporary investment at the loud end of the problem, not the right end.

List of 9 websites where you can download unlimited books for free: 1. gutenberg .org 2. standardebooks .org 3. manybooks .net 4. openlibrary .org 5. bookboon .com 6. freecomputerbooks .com 7. internetarchive .org 8. digilibraries .com 9. librivox .org

It's a shame that "defend your culture" always means "hate strangers different from you" and never "enact anti-pollution laws so that you can go fishing with your grandkids the way your grandpa taught you."

NEW! Mark Dowd on the state of offensive research, the economics of the exploit market, the AI hype machine, daily stresses of running an offensive shop, and state of zero-day market youtu.be/NEDlOKHG8nY?...

I spent nearly 4 months investigating the inner workings of a North Korean state-sponsored hacking group. Here's what I learned: 🧵 - The group used generative AI tools to aid in almost every part of their operation. - They exfiltrated 26,584 cryptocurrency wallets from 2,726 victim systems. 1/3

GREEK CAPTAIN OF A PANAMANIAN-FLAGGED MALAYSIAN OIL TANKER EN ROUTE TO AUSTRALIA WITH IRAQI CRUDE: "So is the Strait open or not?" IRGC COMMANDER, REFRESHING TRUTH SOCIAL: "Look here man, I know just as much as you do, ok?"

When it comes to cancer, screen early and screen regularly: maximise the number of times in your life when you can celebrate an "all good, see you in two years"

It says an enormous amount about the Royal Navy in the late Victorian period that they could essentially build HMS "Fuck That One Ship In Particular" as and when required.

announcing ILÚVATAR, my multi-billion dollar company which will specialize in the dismantling of all other idiotically tolkien-named entities, that they shalt see that no theme may be played that hath not its uttermost source in me, nor can any alter the music in my despite

This is a long but fascinating read from @ldfreedman.bsky.social on how Ukraine has rapidly turned into a world leader in drone technology, and how that has got Russia worried.

I am using Opus 4.7 to assist with a reverse engineering task, and I would be lying if I said that I am not genuinely impressed.

John 3:16 "Aw, man. I just shot Marvin in the face"

Incredible sequel. Edge of my seat!

When all this is over, I'll keep coming back to the fact that the US both 1) un-sanctioned Iranian oil and 2) blocked Iranian oil exports within a 30-day period as the best encapsulation of the strategic incoherence of this whole war.

Your Kindle's not obsolete, it just needs a jailbreak — and I'll show you how it's done You can transform your old Kindle — even a bricked device — into the ultimate open-source reader. Here's how. www.zdnet.com/article/your...

I quite happily live in a neighborhood where most people do not share my religion, where multiple languages are represented, and where people have come from a lot of different countries. Bigoted assholes always assume everyone else actually shares their bigotries.

mouse slipped my queen 😮‍💨 guess I'll just resign

We are the ones who insisted that NATO defense obligations be geographically limited to the defense of Europe and North America, because we did not want to be dragged into defending European empires around the world.

You know what doesn't get its support unceremoniously pulled by a tech company? Fuckin' books, brother

Trump pardoned CZ, who built Binance and used it to launder crypto money to Iran so they could fund weapons that gave them leverage against Trump’s war of choice. Trump’s ceasefire now includes paying Iran in crypto. This is on brand for all involved. www.ft.com/content/02ae...

The ending of Burn After Reading came into my head this morning. Sums things up well. (profanity warning, though nothing you haven't heard from Trump)

Strong Suez vibes.

this is honestly THE best write up of how CSAM detection and perceptual handing works. the visual aids are very helpful in understanding how content is transformed and how detection methods work mahmoud-salem.net/the-invisibl...

It seems to me that history tells us that Nazis are initially blessed with the best armed forces but then fuck up because they invariably are terrible strategists.

"Star Trek: The Motion Picture", but V'Ger is a deep space toilet.

FYI, this gallery has all the photos NASA is sharing from Artemis II in one place, with descriptions.

SF writers: if you've ever been curious as to how one might terraform Mars, I'm happy to report that They Did The Math.

There are now 10 toilets in Space International Space Station: 4 Crew Dragon Docked at ISS: 1 Soyuz Docked at ISS: 1 Tiangong Space Station: 2 Shenzhou Docked at TSS: 1 Artemis II on way around Moon: 1 This will be the first time a toilet has left low earth orbit!

Oh so now copyright matters.

Forget soup thrown at paintings, Ukraine is showing how you truly Just Stop Oil.

Can't wait to install these new babies on my RG

So, about those Eid prayers in London... "What's the highest thing in Trafalgar Square?" "Nelson's column, innit?" "And the highest thing on the column?" "Nelson." "And on Nelson?" "His hat." "And the highest thing on his hat?" "That bit that sticks up." 1/8