I know how to get people to like me at a new job and it's bribes (treats like caffeine and chocolate) That and actually responding to emails right away

Goddamn so much of the system relied on high integrity and professional shame and once that was stripped away by lack of consequence it was just a ticking bomb right. We thought the system was protecting us and we could fuck around electing anyone. But we were supposed to be the system.

That the torture memo author and the administration that operated under its auspices never saw punishment was basically a warrant to do anything forever as long as you Find A Guy, wasn't it.

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Doctor says, 'Dont worry, parser design is simple. Great programmer Kate Compton has written the parser you seek’

I liked when people liked me that was fun for a while And then I became a person Which is always a really bad move

This may be a controversial option, but I will happy to never see a Funko Pop figurine ever again. They are ugly, pointless little plastic things that only fill store shelves like a brain tumour filling a cranium.

ron wyden looking straight at the camera and saying “taxation is the compromise”

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An AI-driven mobile app which overrides hard documentary evidence to reach its own "definitive" conclusions of someone's citizenship sounds like an idea that didn't make it out of the Black Mirror writers room

This is going to be SO good!

owning the libs by showing up to counterprotest in my clown car

Beat your Ring camera to death with a bat

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the kimmel thing is bad but as long as they arent rounding people up indiscriminately based on race, building concentration camps and talking about eradicating those they deem sexual deviants, i think we’ll be ok

From Wired a few weeks ago. A lot of the people who I was told for years were the adults in the room are being asked how they want to be remembered, and that answer is very clearly "cowards." www.wired.com/story/uncann...

EFF is always so proud to represent security researchers doing important work. Our Coders' Rights Project often works with DEFCON presenters, and two of our clients are presenting today about schools, bathroom vape detectors, and audio recordings. www.wired.com/story/schoo...

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Someone recently pointed out that a huge portion of those who die from measles without vaccination are in fact those with other conditions. That is actually the goal of RFK Jr. It's a cull.

New Mexico has issued a public health order that removes federal restrictions to COVID-19 vaccine access so that pharmacies in New Mexico can vaccinate people of all ages and risk profiles. Every state need to do this!

Hacker builds a pocket-sized Flock Safety camera detector based on the Bluetooth method I describe in my blog posts. www.hackster.io/news/colonel...

The thing about Robert E Lee is he should have been executed in front of the gutted husk of a torched Virginia plantation mansion, and that should have been his official portrait, and we should have put it on our money.

Everybody who claims they they "use HTTP" but don't do it like this is a phoney github.com/pfrazee/http...

Once upon a time I worked at a place where the CEO, who had an office with a door and windows, packed all the rank and file workers into a windowless open room because it was good for “collaboration” and “productivity” When asked if he’d be joining us, he refused. “I couldn’t get anything done!”

And truly, they are

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There's a lot of people who insisted when you blow up society you start from the baselines of the liberal world order. Those who knew better of course needed legions of suckers. You can't beat the ride.

I think really the story of the past ten years was people taking for granted 21st century liberalism was locked in and therefore you could just kinda be fashy for a laugh only to realize a moment too late Skinhead Steve wasn’t joking after all.

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I assume he orders the robots to kill the poor, hungry, and diseased people and then has the AI write his texts to his children

Some people are concerned coding agents will stop me from learning code. I appreciate the concern, but I'm 39. I've been coding all my life. I know too much about code. Please release me from my prison of knowledge

Taking this away is worse than never having offered it in the first place (though I wonder how many Americans were aware of this new rule)

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Trickle Down to Hell, bitch

This thread is incredible.

Health insurance companies will spend unlimited amounts of money on everything except *checks notes* actually providing health care

Was a ton of fun to talk about the 0day market and Pall Mall at Summercon! Thanks for having me 💕

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Isn't it weird how we have examples of once believed relatively harmless viruses causing serious problems later in life and people still don't care about contracting a brand new novel one, multiple times?