After switching my home laptop to duckduckgo for a few weeks, the results are not encouraging. Yes, the output is not filled with ads and AI like Google is. But the results are often unsatisfactory.

Why is it always true that when there's big news stores about a dicument or documents, it's always super hard to find the original link to the releases document(s)?

Remember that time that the FBI arrested Fruman and Parnas and almost completely derailed the Burisma - Biden election propaganda plot? Still, with an even more corrupt Trump back in office I sometimes wonder if it even mattered.

It is DARK in the Boston area right now. Like "about to thunderstorm" dark. But the radar is totally clear. On the other hand, the GOES satellite live view shows us under a giant river of brown from the Canada fires.

Apple's response to a copyright lawsuit alleging stolen data for AI training is kind of fascinating and disgusting. Apple claims that the DMCA definition that would make this illegal does not apply because there was no access control.

Here is where you can comment on the OMB rule change that will insert Soviet-style political monitors into every single federal grant decision, overriding experts on grants based solely on politics. Or as some have put it, blocking "woke" science. www.federalregister.gov/documents/20...

Modern Jewish gallows humor: A Zionist Jew and an anti-Zionist Jew walk into the bar. The bartender looks at them both and says: "We don't serve Jews."

Vance says the quiet part out loud.

"incels". Involuntary celibates. Angry bitter hetero males who blame other people for their inadequacies. Here's a thought: if you are a hetero male who isn't getting laid, the LAST group on the planet you should join is a male-only group who collectively do not know how to get laid.

The Iran/USA MOA reads like we surrendered to them.

Does anybody have a good central resource on the "Atomic Arch AUR" supply chain hack? I have a lot of open questions and am having a hard time finding answers (see below).

It would appear that at least on some level Germany agrees with me.

Watch Spider Noir in black and white. It is much better for the intended Noir style. The black and white feels much more contrasty.

California has a somewhat similar law to New York with the 3d-printing ban. Let me explain to you (in case you don't know) exactly how stupid this is.

Fender is really giving Google a run for their money on top spot for "brand suicide" mentions, but Google is still clinging to the top spot. But switching search engines is trivial and can be done in 15 seconds. Selling off your old Fender guitais going to be a bit more problematic.

Thoughtful posting that sends my mind in some places he didn't intend. One he might agree with: apply this chokepoint theory to tradional media outlets and the gradual moves they've made since corporations were allowed to buy them all out after 1996.

NEW: lots of you have sent me this article asking for my thoughts. I’ve been able to confirm it. Just as she says, Trump’s administration is staging vote.gov on a non-government cloudflare account under the EOP where there’s no oversight or accounting. 1/ open.substack.com/pub/thedreyd...

What people? We're just here for the oligarchs.

It’s truly astonishing to see how comprehensively the US government is tearing down every part of the system that has made it up until now a world-leading power in science, research, and technological development. The entire world will suffer from this wanton destruction.

In Montreal 🇨🇦, Free Palestine protestors show what appears to be an effigy of a Jewish person (wearing a Kippah) being hanged. Anyone want to try and justify this one? Credit: Guillaume Roy

This is what jumped out at me from the hearing about the redacted grand jury transcripts. The judge is basically saying these prosecutors should be disbarred.

For decades, Peter G. Neumann criticized the computer industry’s lax attitudes toward both computer security and individual digital privacy. And he developed solutions.

It's incredibly unlikely that the unsupportable libels in the op-ed that the NYT published was timed precisely because there was a report coming out within 24 hours with vast and deep documented evidence of Hamas' systematic use of sexual violence as a weapon on October 7th.

Mainstream news is nothing but a dopamine pusher.

The arrest of the mayor of Arcadia, California, for participating in a Chinese influence operation, is a followup to a case that was made public in December or 2024. www.justice.gov/archives/opa...

The NYTimes found simultaneously the most ludicrous and the most offensive blood libel against Jews I've heard in modern times, and they printed it in their news outlet.

What the actual FUCK NYTimes?

Engage with trolls. Win the argument. Get blocked, effectively censoring everything you said. It's the feature that makes Bluesky more calm, but it's also the feature that makes Bluesky better for propagandists. A happy bubble is still a bubble.

The number of people in the world riding the hate train, while simultaneously believing they're on the love boat, is kind of mind boggling.

The new law that protects houses of worship in NYC lets police decide on the safe perimeter distance based on safety concerns. Police here set a fence line about 100 yards from the synagogue targeted by the protest. The "peaceful" protesters repeatedly tried to force through the police line.

Honestly one of the worst things out there is that people are still pushing an EXTREMELY DANGEROUS exploit script to test. People should have written and recommended a much more benign exploit of this vulnerability for people to try.

It's a sad day for X-ray Astronomy: Martin Weisskopf passed away this past weekend. #Astrodon #Astronomy #XraysAreTheBestRays

This copyfail bug is the worst local vulnerability I have ever seen in my entire career. Thank goodness it is not a network vulnerability.

This is kind of random but I found this video really interesting. Terrible burned-in subtitles that were often wrong and distracting. But really interesting content. It's a somewhat different take on why the U.S. was so effective in WW2. www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2On...

i see a horse has won the kentucky derby again. this is beginning to feel rigged

There are serious, exploitable vulnerabilities in the human body. For example, if you obstruct a person's breathing for just five minutes or so, they will die. All reputable physicians acknowledge this. However, this is not proof that you have been murdered. Same for election vulnerabilities.

Incidentally, the people in this movement were also responsible for the undoing of gun control. I don't know for sure if that was a major goal, a desired tactic, or just the icing on their white heterosexual cake.

The destruction of Civil Rights protections was always one of the major goals of this movement. And I don't mean Trump and I don't mean MAGA. I mean the decades old effort to pack the court. The center of this movement was the Federalist Society, with a lot of satellite orgs coming and going.

It almost feels like it isn't even big news that Trump destroyed the NSF. "Oh, we aren't a country that does science any more. What good shows are streaming?"

A couple of months ago Brandeis sued the entire state of California for permitting a very long list of antisemitic behaviors in their school systems. And earlier this week UCLA school board condemned UCLA for allowing an Israeli hostage, held by Hamas for over 500 days, to speak on campus.

Prediction: These mandatory shortened web certificates and strongly encouraged web maintenance automation are going to lead to some substantial security breaches.

Why is it ok for ANY news outlet, whether mainstream or independent, to write about the release of some document (like an indictment) and NOT FUCKING LINK TO IT!?!?!?! It's standard practice and has been for a long time. That does NOT make it ok.

A photo of a girl who was shot in Yemen by Houthi rebels is being "rebranded" tonight on social media with the claim that Israel shot shot her this week. The original shooting, from August 2020, was posted on social media with the identical photo (first photo): x.com/Alsakaniali/...

YouTube rule of the week: THOU SHALT MAKE AN ANGINE DE POUTRINE VIDEO.

Florida oranges are going the way of the American chestnut.

Not enough people understand that Iran is one of the world's leading propaganda States. I'm not trying to detract from the point being made about Trump's instability; rather, I'm pointing out that this reality is even more how dangerous and unstable than most people realize.

If Roald Dahl and Stephen King had ever met and gotten drunk off of their asses and written a very dark parody of a children's book, it still wouldn't be half as demented as Robert F Kennedy's actual stories.

A peer reviewed study shows a promising link between flu and shingles vaccines and a reduced risk of dementia. A heroin addict who cut off a raccoon’s penis for “further study” says these vaccines cause autism. For busy Americans, it can be hard to know who to trust.

The entire Republican Party has been ignoring Trump's sharp mental decline the same way they've ignored his crimes.

I do keep wondering exactly what this is supposed to be, from that Trump-as-Jesus-the-Red-Cross-Doctor image. Kind of looks like a Transfomer? Optimus Crime?