'When asked by the Guardian whether Acker denied writing the messages, his attorney responded: “Your understanding that Mr Acker does not deny this is not correct or incorrect.”' Oh.

It’s a good time to buy prints of my work. I’m running a 10% discount. (I’m super broke and could really use your support and I’d rather you get something cool than just donate. Prints start at $5) seanbecknercarmitchel.shootproof.com/gallery/2938...

If you want to build a data center, you should be required to provide 100% green energy, whose capacity you build out for the data center (not 'buying green energy', f'ing making it) when it's running at full capacity. And give away any excess to the community it resides in. ppl will beg for 'em.

People often confuse 'good' with 'pleasant'... Relatedly, 'viewpoint discrimination' is actually a good thing. You should be shunned if you want to turn this country into an authoritarian theocracy. 'asshole' is not and should not be a protected class.

Wow. I really hate targeted ads more now.

Honestly surprised anyone directly reporting to Trump is ever sober.

Being paranoid that he might be fired at any time might be the thing that gets him fired. It's quite delicious.

HackerSummerCampGuide updated for 2026, what should I add? HackerSummerCamp.Guide

Why can't American editorials be as good as British ones? "That tome currently lies in the rectum of HarperCollins, ready to be excreted in June – yet inevitably, Vance is already giving menacing doctrinal advice to the pope as part of the multi-theatre fallout of Operation Epic Facepalm."

Privacy stalwarts in Congress just bought us 10 more days to put together a bill that actually reforms Section 702. Keep pushing.

"TOP Agency, a flashy branding and public relations agency that claims to have worked with nationally-known companies including Microsoft, Intel, Budweiser, Universal Music Group, US Bank and Discover Card." A company with assets, ready to be sued...

Ticketmaster is doing train ticketing now?

Did Trump invent a new kind of corruption?

I have a teddy bear older than Canada.

NVD Gives Up Since 2024, representatives from NIST's National Vulnerability Database (NVD) have given a presentation at VulnCon with updates to the program. This has been where news broke about significant changes, admissions, and omissions. The talks, typically 30 minutes, are certainly not…

Friend looking for neotropolis ticket if anyone’s selling

Libertarians prefer to renew the panopticon on a yearly basis, rather than five year renewals. Principles and all.

New book coming next year. Working title, THE GRAYSCALE: True Stories of Hackers, Outlaws and Rogues From the Digital Underground. Thanks to @wired.com and @mitpress.bsky.social for making this one possible!

Reminds me of squirting salt water into a coke machine to get a free coke (or so claimed old text philes). A lot of damage for a paltry payoff.

Not the worst autocorrect that could have occurred.

Probably just a coincidence that the law professors defending insurrectionist John Eastman are the same guys arguing against birthright citizenship, in no way reflective of a world view on who the law protects vs binds

It's time to standardize around MY/DM/YDYY

Wikipedia is asking more and more from its contributors these days.

Secret laws are hallmarks of authoritarian regimes. Secret interpretations of laws are indistinguishable from secret laws. Trump did not build this panopticon, but he's certainly going to abuse it even more than his predecessors.

The Art of War is very funny once you understand it for what it actually is, which is Warfare 101 For Dipshit Nobles the intended audience is exactly people like Pete Hegseth

I just re-found this painting, which was in a kid's bible I had growing up. I used to obssess over it, and I'm pretty sure seeing Lucifer here was the first time I thought a man was attractive? Over the years I'd think "it couldn't possibly be as horny as I remember it", but I mean come ON

age verification laws sell themselves as child protection. the data broker ecosystem that eats the compliance infrastructure is the part nobody's debating on the Senate floor.

Nothing special, just some fish playing football Original post

The bird even realized he had won Original post

this is fucking unreal stuff from Noah Wyle on the magic of The Pitt. www.gq.com/story/noah-w...

Secret operations? Sure, sometimes. Secret interpretations of the law? Fuck the right off with that nonsense.

At no point in my life have I trusted the FBI, NSA, or CIA to safeguard the rights of American citizens. But I certainly trust those agencies far less than I have in the past.

Voting on spy powers at 2am will definitely help with trust in the government!

so we lifted the ban on troops walking around with their personal firearms on military bases and then we started feeding them like they're at fyre festival 2. do i have that right

Oh, every one is always nostalgic for the geocites era web but when somebody actually makes a platform that crashes every 10 minutes, suddenly everybody wants future technology, I see how it is.

The Right Wing Origins Age Verification Laws Don’t Disappear Just Because They’re Going Bipartisan. I think it's important to understand that, despite claims to the contrary, age verification is, inherently, a right-wing effort. While it's currently true that age verification laws are being…

Leave some of the cryptography for the rest of us.

American Jesus.

Several people have asked me recently what I do for "fun" -- when I am not at work (but I repeat myself). I thought I'd share one thing today. To stay sharp as I get older, I have memorized the first 24,100 digits of pi Perhaps after I retire I will memorize them in the correct order.

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Almost there, folks!

France passed a law requiring solar panels on every parking lot with more than 80 spaces. Equals 10 nuclear reactors Reduces heat island, shades cars The US -- 800 million parking spaces. Most of them are uncovered asphalt sitting in direct sunlight. Why aren't we doing this?

not many people know this, but Barilla has a line of 3D printed pasta it sells mostly to the fine dining industry. I don't want the pasta. I want the pasta printer

JD Vance explaining DNS to Kaminsky.

Sen. DURBIN: In a 20 year period of time, think about all the possibilities of voter fraud. How many do you think? 7 million? No. 700,000? No. 70,000? No. 700? No. It’s 77 people in 20 years.

When very bad people are big fans of the stuff you say, perhaps think about the stuff you are saying - and be better. He's so close to getting it.

I like coffee so much, it feels like I engage in unbounded consumption. Anyways, have fun playing with this new attack surface, everyone.