Narrowly winning an exercise like this doesn't feel like a win. It should be a wakeup call.

Preemptive post:

how society works

Oh look it's a vintage John Deer, the kind you could repair without calling a certified tech on site to run a code scan. Interesting, very low tech, no AI, Peter Thiel is upset.

The first time a democratic politician decides not to be boxed in by norm-respecting

I wrote about Filtr, a new feature in the popular ad blocker Wipr, which now blocks ads in almost every iPhone, iPad, and Mac app — and not just the Safari browser. Uses a new feature in iOS/macOS 26 to block ads at the network level. (Yes, I realize the irony that TechCrunch blocks ad-blockers. 😑)

Substack astroturfing on BlueSky is getting out of hand.

Social platforms have started to automatically apply labels to distinguish AI-generated images, videos, and music from those made by real, human creators. But you know what would be better? Letting us filter out the AI slop. Read more from @zombiewretch.bsky.social: buff.ly/9OMUCdc

"Expatriate Russian journalist and YouTuber Michael Nacke says that there is now 'a whole constellation of fairly popular [pro-war bloggers] who explain at some length why Russia isn’t winning, no matter what Putin may say.'"

The problem with your model is that they aren't allowed to add core assumptions about the incompetence of the administration. This is the chilling effect we get from this administration.

An app on SuperBOX streaming devices turns them into residential proxy nodes www.plume.com/newsroom/plu...

I guess the explanation could have been worse, haha. I was in Kindergarden and didn't watch live, at lunch an asshole 5th grader was laughing about it. That's how I found out. Back at home my mom had put up a wall-sized mural of the space shuttle in my room months before.

Connecticut: not civilization, but civilization adjacent

The GOP:

NO YOU LISTEN, I CAN'T JUST "walk in" AND "order a cheeseburger and fries', I HAVE TO UPDATE MY NPM DEPENDENCIES SO I CAN MAKE A SERIES OF COMPLICATED API CALLS OBSCURED BY A NATURAL LANGUAGE LLM INTERFACE, ITSELF FRONT-ENDED BY ANOTHER API. IT'S THE FUTURE OF FOOD. github.com/M-China/mcd-...

*taps sign* pixelframe.design/the-mandalor...

India's CERT issued a super-strict patching guideline, with patch times for actively exploited bugs of 12h or 24h, depending on the software's location on a network (internet or internal-facing) CERT-IN cited the rise in AI-assisted attacks for the new rules www.cert-in.org.in/s2cMainServl...

"Sorry, I'm not a bat. You have to speak at a human volume. "I didn't ask your name. I asked who you are. "What do you stand for? "Have you ever seen a ghost? Made a mixtape? What is the worst birthday present you ever got?" Jett Reno Temporal Mechanics Starfleet Academy

GitHub’s absolutely full of zero days they don’t remove by policy. (For competitor products).

You should be able to bid on editing other peoples bluesky posts. Highest bidder including the OP, wins.

If you want to watch anything from CBS or Paramount, pirate TF out of it.

All of the "bigger challenges" he's talking about get a lot easier when we tax the fuck out of guys like him.

OpenAI Announces Construction Of New Data Center On Top Of Sick Child

The LA Mayor's race is really opening up! There's a lot of buzz around Skeletor.

and now, your moment of zen. 🎥 (https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYhEwUvv67q/)

NIXON: That Grogu is a real shifty [expletive], but goddamnit does he get results. EHRLICHMAN: Scared the hell out of the Cambodians, too. NIXON: That’s what we needed over there. Someone with some [expletive] guts. HALDEMAN: [inaudible] NIXON: He’s one of the good ones, Bob.

Honestly, it's on the university for thinking Eric Scmidt was ever worth having at a graduation

Hackers have breached tank readers at US gas stations; officials suspect Iran is responsible edition.cnn.com/2026/05/15/p...

I’m sorry but “everyone is going to use AI to code their own apps” sounds like “everyone is going to learn HTML and code their own websites.“ like … have you met people? no they’re not

There's just no way to tell if someone is a Nazi unless they post Nazi stuff on social media. Yup, absolutely no way to tell.... None at all....

Anthropic’s Claude used in attempted compromise of Mexican water utility www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/anthrop... www.dragos.com/blog/ai-assi...

Ugh what's up with every product needing some kind of "manly" version. Big tough men can't use regular cleaning wipes? Geez, got stuck using these because it's all they had now I think my butthole is going to itch for days.

An X user pulled off a $200,000 crypto heist by tricking Grok with Morse code. The user pulled off a prompt injection, bypassing Grok's safeguards and exploiting Grok's integration with Bankrbot to execute a wallet transfer on the Base network. The user deleted their X account after the transfer.

All they had to do is embrace the trend and co-opt it with a "scientology fun run" on a prescribed route. The problem is that cults can't poke fun at themselves. That's how you know you're in a cult: how sensitive they are to being mocked.

(I make a "mouth" with the side of my hand and draw little eyes above it) Richard Dawkins: hmmmm (I put lipstick around the "mouth") Richard Dawkins, suavely: well hello

AI psychosis is just “I really think the stripper likes me” for guys who don’t leave their house

ICYMI: U.S. service members assigned to units in the Middle East received threatening messages this week from what appeared to be an Iranian-linked cyberattack group known as Handala Hack. From Stars and Stripes' Lara Korte:

The Elastic security team is open-sourcing CI/CD Abuse Detector, a collection of drop-in CI templates that use an LLM to detect suspicious changes to CI/CD pipelines, workflows, and automation configurations. www.elastic.co/security-lab... github.com/elastic/cicd...

Every time I see someone talk about Claude I think about how they switched from female to male names as soon as they wanted the robots to seem like experts vs personal assistants.

Me, mildly inebriated when @techconnectify.bsky.social explains why single stage snowblowers are the more reasonable and efficient choice on some guys podcast. Not exaggerating, I had the cocktail in one hand and was pointing at the screen.

How auditors think the SOC uses playbooks

Today marks five years since I first posted my Friend of Garak design anywhere online. To celebrate, all my Garak merch is on sale, along with select other items, now through May Day. willburrows.art/shop

Zhang Shan won the gold medal for the mixed skeet shooting event in the 1992 Olympics. The International Shooting Union *immediately* banned women from competing against men.

new ripped frog just dropped

Me: Do you think Gritty and Grimace are cousins? Interviewer: I meant questions about the job