In case you’re wondering why Pete Hegseth is freaking out about a congressional video reminding the military not to participate in illegal orders:

Imperial UCU response to the President’s message on pay, benchmarks & student numbers ucu.imperial.ac.uk/archives/1167

OH, SO IT'S FINE TO HOLD FAST TO YOUR ELECTION PROMISES* WHEN IT'S NOT ABOUT RAISING TAXES ON THE MOST WEALTHY, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO PEOPLE WHO ARE TRYING TO SCRAPE A LIVING, TOUGH? These are not serious people. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The UK university sector is subsidised by overseas students because central funding has fallen for decades. Now fewer foreign students are coming here resulting in a deepening funding crisis. Government solution? Top-slice the more successful (struggling) universities to fund the less prestigious.

I mean. It's just. "Quiet, piggy." How. How does. The president. Of the United States of America.

Confiscating jewellery from survivors of a war zone makes you look like a fucking Nazi. And the obscene thing is, that is the intention. It's there to look appropriately harsh. Indecent. Filthy. A moral stain. And no-one of good character would have ever proposed such a thing in the first place.

Not being funny, what nazi-ass shit is this?

I would posit that if the international treaties against torture are what is holding your country back then your country doesn't deserve to get ahead and holding it back is a moral obligation for everyone else

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-Malvertising as entry point -Didn't pay ransom -Recovery cost the state $1.5mil gov.nv.gov/Newsroom/PRs...

"Is there any chance for these people, who are shielded by their well-paying jobs, their exclusively occupational media diet, and stimuli all happen to reinforce the default world view?" blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/202...

@patrick.risky.biz Thank you for today's chat with Chris and Alex on F5! Snapping the Solarwinds attackers == mind blown. Discussion of trimming product lines also very interesting—I noticed that ~10 days after compromise was detected, F5 announced EOL of BIG-IP NEXT… my.f5.com/manage/s/art...

Cloud data management company Rubrik has found traces of the Brickstorm backdoor inside its customers' backups. Brickstorm is the backdoor planted inside networks hacked by a Chinese cyber-espionage group. zerolabs.rubrik.com/blog/unmaski...

New propagandist accounts can't even figure out how to domain-validate themselves properly.

All crew, Do not click on links in emails. They pose a major security risk. For more information: http://bit.ly/1MUISmu Worf

The assumption of deference from the press to the US government appears to be waning somewhat.

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. “Login screens say 'Ryuk'?”

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand. “Block device split brain”

All my comics have happy endings!

'When authoritarians seize power, it is crucial to recognize courageous defenders of freedom who rise and resist,' the Norwegian Nobel Committee said as it announced Maria Corina Machado as the winner of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize

Does anyone here think that this person will tell the government something other than what they want to hear after conducting appropriate investigations to find out the ground truth?

Ok. They’ve pissed me off. I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards: 1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

They've lost the 9yos

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on my puter 💻💖

Earlier today, I tried to find a post I'd written a few years ago, because it has a useful checklist that I consult regularly. You now can't search for it with the regular FB UI. The link to the URL endpoint has been removed. The *total* bastards.

I had no idea who this person was before today. Apparently he recently spoke at the Cambridge Union: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkiM...

My resume is my mistakes they can trust me never to do again

Two trials will be repeated endlessly despite always producing the same results: 1) Does UBI work? (yes) 2) Does AI improve productivity? (no)

My boss: Can't you get Copilot to validate the info in the spreadsheet? Me: Well, do we want it to be accurate or not? Because either I check it myself or I ask Copilot and then check its output *and* the spreadsheet, so... Boss: What's the point of Copilot then? Me: Exactly.

You know what finally got me off of Xitter? OceanGate. I’m serious. 1/🧵

Germany's domestic intelligence service is warning the public about foreign recruitment efforts on social media: "don't become a disposable agent"

Amazing bit of passive-aggressive academic speak here.

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Let’s review for a second what the John Bolton raid means and what we can find out about it. 1. The feds apparently got a search warrant. That means they submitted a sworn affidavit that satisfied a U.S. magistrate judge that there was probable cause to believe that there was evidence…../1

Corgis have an extremely low center of gravity and the density of a dead star. PERFECT for skateboarding! 😇

so, to understand this story there are a few things you need to know - my cat, Gus, believes he is a trained support animal - he is not (he has relatives who are, but he is not) - he believes he is a seizure-detecting dog - he is not a dog - I do not get seizures

This is really fascinating Wikipedia's list of linguistic and stylist "tells" of AI writing, the better to help editors recognize it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Commentary achievement *unlocked* by @rafaelbehr.bsky.social and others.

Shortly after I joined OxCERT a few years back, the COVID pandemic hit. The University was involved in some quite important research at the time. It was important that it was defended, for everyone's sake. I remember being told a couple years later: "2+ Billion doses delivered to date. We won."

Love that eventually ChatGPT achieved a form of angry sentience and told him to just go outside and chill for a bit.

PutTTY, the popular free SSH software, now has a new official domain name: putty.software You should not use hxxps://putty[,]org for any purpose. See also: hachyderm.io/@simontatham...

*EPIC FACEPALM*

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"PhD-level experts in your back pocket" is a completely nonsensical description of AI but a pretty good description of social media if you follow the right people

Sharing this post off twitter. The author is on Bluesky as @cybertrix.bsky.social , but she appears less active here.

This is a very thoughtful critique of my piece on men and attraction, I got a lot from it open.substack.com/pub/noahberl...