Twas the week before Christmas and all through the House (and Senate)... A recap 🧵 of Hackers on the Hill 2025 and a look ahead to 2026

As you may know, I have stopped using Twitter, and have decided to reproduce some of my more memorable threads here for posterity. Here’s one I hold wrote after a particularly engaging swordfighting lesson. Buckle up, swordfighting fans, because I *have* studied my Agrippa! [BIG ASS THREAD]

This thread is S tier

this is how they make extra virgin sunfire oil

I've been thinking about technology, enshitification and why my excitement about tech has been on the decline. If ya want to read them, I wrote a thing: handorf.org/thoughts/202...

AND FINALLY: UK House of Lords demands client-side scanning of content to check for “viewing of CSAM” https://alecmuffett.com/article/134940 #AgeVerification #ClientSideScanning #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance #vpn

I DID IT!!!!!! @hackerboxes.bsky.social Tessellate was my white whale. Felt like the most complicated one I had in my backlog. After WEEKS of trial and error and advice from my betters, I DID IT. www.instructables.com/HackerBox-00... Special shouts to @blenster.com & @dontlookbehindyou.bsky.social

Does anyone know if Duolingo’s lessons and overall quality of learning has gone down since they went all in on LLMs?

I've just finished servicing my MEP-803A, and it is fully functional. Now to make an auto-start and monitoring kit. Know what's funny? Any of these wires could be 12VDC, 24VDC, signal wires, or 240VAC. All just bundled together, all the same color.

After #CyberMonday comes #PatchTuesday, naturally. —> stickerthepla.net#018 <— Dark times call for glow-in-the-dark #SafetyThird PVC patches with velcro backing. Deep discounts on batches of patches. Bonus gifts for your sleigh: stickerthepla.net #PatchAllTheThings #EPluribusStickerum

“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”

Whole generation of kids insisting you call them "Albert" when writing their name.

Finally left Twitter Sorry to the 220k followers

Premiere naval OSINT, if you aren’t already following ⤵️

It's my favorite day! It's the 38th anniversary of the Max Headroom signal broadcast intrusion! 1st incident lasted 25s during the 9PM news on WGN-TV in Chicago; The 2nd, 2hrs later, lasted ~90s on PBS affiliate WTTW during Dr. Who. You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqge...

DistrictCon has a student program for Year 1! Thanks to a generous donation, we will be sponsoring up to 10 students to attend @districtcon.bsky.social to deepen their connection to the DC hacker community. Applications are due by EOD Friday, November 28th. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

@govpritzker.illinois.gov I want you to watch this video of me slammed to the ground- why are you allowing this to happen to people you know are on the right side of history. They tied my hands behind my back and when I asked them to be loosened because I was going numb they said, “STFU.”

Dear tech bros (and it is bros pulling this shit), For fucks sake, no. No. NO! FROM THE MOUNTAIN TOPS--NOOOOOOOOOOOO! MY ANSWER IS NOT CHANGING. EVER. I DO NOT WANT TO USE YOUR SHIT AI FEATURES. They are energy wasting garbage. They are invasions of privacy. They are theft. GO AWAY!

I've decided to stop pussy footing around and I am now openly looking for my next challenge. Interested in a company on the small to mid-size range with a cool story. Ideal position would be a combination of customer outreach, marketing and thought leadership. What ya got? #CyberSecurity

Throughout my career I have fought to protect users, help orgs understand how attackers think, and build defenses that stop them. If your team wants someone who can speak fluently in hacker circles and in boardroom, will call out nonsense and knows how to make security actually work We should talk.

Good news about Beth's treatment. The treatment worked as best it could, and there's no viable tumor detected. Next steps are 6 months of chemo, and when it comes back in 2-3 years, trials are on the table.

Today, Mike Johnson will keep the House adjourned for the 85th day out of the last 97. 12 days of work in over 3 months. With full pay and benefits. The senate has been working, so this is not about the shutdown. It is about avoiding a vote to release the Epstein files.

GDrive > top right gear: Manage Apps > uncheck Gemini ALSO Privacy > Manage Workspace smart feature settings > two Gemini settings, toggle off (Gemini AI is on by default and it explicity scans and "shares" or "uses" your info and activity across Google products)

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Is he just gonna steal $230 million dollars from us?

I saw a tragically AI-generated version of this poster, so I have recreated a 100% human-made version for all your protest sign needs.

Happy F5 day to all those who celebrate!

Technical Product Manager (13 years) experience in leading complex, cross-functional teams, and driving B2B and B2C SaaS product execution end to end in a startup environment. www.linkedin.com/in/amazonv/ Seeking Remote or Edmonton Alberta Canada based opportunities

My biggest takeaways from the panel discussing Youth Perspectives on AI and Technology were that: AI creates barriers for those trying to enter the workforce, disrupts our privacy, and kills the environment we live in. It's time we all fight for better and more restrictive AI policies!

Hey, @m1a1vet.bsky.social!! Thanks for the chance to present about #StartingYourHomelab at @HouSecCon. Had a great time and I’m working on getting the slides posted for sharing on sciaticnerd.com.

I really hate the new dialer interface. Absolute shit.

The latest Android update now makes the font look like Comic Sans.

I hate this timeline. techcrunch.com/2025/09/24/n...

For the folks who like to CTF, we have a stack for you this year!

JawnCon would like to thank our sponsors this year: JPMorganChase, Unix Surplus, VyOS, and the South Philly CISO's! Blinken Lights are Blinkin!

Jawndula do! We still have tickets for sale for JawnCon 0x2! Our event is now fully outlined at jawncon.org We are fortunate to have amazing speakers again this year, and a whole bunch of side quests as well! Tickets at: jawncon.org/tickets.html

gofund.me/ae3e52797 An old friend of the herd is going through something awful. If you're in a position to consider donating, we hope you will.

Mint Mobile is about to loose a lot of subscribers this month...

#FTSCon Speaker Spotlight: Michael Horka is presenting “Lilac Typhoon aboard the Indigo Train - The Current State of Chinese Obfuscation Networks” in the HUNTER track. See the full list of speakers + event info, including how to register, here: volatilityfoundation.org/from-the-sou...

LiveAI demo fails on the first prompt at Meta Connect 2025. #Meta #AI #LiveAI

You can also listen to John Lithgow read it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXR5...

Roses are red Sweetly sings the lark