RFK Jr. Mandates All Americans Drink Mysterious Glowing Liquid http://theonion.com/rfk-jr-mandates-all-americans-drink-mysterious-glowing-liquid/

If you haven't read Asimov, you should. I read them in random order, but I think the best way is to read them in chronological order, starting with books like Caves of Steel. A lot of Asimov's books were ret-conned into the Foundation universe, so selecting the proper books may be hard.

This "60 Minutes" segment proves JD Vance was right about censorship in Europe. We know it's accurate because it's been approved by CBS's government-mandated bias monitor.

I attempt to explain the FBI Epstein dump redaction failure. cybersect.substack.com/p/unredactio...

that time

On one hand, we know the back story, RFKjr is doing crazy anti-vaxx stuff trying to make it look like it's sane. But just because we know their side is wrong doesn't mean we can be lazy. This NYtimes article is incredibly lazy. Vaccines are technical, we deserve technical information.

The only change left is to rename it "Ministry of Truth".

I had some notes about Rubio's war on woke fonts. tl;dr, there are good fonts that satisfy both sides, like the Georgia font used by the New York Times. scytaleprotocol.substack.com/p/the-woke-f...

I had some notes about Rubio's war on woke fonts. tl;dr, there are good fonts that satisfy both sides, like the Georgia font used by the New York Times. scytaleprotocol.substack.com/p/the-woke-f...

The lab leak theory isn't a conspiracy theory. Some believe it ACCIDENTALLY leaked from the Wuhan lab. There's no "conspiracy" in this theory. Far fewer believe it was DELIBERATE from a "conspiracy". Bad faith people deliberately conflate the two.

I asked ChatGPT to grade the essays given the class criteria. It gave her essay a 9/25 and mine 24/25. I also asked for it to give feedback why it gave such scores. chatgpt.com/share/692e51... chatgpt.com/share/692e51... Maybe she didn't deserve 0/25, but she still deserves an F.

So I did a thing. There was viral outrage over a student getting a failing grade on homework for citing the Bible. I can opine like everyone else, but first, I though I'd demonstrate basic competency by ACTUALLY DOING THE HOMEWORK MYSELF. scytaleprotocol.substack.com/p/homework-r...

I've been researching this. As it turns out, I was wrong. While the appliques/mouldings are very close to what you can buy on Temu, Home Depot, and Amazon, they aren't exact. It's still just mass produced acrylic items that have either been painted with gold or had gold leaf applied (i.e. cheap).

Winning. This feels like we are winning. I think some care more about the schadenfreude of celebrating their loss rather than celebrate our win.

Tom is probably right, we should probably just focus on authoritarianism or illiberalism. Also, the audience is too dumb, they don't know anything more about "fascism" other than it's an insult. But for the educated, there are important parallels.

Some in cybersec were debating how much VPNs protect your privacy while on public WiFi hotspots. I wrote some technical notes. cybersect.substack.com/p/experts-vs...

Techies often learn the "OSI Model" to explain networking. It's false, it describes IBM mainframes of the 1970s and not the modern Internet. I have some comments here. cybersect.substack.com/p/yes-osi-mo...

Some comments on the Louvre Heist relative to cybersecurity. cybersect.substack.com/p/louvre-jew...

What the fuck do you mean I got a longer prison sentence than Diddy

Microsoft shoved their AI Copilot into everything in Windows 11. Which lead to an increase in Windows 10 use. So they announced they'd stop support for Windows 10, but its usage was still strong. So they started to put Copilot into Windows 10. Windows 7 use is surging 5x now. AI is product poison.

If you want to stand up for free-speech, the time to do it is when you own side is violating it, such as during Biden's pressuring Internet companies to censor "misinformation". If you only defend the speech of your own side, what you are defending is your side, not free-speech principles.

My sister lives in the Portland area and I'm trying to convince her to drive downtown to take video of the Rose City Antifa protests outside the ICE detention center.

"In 2025, Americans may be reading this novel with somewhat different eyes than in times gone by, when strongman rule, cult-like worship of leaders, and reality-denying propaganda were things that happened somewhere else." www.thebulwark.com/p/animal-far...

License plate readers are growing fast. These days, they are cheap to own and operate. Essentially, a $100 burner phone with a $5/month prepaid account can be made into a license plate reader. It's gonna solve a lot of crime, making it impractical to drive anywhere to commit crime.

you guys don't mock the president. my own grandfather was murdered when an escalator stopped, launching him 700 feet through a hotel lobby and into the open mouth of a waiting anaconda

Talk Of Fascism Dangerous, Warns Ministry Of Compliance

1/ I’m Till Eckert, a ProPublica reporter. For the past 2 weeks, I’ve been going to the same NY immigration courthouse. Nearly every time, I see ICE agents arresting immigrants. Today, a woman was slammed to the ground after begging officials not to take her husband away. Thread 👇

Lol. LMAO, even: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

James Comey was just indicted by a grand jury. Back in the Obama admin as FBI director, he defended government encryption backdoors by claiming that the DoJ would never abuse it's authority, and if it did, the courts would stop them. Has he changed his mind?

As far as I can tell, all the good people have been raptured.

As far as I can tell, all the good people have been raptured.

In yesterday's discussion of that UN SIM farm story, I mentioned the conflict between techies and the sorts of "people who matter" that the NYTimes quotes. Today, I write a blogpost that expands on that. cybersect.substack.com/p/techies-vs...

Current status: watching www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1tj...

"Well, there's your problem..." #DonaldTrump #Escalator

More than 1800 detainees are missing after the closure of Alligator Alcatraz. Their families and lawyers can’t find them and they’ve vanished from the ICE database. Feels like this should be a much bigger story www.miamiherald.com/news/local/i...

Back in the day as a business owner, I think we had 2 H1B visa employees out of 100 employees. They added important skills we couldn't otherwise find, but not worth the added $100k each. There is a the "long tail" of small businesses where H1B is important.

It's hard to imagine @jasonleopold.bsky.social not getting tons of journalism awards.

Here's what a 35 mile radius to the UN building looks like. It's an absurd claim by the Secret Service on its face.

Also “concentrated within 35 miles of the U.N.”: - The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire - The events of The Great Gatsby - All 63 home losses by the Mets and Yankees - Five murders this year in Patterson, NJ - Gunshot wounds to Mary Jo Buttafuoco - The 2003 Staten Island Ferry crash

Thanks for the write up, the original story was driving me utterly insane. I was speaking to someone who was breathlessly repeating the guy saying his "instinct" was that it's espionage related. You know why he called it "instinct?" Because there's no god damn evidence for it.

But … but … they were concentrated within 35 miles of the U.N.!

Nexstar is asking the Trump administration to bend its rules to allow a merger to proceed. They have to censor Kimmel to appease the FCC. Sinclair may also care about regulators, but they are famously right-wing wing, so they may be doing so out of their own interest (not censorship).

I'm sorry I'm late to the story, but here is my hottake on the Secret Service vs. SIM farm story. cybersect.substack.com/p/that-secre...

Blog "A history of kernel threads". Gather 'round children as an old timer explains. cybersect.substack.com/p/a-history-...

Well, yes, recovery codes are when everything has gone wrong and you need an emergency recovery. You wouldn't store those encrypted, what if you lost the encryption key???