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Jonty @fairless.xyz · 5h

Windows 10 goes out of support today. My fave useless fact about w10 is that the iconic blue desktop background is a *photograph* - not CGI.

Tiny 'making of' vid here - youtu.be/_2RacX9DgWM...

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 11h

Think a lot of folks underestimate how far the distance is between "there should be a national protest" and there actually being one. But it's logistically about the distance between a child drawing a house and having one you built that you can live in. Words are cheap, especially online.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12h

Folks saying how the protest should be organized differently are very welcome to go ahead and organize their own protests

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 12h

We miss you when you're not here tho

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 15h

They're chanting boo-urns, sir

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 16h

RIP

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 17h

To go a bit further, I think the active presumption should be that the use of force is illegal if it is not publicly justified. The burden of justification falls on the party using force.

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 17h

This is my position. Any public use of force by the state, in my view, should be announced alongside a public statement of the domestic and foreign legal authorities invoked to conduct it. Democratic states and the international community should demand and expect nothing less

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 18h

Or a single dog being harmed is the cause of a multi-film rampage

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 18h

The legal community not evicting him—even on competence, if not basic moral grounds—remains a disgrace

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 18h

Yoo remains (sfaik) the only person at OLC to ever have a memo actively retracted by the head of OLC because it's reasoning was so defective (it didn't even /reference/ Youngstown in a case where the president was directing an action explicitly forbidden by statute, which is *wild*)

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 18h

I have no doubt, but "if the public could read our legal memo and see that it is bullshit that would suck, even though the targets are public and we post videos about them" is a completely illegitimate basis for keeping it classified

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 18h

CNN reports that it exists, and its existence was asserted to the various congressional oversight committees. I don't have any particular reason to doubt its existence, tho (a) there is categorically no reason to hold it as classified (b) I expect its reasoning is bogus www.cnn.com/2025/10/06/p...

Exclusive: Classified Justice Department opinion authorizes strikes on secret list of cartels, sources say | CNN Politics

The Trump administration has produced a classified legal opinion that justifies lethal strikes against a secret and expansive list of cartels and suspected drug traffickers, according to multiple peop...

www.cnn.com

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 18h

Fun fact: his OLC opinion was so defective that CIA drafted their own (separately defective, tho less so) guidances on that program rather than rely on it. And then the people running that program went well beyond what was defectively authorized in any case. Anyway lots of people should be in prison

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 18h

*OLC memo rather. Ugh getting old and forgetting words

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 18h

There's at minimum an OLC opinion to the effect that the strikes are legal, tho it is not public, so with respect to at least some of the strikes (including this one) so it will at least be a consideration and get messy (because it's not competent advice, but it's also binding advice)

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 18h

Will be a bit of a mess disentangling whether good faith reliance on advice of counsel applies, but I think good reasons to think it shouldn't in this case

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 19h

Were such things here as we do speak about?
Or have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 19h

Wasn't expecting to have to deal with my phone keyboard being emotionally insecure today

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Dhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 21h

Legendary work from @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social.

He and a team uncovered a trove of data from a surveillance firm — location data from thousands of phone numbers from nearly every country on Earth.

The firm had been tracking everyone from Erik Prince to journalists to Jared Leto.

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

Inside the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

motherjones.com

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 20h

I mean, what is actually happening is someone senior inside Google is annoying a billion customers so they can point at a graph in their performance review

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 20h

Apparently enjoying a phone keyboard is a thing someone in mountain view thinks is a normal emotion to have for a phone keyboard

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 20h

Somehow today I got a notification from YouTube asking me to rate *the notification itself* and now my phone keyboard is asking me to rate it, and I feel like Google has lost their mind

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 23h

"A drink with no nutritional value" and then saying the alternatives are gas station energy drinks which are ... a very unhealthy alternative for the most part

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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 1d

The usual two distinctions are not about states, but about purpose (ie detention for the purpose of trade is hostage-like) and sometimes status (whether there is any pretence of legitimate basis for the detention, whether criminal, administrative, or POW), rather than a moral distinction

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