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Founder of @queercon @telechallenge @flyawardcat. Writer @2600, @tribeofhackers. Every day, my life continues to amaze me. 我是同性恋# 🏳️‍🌈 Opinions are my own.

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TProphet @tprophet.org · Dec 1

Meta: I have kept a public Mastodon account since leaving the other place, and this hasn't resulted in the level of drama that a public Twitter account did. Twitter kept turning my life upside down and never made me any money, so I limit social media because I don't have time for that.

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Mike Masnick @mmasnick.bsky.social · 10h

I seem to recall that it was the biggest 1st Amendment attack in American history when the Biden admin alerted social media companies to some content and said "hey does this violate your policies?" Will Matt Taibbi, Michael Shellenberger and (lol) CBS News Editor in Chief Bari Weiss call this out?

Tweet from Pam Bondi:

Today following outreach from
@thejusticedept
, Facebook removed a large group page that was being used to dox and target
@ICEgov
agents in Chicago.

The wave of violence against ICE has been driven by online apps and social media campaigns designed to put ICE officers at risk just for doing their jobs. The Department of Justice will continue engaging tech companies to eliminate platforms where radicals can incite imminent violence against federal law enforcement.

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ceej @ceej.online · Apr 28

that a bunch of billionaires have been irreversibly brainwormed by getting addicted to a glorified chat room adds credence to my theory that spending too much time on IRC as a child acts as a powerful inoculant to the worst impulses of an escalatory group dynamic

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 7h

What the fuck is this hell?

Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 7h

DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026

Like other companies with streaming businesses, DirecTV is leaning into ads more.

arstechnica.com

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Gammitin (Ben) 💾 @gammitin.bsky.social · 8h

Luna is growing up, she's currently in the Sassy Teenager phase 😂

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 8h

Imagine the media reaction if a single Democrat ever said anything like this ever once in history.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 8h

After bragging about permanently cutting "Democrat programs," Trump says "we're not closing up Republican programs."

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TProphet @tprophet.org · 10h

Banking is getting a lot less reliable in the US. I have had 3 separate banks just unilaterally bounce transactions that are completely valid (moving money between my own accounts) for "security." They just did it, they didn't even attempt to verify the validity of the transactions with me.

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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 12h

Speaker Mike Johnson just said he's completely fine with ICE agents shooting priests in the head with pepper balls and roughing up journalists.

I'm sure he'll tell us soon about how it's the Democrats who are waging a war on religion and free speech though.

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12h

Q: We've seen images out of Chicago of federal agents shooting faith leaders with pepper balls and arresting journalists. Where's the limit for you on what's acceptable conduct by federal agents?

MIKE JOHNSON: I've not seen them cross the line yet.

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TProphet @tprophet.org · 10h

If the federal government is calling literally half of the country terrorists, they have completely lost the plot. www.kenklippenstein.com/p/leak-feds-...

Leak: Feds Think Protests Hide Terrorism

“No Kings” protest eyed amid NSPM-7 domestic terror panic

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Blue Heron Farm @blueheronfarm.bsky.social · 1d

150+ unvaccinated kids in two schools? What the fuck are we doing here??

Clip from the attached story that says: He points to the current outbreak in South Carolina where more than 150 unvaccinated school children at two schools are now being subject to a 21-day quarantine after being exposed

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Senator Patty Murray @murray.senate.gov · 1d

Sea-Tac Airport won't air Kristi Noem's miserable propaganda, and that's a good thing.

Donald Trump is not a king, and dog killer Kristi Noem can't just force our airports to break the law on her behalf.

Sea-Tac won’t air Noem video blaming shutdown on Democrats

Seattle-Tacoma International Airport won’t broadcast a video of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem saying Democrats caused the federal government shutdown.

www.seattletimes.com

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George Conway 🇺🇸🚫👑🐸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 2d

blah blah Hunter Biden blah blah Burisma yada yada

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Adam Shostack @adamshostack.bsky.social · 1d

Publish your threat models!

Not convinced?

I'll be hosting a talk with OSTIF on Oct 29 @ 2pm CT for you to ask me questions.

Register now and have your questions, thoughts, and comments ready!

luma.com/6fvp6orm

Threat Modeling w/ Adam Shostack · Zoom · Luma

Description Publish your threat models! This talk will cover the idea of publishing threat models, the dangers associated with the idea, and why open source…

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George Pearkes @peark.es · 1d

Beef is just crazy expensive rn, especially compared to other commodities

Chart showing beef prices relative to the Bloomberg Commodity Index since 1965

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Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 2d

15 years of every C suite going “we need to fire the skilled workers and do more internet” and this is how every business works now.

Vince Mancini @vincemancini.bsky.social · 2d

Wife did a gravel order from Lowe’s for me to pick up. I drive to the pick up dock. Guy with a radio comes out. I show him the order receipt. He radios inside. They tell him to tell me to tell my wife to download the app so that she can check in on it to let them know I’m here to pick up the order.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 2d

we need to abolish this shit

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"Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.social · 2d

The Thirty set about trying to butcher and exile their way to an oligarchic Athens; in the end they had to be defeated by force of arms and expelled. They probably murdered something like 5% of the population in the process of failing.

I am real worried we're headed in the same direction.

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TProphet @tprophet.org · 2d

I'd like to see the Pope come to the US to try to give prayers, communion and spiritual comfort to those taken by ICE. They'll beat the Pope of course, and shoot him with tear gas, and arrest him, in front of the whole world to see. Pam Bondi will say "nobody is above our law." It'll be clear then.

D. Earl Stephens @dearlstephens.bsky.social · 2d

📌“The fact that I am American means, among other things, people can’t say, like they did about Francis, ‘he doesn’t understand the United States, he just doesn’t see what’s going on.’
“Do you not see the suffering? Is your conscience not disturbed?”

-Pope Leo in a direct rebuke of the hideous Trump

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TProphet @tprophet.org · 2d

US trade policy is hopelessly dysfunctional. At this point, I wouldn't be surprised if the rest of the world just refused to trade with us until we figure out what the rules are going to be.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

About a month ago, the Trump administration got rid of the de minimis exemption, whereby packages valued under $800 could slide in without import duties. Now there's a backlog as the government can't process all of this paperwork, leading to UPS just destroying packages

Business Insider headline reads: UPS is telling customers that their packages coming to the US are marked for destruction.

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TrustedReveler @trustedreveler.bsky.social · 7d

LA: we will fight you.

Chicago: we will fight you.

PDX: we will make you endure week after week of of improv theater.

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Mike McQuaid @mikemcquaid.com · Jul 29

Joel Spolsky's "Smart and Get Things Done" remains best summary for engineering talent.

No-one gives a shit how you did in school or what your IQ is if you can't actually ship.

No-one cares how fast you ship if you are stupid about how you do it.

Move faster, intelligently.

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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 2d

Portland, OR, 2025

Protester in frog costume stands in front of tank (meme of Tiananmen Square “Tank Man”)

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Karly Kingsley @karlykingsley.bsky.social · 3d

The RIFs that began Friday will reportedly cut 65% of CISA’s 2,540 employees, one of the dumbest and most dangerous moves imaginable. CISA defends the nation’s cyber and critical infrastructure. Destroying it now only makes sense if you’re afraid of election integrity.

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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 2d

New, from me:
Trump's 3 step plan to create a military omniforce
1. Purge - those deemed disloyal
2. Merge - different parts of law enforcement/military
3. Surge - impose the omniforce on Dem cities; instigate unrest; assert dominance; silence dissent
donmoynihan.substack.com/p/purge-merg...

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Barry Dorrans @blowdart.me · 3d

Experimenting to see what will happen

Two kittens on a table watching the flames in a wood stove

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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 3d

As Kevin correctly notes, this is a template straight from the playbook of the Caesars. It's how the republic became the principate, and how the principate later became the dominate. A military dependent on no other institution except the patronage of the emperor.

Kevin Elliott @kjephd.bsky.social · 3d

Unconstitutionally taking money that the law says must be spent on one purpose & using it for something else—when it's to establish personalist control over the FUCKING MILITARY—is about as dangerous a constitutional crisis/failure as you can imagine

Via: www.nbcnews.com/politics/tru...

The Office of Management and Budget sent a notification to Congress about their intent to use research and development funds to pay members of the military, two sources with direct knowledge tell NBC News.

A spokesperson for the OMB confirmed to NBC News that it plans to use the research and development funds and that there are two years' worth of funds available within the Department of Defense.

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