Alex Forster
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Trying to solve DDoS for good at Cloudflare
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To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
Textbook war crime/extrajudicial killing
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
"Two survivors were clinging to the smoldering wreck. The Special Operations commander overseeing the Sept. 2 attack ... ordered a second strike to comply with Hegseth’s instructions."
Report by @alexhorton.bsky.social @ellenwapo.bsky.social o.bsky.social
Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 PM
To put a finer point on this whole thing: "Two people with direct knowledge of the operation" — presumably uniformed military leaders — are accusing the U.S. Secretary of Defense of personally ordering specific war crimes. That's a historic accusation.
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OK, who narced?
November 28, 2025 at 4:44 PM
OK, who narced?
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And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
NEW: The first two years of Massachusetts' millionaire tax has raised $3 billion more than expected.
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
And rather than driving the rich away, IPS researchers found that the number of millionaires has *increased.*
Tax the rich. Greg Ryan in @bloomberg.com:
Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts
A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...
www.bloomberg.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:16 AM
And we knew this. This wasn't speculation. We studied it, we had the talking points. We trained volunteers to explain this to people. It's not a surprise. Rich people don't flee places with good quality of life when we increase the quality of life. They might try to cheat us, but they don't leave.
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Pretty much every single one of these new government accounts is posting rage bait. It's possible (like 100% guaranteed) they are trying to provoke people here on purpose, so don't fall for it. Blockity block block block.
Gotta block ‘em all!
Here’s the one-stop shopping blocklist to disappear the Trump regime accounts that swarmed Bluesky yesterday.
Flush these turds HERE -
bsky.app/profile/did:...
Here’s the one-stop shopping blocklist to disappear the Trump regime accounts that swarmed Bluesky yesterday.
Flush these turds HERE -
bsky.app/profile/did:...
October 18, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Pretty much every single one of these new government accounts is posting rage bait. It's possible (like 100% guaranteed) they are trying to provoke people here on purpose, so don't fall for it. Blockity block block block.
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Social movements are more likely to have success when three factors are present: elite conflict, shifting public opinion, and elite blunders.
Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.
Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.
October 18, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Social movements are more likely to have success when three factors are present: elite conflict, shifting public opinion, and elite blunders.
Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.
Mass collective action can create the conditions for these factors to emerge and deepen.
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Listen you can’t go on a show called “I’ve had it” and then be surprised when they’ve had it!!!!
"What do you have to say about the capitulation that you participated in?"
Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social
Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc
Cory Booker clearly wasn't expecting the pushback he got from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social
Full interview: youtu.be/HLfzsOVjlxc
October 15, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Listen you can’t go on a show called “I’ve had it” and then be surprised when they’ve had it!!!!
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Not enough writers with national reach are traveling around getting flash banged and shot at by various police imo.
October 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Not enough writers with national reach are traveling around getting flash banged and shot at by various police imo.
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I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
October 10, 2025 at 11:59 PM
I like how the news will be like “while the President claiming Portland was ruled by a giant skeleton named Mr Nibbles is not strictly true, it does speak to the anxiety of many Americans”
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Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur
The Post laid off seemingly the remaining of their liberal-leaning staff members on Opinion last Thursday, when some of them were observing Yom Kippur.
from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal
from @oliverdarcy.bsky.social for Status
status.news/p/washington-post-opinion-cuts-adam-oneal
October 8, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Got a recent Pulitzer for warning on the spread of autocracy around the globe, after decades of service to the paper? You can bet your butt you're getting laid off by form email, on Yom Kippur
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“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."
-Anne Frank
-Anne Frank
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt
37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN
Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.
www.cnn.com
October 5, 2025 at 10:15 AM
“Terrible things are happening outside. At any time of night and day, poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes .... Families are torn apart; men, women and children are separated."
-Anne Frank
-Anne Frank
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For TechCrunch, I wrote about Unit 221B, a cybersecurity company that's recently made a name for itself by tracking today's top English-speaking hacking groups, including Scattered Spider, and helping to disrupt their operations.
Now the company has raised $5 million to focus on the threat.
Now the company has raised $5 million to focus on the threat.
Unit 221B raises $5 million to help track and disrupt today’s top hacking groups | TechCrunch
The seed funding raise will help Unit 221B expand its threat intelligence platform, which tracks the English-speaking youth hacking phenomenon.
techcrunch.com
September 22, 2025 at 5:33 PM
For TechCrunch, I wrote about Unit 221B, a cybersecurity company that's recently made a name for itself by tracking today's top English-speaking hacking groups, including Scattered Spider, and helping to disrupt their operations.
Now the company has raised $5 million to focus on the threat.
Now the company has raised $5 million to focus on the threat.
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Cloudflare just autonomously blocked hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks twice as large as anything seen on the Internet before — peaking at 22.2 Tbps & 10.6 Bpps. Can your mitigation provider’s scrubbing capacity handle that scale?
September 22, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Cloudflare just autonomously blocked hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks twice as large as anything seen on the Internet before — peaking at 22.2 Tbps & 10.6 Bpps. Can your mitigation provider’s scrubbing capacity handle that scale?
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We are aghast at the intolerance shown by Mr. Kimmel implying that Charlie Kirk was human and not the second Son of God.
Instead of the angry finger-pointing, can we just for one day agree that it is horrible and monstrous to shoot another human? On behalf of my family, we send love to the Kirks and to all the children, parents and innocents who fall victim to senseless gun violence.
September 17, 2025 at 11:54 PM
We are aghast at the intolerance shown by Mr. Kimmel implying that Charlie Kirk was human and not the second Son of God.
their superpower is that they feel no shame for their hypocracy
Red states accused the Biden administration of "jawboning" -- coercing social media platforms to "censor" content (mostly COVID misinformation), merely by liaising and flagging false content for those companies. Now the FCC *explicitly threatens* a network over content but that's all good?
September 18, 2025 at 2:47 AM
their superpower is that they feel no shame for their hypocracy
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Red states accused the Biden administration of "jawboning" -- coercing social media platforms to "censor" content (mostly COVID misinformation), merely by liaising and flagging false content for those companies. Now the FCC *explicitly threatens* a network over content but that's all good?
September 18, 2025 at 2:45 AM
Red states accused the Biden administration of "jawboning" -- coercing social media platforms to "censor" content (mostly COVID misinformation), merely by liaising and flagging false content for those companies. Now the FCC *explicitly threatens* a network over content but that's all good?
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There are very, VERY few people who are equipped to talk about this shooter correctly given the brainrot written on the shell casing. You have to understand so much of online culture to get it and also understand how that culture is both connected to and separate from real world ideological spaces
September 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
There are very, VERY few people who are equipped to talk about this shooter correctly given the brainrot written on the shell casing. You have to understand so much of online culture to get it and also understand how that culture is both connected to and separate from real world ideological spaces
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Over the past few weeks, we've autonomously blocked hundreds of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks, with the largest reaching peaks of 5.1 Bpps and 11.5 Tbps. The 11.5 Tbps attack was a UDP flood that mainly came from Google Cloud. Stay tuned for a full breakdown in our upcoming report.
September 1, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Over the past few weeks, we've autonomously blocked hundreds of hyper-volumetric DDoS attacks, with the largest reaching peaks of 5.1 Bpps and 11.5 Tbps. The 11.5 Tbps attack was a UDP flood that mainly came from Google Cloud. Stay tuned for a full breakdown in our upcoming report.
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The Trump administration tried to snatch unaccompanied minors from foster homes, put them on planes and deport them illegally, on the weekend, during the night
lawyers worked through the night to prevent it, while kids sat on the tarmac
words fail me
lawyers worked through the night to prevent it, while kids sat on the tarmac
words fail me
On August 31, 2025, in the dead of night and with just hours’ notice, the Trump administration attempted to illegally deport over 180 Guatemalan children—ripping them from shelters and foster homes, loading them into vans, and rushing them to airports. #ImmigrationJustice #ProtectChildren
August 31, 2025 at 9:39 PM
The Trump administration tried to snatch unaccompanied minors from foster homes, put them on planes and deport them illegally, on the weekend, during the night
lawyers worked through the night to prevent it, while kids sat on the tarmac
words fail me
lawyers worked through the night to prevent it, while kids sat on the tarmac
words fail me
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NEW from @kashhill.bsky.social and me:
Over three weeks in May, a man became convinced by ChatGPT that the fate of the world rested on his shoulders.
Otherwise perfectly sane, Allan Brooks is part of a growing number of people getting into chatbot-induced delusional spirals. This is his story.
Over three weeks in May, a man became convinced by ChatGPT that the fate of the world rested on his shoulders.
Otherwise perfectly sane, Allan Brooks is part of a growing number of people getting into chatbot-induced delusional spirals. This is his story.
Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens.
www.nytimes.com
August 8, 2025 at 4:34 PM
NEW from @kashhill.bsky.social and me:
Over three weeks in May, a man became convinced by ChatGPT that the fate of the world rested on his shoulders.
Otherwise perfectly sane, Allan Brooks is part of a growing number of people getting into chatbot-induced delusional spirals. This is his story.
Over three weeks in May, a man became convinced by ChatGPT that the fate of the world rested on his shoulders.
Otherwise perfectly sane, Allan Brooks is part of a growing number of people getting into chatbot-induced delusional spirals. This is his story.
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This would have gone so hard as an AIM away message in 1999
August 7, 2025 at 1:31 AM
This would have gone so hard as an AIM away message in 1999
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They will be called ICE Youth and when the historical parallels are pointed out they will act like it's insane to draw that comparison
DHS Secretary Kristi Noem just announced she's removing the age limit for ICE applicants, which allows literal teenagers to now apply. What could possibly go wrong?
August 6, 2025 at 9:21 PM
They will be called ICE Youth and when the historical parallels are pointed out they will act like it's insane to draw that comparison
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I don't keep up with Taibbi's work much, but every time I see one of his revelations it's just a normal detail I reported years ago about how the US previously responded to foreign election interference efforts, except he didn't pay attention then and now thinks it's new and he's mad about it.
Taibbi's smoking gun is that the Obama admin knew Russia hadn't altered votes, something nobody credible had ever accused them of and thus....illegal? lmao
Dude's an unemployable sex pest and traffic from qanon types is the only thing keeping the lights on. Pathetic
Dude's an unemployable sex pest and traffic from qanon types is the only thing keeping the lights on. Pathetic
Completely off the deep end into conspiracy theory realm here. Obama is going to jail for Russiagate? Lmao man
July 20, 2025 at 1:10 AM
I don't keep up with Taibbi's work much, but every time I see one of his revelations it's just a normal detail I reported years ago about how the US previously responded to foreign election interference efforts, except he didn't pay attention then and now thinks it's new and he's mad about it.
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If you think for one second that this decision has nothing to do with Trump, don’t worry, he will brag about it within the next 24 hours and disabuse you of that notion.
July 18, 2025 at 12:28 AM
If you think for one second that this decision has nothing to do with Trump, don’t worry, he will brag about it within the next 24 hours and disabuse you of that notion.
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We just went through a half-decade of sham censorship hearings in Congress, but it certainly seems like the government forced a comedian to get fired as a bribe to ensure a merger goes through.
Is that true? Let's have a hearing and find out.
Is that true? Let's have a hearing and find out.
I think like many, many people I find the idea that CBS has just cancelled Colbert out of the blue like this for financial reasons *highly* implausible. He’s the most viewed late night host on TV, and his ratings have been going up.
NEW YORK (AP) — Stephen Colbert tells studio audience CBS is canceling 'The Late Show,' to end in May 2026.
July 18, 2025 at 12:50 AM
We just went through a half-decade of sham censorship hearings in Congress, but it certainly seems like the government forced a comedian to get fired as a bribe to ensure a merger goes through.
Is that true? Let's have a hearing and find out.
Is that true? Let's have a hearing and find out.