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Our revels now are ended
Cypherpunk • SigInt • InfoSec • Harlequin
Equal among corvids
Privacy erodes if not asserted
Cover: Rime that looks like frosted grass
Cypherpunk • SigInt • InfoSec • Harlequin
Equal among corvids
Privacy erodes if not asserted
Cover: Rime that looks like frosted grass
This is a cracking good read. Great for a lazy Sunday afternoon.
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How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device?
(Ok the headline is slightly misleading as it was a Pu RTG, but this is the best write up of this incident I think I’ve seen).
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
(Ok the headline is slightly misleading as it was a Pu RTG, but this is the best write up of this incident I think I’ve seen).
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
How Did the C.I.A. Lose a Nuclear Device in the Himalayas? (Gift Article)
A plutonium-packed generator disappeared on one of the world’s highest mountains in a covert mission that the U.S. will not talk about.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2025 at 4:24 PM
This is a cracking good read. Great for a lazy Sunday afternoon.
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Great thread.
However, I can't shake a nagging feeling: it's just the latest 'oh shit' moment for a dwindling cadre of conscientious Yanks, oblivious to the rest of the world already acting (too slowly) on the knowledge America can no longer be trusted.
However, I can't shake a nagging feeling: it's just the latest 'oh shit' moment for a dwindling cadre of conscientious Yanks, oblivious to the rest of the world already acting (too slowly) on the knowledge America can no longer be trusted.
Churches showing an AI Charlie Kirk telling congregants, through an artificial voice, not to let evil win is a new level of instrumentalizing the dead.
When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.
When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.
I wrote about how MAGA is being shaped by a politics of immortality, how Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom reflects this, and what it could mean for the future of Trumpism. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...
December 14, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Great thread.
However, I can't shake a nagging feeling: it's just the latest 'oh shit' moment for a dwindling cadre of conscientious Yanks, oblivious to the rest of the world already acting (too slowly) on the knowledge America can no longer be trusted.
However, I can't shake a nagging feeling: it's just the latest 'oh shit' moment for a dwindling cadre of conscientious Yanks, oblivious to the rest of the world already acting (too slowly) on the knowledge America can no longer be trusted.
This is content.
Yous bitches better step up
Yous bitches better step up
ME: I've never dated a cenobite before. I'm not sure, who pays?
CENOBITE: Your panic is exquisite.
ME: I wouldn't mind going dutch…?
CENOBITE: I can taste your pain on the air. A shiver of electricity. I am going to hold your head down on the floor and open your skull from behind.
ME: I'll just pay.
CENOBITE: Your panic is exquisite.
ME: I wouldn't mind going dutch…?
CENOBITE: I can taste your pain on the air. A shiver of electricity. I am going to hold your head down on the floor and open your skull from behind.
ME: I'll just pay.
December 13, 2025 at 8:49 PM
This is content.
Yous bitches better step up
Yous bitches better step up
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This is literally one of the funniest threads I have ever seen. Brilliant.
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
December 11, 2025 at 4:16 AM
This is literally one of the funniest threads I have ever seen. Brilliant.
This is excellent messaging around the motivations for online age verification legislations.
The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative. - www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxRB... brilliant as ever; don't miss... #australia #under16
Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 1:42 PM
This is excellent messaging around the motivations for online age verification legislations.
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Kīlauea is showing off : the main fountain reaches 300m high, and 800m laterally 🌋⚒️
December 7, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Kīlauea is showing off : the main fountain reaches 300m high, and 800m laterally 🌋⚒️
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
Happy anniversary to this glorious post
*outside the manger*
wife: Dave, their infant is holy, don't say anything weird
3 mins later: ooh, he looks so tender
wife: jesus Christ, Dave
Dave: ...and ...mild?
wife: Dave, their infant is holy, don't say anything weird
3 mins later: ooh, he looks so tender
wife: jesus Christ, Dave
Dave: ...and ...mild?
December 7, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Happy anniversary to this glorious post
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Right - so as the relatively rare Irishman who is also a Russia/FSU geek I guess I have to have Thoughts and Opinions after yesterday's revelations. First off - I don't think that this was an attempted assassination or other "kinetic" mission. The goal here seems to have been purely psychological /1
December 5, 2025 at 7:46 AM
Right - so as the relatively rare Irishman who is also a Russia/FSU geek I guess I have to have Thoughts and Opinions after yesterday's revelations. First off - I don't think that this was an attempted assassination or other "kinetic" mission. The goal here seems to have been purely psychological /1
I'm not buying this cherry-picked argument.
Tarantino has always been an equal-opportunity asshole.
Tarantino has always been an equal-opportunity asshole.
Tarantino is clearly a sick misogynist who gets off on hurting women.
There's numerous stories of him stepping in to perform violent acts on women in his films whenever he can (face won't be seen)
These moments in Kill Bill, Diane Kruger in Inglorious Bastards
slate.com/culture/2025...
There's numerous stories of him stepping in to perform violent acts on women in his films whenever he can (face won't be seen)
These moments in Kill Bill, Diane Kruger in Inglorious Bastards
slate.com/culture/2025...
Kill Bill Is Back in Theaters in a New Version. It’ll Never Play the Same.
The Whole Bloody Affair changed the way I saw Tarantino’s epic revenge film—and so did the reporting about its making.
slate.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I'm not buying this cherry-picked argument.
Tarantino has always been an equal-opportunity asshole.
Tarantino has always been an equal-opportunity asshole.
There are two types of neutrality.
Swiss: G'won lads, try it
Irish: Ah c'mon now lads I've a fierce headache
Swiss: G'won lads, try it
Irish: Ah c'mon now lads I've a fierce headache
Christ on a cracker — these seemingly hostile drones only missed Zelensky’s plane because he was unexpectedly early www.thejournal.ie/drones-dubli...
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 5, 2025 at 7:58 AM
There are two types of neutrality.
Swiss: G'won lads, try it
Irish: Ah c'mon now lads I've a fierce headache
Swiss: G'won lads, try it
Irish: Ah c'mon now lads I've a fierce headache
The US is just another one of his casinos.
This quote from @thekrebscycle.bsky.social is important.
It's from an article by @joemenn.bsky.social The Washington Post. Source article here: redact.link/krebs
It's from an article by @joemenn.bsky.social The Washington Post. Source article here: redact.link/krebs
November 30, 2025 at 2:55 PM
The US is just another one of his casinos.
Happy Dead Kissinger Day to all who celebrate!
A good day to remember Dobson and Kirk are also still dead.
A good day to remember Dobson and Kirk are also still dead.
November 29, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Happy Dead Kissinger Day to all who celebrate!
A good day to remember Dobson and Kirk are also still dead.
A good day to remember Dobson and Kirk are also still dead.
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Can’t get over him having a football bro version of a live laugh love tattoo
November 28, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Can’t get over him having a football bro version of a live laugh love tattoo
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Video shot by astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, shows a stunning display of the Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station.
November 23, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Video shot by astronaut Zena Cardman, commander of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-11 mission, shows a stunning display of the Northern Lights as seen from the International Space Station.
Fossil fuel industry not trying hard enough.
C'mon lads, let's make this a reality.
C'mon lads, let's make this a reality.
Every Category 4 and 5 Atlantic hurricane since 2020, all together, in one group photo.
H/t to @ferragamowx.bsky.social for the inspiration.
H/t to @ferragamowx.bsky.social for the inspiration.
November 21, 2025 at 5:36 PM
Fossil fuel industry not trying hard enough.
C'mon lads, let's make this a reality.
C'mon lads, let's make this a reality.
Awful shame, awful shame, awful shame
J6er Jake Lang got punched yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan during his anti-Muslim march.
November 19, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Awful shame, awful shame, awful shame
Oh look it's a 2nd Counter-Reformation, where the Catholics and Evangelicals are united through the sacrament of protecting pedophiles.
holy shit mike johnson is SHOOK on Epstein vote in Senate
November 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Oh look it's a 2nd Counter-Reformation, where the Catholics and Evangelicals are united through the sacrament of protecting pedophiles.
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THIS IS HUGE! Researchers have just identified a powerful new antibiotic that is 100x STRONGER than existing drugs against deadly superbugs like MRSA and VRE. Hiding in a well-known soil bacterium, pre-methylenomycin C lactone KILLS drug-resistant bacteria WITHOUT triggering resistance.
November 16, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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Did Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr take a secret trip to Stockholm?
But what if we kissed inside the giant taxidermy cetacean?
November 14, 2025 at 8:27 PM
Did Olivia Nuzzi and RFK Jr take a secret trip to Stockholm?
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the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent
November 13, 2025 at 4:06 PM
the only good accent work on earth is old money transatlantic american to make fun of rich people accent
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Nuzzi and RFK jr are basically Lady and the Tramp accidentally kissing while they’re both trying to slurp up the same massive brain worm
November 14, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Nuzzi and RFK jr are basically Lady and the Tramp accidentally kissing while they’re both trying to slurp up the same massive brain worm
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I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.
Yes, this is correct. And the reason is because our capitalist classes have decided that it is not sufficiently profitable, so they're not going to do it.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
We must understand this reality. Capital *cannot* be relied upon to address the climate crisis.
November 10, 2025 at 4:18 PM
I should write the argument up properly somewhere, but I think this is fundamentally wrong. A decisive fraction of the capitalist class does oppose addressing the climate crisis, but *not* because it would be bad for profits. If anything, a green New Deal type program would raise aggregate profits.
"Tides go in. Tides go out. You can't explain that."
November 10, 2025 at 9:48 PM
"Tides go in. Tides go out. You can't explain that."