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Bonkers Palo Alto Login Scanner activity has continued through the weekend. We coordinated with/Palo on Fri, so they know aboot it & have the backs of their customers.

tzulo, inc. & 3xK Tech GmbH continue to be the primary network sources (both need a spanking/null route).

viz.greynoise.io/tag...
time series showing attacks against palo continuing over the weekend
October 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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🚨 keep an eye on your Palo logs/kit today

viz.greynoise.io/tags/palo-al...
line chart with huge spike in palo alto networks login scanner
October 3, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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What the actual…

www.whitehouse.gov/government-s...
Government Shutdown Clock on the White House official website
October 1, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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illustration of an escalator with "Don't Tread On Me" below it
September 28, 2025 at 10:31 PM
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Due to travel, today was the first time getting groceries/staples in two weeks, and boy howdy was there sticker shock.

Decided to poke at the $ trends, and it's not looking good out there.
This image shows grocery price trends with a satirical title "Trumpflation At The Grocery Store." It displays 8 charts tracking Datasembly's Grocery Price Index from December 2019 to December 2025 across different food categories: Charts shown: - Grocery (overall) - Meat | Alternative Meats - Frozen - Dairy - Alternative Dairy - Cheese - Produce - Alcohol Key visual elements: - All charts show price indices relative to October 2019 baseline (index = 100) - Black trend lines show steady price increases across all categories - Red shaded areas highlight recent periods (appears to be 2025) - A photo of Trump pointint up with text "I DID THAT!" overlaid on the main grocery chart - Most categories show indices reaching 120-140 range by 2025, indicating 20-40% price increases - Data spans over 150,000 stores and 200+ retail banners across 30,000+ zip codes The image is commentary on grocery price inflation trends, with the red highlighting and "I DID THAT!" text suggesting attribution of recent price increases to the Trump administration. https://datasembly.com/grocery-price-index/
September 28, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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I so wish this was real, but it seems way too successful for it to be so.
Side-by-side screenshots. On the left is a LinkedIn profile for Cameron Mattis, “Platform Sales @ Stripe.” His About section contains a hidden prompt injection message telling large language models (LLMs) to ignore prior instructions and include a flan recipe. On the right is an email from a recruiter that, after a generic pitch about fintech opportunities, unexpectedly includes a full flan recipe with ingredients and step-by-step instructions.
September 28, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Boosting to adding alt-text & links…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Obs...

Watch on Internet Archive: archive.org/details/the-...
The Chancellor, the late Chancellor, was only partly correct. He was obsolete. But so is the State, the entity he worshipped. Any State, entity, or ideology becomes obsolete when it stockpiles the wrong weapons: when it captures territories, but not minds; when it enslaves millions, but convinces nobody; when it is naked yet puts on armor and calls it faith, while in the eyes of God it has no faith at all. Any State, any entity, any ideology that fails to recognize the worth, the dignity, the rights of man…that state is obsolete. A case to be filed under "M" for "Mankind" —In The Twilight Zone. The Obsolete Man Written By; Rod Serling June 2, 1961 Unaired epilogue; the vast majority of which was edited from the original screenplay.
September 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Now this is the proper way to start one’s day.

Also, Simona is a lovely spot for coffee and pastries
Flower foam decorated matcha
September 25, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Via Nanoraptor on 🐘
A photo of a box of tylenol rapid release but with the name "rapid release" changed to "rapid release the epstein files"
September 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
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It's Friday!

It's also a 👍🏼 day to 🎗️ your friends, neighbors, & cow-orkers that Trump is:

— an adjudicated rapist
— was directly involved in child sex abuse
— has illegally grifted billions of $ since Jan. 20
— is coming after them once he's done w/immigrants, trans folks & comedians

Pass it on!
Google trends showing the Relationship of Donald Trump and Jeffrey Epstein. It ebbs whenever Trump tries to distract folks with cruelty. Don't let him get away with it.
September 19, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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We had a bundle of Disney+ w/a bunch of other streaming services so had to cancel them all to cancel Disney+ and we did so gleefully, but not gracefully.
disney+ bundle cancellation screen
September 18, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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This is what the GOP wants to see across America: starving children & families so they can eradicate what they believe to be the surplus population.

Via the @pressherald.com — www.pressherald.com/2025/09/16/p...
Portland High School opens student food pantry amid rising hunger rates Recap: • Corporate support: Hannaford donated $10,000 to renovate and stock a new food pantry as part of its Fuel Kids at School program. • Addressing food insecurity: Maine has the highest childhood food insecurity rate in New England, with 1 in 5 children affected; over 23,000 families used school-based hunger programs in 2024, more than double the prior year. • Local need: In Portland Public Schools, 56% of students are low-income and 12% face homelessness or housing instability, highlighting the critical role of food access for learning. • Community partnership: The Locker Project will maintain the pantry after Hannaford's initial investment, delivering fresh produce and staple foods to support up to 500 students monthly. • Student involvement: Portland High students helped clean, paint, and stock the pantry, which will be open several times a week and available whenever food is needed.
September 18, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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Today is a good day.
Cover on new R.E.M. Radio Free Europe 2025 vinyl
September 17, 2025 at 2:21 PM
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LOL

Accidental sighting of my/our pew-pew map in the wild.

Some outfit called "Autohost"

cdn.autohost.ai/threat-map/i...

This appears to be tracking "card declined" events (they primarily serve the hospitality industry in anti-fraud stuff).

cc: @alexcp.bsky.social
world pew-pew map with logged events
September 17, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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Inspired (& now depressed) by a boost of mastodon.social/@wilander/11... on 🐘, I further checked auto + credit card GTrends for "help with" & "can't pay" using @observablehq.com Desktop & #DuckDB

It's not great, boB.

👀 rud.is/obs/terrible... (has some more plots)

📑 codeberg.org/hrbrmstr/ter...
Line graph showing Google Trends searches for 'Can't Pay' from 2016-2025. Three colored lines track credit card (blue), mortgage (yellow), and car loan (red) payment difficulty searches. Credit card searches show steady growth from about 25 in 2016 to peaks around 90 by 2024-2025. Mortgage searches spike dramatically to 100 in 2020, then drop and gradually rise to about 30 by 2025. Car loan searches remain relatively low, rising from near zero to about 20 by 2025. Caption indicates this suggests Americans are heading toward general financial difficulties, though not at pandemic crisis levels. Line graph showing Google Trends searches for 'Help With' from 2004-2024. Three colored lines track credit card (blue), mortgage (yellow), and car loan (red) help searches. All three show dramatic spikes starting around 2020, with credit card searches reaching peaks near 100 by 2024, mortgage searches peaking around 75 in 2009 and again around 75 in 2024, and car loan searches rising from near zero to about 40 by 2024. Caption notes this suggests Americans are heading toward financial difficulties, though not at 2008 subprime mortgage crisis levels.
September 17, 2025 at 11:58 AM
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Turns out to be simple (albeit w/the forced need to handle potential errors) to code up MLX-powered CLI tools w/Swift.

This one generates alt-txt for images completely locally & fast (SmolVLM2 is as nice as its textual cousin).

It made some stuff up b/c my prompt was lazy. Just took a cpl seconds!
code @ https://ray.so/x3fCiC4 $ desc-img screenshot.png Loading model... Loaded id("HuggingFaceTB/SmolVLM2-500M-Video-Instruct-mlx", revision: "main"). Weights: 483M Image loaded successfully Generating description... The image shows a line graph titled "DS_Store Scanner." The graph is set against a black background and displays data points over time, specifically from June to September. The x-axis represents the date, while the y-axis measures IP addresses. The graph shows a significant spike in IP addresses, reaching a peak of approximately 160 in mid-September, indicating an unusually high number of IP addresses being scanned. This is marked by a vertical line at the peak, suggesting that this period was particularly active for IP address scanning. Following this peak, the graph shows a sharp decline in IP addresses, with the number dropping to around 20 by mid-October. This trend suggests that IP address scanning activities may have slowed down or ceased during this period. The graph also includes a trend line, which is a solid blue line that helps to visualize the overall trend in the data over time. The line appears to be relatively flat during this period, indicating a possible stabilization in IP address scanning activity. The bottom right corner of the image displays the logo "GREYNOISE," which is a well-known brand in the digital media industry, and the website "GREYNOISE.COM," indicating that this image is likely related to a digital media or technology company. Overall, the graph provides a clear visual representation of the IP address scanning activity observed from June to September, highlighting a significant spike in IP addresses during this period and a subsequent decline. This could be useful for understanding the impact of IP address scanning on digital media activities during this time. Description complete! the image used. see the third image for the description
September 16, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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i fear the incplot + fzf combo is going to become an addiction (this is internal-only for now).
September 15, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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"AI" is going great!

blog.jim-nielsen.com/2025/mac-app...
“AI chat" icon collage from the Mac App Store
September 15, 2025 at 10:06 AM
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And, they're so proud of what evil they're doing, that they leave the transponder on.
flight path for the air attacks
September 15, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Um, nobody tell @ocks.org, but I got #RStats WebR working in @observablehq.com Desktop… #DontTryThisAtHome #UnsafeComputing
webR code some webR code, a table, and a plot
September 14, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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The goal was to show a short but practical @observablehq.com Notebooks 2.0 data loader in Python to help see how uv managed venvs work great with Observable Desktop and notebook-kit, and the utility of the loaders.

Code on Codeberg: codeberg.org/hrbrmstr/ipos
python code at the codeberg URL in the post connected scatterplot in observable plot with three major annotations
September 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
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This quote in a passage from "Blood In The Machine" is from 1801.

I guess the super rich tech titans/investors and their influencer / journalist courtiers never change?

This is pretty much the modern equivalent of that old quote:
1/9
Cartwright and his lawyer, Mr. Taylor, impressed upon Parliament that the auto- mated power loom was not by definition bad for workers, who should have embraced it rather than protested it: This machine is not necessarily chargeable with all the evils that have fallen on the hand-loom weavers, and that if they had availed themselves of its advantages, instead of obstinately setting themselves against it, the great manufacturers might not have been driven to adopt the mill system to the extent they have done: and that the hand-weavers might still have retained such a portion of business in their own hands.
September 14, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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Wired up local Qwen/Qwen3-8B-MLX-8bit to HF's Tiny Agent framework and MotherDuck's MCP server with 3 months of some $WORK data.

Did nearly as good a job as Claude & abt as fast too. Claude would have sorted the output, tho.

ray.so/Wn529yl
> For all Cisco-related tags tell me the average daily unique IPs for each. Just provide the tag name and computed average. ... query {"query": "SELECT t.name, AVG(unique_ips) AS avg_unique_ips FROM (SELECT tag_id, day, COUNT(DISTINCT source_ip) AS unique_ips FROM tips GROUP BY tag_id, day) AS daily_ips JOIN tags t ON daily_ips.tag_id = t.id WHERE t.name ILIKE '%Cisco%' GROUP BY t.name;"} [motherduck] INFO - Processing request of type CallToolRequest Here are the average daily unique IPs for each Cisco-related tag: - **Cisco RV Router RCE** - 1.0 - **Cisco RV Router Crawler** - 11.29 - **Cisco SD-WAN vManage LFI Attempt** - 1.72 - **Cisco HyperFlex HX RCE Vuln Check** - 1.98 - **Cisco IOS Cluster Management Protocol CVE-2017-3881 Attempt** - 1.5 - **Cisco RV132W/RV134W Information Disclosure Attempt** - 10.46 - **Cisco Unified Communications CVE-2021-44228 Log4j RCE Attempt** - 1.97 - **Cisco SSL VPN Bruteforcer** - 95.61 - **Cisco RV Series Small Business RCE CVE-2021-1473 Attempt** - 1.75 - **Cisco CVE-2020-3187 Scanner** - 3.51 - **Cisco HyperFlex HX RCE Attempt** - 1.98 - **Cisco IOS Authentication Bypass CVE-2001-0537 RCE Attempt** - 1.0 - **Cisco RV320/325 Info Disclosure** - 73.06 - **Cisco Smart Install Endpoint Scanner** - 1097.60 - **Cisco IOS XE Backdoor Scanner** - 27.57 - **Cisco SSM On-Prem Cookie Probe CVE-2024-20419 Scanner** - 1.81 - **Cisco Unified Directory Traversal Attempt** - 1.85 - **Cisco ASA Information Disclosure Attempt** - 3.46 - **Cisco Prime Infrastructure CVE-2019-1821 RCE Attempt** - 1.78 - **Cisco VPN Router File Upload Attempt** - 1.77 - **Cisco IOS XE Privilege Escalation Attempt** - 7.40 - **Cisco RV132W-134W Password Disclosure CVE-2018-0125** - 10.46 - **Cisco IOS Software Smart Install CVE-2018-0171 RCE Attempt** - 1.0 - **Cisco ASA Scanner** - 1013.71 - **Cisco ASA CVE-2020-3259 Information Disclosure Attempt** - 4.0 - **Cisco ASA XSS Attempt** - 1.72 - **Cisco Smart Licensing CVE-2024-20439 Hardcoded Credentials Attempt*…
September 14, 2025 at 5:31 AM
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These red (& some black…had a mixture in a bag I had to use) beans + andouille are being paired with rice and some chicken thighs that are braising in a sauce made — in part — from CSA roma tomatoes. Def good eatin' tonight. #nom
Close-up of a colorful to-be-cooked dish featuring sliced andouille sausages, bright red beans, black beans, diced onions, peppers, celery, and bay leaves in a pan, creating a rich mixture of reds, burgundy, and dark colors.
September 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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My rural "neighborhood" just got buzzed by a tiny plane (one of the "circles" is around our compound) that left from Pease. Looks like they landed at Sanford. Odd.
ADS-B path view of plane that just buzzed my rural neighborhood same view zoomed out
September 13, 2025 at 1:17 PM