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What caused Grok's Racist Meltdown

Hi I'm just here to inform you we're approximately the same age 😅

You know your suit is garbage when you have to file it pro se because no lawyer will risk their career in front of a judge.

If you're visiting Minneapolis, a trip to Can Can Wonderland is *totally* worth it. Free play arcade games and pinball, boozy milkshakes, and some really unique mini golf.

Are there any past examples of a sitting president suing someone -- forget about suing media, any lawsuit at all initiated by a sitting president while in office?

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Shot, chaser (for the record, I putted straight through, but partner was not so lucky)

One thing that didn't make it into this story: The cyber diplomacy bureau firings and reorganization will likely undermine its efforts to increase U.S. diplomats' tech and cyber literacy, a major project during the Biden era. I wrote about this last year: www.wired.com/story/us-sta...

People pulling shit like this on LinkedIn is absolutely hilarious to me. Someone can simply just Google my name and find all this info and more on Wikipedia. They always act like they've uncovered some secret dirt on me, as if my entire life story wasn't on the cover of Wired magazine...🙃

New, by me: A Middle East surveillance vendor has been caught exploiting a new attack in SS7, a set of protocols used by phone carriers, that can trick a phone operator into disclosing a person's phone location without their knowledge.

Would love to see the web statistics today for how many people around the globe are searching: "is chronic venous insufficiency fatal?" followed by a search a second later adding "how fast" at the start 🔎

The camera never lies but this AI model sure does, altering live video in dramatic ways. Given how quickly AI video has advanced, it may soon be difficult to believe anything you see on a livestream, TikTok, or video chat. www.wired.com/story/decart...

“I feel that if we in public television can only make it clear that feelings are mentionable and manageable, we will have done a great service for mental health.”

White House is to announce an executive order mandating that AI models used in federal contracts remain politically neutral, part of an effort to counter what it views as ideological bias embedded in artificial intelligence systems.

there's a stray shopping trolley sitting across the street from me and I'm resisting the temptation to adopt it

CP/M (a widely used OS for 8-bit microcomputers during the 1970s/1980s) Creator Gary Kildall’s Memoirs Released as Free Download computerhistory.org/blog/in-his-...

Various pro-Administration accounts have touted the Southern California ICE raids as a crackdown on child farm labor or criminal drug operations. Even if true, how would that explain a U.S. citizen gassed and jailed for three days without charges or a chance to call his family or a lawyer?

This should win an award.

TIL, there is a PlayStation 4 emulator for Windows, Linux and macOS written in C++. Currently, the emulator can successfully run games like Bloodborne, Dark Souls Remastered, Red Dead Redemption and many other games github.com/shadps4-emu/...

Immediate add to the reading list from @kimzetter.bsky.social

Came across this video I had not yet seen and it details the ways Dua Lipa excels at interviewing authors. It's nice to see this side of her getting some attention: www.youtube.com/watch?v=QN1r...

we are hiring for a network engineer on my team this isn’t going through an HR filter. it is going to my human eyeballs i am begging you not to use AI to dump a mess of crap in there. don’t make me wade through your AI slop pls blueorigin.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/BlueOrigin/j...

How did China's top APT hackers come to be? Many were early "Honkers" - patriotic hackers who in late 90s launched low-skill cyberattacks against nations deemed disrespectful to China. But once Honkers developed their skills, PLA/MSS came calling. Based on great research by bsky.app/profile/eube...

ICYMI: Big State Dept cyber diplomacy changes. "You can't pull apart cyber and digital in a world where they are interconnected," a source told me. "And you can't pretend when you, take out leadership across the board in a bureau like this, that [it's] going to be able to keep on moving forward."

The main reason why European Union is currently losing (yes, losing), the hybrid confrontation with Russia is mostly because Europe still does not accept the new mechanics of the utilised methods. More about this in 1-2 weeks. I would be happy to contribute an op-ed, but where?

i saw a hummingbird this morning desperately trying to drink out of a shiny metallic pinwheel in someone’s yard 😂😭 so i guess that’s something to consider for wildlife? lol poor little guy

The Hague’s Public Prosecution Service has a cybersecurity incident running and have shut down services, the NCSC are directing people to my blog with headers such as “China goes brrr” and “Russia goes bleep boop”

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Macropad CNC rotary encoder and the Feather RP2040 running CircuitPython learn.adafruit.com/cnc-rotary-macropad #adafruit #3dprinting youtu.be/UmJdvE2cYZE

My personal academic website went down for ages because of server rot and carelessness on my part. As a result, Google has forgotten it exists. I’m curious if anyone has any advice on how to get it back? Should I SEO myself?

has Unix or Linux command (more like bash script) checks presence of various command line tools on the PATH and reports their installed version github.com/kdabir/has #linux #unix #opensource

The only thing deployed today is me, out the door. Happy Read-only Friday.

I have this image saved on my phone camera reel as I get so much use out of it

The US has banned the Federal Reserve from issuing a digital currency (such as a government-backed cryptocurrency stablecoin), and gave banks a green light to create their own. A major win for the crypto lobby. Congress wants the private sector to lead on digital dollars.

I dont want to shout into the void anymore. I want to become the void. I want my soul to become a cavernous black hole that absorbs the voices of the desperate souls shouting into it. I want to swallow everyone's pain, I want to digest our broken world, I want to eat god. I want to be the void.

guess i’m gonna be doing a LOT of sarcastic bad skits for a while

And struggling to stay rust free...

Damn, that's good...

Okay, but it's kind of weird to advertise that on your luggage...

The absolute funniest shit is the cybersecurity consultants who are trying to advertise they would have stopped a startup CEO from going to a sold out show with a side piece My sibling in Cthulhu, you wouldn't stop them hiring an escort on their work laptop with admin rights and AV removed

The bane of my existence is that my skillset is best suited for counterintelligence focused cybersecurity roles, which have the strictest background checks. Meanwhile my background is best suited for being unable to get a job as shift manager at Wendy's.

😳 Firefox dev says Intel Raptor Lake crashes are increasing with rising temperatures in record European heat wave 😱

Vance needs to stop whatever he's doing with that couch and get on message...

The only take I have on the WSJ Trump Epstein letter that isn't already on this site is that I'm very impressed it only has two bylines.

Want Paint TUI image editor app inspired by MS Paint in your terminal just for fun? You can install it: pip install textual-paint Repo github.com/1j01/textual...

If these stories keep breaking, Trump is going to have to bomb Iran again...

I mean, maybe all these very credible stories are fabricated hit pieces. Or maybe, just maybe, Trump raped underage girls trafficked to him by Epstein. It's so hard to tell... 🤷‍♂️🙄

The #wallofsheep has come a long way since the days when offenders were scrawled on paper plates stapled to a wall. #ThrowbackThursday #defcon32 #defcon

At this point the question isn't whether or not Trump is US in the Epstein files, but instead "how many underage girls did he rape." The number isn't zero.

With typos in the press release no less...

Big tech companies: I will certify your AI as "non-woke" for a fee.

Texting the boys that I hope their day was a wonderful secret like normal buddies do.

I've got money that says it will later come out that this was done to appease the administration to clear the way for Paramount's merger approval.

Does she mean to imply that nobody at FEMA will pick up the phone and that she'll delay funding for any emergencies for 72 hours? Because that kind of sounds like a threat...

Let they who have never flown on a sex trafficker's private jet (repeatedly) cast the first stone...

I will be immediately launching a crypto bank named Cirith Ungol.

lol when there’s literally just ONE article over and over again in the Bluesky giftlink feed 😂😂

We elected a sexual predator who is on tape saying he would "grab 'em (Miss America contestants) by the p*ssy." I refuse to be surprised.