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jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Paul McCartney announces he's quitting the Beatles, 1970

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Belfast Agreement signed, Good Friday 1998

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: William Booth born, 1829, founder of Salvation Army

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Today in History: Commodore Matthew Calbraith Perry born, 1794

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Unfortunately, I have to say this again:

US election infrastructure isn't perfect and there's still work to do to make it more secure. But there is simply no credible evidence that the 2020 election outcome was altered through technical attacks, despite exhaustive scrutiny.

Shortly after the 2020 election, when these discredited claims were first raised, 58 of my colleagues and I issued this statement:

https://www.mattblaze.org/papers/election2020.pdf .

Nothing we've learned since then alters my assessment.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Covered Kyllo in my surveillance class today. It's always fun to play with thermal imagers (and people are always freaked out when you can see residual handprints 5 minutes after resting your hand on the wall)

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

"Don't engage, just block" is such a lovely thing

RE: https://www.threads.net/@veronicaroth/post/DIPjxWpR2QH

jwz wrote:

ButterflyMX Is Going Great.

Back in 2021, my building's management made the amazing self-own of replacing our existing 90s-vintage RFID key-fob system with this ButterflyMX security-and-privacy panopticon malware thing. I've mostly been able to ignore...
https://jwz.org/b/ykmM

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mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@acdingman hey, computer science is nothing if not laziness engineering.

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chockenberry ("Craig Hockenberry") wrote:

As you look at your 401K in shambles, keep in mind that someone in this administration made an “investment" that earned 2,100% _in one hour_.

If you knew what they knew, you could have made $2.1M from $100K today. Or if you're an asshole billionaire, a lot more.

Good luck investigating this insider trading. Guess which branch of government is in charge of monitoring this illegal behavior?

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Strandjunker@mstdn.social ("Andrea Junker :verified:") wrote:

Senator Adam Schiff has announced that, due to the chaos surrounding tariff policy, he will investigate whether anyone engaged in insider trading. Trump may be immune from prosecution, but those around him are not. — It’s time to decimate this MAGA circle.

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thetnholler.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("The Tennessee Holler ") wrote:

😬

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wdlindsy@toad.social ("William Lindsey :toad:") wrote:

"This is unusual.

Yesterday, politician Marjorie Taylor Greene said that people panicking over tariffs are 'losers and failures.'

Today, she disclosed over a dozen stock purchases, purchasing hundred of thousands of numerous stocks.

She bought when the market was deeply red.

Unusual."

~ Unusual Whales

#Trump #tariffs #StockMarket #MarjorieTaylorGreene
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https://www.instagram.com/p/DIPMjoLthIq/

denschub@schub.social ("Dennis Schubert") wrote:

hanlon's razor is all fun and makes sense, but at some point, there's so much incompetence and stupidity, it *has* to be driven by malice.

cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Even earlier examples of tape networks: "Tapesponding - The Long Lost Communication You’ve Never Heard Of"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4t9H14XfkPc

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ashleygjovik ("Ashley M. Gjøvik, JD") wrote:

After three years, Apple finally settled with the NLRB & was forced to fix its unlawful NDAs. In my letter joining the settlement, I included a section addressed to Apple employees. Sharing it here for the record. I'm sorry to anyone I harmed when I was part of the secrecy cult.

The full announcement, letter, & agreement are here: https://www.ashleygjovik.com/blog/04082025-nlrb-win-apple-compelled-to-rescind-unlawful-policies-nationwide

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astro_jcm@mastodon.online ("Juan Carlos Muñoz") wrote:

Excuse me, I'd like to return this dire wolf, it's just a dog in a costume.

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catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

Spaghetti? Spaghetti⁠‼️

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• gifv: Speed-up video of someone putting some spaghetti on the sand at the beach near hermit crab. The little crab scurries up to noodles and starts munch when all of a sudden, 50 to 100 hermit crabs of various sizes charge in and dog pile (or is it crab pile?) the tasty spaghetti to try to get a nibble in themselves.

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sarahtaber@mastodon.online ("Sarah Taber") wrote:

160 years ago today, Robert E. Lee surrendered to Union forces in Richmond Virginia.

There are a lot of reasons the Confederates lost. Among them, its leaders didn't know how to run a functional economy.

Crippled by hyperinflation, trade deficits, & inability to industrialize, the Confederacy tore itself to shreds in just four years.

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NanoRaptor@bitbang.social ("Nanoraptor") wrote:

An insulated screwdriver is an important piece of safety equipment when working on certain wall plugs.

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Daojoan ("JA Westenberg") wrote:

Traders are high-fiving each other because Trump temporarily stopped knifing the global economy. These are not smart men. These are dogs chasing a stick Trump is pretending to throw.

jwz wrote:

I Heard They Burning Teslas Downtown.

Spoek Mathambo:
https://jwz.org/b/ykmK

jwz wrote:

Zero Stars.

Walter Chaw: It's tempting to get knives out to hack at the hanks of the great beast. It's tempting to sharpen your tongue to shriek at it, how close we are now to Idiocracy's prophecy of Ass: The Movie being the most watched and awarded...
https://jwz.org/b/ykmI

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Days Without This Administration Being a Chaotic Embarrassment: 0

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gdc@typo.social ("heikki") wrote:

Weird old tech. This is the Raytheon Symbolray monoscope, in use at the end of the 1960s. It was kind of like a CRT, but instead of drawing characters directly on screen, it shot electron beams at a metal plate stencilled with tiny characters. The beams were "collected", and converted into an analog video signal corresponding to the printed characters the beams hit.

More here: https://tubetime.us/index.php/2018/06/04/a-vacuum-tube-rom/

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I should also note that when I say the cryptography in Signal is “probably fine; a practical attack would be a big surprise”, that’s about the best we can say about almost all cryptography used in the real world. No strong (not dependent on unproven assumptions) security proofs for much of anything you’d actually want to use.

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

I wasn't sure how well the Murderbot Diaries could be adapted for TV, and I'm still not—but the trailer is just marvelous. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEioDeOiqEs

adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold") wrote:

This is really stupid, but I still kind of had fun doing it anyway! (It was a lovely stroll down memory lane, at least.)

https://neatnik.net/css-naked-day.html

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aubilenon@peoplemaking.games ("Jesse Morris") wrote:

🎵 Who let the owls out? Who? Who? Who? Who? 🎶

jwz wrote:

MANLY TARIFFS.

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♬️♬️♬️ "Pol! Pot! Pol! Pot! Pol! Pot!" ♬️♬️♬️

https://jwz.org/b/ykmG

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• video: bf8bee0136596b6d.mp4