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“I keep seeing these memes where Indians are bragging about taking our tech jobs,” said Ely, 36. “So I said, ‘Oh yeah? Well I’m going to work with these guys that are going to arrest you, slam your face on the pavement and send you home.’” wapo.st/3VrzEJg
--Microsoft failed to mention Chinese employees in DoD doc, --Scattered Spider member sentenced to ten years, --Women have their own 'hacker house' in San Francisco, --A high-ranking woman CISO got pushed out 4/4
--Salt Typhoon struck at least 200 organizations and 80 countries, --Russia jammed EC president's plane, --Feds charge RapperBot operator, --UK might or might not have dropped demand for Apple backdoor, --Microsoft cuts Chinese companies off from MAPP notifications, 3/4
--UK's age ID law pushes users to non-compliant sites, --Noem fires FEMA workers for failing basic security protocols, --UNC6395 stole mass of authentication tokens from Salesloft, --A hacker used Anthropic's Claude in crime spree, 2/4
Metacurity is back after our hiatus, and we're shaking things up. Check out today's issue for a special report and a recap of the top infosec developments of the past two weeks, including ----More on DOGE and that insecure database at SSA…, 1/4 www.metacurity.com/more-on-doge...
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/02/t... “The next day, Mr. Musk published a new version of Grok that responded that the greatest threat was low “fertility rates’”
cyberscoop.com/ianis-antrop... “Ianis Aleksandrovich Antropenko exemplifies the profile of a modern cybercriminal, yet, unlike many others who have faced strict prosecution for similar offenses, the Justice Department has granted him liberties rarely extended to such suspects.”
I've ended up writing a very long piece about XSLT and whether browsers should keep the code they use to transform XML documents into new forms because what was meant to be a technical debate about security, resource priorities and backward compatibility touched such a nerve it needs MEMES 🧵
I think if other countries were to poach scientists from the USA, they should try to get entire programmes. This seems like a good one: arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Washington's speculation about Trump's health is at a fever pitch. We've seen multiple reasons this summer to ask questions — and the media doesn't seem to care. What's really going on? www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/it-s-time-...
🚨 RFK Jr. just killed $500M in vaccine programs. The CDC’s top experts are gone. Clinics are already asking how they’ll keep kids safe. This isn’t “freedom of choice.” It’s families left holding the risk. #RFKJr #Vaccines #PublicHealth #Politics #Democracy #USA #HealthCrisis
This piece is incredible. If any other democratic country was deploying troops to city streets, the NYT would rightly report it as a threat to democracy. It is flabbergasting how they do not seem to recognise what is happening. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has warned Donald Trump’s America is drifting into 1930s-style autocratic politics — and said other investors are too scared of the president to speak up on.ft.com/46g7Iyd
deadline.com/2025/09/grah...
14th & U: Gorgeous morning for the DC Freedom Run & Protest. #FreeDC
Foreign-funded white supremacists, neo-Nazis, and affiliated criminal groups orchestrated a series of anti-immigration rallies across Australia under the banner “March for Australia.”
I see that everyone has their hopes back up.
RIP Graham Greene. Every time he popped up on screen when I was a kid, my mom would excitedly point him out for being an actual Native on the screen. Able to be deadly serious and infinitely hilarious (even in smaller roles like Last of Us), he ate up the screen. Nʌki’wah brother.
This is disappointing. Unfortunately, the ICEBlock app is activism theater micahflee.com/unfortunatel...
New, from me: The recent mass-theft of authentication tokens from Salesloft, whose AI chatbot is used by a broad swath of corporate America to convert customer interaction into Salesforce leads, has left many companies racing to invalidate the stolen […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]
Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000. www.humblebundle.com/books/martha...
It's depressing, isn't it?
Life in occupied DC. Go home
Happy Labor Day federal workers! Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million Federal Workers of Union Rights www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/u...
I used to bike the Capital Crescent Trail from Bethesda and cross over into Virginia, and then got completely lost lol. One time, I ended up in Leesburg sore and sunburnt.
"Israel’s policies and actions in Gaza meet the legal definition of genocide in Article II of the United Nations Convention for the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (1948)". Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, genocide scholars' association says - www.reuters.com/world/middle...
How long will Europe allow this South African white supremacist oligarch and social media platform owner to meddle in our politics? It's time to tighten social media regulation
One of my favs for walking and biking. I used to have a house that backed on the trail.
Why stop at a week?
Honestly, the hour-long run and march of people shouting “Free DC” up 14th Street today is the energy I needed this morning. I love you, DC.
Throwing hefty bags out the front window goes well with the gold plated motif & parking lot garden
Sending soldiers into cities under the guise of fighting crime is an unprecedented abuse of power. And it’s illegal. bit.ly/4m6TG77
While billionaires convert the government into their private slush fund, we’re coming together to demand a country that puts workers first. #LaborDay2025
This photo was taken of miners at the end of their shift during the Gilded Age before they were unionized. This Labor Day remember the blood, sweat, and tears that those before us paid to give the working class the basic rights we enjoy today. #UnionStrong #HappyLaborDay #NoGodsNoMasters
Don’t throw out your family’s old sewing patterns.
Duffelblog has gotten as cutting as the Onion these days. “In exchange, ICE will share “lessons learned” about family separation policies and the treatment of unwanted women and children, which Taliban representatives described as “forward-thinking and inspirational.”
“Ok, so I can’t make jewelry, but I’m great at disarming an alarm system and smashing glass cases”
NEW: Judge Sooknanan is back at it. She orders DOJ to file at fifth status report to address whether the two children discussed in its previous report have been returned to ORR custody. Status report due at 12 noon today.
If you're 60, 69.1% of all job growth since your birth occurred under Democratic administrations. If you're 45, that number is 74.7%. If you're under 28, the number is 100%. Happy Labor Day.
I have found the peppers to taste better when they turn red on the vine, but they are edible now if you want to harvest them. If they are starting to turn, you can harvest them and leave them out on a windowsill to fully ripen.
feel like slim and fat chance should be a different amount of chance
Even with the drastically reduced disease surveillance and deliberate undercount, official CDC sources are already reporting the highest number of measles cases in more than 30 years, after it was officially declared “eliminated” in the US in 2000. Also, school is about to start.
Creative writing prompt: Make a simple press statement about a car accident sound suspicious on at least three different levels.
This is Spud. She was offered a stick of celery today and took personal offense to that. 12/10 (IG: spud.the.cryptid)
I'm preaching to the choir here but I'm dismayed people are still using a site owned and manipulated by an obvious fascist. I think if you'd asked them 5 years ago if they'd use a fascist's social media site they would have said god no, of course not
Finding the truth about conflicts in difficult to access regions is a challenge. Read as we take you through the processes required to identify and verify what is really happening in a conflict, using the recent violent uprisings in Manipur, India as an example. www.bellingcat.com/news/rest-of...
senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, former chief economist to Senator Rob Portman (R-OH) & director of budget and spending policy for Marco Rubio’s 2016 presidential campaign👇🏽
9 CDC Directors going back to 1977 speak out. What RFK Jr has done to our nation’s public health system "should alarm every American." It "is unlike anything we have ever seen at the agency, and unlike anything our country has ever experienced." www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/o...
You know these shows are for & by Republicans because hosts don’t point out murders are up in red state cities like Fort Worth & Jacksonville & down in Trump targets LA, DC & Boston They just repeat Republican talking points back to them in the form of a question & then let them lie uninterrupted
A Labor Day reminder: today there isn't a single city, metro area, or state in the U.S. where a full-time minimum-wage worker can afford a modest 2-bedroom apartment. Millions of people with jobs—even multiple jobs—aren't safe from homelessness in this country.
Editors, reporters, and anyone who doesn't want to pass on fake content via social media should bookmark this amazing guide to detecting AI Content by @henkvaness.bsky.social.
If you aren’t doing anything this morning/afternoon come join Benn and myself to celebrate the launch of our Green Archer Graphic Novel Kickstarter. We’ll be live in 10 minutes!
I don't doubt it.
❗️The plane Ursula von der Leyen @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu was on was forced to land in Bulgaria due to suspected Russian GPS interference -FT There are reports that the pilots even had to use paper maps due to GPS jamming as they made the emergency landing.
“The navigation system of a plane carrying Ursula von der Leyen was disrupted due to suspected Russian interference, the European Commission said.” www.bbc.com/news/article...
AI chatbots should drop the pretense of being human.
Elon Musk will be championing the Tommy Robinson 13/9 rally, on grounds that Nigel Farage is "weak sauce" on mass deportation and too soft on Islam Govt not even reviewing its use of X since 2022 shows different rules apply to Elon Musk than we expect of every school-child on British values
OMFG
Marisa Kabas, who was the first to report on the whistleblower’s departure from SSA, has the full text of his email that was somehow disappeared. www.thehandbasket.co/p/charles-bo...
How did I miss this?
How did I miss this?
@jollygoodginger.bsky.social is in DC with other vets right now standing up for democracy. He's playing General Milleys speech on repeat for them today 💜 #LoveTheVets!
"It's not alarmist to say that these are goons, this is a secret police that is going into our cities to kidnap people, abduct people off the streets" @katmabu.bsky.social on the dangers of ICE agents and potentially troops roaming the streets of Chicago.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GpxmmF/ Wow.
JUST IN: Judge Sooknanan ordered the government to file a status report by 4 pm to address whether the children have been deplaned. DOJ blew the deadline. Now she orders them to show cause why they didn’t file the report in time — and sets new 6:30 pm deadline.
trying to imagine firefighters getting dispatched to this house and the absolute nightmare that would be
New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW
Also, when engaging in resistance using a sandwich, do not take any bites from it first, because DNA. And remember that your condiments can be used against you in a court of law.
Yes, the fallacy of thinking it won't happen to you.
We need to thank and give money to the public interest and most likely pro bono attorneys who are desperately trying to save America from moral, global and financial ruin.
Federal agents in DC have been starting dangerous car cases for small stuff like tinted windows. The chases violate DC police policy. Out of 10 cases, six ended in a crash. One car had a minor in back. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
A colloquial Swedish word for giving a confident answer to something you know nothing about is killgissa, or “guy-guessing.” Conversely, the lesser-known word tjejveta (meaning “girl-knowing”) can describe elucidating (shelucidating?) on a topic you have expertise in.
On Friday I learned that a Latina hairdresser who works at a salon I go to was a big Trump supporter until ICE grabbed and deported to unknown prisons her brother and cousin. She is totally shocked because she thought Trump was going to round up and deport only "bad" immigrants.
Get the hell off Substack before you literally can’t anymore without blowing up your business
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Why can't Trump supporters see that it is morally repugnant, un-Christian and just sociopathic to want to harm the small children of the world?
Foreigner: ♫ I want to know what love is ♫ Genie: And for your 2nd wish? Foreigner: ♫ I want you to show me ♫ Genie: Wait wh- Foreigner: ♫ I want to feel what love is ♫ Genie: Please stop singing
I Am a Dog. I Am About to Puke. Where Is the Good Rug? www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/i-a...
He’s providing them with valuable mulching experience though.
Residents are finding all sorts of ways to fight ICE: They're recording and reporting. They're wheatpasting and sharing know-your-rights materials. And they're stepping up to care for each other, from delivering groceries to walking kids to school. 51st.news/dc-residents...
Snowden is exactly the person all the shitlibs claimed he was and like every time the shitlibs turn out to be right about one of these guys all the cool kids have just memory holes their years of support for him and pretend they never defended the guy.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GUCVr2/ This is great.
www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6GUAMPJ/ Advice on what to do or say if you find yourself witnessing an ICE kidnapping.
Not just any AMC theater. One located in the wealthiest section of Washington.
AI spies questionable science journals, with some human help
They shouldn’t be masked in the first place. Cowards.
– Saying that our country has tipped over an invisible edge into an authoritarian state plainly is important — and easier than most in the media and pundit class will pretend it is. USA har alt bikket godt over fra demokrati til autokrati. Spørsmålet er om det er Tyskland 1933 eller Ungaren 2015.
The FTC notified companies like Google, Meta, and Apple that they must not apply the Digital Services Act, which regulates digital platforms, if it jeopardizes the freedom of Americans. www.wired.com/story/big-te...
I’m a little shocked at how we accept our own government’s military invasion of the capital city as, like, normal? Everyone is going about their business surrounded by troops with guns.
The National Guard just deployed for something in front of the AMC in Georgetown. About twelve of them got out of a rental van. How much is this awful charade costing us.
What are we even doing?
NEW: my office has received disturbing whistleblower reports that the Trump administration plans to separate 700 children from their families, lawyers, and support systems. Disappearing vulnerable children beyond the reach of American law and oversight is beyond depravity.
#Florida theme park Walt Disney World experiences widespread ride shutdown due to power outage. www.disneydining.com/power-outage...
It doesn’t seem like it should be remotely controversial that if you’re killed by police while obviously storming the US Capitol that the military shouldn’t go out of its way years later to honor you, but then again Trump just rehung a portrait of Col. Robert E. Lee at West Point, so….
Journalism lives to fight another day
(29/08/2025) Around thousands people of Indonesian online motorcycle taxi driver community joined Affan Kurniawan's (the victim who got killed by the police) final farewell to his burial place this morning. Source: @AGTBLHKK (Twitter)
I’m hoping that this isn’t one big riff along the lines of “is Paul dead?” For those of you who don’t know, someone in the early 1970s pushed the notion that Paul McCartney had died and the Beatles replaced him with a look-alike. Tons of talk shows on FM radio were devoted to this hoax.
‘Racist as hell’: Trump’s cabinet is almost all white, and he keeps firing Black officials