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Pearls and Irritations @johnmenadue.com · 13h

The packaging of Netanyahu and a small number of his cabinet colleagues and military officers as those solely responsible for the genocide, are already starting to show. #auspol #genicide #complicit

How the West will package the genocide after Netanyahu

In the not-too-distant future, the Netanyahu Government will fall. When this happens, it will become politically fashionable (and indeed necessary) for Western leaders outside the US to intellectually “package” the genocide in Gaza.

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 1h

it'll take a few years of LLM-powered SolarWindses and supply chain hacks and NotPetyas and packmans becoming unusable before people realize LLMs help offense more than defense

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spOOKY tadpole 🍄 oooOooooOoo @spacefrog.dev · 6h

*sitting bolt upright* neopets on atproto

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Anirudh Oppiliappan @anirudh.fi · 3h

front page!!! 📈

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Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 7h

It simply should not be possible for the president to repeatedly claim that a major city is burning without a wall of live standups happening in that city clearly demonstrating that it is not

Ian Boudreau @ianboudreau.com · 8h

American broadcast journalism has utterly failed and is a dead industry, there's nothing left worth saving

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 4h

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DBdant @dbdant.bsky.social · 8h

Have we forgotten this from 2017? Trump supported a joint cyber security unit with Russia.

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 4h

bugs bunny says nooo while looking at something

ALT: bugs bunny says nooo while looking at something

media.tenor.com

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 4h

ironically my "career" in software, such as it is, was largely kickstarted by subcontracting way above my skill grade on some DHS research connecting all these dots 8 years ago. plenty of Cassandras and dead canaries in defense/gov and intel comm. attackers advantage, basically.

Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 4h

gee, its almost like the administrative coup DOGEing CVE keeps doing the exact things that most benefit and facilitate the state actor that initiated the global cyberwar by notPetyaing Ukraine and swinging elections in every NATO country with tiktok adspend...

John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 8h

The whole government is un-adapted to this change, and we are firing all the people who could help us adapt. CISA leads the CVE program, which is a worldwide picture of computer security vulnerabilities. We will be blind without it. Not just the US, the world.

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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 8h

The court ignored 18F's recommendations to fix their security, and instead signed a $298 million contract with General Dynamics. I guess why not buy your websites where you buy your M1 Abrams main battle tanks?

The contract does not include cybersecurity services.

Federal Courts Slow to Fix Vulnerable System After Repeated Hacking

www.nytimes.com

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Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.bsky.social · 8h

[disclaimer: i'm just talkin, these are normative statements, idk and am not commenting on what infrastructure exists irl]

there has to be a way to absorb some of these people into state health departments..or set up an interstate body to keep tryna do this work..we just cant lose all this capacity

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 4h

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 4h

its funny how many shortcomings of individual agency quietly get sanded down by the many peer pressures and collective weighting mechanisms invisible through an "individual actor" lens

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bryan (they/them) @chaosgreml.in · 6h

I’m not sure the primary goal of most users of Bluesky is collective sense-making

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Robbyte VoiceZ @zambyte.robbyzambito.me · 6h

i think the root problem is in trying to use one tool for two very different use cases: spending time with your friends and being social with them, vs spreading sensitive, factually rooted information. the current behavior is better for the former, but what you described is better for the latter.

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⚡️🌙 @dystopiabreaker.xyz · 6h

the fact that blocking a user hides their reply for everyone, not just the user who blocked them, seems like an extremely toxic pattern for collective sense-making.

1. user makes [xyz claim]
2. another user corrects them
3. blocked, hidden

it should be explicitly shown as hidden instead

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 9h

Is it cancel culture when they threaten to kill you?

www.nj.com/news/2025/10...

Sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates speaker appearance in N.J. canceled over security reasons

Organizers canceled a sold-out Ta-Nehisi Coates event in Montclair citing undisclosed security concerns.

www.nj.com

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Bumblefudge @bumblefudge.com · 4h

when I was in college a black friend asked me what it was like growing up in the not-yet-police state sector of America and I never recovered

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Diesel Bug Has An Irrational Amount Of Freedom @dieselbug1137.bsky.social · 9h

If the only thing that's fully funded by the government is the police. Then you live in a police state. That's just how numbers work. It's fair to judge a society by how it chooses to allocate resources.

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Marco Rogers @polotek.bsky.social · 9h

I had a lot of convos with people who said they were sympathetic, but Defund the Police was a "bad slogan". I told them it wasn't a slogan. It was an answer. It was an answer to the constant question "what can we do to actually lower crime and make our neighborhood's safer?"

Anyway. Here we are.

Jay Perk @johnathanperk.bsky.social · 9h

Should’ve defunded the police like we instructed smh

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Eli Mallon @iame.li · 9h

But Eli, what’s the point of configuring DNS through an atproto repo? What’s the advantage?

Instant websites. Wanna set a Leaflet custom URL like blog.stream.place? That’s one click. No logging in to your registrar. No obnoxious, obnoxious-to-copy-paste TXT record. One click boom done.

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 9h

2025 is full of moments like this - learning about some awesomely good and important thing the government did that this evil administration is killing

Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 9h

BREAKING: Friday night massacre underway at CDC. Doznes of "disease detectives," high-level scientists, entire Washington staff and editors of the MMWR (Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report) have all been RIFed and received the following notice:

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Scott Hanselman 🌮 @scott.hanselman.com · 9h

Minor medical situation on the flight and it’s cool that my wife is able to jump up and help out when they ask for a licensed medical professional.

One day someone will need a regular expression so I stay ready.

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rev. howard arson @theophite.bsky.social · 9h

one interesting thing about the elite capitulation to trump is that it started to happen long before he actually became president. like around when chris rufo became the new york times' assignment editor, in 2022.

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