CJ 🏳️🌈🤘
@drensteppur.bsky.social
Texan, shiftless layabout, wearily homosexual.
user policy guru for a large tech company. safe use policy, data security, malicious user behavior analysis, phishing & impersonation prevention, cloud data protection & best practices.
user policy guru for a large tech company. safe use policy, data security, malicious user behavior analysis, phishing & impersonation prevention, cloud data protection & best practices.
lolol both of these terms are real & accurate, but outside of some very niche contexts in security / security adjacent work, you will NEVER hear them used. like, the only time any normie would ever hear the word smishing ... is during i.t. security training.
This IT security "training" I have to do just tried to tell me that the term for texting-message phishing is "smishing" and for phone-based phishing is "vishing," and ... neither of those claims is true, right?
No one on earth using smishing or vishing, do they?!
No one on earth using smishing or vishing, do they?!
December 10, 2025 at 3:13 PM
lolol both of these terms are real & accurate, but outside of some very niche contexts in security / security adjacent work, you will NEVER hear them used. like, the only time any normie would ever hear the word smishing ... is during i.t. security training.
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the amount they rely on their voters not giving even 2 seconds of critical thought to the shit they say is *incredible*
Everyone who has ever bought a house knows how utterly fucking insane this comment is. And yet they'll just hear this, nod, and say "yes, it's the illegals"
Everyone who has ever bought a house knows how utterly fucking insane this comment is. And yet they'll just hear this, nod, and say "yes, it's the illegals"
December 10, 2025 at 1:31 PM
the amount they rely on their voters not giving even 2 seconds of critical thought to the shit they say is *incredible*
Everyone who has ever bought a house knows how utterly fucking insane this comment is. And yet they'll just hear this, nod, and say "yes, it's the illegals"
Everyone who has ever bought a house knows how utterly fucking insane this comment is. And yet they'll just hear this, nod, and say "yes, it's the illegals"
I've been wondering about this, and he's been blurting out enough information about his health that we've surely got a somewhat compact list of what could possibly be wrong with him at this point, right? stroke, dementia, TBI (not likely probably?), some other things, but it's a fairly short list!
I do think you leave “speculation” about why someone receives a battery of staggered cognitive tests at some point. There’s finite reasons to do them at all, let alone consecutively.
Like, at some point you do a disservice by describing it otherwise.
Like, at some point you do a disservice by describing it otherwise.
December 10, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I've been wondering about this, and he's been blurting out enough information about his health that we've surely got a somewhat compact list of what could possibly be wrong with him at this point, right? stroke, dementia, TBI (not likely probably?), some other things, but it's a fairly short list!
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Because the president decided to do some Night Poasting about how it’s treason to question his Definitely Great Cerebrovascular Health I want to tap the sign that the answer to what’s going on here is knowable.
Those MRI images would save the country a lot of time and accusations of treason.
Those MRI images would save the country a lot of time and accusations of treason.
Here’s the other thing —
The answers to all this exist. The actual MRI images they’ve taken of his brain would give the answer pretty straightforwardly.
He’ll continue to decline publicly, but the up or down answer to what’s going on is already knowable.
The answers to all this exist. The actual MRI images they’ve taken of his brain would give the answer pretty straightforwardly.
He’ll continue to decline publicly, but the up or down answer to what’s going on is already knowable.
December 10, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Because the president decided to do some Night Poasting about how it’s treason to question his Definitely Great Cerebrovascular Health I want to tap the sign that the answer to what’s going on here is knowable.
Those MRI images would save the country a lot of time and accusations of treason.
Those MRI images would save the country a lot of time and accusations of treason.
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Also:
Retreating?🪿
Retreating from where mother fucker?🏃♂️🪿
Retreating?🪿
Retreating from where mother fucker?🏃♂️🪿
December 10, 2025 at 3:16 AM
Also:
Retreating?🪿
Retreating from where mother fucker?🏃♂️🪿
Retreating?🪿
Retreating from where mother fucker?🏃♂️🪿
low key some of the sickest, most perverse rhetoric that this administration keeps saying about immigrants in this country. accusing foreigners of "stealing" jobs, housing, & women is the oldest, ugliest attack in the book.
Secretary Scott Turner: "We need to continue to deport illegals that are taking houses from the American people"
December 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
low key some of the sickest, most perverse rhetoric that this administration keeps saying about immigrants in this country. accusing foreigners of "stealing" jobs, housing, & women is the oldest, ugliest attack in the book.
I've used Trebuchet MS, Microsoft's very similar immediate predecessor to Calibri, as my default font on my desktop web browsers for years. Trebuchet has a slightly more modern feel imo, but they're both super duper easy to read at speed. Times New Roman is *definitively* inferior for readability.
So, fwiw, I actually learned about Calibri back when Blinken switched to it and it's much better for people with visual disabilities than is Times New Roman. I've been using it often ever since I learned this.
December 10, 2025 at 1:12 PM
I've used Trebuchet MS, Microsoft's very similar immediate predecessor to Calibri, as my default font on my desktop web browsers for years. Trebuchet has a slightly more modern feel imo, but they're both super duper easy to read at speed. Times New Roman is *definitively* inferior for readability.
the type code for an em dash on standard American keyboards is [alt]0151, which I've had memorized since the 90s because I'm a sicko enthusiast of em dashes.
are we still on about em dashes and ai. imo human writers should just use the em dashes even harder. we should be out here pummeling out those em dashes like we're emily dickinson
December 10, 2025 at 1:04 PM
the type code for an em dash on standard American keyboards is [alt]0151, which I've had memorized since the 90s because I'm a sicko enthusiast of em dashes.
excellent thread from an excellent reporter about an otherwise remarkable story that I'd guess almost all of us had forgotten about. very timely reminder that the coverup of Trump's heath stretches all the way back to the very beginning.
Here is a true story.
During Trump’s first term, The Post got a tip that his doctor — the guy with the long hair who signed that first “healthiest guy ever” letter — wanted to spill the beans. He lived in Westchester, up near where I lived at the time. So I was tasked with talking to him. 1/
During Trump’s first term, The Post got a tip that his doctor — the guy with the long hair who signed that first “healthiest guy ever” letter — wanted to spill the beans. He lived in Westchester, up near where I lived at the time. So I was tasked with talking to him. 1/
December 10, 2025 at 1:01 PM
excellent thread from an excellent reporter about an otherwise remarkable story that I'd guess almost all of us had forgotten about. very timely reminder that the coverup of Trump's heath stretches all the way back to the very beginning.
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Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
December 10, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Every part of this is bonkers. The intro is bonkers. The transition to his health is bonkers. The mention that other presidents didn't need cognitive exams is bonkers. The claim that this screening test is somehow hard is bonkers. The idea that criticism of him is treason is bonkers. All of it.
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as someone who did *a lot* of cocaine in his twenties, I can tell you that there is not a single scintilla of doubt in my mind that this man is coked out of his fuckin gourd, and Palantir's official X account all but admitted it in an otherwise painfully obvious tongue-in-cheek sort of way.
December 10, 2025 at 10:45 AM
as someone who did *a lot* of cocaine in his twenties, I can tell you that there is not a single scintilla of doubt in my mind that this man is coked out of his fuckin gourd, and Palantir's official X account all but admitted it in an otherwise painfully obvious tongue-in-cheek sort of way.
Look, Canada is great for a lot of reasons, but even with these (almost purely aesthetic) improvements to their immigration system, it is STILL much, much tougher to immigrate there than to the US for just about any role other than medicine. This is purely a p.r. political gimmick.
“.. If you want to live in the best country on the earth, that is also the safest, and the one that will actually respect your work and offer you the right environment to flourish, well, come to Canada,” she said. 🇨🇦
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...
@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/09/w...
December 10, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Look, Canada is great for a lot of reasons, but even with these (almost purely aesthetic) improvements to their immigration system, it is STILL much, much tougher to immigrate there than to the US for just about any role other than medicine. This is purely a p.r. political gimmick.
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There is currently one single type of aircraft flying in the US using the engine tech that Boom asserts it will develop by next year:
The F-22 Raptor.
The F-22 Raptor.
Incredible scenes here: Boom Supersonic is raising $300mm and pivoting to AI by signing a contract to supply its turbines as electrical power for data centers. They're even talking about converting turbines from simple to combined cycle via a "field upgrade". This is all deranged.
Boom Supersonic raises $300M to build natural gas turbines for Crusoe data centers | TechCrunch
Crusoe will pay Boom $1.25 billion for more than a gigawatt of generating capacity with deliveries of the turbines starting in 2027.
techcrunch.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
There is currently one single type of aircraft flying in the US using the engine tech that Boom asserts it will develop by next year:
The F-22 Raptor.
The F-22 Raptor.
not the most important aspect of this by a long shot, but these chuds firmly believe that voters won't get extremely pissed off by them publicly stabbing the Shutdown Eight Democrats in the back like this, and I'm not sure that's a bet I'd be willing to take atm if I were them.
John Thune says Republicans have decided to vote on the Crapo-Cassidy health care bill as an alternative to Democrats’ bill to extend ACA funds.
He criticizes the expiring ACA funds as “Biden Covid bonuses.”
He criticizes the expiring ACA funds as “Biden Covid bonuses.”
December 9, 2025 at 7:58 PM
not the most important aspect of this by a long shot, but these chuds firmly believe that voters won't get extremely pissed off by them publicly stabbing the Shutdown Eight Democrats in the back like this, and I'm not sure that's a bet I'd be willing to take atm if I were them.
fact: I have a high-paying job with Big Tech with a liberal arts degree. also fact: I would never in a million years be able to break into teaching or research without going completely broke.
you definitely CAN get a good job with a liberal arts degree, but it's usually *not* in your degreed field!
you definitely CAN get a good job with a liberal arts degree, but it's usually *not* in your degreed field!
You can in fact get a job with a BA in English
this is slightly complicated by the fact that the *graduate* humanities job market is totally fucked, but you can just spend four years studying philosophy and then get a job that pays well and it's fine
December 9, 2025 at 7:31 PM
fact: I have a high-paying job with Big Tech with a liberal arts degree. also fact: I would never in a million years be able to break into teaching or research without going completely broke.
you definitely CAN get a good job with a liberal arts degree, but it's usually *not* in your degreed field!
you definitely CAN get a good job with a liberal arts degree, but it's usually *not* in your degreed field!
I mean, who's stupid enough to actually believe that any military aircraft is supposed to be in the air flying combat missions MORE than it's supposed to be parked & undergoing maintenance? that means that its deterrence is working exactly as intended!
Nothing says "bespoke weapon" like a fighter jet that we've built 1200 of and plan to build +3000 total. Also "more time in maintenance than in the air" describes literally every military aircraft.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
December 9, 2025 at 7:22 PM
I mean, who's stupid enough to actually believe that any military aircraft is supposed to be in the air flying combat missions MORE than it's supposed to be parked & undergoing maintenance? that means that its deterrence is working exactly as intended!
speaking very generally, I almost always agree with Paul's take on mostly everything, but I think this comparison to John Boehner is kind of insane. Boehner led a really effective opposition & unified GOP House Caucus despite the fact that the Tea Party had their knives out for him the entire time.
"The speaker that Johnson most closely resembles these days is John Boehner, who endured 4 tumultuous years leading the chamber before quitting in disgust. Johnson may be holding on to his job only because Republicans don’t think anyone else could succeed at it either." — @paulwaldman.bsky.social
Mike Johnson's downward spiral
Speaker of the House is a tough job. But he's particularly bad at it.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:51 PM
speaking very generally, I almost always agree with Paul's take on mostly everything, but I think this comparison to John Boehner is kind of insane. Boehner led a really effective opposition & unified GOP House Caucus despite the fact that the Tea Party had their knives out for him the entire time.
I can never let any mention of John & Abigail Adams go by without noting that anyone who hasn't watched the 'John Adams' miniseries on HBO needs to fix that, asap. legit one of the greatest TV miniseries of all time, astonishingly accurate in its depiction of the man, his wife, & their lives.
like, Abigail Adams was a total badass, John Adams considered her his most important advisor & confidante, and she is consistently ranked one of the top two or three First Ladies in historical surveys. the John Adams Society shutting women out is painfully ahistorical!
December 9, 2025 at 5:25 PM
I can never let any mention of John & Abigail Adams go by without noting that anyone who hasn't watched the 'John Adams' miniseries on HBO needs to fix that, asap. legit one of the greatest TV miniseries of all time, astonishingly accurate in its depiction of the man, his wife, & their lives.
maybe they should change their name to the Thomas Jefferson Society instead of the one founding father who'd, y'know, actually be livid about a debate club carrying his name doing something like this. Adams had an incredibly progressive attitude about women in public service for the time!
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
@abbysgerstein and @JackBReardon report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
‘For the Reinvention of Man’: How a Conservative Debating Society at Harvard Pushed Women From Its Ranks | News | The Harvard Crimson
The John Adams Society began quietly excluding women from membership this semester, former and prospective affiliates told The Crimson. It is now effectively functioning as a single-sex organization.
www.thecrimson.com
December 9, 2025 at 5:12 PM
maybe they should change their name to the Thomas Jefferson Society instead of the one founding father who'd, y'know, actually be livid about a debate club carrying his name doing something like this. Adams had an incredibly progressive attitude about women in public service for the time!
We all knew this was coming, but the end of SAVE plans is going to be one of the most devastating long term developments to come out of this White House. Every other repayment plan involves massive amounts of compounding interest, and we're just going to wind up in MUCH worse shape in a few years.
Congrats again to the people who continuously said Biden did nothing about student loans for four years! www.cnbc.com/2025/12/09/s...
Trump officials move to end student loan payment pause for millions of borrowers
The Trump administration announced a proposed joint settlement with Missouri that would soon force millions of student loan borrowers into repayment.
www.cnbc.com
December 9, 2025 at 4:12 PM
We all knew this was coming, but the end of SAVE plans is going to be one of the most devastating long term developments to come out of this White House. Every other repayment plan involves massive amounts of compounding interest, and we're just going to wind up in MUCH worse shape in a few years.
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I told y'all a while ago that white leftists would turn on Jasmine Crockett the minute she outlived her usefulness to them.
December 9, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I told y'all a while ago that white leftists would turn on Jasmine Crockett the minute she outlived her usefulness to them.
"hardly slept" for several weeks when this could've been scripted, shot, cut, edited, and delivered to air in probably like ... a week or so? by an experienced ad firm at a comparable price. I don't understand who this is for??
McDonald's has released an AI-generated Christmas ad
The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
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The studio behind it says they 'hardly slept' for several weeks while writing AI prompts and refining the shots — 'AI didn't make this film. We did'
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December 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
"hardly slept" for several weeks when this could've been scripted, shot, cut, edited, and delivered to air in probably like ... a week or so? by an experienced ad firm at a comparable price. I don't understand who this is for??
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Oooh breastfeeding discourse. I’m sure everyone will be comfortable letting “it’s great we have formula because lots of people need it for lots of reasons” and “breastfeeding is probably slightly better for kids” coexist without going crazy.
December 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
Oooh breastfeeding discourse. I’m sure everyone will be comfortable letting “it’s great we have formula because lots of people need it for lots of reasons” and “breastfeeding is probably slightly better for kids” coexist without going crazy.