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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 5h

Undergrad: "Man, 10 page essay. what am I going to write in here"

Lawyer: "What do you mean just 13,000 words?"

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 3h

too real.

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rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 4h

Phishing training helps reduce _regulatory_ risk and maybe some business risk (for b2b companies), not actual phishing risk.

Basically your regulators or your enterprise customers’ third party risk management programs might have a problem with you if you don’t do the trainings.

🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 4h

Welp.

today.ucsd.edu/story/cybers...

Cybersecurity Training Programs Don’t Prevent Employees from Falling for Phishing Scams

Cybersecurity training programs as implemented today by most large companies do little to reduce the risk that employees will fall for phishing scams–the practice of sending malicious emails posing as...

today.ucsd.edu

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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 11h

If you live in California and have a good idea for a privacy complaint you should file one. And if you get a good response you should tell me, the reporter who recently wrote the words you're reading right now.

Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 12h

This happened because of a customer complaint. Here's how to file one of your own: www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

How to File a Privacy Complaint in California

Seeing something sketchy when it comes to your online privacy? Here’s how to file a complaint under California’s consumer data privacy law.

www.eff.org

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Rose Lerner @roselerner.bsky.social · 20h

This made me so happy

Screenshot of Claire's last skeet with one from the Frog and Toad bot underneath of Frog saying "don't be silly"

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Josh Crutchmer @jcrutchmer.bsky.social · 12h

Would have made the first words in this post “In a New Netflix film,” but I’m built different

NPR @npr.org · 12h

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch. n.pr/48przga

Every moment pops in the nuclear thriller 'A House of Dynamite'

A single nuclear warhead, of unknown origin, is heading toward the U.S. mainland in Kathryn Bigelow's new Netflix film. It's an unnerving scenario — but it's also thrilling to watch.

n.pr

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 13h

smh yet again the exonerative voice used to exculpate the perpetrators of violence.

Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 13h

The harpoon was hurled.

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 15h

I've actually never seen it, which my horror-film pals are always aghast at.

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

easy top-3 in the "absolutely would watch if it was real" category, up there with David Lynch's Wild Wild West

Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

[I would be legit excited for the nightmarish overtones of]

John Carpenter's Lilo & Stitch

🍂Skulliam💀Boo-tler👻Yikes!🕷️ @yeets.biz · 1d

john carpenter's look who's talking

Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

John Carpenter's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

John Carpenter's Salmon Fishing in the Yemen

Big Miss Steak 𓅚 🐊 thru the heart of a vampire @hawaiijeno.bsky.social · 1d

John Carpenter’s Neighbor Totoro

Pope ghibby! - Keeper of the Holy Anal Rail Gun @caffeineandhate.bsky.social · 1d

Make a movie better by adding John Carpenter's to the title:

John Carpenter's Good Burger

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

the perfect Australian anti-fascist podcast title doesn't exis–

the title screen for a podcast titled "Yeah Nah Pasaran!"

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thefbm @fanboymaster.bsky.social · 1d

your own
chocobo
jesus
someone who warks your prayers
someone who kwehs

Saint Riot @saintriot.bsky.social · 3d

In Final Fantasy Tactics if a unit gains too much faith they leave your party to go find God. Have you ever wondered what would happen if you had Beast Tongue and got a monster unit to maximum faith? Of course you haven't. No one has.

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

Penetrating analysis as always.

Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

meowcharist

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 1d

...he named it after the Torment Nexus?

Tim Murphy @timothypmurphy.bsky.social · 1d

i'd assumed "Colossus" was just a reference to the ancient wonder but it can never be that normal w/ Elon www.wsj.com/tech/elon-mu...

"Musk decided to name the data center Colossus—a reference to a popular trilogy of sci-fi novels from the 1960s by D.F. Jones, in which scientists built a supercomputer named Colossus that gained autonomy and plunged the world into war and chaos."

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

Plaintiffs: sanctions motion for AI-sourced fake citations

Defendants:

a Kate Beaton mermaid says "I WILL FUCKING INCREASE THE FUCKING THING"

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

Amateurs. My oldest online friends go back 25+ years.

✨🥀Persephone Evil🥀✨ @bipolarpisces35.blacksky.app · 1d

God damn, some of yall been following each other online for a decade?!!

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

so is that junior sales manager who just didn't understand not to trade on internal company financials.

Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

same but this cat.

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

they're there so the ghosts of dead sailors embodied in the majestic albatross can still get online.

Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 1d

Weird conspiracy for the day: seagulls are the souls of dead modems, come back to negotiate connections from hell.

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

real talk:
I've gotten several wonderful clients, met neat people, and learned more about areas I wouldn't have had access to otherwise.

Would I give it up in a second under certain circumstances? Sure! But it's been a good time.

Conrad Hackett @conradhackett.bsky.social · 3d

Has anything great happened in your life because of social media?

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David Mimno @dmimno.bsky.social · Aug 9

Me in 2023: Just chill. All the AI doom scenarios involve giving models direct access to and control over real world systems, and no one would be that dumb

In 2025: oh fuck

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Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

gfd your Senior Counsel role ... Basically describes my resumé. Please anticipate a webform-based submission.

Night of the Living Fred 🎃🦇☠️💾✨️ @esquiring.bsky.social · 1d

cursed thought:

Clankerplay.

Thorne 🌸 @ens0.me · 1d

People mistreating LLMs is stealing work from hardworking human submissives

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