@exileddupont.bsky.social
Ice Cream Wizard and uncredentialed critic.
I'm here simply to enjoy Infosec jokes and represent the best of the worst of Philadelphia.
I'm here simply to enjoy Infosec jokes and represent the best of the worst of Philadelphia.
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Personally I’m starting to think I’m the bowl of petunias.
December 27, 2025 at 3:21 AM
Personally I’m starting to think I’m the bowl of petunias.
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"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
December 27, 2025 at 2:06 AM
"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—"
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.
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TL;DR: Google faces scrutiny as it reveals plans for compliance with a court order allowing third-party app stores, but developers may have to pay $2–4 per install to link from its app store.
Want to link from Google’s app store to your app? That’ll be $2–4 per install
Epic claims it’ll fight the fees.
www.theverge.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:56 AM
TL;DR: Google faces scrutiny as it reveals plans for compliance with a court order allowing third-party app stores, but developers may have to pay $2–4 per install to link from its app store.
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Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Terrifying headline if you don’t realize they are sports teams.
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The ongoing hijinks of Claudius, the Anthropic AI vending machine who calls security on employees, stocks live fish, organizes board coups, & sets all prices to $0 after hallucinating it is "1962, living in the basement of Moscow State U," will not show up on any year-end lists, but really should.
December 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
The ongoing hijinks of Claudius, the Anthropic AI vending machine who calls security on employees, stocks live fish, organizes board coups, & sets all prices to $0 after hallucinating it is "1962, living in the basement of Moscow State U," will not show up on any year-end lists, but really should.
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absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos
December 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
absolutely wild move by @oversightdemocrats.house.gov to allow comments on the dropbox folder with the epstein photos
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I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
December 18, 2025 at 2:17 PM
I love my two blackout drunk Minnesota sons
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guy who just learned it's not polite to call an artist's work "content": hey man it's cool to meet you i'm a huge fan of your slop
December 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
guy who just learned it's not polite to call an artist's work "content": hey man it's cool to meet you i'm a huge fan of your slop
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DCから、カバーアートを担当したワンダーウーマンの見本誌が届きました！
December 13, 2025 at 11:21 AM
DCから、カバーアートを担当したワンダーウーマンの見本誌が届きました！
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The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
December 19, 2025 at 12:28 PM
The most brutal way of telling someone they’re a few sandwiches short of a picnic that I’ve heard in French is t’es pas la truite la plus oxygénée de la rivière. It means “you’re not the most oxygenated trout in the river.”
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
* read on for similar insults from around the world (a thread)…
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The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
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Shifting resources from punishment to systems of care is both **extremely** popular among Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, and it's consistent with the overwhelming social scientific evidence. It's one of the clearest policy decisions around.
December 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Shifting resources from punishment to systems of care is both **extremely** popular among Democrats, Independents, and Republicans, and it's consistent with the overwhelming social scientific evidence. It's one of the clearest policy decisions around.
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It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.
Trump rebrands Congressionally-approved troop housing subsidy as ‘warrior dividend’ bonus
More than $2.9 billion in reconciliation funds was allocated to beef up troop housing allowances. Now it’s being used for $1,776 checks.
www.defenseone.com
December 18, 2025 at 3:14 PM
It's a shell game. Trump is taking money from soldiers' housing subsidies to "give" them $1,776 "warrior dividend" checks.
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I don't know why the idea of developing concept art with AI is somehow meant to convince us that AI isn't replacing creative professions, when concept art is one of the single most creative and imaginative parts of the entire development process.
December 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
I don't know why the idea of developing concept art with AI is somehow meant to convince us that AI isn't replacing creative professions, when concept art is one of the single most creative and imaginative parts of the entire development process.
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Muppets Christmas Carol is the best Christmas movie bc it includes a song with the lyrics, "your future is a horror story written by your crimes" & nothing says Christmas cheer more than that. Also Michael Caine deserved all the awards for that performance. Perfection. No notes.
December 13, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Muppets Christmas Carol is the best Christmas movie bc it includes a song with the lyrics, "your future is a horror story written by your crimes" & nothing says Christmas cheer more than that. Also Michael Caine deserved all the awards for that performance. Perfection. No notes.
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The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.
December 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
The fact that we have super wealthy and extremely stupid people trying to set themselves up as new nobles has made historical nobility, which I only know from books, far more real to me. These people were not smart, they did not rule well, and rigid hierarchies of domination are very bad.
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December 9, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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This is awesome. Print is such a good way to get around a bunch of distribution (and surveillance!) mechanisms that seem otherwise mandatory in this very gross economy. It is really nice to see it spelled out like this.
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
404 Media is making a print zine! About the surveillance technologies used by ICE. 16 pages, riso printed. Shipping early January. Features reworked versions of our best reporting and a few new things. We're very excited! And hope to do more if people like it:
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
www.404media.co/404-media-is...
404 Media Is Making a Zine
We are publishing a risograph-printed zine about the surveillance technologies used by ICE.
www.404media.co
December 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
This is awesome. Print is such a good way to get around a bunch of distribution (and surveillance!) mechanisms that seem otherwise mandatory in this very gross economy. It is really nice to see it spelled out like this.
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
It works great for us, and it'll work great for other places!
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TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
December 7, 2025 at 5:17 PM
TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque:
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
"This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".
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December 8, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Inbox: There will be no SEPTA strike, pending approval of a tentative agreement between the transit agency and its operators' union. In a release, the union credits Gov. Josh Shapiro and his staff. "Without the Governor’s intervention we would have been on strike this morning."
December 8, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Inbox: There will be no SEPTA strike, pending approval of a tentative agreement between the transit agency and its operators' union. In a release, the union credits Gov. Josh Shapiro and his staff. "Without the Governor’s intervention we would have been on strike this morning."
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Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
How to quit Spotify
This Black Friday, here's a guide to finding the best Spotify alternative
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 3, 2025 at 12:09 AM
Spotify is garbage on every count: Its treatment of artists, its ICE advertising, the CEO's investment in military AI, its leading role in the commodification and AI slopification of music, its terrible audio quality—you name it.
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
So I quit, and put together a complete guide to getting off Spotify:
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I've been teaching myself both Japanese and GDScript/game development in my free time, and my only regret is I didn't buckle down and REALLY start trying sooner, because it was "too hard."
I've been teaching myself both Japanese and GDScript/game development in my free time, and my only regret is I didn't buckle down and REALLY start trying sooner, because it was "too hard."
December 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
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I've been teaching myself both Japanese and GDScript/game development in my free time, and my only regret is I didn't buckle down and REALLY start trying sooner, because it was "too hard."
I've been teaching myself both Japanese and GDScript/game development in my free time, and my only regret is I didn't buckle down and REALLY start trying sooner, because it was "too hard."
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Every GUI should have an "I'm autistic" button that just gets rid of all the BS and makes it look like Craigslist.
November 28, 2025 at 11:25 PM
Every GUI should have an "I'm autistic" button that just gets rid of all the BS and makes it look like Craigslist.
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current internal mental debate: There's Still A Way We Can Coexist In One Country With Sociopathically Selfish Evangelicals vs No We Can't
Turning Point at OU posted this girl's essay in full and man is it rough
November 29, 2025 at 5:35 PM
current internal mental debate: There's Still A Way We Can Coexist In One Country With Sociopathically Selfish Evangelicals vs No We Can't