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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · Nov 7

Alrighty then.

Enough indulgent wallowing for me.

I'm back.

And, we got this.

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Drop #552 (2024-11-08): One. Step. Forward.

Today’s unexpected Drop emphasizes online safety, privacy, and resilience amidst growing threats from tech companies and governments. It starts a conversation about secure communication tools…

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · 1d

Bari Weiss can and should (repeatedly) go REDACT herself.

hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · 2d

Bonkers Palo Alto Login Scanner activity has continued through the weekend. We coordinated with/Palo on Fri, so they know aboot it & have the backs of their customers.

tzulo, inc. & 3xK Tech GmbH continue to be the primary network sources (both need a spanking/null route).

viz.greynoise.io/tag...

time series showing attacks against palo continuing over the weekend

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Caroline Ledbetter @carolineledbetter.bsky.social · 4d

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“There’s a baby!” ICE agents stop Alamosa family at gunpoint, smash car window

Immigration arrest last week in southern Colorado follows national trend of escalating force from ICE agents

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · 4d

Bonus Drop #99: Duly Noted

THE DROPS ARE BACK! Today, we tackle 3 note-taking tools: Blinko, Piles, and Memos. Blinko is an AI-integrated self-hosted system; Piles is a minimal web clipper; while Memos offers a lightweight, self-hosted knowledge base focused on simplicity and data privacy.

Bonus Drop #99 (2025-10-04): Duly Noted

THE DROPS ARE BACK! Today, we tackle three note-taking tools: Blinko, Piles, and Memos. Blinko is an AI-integrated self-hosted system with features for task management and Markdown support. Piles i…

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Activate Maine💪🗓️ @activatemaine.bsky.social · 4d

Visibility Brigade making good trouble in Bangor, Maine!

Bridge sign on overpass in large letters: Democracy Not Dictatorship

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · 4d

Make. People. See. This.

alexjungle.bsky.social @alexjungle.bsky.social · 5d

Breaking news: ICE stops family at gunpoint—smash car window on top of newborn baby.

"I was screaming that there was a baby. But they didn’t care," cried mother.

“I covered my baby with my body—I was so scared he was going to be hurt because glass was landing on him."

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Adrian Sanabria @sawaba.bsky.social · 5d

Prediction: 🌶️🌶️🌶️

runZero (Official Account) @runzero.com · 5d

📺 Live Webcast: Fixing a Broken System
📅 Oct 29 • 2PM ET

Legacy vuln mgmt leaves 25–40% of assets invisible. Join @ hdm.io, @todb.hugesuccess.org & @sawaba.bsky.social as they unpack blind spots, failed scans, & what’s next.

👉 www.scworld.com/cybercast/fi...

hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · 5d

Microsoft steals content for their AI training data but doesn't want others to do the same thing. Odd.

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LinkedIn sues software company allegedly scraping data from millions of profiles

ProAPIs, a software company, and its CEO Rahmat Alam allegedly run an operation which LinkedIn says charges customers up to $15,000 per month for scraped user data taken from the social media platform...

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Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 5d

I am just so fucking proud of her.

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · 5d

the "waffle" thing has def been quite odd

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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 5d

Logan Square neighborhood, Chicago. Man wearing a balaclava in a white, unmarked vehicle, pulls the pin on a tear gas canister and tosses it in the road.

"Just trying to grab some lunch and these fucking losers showed up. FUCK ICE!"
source: www.reddit.com/r/LoganSquar...

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Monica Maalouf, MD @maaloufmd.bsky.social · 5d

My husband was detained by ICE today

Juan Muñoz, an American citizen, father of 2, and local government official, was peacefully protesting w. other elected officials. He was assaulted and taken away

I have had zero contact or updates since

#SOS
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov

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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 5d

Today in “dc street signs”

A sign taped to a pole with a screenshot of the video from Chicago where a guy on a bike gets away from ice. The sign says “dc stands with Chicago,” with the dc flag on one side and the Chicago flag on the other

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · 5d

Don't use the Comet browser #86pplx

betanews.com/2025/10/03/p...

Perplexity releases AI web browser, Comet, for free; security warnings follow

Perplexity is the latest company to release an AI-powered web browser. Comet is available free of charge for Windows and macOS, and it is looking to compete

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · 5d

lots of this is highly targeted/only focusing on palo; some older over lap with Cisco ASA poking. not the way I wanted to head into the weekend.

hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · 5d

🚨 keep an eye on your Palo logs/kit today

viz.greynoise.io/tags/palo-al...

line chart with huge spike in palo alto networks login scanner

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GreyNoise @greynoise.io · 6d

On 28 September, GreyNoise observed a sharp one-day surge in attempts to exploit Grafana CVE-2021-43798. Full analysis & malicious IPs ⬇️
#Grafana #GreyNoise #ThreatIntel

Coordinated Grafana Exploitation Attempts on 28 September

GreyNoise observed a sharp one-day surge of exploitation attempts targeting CVE-2021-43798 — a Grafana path traversal vulnerability that enables arbitrary file reads. All observed IPs are classified a...

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Jason Forrest @jasonforrest.bsky.social · 5d

I'm very excited to share the official announcement from School of Visual Arts on the new MPS Data Visualization & Communication (DV&C) program!! It is a real thrill to build such an ambitious new project in the heart of NYC. We're just thrilled to create something truly new! sva.edu/features/sva...

SVA Announces New Graduate Program in Data Visualization and Communication | School of Visual Arts | SVA NYC

A feature on the upcoming MPS Data Visualization and Communication program arriving in fall 2026.

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hrbrmstr 🇺🇦 🇬🇱 🇨🇦 🏳️‍🌈 @hrbrmstr.dev · 5d

Most of America is not seeing coverage like this.

That needs to change.

CajunBlueAZ ⚜️🇺🇸 🇺🇦 @cajunblue.bsky.social · 6d

🚨 “They put black people in one van and immigrants an another… Trucks and military style vans were used to separate children from their parents.” THIS. IS. HAPPENING. People need to see this. We all need to see it. Nobody gets a pass here. Please share with your networks. 1/2

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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 5d

SCOOP — Pennsylvania prosecutors were alerted to possible voting irregularities by one of MAGA's leading voices against voter fraud. A long paper trail shows Jack Posobiec has been living in Maryland but voting using his parents' PA address for years.

From @jsweetli.bsky.social, @slate.com + me:

MAGA’s “Voter Fraud” Watchdog Votes in a Swing State. He Doesn’t Live There.

A long paper trail shows that Jack Posobiec casts a ballot in one state and lives in another.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 6d

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 6d

Glad to see @joshtpm.bsky.social take my “swallowing frogs” essay on the Coates-Klein conversation and lay out his own take on all of it. There are additional observations here worth reading.

Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 6d

Being Ready to Lose Well, Perseverance and How Not to Be Lost talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/being...

Being Ready to Lose Well, Perseverance and How Not to Be Lost

On Monday I saw a bunch of people on Bluesky mentioning and...

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Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · 6d

Teaching this bureaucracy class again this semester has been a trip

Get to talk about government shutdowns and mass RIFs tonight

Andrew Heiss @andrew.heiss.phd · Oct 10

I’m teaching a class on bureaucracy and good governance this semester and Project 2025 is *right there* calling for the dismantling of the federal bureaucracy and return to a spoils system—it’s hard to not sound like I’m volunteering for the Harris campaign when teaching standard public admin stuff

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · Oct 10

One of the most frustrating things about U.S. politics is that people who aren’t engaging with it much will look at you like you’re some kooky leftist propagandist if you simply outline what the Republican Party is doing wherever it is in charge and explicitly promises to be doing in the future.

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Linda Skitka @lindaskitka.bsky.social · 6d

This is catastrophically bad.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

We need a bigger national spotlight on this building raid, fam. Agents dropped from helicopters onto the roof. Citizens and non-citizens alike were dragged from their homes in the night. People who weren't kidnapped during the raid had their belongings seized after the fact. This is madness.

Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 6d

"Jones, 27, is among the residents left at 7500 S. South Shore Drive who are trying to piece together what remains after an early morning, high-powered federal immigration raid led to the arrests of dozens of their neighbors at their South Shore apartment building."

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Laura Jedeed @laurajedeed.bsky.social · 6d

I'm sorry: "if I wish to see a virgin on-screen"?

My Favorite Actress Is Not Human
Tilly Norwood doesn’t need a hairstylist, has no regrettable posts, and if you wish to see a virgin on-screen, this is one of your better chances. That’s because she’s AI.

A picture of some AI girl standing on an AI landscape with an AI monster behind her. I'm gonna be so real: she looks about 14

By Tyler Cowen

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