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The Virginian-Pilot @pilotonline.com · 1h

Lumbee leader to join North Carolina statehouse as tribe’s federal recognition push gains attention trib.al/R3ujayq

Lumbee leader to join North Carolina statehouse as tribe’s federal recognition push gains attention

The leader of a southeastern North Carolina tribe is about to join the state legislature to succeed his brother, as the Lumbee’s efforts to attain full U.S. government recognition have gained recen…

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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 5h

brings new meaning to “K hole”

weeder @weeder.bsky.social · 9h

Introducing Ketamucil™ - Metamucil with Ketamine

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NPR @npr.org · 6h

Authorities have charged a 29-year-old man in connection to starting the Palisades Fire, which killed 12 people and destroyed more than 6,800 homes and buildings. (via @laist.com)

Uber driver charged in connection with starting the Palisades Fire

The Palisades Fire erupted on Jan. 7 and went on to kill 12 people and destroy more than 6,800 homes and buildings.

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Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 8h

Germany will not support Chat Control - a law which proposes to scan all messages people send even on end-to-end encrypted platforms - Justice Minister said today. German stance likely dooms the measure. Signal had threatened to leave the EU if Chat Control became law
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Germany will not support 'Chat Control' message scanning in the EU

“Random chat monitoring must be taboo in a constitutional state,” Federal Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig said as German officials signaled they will not vote for a controversial EU proposal known as ...

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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 8h

A development in the realm of Really Awful Shit

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Teenagers arrested in England over cyberattack on nursery chain Kido

London's Metropolitan Police announced the arrests of two 17-year-old boys who are under questioning in relation to the hack and extortion of the Kido chain.

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Cynthia Brumfield @metacurity.com · 12h

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill
www.politico.eu/article/one-...

One-man spam campaign ravages EU ‘chat control’ bill

A software developer from Denmark is having an outsized influence on a hotly debated law to break open encrypted apps.

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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 1d

sir we can write your skeets for you too

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hakan @hatr.bsky.social · 1d

"You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings"

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Robin Williams’ daughter Zelda hits out at AI-generated videos of her dead father: ‘stop doing this to him’

Film-maker tells the public to stop sending her videos, saying: ‘You’re not making art, you’re making disgusting, over-processed hotdogs out of the lives of human beings’

www.theguardian.com

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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 1d

no one is ready for Selensanity

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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 1d

column provides the full setting

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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 1d

xennial-ass pre-diabetes

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Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska @ransomwaresommelier.com · 1d

No, not the old GoAnywhere exploitation, this is a new one!

Medusa ransomware used during exploitation of GoAnywhere file transfer bug, Microsoft says

via @jgreig.bsky.social & @therecordmedia.bsky.social

Medusa ransomware used during exploitation of GoAnywhere file transfer bug, Microsoft says

Cybercriminals are using the Medusa ransomware strain during exploitation of a vulnerability in Fortra's GoAnywhere file transfer tool.

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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 1d

They corrode you so that they can surprise you in tiny ways.

Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 1d

I was sure the Phillies would score exactly zero runs the rest of this series.

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The Record @therecordmedia.bsky.social · 2d

Signal said it would rather leave the European market than comply with a potential "Chat Control" rule that would require companies to build surveillance into their messaging services therecord.media/signal-calls...

Signal calls on Germany to vote against ‘Chat Control,’ saying it would leave EU market

The head of the Signal Foundation raised concerns around Germany now refusing to say whether it will support Chat Control in an upcoming vote.

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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 4d

There was an alt-weekly pick back in the day where someone did this kind of thing with Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Railroad Jerk

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 4d

it floats more and more away, the water round it torn and splashed by the insatiate sharks

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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 5d

lol

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 5d

New York Mets Top 10 Prospects For 2026 Fantasy Baseball
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New York Mets Top 10 Prospects For 2026 Fantasy Baseball

Read about New York's best prospects, including Nolan McLean, Jonah Tong, Ryan Clifford, Elian Pena, AJ Ewing, Carson Benge and more.

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Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 5d

LinkedIn sues software company scraping data from millions of user accounts

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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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Inspirational Skeletor @skeletorinspires.bsky.social · 5d

Be careful what you tolerate. You are teaching people how to treat you. Says Skeletor looking like he’s had enough tolerating for one lifetime.

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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 5d

In my house we call this weather “middle-aged DC couple didn’t have to turn on the ceiling fan last night”

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 5d

People really don't have a grasp of how common refinery fires are in the US. Just usually on the Gulf Coast.

Ex.: one month in 2023 saw three refineries or other petrochem plants on fire.

(It isn't "the Russians".)

Three Texas oil & gas industry sites that caught fire had long violation records

The three large refinery and petrochemical facilities along the Texas Gulf Coast that caught fire this month had long track records of environmental compliance problems, including a combined 5,469 vio...

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Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 6d

A Dutch judge ruled Thursday that Meta violated Europe’s Digital Services Act (DSA) by customizing users’ recommendation feeds based on their personal data and has given the tech giant two weeks to change its practices.

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Dutch court rules Meta violated European law by pushing users to profiled feeds

The decision comes in response to a lawsuit filed by the Dutch nonprofit Bits of Freedom, which argued that by controlling users’ feeds Meta has been improperly skewing what news consumers receive.

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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 6d

% of US men under 30 who say legal sports betting is a *bad thing* for society

22% in 2022
47% in 2025

No other demographic group has seen a bigger increase.

Americans increasingly see legal sports betting as a bad thing for society and sports

Today, 43% of U.S. adults say the fact that sports betting is now legal in much of the country is a bad thing for society, up from 34% in 2022.

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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 6d

and if you're not, get hip

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Inside the Slimy, Smelly, Secretive World of Glass-Eel Fishing

Each spring, hundreds of millions of baby eels swarm the waterways of coastal Maine. Soaring global demand incited an era of jackpot payouts and international poaching.

www.newyorker.com

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