Sgt. Schultz would be so proud

Lately on the blog: Spend some, get some

https://brettterpstra.com/2025/10/08/spend-some-get-some/?utm_campaign=blog_post&utm_source=mastodon

It's not a distraction.
It's subjugation.

This appears to be the first vulnerability that allows attackers to compromise AI data privacy by exploiting the physical hardware the AI runs on. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence 🧪
news.ncsu.edu/2025/10/ai-p...

In June I announced that I was retiring from NYU after 39 years, but I am not leaving the field, or the fight for a public service press.

Today I can explain what I meant by not leaving the field. I have a new job: president of News Creator Corps. Read on. newscreatorcorps.org/2025/10/news...

Needless to say I think this is brilliant.

theoatmeal.com/comics/ai_art

#Redis (Remote Dictionary Server) and its open source fork #Valkey share a scary flaw that can give an attacker full RCE. It’s been assigned a max CVSS score of 10.0—you don’t often see that.

#Redis shouldn’t normally be exposed to the internet, but it often is. In #SBBlogwatch, we descend a layer:

John Roberts Colorblind Constitution bsky.app/profile/dlkn...

"While some fretted over the behavior of protesters, these men, who performed brutality for their own cameras, were always going to riot."

I'm not a quoter of scripture, but this seemed appropriate for the horror that has been unleashed because of the gutting of USAID.

“Whatever you do to the least of these, you do to me.” -Jesus

🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

“Look what I found while walking through ‘The Villages!’”

One of the first tests of mettle for Bari Weiss as Editor-in-Chief will be the way it handles those "nightmares of urban dystopia based on conservative media doom loops" and injected into public discourse by the President himself. When asked about it, how will she deal with lying the size of a city?

It reads as a near-inversion of the peroration of Obama’s “yes we can” speech.

Rather than “a creed written into the founding documents that declared [a] destiny” or “whisper[s] by slaves and abolitionists as they blazed a trail towards freedom,” he layers faux erudition onto the 14 words.

Tom Homan, head of ICE, accepted $50k from undercover FBI agents last year, reportedly a bribe in a sting operation. All cash, in a paper bag. Pam Bondi, reading from a script, insists Homan did nothing wrong—yet she refuses to answer any questions about what happened to that cash? Really?

The legal analysis: Laws don't matter.

"Any university leader who signs on to this compact would betray everything good and solid about the university and would do deep and permanent harm to the United States and the world."

I love that the Zoology department was integral to finding text about Merlin that was otherwise invisible to the human eye.

@durbin.senate.gov said it clearly: the DOJ is making America less safe.

Instead of going after organized crime, AG Bondi shut down a key task force to fuel this administration’s mass deportation agenda.

Venue owners, producers of live events, please for the love of all that is holy when you post on social media include the date and time of the event you are promoting -- I promise you 99% of your effort was just wasted without this information.

A county commissioner tried to take down a License Plate Reader in his jurisdiction where elected officials had ended their contract w/ Flock. Police arrested him.

Who really runs these counties? Politicians gave blank checks to police and are now learning the genie is out of the bottle.

this is very good

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