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kathryntewson.bsky.social
Jesus Christ
After reading some documentation on the Box Api, I realized this was a live maximum access fully scoped admin token to the current, entire Box filesystem (like an internal shared Google Drive) of this law firm. This includes all confidential files, logs, user information, etc. Once I was able to prove this had an impact (by searching for "confidential" and getting nearly 100k results back)
December 18, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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anthonymoser.com
if you don't have the confidence to personally assume criminal liability for the output of your statistical word assembler maybe it's not ready for the public
December 23, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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ricksteves.bsky.social
It’s the “season of love and giving”…but this year, doesn’t it seem more like a “season of fear and taking”? Like many of you, I’ve been saddened by the human impact of draconian government budget cuts and how angry many housed Americans are at unhoused Americans.

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December 21, 2025 at 2:51 AM
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tomtomorrow.bsky.social
hear me out
THE TOMTOMORROW AND THE DONALD TRUMP AND THE JOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS
December 20, 2025 at 8:16 PM
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refrag.bsky.social
Newsom fluffing up this fossilized bastard is yet another reason he must never be allowed near the Democratic nomination
govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov Governor Newsom Press Office @govpressoffice.gov.ca.gov · 13d
The presidency once served as a reminder of our common humanity. Ronald Reagan described its purpose as building "a nation composed of good and decent people."
December 17, 2025 at 2:21 AM
timothyzillion.bsky.social
Oo, is this a bug in nanoprintf? ah! they fixed it already.

oh no, their new code breaks my unit tests.

@cnich.bsky.social
December 11, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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dryad.technology
Developer attempts to replicate "Liquid Glass" in CSS, and once finished realizes what she'd actually created is an exploit for a fundamental, previously unknown, and rather serious browser vulnerability

lyra.horse/blog/2025/12...

"CSS hack accidentally becomes regular hack"
SVG Filters - Clickjacking 2.0
A novel and powerful twist on an old classic.
lyra.horse
December 5, 2025 at 2:03 AM
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alexwild.bsky.social
They think decades of modern medicine has made us soft, and our obession with keeping people alive has diluted the master race, so now these deeply weird losers think it would be a good idea if huge numbers of people just died.
December 3, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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xkcd.com
Satellite Imagery

xkcd.com/3173/
Comic. [Two people in front of projected satellite image. A small portion of the image is pixelated squares.] PERSON 1: Wait, when was this imagery taken? Is this censorship the work of the contractor? One of our people? *Foreign actors!?* PERSON 2 with ponytail: Do we know who’s operating a facility at that location? PERSON 1: We can’t find *anything*. [caption] My hobby: Setting up big colored panels in the middle of nowhere as a prank on remote sensing people
December 2, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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mike.teczno.com
The cars *are* the fire, today

We’re all suffering the externalities of internal combustion
stephenjacobsmith.com Stephen Jacob Smith @stephenjacobsmith.com · 29d
Ex-official explained this in a way that will stick with me forever: Within fire departments, the EMTs are overworked and underpaid and don’t have time to advocate for policy. The fire chiefs, on the other hand, have a lot more time on their hands. So fire response, not medical, dictates policy.
November 30, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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astrokatie.com
In a world in which people with too much power and influence desperately need to be told and to understand when they are wrong, we are suddenly all inescapably drowning in sycophancy machines.
November 21, 2025 at 3:53 AM
timothyzillion.bsky.social
I only heard of @burgerbecky.bsky.social after her recent death; but listened to this interview with ber on the noon dogwalk today and highly recommend it. retronauts.com/article/1167...
November 20, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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benadida.com
"Adversarial Poetry". Today, I know just from that title where this paper is going. Five years ago, I would have had no clue.

What a weird world we live in.

arxiv.org/html/2511.15...
Adversarial Poetry as a Universal Single-Turn Jailbreak Mechanism in Large Language Models
arxiv.org
November 20, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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scott.hanselman.com
Open sourced Zork today opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/11... and ran it on a swarm of containers in the cloud 😂
Preserving code that shaped generations: Zork I, II, and III go Open Source
Microsoft’s Open Source Programs Office (OSPO), Team Xbox, and Activision are making Zork I, Zork II, and Zork III available under the MIT License.
opensource.microsoft.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:42 PM
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astrokatie.com
This video is excellent and you should watch it
skepchick.org Rebecca Watson @skepchick.org · Nov 19
Mainstream news covered the Jeffrey Epstein emails related to ppl like Trump. Today, I want to take a look at Epstein's correspondence with prominent atheist and physicist Lawrence Krauss, who asked the pedophile's advice on responding to accusations of sexual assault skepchick.org/2025/11/so-i...
So I’m in the Epstein Files
Transcript: Look. I know that on this channel, I often criticize prominent people for actions that I find detestable: accepting dark money and failing to disclose it, producing propaganda for Big O…
skepchick.org
November 20, 2025 at 2:11 AM
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theophite.bsky.social
the largest number ever factored by Shor's algorithm is 35
timkellogg.me Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · Nov 19
seems bad
Ignas | DeFi @Defilgnas X.com Bitcoin is being dumped by long-term holders due to quantum risk. A quantum computer with sufficient logical Qubits will be able to break the private keys of 20-30% of the coins. This means that Bitcoin is effectively providing a US$500 billion 'science prize' to the first company to build the computer which breaks the encryption. There are some potential solutions for the problem, but it is clear that because Bitcoin has no management or leaders, they won't be adopted. The Bitcoin protocol will most likely die once quantum hacks starts happening, as confidence will be destroyed.
November 19, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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justkelly.bsky.social
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if Dems nominate Newsom, they deserve to lose.
November 17, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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oliviawaite.com
I have thought about Bob Roberts once a day for the past ten years, and would eat this sequel up with a spoon.
hugobookclub.bsky.social An Unofficial Hugo Book Club Blog @hugobookclub.bsky.social · Nov 17
The Freewheelin' Bob Roberts:

Tim Robbins returns as the right-wing folk-music singing senator from Pennsylvania. In the sequel, he is finishing his fifth term in office and (after two failed runs for president) is facing a primary challenge from someone even more extreme than he is.

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November 17, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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solomonmissouri.bsky.social
November 14, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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zamosta.bsky.social
It kills me that this is probably the most widely read thing I'll ever publish and NYT copy editors deleted all my Oxford commas.

www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Opinion | I Worked All Over Silicon Valley. This Is How It Lost Its Spine.
www.nytimes.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:28 PM
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innes.bsky.social
"The mainstream understanding of AI is as an interefering piece of shit which doesn't work" pt II

www.askamanager.org/2025/11/the-...
10. The baby announcement At the end of a meeting, a colleague asked their boss to stay on the line for a couple of minutes. The colleague then confidentially shared the great news that they were expecting a baby, and they and their boss talked about a few next steps to plan for parental leave. The AI notetaker then sent out notes to everyone who had attended the meeting with the headline, “Colleague Is Having a Baby.” 19. The equipment I recently saw a ~$50,000 piece of industrial equipment damaged and taken out of commission for about a month because Google AI search told a worker that the tightening torque of a screw was 50 ft*lb instead of 50 in*lb. This resulted in them over-tightening the screw by a factor of 12, which unfortunately didn’t strip the threaded hole (which would have been a smaller problem) but instead warped a bearing assembly that required a full rebuild at considerable difficulty and expense. The kicker is that the correct torque value was clearly printed in the service manual that is stored in the machine. 1. The fake initiative Our execs usually send out a hype email right before the annual employee morale survey, emphasizing wins from the past year, basically trying to put people in a positive frame of mind. Last year’s included the announcement of a major new program we knew employees really wanted. But it was a bit surprising, because it fell in an area my team was responsible for, and we were out of the loop, despite advocating strenuously for this over the years. So I went to the exec to a) convey enthusiasm for his newfound dedication to launching this program and b) ask what support he needed from my team/get us involved again. It turned out the program wasn’t launching at all; he had just asked AI to edit the email to make it sound more exciting and appealing, and it had done so by … launching my initiative. 16. The scam We work with a lot of small businesses just starting up, and as a result are asked to recommend professional services often. Knowing this, a client passed on a discreet warning about the bookkeeping firm we’d recommended to them. They had issues with their accounting software, Quickbooks, and called for help. It was right when Google started providing AI summaries for everything, and apparently their account rep pulled the phone number for Quickbooks’ support out of the AI summary, rather than off the website. You can probably guess where this is going. The number wasn’t legit, but instead put him in contact with a scammer who’d managed astroturf their way into the AI summary. The account rep gave the scammer full access to our client’s accounting software before he realized his error. Our client didn’t share a lot of details about the damages — I got the sense that they were saying very little because they were planning legal action — but they wanted to let us know so we wouldn’t recommend them again.
November 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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simonwillison.net
Happy beached whale dynamite day for all who celebrate
November 12, 2025 at 1:01 PM
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courtneymilan.com
I told my Senators that the message Senate Dems are sending is that if we vote for Democrats resoundingly in an election, they’ll promptly fold.

Is this what they want us to take from this?
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
timothyzillion.bsky.social
"the woman in cabin 10" goes hard if you're stupid.

why did I watch this.
November 9, 2025 at 1:57 AM
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emilyhughes.bsky.social
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
brittanytrang.com Brittany Trang @brittanytrang.com · Nov 8
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.

Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."

Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
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James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM