Captain Magic ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

Captain Magic ๐Ÿ‡ณ๐Ÿ‡ฑ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ

@captmagic.bsky.social

Retired banking IT hacker back in the BUNCH days, moved to IBM gear inn mid โ€˜80s. Cochlear Implant user.

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1. A new Popular Information investigation reveals that Senate Republicans have recently launched at least six fake news sites in key states.

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When I made a public break with the right wing back in the Bronze Age, I took an enormous amount of shit from right wingers mocking me for โ€œseeing Nazis under the bed,โ€ but guess what? i was right, they *were* under the bed. And now theyโ€™re in charge of the US. Sometimes it sucks to be right.

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As a technologist: If anything or anyone asks you to open Terminal, run as fast as you can away from it

Julia Mรฉtraux@juliametraux.bsky.social

Excuse me, what's going on with captcha?

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OpenAI Just Open-Sourced a Tool That Scrubs Your Secrets Before ChatGPT Ever Sees Them - Decrypt OpenAI has released Privacy Filter: a small, free model that masks sensitive info before you paste it into an AI chatbot.

decrypt.coOpenAI Just Open-Sourced a Tool That Scrubs Your Secrets Before ChatGPT Ever Sees Them - DecryptOpenAI has released Privacy Filter: a small, free model that masks sensitive info before you paste it into an AI chatbot.

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Does anyone have a link to a good explainer about how to make sure iPhones and Androids are uploading to the cloud while people are monitoring government activity? Seems important.

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Trump is raging about the military being reminded of their duty to refuse illegal orders because he has ALREADY been issuing illegal orders, and unfortunately, too many service members have been breaking their oaths to the constitution, obeying the orders, and exposing themselves to a world of hurt.

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Been saying this since the day of. Kirk was flogging him for the Epstein files chicanery. So he was suddenly more useful as a dead hero than a live traitor to the perfect God King Trump.

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In 2025, Elon Musk perpetrated an even larger data breach, stealing the entire database of the Social Security Administration, containing the private data of everyone in the US. He suffered absolutely no consequences for it.

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ย In 2017, Equifax suffered one of the largest data breaches in history. Around 147 million Americans had their Social Security numbers, birth dates, and addresses exposed. But instead of alerting the public, executives quietly sold stock while the company hid the breach for months.

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