Tom McKay

Tom McKay

@catturd2.bsky.social

tech/cybersecurity reporter, contributor @Gizmodo. my credentials are clear: I have never given $50k in a shoebox to fake CIA guys.

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Tom McKay
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one thing that hadn't occurred to me until now is that the psychotic conversation that Torrance has with Lloyd is probably almost beat by beat a conversation he has had with a bartender many times before

Tom McKay
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then later when he's swaggering through the old timey club like the toast of the town that's his recollection of what hes like when he drinks etc

Tom McKay
@catturd2.bsky.social

the handsome sheriff's deputy who sort of low key flirts with shelley duvall at the start of the shining really drops the fucking ball

Tom McKay
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It's so funny that the new call of duty games are basically a launcher for a random assortment of the last six games that it tricks you into installing but are all paid dlc and/or separate games and it's not clear what's tied to what

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I predict that at in at least one attempt to flip the forthcoming midterms, the Trump administration will argue that the lack of car parking near an "urban" (may not actually be urban) poll site violated suburban civil rights

Tom McKay
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They won't let you take the cars.. they say you have to walk. Step step step like Hansel and Gretel in the forest, except these people, they're paid to walk and vote. They're paid.

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I also predict that they will produce irrefutable proof that a very alive Latina grandmother somewhere was actually dead when she voted and the news will just send someone to knock on her door

Tom McKay
@catturd2.bsky.social

Just got into Manhattan on a trip. You have to tip the Sunni militia that controls the station and cross live fire to tip the Shiite militia that controls the taxi rank, but under sharia law everything is very clean

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walked into the bedroom because i was wondering what the hell that damn beeping was

Tom McKay
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[to the tune of the mario underground song] gary gary gary gary gary gary gary gary gary gary gary GARY gary gary gary gary gary gary gary gary

Tom McKay
@catturd2.bsky.social

the funny thing about seeing a teardrop tattoo in the wild is you can't be sure whether this man is a stone cold killer or some fucking clown

Tom McKay
@catturd2.bsky.social

Some of the guard patrolling in DC appear to have mobile infantry support (unmarked black van driven by another guardsman. what the fuck?)

Tom McKay
@catturd2.bsky.social

I meant Lime verification loop because I can't rent a scooter, but thanks for doing a slow motion Homer-jumping-in-front-of-bullet-for-Apu meme to spend five cents providing a wildly incorrect guess, Google

Tom McKay
@catturd2.bsky.social

"Mister... Hitler"? Wenn Sie mich ansprechen, sagen Sie "mein Führer", verstanden?! Haben Sie keinen Respekt vor Autorität?! Ihre Worte gewähren Einblick in einen höchst verräterischen Geist! Sind Sie denn ein Idiot?! Sind Sie ein verkleideter Schurke, ein Jude? Ein verräterischer Jude?!

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

YIKES -- Trump loses his shit at a reporter for the third time during this Q&A -- "Wait wait -- Quiet. Quiet!!!! What's wrong with you? Are you a SICK person?"

Tom McKay
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When he says "are you a sick person" I gasped at how much he sounded like senile Hitler in the game asking "are you a sinister man?? A jew???" lol

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So the accusation is they're blowing all their money on American products?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Stephen Miller claims Somali-Americans in Minnesota are "buying Mercedes, buying BMWs, they buy a nice house, all their kids fly first class all over the world" (This is a lie!)

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@keptsimple.bsky.social

if this were true, aren't rich immigrants coming to the US and throwing their money around, like, the ideal kind of immigrants?

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Stephen Miller claims Somali-Americans in Minnesota are "buying Mercedes, buying BMWs, they buy a nice house, all their kids fly first class all over the world" (This is a lie!)

Tom McKay
@catturd2.bsky.social

I didnt know much about saharan rock but a guy from Azawad was recently explaining about the region's connection to it and it's like oh now I get it it's sort of like Peru and classic rock!

Tom McKay
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That's my guess anyways. Meta wants to gather an absolutely staggering amount of business context for Muse and in the long term have Muse be a sort of Windows For Business/AI business assistant thing that can run on a phone app.

Tom McKay
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That's what I would do anyways if I had a social media network which ran out of growth and wanted to transition to something ajdacent that's worth billions and offers permanence

Tom McKay
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This would be a genuinely useful product for FB's absolutely massive developing countries small business reach, and a way to cut itself in to business transactions at a processor/facilitator level in those economies bsky.app/profile/catt...

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if i had to guess it's not the content they're interested in, it's in systematically harvesting information about the business backends with the stretch goal of making Muse a general purpose commerce agent that gets a slice of every economic sector

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Excited to announce I am already no longer the White House Press Secretary after failing a drug test (the test was apparently NOT bringing drugs to work)