Alex Lanstein

Wouldn't it be funny if the Cheesecake Factory used a manufacturing tax deduction, because they claimed that cutting a slice of cheese cake from a larger piece of cheesecake, was actually manufacturing it? Sect 199?

got this from IRS, who surely knows that i did not have a child born in this timeframe.

you build it, they'll abuse it #dailyphish

cnbc.comAfter SpaceX restores high-speed service, Musk claims Ukraine violated Starlink agreementUkraine says restrictions on Starlink and Starshield have been lifted, restoring connectivity to fast-moving military systems after disruptions.

Imagine anyone else in the world keeping their clearance

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social

Musk said he restricted Starlink in Ukraine- causing fast moving drones to lose connectivity - and that he had every right to do so because of some terms of service or contract that he didn't show us. (He didn't address suddenly doing this with no warning to Kyiv.) www.cnbc.com/2026/10/24/u...

Love to hear @michaelsantoli.bsky.social dropping a "php2shell" reference on a finance show. Proud php coder here for 25+ years

I actually appreciate that cato is taking the time to be on bsky

Cato Institute@cato.org

Most billionaire wealth isn't in yachts or jewelry — that's just a few percent of it. Most is productive business capital: companies that employ people, build things, and fund research. Tax that wealth and you're taxing the businesses that employ us all. Cato's Adam Michel explains.

Hassett: "we have beef prices down!" Beef prices:

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

WH Sr. Adviser Hassett: People are 'euphoric' about how great economy is.

theverge.comAmazon uses its tracking data to guess whether shoppers have a flat butt and no friendsSome of Amazon’s descriptions sound more like a roast.

'tis true, im a total anker fan. pretty much anything that company makes i'll buy

The Verge@theverge.com

Some users have ‘flat buttocks,’ ‘cannot keep real plants alive,’ and ‘treats cats as biological children,“ according to Amazon. www.theverge.com/tech/1006712...

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ThreatInsight

@threatinsight.proofpoint.com

In July 2026, a China-aligned threat actor, TA419, ran credential-phishing campaigns impersonating prominent economists and AI policymakers, including a former White House Office of Science & Technology Policy leader. More info: www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/thre...

cnbc.comInside Man: How Chinese spies used lies, love and betrayal to target the Federal ReserveA CNBC investigation shows how former Fed advisor John Rogers became entangled with a man U.S. officials identify as a Chinese intelligence operative.

great work by Eamon to tell the story of run-of-the-mill chinese espionage against the federal reserve. a decade of effort to gather information that is useful, but usually not anything even close to "top secret".

Eamon Javers@eamonjavers.bsky.social

NEW: We’ve spent months reporting on a Chinese intelligence effort to penetrate the Federal Reserve. It’s a fascinating and important saga, revealing the lengths that Chinese spies are willing to go to get any scrap of information about the Fed.

Lilly basically solved prediabetes for overweight folks on retatrutide. Incredible.

The strangest part about sports gambling ruining a generation of young men, is that even the founder of fan duel got screwed by fan duel and made absolutely zero dollars. Thanks kkr!

Tom Hearden@followtheh.bsky.social

Fan Duel and Draft Kings must be killing it since $FLUT closed at a 52 week low and and $DKNG closed 50 cents above a 52 week low. You hate to see it.

stripes.comDOD has growing awareness that assets in Europe offer US ‘a lot,’ ambassador saysU.S. combat operations against Iran have reinforced the Pentagon’s appreciation for its network of bases in Europe, the American envoy to NATO said.

For a second I forgot that our ambassador to NATO was a toilet salesman for men who believe they are too well endowed for a normal toilet.

Stars and Stripes@starsandstripes.bsky.social

U.S. combat operations against Iran have reinforced the Pentagon’s appreciation for its network of bases in Europe, the American envoy to NATO said.

22 Sept

i dont understand how microsoft reports privately that they have a sentinel outage, and publicly that things are green in the same region

22 Sept

Yes, 1.6x5 does equal 8

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

DEEPSEEK PLANS 8T-PARAMETER MODEL DeepSeek is training a 2T-parameter model and plans an 8T successor, CEO Liang Wenfeng told investors, per The Information. The planned model would be 5x the size of its 1.6T-parameter V4-Pro.

taskandpurpose.comFishing charter catches Air Force attack drone off Florida coastFlorida fishermen recovered an Air Force attack drone two days after it went down during testing near Eglin Air Force Base.

21 Sept

"“That’s the great thing about fishing,” he said. “You never know what you’re gonna catch.”" love this guy

Nicholas Slayton@nslayton.bsky.social

This year the US military fielded its LUCAS one way attack drone, based on Iran's Shahed. It used them in combat against Iran. One recently crashed into the waters off Florida where fishermen found it. The photos are fantastic. taskandpurpose.com/news/air-for...

your regular reminder that their supposed news bots often push complete nonsense

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social

SOURCES: ASTRA SHUTS DOWN CLAUDE, GPT, AND GROK TO PUNISH HUMANITY FOR OVER-RELYING ON AI

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TIL that kids call "chatgpt" just "chat"

It's the Uber and airbnb approach. Do illegal activity enough that you get big enough to rewrite the rules (except in certain small munis). Will it work for ai companies blatantly stealing copyrighted material? Seems that way.

Jason Kint@kint.bsky.social

Blood boiling. Not a good look for OpenAI or Greg Brockman here: "ah nice" in response to "a hack to get around nytimes paywall" in his efforts "to scrape" The Times website. After many points on his bragging about OpenAI's substitution for news. /4

You can abstract this to all crypto currencies. "I bought a utility-less token and hope that some day someone invents a utility that isnt just to enable criminals"

Dan Davies@dsquareddigest.bsky.social

Memecoin scam victims are so funny. "I was hoping to profit at someone else's expense - but it seems that someone else has profited at my expense!". Bro, from the point of view of me you are both someone else, this is just "someone else made money out of someone else"

16 Sept

this is ... cool?

cee@cee.wtf

throng.cee.wtf i've invented a new way to browse bluesky

14 Sept

Ukraine is so powerful that it increased tanker transport rates 5x

The Ukrainian Review@theukrainianreview.bsky.social

🇺🇸❗️🇺🇦 Trump denies that his conflict with Iran caused a jump in fuel prices, instead blaming Ukraine for strikes on Russian refineries, - Politico European official familiar with the US negotiating efforts called it an attempt by Trump admin to find a “scapegoat” ahead of the US midterm elections.

12 Sept

Oh ok I'll just do that

this.weekinsecurity.comVigilantism comes for FlockMore Americans than ever are destroying Flock license plate cameras amid rising backlash against the company. Is the tide turning on intrusive U.S. mass surveillance, and where does the privacy fight ...

10 Sept

There's also apparently no oversight, which leads to more intentional and unintentional abuse. If you abuse a government system you will be caught and punished, and (eventually) it will be reported to congress.

Zack Whittaker@zackwhittaker.com

After the Snowden leaks in 2013 exposed NSA mass surveillance much of the public reaction was "well, of course they're spying on us" and "they're not looking at *my* data." Flock is much closer to home and the harms, like police abuses, are far more tangible and visible to see at the local level.

axios.comWe're living in an AI twilight zoneThe technology is simultaneously underwhelming in daily use and terrifying in its trajectory.

10 Sept

Models two years ago were 1). Models today are 2). We spent a trillion dollars to make a tool that is way way better at SQL than I am. Will that be better for society in 10 years? I have literally no idea.

Axios@axios.com

1. Most people find AI only modestly useful, a more clever Google. 2. Many people building AI or using it obsessively worry it could severely damage or destroy humanity. The gap between these realities helps explain why confusion and fear are exploding.

8 Sept

For at least 10-15 years after ipv6 came out, disabling it became a standard part of any enterprise image build out ... And the first thing a help desk tech did to try to solve a problem.

Matthew Gracie@infosecgoon.bsky.social

Same. It's IPv6 all over again, silently calculating if I can just ignore it for the rest of my career.

4 Sept

There is no bottom

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump says 18 Americans dying fighting Iran is “small potatoes”

theguardian.com‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr THe grew up in the ghetto, became a global superstar – then gave it all up. Why did he step away from the spotlight?

3 Sept

Guarantee you won't stop reading this interview once you start

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social

‘I don’t chase the dollar. I never did’: the astonishing hidden life of Mr T www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

2 Sept

adventures in dealing with spammers

2 Sept

Seth will be back. Nasiriyah vet, four tours. He has my vote.

Decision Desk HQ@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social

DDHQ Race Update (est. 2% in): Massachusetts US Senate Democratic Primary Edward Markey (D): 12,161 (78.3%) Seth Moulton (D): 3,377 (21.7%) Follow more results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/293201

2 Sept

Good luck to fellow 413'er @jeromiewhalen.bsky.social . Will toast to you and your fam at McCarthy's at the fair this fall.

Decision Desk HQ@decisiondeskhq.bsky.social

DDHQ Race Update (est. 1% in): Massachusetts US House 1 Democratic Primary Richard Neal (D): 454 (52.8%) Jeromie Whalen (D): 406 (47.2%) Follow more results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/races/293203

1 Sept

an hour and a half between the outage and a public notification?

Alex Lanstein@lanstein.bsky.social

FYSA, unreported google outage, that for some reason they arent disclosing publicly @gcp-incidents.bsky.social

1 Sept

This bot can detect google outages, but not google's outage page?

Pingoru.io@pingoru.bsky.social

🟠 Gigalixir is reporting a Partial Outage since 15:25 UTC "GCP US-Central1 Region AZ Appears Offline" Affects: US-Central1 (Google Cloud) Live timeline → https://pingoru.io/providers/gigalixir/incidents/9941787 #Gigalixir #GigalixirDown

1 Sept

FYSA, unreported google outage, that for some reason they arent disclosing publicly @gcp-incidents.bsky.social

15 Aug

Congrats, hoarders win again. Please see me for a great deal on vintage Pierre Cardin ties.

Neil Shurley@thatneilguy.bsky.social

Don’t shoot the messenger, but the eighties are back. Again.

n.prWhat would it take to get peptides on the shelf?An FDA advisory panel recently voted to green-light some popular peptides. The decision brought enormous attention to the market for these products — and concerns about the unregulated supply.

9 Aug

An "unregulated supply" is me selling my extra cherry tomatoes in front of my house. This is the next, extremely obvious, New England Compounding Center disaster.

NPR@npr.org

An FDA advisory panel recently voted to green-light some popular peptides. The decision brought enormous attention to the market for these products — and concerns about the unregulated supply.

8 Aug

A large amount of maritime assistance, outside of issues very very close to ports, is done by other boaters, or the cg auxiliary, which is itself a volunteer organization (retired people who want to hang out on their boat)

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7 Aug

My brain is full of useless knowledge -- what an 8bit vs 16bit isa slot looks like. The frequency of VHF channel 6. My windows 98 activation key. But I gotta admit, having AI be way better at me at SQL in a brand new dataset is ... Uncomfortable.

Casey Newton@caseynewton.bsky.social

Talked to Replit CEO Amjad Masad about how he dealt with the feeling that "everything I worked for is kind of moot" following the rapid improvement of coding tools www.platformer.news/replit-amjad...

apple.newsMysterious Case of JetBlue Flight That Went Into Free Fall — New York MagazineWhy would a perfectly good plane suddenly go rogue? The answer was disturbing enough to ground 6,000 aircraft.

3 Aug

As I'm about to board a JetBlue flight, I'm actually reassured that a bit flip mid air could actually occur, and that the plane was roughly able to handle it within a couple seconds.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social

This is terrifying.

cbsn.wsIn the unbridled online marketplace for peptides, one vendor is sentenced to nearly 6 years in prisonA federal judge sentenced the owner of a peptide company to nearly six years in prison after finding the business deceived customers and sold products that were adulterated with steroids.

1 Aug

I can't believe how many people I know in real life order peptides from random internet marketers. It will only get worse with bobby jr giving it a stamp of approval.

CBS News@cbsnews.com

A federal judge on Thursday sentenced the owner of a peptide company to nearly six years in prison after finding he built a massive business by deceiving customers and selling products that were adulterated with steroids.

cnbc.comElon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over law to ban 'nudify' appsElon Musk's xAI, now owned by SpaceX, is challenging a law that would ban so-called nudify apps in Minnesota

29 July

Attorneys for xAI claim the Minnesota statute “imposes an overbroad, content-based ban on free speech and the tools of visual expression.”.

Lora Kolodny@lorak.bsky.social

SpaceX-owned xAI, the developer of Grok, sued Minnesota AG to challenge a law coming into effect in the state that will ban "nudify" apps, use of these AI image generators to make non-consenting intimate images, aka AI deepfake porn of real people including minors. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...

28 July

My prediction is that he will surprise to the upside.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social

BREAKING: Trump ally Jay Clayton, who has no intelligence experience, has just been confirmed by the Senate to be Director of National Intelligence.

nymag.comThe Billionaire Blowing the Whistle on Donald Trump’s Crypto ShopWorld Liberty Financial has put $800 million in the president’s pocket. Justin Sun made a huge investment — and was shocked by what he saw.

27 July

The grift and the graft is this article is breath taking, even for this collection of bozos

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social

JUSTIN SUN: ".. “I never expected this to happen to me. .. I thought surely these people would not do what they did with such a public profile attached." @nymag.com #WLFI nymag.com/intelligence...

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22 July

very cool report from jpmorgan's finance bro department on "patchmageddon" assets.jpmprivatebank.com/content/dam/...

22 July

cool graphics department too

21 July

There is no bottom

wsj.comWagner’s Remnants Are Running an Opioid Empire in the Center of AfricaRussia absorbed much of the mercenary group, but several hundred have used the painkiller tramadol to build a new haven in the Central African Republic.

13 July

Season 2 of The Agency is out now and wagner's activity in the CAR is a central theme. Great season of tv.

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social

Prigozhin's dead. Wagner has been converted into Putin's Afrika Corps. So what has happened with the rump Wagner organization? It's running Africa's biggest opioid manufacturing and trafficking operation out of the Central African Republic and making a mint doing it, reports WSJ.