Matt Franz

Matt Franz

@mdfranz.bsky.social

Recovering SecOps Director with no delusions of becoming a CISO. Late career startup addict. Ex-Texan. Security at @pydantic.dev. Ex-Mandiant, Cisco, Ping (Identity not golf), Tenable, Gemalto, and T Rowe Price. https://github.com/mdfranz

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Matt Franz
@mdfranz.bsky.social

Not shocked there. I'm old enough to remember when West was taken seriously.

Sludge@sludge.bsky.social

NEW: The group behind Cornel West's 2024 ballot push was wholly funded through Elon Musk's dark money network, according to Sludge's review of tax documents. readsludge.com/2026/10/26/m...

readsludge.comMusk-Linked Dark Money Network Funded the Group Behind Cornel West’s Ballot PushPeople Over Party raised $7.7 million in 2024, all of it from the nonprofit behind the Fair Election Fund, which in turn got every dollar from a Musk-funded dark money group.
Matt Franz
@mdfranz.bsky.social

Typical Baltimore County "White Flight Boomer" mentality overhead in my local Dunkin. We need a better governor. Someone more like Thatcher or Reagan "who can work with both sides" 😭🤢😡

Matt Franz
@mdfranz.bsky.social

True LOL about that. 🔥

Acyn@acyn.bsky.social

OBAMA: He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. It's gold everywhere.

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Indivisible ❌👑
@indivisible.org

We’re 11 days out from what could be the most consequential midterm election in American history. Whether the fascists consolidate control of our government or We The People win back power comes down to what we do over the next week and a half.

Matt Franz
@mdfranz.bsky.social

Also has cost them some business. I still use them but use them less because of Cyber guardrails for stupid things that shouldn't be blocked. Use way more Codex and GLM because of them.

The New Stack@thenewstack.io

Anthropic had its Mythos AI models ready in February but held them back until June. CEO Dario Amodei says safety may soon struggle to keep pace.

bit.lyAmodei says Anthropic’s safety delay may have cost it an AI leadAnthropic had its Mythos AI models ready in February but held them back until June. CEO Dario Amodei says safety may soon struggle to keep pace.
Matt Franz
@mdfranz.bsky.social

Oooo - must try!

Orhun Parmaksız@orhun.dev

We have Jupyter notebooks in the terminal now! 📓 jOtter — A TUI for editing and running Jupyter notebooks! 💯 Inline plots, rendered LaTeX, Neovim support, automatic kernel detection & autosave 🦀 Written in Rust & built w/ @ratatui.rs ⭐ GitHub: github.com/samox73/jotter #rustlang #ratatui #tui

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Bill Kristol
@billkristolbulwark.bsky.social

"EVEN THOUGH PRESIDENT TRUMP’S EFFORTS to bend elections to his will have so far largely failed, don’t mistake defeat for retreat. The federal government’s highest power centers are working overtime to tilt the election in the administration’s favor." www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-ele...

thebulwark.comTrump’s Election Interference Is UnderwayWhile many of his attempts to compromise the midterms have failed, stay vigilant. Subversion doesn’t always look like insurrection.
Matt Franz
@mdfranz.bsky.social

Interesting 🧵 we shall see 🤞

Eliot Higgins@eliothiggins.bsky.social

And the big mistake we'll make is thinking democracy will bounce back from aberrations like Orban, Trump, PiS, etc, as if that's the natural order of things, but fundamentally the natural order of things has been completely turned on the head, so what's a naive assumptions become an absurdity.

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The Tennessee Holler
@thetnholler.bsky.social

Tucker: “I never understood why 🇬🇧 fought World War 2?” 😕 Rees-Mogg: “It was good vs. evil…We did the right thing…” Tucker: “Has 🇬🇧 benefitted?” RM: “We defeated Hitler… We’d all be speaking German…” Tucker: “Who cares?” 🤔

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JB Pritzker
@jbpritzker.bsky.social

From Chicago schools to Soldier Field and beyond, Mariachi Herencia de México music sends a powerful message: Chicago is all of us. It was a privilege to meet you.

Matt Franz
@mdfranz.bsky.social

Dropped this platform after the Kirk assassination, but decided to come back for the election and whatever other 🍿 we see in Q4 and beyond.

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