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Meta: I have kept a public Mastodon account since leaving the other place, and this hasn't resulted in the level of drama that a public Twitter account did. Twitter kept turning my life upside down and never made me any money, so I limit social media because I don't have time for that.

In newspapers around the world, the report that Donald Trump raped Béatrice Keul in an Atlantic City hotel room commands huge headlines. In US corporate media, it isn't reported. Ask yourself why that might be. Here's the front page of today's Süddeutsche Zeitung in Munich.

After several years of calling anyone they dislike a pedophile or a groomer, the GOP has discovered that it can be done to them too, and the chairman of the Ohio Republican party is not happy about it

I dont know if it's because they love republicans and want them to win but holy crap is this an embarrassment. the equivalent of reckless disregard in terms of journalism fuck ups. Just the simplest damn googling.

Politico wrote up Zohran playing basketball with the uncovering-a-big-scandal tone the same day the NYTimes wrote up "credible allegation that The President of the United States raped a woman" as a political strategy story. Broken media in a nutshell

flashbacks to hiding this issue to read before my parents saw it

I know there's a lot going on but I feel it should probably be more of an above-the-fold story that members of Congress released a thoroughly documented report directly accusing the president of the United States of being a serial rapist.

This is about 25% of the Microsoft workforce. Microsoft is dying.

Nothing is a more convincing admission that you know your entire administration is corrupt than giving criminal pardons to EVERYONE.

The Trump regime ratfucking the Post Office has led to *checks notes* Republican voters being disenfranchised.

Remember when we had 3 branches of government and the legislative branch controlled the purse? Those were fun times.

Much of the modern digital world only exists because of human social norms. The Internet's backbone exchanges data at light speed because a bunch of regular folks, essentially, shake hands & agree to do so. Lots of fragile, vital infrastructure only survived because nobody decided (yet) to knife it.

@lunaraptor.bsky.social For the most part, it's just... all software has bugs. We just didn't look *that* deeply into every nook & cranny of every platform before because it wasn't practical to do so. Now people are telling LLMs, "dig into this" for every major tool, and finding bugs everywhere.

It's sure a good thing that so many #infosec engineers have been laid off globally then, right?

Well it's sure a good thing that there have been more cybersecurity layoffs over the past year than any other time in history, right? ...right?

Republicans in Washington State have placed a measure on the ballot requiring that EVERY girl who participates in sports must first undergo a genital exam. That's right. To "protect" young girls, Republicans want to poke their vaginas. That reminded me of something from the Epstein files.

Glad to see CNN reporting on this. @jimacosta.bsky.social and I raised concerns about DHS potentially using a military-grade “heat ray.” After 20+ years in national security, I find this deeply troubling. A weapon designed to inflict intense pain. Against civilians? Why does DHS need this?

Trump's former communications director says: yes, Trump is a Russian agent, and if you haven't figured that out yet, you're not very smart.

we used to conduct an interview where you had to log in to a linux VM that we’d “pre-broken” with a handful of obvious footguns (disk full, wrong perms, etc etc) and we had to stop running it because opus 4.6-era could one-shot it

As one of the candidates featured in these polls - the infamous one in late June that showed me plummeting into single digits (which was at odds with our internals) - here's the impact of this "experiment"

In any other admin, this would probably be the most outrageous official statement ever made by a sitting FCC director: Strongly implying that the government forbids broadcast networks from reporting on the president's falling poll numbers. (Sorry to paste from twitter but that's where he posts.)

CEO of major defense firm, largest donor (by far) ever to a political party, person who ran the government for 6 month resulting 100k's of deaths threatening Congress if they investigate him is reinforcing why Congress needs to investigate him with urgency, depth, and real accountability.

Important for oversight Dems to focus on third parties too: banks, investment firms, other custodians of records

the routine, pay for play pardons are all by themselves one of the worst corruption scandals in american history!

1/ While the headlines have faded, the Ebola outbreak in Central Africa hasn't. The outbreak of Bundibugyo Ebola in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues to grow, and there’s been some concerning updates that have largely gotten lost in the news. Here’s the current situation.

This is an excellent press question. Whistleblowers are long able to bring a qui tam lawsuit which DOJ can join & get 15-30% of any settlement under the False Claims Act (which is used often to address health care fraud including in Medicare & Medicaid) compared to only 1% under this capped $ fund.

I have an MBA. And I would argue that the most valuable things I learned were... that I didn't want to go the traditional path of an MBA grad because it seemed ridiculous. I agree there's not much value there.

Zuckerberg shut down No Kings on Meta Trump banned news outlets from the White House Now TikTok wants to erase the “Musk” documentary Billionaires wants to control our information, because they believe uninformed masses are compliant-and more profitable for them This will backfire Spectacularly

New in PN: Who wants to visit an authoritarian America? "Data shows the US on its way to being as unpopular a tourist destination as Russia, & for roughly the same reasons. In both countries, a tourist who runs afoul of the govt might spend months in a freezing warehouse without no legal counsel."

Again, this seems to be Republicans' big closing message for the midterms, so it's worth asking -- what the fuck are they talking about. Ask any parent with a kid in public schools if they'll so much as give them an Advil without written and signed permission. Then show them this insane shit.

Lacks imagination, you gotta sprinkle Obama on that shit to get the MAGA chuds really going

The Republicans siding with the Kremlin is a Trump signature, something no GOPer would have believed possible even 15 years ago. Populism is poison.

Lol so the Democrat in TX34 bought a billboard telling people the GOP candidate was endorsed by Trump and now Flores(R) is upset about it

Is it bad if major defense contractors have their own foreign policies?

remember how circa 2018 you could spot a facebook boomer from a mile away. like their brains were just totally cooked. half of what they said was incoherent. x-brain is less incongruous because politics itself is more Online, but it's still pretty noticeable when someone's brain is cooked by x

i think that western journalists with limited or outdated experience with authoritarian propaganda environments don't know how much things have evolved in like, the last 15 years. like the degree to which propaganda is chaotic, distributed, insidious, memeified.

📌BREAKING NEWS FOR THE IDIOTS IN MSM: The Trump agenda has not been a failure. He has troops & masked gunmen in our streets, has surrendered to Putin, wrecked our govt., spent lavishly on himself & made his family hundreds of millions of dollars. That was ALWAYS his agenda. Try reporting THAT.

So ChatGPT lets basically anyone target ads to people simply based on email, phone number, or unique phone identifier. @josephcox.bsky.social tried it and successfully ran an ad about how humans are reading your ChatGPT prompts in like 5 minutes. Read more: www.404media.co/how-chatgpt-...

No one is poking the bear, it's the bear that keeps attacking us. Get rid of the bear.

Crazy idea: Democrats should defend immigration and immigrants, run on the idea that immigrants make America great, and stop Homer Simpsoning themselves into the shrubbery every time Republicans try to demagogue it.

Dengue and malaria travel in the same circles. Wouldn't be surprised to see malaria show up in Florida next.

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

Musk says he didn’t cut services to thwart Ukrainian self-defense, the US govt did. A senior US official says the Trump White House had nothing to do with that, implying Musk did it. A problem is they’re both serial liars, Putin sympathizers, and anti-democracy, so who knows.

NBC should be reporting on the abuse of power, not the underlying bs