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SOON.

TIL super glue can set shit on fire. I was cleaning up a little over spill and touched my finger to the paper towel and got legit burned. Then I look down and see the paper fucking SMOKING. I feel like this is something I shoulda known years ago.

Them: “So like what does a @defcon.bsky.social group do? You like hack governments and stuff?” Us: “Mostly, we sparkle.” Shoutout to robo-tech.ca

To everybody who was still in a very old discord server that I owned, but it was basically unused & I was unable to delete the server, so I just started banning people thinking it wouldn’t give out notifications…but it did… Oops. 

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Local Regal was playing Blair Witch tonight. Sure why not. Movie ends, I hear someone say “wait, is it seriously over?” I stand up to leave, looks like a bunch of college kids all came to watch it together. I say “That was a much scarier in the 90’s” and leave. I am now The Elder.

If y’all wondered who to blame for me being a hacker, here you go. Wik (who’d I’d known since high school) got me my first security gig which introduced me to @nohackme.thruntcon.com the 1st day. For 15 years, my two hacker dads helped me evolve like a cyber Pokémon. I owe them EVERYTHING.

Celebrating 15 wonderful years with my main side bitch @nohackme.thruntcon.com.

Birthday present from wife & child and I am EXCITE. No I’m not going to call them Legos, I already had the Nerd Police water board me over it.

"Growth for the sake of Growth is the ideology of the cancer cell” Edward Abbey quote poster spotted in Carlton, Victoria

‘Tis the season

Gonna see how the other half lives. I wonder if PHP will be a topic covered in some depth. @phillipwylie.bsky.social & I might have some chats about it while we’re there together. Find some extra budget in Q4? They handed me a 10% off code. www.cybermarketingconference.com?utm_campaign...

Been offline most of the day today. What major pieces of internet infrastructure got compromised so far?

PHProlapse

It’s actually kind of beautiful. It’s harder and harder to recognize what progress looks like but I’m pretty sure it looks something like this. 

Remember the viral Darth Vader public comment over Flock? Well, San Diego is actually coming closer to cancelling their $2M Flock contract. This comes after a councilmember flipped his support of Flock, and in response, Anthony Ralphs, the man behind the Darth Vader suit, bought him flowers.

…that's the way we like to fuck…

Never let a good dumpster fire go to waste in service of tasty meme creation.

Me: I wonder if there’s a video that perfectly encapsulates the nature of both offensive and defensive security & the vulnerability/exploitation of same. The Internet: I got you, fam.

Fuck it, imma enjoy adult money while I have it.

eighty billion dollars seems like a lot of money to lose. I'm sure their stock price will soar in recognition of this incredible achievement, because everything is so very stupid.

Apple has released its repair price sheet for the iPhone Duo and owners should be prepared to spend some serious cash when things break. While we don't have our hands on the Duo just yet, the numbers make it clear this will be a difficult and expensive phone to fix. www.ifixit.com/News/119797/...

Doing our part in @defcon610.bsky.social to make aware cyber, month.

BREAKING: DeepSeek just launched a pretty good model

The Fit Energy sales pitch meeting for Newport Township is October 28th. @fernleard.bsky.social @benscoterforpa.bsky.social Wednesday, October 28, 2026 6 p.m. Greater Nanticoke Area High School 425 Kosciuszko Street, Nanticoke, PA Here’s the pitch: www.newporttownship.org/_files/ugd/1...

open.spotify.com/episode/1wNZ... Another banger episode of @404media.co that also added to my AI history book collection…again. Side note, if you’ve never read up on what these data centers have done in countries like Chile, you really need to. Especially when they come to your neck of the woods.

I’m just thankful they chose the ear canal for this. youtube.com/shorts/fxL45...

Holmes deceives investors. Seyfried deceives ten million Hulu watchers who think the Dropout is real. Nathan deceives his subjects along with his audience to varying degrees across his various projects. How are these the same and different? That’s what the movie is about.

Update:

It is proper crockpot soup weather and I couldn’t be more thrilled.

Me: all excited to cozy up in my new reading nook after a trip to IKEA yesterday. Lucy: U wot, m8?

If you're like me and looking to at least try and understand the players and the politics around AI, "Empire of AI" by @karenhao.bsky.social is absolutely required reading. www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/743569...

On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍 airesistlist.org

I’ve put a lot of stickers on a lot of things over the years but man, this might my favorite.

This is absolutely gorgeous

Feed cleanse. Enjoy.

I had an AI slop image for breadboarding in my deck for @jawncon.bsky.social and I needed to get rid of it. Nobody was home to take a picture of their kitchen so I thot leader’d super hard and improvised.

"So there's this foundational rationalist Harry Potter fanfic which underpins a broadly accepted cod philosophical movement that re-codes greed as altrusim..."

All the AI history I’ve been learning lately is definitely important shit; the understanding of the players and nuance and ethics (or lack thereof), but still this how I feel every time I open my mouth to talk about it to literally anyone.

People frown on demon possession, but then can’t name a quicker way to learn Latin

Okay but this actually sounds like fun…