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Nazi destroys historic artifact of the Nazi’s greatest defeat www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

Today’s Optimist Economy covers consumer sentiment. Regardless of whether you’re in the “being disconnected from reality means there’s no incentive for good policy” camp or the “charts for dinner lol” camp, a PhD unpacking the actual survey is worth listening to m.youtube.com/watch?v=J0LB...

Easy mode. I don’t disavow Mmmbop. I said what I said

I’m doing the “change your name to something spooky or evil” thing for October

The Mako also looked fun until you got your hands on it

The Grace Hopper Celebration, a conference for women in computer science, has been canceled due to declining sponsors and registrations. Depressing sign of the times. As a manager at Microsoft, we routinely encouraged women on our teams to attend, all expenses paid. Those days are clearly over.

Someone decided to turn on 15 minute lockouts after three password attempts in addition to an aggressive password rotation policy on our laptops. This is how you get people creating weak passwords and writing them on post it notes

The thing that Don is too polite to say in this thread is that the people he wants to hear from fall into two categories: Disingenuous authoritarians and suckers who fell for their act and helped them out. We’re more likely to get the former to admit to it than the latter

Next book is Slow Gods by Claire North. This is a space opera that a bunch of people on my timeline were gushing about when it first hit shelves. It’s nothing but wind and rain today so it’s a good day to dig into a new book

Finished Opus and it’s as good as Pope Leo says. @garethgore.bsky.social describes an organization that has parallels to Scientology and wields an extraordinary amount of money and political influence. I highly recommend @clairewillett.bsky.social read it because it rates getting a thread from her

“Get bent?” Yes! You’re right! I should stretch more

I was hoping @cnbecker14.bsky.social would break out the vote sweatshirt again this season www.tiktok.com/t/ZPLYDEc2T/

“The Economist figured it out? The Economist?! This is a real low point. Yeah, this one hurts.”

We need fewer colons in console gaming, generally. Fewer colons - but more colonoscopies! If the launch of Galactic Racer has you thinking fondly of Star Wars Episode 1: Racer, it's time for a colonoscopy!! www.cancer.org/cancer/diagn...

The one that really infuriates me is the “we take security so seriously that we’re not going to let you paste into the password field.” Yes, don’t let people use a password manager easily. That’ll definitely make things more secure

Until platform holders are willing to accept liability for the scams running on their platforms I won’t be turning off my ad blocker arstechnica.com/security/202...

Old school payola without the middleman

Today in 1983 in Moscow, just past midnight, 44 year-old Lt. Col. Stanislav Petrov’s calm decision that a satellite warning of the launch of 5 US Minuteman ICBMs was a false alarm—based on “a funny feeling in my gut”—may have averted a catastrophic nuclear war. www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl...

Go on. Keep proving the point of the documentary, fellas.

See also “Why are people saying the economy is terrible when all the data says it’s not so bad”

It's too depressing and obnoxious to write about, but virtually all of the doomy/horny AI hyperventilating is transparently displaced anxiety about our fucked climate and political situation. Even rich idiots know it's bad and being permitted to get worse. They're trying to write their own ending.

It’s OK to admit that you’re not good at voting and leave it to the people who are

Next book is Opus by Gareth Gore. When the Pope calls a book a “rigorous piece of work” and you’re a lapsed Catholic that’s married to a Catholic who’s very frustrated with the church and loves your recaps of @clairewillett.bsky.social threads, well, you put your name on the waitlist

a comic by Russ Heath, who drew the comic one of Lichtenstein’s most famous panels was based on

I’m guessing this is being done so he can claim it’s critical to national security in the lawsuit that was filed. I’d bet the only change, if any, to the plan is to change a sign on a closet from “maintenance” to “armory” www.npr.org/2026/06/10/n...

The U.S. military swung into action to intercept a Chinese ship after an “entirely false” AI-generated intelligence report inaccurately identified what the vessel was carrying It also “almost started a war,” a source told CNN.

By me, at this.weekinsecurity.com, I wrote about how a data breach of 150+ million driver's licenses and their photos is a privacy and anonymity disaster for an entire generation of people in the U.S. and Canada.

I wonder if the cost of chips has cut down on conspiracies. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gates-3 PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

I owe every woman who told me I don’t understand women an apology. Absolutely nothing was where I thought it was

I can’t stop thinking about this story of a 40 year old Christian Fellowship for law enforcement getting caught making one spectacularly bad hire and immediately disbanding the organization. Feels like they really don’t want anyone digging into their hiring practices or history

*bangs fists on the table* POSTAL BANK POSTAL BANK POSTAL BANK (🧵)

Award winning photograph

My wife is good about letting our neighbors take clippings from the garden and has built up quite a little fan club. Today a neighbor dropped off some eggs from their chickens and (I think?) quails. I ask in all seriousness: what should I do with the quail eggs?