Kevin Mirsky

Napoleon Bonaparte made his servants break in his shoes before he wore them. His entire wardrobe was two different outfits repeated. When he arrived at St Helena he had a meltdown about the house smelling like paint. His stare was so unnerving other heads of state believed it was magical.

if only the pentagon had known about this beforehand….

Like Miyazaki, I am a sucker for military aircraft. Gear details in the down the thread.

what did he know

A Trump-appointed district judge described the conditions of ICE detainees with no criminal history held in a temporary cell in the Central Islip federal courthouse on Long Island for days — putrid, cramped, inhumane and unlawful.

New: DHS now says that two weeks of missing surveillance footage from ICE's Broadview Detention center isn't "missing," it was never recorded in the first place and thus can't be produced in an abuse lawsuit. An utter shitshow: www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...

[stares directly into the camera]

Walz: "To Americans who are watching this, I've got a question for you: What side do you want to be on? The side of an all powerful federal govt that can kill, injury, menace, & kidnap its citizens off the streets? Or on the side of a nurse at the VA hospital who died bearing witness to such govt?"

To add my own commentary, a staggering number of people I otherwise agree with don't realize they are regularly doing this in conversation. There are some wonderful examples of the famous Bluesky reading comprehension issues in the replies if you'd like some examples.

Your super hardcore technical advice is great and if people can't use it, it's not useful. You have to meet people where they are on the ground

Saturday morning Technology Connections is my adult version of the "Saturday morning cartoons" routine :) @techconnectify.bsky.social

Well, I've proven Big Pod wrong, I've finally got my favorite gadget again (my Pebble watch), election outcomes look pretty neat... haven't felt this good in a while that's for sure

NEW: In May, a Texas police department said they used the powerful Flock surveillance network against a woman who had an abortion "for her safety" Newly obtained court records show it was a 'death investigation,' and they considered charging her with a crime www.404media.co/police-said-...

Tile location-finding tags, unlike Apple/Google tags, broadcast MAC address/unique ID unencrypted, letting stalkers, Tile or LE track people/items. Anti-theft feature also undoes anti-stalking feature - any tag in anti-theft mode is invisible to scans looking for stalkers. My story for @wired.com

great advice going around for turning off autoplay videos but might i suggest

In 25 years of covering national security, I’ve never seen a story like this: Senior Trump officials discussed planning for the U.S. attack on Yemen in a Signal group--and inadvertently added the editor-in-chief of The Atlantic. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

can't even do a romantic gesture anymore

Pope Francis Left In Hot Popemobile | Onion News Network Pope Francis is in critical condition after being left in the backseat of a hot Popemobile, which was parked outside a Vatican City convenience store for nearly an hour while members of the Swiss Guard "ran in to pick up a few things."

Oh I'm so excited! Guess I know when I'll be subscribing to Apple TV for the first time!

NEW: A government employee for Notify. gov, a system used by agencies to send mass texts to the public, has resigned in protest after an Elon Musk ally demanded root access to it. They said the system contains the public's phone numbers & private info: www.404media.co/musk-ally-de...

dont think it can be overstated how bloated and user unfriendly basically every single piece of tech has gotten. want to forward an email in gmail? scroll past all the AI shit, click a submenu to find it. iPhone settings menu is like hundreds of things at this point. just crazy to do basic stuff

😕 www.theverge.com/news/608858/...

Vance saying he wants his half-Indian kids to be tough in the face of racism while rehiring a racist who hates them is a shocking moral failure

Because this is getting downplayed in some of the coverage, the racist staffer DOGE rehired isn’t a case of “stupid things he wrote years ago as a teen.” He posted about how we should “normalize Indian hate” IN SEPTEMBER.

It feels like no one should have to say this, and yet we are in a situation where it needs to be said, very loudly and clearly, before it’s too late to do anything about it: The United States is not a startup. If you run it like one, it will break. 🔗 www.wired.com/story/the-us...

DOGE operative Marko Elez got the ability to alter US Treasury payment system code on Feb 1, WIRED's sources say. For days, Trump officials fed members of Congress and the press a different story. Elez is out now for posts reading "I was racist before it was cool" and "normalize Indian hate."

extremely jealous of this story, very smart reporting. Wild shit. SEO baby www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Think what you want about the NYT, but Jamelle is a light in the dark. Paywall-free: archive.ph/I7wJs

If you’re interested in supporting our newsroom so we can keep breaking stories like these, subscribe to WIRED here: www.wired.com/v2/offers/wi...

Disgraceful

One of my favorite Saturday rituals is sitting on the couch, coffee in hand, and watching the newest @techconnectify.bsky.social video.

You know who was most interested in dismantling the CSRB? The tech companies who are threatened by its findings that they're "a bit" insecure. Oh, that and the adversaries exploiting those issues...

The last few weeks have really highlighted just how fragile corporate social media is, and just how beholden to political power it is. To build any sort of ground-up power we must continue to invest in decentralized alternatives that are resistant to intervention www.404media.co/decentralize...

Use Signal to talk about protests Use Signal to talk about your wordle score Use Signal to talk about abortion Use Signal to talk about your mom's knitting club Use Signal to talk about parties Use Signal to talk about gender affirming care Use Signal to talk about the weather Use Signal

yeah to non-shitpost for a second, I have close friends that this has happened to and it's extremely tragic. mid-20s mental onset illness in young men is A Thing, and it's really fucking scary and sad. people who loved him are probably agonizing over if only they had done something.