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Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and post the one you like.

Ready for @blueteamcon.com !

I’m coming back to Chicago! I’m going to be talking about how predictive models can be useful (and how they fail kindof horribly, and what to do about it)

But most of the factors leading to higher premiums in the last 5 years or so are things that individuals can't affect. You can't personal-responsibility climate change or a madman slamming tariffs on parts randomly!

UC Berkeley Law creates new AI policy that bans AI for "conceptualizing, outlining, drafting, revising, translating, or editing any work submitted for credit" or exams because "thinking remains the sine qua non of good lawyering (and of a quality legal education)." That's what I'm talking about.

Cancer: You will inadvertently make the world a better place when your armored-battle-shark cloning machine creates fluffy-battle-corgis, instead.

Beginning my process of collating and curating my dSLR photos from @jococruise.bsky.social, which will take a few days (there are 4880 of them), but I thought this one was a pretty good one to show off right now.

SLTTs get lumped together because they represent subnational governments who can confound plans. They often control land masses that are critical to making systems work - you might need tribal sign-off to run cable to Oklahoma, or vice versa.

“One’s a priest, the other’s a dead saint. Together they solve crime.”

Hey @bsidesphilly.bsky.social looking forward to talking about what cyber insurance does(n’t) do for you today at 3pm in Liberty (track 2)

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Educational.

I am doing a survey of supply chain attacks, and it's annoying how 95% of the analysis is on payloads vs. compromise vectors. Yes, you are a very smart reverser and that's a very clever payload. Yes, rolling out phishing-resistant auth is a slog. No, this is not how we make progress. </rant>

"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

One more from the Larchives before bed. Enjoy :)

Important things to know: 1) Blaha does this every year since she started running for office. It is honestly #MarketingGoals 2) LOOK IN THE MAGNIFYING GLASS. SHE USED BIGGER BEANS.

Cartoon: 'Weird' Hell Yankovic @alyankovic.bsky.social . Hope folks enjoy :)

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Happy Caturday 🐈‍⬛🤍

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You really should read this article on how criminal groups routinely bypass EDR. This isn’t state stuff. I see it all the time, and have for a while. The sad truth is EDR is one rung in defense in depth and it surviving tampering is a perpetual cat mouse game. www.theregister.com/2025/08/14/e...

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Dolly Parton has sent my daughter a new book every month for years as she does for thousands of children. She help fund the development of the Covid vaccine. She’s not a billionaire. I think as non wealthy people it’s hard to even imagine how much billionaires *could* be doing with their money.

Social media researchers: you can't test the effects of UX tweaks on user behavior by populating a synthetic platform with virtual agents instantiated by LLMs *that have been trained on social media platforms without these tweaks*

American critical infrastructure is ten thousand small businesses in a trenchcoat.

I’m playing a CTF with my bestie, as one does, and she pointed out that challenges that use generative AI violate the cardinal rule of CTFs, which is that everything that is in there is there because someone put it there on purpose As a longtime player and author, that is genuinely really upsetting

Goddamn. What a sobering and poignant piece of conceptual art. What an amazing artist.

If you send me a 3000 word essay based on a 20 word prompt you are transferring information in an incredibly inefficient way. I'm going to have no idea what you actually wanted to convey. Just send me the prompt. I promise the outcome will be better.

If you're going to send me something written by an LLM then save us all time and resources and just send me your prompt instead. I'll value a text that says "Heartfelt condolence message with reference to a list of events" more, because this way I at least actually know what you were thinking

Had a blast making this TCP Header cross stitch (pattern available at stitch.website

Someone on here compared AI produced material as "digital asbestos " which in a few decades' time we will have to work out how to eradicate from the fabric of research.

I hate that we got the machines that badly attempt to simulate human cognition in ways that ghouls are using to justify marginalizing human intellect and talent, well *before* we got the ones that can genuinely do a good job of cleaning your house