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Current mood: incandescent rage “Children who are deaf or hard of hearing will no longer benefit from an early intervention program run by states after everyone who worked on the program at CDC was laid off.” apnews.com/article/publ...

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One of my unpopular opinions: Apple’s walled garden app store is more secure, prevents billions in fraud every year, and should never be forced to open up.

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Multiple people, including SECDEF, should lose their jobs over this. Not a mere theoretical risk; full on breach of U.S. government data. It happened. Was any of it classified? Probably. That’s what congressional investigations can find out. www.reuters.com/world/us/hac...

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www.reuters.com/world/us/fbi...

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“It’s national insecurity, not national security.” Song of the summer

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Siri show me “moral hazard” www.reuters.com/markets/comm...

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Remember when President Hoover signed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act into law in June of 1930, prompting retaliatory tariffs by many other countries? Something happened the next year, I think? Something important… ah, lost it. Maybe someone else remembers their history.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Many great Gene Hackman movies have been mentioned by people celebrating his life and work. I want to draw your attention to Heist, which also includes the amazing Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, and Danny DeVito.

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Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war. Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.

submitted 108 days ago • 116 comments

Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it: www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...

submitted 112 days ago • 417 comments

Bob Kuttner is mad about Trump stopping enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Bob Kuttner is mad because he *co-wrote* the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. Great essay where Bob laments not just expanded corruption but wonders whether the public even cares: prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...

submitted 113 days ago • 15 comments

The American woman arrested last year for assisting DPRK IT Workers pled guilty. but.. Did you know the original a search warrant for her home mentioned a TikTok that happened to show her laptop farm? lol oops www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/a...

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Oh my god, they just unintentionally wrecked a ton of red team playbooks at the NSA popular.info/p/the-nsas-b...

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