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Previously: Bot hunting and platform integrity. Currently: Infosec, GRC. Reading past the headline. Unwisely sarcastic. Go Orioles!
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Remarkable. It’s like they’re working as hard as possible to avoid maintaining or creating any efficiencies whatsoever.

submitted 5 hours ago • 0 comments

Things are so bad at the Krome immigration detention center in South Florida that people have to take turns sleeping because they are packed so tightly in their cells that some have to stand up so others can lie down.

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

This is absolutely insane

submitted 9 days ago • 8 comments

Anyone speculating on the likelihood of dissent from within the party should speak to and weigh the likelihood of threats of violence. Thus far, Republican behavior in the face of violent threats from extremists has confirmed two things: (a) They won't resign (b) They will acquiesce.

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Had a sad conversation today with an NIH employee. Most of it isn't breaking news to any of us at this point, but it was still illuminating. Yes, she's devastated for her students who got into PhD programs and had their acceptances, research grants, etc. rescinded. 1/

submitted 9 days ago • 1 comment

Donald Trump and Elon Musk are disrupting a breakthrough cancer treatment so they can fund tax cuts for billionaires. Tell your friends.

submitted 9 days ago • 21 comments

Doesn’t this assume US support?

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

Booker now quoting the Federalist papers on separation of powers and tyranny, criticizing the President and Musk for taking a battle axe to the Constitution. This is an extraordinary speech.

submitted 14 days ago • 0 comments

It’s easy to be an armchair critic, but it is not easy to resign in protest from a job you legitimately enjoy. Sipp and every other attorney who has done so - from DOJ through to those private firms in the regime’s crosshairs - deserve our praise.

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

This is all very bad, but worth noting St. Louis already spends ~25% of its budget on policing, and, as of 2020, was the #20 US city for amount spent on policing per resident. www.vera.org/publications... www.cbsnews.com/pictures/def...

submitted 15 days ago • 1 comment

Arkansas officials on Monday said they plan to close a loophole in federal election law that allows foreign nationals to contribute money toward ballot measures, in the latest move aimed at overhauling the state’s ballot process. #arpx #arleg

submitted 15 days ago • 8 comments

For people outside the industry, it may not be common knowledge, but one of the most famous bits of technical writing of all time, was Joel Spolsky saying that you should *never* rewrite an entire code base — 25 years ago. www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/t...

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