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June 26, 2022

June 26, 2022

Alfred Anaya Put Secret Compartments in Cars. So the DEA Put Him in Prison. (2013)

I love the creativity of how these stash boxes work.

He Put Secret Compartments in Cars. So the DEA Put Him in Prison | WIRED

Alfred Anaya was a genius at installing stash spots. If they were used to smuggle drugs without his knowledge, he figured that wasn’t his problem. He was wrong.

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Riker Googling

@RikerGoogling

is my replicator spying on me

Jun 25, 2022

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henry 🌘

@hdevalence

mute and block enough accounts and you start to notice "dark tweets", not directly visible but observable through their effects on the discourse

Dec 3, 2020

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Combine GitHub Copilot with automatic stack overflow code imports. All your code will write itself.

https://pypi.org/project/stackoverflow/

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Aaron Schwartzbaum

@aaron_schwa

I think the implication they appreciate quite well is that a United States under minority tyranny will either cease to be a dependable ally or cease to be a country. https://t.co/TKRQ1MY03J

Jun 25, 2022

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zeynep tufekci

@zeynep

I don't think most people understand the depth of the surveillance infrastructure built over the past few decades. It's not just online and it's not stoppable by turning off a few options or opting out. Slightly shortened print version of my piece on it.

Jun 25, 2022

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Robert M. Lee

@RobertMLee

Fortune 250: How do we integrate our XDR? 2,500+ Water utilities: How do we pay for a Firewall?

Jun 25, 2022

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A.M.

@AngieM_Z

How polite. #mgs

Jun 25, 2022

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weird medieval guys

@WeirdMedieval

virgin mary punching the devil, england, 13th century

Jun 20, 2022

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Ransomware is apparently moving heavily in pure extortion without even bothering to encrypt.

Ransomware gangs move into pure extortion without encryption

Feature: Why screw around with cryptography and keys when just stealing the info is good enough

I’ll just leave this here

thaddeus e. grugq 🌻

@thegrugq

Ransomware is not about encrypting data. It is the _current_ implementation of a methodology that coerces the victim to act as an agent for the criminal (typically to aqcuire BTC.) Encrypting data just an implementation detail; it’s the “coerced agent” part that matters.

Nov 23, 2017

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Crypto Bros Taking Ls

@CoinersTakingLs

Jun 26, 2022

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Harry Turtledove

@HNTdove

This is awesome.

Jun 24, 2022

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Science girl

@gunsnrosesgirl3

These leaf insects with spectacular leaf mimicry, walking leaves with elaborate marks resembling veins, disease, damage, holes and ‘insect bites’ This kind of camouflage where animals blend into their surroundings is called protective resemblance

Jun 24, 2022

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GonzoHacker

@GonzoHacker

Is this a headline or a dall-e prompt?

Jun 26, 2022

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What’s Wrong with Wanting a “Human in the Loop”? - War on the Rocks

What’s Wrong with Wanting a “Human in the Loop”?

At the recent conference on the ethics of AI-enabled weapons systems at the U.S. Naval Academy, well over half the talks discussed meaningful human

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Alexandre Cheron

@axcheron

Basic WebAssembly buffer overflow exploitation

Basic WebAssembly buffer overflow exploitation | protekkt blog

Grav is an easy to use, yet powerful, open source flat-file CMS

Jun 26, 2022

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The general attitude of British prisoners to the Reich is absolutely hostile. They make fun of Germany, German institutions and leaders on all possible occasions. In Bayreuth, for instance, two British prisoners called themselves "Churchill" and "Roosevelt". As a foil they picked on a German worker who stuttered and called him "Hitler" as a joke. Some other British prisoners were singing a rude song to the tune of "Deutschland uber Alles" as they passed two high German officials in uniform. When one of these officials said "That's going a little too far, my friends", one of the prisoners who understood German called back "We're not your friends, we're British."

"The crowning insult was the disfigurement of a portrait of the Führer ... by a British prisoner who drew rude pictures over it.“

SS report on conduct of British POWs in Germany | WW2Talk

Taken from Appendix B of the MI9 Historical Report, an unintentionally-amusing but genuine SS report on the conduct of British Prisoners of War in...

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The Honest Broker
Where Did the Long Tail Go?
I recently wrote about the decline of the counterculture—and promised I would have more to say about that matter. The article below is part of this same discussion, because many of the fringe activities of any counterculture operate as part of the so-called Long Tail. If there really is no economic support for the Long Tail (as described below), our oppo…
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10 months ago · 229 likes · 91 comments · Ted Gioia

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The Victim Cloud, by Hannah Zeavin

Gullibility in the golden age of scams

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