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September 13, 2022

September 13, 2022

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Ed Yong @edyong209
🚨I wrote about “brain fog”—one of the most common & disabling symptoms of long COVID (and many other pre-pandemic conditions), and one of the most misunderstood. Here’s what brain fog actually is, and what it’s like to live with it. 1/ theatlantic.com/health/archive…
theatlantic.comOne of Long COVID’s Worst Symptoms Is Also Its Most MisunderstoodBrain fog isn’t like a hangover or depression. It’s a disorder of executive function that makes basic cognitive tasks absurdly hard.
12:32 PM ∙ Sep 12, 2022
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Dan Sheehan @ItsDanSheehan
People will always be like “lmao they actually blocked me” yeah man I pressed two buttons to get rid of a weird guy and I’ll do it again
8:12 AM ∙ Feb 27, 2021
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Duffel Blog @DuffelBlog
NEW: Saudi King marks 9/11 anniversary: 'We lost many good pilots'
duffelblog.comSaudi King marks 9/11 anniversary: ‘We lost many good pilots’“Sure, we didn’t expect them to return, but I knew some of them quite well.”
2:15 PM ∙ Sep 12, 2022
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Kevin Beaumont @GossiTheDog
Microsoft did a U-turn on the Office macro hardening. It's rolling back out to Office 365 Current Channel now, enabled by default. It will go on to Office 365 Semi-Annual etc, then to Office 2013, 2016, 2019 later. Big security win.
bleepingcomputer.comMicrosoft starts blocking Office macros by default, once againMicrosoft announced today that it resumed the rollout of VBA macro auto-blocking in downloaded Office documents after temporarily rolling it back earlier this month following user feedback.
10:14 AM ∙ Jul 21, 2022
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ZachXBT @zachxbt
1/ Welcome to Part 3 of catching the people behind Discord & Twitter NFT phishing scams: This time we will be covering the scammer known as Two1 who has attacked discords of projects like @OthersideMeta @nansen_ai @cheebsnft & many more for millions of dollars Let’s dive in
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ZachXBT @zachxbt
1/ Since Dec 2021 we’ve seen 600+ Discord servers compromised & 12+ NFT related Twitter accounts hacked as well. This has resulted in millions of dollars being stolen. Welcome to part 2 of tracking down the people responsible. https://t.co/F5uoQsCwCc
1:54 PM ∙ Sep 12, 2022
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Prompt injection attacks against GPT-3

https://simonwillison.net/2022/Sep/12/prompt-injection/

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Rajan Basra @rajanbasra
Exactly 30 years ago today, the leader of the Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path) was arrested in Lima.
Called the "capture of the century", it is one of the most remarkable episodes in the history of counterterrorism. Here's how Abimael Guzmán was taken down. THREAD/
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12:06 PM ∙ Sep 12, 2022
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Star Trek VHS @StarTrekVHS
A throwback to 1999 as Star Trek fans taunt Star Wars fans queuing up to get tickets for The Phantom Menace.
3:51 PM ∙ Dec 11, 2020
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Bret Devereaux @BretDevereaux
Seeing reports that Azerbaijan is launching some level of military action on its border with Armenia (the two were at war in 2020). That would make this the first of Russia's 'frozen conflicts' to apparently thaw (into a war).
reuters.comFresh clashes erupt between Azerbaijan, ArmeniaClashes erupted between Azerbaijani and Armenian troops, Russian news agencies reported early on Tuesday, in a resumption of decades-old hostilities linked to the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh.
2:03 AM ∙ Sep 13, 2022
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Science girl @gunsnrosesgirl3
Listen to this starling European starlings are accomplished mimics, this one is imitating human speech
3:51 PM ∙ Aug 13, 2022
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Propagandopolis @propagandopolis
'Three approaches to the U.S.' — Map published in Fortune magazine, September 1940, presenting three possible invasion routes to the United States.
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9:30 PM ∙ Sep 12, 2022
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Noah Shachtman @NoahShachtman
EXCLUSIVE: Alex Jones ran a "spy ring" to covertly surveil his ex- and current wife, texts and sources reveal
rollingstone.comAlex Jones Spied on His Wife and Ex-Wife, Texts RevealThe conspiracy theorist oversaw a ‘spy ring,’ which included an ex-Blackwater mercenary, to covertly surveil those closest to him
12:37 AM ∙ Sep 13, 2022
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David Thomas Moore @dtmooreeditor
So there's a particular quirk of English grammar that I've always found quite endearing: the exocentric verb-noun compound agent noun. It appears in a definite, remarkably narrow period - not more than 150, 200 years - before dying out, leaving loads of legacy words in its wake.
4:45 PM ∙ Sep 12, 2022
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trash jones @jzux
i’m here if you need moron support. it’s like moral support but stupid
1:14 PM ∙ Sep 12, 2022
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Scott Shapiro @scottjshapiro
Russian army losing so badly that Putin is at risk of losing the support of the Republican Party.
5:31 PM ∙ Sep 11, 2022
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Alex/Muldwych 💻 @Muldwych
Cybersecurity in a nut shell.
1:02 PM ∙ Sep 11, 2022
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NCC Group Research & Technology @NCCGroupInfosec
In case you missed it at #BHUSA, check out @tr1ana's Monkey365, a tool for security consultants to easily conduct not only Microsoft 365, but also Azure subscriptions and Azure Active Directory security configuration reviews
research.nccgroup.comTool Release – Monkey365Monkey 365 is an Open Source security tool that can be used to easily conduct not only Microsoft 365, but also Azure subscriptions and Azure Active Directory security configuration reviews without the significant overhead of learning tool APIs or complex admin panels from the start. To help with thi…
11:00 PM ∙ Sep 12, 2022
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cory snearowski @corysnearowski
Don’t really understand the HBO controversy. Then again I don’t subscribe to streaming services. I’ve been following the same bug after work for the past week. I place a cup over it when I need to “pause”
2:18 PM ∙ Aug 4, 2022
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cory snearowski @corysnearowski
I’ve been hacked
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2:57 PM ∙ Aug 4, 2022
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JJ Edwards @NoviHame
He’s an 11, but he’s never seen “Spinal Tap”.
7:19 PM ∙ Jul 2, 2022
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Saint Javelin @saintjavelin
This year, hundreds of Russian tanks have gone missing in Ukraine. It’s important to find these tanks within the first 48 hours because after that, there’s a 97% chance they’ll be towed away by a Ukrainian farmer If you have any information, please call 1-800-LMAO-ROFLMAO
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4:59 PM ∙ Sep 12, 2022
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SondraDee @SondraDeeMe
The anonymous phone call in 1995 about my refrigerator running still haunts me. We were both so empty inside, I didn't even try to catch it.
7:00 PM ∙ May 8, 2015
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𝙱𝚊𝚋𝚎 𝚃𝚛𝚞𝚝𝚑 @UnFitz
It's OK, calories. I'm empty, too.
12:43 AM ∙ Jul 31, 2018
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