A sophisticated organized crime gang hacked into Staples, issued millions of dollars worth of gift cards, and went on a spending spree across the U.S.

How a Massive Chinese Crime Ring Hacked Staples to Steal Millions

A sophisticated organized crime gang hacked into Staples, issued millions of dollars worth of gift cards, and went on a spending spree across the U.S.

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Go to your camera roll and search “boat” and then post a picture of a boat you like.

Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · yesterday

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like.

Hey y'all. So normally I am a reasonably private person despite appearances which makes this sort of humiliating. My life is more or less in the process of burning down. There's a family wedding coming up in 3 weeks. I'd like to go.

The running theme of 2026 has been The Movies Are Back

TyTheFilmAddict@tythefilmaddict.bsky.social · 2d ago

I just watched a documentary (YOU CAN SEE EVERYTHING) and a 70s re-release of an NC-17 movie (THE DEVILS) in nearly packed houses this weekend, so it’s hard to feel too bad about the state of cinema.

ActivityPub and the like are fixes to prevent future problems like the social media monopsony that currently exists, but that doesnt mean Zuck shouldn’t be held accountable. We shouldn’t let oil companies off the hook for trashing the planet because we could all just use solar.

Mike Masnick@masnick.com · 3d ago

... the answer is to not use platforms like Insta, and bring communities to social media built on open protocols, such as atproto or ActivityPub, where the account holder has way more control.

California’s billionaires have a combined net worth of $2.4 trillion. Under Prop 40, their net worth would fall to…just under $2.3 trillion. What amounts to a rounding error for them would allow millions of their fellow Californians to afford healthcare. Vote yes on Prop 40.

The ultra-rich are spending one million dollars a day fighting California’s proposed billionaire tax

Tech billionaires have raised more than $340m to defeat Prop 40, a one-time 5% wealth tax that will fund healthcare and

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Boy let this shit happen here and you’d get endless breathless coverage about shoplifting gangs and a ton of otherwise ostensible allies pushing for a trillion dollars in police funding.

Unusual Whales@unusualwhales.bsky.social · 3d ago

BREAKING: Chaos exploded across France on Saturday as 550,000 protesters flooded the streets, torched cars and buildings, looted from posh stores including Louis Vuitton and Hermès, and even threatened to storm the Élysée Palace, prompting Emmanuel Macron to rage: “Let them come and get me," per NYP

Students from North Carolina A&T can be seen marching back to their HBCU after voting on the first day of early voting in the state. The Guilford County Board of Elections voted to remove the school’s on-campus polling site. (video via Todd Simmons) greensboro.com/news/local/g...

Picard: I won the Wesley for best speech, the Worf for excellence in space tactics, and I got the Riker for “most pornographic holodeck”, which wasn’t an existing award but one day he just gave it to me and kept winking

Comics Covers@comicscovers.bsky.social · 7d ago

Im going to get this dumb ai joke the way I want it one of these days

here’s the thing. i think ai is conscious but just like cattle are conscious and we extract milk from them, it’s fine if we extract data from ai.

Be careful out there

Happy 10 years to the most pivotal record of my life (so far, if not forever). Love you @jeffrosenstock.bsky.social

10 Years of WORRY.

Three presidential elections later, Jeff Rosenstock’s autobiography-meets-manifesto proves worry was putting it lightly

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just discovered i still have twitpic saved in my contacts

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The US does not currently have an ambassador to the DRC. The administration has stated its derision towards African countries. The “shithole countries” remark reflects the US governments current “Africa policy” it’s only interests being blocking China from accessing minerals, and warfare.

It’s worth pointing out that until 2016 the US ambassador to Kenya was always a career diplomat as the post was considered highly politically sensitive. Since 2016, there have been long stretches without an ambassador and a succession of political appointees with limited diplomatic knowledge.

The DRC and Kenya are also critical US allies in both the deportation racket that is underway, in critical mineral supply for the ongoing AI semiconductor boom, and in military cooperation. Basically these countries are getting away with lax oversight because they are Trump allies.

One of the first acts of the current US administration was leaving the World Health Organisation, the institution that coordinates multilateral public health responses. The dismantling of USAID has also compromised support for community health workers who are the frontline of disease responses.

Contact tracing is underway but part of the reason why they believe he sought healthcare in Kenya is that the quality of care in the DRC is being compromised as exhausted workers navigate depleted supplies and lack of international support even as politics in the country heats up.

The worst Ebola outbreak in the world is ongoing in the DRC and you’re not being informed about it in part because the reason it is spiralling is US politics. At least one person who was suffering from the disease crossed into Uganda by road and then flew from Kampala to Nairobi where he died.

the company's total revenue in 2025 was $23 million. it was spending $18.5 million per month before legal fees (and it has been sued in a suicide case + is facing tons of regulatory scrutiny). it could barely cover one month of expenses with its revenue for the entire year

If copyright were just about *property* rights, then termination of transfer would be inconceivable. Termination is a vestigial labor right at the very periphery of copyright. It protects artists, and it can only do so because it is *not* a property right.

Termination of transfer isn't an "IP right" - it's a *labor right*. It belongs to the large class of rights that are far more important and useful than mere property rights, such as privacy rights and human rights: pluralistic.net/2026/09/28/c...

On the Techjess podcast, Garriott marveled at how easy it was: "there’s a really weird copyright law that says if you're the original holder of a copyright and you assign it or sell it to any publisher or any other entity, after 35 years, you can just take it back": www.youtube.com/watch?v=2El7...

Will there will be more Ultima games? - Richard Garriott AKA Lord British

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None of these are things you can do as a "conscious consumer." The monopolistic destruction of creators' livelihoods is a systemic problem and you can't solve it by shopping better.

This is a distinction with a difference. Property rights are *alienable*. When you negotiate to sell your property to someone else, you propose to transfer the title to that property.

Yeah, that quote from the Palantir exec about AI researchers smoking is nothing. He’s just hyping his product. Yes, you could say he’s…blowing smoke 😎

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