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Google’s synchronized passkeys can be stolen in 'Pass‑ta‑key' attacks

Researchers found three attack vectors in which malware could steal Google synced passkeys from a Windows machine

malwarebytes.com

hey @joshuajfriedman.com if there's one thing I might beg you to communicate internally - the (a?) core of bluesky users want opt-in instead of opt-out, because we don't trust social media corporations to ever do good thngs. It's a learned distrust, and it might not be fair, but it's there.

Tired: Sean Connery Wired: Idris Elba Inspired: Dominique Tipper

The Independent@the-independent.com · 6h ago

James Bond producer shares update on 007 casting: ‘It’s got to be really different’

"the Achaemenid Persian Empire was a genuinely remarkable state ... pioneered development of a centralized administrative system, standardized currency, legal codes, and a government-run road and canal system. ... from a purely utilitarian perspective, destroying Sparta would have been a net good."

Nathan Goldwag @goldwagnathan.bsky.social · 2w ago

MY TIME HAS COME

what are folks assigning in the US survey to teach 1960s-1970s feminism? I want to swap out the NOW statement of purpose/redstockings manifesto/combahee river collective lesson I've been using. would love ideas! 🗃️

My father said "You can draw any line you want through a single data point, and any curve you want through two."

Matthew Gertz@mattgertz.bsky.social · 3h ago

My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

The edited collection that I contributed a chapter on penguin eggs to is part of Berghan Books' summer sale! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...

Antarctic Materialities | Berghahn Books

Independent Publishing since 1994

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Well, it certainly is a choice to report on how one of the biggest agribusinesses in the state is using prison labor to process the vegetables it sells to govt-funded social service orgs as “feel good” story. Not necessarily a good, honest, or responsible one, but it’s def. a choice.

New Delaware food program preps produce for kids through correctional facility

Under the newly expanded program, volunteers at the Sussex Community Corrections Center will clean, prep and package fresh produce that will help feed hungry kids.

whyy.org

On any key metric of environmental impact, alt milks outperform dairy milk.

This is good, sure. But what I want someone to talk about is why @bsky.app's 'page position' doohickey for image scrolling is placed where it almost always obscures text or images that are important?

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · yesterday

This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.

There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments, and @assignedmedia.org is on the beat. Fine journalism, interviews, humor, comics, all based in reality. Well worth it, especially once you've stopped giving money to the anti-trans coalition - NYT, Atlantic - and the slop merchants (WaPo, CBS).

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · yesterday

Good morning! Isn't it a great day to support independent journalism that serves the trans community and their allies? I KNEW you'd think so too. We're trying to add 50 new members in the month of August. Help us!!! <3!! assignedmedia.org/support/

As a migration historian, one of my mantras is 'history makes more sense when you assume that people move.'

Jonathan Dresner@jondresner.bsky.social · 2d ago

See Adam Mckeown, Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders. Columbia University Press, 2011. (And yes, I know McKeown's claims have been qualified by the work of people like @unlawfulentries.bsky.social and Hidetaka Hirota, but the visa/passport stuff is still very strong)

We are the rogue nation.

Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera@pantibliss.bsky.social · 24h ago

To be very clear, extrajudiciously killing people you suspect are drug traffickers is *also* murder

Another instance of trans people being right and transphobes being wrong.

Transphobes Can't Read@lordaslan.bsky.social · 17h ago

wow really

Hey! We're offloading a bunch of our old branded fabrics to get them out of the shop. Price is per full length quarter yard - fabric is mostly uncut and will be shipped in as continuous of pieces as possible. This is old Joann fabric.

Branded Printed Cotton Fabrics, Pokemon, Star Wars, Wonder Woman, Avengers, and More! - Etsy

This Fabric item is sold by NerdyKeppie. Ships from Portland, OR. Listed on Aug 4, 2026

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We are the rogue nation.

Dr Panti Bliss-Cabrera@pantibliss.bsky.social · 24h ago

To be very clear, extrajudiciously killing people you suspect are drug traffickers is *also* murder

As a migration historian, one of my mantras is 'history makes more sense when you assume that people move.'

Jonathan Dresner@jondresner.bsky.social · 2d ago

See Adam Mckeown, Melancholy Order: Asian Migration and the Globalization of Borders. Columbia University Press, 2011. (And yes, I know McKeown's claims have been qualified by the work of people like @unlawfulentries.bsky.social and Hidetaka Hirota, but the visa/passport stuff is still very strong)

Sharks have wings now

weinberg@weinbergs.bsky.social · 7mo ago

let's pretend: Universal announces a screenwriting contest for Jaws 5. What's your pitch?

For millennia migration was just a standard thing for humans.

Melissa Gira Grant@melissagiragrant.com · yesterday

“Here’s a radical thought: what if migration is only a problem to those who want it to be? What if we started seeing the mass movement of people less as an existential threat and more as a simple inevitability of human existence?”

Earlier adoption (Grade 6 vs. Grade 7 vs. Grade 8) of social media negatively impacts standardized learning outcomes in high school. buff.ly/Hr4d91u

There are no good-faith anti-trans arguments, and @assignedmedia.org is on the beat. Fine journalism, interviews, humor, comics, all based in reality. Well worth it, especially once you've stopped giving money to the anti-trans coalition - NYT, Atlantic - and the slop merchants (WaPo, CBS).

Assigned Media@assignedmedia.org · yesterday

Good morning! Isn't it a great day to support independent journalism that serves the trans community and their allies? I KNEW you'd think so too. We're trying to add 50 new members in the month of August. Help us!!! <3!! assignedmedia.org/support/

Some days I think about what it will be like to be in my late 80s in 2050 as it is being predicted. All that shit coming down and me probably unable to fight. To my age cohort: If you won't fight now for your grandchildren, fight for yourself while you still can.

This is good, sure. But what I want someone to talk about is why @bsky.app's 'page position' doohickey for image scrolling is placed where it almost always obscures text or images that are important?

Kirsten Han 韩俐颖@kirstenhan.com · yesterday

This is Massive Attack's response to what happened in Singapore, posted on their Instagram page. Good on them.

The Spanish Flu was called that because Spain could admit they had an epidemic, because they weren't at war and didn't have wartime propaganda rules

Sarah Taber@sarahtaber.bsky.social · 3w ago

A quick word on Taco Bell: That's where we found the suspected lettuce, and it's not bc Taco Bell is gross. It's bc Taco Bell is REALLY GOOD at tracing product! Keeping track of exactly where they got their ingredients, & exactly what restaurants each shipment of ingredients went to!

Please read my @theflytrapmedia.com piece today about my lifelong fear of death and the afterlife and the futile pursuit and heroic rejection of immortality. www.theflytrapmedia.com/the-futile-p...

The Futile Pursuit (and Heroic Rejection) of Immortality

There are few things more human than fearing the sudden non-existence of death.

theflytrapmedia.com

A PSA to my fellow cis people who are (or want to believe they are) trans allies If you are getting pushback from trans people and your reaction is to be all “no! not me! I’m one of the good ones!” please remember that “being one of the good ones” is something you DO, not something you ARE

I am an ancient historian and I write about ancient things, but that chapter in the book I just published, about boys and men consuming and producing images of women they make up, and those images persisting to obscure and replace the real women around them in daily, even intimate, interactions?

Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · 2d ago

It was this one, and, yes, I do believe that was an All In first.

As a fellow Asian American #BipolarBuddy, I wish Hong the best with the election. But I also know the pain of being open about mental illness. I'm not a public figure but I have been personally attacked for just putting my experience, thoughts, and feelings on the Internet.

Julia Métraux@juliametraux.bsky.social · yesterday

"My own mental health journey has given me a much deeper sense of empathy,” @francescahongwi.bsky.social told me. I wrote about the ridiculous attacks by right-wing media on Francesca Hong's mental health history for @motherjones.com. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

Also about what genAI can do: it has no concept of a 'fact' or 'event' or 'causation' or 'significance' ... only statistical correlations between words, the meaning of which it actually doesn't know.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

The same people who say history is just memorizing names and dates are the same people who think teaching the humanities in college is a waste of time. That narrow minded thinking is the result of the Republican assault on education over the past half century. They don't want you to go to college.

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.