DOJ is now 0-20 in cases to obtain state voter files. Here is the list: Arizona California Colorado Connecticut Illinois Kentucky Maine Maryland Massachusetts Michigan New Hampshire New Jersey New Mexico New York Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island Virginia West Virginia Wisconsin

This intro is a bit weird, why give attention to a sociopath? 9:30: mispronounces Carlson-Wagonlit

Jack Rhysider@jackrhysider.bsky.social · yesterday

New Episode Alert! Ep 178: Ubiquiti This is a story about the time "someone" hacked into Ubiquiti networks. Gee I wonder who the hacker was. Go listen! darknetdiaries.com/episode/178/

Full article here! www.404media.co/do-not-menti...

‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock

“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."

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Add this to the list of illegal Trump admin activity

Walter Olson@walterolson.bsky.social · 2d ago

Why Bill Pulte's service last week was illegal: "While the administration was within its rights to delay Clayton’s swearing in as long as it wished, it could not extend Pulte’s acting service." [@thomasberry.bsky.social, Cato]

How it started/how it's going

Reuters@reuters.com · 2d ago

Michigan reports two deaths in ongoing cyclosporiasis outbreak reut.rs/4w4bd4E

So under this Supreme Court's treatment of U.S. law and presidential power, Joe Biden couldn't forgove my student loans, but perhaps Donald Trump can forgive his own tax debt. Wild.

Kyle Griffin@kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 2d ago

FLAG: Trump gets to keep tax immunity for himself, his sons, and the Trump Organization under the new 'deal' struck by Todd Blanche. The new order also reaffirms that Trump won't have to pay any taxes he might have owed the IRS.

Got a burst of HTTP traffic from Infraly LLC IP 45.45.237.69 looking for Git, AWS, and GCP credentials, using user agents pretending to be Baidu's spider, Google's CloudVertex AI bot, Googlebot, OpenAI's GPTBot, Perplexity's PerplexityBot, Yandex's YandexBot, and the Common Crawl CCBot.

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Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d ago

I know this would be closing the barn door after he horse has been reelected president, but if Democrats win both chambers I'd really like to see a concurrent resolution deeming January 6 an insurrection under 14(3). 1/

I've had correspondence with lots of different people I disagree with, and I don't think I ever had a response that was more arrogant, condescending, and non-responsive than the one I got from J.P. Moreland. The only real competitor, I think, was Jerry Bergman, but he was more responsive.

Jim Lippard@lippard.org · 2d ago

oh, fantastic and glad to see J.P. Moreland got the treatment

Michael Crow of ASU, collaborating with the Trump admin. He should retire.

Jacob T. Levy@jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 2d ago

Four university presidents, "Andrew Martin at Washington University in St. Louis, Michael Crow at Arizona State University, Douglas Girod at the University of Kansas, & Ronald Daniels at the Johns Hopkins University" collaborated in the latest attack on higher ed. www.chronicle.com/liveblog/her...

New version of faild, now supports "distinctive pings" at targeted hosts that can be used for some failover-supporting stuff, and pf table updating. github.com/lippard661/f...

there's a name I haven't seen for a while... heavy Usenet poster

Kevin Riggle@kevinr.free-dissociation.com · 3d ago

On the subject of C program indentation: "In My Egotistical Opinion, most people's C programs should be indented six feet downward and covered with dirt." -- Blair P. Houghton —fortune(6)

Everyone who is talking about this story should be reading Abby‘s original version. She actually read through over 1000 pages of court documents, and she did it first. And shamefully, some large outlets have chosen to not credit her (@nytimes.com)

Abby Vesoulis@abbyvesoulis.bsky.social · 3w ago

Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) previously denied a report, also alleged in court records, that he pushed a girl down a flight of stairs in high school. But the woman recently told me the alleged incident remains "one of the more traumatic nights of my life." Inside the investigation: ow.ly/8xU450ZpaNp

Hey @medievalists.bsky.social, thanks for the signal boost for "Singulion Structure and the #Voynich Manuscript"! #OA in @digitalmedievalist.bsky.social. journals.openedition.org/digitalmedie...

Singulion Structure and the Voynich Manuscript

Introduction The enduring mystery of the Voynich Manuscript (a.k.a. Yale University, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library MS 408) lies with its illustrations, certainly, but also with its text, ...

journals.openedition.org

Medievalist.net@medievalists.bsky.social · 3d ago

10 Open-Access Medieval Studies Articles Published in July 2026 www.medievalists.net/2026/08/medi... #medievalstudies #openaccess

RFK Jr. likes to claim that he is “restoring trust” in public health, so let’s gaze at the glory of what he’s achieved. In March of 2025, 77% of adults trusted CDC recommendations. In March of 2026, it’s only 50%. Trust in public health in the U.S. has cratered since he took office.

people who join into these emperor's beautiful new clothes conspiracies should be shamed for it every day in public and in every interview and news story, this kind of reality-denying absurdity should get zero tolerance and be consistently challenged as the evidence-free bullshit that it is.

Josh Gerstein@joshgerstein.bsky.social · 4d ago

UPDATE: Burgum joins Trump-Pirro fray, says "evidence is clear" that vandals damaged reflecting pool, despite Pirro saying that until recently Burgum's agency withheld info that undercut criminal prosecution www.politico.com/news/2026/08...

The Republican party leader and U.S. president is a crook and a rapist and Republicans in Congress, who can remove him from power, are not taking even one step to do so

Reuters Legal@legal.reuters.com · 4d ago

The disclosure marks the first time a bank has formally tied money laundering concerns to Trump's family business.

This is the guy who asked if Kyle Clark was accusing his dog (on stage at the debate) of lying, too.

Mother Jones@motherjones.com · 4d ago

He's a Christian fundamentalist who hunts demons and says he killed a man when he was seven.

whenever someone tells you that it's simply impossible for police to be charged with misconduct or criminal charges, you can tell they're wrong because some cops do get charged regularly — when they are whistleblowers or reformers prosecutors are actually extremely eager to help drum them out!

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 5d ago

Prosecutors charged an LAPD officer with felony eavesdropping for making secret recordings of his colleagues’ racist, sexist and homophobic comments on the job

plan still based on fantasies about river flow, not reality. The WaPo story says the "measures are only half of what studies suggest is needed to bring water demand in line with the dwindling supply."

Win White@wsquared3d.bsky.social · 5d ago

This is a free to read gift article. U.S. Raises Threat of Steep Water Cuts in Lower Colorado River Basin #Cowx www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/c...

Anthropic's competitive rogue AI escape seems less impressive and more controlled. www.anthropic.com/news/investi...

Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations

In a review of our cybersecurity evaluation transcripts, we found three incidents in which a Claude model reached the internet from within or while interacting with a third-party evaluation environmen...

anthropic.com

net/openmdns: Pros: small, lightweight, uses pledge and unveil, mostly runs nonprivileged. Cons: no IPv6, has weird architecture (mdnsctl to add a proxy record must stay running, as root, to connect to the listener via unix socket and keep the record being served). www.haesbaert.org/openmdns/

Just a head’s up to everyone who hasn’t reassessed their relationship with Shopify yet: its CEO is actively pushing far-right politics in Canada, now with Elon Musk’s explicit support!

Rachel Gilmore@rachelgilmore.bsky.social · 7d ago

lol, annnnnnnd there's the nail in the coffin, if there was still any doubt:

right to put some focus on the counterproductive nature of the guardrails for defensive use cases

Garrett M. Graff@vermontgmg.bsky.social · last wk.

The OpenAI/Hugging Face incident is worthy of your time—it's an important warning sign about the weird moment we're in with AI, with a side order of US-China rivalry. Most of all, though, it's a reminder that AI is a story about humans, not technology. www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/welcome-to...

smart to include personal comments because the near-universal reaction to this will be that the actual motivation here is different from the stated one

Pacing the Frontier

A statement from over 1000 employees of frontier AI companies

pacingthefrontier.com

Breaking on @reuters.com: OpenAIs's rogue agent compromised an account at a second tech firm, sources say Story TK

wildly false, and the flaws in US handling of coronavirus are quite evident and enumerable: blog.lippard.org/2020/03/dona...

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.

RFK Jr: "Because of Dr Fauci's leadership and other reasons, we had the highest mortality rate from covid of any country in the world" #OtherReasons 🙃

Good article on how a Philippine town's still-popular mayor was connected to a scam compound, and how massive corruption remains. www.economist.com/interactive/...

The mayor of Scamtown

People thought Alice Guo was a Chinese spy. The truth was much darker

economist.com

Mastodon thread reverse engineering the app for Glorify, the "Christian smart ring": digipres.club/@foone/11699...

The Cloud Security Alliance has released a post-mortem of the OpenAI hack of Hugging Face HF apparently reviewed and cleared the report cloudsecurityalliance.org/artifacts/hu...

Hugging Face Incident Initial Post Mortem I CSA

AI Security Alliance's initial post-mortem on the Hugging Face incident, the first documented autonomous AI attack, with CISO guidance on detecting, responding to, and governing agentic AI risk.

cloudsecurityalliance.org