Loraine Lawson
@lorainelawson.bsky.social
Any opinions are my own but also retweeting doesn't mean I agree - I just find some things interesting and worth sharing.
Members of the Trump administration are bragging about targeting media that criticizes his agenda.
FCC’s Brendan Carr: Trump is ‘winning’ against ‘fake news media’
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chair Brendan Carr on Friday said at the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) that President Trump is “winning” his feud against the &…
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BREAKING: Over 680 members of the National Academy of Sciences, Medicine, and Engineering have endorsed articles of impeachment against RFK Jr. (1/2 🧵)
Heads are going to explode 💥 Cato Institute just nuked the lie. Immigrants have cut U.S. deficits by $14.5 TRILLION since 1994, slashing the national debt by a third. All that “immigrants are bleeding us dry” noise? Absolute bullshit. 1/3
A publisher who lays off a reporter whose pen is freezing because she's covering a frigid war zone while dodging missiles is not an editor you want to work for, in a more perfect world
AOC on Epstein Files: We need to get to the bottom of it. It does not matter if you are a Republican, Democrat, or donor. We are talking about sexual crimes and trafficking.
watch out boys, we had a rash of these types in America and it turned out it was because they were all diddling ten year olds
The Sydney Morning Herald (unofficial)@smhaustralia.nzcow.com · 6mo ago📢 “A huge amount of men between the age of 15 and 50 will not pass on their genes. They will effectively die out of the gene pool ... Should society intervene?” Steven Bartlett asked last year.
I know abuses perpetrated against children is at the top of all of our minds with the horrible details revealed in the Epstein Files. While we seek justice for those victims, we must demand that the children being traumatized in detention centers be released immediately too. Please call your reps 📞
www.cnn.com/2026/02/03/b... BREAKING: A search was being carried out at the French offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X as part of an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday.
Musk’s social media platform X raided by Paris prosecutor | CNN Business
A search was being carried out at the French offices of Elon Musk’s social media platform X as part of an investigation opened in January 2025, the Paris prosecutor’s office said Tuesday.
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MAGA people lining up wanting the taxpayers to give them money. Trump wants $10 billion. Lindsey wants $1 million. J6ers want money. Farmers want money. Of course CEOs want their contracts, subsidies & tariff waivers. It’s griftapalooza at taxpayer expense for the gangsters.
Gavin Newsom: “ You will not have a country if he rigs this election — you will have a president who will be running for a third term He is wrecking this country, wrecking the economy. He's a lawless president. Wake up, America — wake up to what's going on”
Catherine O’Hara of Beetlejuice and Schitt’s Creek has died at age 71. RIP to one of the all-time greatest women in comedy. people.com/catherine-oh...
Catherine O'Hara, 'Schitt’s Creek' Star and Comedy Legend, Dies at 71
Catherine O'Hara has died at the age of 71. O'Hara was known for her appearances in movies including 'Beetlejuice' and 'Home Alone', as well as her Emmy-winning role as Moira Rose on the TV sitcom 'Sc...
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I am no longer with the New Stack. What I hate is the stories I didn’t get a chance to finish. Covering frontend and web development was a fun and interesting beat. I will miss it.
Mastra empowers web devs to build AI agents in TypeScript: thenewstack.io/mastra-empow... via @thenewstack
Mastra empowers web devs to build AI agents in TypeScript
Stop letting non-devs have all the fun. Learn agentic AI with Mastra, the open source TypeScript framework for web devs.
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Don’t forget Keith Porter!! On December 31, 2025, Keith Porter Jr., a 43-year-old father of two, was shot and killed by an off-duty U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent in the Northridge neighborhood of Los Angeles.
High school friend remembers Alex Pretti: “He was a singer, a dancer. He was a very funny individual, and he was a role model. He was one of those effortless leaders, through his kindness & his generosity. He was the best of us.” #ProudBlue #Voices4Victory
Frontend news Anthropic extends MCP with a UI framework: thenewstack.io/anthropic-ex... via @thenewstack
Anthropic extends MCP with a UI framework
Anthropic is turning Claude into an app platform, with interactive widgets from Slack, Figma, Asana, and others.
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“The only thing more dangerous than speaking your truth is pretending you don’t have one.” — Inspired by Virginia Woolf
Real leadership listens first. Really listens. Not just listening for confirmation bias.
A security checklist for your React and Next.js apps: thenewstack.io/a-security-c... via @thenewstack
A security checklist for your React and Next.js apps
Learn what the React2Shell vulnerability breaks, what to check, and how to detect hidden threats like EtherRAT malware.
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Developer proves AI agents can be reprogrammed via new exploit: thenewstack.io/developer-pr... via @thenewstack
Developer proves AI agents can be reprogrammed via new exploit
A zero-click vulnerability in the tasks.json file allows attackers to silently hijack Cursor’s instructions across code repos.
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Developer proves AI agents can be reprogrammed via new exploit: thenewstack.io/developer-pr... via @thenewstack Special thanks to @ike.io for his help on this and showing how the exploit can be used against AI agents.
Developer proves AI agents can be reprogrammed via new exploit
A zero-click vulnerability in the tasks.json file allows attackers to silently hijack Cursor’s instructions across code repos.
thenewstack.io
@ike.io I updated the story to add your comments. I appreciate it!
Wow! Great work.
ike@ike.io · 6mo agoTIL about a VSCode vulnerability involving auto-run tasks inside a repo. That got me thinking: could I use this to re-program a developer's AI agents and get them to do what I want? Even worse — could I do this to all a developer’s code repositories? Turns out: hell yes. ike.io/open-a-folde...
What do AI agents and microservices have in common? More than you think. CNCF’s Chris Aniszczyk connected with @thenewstack.io to share how CNCF projects are powering scalable and interoperable AI. Catch the conversation and see what’s ahead for the community: thenewstack.io/cto-chris-an...
CTO Chris Aniszczyk on the CNCF push for AI interoperability
In this episode of The Makers, CNCF CTO Chris Aniszczyk discusses what AI agents and microservices have in common.
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I came to Minneapolis to report on what's going on, and one of the main questions I showed up with is "just what is the scale of the resistance?" After all, we're all used to the news calling Portland a "war zone" or whatever when it's just some protests in one part of town.
“.. foreign exporters absorbed only about 4% of the burden of last year’s U.S. tariff increases by lowering their prices, while American consumers and importers absorbed 96%.” 🤡 @wsj.com www.wsj.com/economy/trad...
I like Confer.to. It' stealing a lot of wisdom from somewhere: "The people who make the fastest changes are often the ones who: Understand the least, Earn trust the slowest, and Burn out (or get pushed out) the fastest."
Confer
Confer - Private AI
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