The week in jams y'all.

Happy Halloween from Perpetual Stu

Vulnerabilities within the programming language that underpins much of the Internet, discovered using AI tools, are still being broadly exploited even as governments and companies rush to secure their systems: arstechnica.visitlink.me/SX_syW

Hackers got a four-day head start on epic PHP2Shell vulnerability

Hackers were already probing the bug before defenders were told it existed.

arstechnica.visitlink.me

Used my balance in my soon-to-be-former company's reward program to get a Switch 2, hell yeah.

Video games has decided to discontinue its once leading product, the video game

Folks, Cloudflare has rolled out a WAF-level mitigation for the PHP CVEs. If you haven't heard from your webhost about a patch, you can get SOME protection by signing up for their free plan for your domains (the WAF rules are auto-enabled on the free plan).

Another day, another story where my work on mass surveillance overlaps with my work in domestic abuse in the most terrible goddamn way.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 2d ago

New: We found cops who kept using Flock to spy on women after they left the force. One used it for five years after retirement, tracking his wife during a custody battle. Another ran searches while he was suspended (and later fired) after killing a 15-year-old boy. Free to read: wapo.st/3UEwWU7

Anyone else noticing that the world is a vampire

Seems like a good a time as any to say I'm leaving my current company for a new opportunity. Exciting!

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Extremely long day Saturday, and Sunday I have choral rehearsal/performance/rehearsal // tour!! // choral rehearsal/performance. Would love to see more folks on the tour so I feel less totally miserable about this 😅

Full Story Baltimore@fullstorybaltimore.tours · last wk.

We have two (2) walking tours this weekend! You can even come on both of them in chronological order... Sat. Oct 17, 8:00pm, Baltimore's Confederate Shadows: Mount Vernon to Midtown Sun. Oct 18, 2:00pm, Black Reconstruction in Lower Charles Village Both @ fullstorybaltimore.tours/our-tours/

Meanwhile the 5k was fun and speedy! The ATCR kits were fly as hell.

I got to be awkward on the local news today.

All you Libby users borrowing digital books and audiobooks through your library cards, you can set your preferences to human authors and artists ONLY. Click the middle button at the bottom, then "Content Controls" under Settings. You'll find "AI Contributions" there. Click in to it to make changes.

we are merely in the foothills of the bloated, violent American security state asserting itself as a major political actor

dell cameron@dell.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: Chicago-area cops took part in an undercover probe by ICE agents into Minneapolis mutual aid networks last spring, records obtained by WIRED show, including unspecified electronic surveillance, audio recordings, ALPR data by @awinston.bsky.social

The embedded ticker widget directly contradicts the headline of the article

Matt the Dad Dude@undefeatedmatt.wifeguy.online · last wk.

Incredulous rubes, every one.

Evergreen sentiment.

Sobyv@sobyv.bsky.social · last wk.

We should make the internet slightly better, maybe.

If you would try to win by abandoning trans people (or any targeted group) you can save this “we need to win” talk; there is no “we.” I am about solidarity, and you have chosen anti-solidarity. You are not any “we” I recognize. You are the enemy I’m trying to defeat. Beating you is how my “we” wins.

US Treasury announces the deficit for fiscal 2026: $1.99 trillion.

in honor of the stupid vaporware car here’s the song we wrote about one of elon’s possible futures

divorce, by daddy's boy

from the album FOUR HOMBRES

daddysboy.bandcamp.com

There it is!

Katie Zacharia, Trump’s New Press Secretary, Is Fired After 5 Days (Gift Article)

The ouster came as Ms. Zacharia was shadowed by questions about how she had presented her legal career and handled her first press briefing.

nytimes.com

Ben Collins@bencollins.bsky.social · 2w ago

I don't think she's gonna make it. She seems roughly two bad questions away from losing it already. Could be fun.

Also there's a booth giving out boxes of pasta.

If you're hitting the Baltimore Running Fest expo today, make sure to swing by the A Tribe Called Run booth!

future generations won't understand the humor of the arrested development "it's one banana, michael" scene after a banana actually costs $10 in 2027

I love it.

amy brown 👻@amybrown.xyz · last wk.

olivia rodrigo x chappell roan x david byrne. discuss

Oh Moz. You just keep being so wrong!

Stereogum@stereogum.com · last wk.

Morrissey ranked his solo albums and singles

BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned

How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program

How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.

404media.co

I spent an absurd amount of money but I did it.

mcflynnthm@mcflynnthm.bsky.social · last wk.

Trying to get tickets to see Slayyyter at MSG next summer, 'cause hell yeah.