I guess the buck stops long before it gets to Hegseth.
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no-no-nobody’s fault but mine. database scientician, virtue signaler. he/him
My big takeaway from the blackhat floor is there is a lot of noise re:how to protect against malicious Ai , injections, attacks, Mal prompts, but there is nothing out there about protecting users from effing up their own Ai workloads, which if you know insider threats, this just made PEBKAC scalable
"Kalshi defends plan to bet on lives of cancer patients" it's true, they've out-satired the evil corporate satire media
Django Wexler@djangowexler.bsky.social · 7h agoSomehow things that would have been a background gag in a Verhoeven movie are now just real
KUDLOW: Why is it people don't know there's an economic boom? It's not showing up in any of these numbers! How is that possible? TUBERVILLE: Our economy is really good if you look at all the factors
BREAKING: Judge Carlton Reeves (Obama/SDMS) rules that tower dumps, which provide police with time and location data on many or all phones connected to a cell tower, are "per se unconstitutional general warrants," violating the 4th Amendment. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
TowerDumpsReevesOpn080526
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If you drink High Life, this is probably the cheapest real dinner around
Kenji 🌈@kenjimallon.bsky.social · 3h agoThe $10 happy meal remains the undefeated best value in the city. Not pictured, the $13 BBQ margarita.
"For Swift, the Madison promotional gig, presented by hamburger chain Fuddruckers, served as one of the most remarkable glances at Taylor before any of her eras and in the tense month after her first single was released." Taylor Swift's Free Madison Show - 2006 Aug 4 captimes.com/entertainmen...
When Taylor Swift played a free Madison show 20 years ago
In 2006, a 16-year-old Taylor Swift performed at Willow Island, known as Brat Fest’s home and a makeshift campground for horse fairs and dairy events.
captimes.com
Exactly! Send them both packing!! And more!!!
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h agoMax Miller on why he's staying in the race: "When we go back to 2015 and 2016, & people in the media looked at President Trump, & everyone came out with allegations. Dozens of women, dozens of crazy allegations, dozens of nasty criminal misconduct. And you know what he did? He stayed in the fight."
Republicans have become the party of "Yeah, whatever; it's fine."
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 12h agoMax Miller on why he's staying in the race: "When we go back to 2015 and 2016, & people in the media looked at President Trump, & everyone came out with allegations. Dozens of women, dozens of crazy allegations, dozens of nasty criminal misconduct. And you know what he did? He stayed in the fight."
1. Now-deleted audio shows that Acting AG Todd Blanche privately told faith leaders the DOJ is working to make the 2022 Dobbs decision, which revoked federal abortion protections, “permanent in every single state.” Blanche also suggested a crackdown on the mailing of abortion pills.🧵
Virginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue fever
Virginia resident has state’s 1st locally acquired case of dengue fever - WTOP News
Virginia health officials have confirmed the state’s first known case of locally acquired dengue, a viral disease usually associated with international travel.
wtop.com
you ever see someone flaming out erratically and just think to yourself “man that guy needs to develop an internal locus of control,” bc whoooo boy
ANNOUNCEMENT: Arc-Enabled Hotpatching for Windows Server 2025 at no cost! Read that again. Details here: techcommunity.microsoft.com/blog/AzureAr...
Simplified access to Hotpatching enabled by Azure Arc for Windows Server 2025 | Microsoft Community Hub
With Windows Server 2025, we introduced hotpatch enabled by Azure Arc, delivering security updates to Windows Server across hybrid and multicloud...
techcommunity.microsoft.com
El-Sayed: "They think they want to use my whole name against me. Mike, listen man, If you can't say the name -- it's Abdulrahman -- keep the name out your damn mouth."
New: Police in Wisconsin used Flock to create a pretext to search a man's car for weed. Their justification? He drove from Wisconsin to Michigan, a “known source state for marijuana as it is legal there,” and Flock showed he "travels to Michigan frequently." www.404media.co/cops-used-fl...
Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines to Create Pretext to Search His Car for Weed
"The vehicle travels to Michigan frequently which is a known source state for marijuana as it is legal there," a probable cause justification reads.
404media.co
elaborate flirtations with people who WORK FOR YOU are never cute
Chris Hayes@chrislhayes.bsky.social · yesterdayA congressman sent his staffer a box with a puzzle inside. Once she put the puzzle together it revealed a hand-written note inviting her on a date to an Adam Sandler show.
it's the American way. ~~~ America is arguing about homeschooling without looking at the data 2026 August 5 thehill.com/opinion/educ...
America is arguing about homeschooling without looking at the data
The honest answer to who homeschools in America is a lot of different people, for a lot of different reasons, with a lot of different results.
thehill.com
thus do we understand half the reason for the NYT’s seething anti-Mamdani grudge
The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · yesterdayNew York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.
Congratulations to everyone who worked their asses off for something that any semi-decent and ultimately self-interested government should have done in penance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/03/b...
Education Dept. to Wipe Out Student Loans of 170,000 More Defrauded Borrowers (Gift Article)
The sprawling case, centered on students defrauded by for-profit schools, has now become the largest class-action settlement in American history.
nytimes.com
🌎"It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small." - Neil Armstrong. Remembering Neil Armstrong on his birthday. 💐💐💐
Although sandhill crane used to be my favorite winter bird as I would watch them gather by the hundreds, now when I see them at the end of winter I know summer is approaching. For the #birdoftheday theme of #summervisitors #birds #crane #sandhillcrane #protectnature #EastCoastKin
