The Luddites' actual argument was that automated looms meant expensive, skilled workers were being replaced with literal children, who were then getting maimed and killed, and maybe this is bad.
SlacktivistFred@slacktivistfred.bsky.social · 3w agoThe Luddites were “clinging to horses and carts” because it was the early 19th century and cars hadn’t been invented yet.
every time trump is president you gotta wash your groceries
New Executive Order creates a “voluntary framework” for #AI developers to give the #NSA and other US government agencies early access to their latest AI models: breakingdefense.com/2026/06/trum...
Trump executive order on AI gives central role to NSA - Breaking Defense
The EO creates a “voluntary framework” for AI developers to give the government early access to their latest tech.
breakingdefense.com
Almost exactly 13 years after the start of the NSA-leaks, Edward #Snowden appeared on a state-owned Russian television channel in a report about the risks of foreign technology: united24media.com/investigatio...
Snowden Used in FSB Campaign Against Western Runet Infrastructure and Apple Smartphones
The FSB is using Edward Snowden to claim that Western tech firms and agencies like the NSA use tools like Cloudflare to spy on Russian officials' smartphones.
united24media.com
Last week I discovered that ChatGPT and Claude will send you their “encrypted raw reasoning” and of course I immediately wasted a weekend trying to do something bad with it. What I got for my trouble was this blog post: blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/05/29/f...
Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs
This is a quick post I wanted to write about a “hobby project” I spent a weekend on. It has little to do with real cryptography, and mostly doesn’t expose a particularly exciting …
blog.cryptographyengineering.com
Russian cyber operators hijacked hundreds of Bluesky accounts - journalists, academics, filmmakers - and used them in information operations to post propaganda. Bluesky insists its systems weren't breached - old leaked credentials did the work. Avg post views: 50. www.france24.com/en/live-news...
Bluesky accounts hijacked in pro-Russia propaganda campaign
A Russian influence campaign hijacked hundreds of Bluesky accounts -- many belonging to influential Americans -- to spread propaganda, researchers said, in a striking disinformation tactic that weapon...
france24.com
I’m experiencing phantom pain where my hope used to be
NEW: The CIA late last year raised the status of its elite cyber espionage division, providing it more resources to analyze and disrupt digital threats, as well as amp up the agency’s own technological innovation efforts. therecord.media/cia-director...
CIA director quietly elevated agency’s cyber espionage division
The Center for Cyber Intelligence, which had resided within the CIA's Directorate of Digital Innovation since 2015, was promoted to a full-fledged mission center last October.
therecord.media
And for the Gulf states, the Aya-Toll-Booth Iran has set up in the strait is a catastrophe they need the USA to fix.
Sorry Buddy@3cityyimby.bsky.social · 4mo agoPeople are underrating the Gulf countries here. Take what's publicly known about how intertwined the Trump/Kushner finances are with Gulf money and assume that's the tip of the iceberg. Israel's catching most of the flak, but I doubt they're the only ones banging the war drums to Trump.
Someone let the penguins of the Heard and McDonald Islands know that their long ordeal is coming to an end.
If a person checks their watch while you’re talking, it’s probably because they’re timing you and this is a competition. Keep talking. It’s win-time baby. You got this.
"There is one message that we should take away from the current round of talks to end the war in Ukraine: Putin does not want the war to end right now." My latest update on war and strategic competition. mickryan.substack.com/p/putin-cann...
Putin Cannot Afford a Peace Deal Now. The Big Five, 1 February edition
My regular update on war and great power competition. This week: Ukraine peace talks continue, why Putin doesn't want peace now, the Taiwan-U.S. Joint Command & my Big Five recommended reads.
mickryan.substack.com
I don’t ask a lot from y’all in exchange for spending thousands of dollars a year to give the public free court records. Please share this piece far and wide.
Court Watch@courtwatch.bsky.social · 6mo agoWe dropped our paywall for this new piece. Court Watch picked one of the largest ‘news deserts’ in the South and examined all the new court dockets that went unreported to tell a larger story about the need for local journalism ‘Dockets Die In Darkness’ www.courtwatch.news/p/the-rabbit...
Hello, World! Welcome back! I have new blog :-) tracesofhumanity.org/hello-world/
The UK creative industries — which contributed £125 billion to the economy in 2024 and supported 2.4 million jobs — are being destroyed by an AI sector that... contributed just £11 billion in the same year and supported only 85,000 jobs.
FBI document describing “Epstein's personal hacker. was an Italian citizen born in Calabria who developed zero-day exploits and offensive cyber tools and sold the tools to governments” www.justice.gov/epstein/file...
Palo Alto Networks patched a high-severity vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated attackers to disable firewall protections in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
Palo Alto Networks warns of DoS bug letting hackers disable firewalls
Palo Alto Networks patched a high-severity vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated attackers to disable firewall protections in denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.
bleepingcomputer.com