the mjl (michael j leblanc)

@themjl.bsky.social

Engineer. Musician. Wily Chaote. Full-Stack Acerbic Humanist. Bandcamp: https://thebellmechanical.bandcamp.com/ SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/the_bell_mechanical Musings: https://nopeanutsinchurch.com/ Middle of Massachusetts. USENET refugee.

Your little oopsie "mistakes" had me worrying for a year of my life about my partner going to jail for up to a decade based on lies likely fed to you by the top of the federal government. Show everyone what you're covering up in these emails and texts. There's a reason you don't want them released.

Boutros acknowledges 'mistakes' in 'Broadview 6' case but says sanctions, special counsel aren't needed

Chicago's top federal prosecutor noted in a court filing that his office has already dropped charges in the case, implemented “robust root-cause changes” and started the process of reviewing over 1,00...

chicago.suntimes.com

El-Sayed: "My commitment to Jewish safety is the same commitment that I have to the safety of my own daughters. Because if there is one question of political philosophy that ought to animate us all, it's what would we do if we treated all our kids like they were all of our kids?"

since oscilloscope graphics are doing the rounds again, here's some photos from that time a few years ago when I built a gizmo to show dril tweets (and assorted other nonsense) on my ancient Tek 466

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My ice-cold boring take that will definitely not go viral is that a primary result with a margin of victory of roughly 1 percent tells you precisely nothing about The Future Of The Party.

New from 404 Media: Apple's 'Private Relay' is exposing users' real IP addresses. Private Relay is supposed to protect all your browsing in Safari. But researchers found a bunch of issues that are exposing real IPs. I verified they do. Not fixed, a live issue www.404media.co/apples-priva...

Apple's ‘Private Relay’ Is Exposing Users' Real IP Addresses

Researchers found a group of issues that mean Private Relay isn't actually protecting users' real IP addresses. 404 Media verified the issues do expose IP addresses.

404media.co

*It'll be a little hard to put this entity in jail, but these are serious computer crimes including wire fraud, identity fraud, unauthorized access, malware distribution, and supply‑chain tampering laws. *A human blackhat could do 20 years for that in the USA

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Doctors and nurses were triaging ventilators in New York City wearing improvised cloth masks and black garbage bags while Trump and his dudes were sending boxes of N95s to Florida

It's absolutely insane we've somehow let the Covid recriminations debate become like "why didn't we reopen in person schools before there was a vaccine" and not "why did none of the trump guys go to jail for stealing PPE from New York hospitals in March 2020"

After years of this, I no longer think of Republicans as "stupid", or "stubborn", or "selfish", or (post Trump) "un-American" or "evil". I now also think of Republicans as "dirty", "unclean", "disgusting plague rats". My revulsion is now PHYSICAL.🤮 Great job, Trumpers. Awesome job!

the mjl (michael j leblanc)@themjl.bsky.social · 5h ago

When Slate Magazine is the Arbiter of Consensus Reality (and this isn't all that bad, but still), we're f'kd. slate.com/news-and-pol...