Andrew Nicklin

Foreign adversaries are trying to weaponize open-source software, report finds Hacking units affiliated with nation-state adversaries are subtly contributing to open-source software tools and working to insert backdoors into publicly available code used by millions worldwide, ne...

Absolute trash clickbait headline from @routefifty.bsky.social. Do better, editors. That's not what the article, nor the linked report say.

Broadly, research on this says that open source & closed source are about equal in terms of vulnerabilities, and open source tends to get fixed faster.

‘Wah wah wah, changing government is too hard, I give up.’ Good riddance, you incompetent fuckwit. Like many other brilliant, dedicated, and now alienated people, I have been doing this for thirty years now, and have often been successful — without the pointless cruelty.

Leo is a Virgo

ht @drleightg.bsky.social

London needs your help, @jackielu.bsky.social!

I expect Harvard to win on 1A grounds and restore existing Federal grants for a short term win. But no one is talking about how to deal with the feds simply not awarding *new* grants to institutions on the unwritten (or very carefully worded) basis of ideological differences - a scale of 5-10yrs.

I wonder if Citibot will try to deploy agent-based interactions, directly navigating visitors to the relevant city web page(s) while maintaining conversational context.

Took my kid to Philly… great to see the historic sites and reminders of the complex history of our country. Also exhausting. There is weirdly both too much time and not enough time. Looking forward to wrapping the day later with a youth-oriented play and a long drive back.

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I assume there’s a surplus of Kentucky bourbon thanks to the Canadians taking a hard pass…

Trump wants to bring manufacturing jobs back to the US, but is only too happy to outsource prisons, apparently.

Coming up next, Minority Report, followed by a late-night showing of Gattaca.

they could just go ahead and deputize uber drivers...

Screenshot of the folloing article text: Proponents of the measures say that banning these items will help improve Americans’ nutrition and, by extension, the problem of chronic disease in the U.S. But as is often true of the big-tent MAHA movement, it’s an issue that makes for some unusual alliances, rhetorical pivots, and inherent contradictions. Republicans — who in the past often argued soda bans were a case of government overreach, and who received nearly twice the amount of campaign donations from food and beverage PACs compared to Democrats during the last election cycle — are now leading the charge against the soda industry. And groups that previously supported bans, like the food and nutrition advocacy group Center for Science in the Public Interest, are skeptical about MAHA’s motivations.

So if @mikeblooomberg.bsky.social had, 13 years ago, pitched the NYC large soda ban as a step on the path to reducing SNAP costs, it could actually have happened? www.statnews.com/2025/04/09/s...

You can find excuses in technicalities, but ultimately they are pathetic attempts to avoid doing what is right.

Real Americans acknowledge their mistakes and try to fix them. They do not appeal to the Supreme Court for absolution when they wrongly send someone to an El Salvadoran prison because of an openly admitted “administrative error”.

An API to do what?

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Boom, in this case, seems to refer to the sound of the stock market cratering.

Seriously: arrest him. The governor should have state police arrest him and charge him with election fraud. Then immediately hold a press conference explaining you arrested someone for committing election fraud and will continue to do so. Just fucking arrest him already. You can actually do this

First rule of every MS Teams meeting:
Complain about how everybody doesn't like teams (but are forced to use it by Enterprise IT).

Since requiring photo ids excludes a huge swath of voters, most likely in urban areas, this EO also attempts to significantly suppress progressive votes as well.

State Anti-ESG Bills May Complicate Public Retirement Plan Investing At the same time that the federal government, through the US Department of Labor, appears to be easing retirement plan fiduciaries’ paths to considering certain environmental, social, or governance (E...

... because it seems that a few conservative-led states have passed laws that appear to *prevent* this, with the original intent of requiring pension systems to not exclude investments in guns or big oil.

Biblically responsible investing is booming — and LGBTQ+ Americans are paying the price The Christian-faith investing movement is a key factor driving American companies away from their DEI efforts.

"Biblically responsible investing" should just be called "investing in hate". My brain immediately went "the next step is to legislate public employee pension funds to invest in BRI-indexed companies." Weirdly, though, I think Rs might have shot themselves in the foot ... 1/2

This headline is an example of a media org bending the knee to the toxic democracy-crushing president. He was in no way “asking” like he’d had them round for tea.

Not an angle I’ve heard before… @mmasnick.bsky.social ? www.reddit.com/r/FedEmploye...

No shortage of inspiration out there, but I’d bet some percentage of your headlines will come true. I practically live in r/nottheonion these days…

An image of text which says "I'll help you create that organization-by-tag matrix. Looking at the commented-out code in your script, I can see there was already an attempt at this, but I'll help you implement it cleanly. Here's how we'll do it:"

I feel called out by @cursor.com.web.brid.gy like "nice try, user ..." 🤣

Here's another example. Proposed cuts to the program WILL exacerbate existing challenges.

Here's an example. These cuts WILL cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread

Wait, aren't conservatives constantly upset about being silenced and canceled? Or is that just more projection.