Emerson Tan

Yes it will be funny. I'll do my best to make it funny.

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I've been asked to help with some awards (Phrack 40th Yr). Pls nominate your favourites from the last year. Please provide links and citations where appropriate.

Most Cringe Security Marketing award:

Most spectacular attack:

Technical attack ingenuity award:

Worst Technical security idea:

Local officials facing questions over lack of preparations in the years and hours before deadly Texas floods | CNN As Central Texas reels from flash floods that killed over 100 people this weekend, questions are sharpening about whether officials could have done more to avert the tragedy – both in the decades lead...

emergency managers in Kerr County were absent in a realtime chat between NWS and regional emergency managers in the hours before the flood emergency in Texas. cc @samlmontano.bsky.social

www.cnn.com/2025/07/07/u...

Russia… 🦔

BECOME UNGOVERNABLE

It’s an Israeli company, albeit with a U.S. owner. I’m fairly sure this is all fed straight back to the mothership in Tel Aviv.

These pricks are going to drive the world back into some sort of hell on earth.

It’s bank run time!

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So, the DOGE kids intend to rewrite the social-security administration's COBOL code-base!

and they want to do it ...

... in *a few months*

I did a huge dive into COBOL a few years ago (www.wealthsimple.com/en-ca/magazi...) ...

... so let me explain why DOGE is *way* over its skis here

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Why are white people so afraid of becoming a minority? Does America treat minorities badly or something?

Perhaps the best way of thinking about the current regime is as the last gasp of white supremacist patriarchy before it gets drowned by irreversible and unstoppable demographic change

Erm oh shit

Fact Sheet: President Donald J. Trump Reins in Independent Agencies to Restore a Government that Answers to the American People RESTORING DEMOCRACY AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN GOVERNMENT: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order ensuring that all federal agencies are

www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/...

This Executive Order is functionally the same as the Enabling Act of 1933 which gave Hitler total authority over the German and effectively renders the legislature and judiciary into a point of irrelevancy. Unless this is stopped now, America is a dictatorship

There will be war. Putin cannot demobilise the Russian war economy without it collapsing so he is compelled to keep attacking until either most of central and Eastern Europe surrenders and pays his bills or he is defeated.

Star wars meme: So this is how liberty dies? With a coup run by a fake govt agency named after a meme run by the most divorced man alive and his troop of incel twinks

Fuck me this timeline is stupid as fuck.

-= We hoped we never had to do this but here we are and we now have to do this. =-

American trans humans are under threat and like in 1930s Germany, they now have to GTFO of their home country.

We have decided we need to collect some information on the possible ways out.

So we made a wiki.

Elon Musk’s Team Now Has Access to Treasury’s Payments System Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent gave Mr. Musk’s representatives at the so-called Department of Government Efficiency a powerful tool to monitor and potentially limit government spending.

1/ Musk seeking control over nerve systems of the federal government. As someone who spent a decade studying how centralized information systems are used for coercion this is a five alarm fire. We need to name it, identify risks, and seek to mitigate their impacts.
www.nytimes.com/2025/02/01/u...

Musk's Junta Establishes Him as Head of Government Imagining how we'd cover overseas what's happening to the U.S. right now

www.doomsdayscenario.co/p/musk-s-jun...

How would this all be reported if it was happening anywhere other than the U.S.?

By taking control of the purse away from Congress they have just rendered it irrelevant. There will now be rule by decree.

Billionaires: Hey those foreigners are taking your jobs. Also billionaires: I'm moving my factories overseas to give your jobs to foreigners because you won't let me pay you basically nothing. Also billionaires: Hey help us train our Ai systems so we can replace you with robots as well. Also billionaires: Another year of record profits. Even though we are cost of living crisis.

Were the masses ever to correctly identify the enemy, the war would be very very short.

Elon Musk giving a Nazi Salute. Caption reads Trump: Don't make it too obvious. Elon: *gives nazi salute*

Ubermensch in his own mind

I mean there is a limited number of characters and if you tried to list everything you’d end up with an essay made of just bullet points. The bank of the future is very overdrawn and in danger of foreclosing on the present

Country that hates women, babies, workers, and healthcare reaps what it sows. • The Spectator Index BREAKING: US fertility rate hits record low

Donate to Support Marc Rogers' Road to Recovery, organized by Katie Vogel Jan. 9 update: How this fundraiser supports Marc's recovery Every penny of this fun… Katie Vogel needs your support for Support Marc Rogers' Road to Recovery

It’s payday for a bunch of techies, so y’all should throw a coin towards one of the nicest guys in the business of making the bad guys cry. He needs our support because American healthcare is garbage.

www.gofundme.com/f/support-ma...

Facebook and Genocide: How Facebook contributed to genocide in Myanmar and why it will not be held accountable - Harvard Law School | Systemic Justice Project

systemicjustice.org/article/face...

Meta Is Laying the Narrative Groundwork for Trump’s Mass Deportations Multiple experts drew comparisons between Meta's recent changes around immigration and what happened in Myanmar in 2017, where Facebook contributed to a genocide by allowing the spread of hate.

Coming soon to America, Genocidal Violence when the deportations either fail to materialise or prove logistically impossible.

www.404media.co/email/3d360e...

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YouTube video by Legendary Lore Why Oligarchy Falls (And How to Speed It Up)

What does Aristotle say about how Oligarchies fall apart and get overthrown, and why the middle class is so important (and why it must be destroyed in order for Oligarchs to retain power). Timing is everything Comrades.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlbJ...

Crapitalism the religion has its rituals too.

I’m sorry Donald. It’s on the computer, it must be true. Those are the rules. You made them.