Mike

I’m trying cravats for summer wear and for dressing up some of my more casual shirts.

The @nytimes.com is institutionally incapable of admitting a mistake, so twenty years from now they're still going to have an institutional grudge against the Indian-African diaspora and nobody is going to remember why they keep taking potshots at them.

I wish this was right, but I think Trump already has SCOTUS support for all the powers necessary to effect a purge of the legislature and rule by decree. If ICE arrested and deported Members of Congress after the 2026 elections, I’m not sure who would stop them.

Sorry to repost Twitter screenshots but 'Cuomintang' is inspired

Yep! The time to do overtly political purges of state law enforcement agencies was six months ago.

Instead, it seems likely that California will go down like the 1932 coup in Prussia.

It also really just robs any joy that comes from re-reading and seeing a deeper meaning. It's like the only valid way to read is at a surface-level with just enough comprehension to write a Wikipedia synopsis.

I just know this is Rob Saka’s fault.

This is an insane itinerary.

I still can’t get over the fact the Athletics fought for the right to struggle to fill a 15k minor league stadium for the next three years.

And I'll just say, I'm *extremely* dismal on whether FedRAMP and DISA and all the other security compliance programs do any good, but this is one situation where having an auditor come in and ask questions about responsibility for security controls would be pretty good!

(we'll just set aside for now the fact that Purview is only authorized at IL4, and the Yemen war plans data is, at minimum, IL6). learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/...

The general rules of the road are the agencies can authorize what they want as long as an official with sufficient authority assumes responsibility for the risks. I'd like to know who that official is at the White House.

Set up a connector to archive Signal communications data in Microsoft 365 Admins can set up a TeleMessage connector to import and archive Signal communications data in Microsoft 365. This lets you archive data from third-party data sources in Microsoft 365 so you can use co...

Unfortunately, TeleMessage gates most of their docs behind a Smarsh login, but we’ll assume their suggested M365 deployment is typical, since Microsoft’s docs are public. In that scenario, TeleMessage is still hosting data for at least 24 hours between syncs. learn.microsoft.com/en-us/purvie...

TeleMessage will probably defend itself in the coming days by saying that it’s just a software provider, not covered by FedRAMP or the DISA Cloud Services SRG.

So, FedRAMP isn’t the right compliance program to look at here. For military data, we’d look at the Defense Information Security Agency (DISA)’s well-concealed CSO list (TeleMessage is also not there). public.cyber.mil/dccs/cso/

Oh no. The hour of doom is at hand. www.wired.com/story/mike-w...

from an outsider's perspective it seems like the only issue should be "housing costs too fucking much", since London has SF rents and Ohio wages

Every day, we creep closer to having to explain DISA impact levels to the general public

ROB SAKA: How do we even know what a tree is or could be? An organism might have treelike 𝒑𝒓𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒊𝒆𝒔, but
CATHY MOORE: Trees on public property are uglier than trees on single family zoning, that's just science
MARK SOLOMON: I had to trim a tree once. What was up with that?

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it’s pretty funny how the list of opposition to SB79 (an amazing bill to legalize dense housing near transit) is half groups like “united communists for community justice” and the other half is “suburban millionaires’ homeowner association”

Bessent Has a ‘Grand Encirclement’ Plan for China US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent emerged from this week’s market ructions as a perhaps-unexpected lead trade negotiator, offering a potential scenario for the coming months: US deals with longstand...

Yeah baby, it’s Pivot to Asia 3.0 www.bloomberg.com/news/newslet...

Person who's only lived through three era-defining crises before: "getting some era-defining crisis vibes from this"

We don’t even get local control because they get to demand upzones in other neighborhoods! bsky.app/profile/eric...

I don’t know why Seattle suffers from such a scourge of politicians who run for city council only to delegate all meaningful authority to a different council of degrowther Malthusians.

this is true, and obviously raises the question "where did Christianity come from". the answer is that it was revealed by direct divine intervention during the Council of Nicaea.

Jamelle for Virginia

I do really wish writers would at least glance at the rulebook before using Diplomacy as a blog prop.

transferring their chambers to the US guano islands, cutting their staff, banning them from getting air conditioning and giving them exclusively jurisdiction over maritime norovirus cases would be a good idea

1 more point on literacy: it's a disaster that the inner workings of the US government are incredibly complicated and illogical (filibuster, reconciliation, Electoral College, etc). parliaments work better bc dipshits can pick a party that sounds good and see that legibly translated into outcomes

Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy May Be Retiring Later This Year The Star Wars producer also helped bring E.T., Jurassic Park, Back to the Future. and Indiana Jones to life across her career.

Nothing puts the fear of god in me quite like the five words "potential Lucasfilm President, Dave Filoni"