Daniel Karistai

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Can’t believe I have to use windows notepad now.

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Our Zine About ICE Surveillance Is Here Download a PDF of our first ever zine here.

@404media.co zine on the surveillance technology used by Immigrations and Customs Enforcement.

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Defund Punxsutawney Phil.

Wyden, Merkley and Markey Demand ICE Stop Using Mobile Facial Recognition App | U.S. Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon The Official U.S. Senate website of Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon

1. ICE is using Palantir apps to collect biometric data on protestors. I'm working closely with @markey.senate.gov to stop this.

Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT The interim director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency triggered an internal cybersecurity warning with the uploads — and a DHS-level damage assessment.

*Screams in TLP:Red*

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Job hunt continues. A recruiter pinged me and let me know about a possible position he’s trying to get me an interview for. I got the preliminary “partial lapse of funding” emails in case we shut down at the end of this week. So my anxiety is high and hoping I land something soon!

Posting as a proof of life l! Lots of ups and downs 😅

Our power was restored Tuesday night and am thankful for it. Still 100k people without power in Nashville and getting around town is dicey. It’s obvious NES had done zero contingency planning ahead of this winter 😡

Dangerous Cold To Prolong Impacts; Extreme Cold Warning Monday + Tuesday Wind gusts up to 25mph thru the overnight hours will continue to put more stress on trees and power lines, with potential for more to come down. Please remain vigilant around any lines or trees. Al…

Dangerous Cold To Prolong Impacts; Extreme Cold Warning Monday + Tuesday.

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Dear 2025, fuck you.

Do better, 2026.

The only real way I have marked the passage of time this week is getting closer to the Stranger Things finale and college football games to cosplay for.

We didn’t have any family stuff until later in the evening and so we took a spur of the moment day trip to Metropolis, IL, the official hometown of Superman.

It’s definitely a drive through town, but I highly recommend stopping by if you’re up for some superhero whimsy.

Merry Christmas, y’all!

If you happen to be looking for bad redactions in a large set of data files today for some reason, there's an open source tool for that.

Looking back at 2025 Journalists are working harder than ever to protect their sources. SecureDrop has never been more important

Journalists are increasingly relying on insider sources, and protecting those sources is more important than ever.

Here's how SecureDrop is rising to the challenge, safeguarding whistleblowers’ anonymity against ever-evolving threats.

Afraid of retaliation and in an increasingly volatile job market, afraid to leave too. It’s quite a bind.

With the 60 minutes leak, the many recent Epstein releases, etc., I think we are seeing the future of government accountability under authoritarianism:

Leaks, hacks, data dumps, releases of big document caches.

Journalists and the public will have to learn how to digest this stuff. 🧵

It absolutely does.

This was for a senior security engineer position and after that I declared my entire job search completely baked.

I was recently asked “tell me about a CVE that’s given you trouble this year”. My response was how a couple of low severity CVEs had been exploited together to try to gain access to a cloud service and how our security controls prevented the breach.

His response: “I only asked you about one CVE” 🫠

The top strand of lights on our fake Christmas tree stopped lighting up and I feel like witnessing our tree slowly go out like this is appropriate for 2025.

Finally caught up on Critical Role. So good, but so long 😮‍💨

Companies Are Blaming AI for Layoffs. The Real Reason Will Piss You Off. 180,000 tech workers lost their jobs in 2025. Companies say it’s because of AI. Oxford researchers call BS.

Companies aren't firing workers in staggering numbers because AI can do that work instead. They're firing workers because they lost their bet on AI against the House.

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Really difficult to top a good Islay 🤤

The sunday scaries has nothing on the last evening of a month and a half long furlough and a message from your boss saying "be ready to go all in on AI".

C4 is so good so far! I'm also excited for the Mighty Nein season that's coming out on Amazon next month.

Kingsbury's "Matthew as Story" is a little bit dated, but still quite useful. I'd also recommend Garland's "Reading Matthew: A Literary and Theological Commentary" for anyone who hasn't come across it yet.

OMG I love this!

I've wondered when he was gonna jump on this debunked hot take that boomers have already beaten to death.

A year ago we eloped. It was the most beautiful and happiest day of my life. 🥹🥹

Baudrillard would have a FIELD DAY with this one.

Personally, while I loved BOTW it is easily the loneliest game I have ever played.

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