Scott Jarkoff

"What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all."

- Valery Legasov from Chernobyl, a Miniseries on HBO

how is it already September? 2025 seems to be moving at lightning speed compared to previous years😰💦

Today, DeviantArt Turns 25! | Moti Levy Today, DeviantArt Turns 25! It’s surreal to say, but here we are — DeviantArt is officially 25. What started in August 2000 as a small corner of the internet for sharing Winamp skins and desktop twe...

deviantART turning 25 years old is not something that ever crossed my mind 25 years ago. pure insanity

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YouTube video by Anthony Vincent Let's talk about Kangaroos

lets talk about kangaroos 😂

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surely I cannot be the only person who finds it annoying af when Uber or Grab drivers are wearing headphones, and constantly chatting with someone rather than paying attention to the actual road they are allegedly safely navigating to get me to my destination without issue

The Official Passport Index Ranking The Henley Passport Index ranks the strongest and weakest passports globally. Research is conducted by our research department. Explore our ranking.

Unsurprisingly SG tops the list again, w/JP & SK tied for 2nd. What I do find interesting is the US tied for 10th, falling behind UAE, and most of Europe. Ultimately, not a significant difference since US passports nets access to 182 countries vs SG's 193✈️

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i understand all these tech youtubers reviewing new tech, endlessly explaining the specs ad nauseam. this does not provide any real value

give me feedback after exclusively using the product for 2-4 weeks. no spec walkthrough. just real world usage, and then how that compares to similar products

2 Americans hike Mount Fuji before trails open; both need rescues on back-to-back days July 4 is just another day in Japan, but as an American living in the country, I usually try to do something fun to celebrate my home country’s Independence Day. Eat a hamburger, go to the beach, or m...

Whether you are visiting Japan or living here long-term, respect is essential. Follow the laws, honor the rules, and pay attention to your surroundings. Japan values harmony and subtlety. Being here means carrying yourself with awareness, humility, and care

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Not everything in the cyber threat intelligence industry is broken. But too much is warped just enough to matter.

"What you know you can't explain, but you feel it. You’ve felt it your entire life, that there's something wrong with the world."
— Morpheus, The Matrix, 1999

Finding myself falling out of love with my Apple Watch. It no longer supports me, but competes for my attention. I want a beautifully crafted, Rolex-like analog watch honoring elegance and fine craftsmanship, while offering the fitness tracking of an Apple Watch. Surely someone is working on this🤔

Cyber threat intelligence has been captured by performance and profit. Defenders are waking up. The old model is collapsing. A new one is being built from the ground up.

Read the full breakdown → praeryx.com/blog/cyber-t...

#cybersecurity #cti #cyberthreatintelligence

Stars in the night sky

Night sky view from a beaches in Okinawa is absolutely amazing⭐️🌘 Zero light pollution provides incredible views of the darkness

This is not a pivot. This is a reckoning. We are coming for the core.

More soon.

#praeryx #founder #cybersecurity #threatintelligence #cyberthreatintelligence #buildwithpurpose

Praeryx is not here to join the chorus. We are here to burn the broken parts to the ground and rebuild with clarity, with discipline, and with unwavering intent.

What rose was not a mere product. It was a presence. A force born of discontent, summoned to confront the arrogance of the present, and disrupt the rhythm numbing the edge of innovation. The epoch of change is no longer on the horizon. It has already begun.

Praeryx did not begin with a pitch deck or a roadmap. It began as a whisper, buried beneath noise and indifference, sharpened over time through silence and scrutiny. Forged through quiet conviction and tempered by fire, it emerged from forgotten paths where few dare to tread.

The company is called Praeryx. The mission is real. What we are solving has been hiding in plain sight. It is the blind spot quietly weakening defenders while vendors continue to flood the market with noise and theater.

I believe in the Praeryx mission so deeply that I walked away from certainty and took the leap. Into the unknown. Into the fire. Bootstrapping an idea and a philosophy the market does not just need, but instinctively knows is long overdue.

But a new kind of startup, born from deep frustration, sharp purpose, and outright rejection of the stagnant loop this industry cannot seem to escape. CTI has become theater. Innovation has been replaced by mimicry.

For the past year, I have been quietly shaping something different. Not another boring dashboard. Not another tired intelligence feed. Not another monotonous dark web or attack surface management platform recycling the same decrepit data with a slightly shinier UI. Change is no longer optional.

After years out of the game, I am finally building again. Not alone, but with a small, focused, talented, relentless team bound by a singular purpose.

After years in the trenches of cyber security and cyber threat intelligence, from government halls to global threat briefings, from McAfee to CrowdStrike, and even from the early chaos of deviantART to the sharp edges of the most advanced endpoint technology the world has ever seen.

Something new is coming.

Now that CyCon 2025 in Tallinn, Estonia has concluded, this feels like the right moment to publicly, and somewhat officially, announce @praeryx.com

YouTube video by Eiro Nareth Hans Zimmer - Time (OST "Начало")⎪Гитарный кавер (акустика)

no idea how i am just now coming across this version of Time by Hans Zimmer, from Inception, but it is incredible. the emotion is yanks from your heart is amazing yet wrenching at the same time. such a lovely piece

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this whole situation is just completely unprecedented, and nobody in government seems to want to try and prevent the further erosion of our country😢

Exclusive: Hegseth orders Cyber Command to stand down on Russia planning The secretary of Defense has ordered U.S. Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions, sources tell Recorded Future News.

this is not going to end well

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this relentless slaughter just keeps piling on more ruthless carnage, and watching the chiefs spiral into full-blown panic is nothing short of delicious. this is absolute devastation, and i am feasting on it

again, fsck both the eagles and the chiefs!

this is a fscking massacre

Rebuilding the Site to Forge a Stronger and More Powerful Future This site has been rebuilt for the future, shedding outdated systems for something faster, cleaner, and more purpose-driven. It is about ownership, control, and a platform evolving with my vision. The...

here is the longer form of my thoughts about migrating my site off of wordpress, moving to ghost, and thoughts on data ownership and the future

jark.me/blog/rebuild...

i totally feel you. i purchased a pre-made Ghost theme, and used the *code injection* feature to add CSS to modify the layout to my liking. you can get 90% of your needed customization that way

having said that, i did also did into the theme code to make more needed changes to fit my concept