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I’ll never understand why yinz continue to use WhatsApp when Signal is secure and isn’t owned by Meta.

3 Screenshots from the movie "Hackers" (1995): First, a young man in a sleeveless shirt sits in a cluttered room, saying "I've got a record. I was Zero Cool." Second, a group of friends gather around a table, one explaining "Zero Cool crashed 1,507 systems in one day. Biggest crash in history." Third, the same group listens as another person adds, "Front page New York Times, August 10, 1988."

Aug 10th 1988 - Zero Cool was in the New York Times for crashing 1,507 computer systems.

📽️📅 Hackers (1995)

Exactly right.

They simply want the end product — whether it’s an actual production of art or music or the end result of hard work like a PhD — without doing the work.

It’s cheat codes all the way down.

Great thread

I feel this should be a bigger story, right?

Oh no! I hope your luck turns around ASAP!

It Looks Like a School Bathroom Smoke Detector. A Teen Hacker Showed It Could Be an Audio Bug A pair of hackers found that a vape detector often found in high school bathrooms contained microphones—and security weaknesses that could allow someone to turn it into a secret listening device.

Teen figures out that that smoke detector at school is actually surveillance device www.wired.com/story/school...

Dave Matthews Band bus incident Article Talk Dave Matthews Band's tour bus stopping at the Kinzie Street Bridge to empty its blackwater tank On August 8, 2004, a tour bus belonging to Dave Matthews Band dumped an estimated 800 pounds (360 kg) of human waste from the bus's blackwater tank through the Kinzie Street Bridge in Chicago onto an open-top passenger sightseeing boat sailing in the Chicago River below. The incident became popularly known as the Dave Matthews Band incident! or Poopgate. 2]

Happy 21st anniversary to the Dave Matthews Band poop incident en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Ma...

It's here. The full lineup for Edgewater Music Fest.

Rock out with us SEP 5-7.

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A lot of the bands I know had previously been announced, but I was excited to see Naked Brunch sneak in there. I saw them at Schuba's last year, and they were a lot of fun.

"We are sorry you noticed this."

LMAO ok

Govt. Website 'Glitch' Removes Trump's Least Favorite Part of Constitution Trump is trying to take over the Library of Congress, but its website already deleted a part of the Constitution that Trump officials don’t like.

The national library has apparently, by accident, modified its online copy of the U.S. Constitution to remove the president’s least favorite part.

JK Rowling tweeting got a boycott of M&S, stretching facts to the breaking point, and making the world a worse place for absolutely everyone.

The employee asked the girl and her mother if they needed help shopping. That’s it. That’s all. The misinformation, the insinuations (because the facts are inconveniently benign) are EXACTLY what was done to lesbians in the 80s. This is the product of hate and fear, not reality.

The VP of IT at my work is named Al, which leads to some confusing emails about new technology.

One of the most promising technological developments of our era, on the cusp of multiple promising cures including for several cancers and we're just.... throwing it away. for nothing.

I thought I had Cheetos in my desk for emergency stress-eating purposes, but I realized I ate them last week. 😞

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I do Pilates, so I was thinking about how badly all that pants fabric would get tangled in the reformer.

If this isn't my best Letter Brew time it's close.

I finished Letter Brew (August 04, 2025) in 0:34 minutes using 0 hints and 0 wrong guesses.

Think you can do better?

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Chicago's first-ever 70MM screening of SINNERS is *Sold Out!*

Get Tickets Now for our second 70MM screening, this Friday August 8th at 11:30pm

Part of THE MUSIC BOX 70MM FILM FESTIVAL: musicboxtheatre.com/films-and-ev...

Poets were like red pandas; from afar they seemed cute and gentle, but if they sensed a threat or competition, they would rip your hand off.

—Danzy Senna, Colored Television

'The Wizard of Oz' (1939) vs 'The Wizard of Oz at Sphere' (2025)

Over 90% of the film has been 'touched up' with AI

I suck at these things because my media memory isn't great, and I hate picking favorites. Some shows that would be in the running: Mad Men, Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica, Mr. Robot, Peaky Blinders. More recent contenders: Slow Horses, Andor, The Pitt, Severance, and The Bear.

How Did Hunger Get So Much Worse in Gaza? (Gift Article) Less food is going into Gaza now than during most other times in the war. Hundreds of Palestinians have been killed while heading toward aid sites. Many others are suffering from serious malnutrition,...

this is a very good breakdown 🎁 www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

I want every show to be like the Ganser post-lockdown residency show I saw at The Empty Bottle. Limited attendance, no opener, great set, home by 10.

First city in something!!!

Spill some warm beer in your shoes and it's like you're there!!

One month away at the Athenaeum Center for Thought and Culture. See details and get your tickets at chirpradio.org/cid!

Congratulations Prof Michele Dougherty!