Matthew Olney

Pearl Jelly?

Meta appoints anti-DEI and anti-LGBTQ+ conspiracy theorist Robby Starbuck as AI bias advisor Robby Starbuck has been appointed as an AI bias advisor at Meta with the goal of making the company's chat bot less "woke."

This is why I don’t spend much time on Meta’s Threads.

So beyond repulsive.

Never tell a bug reporter that their vulnerability can not be exploited. That only serves to guarantee that there will be an exploit built for your vulnerability.

Try "Thank you, we'll patch that" and see how that works out for you.

Join us for a deep dive into how Cisco Talos uncovered two critical vulnerabilities in the AsIO3.sys driver powering ASUS Armory Crate: blog.talosintelligence.com/decrement-by...

A photo of Viola Ford Fletcher with her hands clasped

Today is the 111th birthday of Viola Ford Fletcher, the oldest living survivor of the 1921 Tulsa race massacre

Happy John Brown's birthday, if you're cool enough to celebrate.

The worst people in the world are mad.

Finished up the last night of teaching a threat intelligence class at University of Maryland. Based on the final presentations on threat actors they've studied, those budding analysts are done with y'all's naming habits.

Opinion Fareed Zakaria Opinion Fareed Zakaria Why DOGE is an essential and important idea "Tech bro Maoists' are torching the country that made them rich I'm not holding my breath. But even failure could be instructive. November 22, 2024 DOGE is performance art, playing into MAGA movement fantasies about humiliating the establishment. February 28, 2025

lol

Welp

Remember in the early days of the internet how it screamed every time we logged on? We should have paid attention to that.

Jesus was flipping tables in the temple when injustice called for it.

"Civility above all else" is a siren call from those comfortable with the status quo.

Again, the richest man in human history personally individually directed this

State Department terminates U.S. support of Ukraine energy grid restoration The USAID initiative had invested hundreds of millions of dollars in helping Ukraine's energy grid recover from attacks from Russia.

"The State Department this week terminated a U.S. Agency for International Development initiative that has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to help restore Ukraine's energy grid from attacks by the Russian military..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/sta...

Elon Musk’s Tesla paid a total of $0 in federal income taxes in 2024, new tax reports show,
despite the company having raked in billions of dollars in income and being the most valuable car company in the world […]

i don’t quite know what’s going on with the chinese ai deepseek yet but i do know it’s pissing off everyone who’s trying to ruin the world

a very vey long pole

a selfie of the cease and desist

Artist makes website that lets you take selfies through NYC's network of traffic cameras. NYC Department of Transportation sends cease and desist. Artist nails cease and desist to a very very very long pole & holds it up to one of the cameras to take a photo of it

www.404media.co/traffic-cam-...

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The first shitpost is the hardest shitpost.

Sup, McBoom?

Misadventures, Rabbit Holes, and Turkey Lurkey Goes to the Movies - Beers with Talos Podcast With Mitch, Matt and Lurene currently stuck in the void, the Beers with Talos B team duly elect themselves to reopen the sacred BWT airwaves with their own brand of nonsense. Hazel, Joe, Bill and...

Introducing the Beers with Talos B-Team! beerswithtalos.talosintelligence.com/2033817/epis...

<Bangs drum like Animal on a bender>

I am not ready for 2025.

I'm ready for 2025.

Finally able to share a few more details about our power grid work in Ukraine:

blog.talosintelligence.com/project-powe...

Been waiting forever to share this. Proud doesn't even begin to cover it. No spoilers, just check out what you can do when you have the full capability of Cisco behind you.

Слава Україні!

www.cnn.com/2023/11/21/p...

If they can't handle me at my felony, they don't deserve me at my misdemeanor.

Movies I've seen in 2023:

Cocaine Bear
Barbie

What movie should I see before the end of the year to round out 2023's trilogy?

If your salesperson talks to you about AI, hit them with something until they talk to you about something important.