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why do they call it a service outage on the Milpitas line and not total eclipse of the BART

500 hospitals, nursing homes, and clinics are at risk of closing because of the Trump-Republican big, ugly bill. Many are in rural areas.

Meanwhile, Republican-held US House districts and states Trump won in 2024 rely more on ACA coverage.

They're selling out their own voters.

Running statistics comparing when a browser extension is reported malicious/suspicious compared to when it is removed from the Chrome Web Store. Here is the breakdown:

Still active: 68.8%
91-365 days: 19.1%
31-90 days: 5.8%
Same day or 1 day: 2.9%
8-30 days: 2.3%
2-7 days: 1.2%

so weird and gross on multiple levels. wtf

New Blog! 👀

In this research, I take a look at the Qilin RaaS in-depth, which has emerged as one of the leading and most innovative ransomware gangs following the takedown of LockBit, the exit scam by ALPHV/BlackCat, and the shutdown of RansomHub.

🔗 www.sans.org/blog/evoluti...

someone must have told gavin the game involves destroying hastily built shelters

one of the all time internet classics

Who Goes Nazi?, by Dorothy Thompson

Every few months now I re-read this "Who Goes Nazi?" piece from 1941 and am blown away by how it captures the people we are dealing with 80 years later.

harpers.org/archive/1941...

Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Diving into the Depths of the Global Spyware Market - Virtual Routes Colloquium The first session of the Virtual Routes Colloquium Fall/Winter series hosts Jen Roberts from Cyber Statecraft Initiative. Jen will present her research on "Mythical Beasts and Where to Find Them: Divi...

Excited to join a discussion on the second edition of The Mythical Beast by Jen Roberts (@atlanticcouncil.bsky.social), exploring the complex networks behind the spyware ecosystem. This kicks off the new Colloquium series by @virtualroutes.bsky.social: virtual-routes.org/event/mythic...

rapture thighs around my face, girl. i'm ready to meet god

Must-Reads and Some Thoughts on Care and Courage Amid Clouds of Tear Gas We can embody our refusal and fiercely declare that our love and empathy will not be destroyed.

My weekly must-reads list and my thoughts on witnessing care and courage amid clouds of tear gas Friday night. "Almost 550 people across Chicagoland have been arrested by ICE during Operation Midway Blitz. It is a campaign of terror focused on a city that our president feels profound contempt for."

A sample of 12 identical tweets that say: As a lifelong Democrat, I didn't know what to make of Charlie Kirk. I've since spent several lunch breaks watching his debates (FULL videos) and have come away with the impression that we got him all wrong. The reaction from those on my side of the aisle have really made me rethink whether we're on the right side of history. Well, I'm crossing the aisle—| just registered as a Republican. Anyone else?

#Twitter/#X is just a 100% authentic place full of real lifelong Democrats who suddenly realized Charlie Kirk was right, registered as Republicans, and posted so in identical tweets. These are absolutely not foreign bots trying to influence US politics or increase partisan divides in the US.

Yeah man we should really fight back by staying on X

the cast of Hackers (1995) posing in a series of adjacent phone booths

Today is the 30th anniversary of Hackers

I'm just gonna start saying "I dunno, that could be Bill Maher for all I know" about all of my online enemies from now on.

i just realized the only “happy birthday” i received from outside my immediate family was from a dispensary in la. so big ups to zz flux for the birthday wishes lol

The M8.8 off Kamchatka appears to be the largest earthquake ever recorded that apparently didn't kill anyone. That's really remarkable, if true. ⚒️

Dragos just opened 21 positions in Australia, UK, and US/Canada. Not my team, not the hiring manager, but there is an array of roles

Nearly 4,000 NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program The employees who have chosen to leave the agency amount to about 20% of NASA's workforce.

I honestly don’t know how we ever recover from this loss of institutional knowledge. There’s no reason to do this…we learn nothing from history.

Tomorrow I will go to work and train those who come after me as best I can, like always, because I truly love NASA #nasa 🧪🔭🚀🛰️

www.npr.org/2025/07/26/n...

When MAGA says "Make America Great Again" this is what they have in mind:

Utterly depressing - and humbling - to see what news stories actually break through versus what I think is important.

Perhaps more importantly, it highlights how many of our debates and concerns simply don't break through in the current media environment.

www.dataforprogress.org/blog/2025/7/...

it’s so reassuring when a component in Windows 11 has the exact same interface that it had in Windows 7, it means it probably still works properly

#OtD 27 Jul 1919 a week of riots erupted in Chicago after a white man threw stones at a young African-American man on a racially segregated beach, killing him, and police refused to arrest the perpetrators. 1000s of Black homes were looted and burned stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1247...

nice to see the bedbug himself is still at it

one of my biggest secret shames as a nerd is that i’ve never read the lord of the rings. even worse, i’ve had a nice set of the books for nearly three decades. recently read the hobbit to my kids though, and now it’s time for the rings saga 😁

"We were kidnapped" On Friday, more than 200 Venezuelans disappeared to a megaprison in El Salvador returned home. The horror stories are already emerging.

“We got a beating for breakfast. We got a beating for lunch. We got a beating for dinner.”

The horror stories are already emerging from the Venezuelan deportees' time in El Salvador's notorious CECOT prison. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

It is really staggering how many homeless people there are in the United States.

And people have the awful attitudes screenshotted in the thread I’m tweeting without any sense for the crisis that is the combination of low wages + ridiculous housing prices.