Joe Warminsky

I always think of that one Cex freestyle where he was like, "You spent all day building an Excitebike course and you can't even save it"

Panel to create roadmap for establishing US Cyber Force The Commission on Cyber Force Generation will develop potential routes Congress and the White House could follow in creating a separate cyber service and aim to deliver them in time for next year’s mu...

What if Trump just announces a new force on social media?

“If the president wakes up tomorrow, I’ve got a set of people ready to go who are willing to give their time and attention to this really important thing ..."

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Read about it on @therecordmedia.bsky.social

Has anyone used AI to cast spells?

Panel to create roadmap for establishing US Cyber Force The Commission on Cyber Force Generation will develop potential routes Congress and the White House could follow in creating a separate cyber service and aim to deliver them in time for next year’s mu...

NEW: A group of former civilian leaders and retired military digital security brass on Monday launched an effort that will spell out in detail how the country should proceed in one day establishing a U.S. Cyber Force.

On @therecordmedia.bsky.social

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If you scroll through the Arts section, you’ll see the Beats Me column is mostly monthly

Beats Me Returns With New Music From Pretty Bitter, Flowers for the Dead, and Alfred Yun And more music from Stephen Redhead, Alecia Renece, S Y Z Y G Y X, Aunt Katrina, Cautious Clay, and SEXFACE.

Lots of new DC-area music here, including a look at the 7th (!) EP this year from Capitol Heights producer/rhymer @redheadpg.bsky.social, who opens the window to Afrobeats breezes washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7684...

Convicted darknet marketplace operator who became a libertarian cause célèbre and was pardoned by Trump this year

I wanted to get one at 5th and Kennedy but they took it down

An advertisement for FreeRoss.org next to a rental electric bike stand on a sidewalk along South Dakota Avenue in Washington, DC. A snapshot of Lyn and Ross Ulbrecht appears on a white background. In a black strip above the photo is the website address.

Shoutout to the Ross Ulbrecht sign that is permanently archived along South Dakota Avenue in DC

gotta come up with better titles, like Steal This U.N. Report

could base a theology lesson off this

Wind and Solar Energy Are Cheaper Than Electricity from Fossil-Fuel Plants Even without subsidies, renewable energy is staying competitive with power from gas and coal

Wind and Solar Energy Are Cheaper Than Electricity from Fossil-Fuel Plants

Even without subsidies, renewable energy is staying competitive with power from gas and coal

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It says a lot that I did not watch the latest season and I feel like I could answer most of those questions reliably, anyway

went down a wormhole all week because of this post

Luxembourg probes reported attack on Huawei tech that caused nationwide telecoms outage Authorities in Luxembourg said a nationwide telecommunications outage in July was caused by a deliberately disruptive cyberattack. Huawei networking products were reportedly the target.

Luxembourg’s government announced on Thursday it was formally investigating a nationwide telecommunications outage caused last week by a cyberattack reportedly targeting Huawei equipment inside its national telecoms infrastructure.

Ms. Rachel grew up on Mister Rogers. Now she’s carrying on his legacy. The YouTube star wants her audiences — adults and children alike — to see the humanity of all people.

I am grateful to @msrachelforlittles.bsky.social for trusting me with her story at this moment of consequence, as she advocates for the children of Gaza and follows in the footsteps of her own childhood hero, Mister Rogers.

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Congresswoman facing federal charges says tenure in local government gave her 'tough skin' • New Jersey Monitor Rep. LaMonica McIver's comments came with the release of a new report highlighting political representation by Black women.

NJ's U.S. Rep. LaMonica McIver, facing federal charges in ICE fracas, says her tenure in local government gave her ‘tough skin.’ Her comments come as Rutgers reports Black women remain underrepresented in statewide elected executive office. newjerseymonitor.com/2025/08/01/c...

Shoutout to "Jacob" from "Coinbase" who called me yesterday from a number marked as potential spam. When I hung up on him and blocked that number, he called me back from a Biloxi, Mississippi, number. He seemed nice.

E-bike brought by drone allows Ukrainian soldiers to escape.

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Can Pittsburgh’s Old Steel Mills Be Turned Into an AI Hub? Two Trump visits span the city’s legacy industry and its higher-tech pursuits.

In an almost too-perfect parallel to the bygone age of John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie and J.P. Morgan, some of today’s power-hungry data centers are actually being put on the sites of former steel mills, because of their proximity to energy sources.

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/fin

chart: capital expenditures, quarterly shows hockey-stick like growth in the capex expenditures of Amazon, Microsoft, Google and meta, almost entirely on data centers in the most recent quarter it was nearly $100 billion, collectively

The AI infrastructure build-out is so gigantic that in the past 6 months, it contributed more to the growth of the U.S. economy than /all of consumer spending/

The 'magnificent 7' spent more than $100 billion on data centers and the like in the past three months *alone*

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Your quarterly reminder that City Paper continues to have one of the most robust, prolific art sections of any local outlet. This week alone we reviewed 9 new records from DC musicians, said farewell to one the city's best bands, reviewed 2 current plays, & prepped you for a Twin Peaks event.

cocaine made it feel like 6

I sense a DFA coming

Sankofa Is Trying to Ensure It Remains A D.C. Fixture Plans are underway to expand the business and transform the bookstore into a worker-community-owned cooperative.

Haile Gerima & family’s Sankofa Books on Ga Ave in DC to transition to becoming worker & community owned book store cooperative, & to expand physical space

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Scientists discover a whole new type of ecosystem 30,000 feet deep In Pacific Ocean trenches, scientists found creatures that expand the limits of where we know life can live on Earth.

Could use "fissures spewing superheated fluids" in political coverage, too

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Microsoft: Kremlin monitors foreign embassies in Moscow through cyber-espionage at ISP level A Russian state-backed hacking group known as Secret Blizzard or Turla has been aiming adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) attacks at foreign embassies in Moscow, Microsoft researchers said.

Russia is allegedly using its backdoor access to local ISPs to install malware on the systems of foreign embassies in Moscow, Microsoft said on Thursday

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let me see that thing walk down a flight of steps with a ball of laundry that has socks spilling out of it

Dollar Tree denies ransomware claims, says stolen data is from defunct discount chain Discount retail giant Dollar Tree denied its systems were impacted by ransomware after a cybercriminal group claimed to have attacked the company.

Dollar Tree denied claims that it was hit with ransomware, telling me that the hackers stole info from the now-defunct 99 Cents Only Stores

INC hackers shared employee passports and more but Dollar Tree said it only took over the company's leases and nothing else

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At least 11 people were killed in Kyiv tonight by Russian drones and missiles. It could’ve been any Ukrainian you know — it could’ve been me.

Even in the third year of this war, it still hits me: I can go to sleep and never wake up.