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Taylor Swift buys back master recordings, now she controls all of her music Taylor Swift has purchased the rights to the master recordings of her early albums, giving her control over all her music.

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absolute S-tier boss queen behavior, good for her

Why do people think the Veo videos look good? They look fake as hell 👀

Blocky white handwriting on a black background. It reads: Say no to generative AI art. Buy art from real degenerates. -Joe Wos

Have you supported your local degenerates today?

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Between @soatok.bsky.social and @swiftonsecurity.com my entire feed is just

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A table by Sen. Wyden’s office documenting which wireless carriers notify customers of gov’t surveillance (unless gagged by court order). All major providers are “No” except Cape, Google Fiber, and U.S. Mobile

@wyden.senate.gov going to work for every American

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I didn’t understand the severity until I saw the hexadecimal characters ON the map. They’re coming for our hexadecimals?? What are we going to use? OCTAL? 0oNO

Ben Stiller as Zoolander with the text “I’m not an ambi-turner, I can’t turn left”

nope

See the First Photos and Videos of the Rare Subalpine Woolly Rat, a Massive but Elusive Rodent in New Guinea's Mountains — Smithsonian Magazine Working with local Indigenous people, biologist František Vejmělka spent six months surveying the creatures that live on Mount Wilhelm in Papua New Guinea

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Wesley and the Princess from Princess Bride, waking together in the forest. Wesley’s sword is drawn and Buttercup clings to him as they approach the forest with rodents of unusual size.

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But Sonos can’t build you an in-home conference room and office that lets you write off said home as a business expense

Happy to have gotten to contribute on behalf of Anchorage Digital to the BSSC, industry working group/coalition to development open security standards for organizations interacting with blockchains

www.blockchainssc.org/post/blockch...

Your multi-factor authentication forms must include:
- one hardware token
- one phone number
- one capital letter
- one special character

Today is the last day to oppose the gutting of the Endangered Species Act, I just did and it’s not hard:

“We shouldn’t consider anything in space until we’ve solved all our problems here on earth” yeah ok what’s your timeline on that one boss

Maybe that’s just it- the best education might not ever happen at scale. I just hope we can find a way to value it where it exists the way it deserves to be 🥲

If you for some reason had faked your way through classwork, the truth would out.

As educators we have to be sure we’re not putting students into a pressured spot where they can’t do their best, & Zach did an amazing job building comfortable trust with the class so that these moments were effective

I Thought ChatGPT Was Killing My Students’ Skills. It’s Killing Something More Important Than That. — Slate Trust between teacher and student was tricky way before A.I. hit us.

At Cal Poly I saw @znjp.bsky.social doing exams via short 1:1 discussions, probing for understanding by just asking questions for a few minutes.

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🔥 impressive find and a 15K bounty for a wild Chrome UI bug around domain spoofing via ligatures.. specifically, the googlelogo ligature 😅

I only want “one thing” apps. Even better if they don’t take up persistent storage. And don’t require installation. And can’t touch system APIs on my phone…

…Websites. I want websites

How the Pacific Northwest’s Dream of Green Energy Fell Apart The Northwest states passed aggressive goals to decarbonize the power supply but left it to the Bonneville Power Administration to build the transmission lines needed for wind and solar. The agency…

When they set out to make their power supply 100% green, Northwest leaders ignored the fact that the region lacks the wiring to deliver new sources of renewable energy to people’s homes.

Little has been done to change that, ProPublica and @opb.org found.

It’s wild that in some jurisdictions around the world, something being true does *not* necessarily exclude it from being defamation

Happy to have gotten to contribute on behalf of Anchorage Digital to the industry working group/coalition development of open security standards!

www.blockchainssc.org/post/blockch...

Blockchains are just *wildly* inefficient distributed databases with very specific properties that make them terrible *almost* every use case.

…And yet they’ve stuck around. Sometimes you only need those one or two use cases to make something stay

Best way to sell fire insurance is to burn down the building across the street

The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.

Well that didn’t take long. www.404media.co/the-signal-c...

Moan
And the sequel without Lin-Manuel Miranda,

Moan 2

Night of the Living Dad

“Make a cyber threat name,” they said. “It’ll be fun”

I’m not sure how I feel about this