I Flagged Every Trade $2.1 billion in perfectly timed oil bets. Every report filed. Zero prosecutions.

$2.1B in perfectly timed oil bets across five presidential announcements. Every one flagged. Every report filed. Zero prosecutions in fourteen years. I pulled the case files. gothburz.substack.com/p/i-flagged-...

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'There are 12 of us on the team page. 4 are named Trump. 3 are named Witkoff. The page calls us "the passionate minds shaping the future of finance."'

A highly entertaining and comprehensive coverage of the scamming

by @gothburz.bsky.social

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This is hilarious and, honestly, very true. Great piece @gothburz.bsky.social. Love it!!
#Satire #Parody #Humor #AI

Thank you Andy! The AI sprawl is real. AI has a governance problem.

Imagine a machine that diagnoses every disease known to medicine. Every cancer. Every virus. Conditions doctors missed for twenty-seven years. It doesn't wash its hands.

Anthropic built that machine for cybersecurity.

Bloomberg reports unauthorized access within weeks of deployment.

You are Training Data Meta installed tracking software on 50,000 employees' computers, restructured them into replaceable pods, gamified their own obsolescence, and laid off thousands — in that order.

Meta installed tracking software on 50,000 employees' computers. Restructured them into replaceable pods. Gamified their obsolescence. Laid off 10,200 in three waves.

Every number is sourced. Full investigation: gothburz.substack.com/p/you-are-training-data

We Removed the Immune System Amazon built an AI system to find all its other AI systems. It found 247. It did not find itself. The governance process generates the metric it was designed to reduce. That's the job.

I am a Senior Program Manager on the AI Tools Governance team at Amazon. My role was created in January. I am the 17th hire on a team that did not exist in November.

My job is to build an AI system that finds all the other AI systems. I named it Clarity.

gothburz.substack.com/p/we-removed...

I Earn $740,000 a Year. Let Me Tell You About Our Volunteer Program. An $850 million building. A $740,000 salary. Seventy-five unpaid volunteers from the neighborhood with a $27,000 median income. Everyone was compensated. Almost everyone.

I earn $740,000/yr. The Obama Presidential Center cost $850M. 75 volunteers from a $27K neighborhood work for free.

Everyone was compensated. Almost everyone.

The full investigation:
gothburz.substack.com/p/i-earn-740...

I Have Made Survival a Login A Chief AI Transformation Officer confesses. $22.8M in tools that don't work. A fluency index that measures logins. A workforce afraid of the wrong thing.

The full CAITO confession. 5,200 words, 25 footnotes, every stat sourced.

95% of AI pilots fail. 90% of CEOs admit no impact. The analyst who proved it was sent to HR.

"I have made survival a login."

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The Price Is Correct Forty-two thousand prices. Not one of them is real. But every single one of them is correct.

42,000 prices. Not one of them is real.

The full confession — how hospital chargemasters work, who they protect, and what they cost you. 5,100 words, 32 footnotes, every number sourced.

gothburz.substack.com/p/the-price-...

Justi autem in perpetuum vivent et apud Dominum est merces eorum — Wisdom 5:16

"It is evening in the soul... when the light of this world fades and a man is indrawn and rests" — Meister Eckhart, Sermon 38

🚨Patch up your Kubernetes installs.

⚠️ Affected @kubernetesio versions:
< v1.11.0
v1.11.0 - 1.11.4
v1.12.0

🦠Vulnerabilities 
CVE-2025-1974
CVE-2025-1097 
CVE-2025-1098 
CVE-2025-24514
CVE-2025-24513

Rare urgent advisory from @Meta 🚨⚠️ CVE-2025-27363: FreeType flaw risks millions. Remote code execution possible on major platforms. Patch urged as exploitation rises. Severity: 8.2/10. Affects versions pre-2.13.3. Update now! 

RIP $TSLA... 💥🚗📉

Snack makers are shifting away from artificial colors in processed foods. PepsiCo's new Simply Ruffles product uses natural ingredients like tomato powder. This change aligns with a trend following the FDA's ban on Red No. 3 due to health concerns.

The iPhone 16e: the priciest budget phone! 💸 It boasts a solid display, performance, and battery life but ditches fun features like MagSafe and Dynamic Island. 🏖️ Apple’s strategy? Hike prices while streamlining production. Great for profits📱😬 @arstechnica

Medusa Ransomware Claims 40+ Victims in 2025 Symantec found that Medusa has listed almost 400 victims on its data leaks site since early 2023, demanding ransom payments as high as $15m

🚨Medusa #ransomware claims 40+ victims in 2025, including a US healthcare org hit in Jan. @Symantec reports nearly 400 victims since 2023, with ransom demands up to $15M. True victim count likely higher. From @InfosecurityMag 👉

🚨Akira ransomware gang used an unsecured webcam to deploy a Linux encryptor, bypassing EDR and encrypting network shares via SMB 🤯. Highlights need for broader device monitoring beyond Windows endpoints. From @BleepinComputer

Ethereum private key stealer on PyPI downloaded over 1,000 times A malicious Python Package Index (PyPI)  package named "set-utils" has been stealing Ethereum private keys through intercepted wallet creation functions and exfiltrating them via the Polygon blockchain.

🚨@BleepinComputer: @Ethereum key stealer hits PyPI as "set-utils", downloaded 1K+ times! @billtoulas
 warns blockchain devs to stay vigilant. #crypto

🚨 Akira ransomware exploited an unsecured webcam (yes this is an initial security vector and one reason why #Pwn2Own has IoT cameras as a target category) to encrypt a network, bypassing EDR. @BleepinComputer reports rapid attack from initial access to encryption in hours. 🤯 #Ransomware

Microsoft says malvertising campaign impacted 1 million PCs ​Microsoft has taken down an undisclosed number of GitHub repositories used in a massive malvertising campaign that impacted almost one million devices worldwide.

@Microsoft takes down massive malvertising campaign hit ~1M PCs via GitHub repos. Malware stole system data & dropped payloads. Tracked as Storm-0408.💽🛡️ via @BleepingComputer

Jenkins Security Advisory 2025-03-05 Jenkins – an open source automation server which enables developers around the world to reliably build, test, and deploy their software

@jenkinsci releases Jenkins Security Advisory 2025-03-05

🩹SMR-MAR-2025: @SamsungMobile releases patches for flagship model phones 📱 make sure to apply the latest patch in order to secure your @Samsung devices.

security.samsungmobile.com/securityUpdate.smsb