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Email Bill Murray | Yahoo Big Game Commercial 2025 Just email Bill Murray at Billhimself@yahoo.com. He’ll explain everything… mostly.

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Reminder to enable the Advanced Data Protection for iCloud setting for end-to-end encryption support.apple.com/en-us/108756

The CIA Is About to Get a Trump Makeover The spy agency’s workforce received a buyout-style offer on Tuesday.

News: The CIA is offering its entire workforce the same “deferred resignation” buyout made to civilian agencies last week, in a bid to make the spy agency more aligned with Trump and his priorities. Ratcliffe personally asked WH to make the offer. www.wsj.com/politics/nat...

Inside Musk’s Aggressive Incursion Into the Federal Government (Gift Article) The billionaire is creating major upheaval as his team sweeps through agencies, in what has been an extraordinary flexing of power by a private individual.

Our deep dive into Musk's takeover: Even some officials who like what Musk is doing feel helpless to hold him accountable. His allies are diving in to agencies, gaining access to systems, planning layoffs, and proposing a sweeping AI initiative to review contracts. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/03/u...

Acosta La Vista The anchor signaled to associates in private conversations over the weekend that he intends to depart the network, Status has learned.

Scoop: Jim Acosta is expected to leave CNN.

Details in @status.news: www.status.news/p/jim-acosta...

We're bringing Pebble back! Eight years later, you still can't beat a Pebble

Pebble is back repebble.com

After over 20 years on Verizon, I made the switch to Visible (Verizon’s own MVNO). Exact same service but only $30/mo.

VICTORY! Federal Court (Finally) Rules Backdoor Searches of 702 Data Unconstitutional Better late than never: last night a federal district court held that backdoor searches of databases full of Americans’ private communications collected under Section 702 ordinarily require a warrant....

VICTORY! After over a decade, a federal court has declared that warrantless backdoor searches of US person’s communications collected under Section 702 of FISA is unconstitutional.

Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace (Gift Article) Ross Ulbricht was serving a life sentence for creating a site in a shady corner of the internet to sell heroin, cocaine and other illicit substances.

Trump Pardons Ross Ulbricht, Creator of Silk Road Drug Marketplace www.nytimes.com/2025/01/21/t...

And it’s gone

TikTok now alerting users via the app that it will temporarily make services unavailable on Jan 19th

New statement from the White House: TikTok's declaration that it will have to go dark on Sunday is "a stunt, and we see no reason for TikTok or other companies to take actions in the next few days before the Trump Administration takes office on Monday."

Remember when hawk tuah launched a memecoin then quit the internet?

Trump appears to have launched a memecoin 3 days before taking office

Screenshot of a TikTok post on C that reads “Statement on Possible Shutdown The statements issued today by both the Biden White House and the Department of Justice have failed to provide the necessary clarity and assurance to the service providers that are integral to maintaining TikTok's availability to over 170 million Americans. Unless the Biden Administration immediately provides a definitive statement to satisfy the most critical service providers assuring non-enforcement, unfortunately TikTok will be forced to go dark on January 19.”

Just in: TikTok says it plans to shut itself down Sunday unless Biden publicly pledges non-enforcement. TikTok wants everyone to be sure Biden is to blame, which conveniently also curries favor with Trump.

How Chinese Hackers Graduated From Clumsy Corporate Thieves to Military Weapons Massive ‘Typhoon’ cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure and telecoms sought to lay the groundwork for potential conflict with Beijing, as intruders gathered data and got in position to impede response a...

NEWS: The massive Chinese hack of U.S. telecoms breached firms Charter, Consolidated and Windstream as part of a historic espionage campaign. Security vendor Fortinet was a key intrusion point. Investigators are still grappling with the damage.

That and much much more:

www.wsj.com/tech/cyberse...

Who is Vexbolts and why are we unfollowing him at 11:59pm tonight?

15 monthly listeners on Spotify, 105 total plays on YouTube. Surprised it gets shown in the SERP.

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Hello!

Portland show? Pretty, pretty, pretty good.

A Conversation with Larry David was fantastic tonight in Portland. A true comedy legend.

Damn! I was afraid of that so I registered @cauchon.bsky.social to be safe

Dog named Tito sitting in front of fireplace looking at the camera

He’s a good boy

Super easy to change my handle to a custom domain, @cauchon.net. Instructions here: bsky.social/about/blog/4...

I don’t know much about boxing, but I do believe Serrano should have won that fight.

Competition is heating up