I was hoping you'd be there tonight! <3

ICYMI: This is live now, including some basics about how to think like an editor, maximize the impact of your work, and of course, land your story at the pub you want to see it in.

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Remind yourself that multiple ugly white men are posting inane sexist slop shit and getting paid for it, so if you DON'T get your writing out soon and get paid for it, some unqualified colonizer asshole will.

damn bro got shot in the head and ended up in Pennsylvania

Every time something like this happens I think about that BBC reporter who completely made up a website about which journalists could pound the most hot dogs and it immediately started turning up in AI overviews:

www.bbc.com/future/artic...

damn can't believe "ur moves are weak" resulted in a full on mental breakdown

TIme Out cafe, for sure. Especially on New Year's!

This week's infosec roundup is here, and we need to talk about Claude Mythos. Seriously, it's going to be annoyingly important very shortly.

A tech event on the USS Intrepid? It's more likely than you think!
#aircraftcarrier #panasonic #intrepid #humor #inthenavy

omg he's PERFECT

"Non-black people want to take everything from us except the weight of our history." 👏🏿👏🏿🗣

Bad ideas AND mediocre performance, don't forget that last part!

I low-key think about this A LOT.

Every field seems to be drifting closer to grifting or being grifted. (Journalism? Gambling, but depending on who you work for, it could be fraud!)

Thank you so much for reading!

This is live now for Patreon subs, and going out for free to all subs on Friday.

Inside, I'm talking about framing - and also dissecting a story as an example that also exposes something I care little for:

If there's anything I've learned with crystal clarity in the past several years, it's that when someone refuses to take accountability for their actions, consequences will make sure they do.

I really want to say "some people will do anything before going to therapy" since I've seen people do the stupidest things rather than you know, talk to a professional

but I can't bring myself to laugh when I know it's only getting worse

If only there were some way of participating in all these European programs without needing to negotiate one-off deals each time.

Some sort of Union of Europe. I think I might be on to something 🇪🇺

Expansion of the Universe Explained | Cosmology 101 Episode 1 YouTube video by Perimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics

Big fan of the slinky spring - @astrokatie.com style

www.youtube.com/watch?v=7GC8...

Two Budget Headphones Gun For KOSS’ Crown KOSS has dominated entry level headphones for decades. The Moondrop Old Fashioned and the Bluetooth FiiO EH11 are stiff competition.

Wrote about KOSS as the perpetual GOAT of entry level on-ear, modifiable headphones and how two offerings from FiiO and Moondrop are gunning for them, for @aftermath.site aftermath.site/koss-portapr...

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oooooh i gotcha

also, rare zelda II enjoyer detected, love that

I need clarity on the ** next to Link to the Past, I feel like there's more to the story here XD

An adorable illustration of my character, complete with his bi-pride hoodie, pants, and boots in blue, pink, purple, and black, wearing black headphones with pink earcups and a heart in the bi-pride colors around his neck. He's winking at the viewer and smiling with a mischevious grin, flashing a peace sign with his left hand. He's just an adorable little guy! Art by @nebulilac.bsky.social!

I can't believe I never properly shared this, because I was staring at it today and loving how it turned out all over again. Look at me! I'm just an adorable little guy!

This fantastic art is by @nebulilac.bsky.social and you should get your own right tf now: vgen.co/Nebulilac

This New Malware Lives on the Blockchain and Can't Ever Be Deleted. Here's What It Can Do The VP quickly grew suspicious. He knew that North Korean hackers known as Contagious Interview regularly use fake job offers to scam targets out of their cryptocurrency. Since this “job” involved running code from GitHub, he decided to check it out and made a crucial discovery: Hidden in the GitHub code was the start of an attack chain, formatted so that most developers doing what they think is an innocuous contract job wouldn’t notice.That code, when run, reaches out to the TRON or Aptos blockchains, publicly accessible ledgers that record and facilitate cryptocurrency transactions (specifically favored because transactions there are cheap), and pulls information it uses as a “pointer” to the Binance Smart Chain. The Binance Smart Chain, in turn, pulls code that “fetches the final form—malicious code,” said Nick Smart, Crystal Intelligence’s chief intelligence officer. When run, that code can gain access to so much information on victims’ devices that investigators at Ransom-ISAC, a small, recently formed group of international cybersecurity professionals working across different anti-cybercrime organizations, dubbed it Omnistealer.

Hundreds of thousands of credentials from hundreds of companies are already compromised. Experts warn the campaign could outpace past global cyberattacks, such as the infamous 2011 WannaCry ransomware hack.

the "graphic media" warning label on this post

this was just :chef's kiss:

Welcome home, Artemis.

This right here? This is the hard part.

Also in this week's infosec roundup, Microsoft is having a VERY bad week, millions of dollars in cuts to CISA at a time when they're needed most, and the return of those crappy DMV unpaid toll scams.