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Posts by Vern McCandlish
Eight Years In, the Industry is Catching Up to the Threat: The 2026 Buyers’ Guide industrialcyber.co/features/eig...
WITHOUT EVEN LOOKING, THE AFRICAN QUEEN
Wasn't text-to-money the original pricing plan from the phone carriers?
Interesting story of an Irish company falling victim to BEC fraud. Criminals hijacked an employee’s email account and sent payment instructions to the company’s outsourced financial admin company.
Company has more than €2m stolen from account following cyber attack
Damnit Tag, stop talking reality when I want to believe in fantasies!
One.
One of our more morbid SoCal pastimes is the televised car chase. I remember watching a Chevy Malibu rip up the Pacific Coast Highway, tailed by a phalanx of LAPD units. First it evaded a blockade. Then it hit a spike strip. Then the tires came off and it was driving on rims for miles.
The tech of cyberpunk to counter the tech of cyberpunk.
Cyber-Optical Eyelids
Articles about Jared Kushner's diplomatic role with Iran that mention Kushner has received billions from the Saudi government (2/28-4/19):
NYT: 5 of 58
WashPost: 1 of 43
WSJ: 0 of 40
AP: 0 of 26
CNN Wire: 0 of 18
NY Post: 0 of 17
Chicago Tribune: 0 of 4
LA Times: 0 of 4
Boston Globe: 0 of 2
With the help of the Sandy Hook families, The Onion has reached a long-awaited deal to take over InfoWars.
We've enlisted the help of @timheidecker.bsky.social, who will be InfoWars' Creative Director.
Please stand by for more.
Cool, and now I see Forbes is running a prediction market in response to a mass murder.
So honored to share this award with my good friend and #ScienceUnderSiege co-author @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social.
Thanks @center4inquiry.bsky.social --means so much from you folks! centerforinquiry.org/press_releas...
Is that a picture of Streisand's house I see over there...
Also, I am really looking forward to the discovery process.
This was one of the formative incidents in my young life. And I watched almost an entire city of people across racial lines absolutely lose their minds. It was the equivalent of a lynch mob and the NY press was leading the way.
Schrödinger's strait of hormuz
What’s unfolding across the news is heartbreaking. When we name them, we remember them 🤍
Dr. Cerina Fairfax, Pastor Tammy McCollum, Vice Mayor Nancy Metayer, Ashly Robinson (Ashlee Jenae), Qualeshia “Saditty” Barnes, Davonta Curtis, Barbara Deer, Ashanti Allen.
As you age, you realize that many many people prefer to be lied to than told the truth and that this applies across cultures.
Most clients struggling with AI governance are struggling because they haven't fully defined their enterprise data governance requirements.
You can't code "people will use their judgment" into coherent AI governance, as much as you might want to.
Same goes for every "genius" academic or scholar.
NGL this episode has lived rent free in my brain for over a year now.
They really want that FIFA Peace Prize this year.
TRUMP on Truth Social just now: "I agree to suspend the bombing and attack of Iran for a period of two weeks."
Excel is the best database.
Congress is not on "vacation" when they are not in DC, stop saying this, you are contributing to the overwhelming cynicism that is drowning us
Dear Chief Justice Roberts, is threatening the death of a civilization within the scope of the President's Article II absolute immunity? Or just his presumptive immunity?
Asking for a nation.
#lawsky