can we have a moratorium on “skyrocketing” in news copy

You should definitely see Mr. Nobody Against Putin (and all the rest)

Some incredible docs are gonna lose in this category

annual reminder that Dianne Warren is a measurable part of the U.S. economy

In Mikula’s view, car buying has become so absurd that what he’s doing makes perfect sense, even if it is a little offbeat. “You’re hiring a middleman to deal with the middleman to make the middleman more efficient,” he said.

Xzibit meme

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woke up thinking about Phillippe Aumont

DOGE Deposition Videos Taken Down After Judge Order and Widespread Mockery The government asked a judge to stop the spread of the videos on YouTube. The judge agreed, and ordered their immediate removal.

Breaking: the DOGE deposition videos have been taken off YouTube. On Friday the government asked a judge to intervene, said the videos could cause reputational damage, death threats. Judge agreed, ordered them removed: www.404media.co/doge-deposit...

a geriatric Bowie cover band called Age Dream

I'm definitely not downloading that app just for this

UK plans to shift fraud fight onto telecoms, tech companies The plan is the latest effort to curb what has become the most common crime in the United Kingdom, with official surveys estimating that fraud accounts for about 40% of recorded crime.

The British government on Monday unveiled a new fraud strategy that shifts more responsibility for stopping scams onto telecom companies, technology platforms and financial firms, but critics question whether it goes far enough.

I care about the morality of AI use in the classroom because how we teach people to write is how we teach people to think---not just about ideas, but about other people and about the use of power over those other people

Kremlin hackers attempting to compromise Signal, WhatsApp accounts globally Russian state hackers are carrying out a global campaign to compromise Signal and WhatsApp accounts belonging to government officials and military personnel, Dutch intelligence warned Monday.

Russian state hackers are carrying out a global campaign to compromise Signal and WhatsApp accounts belonging to government officials and military personnel, Dutch intelligence warned Monday.

so the guidance is “don’t hodl the oilcoins”

this feels like a podcast C segment question

find some way to give it a CONCACAF vibe

Great Britain’s baseball team should be able to use some Bananaball rules tonight

I guess there would have to be a prison break episode

Heads up! There seems to be a phishing campaign targeting @signal.org

it’s all about family

a Ryan Murphy posse show using all of his real-life 1980s-1990s characters: JFK Jr., Dahmer, Menendezes, Halston, OJ, Versace, Cunanan, Clinton, Lewinsky, banding together to save the universe

‘We’re not trying to remake the economy’: FTC’s Mufarrige charts new course on tech enforcement The FTC's Bureau of Consumer Protection chief discussed the agency’s embrace of age verification and how industry should think about data privacy enforcement under his watch.

I interviewed FTC official Chris Mufarrige. Among other things, he said the agency is keeping an eye on Meta's facial recognition smart glasses. Check it out!

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LexisNexis says hackers accessed legacy data in contained breach The breach emerged this week when a threat actor claimed they stole 2 GB worth of information from the company that included millions of records.

LexisNexis says hackers accessed legacy data in contained breach

via @jgreig.bsky.social & @therecordmedia.bsky.social

WaPo print edition Sports section with all wire copy is pretty ridiculous (no disrespect to AP). 1990s “understaffed suburban daily” vibes.

Frame #15980 from 50s E20-21 the eggs and trixie

Ward 4 gettin' buckets

Insawption

Migos voice: "soup drops / drop top "

US military used laser to take down Border Protection drone, lawmakers say Members of Congress say the U.S. military used a laser to shoot down a Customs and Border Protection drone.

Iron Dome? Nah we got the Chyron Dome

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Wyden blocks Rudd confirmation to lead Cyber Command, NSA Rudd “does not have the background that would allow him to immediately step into” the role of leading Cyber Command, Wyden wrote in a letter that was included in the Congressional Record on Wednesday.

Senator Ron Wyden moved to block the confirmation of Lt. Gen. Joshua Rudd as the new head of both U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, citing his lack of cyber and intelligence experience therecord.media/wyden-blocks...

Authorities say fire on Ohio farm killed about 6,000 hogs A large fire at farm complex in Ohio used for hog production has killed about 6,000 of the animals, a fire official said.

About 6,000 not-feral hogs

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