Charles
@charles.dardaman.com
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Most people have no courage when push comes to shove, and the more you have to lose the harder it is to have courage.
This is the sort of statement that was expected from every university president and law firm partner over the last year. That those statements weren’t made played a huge part in where we are now and people will remember.
Jerome Powell: "This is about whether the Fed will be able to continue to set interest rates based on evidence and economic conditions—or whether instead monetary policy will be directed by political pressure or intimidation."
January 12, 2026 at 2:47 AM
Most people have no courage when push comes to shove, and the more you have to lose the harder it is to have courage.
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Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
Statement by Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell
YouTube video by Federal Reserve
www.youtube.com
January 12, 2026 at 12:35 AM
Video message from Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KckG...
www.federalreserve.gov/newsevents/s...
If the Bears win it's because we have an American Pope
January 11, 2026 at 4:28 AM
If the Bears win it's because we have an American Pope
At what point do the twitter bots start asking better questions than the average real person?
December 31, 2025 at 7:28 PM
At what point do the twitter bots start asking better questions than the average real person?
Did they write long articles about the dangers of knowing where people lived when yellow pages was first printed or when google search came out or are journalists just anti-ai?
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
Elon Musk's Grok AI Is Doxxing Home Addresses of Everyday People
Elon Musk's Grox chatbot will happily cough up real, current residential addresses of everyday Americans, with little to no prompting.
futurism.com
December 6, 2025 at 4:56 PM
Did they write long articles about the dangers of knowing where people lived when yellow pages was first printed or when google search came out or are journalists just anti-ai?
futurism.com/artificial-i...
futurism.com/artificial-i...
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![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra@jpeg)
November 26, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Maybe one more datacenter announcement can turn this around
Stocks are getting killed here
November 18, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Maybe one more datacenter announcement can turn this around
Cloudflare taking down so many sites is bullish actually
Nothing on the internet is working again.... great job Cloudflare!
November 18, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Cloudflare taking down so many sites is bullish actually
Looks like google is going into the #AI IDE market antigravity.google
Google Antigravity
Google Antigravity - Build the new way
antigravity.google
November 18, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Looks like google is going into the #AI IDE market antigravity.google
You left out the best part of paying crypto: the fees
For the first time ever, I had to make a payment in crypto.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
I can now confidently say that crypto payments combine the speed of a dial up modem and the ease of updating the drivers on a 1998 HP Laserjet printer.
November 18, 2025 at 1:46 PM
You left out the best part of paying crypto: the fees
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Maybe metasploit should just rebrand to AI as any level of automation in attack tools seems to be news worthy these days when in reality it’s just the evolution of the exact same logic previously used by wide scale campaigns. There’s nothing truly novel here. #infosec #hacking #ai
Exclusive: China’s state-sponsored hackers used Anthropic’s AI model to automate break-ins of major corporations and foreign governments.
Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic’s AI to Automate Cyberattacks
The use of AI automation in hacks is a growing trend that gives hackers additional scale and speed
on.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Maybe metasploit should just rebrand to AI as any level of automation in attack tools seems to be news worthy these days when in reality it’s just the evolution of the exact same logic previously used by wide scale campaigns. There’s nothing truly novel here. #infosec #hacking #ai
Exclusive: China’s state-sponsored hackers used Anthropic’s AI model to automate break-ins of major corporations and foreign governments.
Chinese Hackers Used Anthropic’s AI to Automate Cyberattacks
The use of AI automation in hacks is a growing trend that gives hackers additional scale and speed
on.wsj.com
November 13, 2025 at 7:50 PM
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BREAKING via AP
US says it's sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor Gaza ceasefire deal.
US says it's sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor Gaza ceasefire deal.
October 9, 2025 at 10:12 PM
BREAKING via AP
US says it's sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor Gaza ceasefire deal.
US says it's sending about 200 troops to Israel to help support and monitor Gaza ceasefire deal.
More NIMBYism by people who have no concept of water usage this is only ~30k homes worth of water. The whole data center is bad because of its water usage is bordering propaganda and misinformation at this point.
Indianapolis residents have shut down a proposed Google data center.
The tech giant wanted to build a massive 500 acre facility, but people got organized and stopped them.
The $1 billion data center would've used one million gallons of water a day.
www.youtube.com/shorts/bhOHy...
The tech giant wanted to build a massive 500 acre facility, but people got organized and stopped them.
The $1 billion data center would've used one million gallons of water a day.
www.youtube.com/shorts/bhOHy...
Indianapolis killed this Google data center. It would have used 1 million gallons of water per day.
YouTube video by More Perfect Union
www.youtube.com
September 27, 2025 at 7:03 PM
More NIMBYism by people who have no concept of water usage this is only ~30k homes worth of water. The whole data center is bad because of its water usage is bordering propaganda and misinformation at this point.
Those millennials living in their parent’s basement are getting old now
New: Defense contractor giant RTX has confirmed in a legally required filing that the cyberattack on its subsidiary, Collins Aerospace, which sparked days of airport delays and cancellations across Europe, was ransomware.
This comes hours after UK police say they arrested a suspect in his 40s.
This comes hours after UK police say they arrested a suspect in his 40s.
UK arrests man linked to ransomware attack that caused airport disruptions across Europe | TechCrunch
RTX, the parent company of Collins Aerospace, confirmed in a legally required notice that the disruption was ransomware-related.
techcrunch.com
September 24, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Those millennials living in their parent’s basement are getting old now
Here I was as Texan thinking 35 miles is right down the street before I’m told it’s another state up there
(35 miles is like…Connecticut.)
September 23, 2025 at 11:49 PM
Here I was as Texan thinking 35 miles is right down the street before I’m told it’s another state up there
Vote early and often for my friend
I was nominated for a SANS DMA - ICS/OT Practitioner of the Year, along with some impressive folks. Reverse engineering ICS malware is hard, but communicating the results is harder. Grateful to SANS for recognizing my work in this area.
Link below. Voting ends on Oct. 8.
Link below. Voting ends on Oct. 8.
SANS Difference Makers Awards | SANS Institute
These are the people and organizations acknowledged by the SANS Institute for their oustanding contributions to cyber security each year.
www.sans.org
September 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Vote early and often for my friend
And these people think AI can’t replace them?
Stop me if you've heard this advice before: CISA says the top three lessons from an incident response it recently conducted at a federal agency are: remediate vulnerabilities, test your response plan, and review your EDR alerts. www.cisa.gov/sites/defaul...
September 23, 2025 at 4:27 PM
And these people think AI can’t replace them?
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Ironic: Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed. The one that shared Gartner's Magic Quadrant about AI Code Assistants, which does not include Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and ranks Amazon above Cursor.
This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi...
Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?
This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi...
Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?
September 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Ironic: Gartner had my post ridiculing Gartner removed. The one that shared Gartner's Magic Quadrant about AI Code Assistants, which does not include Claude Code, OpenAI Codex, and ranks Amazon above Cursor.
This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi...
Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?
This one: github.blog/ai-and-ml/gi...
Are they embarrassed to share their Magic Quadrant?
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Seems under reported, like another inflation time bomb trying to take out my nice AC’d house
September 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Seems under reported, like another inflation time bomb trying to take out my nice AC’d house
Seems under reported, like another inflation time bomb trying to take out my nice AC’d house
September 21, 2025 at 4:05 AM
Seems under reported, like another inflation time bomb trying to take out my nice AC’d house
These numbers are surprisingly low, I figured you’d need to have a lot more followers to be in the 99.9th percentile
If you have two followers, you are ahead of half of all Bluesky accounts.
If you have 400 followers, you are in the top 1%.
bsky.jazco.dev/stats
If you have 400 followers, you are in the top 1%.
bsky.jazco.dev/stats
September 21, 2025 at 4:02 AM
These numbers are surprisingly low, I figured you’d need to have a lot more followers to be in the 99.9th percentile
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Trump signs an EO on H-1Bs raising "the fee that companies pay to sponsor H1-B applicants to $100,000"
September 19, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Trump signs an EO on H-1Bs raising "the fee that companies pay to sponsor H1-B applicants to $100,000"
Orange was the right move
September 19, 2025 at 5:46 PM
Orange was the right move
They should do an accept without presentation especially since getting a paper into these conferences is becoming more and more important to both researchers and businesses
Rumors going around are that NeurIPS PCs had to reject ~400 papers because of venue constraints that were in the accept pile.
Hard things like this happen but the PCs and conference should explicitly tell all the authors who had this happen to them. Or create something like accept w/o presentation.
Hard things like this happen but the PCs and conference should explicitly tell all the authors who had this happen to them. Or create something like accept w/o presentation.
September 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
They should do an accept without presentation especially since getting a paper into these conferences is becoming more and more important to both researchers and businesses