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NOW IT CAN BE TOLD!!!1!!
In honor of cDcDay 2025, let it be known that we have deposited a Big Box o' cDc Booty (not that kind, y'filthy bastards!)... somewhere.
Where could it be? Who can say! Mebbe there'll be hints later, if we don't smoke too much nutmeg and forget.
BOW TO THE COW.
In honor of cDcDay 2025, let it be known that we have deposited a Big Box o' cDc Booty (not that kind, y'filthy bastards!)... somewhere.
Where could it be? Who can say! Mebbe there'll be hints later, if we don't smoke too much nutmeg and forget.
BOW TO THE COW.
KEEP THE CHRIST OUT OF XMAS.
December 25, 2025 at 4:55 PM
KEEP THE CHRIST OUT OF XMAS.
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A VERY (F) MURRAY XMAS TO YOU ALL, SKEETR0NZ!
December 25, 2025 at 1:03 PM
A VERY (F) MURRAY XMAS TO YOU ALL, SKEETR0NZ!
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**Veilid Framework v0.5.0 is live in all the usual places!**
The changelog is too much for a skeet so here's the link: gitlab.com/veilid/veili...
New:
DHT Transactions support
Automatic default record encryption
API level improvements and bug fixes
(Thread with details)
The changelog is too much for a skeet so here's the link: gitlab.com/veilid/veili...
New:
DHT Transactions support
Automatic default record encryption
API level improvements and bug fixes
(Thread with details)
gitlab.com
December 22, 2025 at 1:05 AM
**Veilid Framework v0.5.0 is live in all the usual places!**
The changelog is too much for a skeet so here's the link: gitlab.com/veilid/veili...
New:
DHT Transactions support
Automatic default record encryption
API level improvements and bug fixes
(Thread with details)
The changelog is too much for a skeet so here's the link: gitlab.com/veilid/veili...
New:
DHT Transactions support
Automatic default record encryption
API level improvements and bug fixes
(Thread with details)
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December 22, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other.
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
"AI" is bad UX
teapot from the cover of Don Norman’s “The Design of Everyday Things” clumsily ‘shopped by me "AI" means bad UX There is an emergent strain of thought in...
buttondown.com
December 23, 2025 at 1:07 AM
Superb piece on why “AI” is bad user design from @sifu.tweety.fish - and why AI proponents and skeptics so frequently seem to be talking completely past each other.
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
buttondown.com/apperceptive...
TO CELEBRATE THE SUCCESS OF THE REVISED EDITION OF @joemenn.bsky.social's CULT OF THE DEAD COW BOOK, cDc WOULD LIKE TO OFFER A COUPLE LITTLE HINTS TO THE LOCATION OF THIS TREASURE.
TALLY HO, FUTURE ASTRONAUTS!
TALLY HO, FUTURE ASTRONAUTS!
December 22, 2025 at 4:05 AM
TO CELEBRATE THE SUCCESS OF THE REVISED EDITION OF @joemenn.bsky.social's CULT OF THE DEAD COW BOOK, cDc WOULD LIKE TO OFFER A COUPLE LITTLE HINTS TO THE LOCATION OF THIS TREASURE.
TALLY HO, FUTURE ASTRONAUTS!
TALLY HO, FUTURE ASTRONAUTS!
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Menn pulls back the curtain on the Cult of the Dead Cow, a '90s hacking collective whose members grew from a gaggle of teen pranksters to some of the country's leading cybersecurity experts. Updates on the group and its acolytes, who continue to battle political misinformation, online surveillance…
December 21, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Menn pulls back the curtain on the Cult of the Dead Cow, a '90s hacking collective whose members grew from a gaggle of teen pranksters to some of the country's leading cybersecurity experts. Updates on the group and its acolytes, who continue to battle political misinformation, online surveillance…
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The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
Acting CISA director failed a polygraph. Career staff are now under investigation.
At least six career staff were placed on leave after DHS opened an investigation into whether they misled the agency’s acting director, Madhu Gottumukkala, into taking the test.
dlvr.it
December 22, 2025 at 3:20 AM
The story is insane. The acting head of cyber security, a Noem crony, repeatedly demanded to see highly classified information he didn’t need access to, and when staff set up a lie detector test as a condition to grant him access, he failed it. So DHS suspended the staffers.
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Checking out the NYT Book Review nod to @joemenn.bsky.social Cult of the Dead Cow paperback?
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December 21, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Checking out the NYT Book Review nod to @joemenn.bsky.social Cult of the Dead Cow paperback?
Want to support privacy focused technologies?
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BOW TO THE COW, nytimes edition.
December 21, 2025 at 5:12 PM
BOW TO THE COW, nytimes edition.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFnO...
Important Holiday Content from cDc's spiritual herdmates, The Dead Milkmen!
Important Holiday Content from cDc's spiritual herdmates, The Dead Milkmen!
Santa Claus is Coming for Your Eyes
YouTube video by The Dead Milkmen
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December 19, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Important Holiday Content from cDc's spiritual herdmates, The Dead Milkmen!
Important Holiday Content from cDc's spiritual herdmates, The Dead Milkmen!
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You may start to wonder 'what is the Veilid business model'?
It is "a lot of people should make less money for shit that shouldn't be necessary"
It is "a lot of people should make less money for shit that shouldn't be necessary"
December 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
You may start to wonder 'what is the Veilid business model'?
It is "a lot of people should make less money for shit that shouldn't be necessary"
It is "a lot of people should make less money for shit that shouldn't be necessary"
CULT OF THE DEAD COW.
TODAY.
TOMORROW.
FOREVER.
TODAY.
TOMORROW.
FOREVER.
Huge thanks to the New York Times Book Review for naming the revised Cult of the Dead Cow one of its three nonfiction paperback picks of the week. Here is no-paywall version: www.pilotonline.com/2025/12/17/p... #books #hacking
Paperbacks worth reading or giving, from histories to novels
Good books on Handel’s ‘Messiah,’ hackers, saving seeds in the Siege of Leningrad, an Indian school before Wounded Knee, and more.
www.pilotonline.com
December 18, 2025 at 1:38 AM
CULT OF THE DEAD COW.
TODAY.
TOMORROW.
FOREVER.
TODAY.
TOMORROW.
FOREVER.
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Ohrfeigengesichter.
Never let anyone tell you German isn't a beautiful language.
Never let anyone tell you German isn't a beautiful language.
How utterly pathetic does a group of people need to be that Marco Fucking Rubio is the only one who looks even remotely good or professional in a photo of the group.
December 16, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Ohrfeigengesichter.
Never let anyone tell you German isn't a beautiful language.
Never let anyone tell you German isn't a beautiful language.
Hey there, Buckar00z! CULT OF THE DEAD COW is here to wish you all the happiest of holidaze, and remind you all to Keep The Christ Out Of Xmas!!!!1
December 15, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Hey there, Buckar00z! CULT OF THE DEAD COW is here to wish you all the happiest of holidaze, and remind you all to Keep The Christ Out Of Xmas!!!!1
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And, AGAIN -- Another good opportunity to remind you of Deth Veggie's First Law of the Internet: LIE TO EVERY SITE ABOUT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU CAN.
Fake names, fake birthdays, fake pets' names, and maiden names, and first streets, and schools and... everything you can.
Fake names, fake birthdays, fake pets' names, and maiden names, and first streets, and schools and... everything you can.
December 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
And, AGAIN -- Another good opportunity to remind you of Deth Veggie's First Law of the Internet: LIE TO EVERY SITE ABOUT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU CAN.
Fake names, fake birthdays, fake pets' names, and maiden names, and first streets, and schools and... everything you can.
Fake names, fake birthdays, fake pets' names, and maiden names, and first streets, and schools and... everything you can.
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www.bbc.com/news/article...
Another good opportunity to remind you of Deth Veggie's First Law of the Internet: LIE TO EVERY SITE ABOUT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU CAN.
Fake names, fake birthdays, fake pets' names, and maiden names, and first streets, and schools and... everything you can.
Another good opportunity to remind you of Deth Veggie's First Law of the Internet: LIE TO EVERY SITE ABOUT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU CAN.
Fake names, fake birthdays, fake pets' names, and maiden names, and first streets, and schools and... everything you can.
US could ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry
The plan would affect people from countries, including the UK, who can fill out a form in lieu of a visa.
www.bbc.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:00 PM
www.bbc.com/news/article...
Another good opportunity to remind you of Deth Veggie's First Law of the Internet: LIE TO EVERY SITE ABOUT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU CAN.
Fake names, fake birthdays, fake pets' names, and maiden names, and first streets, and schools and... everything you can.
Another good opportunity to remind you of Deth Veggie's First Law of the Internet: LIE TO EVERY SITE ABOUT ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING YOU CAN.
Fake names, fake birthdays, fake pets' names, and maiden names, and first streets, and schools and... everything you can.
HOT NEW STYLEGUIDE ENTRY JUST DROPPED
December 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
HOT NEW STYLEGUIDE ENTRY JUST DROPPED
HAPPY KRAMPUSNACHT, SKEETR0NZ!!!1!
December 6, 2025 at 2:51 AM
HAPPY KRAMPUSNACHT, SKEETR0NZ!!!1!
TWODAZE THE DAY!
2nd Edition of the CULT OF THE DEAD COW book is available at yer faverit retailer!
YOU BUY YOU BUY YOU BUY!!!!1!1!one!
2nd Edition of the CULT OF THE DEAD COW book is available at yer faverit retailer!
YOU BUY YOU BUY YOU BUY!!!!1!1!one!
HEY THERE, BUCKAR00Z!!1!
Revised 2nd Edition of @joemenn.bsky.social's CULT OF THE DEAD COW book is coming out in two weeks! A MERE FORTNIGHT!
Perfect Xmas/Kwaanzaa/Chanukah/Solstice/Krampusnacht gift for your best/worst friends/spouses/enemies/pets/neighbours/houseplants!
GET IT GET IT GET IT!
Revised 2nd Edition of @joemenn.bsky.social's CULT OF THE DEAD COW book is coming out in two weeks! A MERE FORTNIGHT!
Perfect Xmas/Kwaanzaa/Chanukah/Solstice/Krampusnacht gift for your best/worst friends/spouses/enemies/pets/neighbours/houseplants!
GET IT GET IT GET IT!
December 2, 2025 at 8:52 PM
TWODAZE THE DAY!
2nd Edition of the CULT OF THE DEAD COW book is available at yer faverit retailer!
YOU BUY YOU BUY YOU BUY!!!!1!1!one!
2nd Edition of the CULT OF THE DEAD COW book is available at yer faverit retailer!
YOU BUY YOU BUY YOU BUY!!!!1!1!one!
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so cheap you won't even mind when they get knocked off your stupid face
The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are at their best-ever price for Black Friday
The Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses are at their best-ever price for Black Friday
They also make for a great gift.
buff.ly
November 27, 2025 at 9:32 PM
so cheap you won't even mind when they get knocked off your stupid face
SQUATCHY SEZ HI!
November 27, 2025 at 10:42 PM
SQUATCHY SEZ HI!
HAPPY THANKSGIVING from your pals at CULT OF THE DEAD COW.
Reminding you: It's always important to Bow to the Cow, but sometimes, just sometimes, it's ok to Curtsy to the Turkey, too.
Reminding you: It's always important to Bow to the Cow, but sometimes, just sometimes, it's ok to Curtsy to the Turkey, too.
November 27, 2025 at 4:09 PM
HAPPY THANKSGIVING from your pals at CULT OF THE DEAD COW.
Reminding you: It's always important to Bow to the Cow, but sometimes, just sometimes, it's ok to Curtsy to the Turkey, too.
Reminding you: It's always important to Bow to the Cow, but sometimes, just sometimes, it's ok to Curtsy to the Turkey, too.