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George Pagel
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Internet-dweller. Cybersecurity Consultant. Security engineer. Dad. Husband. Views are my own.
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Symbolically, the destruction of the East Wing is the end of an era, and it has been seen as a slight to the traditional respect for the Office of the First Lady.
The East Wing is gone. Here’s why it’s been called ‘the heart’ of the nation.
The East Wing played second banana to the West Wing, but the home of the first lady’s office was the source of quiet power and influence.
www.washingtonpost.com
October 28, 2025 at 4:00 AM
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Holy shit this ad
October 24, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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I need to be very explicit: there is not enough money in the world to fund OpenAI's $1 Trillion in commitments, and that's across the top 10 private equity firms, all US venture capital, and both Goldman and JPMorgan's direct lending funds. This is very bad.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-case-aga...
September 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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I WTF it up on @marcmaron.bsky.social show tomorrow!!
Tomorrow I talk to @jimmypardo.com on the show.
September 25, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Lol AFT, AFL-CIO, and a journalism nonprofit (all DIS shareholders) are demanding the company to reveal docs related to Jimmy Kimmel's suspension. Fun one.
Disney shareholders demand reasons for Kimmel suspension
A group of shareholders including the AFL-CIO are asking for records related to the decision.
www.semafor.com
September 24, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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"That shit must've been laced with Tylenol, because I'm struggling to understand the social cue of giving a single fuck."
September 24, 2025 at 1:31 AM
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VXUG dropped the news that a DEFCON talk was AI generated nonsense and so was the code put on github for it. Some attendees noticed it was off, but this talk was presented, passed review. The github issues are rolling in.
August 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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US Attorney Jeanine Pirro: "I'm not going to bore you with the facts."
August 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
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REPORTER: What about crime prevention? Do you or the president plan to do anything to address the root causes of crime in DC, such as truancy?

PIRRO: I honestly am not concerned about why they commit crimes. My concern is if they commit crimes.
August 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
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I told Nickeil Alexander-Walker earlier this season that I’m pretty sure this was going to make its way into the book and be immortalized forever and ever. He laughed.
www.harpercollins.com/products/ant...
May 15, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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even the rock radio announcer here in Southern California was like “I don’t wanna get political but I’m so saddened and horrified by the awful stuff some in the mainstream media are saying about autistic people like one of my best friends”

this is probably a good thing
April 25, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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From February. But really much earlier because I started working on this more than a year ago. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
The Great Resegregation
The Trump administration’s attacks on DEI are aimed at reversing the civil-rights movement.
www.theatlantic.com
April 24, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Trump has announced that his adminstration will no longer be enforcing the civil rights act because "merit" is when you can discriminate on against non-whites and get away with it www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
Restoring Equality of Opportunity and Meritocracy
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.  A
www.whitehouse.gov
April 24, 2025 at 11:30 AM
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NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women | Science | AAAS

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www.science.org/content/arti...
NIH guts its first and largest study centered on women
The Women’s Health Initiative has produced numerous influential findings
www.science.org
April 24, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Messaging apps are increasingly deploying AI features like summarization. Apple Intelligence offers this for all newer devices. Others are considering or have already deployed similar features.

WhatsApp has even deployed an “advanced privacy mode” to except chats from AI.
April 24, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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Combine with now-widely-reported abductions by plain-clothes agents (and their impersonators) ... and it should be clear to anyone that America has already become an unrecognizably authoritarian and unsafe country.

Yet I still can't convince many folks of this. :'(
April 24, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Just to make it abundantly clear, they're using modern data analytic tools to track Americans by political affiliation and even autism diagnosis to first take away those people's rights (including autonomy and self-defense) and then take -them- away when it's cost and politically efficient.
April 24, 2025 at 12:55 AM
Did any of you dumbasses vote for the heritage foundations project 2025 for president? wapo.st/3Y3I0sf
Secret Pentagon memo on China, homeland has Heritage fingerprints
An secret memo from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth focuses on deterring China’s seizure of Taiwan and shoring up homeland defense. The guidance mimics language of a report from the conservative think ...
wapo.st
March 29, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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this administration is chasing multiple concurrent constitutional crises like there's some playstation achievement the rest of us don't know about
March 17, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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pretty good representation of the mask off era here
March 17, 2025 at 1:55 AM