Mike
@mike.thinkersec.com
I work in cybersecurity but I live in literature, art, and science.
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SABATON - Christmas Truce (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by Sabaton
youtu.be
December 24, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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a free alternative to vibecoding is to just imagine writing the software in your head, and then what the output would be
December 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
a free alternative to vibecoding is to just imagine writing the software in your head, and then what the output would be
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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
One one hand, those Epstein File retractions are getting out of control!
On the other hand, can we totally black out everywhere Trump appears? Everywhere? Please?
On the other hand, can we totally black out everywhere Trump appears? Everywhere? Please?
December 21, 2025 at 12:05 AM
One one hand, those Epstein File retractions are getting out of control!
On the other hand, can we totally black out everywhere Trump appears? Everywhere? Please?
On the other hand, can we totally black out everywhere Trump appears? Everywhere? Please?
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For the record, the law states that "No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary." www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
🚨 "The Justice Department redacted the names and identifiers of victims. Fox News Digital has learned that the same redaction standards were applied to politically exposed individuals and government officials. "
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
h/t @kleinmatic.bsky.social
Epstein files explode open as DOJ details discovery of powerful figures and more than 1,200 victims
EXCLUSIVE: More than a dozen people and government officials' names appear in the hundreds of thousands of pages of Jeffrey Epstein files made public Friday, sources said.
www.foxnews.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:07 PM
For the record, the law states that "No record shall be withheld, delayed, or redacted on the basis of embarrassment, reputational harm, or political sensitivity, including to any government official, public figure, or foreign dignitary." www.congress.gov/bill/119th-c...
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Putting a piece of hardware on a network is a fascinating way to gain access, monitor, exfiltrate, and generally own it.
Custom hardware is something that takes a real passion for, and c4m0ufl4g3 discusses the process in this SAINTCON 25 presentation:
youtu.be/k-BbXJJO7GY?...
Custom hardware is something that takes a real passion for, and c4m0ufl4g3 discusses the process in this SAINTCON 25 presentation:
youtu.be/k-BbXJJO7GY?...
SAINTCON 2025 - c4m0ufl4g3 - How I Built Them
YouTube video by SAINTCON
youtu.be
December 19, 2025 at 11:42 PM
Putting a piece of hardware on a network is a fascinating way to gain access, monitor, exfiltrate, and generally own it.
Custom hardware is something that takes a real passion for, and c4m0ufl4g3 discusses the process in this SAINTCON 25 presentation:
youtu.be/k-BbXJJO7GY?...
Custom hardware is something that takes a real passion for, and c4m0ufl4g3 discusses the process in this SAINTCON 25 presentation:
youtu.be/k-BbXJJO7GY?...
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See that’s the kind of talk that gets you buried in an unmarked grave on a second-rate golf course
December 20, 2025 at 12:09 AM
See that’s the kind of talk that gets you buried in an unmarked grave on a second-rate golf course
What if the word fart is actually an onomatopoeia and we've all been saying it wrong?
Pfffffffaaaart?
Pfffffffaaaart?
December 17, 2025 at 6:52 PM
What if the word fart is actually an onomatopoeia and we've all been saying it wrong?
Pfffffffaaaart?
Pfffffffaaaart?
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i’m gonna mute, let the engagement happen for a while, make some money & then block all the bots
December 17, 2025 at 6:47 PM
i’m gonna mute, let the engagement happen for a while, make some money & then block all the bots
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UPDATE: the mini 'zine is now free for 12 hours (until 1:30am PST). Please spread the word, you never know who might need it. A toolkit for vicarious trauma (like witnessing violent news), mitigating life under surveillance, overwhelm fatigue, more.
Link to download: www.patreon.com/posts/digita...
Link to download: www.patreon.com/posts/digita...
Digital Revolutionary Mini Zine Vol. 2 | Threat Model
Get more from Threat Model on Patreon
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December 15, 2025 at 9:32 PM
UPDATE: the mini 'zine is now free for 12 hours (until 1:30am PST). Please spread the word, you never know who might need it. A toolkit for vicarious trauma (like witnessing violent news), mitigating life under surveillance, overwhelm fatigue, more.
Link to download: www.patreon.com/posts/digita...
Link to download: www.patreon.com/posts/digita...
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this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
December 15, 2025 at 8:18 PM
this is not behavior becoming of a FIFA Peace Prize recipient.
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I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
AirBnB CEO calling it “vibe revenue” just 👨🍳 😘
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
The underlying cause of every bubble - debt masquerading as financial innovation - depends on not just short financial memory & speculative neophytism, but reinventing jargon of finance, like how each generation of kids has new ways to say same things.
November 22, 2025 at 6:02 PM
I once knew a Federal bank examiner, and one time someone asked him why we had to KEEP inspecting banks over and over. He basically said every new batch of business school grads invents bank fraud from first principles.
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Nice scoop from DOJ whisperer Sadie Gurman and C Ryan Barber in the WSJ: How the FBI finally found the DNC/RNC pipe bomber, and how it had nothing to do with new leadership. (Gift link.)
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
How a Tech-Savvy Officer Finally Cracked the Jan. 6 Pipe-Bombs Case
Investigators used powerful tools to obtain mountains of data, but couldn’t decipher some of it until recently.
www.wsj.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Nice scoop from DOJ whisperer Sadie Gurman and C Ryan Barber in the WSJ: How the FBI finally found the DNC/RNC pipe bomber, and how it had nothing to do with new leadership. (Gift link.)
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
www.wsj.com/politics/nat...
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This paper contains some good arguments about an issue that concerns me a lot when I hear my colleagues talking about LLM use in developing their research:
Whose ideas are you presenting as your own?
(Though the fatalist argument the authors make at the end of paper is disappointing/bizarre.)
Whose ideas are you presenting as your own?
(Though the fatalist argument the authors make at the end of paper is disappointing/bizarre.)
December 14, 2025 at 12:38 PM
This paper contains some good arguments about an issue that concerns me a lot when I hear my colleagues talking about LLM use in developing their research:
Whose ideas are you presenting as your own?
(Though the fatalist argument the authors make at the end of paper is disappointing/bizarre.)
Whose ideas are you presenting as your own?
(Though the fatalist argument the authors make at the end of paper is disappointing/bizarre.)
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Imagine serving as a Marine and then having a distinguished career in the FBI investigating actual terrorist threats and then having to go in front of Congress and say you’re afraid of Antifa. Absolutely humiliating.
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Imagine serving as a Marine and then having a distinguished career in the FBI investigating actual terrorist threats and then having to go in front of Congress and say you’re afraid of Antifa. Absolutely humiliating.
New OS dropped.
"Ironclad is a (partially) formally verified, real-time capable, UNIX-like operating system kernel for general-purpose and embedded uses. It is written in SPARK and Ada, and is comprised of 100% free software."
ironclad-os.org
"Ironclad is a (partially) formally verified, real-time capable, UNIX-like operating system kernel for general-purpose and embedded uses. It is written in SPARK and Ada, and is comprised of 100% free software."
ironclad-os.org
Ironclad
Ironclad is a free software formally verified kernel written in SPARK/Ada
ironclad-os.org
December 9, 2025 at 4:00 AM
New OS dropped.
"Ironclad is a (partially) formally verified, real-time capable, UNIX-like operating system kernel for general-purpose and embedded uses. It is written in SPARK and Ada, and is comprised of 100% free software."
ironclad-os.org
"Ironclad is a (partially) formally verified, real-time capable, UNIX-like operating system kernel for general-purpose and embedded uses. It is written in SPARK and Ada, and is comprised of 100% free software."
ironclad-os.org
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One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
December 7, 2025 at 3:39 PM
One of my neighbors has been putting up these fish facts posters. All kinds of different fish, marine, freshwater, deep, shallow, all kinds. This is a good one. “Stg this real fish” took me out. Good work, neighbor.
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Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58
How Trump flipped America's race conversation
Language that once was disqualifying is now a fixture of national political discourse.
www.axios.com
December 6, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Here's a better headline for Axios: "How Trump has normalized racism and racist slurs." Why can't some journalists just call a thing what it is? https://loom.ly/hiKWr58
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Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
December 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Bad framing: ACIP voted to scrap the universal hepatitis B vaccine recommendation for newborns.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
Accurate framing: Anti-vax conspiracy theorists appointed to ACIP by Robert Kennedy Jr., who made a fortune as an anti-vax profiteer, voted to expose babies to a preventable, incurable, deadly illness.
New OS just dropped.
cachyos.org
I haven't tested this one yet. Looks nifty though, and based on Arch for all the people who love talking about their Linux distro.
cachyos.org
I haven't tested this one yet. Looks nifty though, and based on Arch for all the people who love talking about their Linux distro.
CachyOS — Blazingly Fast OS based on Arch Linux
🚀 CachyOS is an Arch Linux-based distribution that offers an easy installation, several customization options to suit every user, and special optimizations for improved performance while remaining sim...
cachyos.org
December 5, 2025 at 5:15 AM
New OS just dropped.
cachyos.org
I haven't tested this one yet. Looks nifty though, and based on Arch for all the people who love talking about their Linux distro.
cachyos.org
I haven't tested this one yet. Looks nifty though, and based on Arch for all the people who love talking about their Linux distro.
New OS dropped.
bazzite.gg
"Bazzite is designed for Linux newcomers and enthusiasts alike with Steam pre-installed, HDR & VRR support, improved CPU schedulers for responsive gameplay, and numerous community-developed tools and tweaks to streamline your gaming and streaming experience."
bazzite.gg
"Bazzite is designed for Linux newcomers and enthusiasts alike with Steam pre-installed, HDR & VRR support, improved CPU schedulers for responsive gameplay, and numerous community-developed tools and tweaks to streamline your gaming and streaming experience."
Bazzite - The operating system for the next generation of gamers
Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.
bazzite.gg
December 5, 2025 at 2:57 AM
New OS dropped.
bazzite.gg
"Bazzite is designed for Linux newcomers and enthusiasts alike with Steam pre-installed, HDR & VRR support, improved CPU schedulers for responsive gameplay, and numerous community-developed tools and tweaks to streamline your gaming and streaming experience."
bazzite.gg
"Bazzite is designed for Linux newcomers and enthusiasts alike with Steam pre-installed, HDR & VRR support, improved CPU schedulers for responsive gameplay, and numerous community-developed tools and tweaks to streamline your gaming and streaming experience."