Paul Beckwith
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To what end? If we assume the argument is AI increases the threat in some way, Congress just let telecom off the hook on even a fig leaf of defense simply because those rules went in under Biden, and the admin is pulling cyber SA/SSAs off cyber and assigning to immigration enforcement.
Feckless.
Feckless.
The House Homeland Security Committee asks Dario Amodei to testify at a December 17 hearing about how Chinese state actors used Claude Code for cyber-espionage (Sam Sabin/Axios)
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November 26, 2025 at 5:20 PM
To what end? If we assume the argument is AI increases the threat in some way, Congress just let telecom off the hook on even a fig leaf of defense simply because those rules went in under Biden, and the admin is pulling cyber SA/SSAs off cyber and assigning to immigration enforcement.
Feckless.
Feckless.
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I photographed the month of October in Cleveland, Ohio and this is what I got
November 1, 2025 at 2:33 PM
I photographed the month of October in Cleveland, Ohio and this is what I got
This is -bonkers-. Not sure how I never learned of it before today/this post.
The riot in '92 really needs to be front and center more often:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrolm...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrolm...
Patrolmen's Benevolent Association Riot - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
October 12, 2025 at 8:15 PM
This is -bonkers-. Not sure how I never learned of it before today/this post.
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I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different.
Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.
Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.
September 4, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I’ve studied US drone strikes, I wrote a book called “Drones and Terrorism,” and this Caribbean strike is different.
Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.
Lethal fire at a non-threatening target in a non-hostile environment on purpose when other means, such as capture, were easily doable, and without even attempting a legal rationale.
For class C, SAV (Savannah/Hilton Head) is amazing.
For Class B, probably SFO but LGA earns the “most improved” award.
I could talk about non-towered airports all day, that might only be interesting to GA flyers.
For Class B, probably SFO but LGA earns the “most improved” award.
I could talk about non-towered airports all day, that might only be interesting to GA flyers.
Actually, you know what? Let’s stop complaining for a second. QT this with a GOOD airport. Defend that title as much or as little as you like. But let’s hear about airports that don’t suck.
August 18, 2025 at 4:52 PM
For class C, SAV (Savannah/Hilton Head) is amazing.
For Class B, probably SFO but LGA earns the “most improved” award.
I could talk about non-towered airports all day, that might only be interesting to GA flyers.
For Class B, probably SFO but LGA earns the “most improved” award.
I could talk about non-towered airports all day, that might only be interesting to GA flyers.
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Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
June 26, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Worth a watch:
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.
How your message finds me:
June 19, 2025 at 4:12 PM
How your message finds me:
Current mood: incandescent rage
“Children who are deaf or hard of hearing will no longer benefit from an early intervention program run by states after everyone who worked on the program at CDC was laid off.”
apnews.com/article/publ...
“Children who are deaf or hard of hearing will no longer benefit from an early intervention program run by states after everyone who worked on the program at CDC was laid off.”
apnews.com/article/publ...
Deep cuts erode the foundations of US public health system, end progress, threaten worse to come
Americans are losing an array of people and programs dedicated to keeping them healthy.
apnews.com
June 2, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Current mood: incandescent rage
“Children who are deaf or hard of hearing will no longer benefit from an early intervention program run by states after everyone who worked on the program at CDC was laid off.”
apnews.com/article/publ...
“Children who are deaf or hard of hearing will no longer benefit from an early intervention program run by states after everyone who worked on the program at CDC was laid off.”
apnews.com/article/publ...
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Some context for my comment above about higher ed as a valuable export: In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
May 27, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Some context for my comment above about higher ed as a valuable export: In dollar terms, last year, the United States sold more educational services to the rest of the world than it sold in natural gas and coal combined.
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
One of my unpopular opinions:
Apple’s walled garden app store is more secure, prevents billions in fraud every year, and should never be forced to open up.
Apple’s walled garden app store is more secure, prevents billions in fraud every year, and should never be forced to open up.
May 27, 2025 at 4:28 PM
One of my unpopular opinions:
Apple’s walled garden app store is more secure, prevents billions in fraud every year, and should never be forced to open up.
Apple’s walled garden app store is more secure, prevents billions in fraud every year, and should never be forced to open up.
Multiple people, including SECDEF, should lose their jobs over this. Not a mere theoretical risk; full on breach of U.S. government data. It happened.
Was any of it classified? Probably. That’s what congressional investigations can find out.
www.reuters.com/world/us/hac...
Was any of it classified? Probably. That’s what congressional investigations can find out.
www.reuters.com/world/us/hac...
Exclusive: Hacker who breached communications app used by Trump aide stole data from across US government
A hacker who breached the communications service used by former Trump national security adviser Mike Waltz earlier this month intercepted messages from a broader swathe of American officials than has previously been reported, according to a Reuters review, potentially raising the stakes of a breach that has already drawn questions about data security in the Trump administration.
www.reuters.com
May 25, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Multiple people, including SECDEF, should lose their jobs over this. Not a mere theoretical risk; full on breach of U.S. government data. It happened.
Was any of it classified? Probably. That’s what congressional investigations can find out.
www.reuters.com/world/us/hac...
Was any of it classified? Probably. That’s what congressional investigations can find out.
www.reuters.com/world/us/hac...
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"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
May 10, 2025 at 5:40 AM
"We'll just terraform Mars," they insist, unable to terraform Earth, a planet that is already perfect except it's like 2° too warm.
“It’s national insecurity, not national security.”
Song of the summer
Song of the summer
The people who are targeted by the EOs aren't at the firm anymore - if it was truly a national security issue, than the actual people identified in the beginning, something would happen to them.
Other settlements prove this - no corrective.
"It's national insecurity, not national security."
Other settlements prove this - no corrective.
"It's national insecurity, not national security."
April 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
“It’s national insecurity, not national security.”
Song of the summer
Song of the summer
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I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling port 22.
March 11, 2025 at 3:48 AM
I don’t know about you, but I’m feeling port 22.
Remember when President Hoover signed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act into law in June of 1930, prompting retaliatory tariffs by many other countries?
Something happened the next year, I think? Something important… ah, lost it. Maybe someone else remembers their history.
Something happened the next year, I think? Something important… ah, lost it. Maybe someone else remembers their history.
March 8, 2025 at 11:12 PM
Remember when President Hoover signed the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act into law in June of 1930, prompting retaliatory tariffs by many other countries?
Something happened the next year, I think? Something important… ah, lost it. Maybe someone else remembers their history.
Something happened the next year, I think? Something important… ah, lost it. Maybe someone else remembers their history.
Many great Gene Hackman movies have been mentioned by people celebrating his life and work.
I want to draw your attention to Heist, which also includes the amazing Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, and Danny DeVito.
I want to draw your attention to Heist, which also includes the amazing Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, and Danny DeVito.
February 28, 2025 at 12:35 AM
Many great Gene Hackman movies have been mentioned by people celebrating his life and work.
I want to draw your attention to Heist, which also includes the amazing Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, and Danny DeVito.
I want to draw your attention to Heist, which also includes the amazing Delroy Lindo, Ricky Jay, Sam Rockwell, Rebecca Pidgeon, and Danny DeVito.
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Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war.
Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.
Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.
On the heels of multiple airplane disasters, including one less than a month ago that killed 67 people, and after years of warnings about our understaffed air traffic control system, Trump has begun firing hundreds of FAA air traffic control workers.
apnews.com/article/doge...
apnews.com/article/doge...
Trump begins firings of FAA air traffic control staff just weeks after fatal DC plane crash
The Trump administration has begun firing several hundred Federal Aviation Administration employees, upending staff on a busy air travel weekend and just weeks after a fatal mid-air collision in Washi...
apnews.com
February 17, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Abruptly firing people who work in air traffic control is like murdering your own soldiers in the middle of a war.
Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.
Even if you think things now aren’t working as efficiently as they should there’s no clear path to recovering from this; it’s just a really extremely foolish and dangerous thing to do.
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Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
Anyone Can Push Updates to the DOGE.gov Website
"THESE 'EXPERTS' LEFT THEIR DATABASE OPEN."
www.404media.co
February 14, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Scoop: The databases powering DOGE.gov are insecure, and people outside the government have already pushed their own updates to the site to prove it:
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
www.404media.co/anyone-can-p...
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Bob Kuttner is mad about Trump stopping enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Bob Kuttner is mad because he *co-wrote* the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Great essay where Bob laments not just expanded corruption but wonders whether the public even cares:
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
Bob Kuttner is mad because he *co-wrote* the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Great essay where Bob laments not just expanded corruption but wonders whether the public even cares:
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
The People, Yes
Today on TAP: What happens when democracy so badly fails to deliver the goods that the citizenry freely choses dictatorship?
prospect.org
February 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Bob Kuttner is mad about Trump stopping enforcement of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Bob Kuttner is mad because he *co-wrote* the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Great essay where Bob laments not just expanded corruption but wonders whether the public even cares:
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
Bob Kuttner is mad because he *co-wrote* the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
Great essay where Bob laments not just expanded corruption but wonders whether the public even cares:
prospect.org/blogs-and-ne...
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The American woman arrested last year for assisting DPRK IT Workers pled guilty.
but.. Did you know the original a search warrant for her home mentioned a TikTok that happened to show her laptop farm? lol oops
www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/a...
but.. Did you know the original a search warrant for her home mentioned a TikTok that happened to show her laptop farm? lol oops
www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/a...
Arizona Woman Pleads Guilty in Fraud Scheme That Illegally Generated $17 Million in Revenue for North Korea
Christina Marie Chapman, 48, of Litchfield Park, Arizona, pleaded guilty today in U.S. District Court in Washington D.C. in connection with a scheme that assisted overseas IT workers—posing as U.S. ci...
www.justice.gov
February 11, 2025 at 8:10 PM
The American woman arrested last year for assisting DPRK IT Workers pled guilty.
but.. Did you know the original a search warrant for her home mentioned a TikTok that happened to show her laptop farm? lol oops
www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/a...
but.. Did you know the original a search warrant for her home mentioned a TikTok that happened to show her laptop farm? lol oops
www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/a...
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Oh my god, they just unintentionally wrecked a ton of red team playbooks at the NSA popular.info/p/the-nsas-b...
February 10, 2025 at 2:43 PM
Oh my god, they just unintentionally wrecked a ton of red team playbooks at the NSA popular.info/p/the-nsas-b...