TProphet
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Founder of @queercon @telechallenge @flyawardcat. Writer @2600, @tribeofhackers.
Every day, my life continues to amaze me.
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Every day, my life continues to amaze me.
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TProphet
@tprophet.org
· Dec 1
Meta: I have kept a public Mastodon account since leaving the other place, and this hasn't resulted in the level of drama that a public Twitter account did. Twitter kept turning my life upside down and never made me any money, so I limit social media because I don't have time for that.
Tell you what, you can go live in Greenland, Steve.
Steve Bannon: "If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included."
December 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Tell you what, you can go live in Greenland, Steve.
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Yes, conservatives in Brazil are just as unhinged as those here in the US. The critical difference is Brazil has a modern democratic constitution so Bolsonaro was sentenced to prison, locked up and barred from office, not elected to a second term and given impunity. 🎁:
They Are Brazil’s Favorite Flip-Flops. Now, the Right Is Boycotting Them.
www.nytimes.com
December 27, 2025 at 2:03 AM
Yes, conservatives in Brazil are just as unhinged as those here in the US. The critical difference is Brazil has a modern democratic constitution so Bolsonaro was sentenced to prison, locked up and barred from office, not elected to a second term and given impunity. 🎁:
Hear me out, what if taking a loan against securities was a taxable event, automatic mark to market, and whatever applicable capital gains tax (based on length of time securities were held) applied?
This doesn't require a wealth tax. It just takes away the "buy, borrow, die" tax dodge.
This doesn't require a wealth tax. It just takes away the "buy, borrow, die" tax dodge.
December 27, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Hear me out, what if taking a loan against securities was a taxable event, automatic mark to market, and whatever applicable capital gains tax (based on length of time securities were held) applied?
This doesn't require a wealth tax. It just takes away the "buy, borrow, die" tax dodge.
This doesn't require a wealth tax. It just takes away the "buy, borrow, die" tax dodge.
It's really simple, and I'm not sure why we're dancing around the issue: Democrats are being removed from voter rolls.
OK, Republicans: The second we have power back, we're doing it back to you. Let's see how you like it.
OK, Republicans: The second we have power back, we're doing it back to you. Let's see how you like it.
December 27, 2025 at 1:06 AM
It's really simple, and I'm not sure why we're dancing around the issue: Democrats are being removed from voter rolls.
OK, Republicans: The second we have power back, we're doing it back to you. Let's see how you like it.
OK, Republicans: The second we have power back, we're doing it back to you. Let's see how you like it.
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People have no idea what a premium we have enjoyed and what losing it will cost us
This piece is a great illustration of how the long-term effect of Trump’s destruction of US institutions won’t be felt in a dramatic market collapse, but rather in permanently worse economic conditions, and lower prosperity.
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... So long, American exceptionalism
giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/... So long, American exceptionalism
So long, American exceptionalism
For the first time, investors are talking about ‘US risk’
giftarticle.ft.com
December 26, 2025 at 11:15 PM
People have no idea what a premium we have enjoyed and what losing it will cost us
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why are there rarely articles written about liberals in red state urban centers (e.g. Salt Lake City) being gerrymandered into some rural conservative representative?
December 26, 2025 at 10:23 PM
why are there rarely articles written about liberals in red state urban centers (e.g. Salt Lake City) being gerrymandered into some rural conservative representative?
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"Today, at least one of the Young Republicans who sent offensive messages holds a formal position with the North Dakota Republican Party. Six people on the group chat — albeit ones who didn’t contribute slurs — went on to the state legislature."
After breaking news this year of a scandal in Young Republican groups in places like New York and Vermont, Politico revisits my nearly identical story from 2022 about North Dakota Young Republicans sharing bigoted and hateful comments in a private messaging group.
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
www.politico.com/news/magazin...
A Forgotten Young Republicans Scandal Shows How Hard It Is for Party Elders to Control Young Troops
The 2022 group chat with bigoted messages led to few consequences.
www.politico.com
December 26, 2025 at 7:45 PM
"Today, at least one of the Young Republicans who sent offensive messages holds a formal position with the North Dakota Republican Party. Six people on the group chat — albeit ones who didn’t contribute slurs — went on to the state legislature."
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Deeds enjoys the fire.
December 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Deeds enjoys the fire.
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On Christmas Day, you will be visited by one very fluffy cat...
December 25, 2025 at 7:58 PM
On Christmas Day, you will be visited by one very fluffy cat...
Either a Christmas gift or malware (or possibly both, I don't know the author, and I am not responsible for your security).
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December 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Either a Christmas gift or malware (or possibly both, I don't know the author, and I am not responsible for your security).
Welcome to (phone system, website, whatever). Here's a pop-up, do you want to do something other than what you came here for? Here's another pop up, will you fill out our survey? Are you aware that we have a different way to contact us than you're contacting us? Now talk to our hilariously wrong AI!
December 25, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Welcome to (phone system, website, whatever). Here's a pop-up, do you want to do something other than what you came here for? Here's another pop up, will you fill out our survey? Are you aware that we have a different way to contact us than you're contacting us? Now talk to our hilariously wrong AI!
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If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.” https://cnn.it/4b6g3rd
Oklahoma instructor removed from teaching for failing a Bible-based gender essay | CNN
The University of Oklahoma has removed an instructor who was accused by a student of religious discrimination over a failing grade on a psychology paper in which she cited the Bible and argued that promoting a “belief in multiple genders” was “demonic.”
cnn.it
December 24, 2025 at 6:21 PM
If you’re wondering why your friends in academia are a little on edge right now, it’s because an eighteen-year-old who hasn’t done the reading, doesn’t look at the assignment, and has does no critical thinking skills more complex than “because I think it’s in the Bible” can literally end your career
My immediate reaction to this is that I can't believe this is so cheap. If you want to commit financial crimes with impunity in China, it'll cost you much more than $1 million - and there's some stuff you still won't be able to get away with, because it'd threaten the legitimacy of the regime.
“.. if an applicant can find Trump at Mar-a-Lago or a White House event and ask for a pardon directly, Trump is often inclined to be helpful, administration officials said—particularly if someone says the magic words: ‘unjust persecution.’”
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
@wsj.com
www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
December 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
My immediate reaction to this is that I can't believe this is so cheap. If you want to commit financial crimes with impunity in China, it'll cost you much more than $1 million - and there's some stuff you still won't be able to get away with, because it'd threaten the legitimacy of the regime.
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Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.
December 23, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Gotta say, as a survivor, I’m not super loving this thing where the Department of Justice is running a cover-up of evidence the President sexually abused minors.
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The importance of their research cannot be overstated.
“It’s [Citizen Lab] one of the few institutions that investigate cyberthreats exclusively in the public interest, and in doing so, it has exposed some of the most egregious digital abuses of the past two decades.”
Meet the man hunting the spies in your smartphone
Ronald Deibert and his research group, the Citizen Lab, have rigorously worked to unveil alarming digital threats for the past two decades. Now, he warns, this kind of work is under threat.
www.technologyreview.com
December 24, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The importance of their research cannot be overstated.
Worked as designed
jesus the Palm Beach Police really sought arrest warrants against underage Epstein victims for coming forward and cooperating, and (purported) admitting to crimes, and it caused the victims to become uncooperative with the federal investigation
![. . . very cooperative, but the police at that point had to let [redacted] know that what she had done that she could be facing charges.
Q And that was after they had told her earlier that she didn't need an attorney present, correct?
A Exactly.
Q Okay. So this happens to her with the Palm Beach Police Department and did the Palm Beach Police actually present or propose charging [redacted]?
A They did get a probable cause affidavit against [redacted].
Q And is that why Ms. [redacted] and her attorney were concerned about her testimony here?
A Yes.
Q Now was a subpoena issued for Ms. [redacted] on behalf of this grand jury?
A Yes, it was.
Q And before Ms. [redacted] would comply with that, did she -- did her attorney request some sort of order?
A Yes.
Q And what did he ask for?
A He asked for immunity for [redacted].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:eoss3vmzem55cm5kuddhdmwn/bafkreiariijffjjrgfh26o22jjr76pwprinvnbpkcho5lyi2sucfbqlooy@jpeg)
December 24, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Worked as designed
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I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
December 23, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I mean yeah it’s an authoritarian takeover but can we take some comfort in the fact that the people doing it are INSANELY stupid?
Red states, know this: the second you're out of power, we're going to do this right back to you. The only thing you understand is pain. It's about time you felt some.
Sean Duffy on blue states: "What I can do is I can pull their money. That's the leverage I do have ... I guarantee you that the federal taxpayer is not going to fund their roads and bridges and their systems when they are putting illegals on the roads."
December 23, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Red states, know this: the second you're out of power, we're going to do this right back to you. The only thing you understand is pain. It's about time you felt some.
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All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
December 23, 2025 at 1:58 AM
All of these bootlegged copies of the 60 Minutes segment flooding my feed (saying, ‘Watch it quick! Before it disappears!’) makes me feel like I’m in the Soviet Union and just got some black market foreign newspaper I need to hide under a floorboard in my house.
This is where America is now
This is where America is now
The best people in the world at cybersecurity are not right wing ideological purists. Don't expect the federal government to show up with anything useful in this space. Rather than the industry looking to the US for leadership, it's time for international standards organizations to take over.
Scoop: The lone employee behind CISA's Pre-Ransomware Notification Initiative resigned on Friday rather than take a forced reassignment to FEMA.
CISA says PRNI will continue, but sources said David Stern's loss will be a major setback for it.
My story: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-ra...
CISA says PRNI will continue, but sources said David Stern's loss will be a major setback for it.
My story: www.cybersecuritydive.com/news/cisa-ra...
December 23, 2025 at 8:18 PM
The best people in the world at cybersecurity are not right wing ideological purists. Don't expect the federal government to show up with anything useful in this space. Rather than the industry looking to the US for leadership, it's time for international standards organizations to take over.
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We just added the @reconvillage videos from #defcon 33 to our https://media.defcon.org server and updated the archive, please enjoy!
media.defcon.org
All DEF CON video presentations, music, documentaries, pictures, villages, and Capture The Flag data that can be found.
media.defcon.org
December 23, 2025 at 6:34 PM
We just added the @reconvillage videos from #defcon 33 to our https://media.defcon.org server and updated the archive, please enjoy!
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Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
Attacking the right to vote is something that is common in autocratic regimes like the United States of America.
NEW: Ohio has just restricted mail voting, banning the so-called 'grace period' that allows mail ballots to come in the day after Election Day as long as they've been postmarked in time.
This is likely to lead to thousands of Dem-leaning ballots to be rejected.
Ohio is following Trump's demands.
This is likely to lead to thousands of Dem-leaning ballots to be rejected.
Ohio is following Trump's demands.
Ohio Bans Grace Periods for Mail Ballots, Fulfilling Trump’s Wishes - Bolts
Ohio is the fourth GOP-run state this year to ban ballots that are postmarked by Election Day but arrive after. A Supreme Court case could force that policy nationwide next year.
boltsmag.org
December 23, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Attacking the right to vote is something that is common in autocratic regimes like the United States of America.
The dollar is now down against virtually all major currencies.
Trump: "Anybody that disagrees with me will never be the Fed Chairman!"
December 23, 2025 at 8:06 PM
The dollar is now down against virtually all major currencies.