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Andrew Lilley Brinker
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👨🏼‍💼 Principal Engineer at MITRE
⚠️ CVE Handyman
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Meme of a man with two blades attached to his forearms, crossing his arms and looking somber. The text below reads “Master forgive me, but I’ll have to go all out… Just this once”
November 1, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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This but it's Diet Cokes for @bcantrill.bsky.social
October 31, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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Variant of the Dril "spend less on candles" exchange which reads: Tweet from Dril: "Food $200, Data $150, Rent $800, Watches $1.3 million, Utility $150. someone who is good at the economy please help me budget this. my family is dying. Craig, replying: "spend less on watches" Dril, replying: "no"
October 30, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Not too far off
Shot from the show 30 Rock showing Tracy Jordan being interviewed by Larry King on CNN, when Tracy just happened to be on-air for an interview when the Japanese markets opened way down. The situation has escalated, with Tracy remaining on-air, leading Larry to summarize the current situation with the line, "If you're just joining us, we're with Tracy Jordan, who is giving guitar icon Peter Frampton enigmatic clues about a secret treasure."
October 28, 2025 at 9:41 PM
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There's a horrific ignorance of knowing Teddy only as the meme of a Rough Rider and not for the Square Deal or his strong opposition to the unchecked power of corporations and the very wealthy.
A screenshot of text from Teddy Roosevelt's collected letters and papers, from a letter written by Roosevelt and sent to Mr. G. A. Davidson, an auditor for Shipments-Associated Oil Company, which reads: "The attacks by these great corporations on the Administration's actions have been given a wide circulation throughout the country, in the newspapers and otherwise by those writers and speakers who, consciously or unconsciously, act as the representatives of predatory wealth — of the wealth accumulated on a giant scale by all forms of iniquity, ranging from the oppression of wageworkers to unfair and unwholesome methods of crushing out competition, and to defrauding the public by stock jobbing and the manipulation of securities. Certain wealthy men of this stamp, whose conduct should be abhorrent to every man of ordinarily decent conscience, and who commit the hideous wrong of teaching our young men that phenomenal business success must ordinarily be based on dishonesty, have during the last few months made it apparent that they have banded together to work for a reaction. Their endeavor is to overthrow and discredit all who honestly administer the law, to prevent any additional legislation which would check and restrain them, and to secure if possible a freedom from all restraint which will permit every unscrupulous wrongdoer to do what he wishes unchecked provided he has enough money. The only way to counteract the movement in which these men are engaged is to make clear to the public just what they have done in the past and just what they are seeking to accomplish in the present."
October 27, 2025 at 8:55 PM
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Ed Zitron
Mac from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia saying "I'm playing both sides so that I always come out on top."
October 27, 2025 at 2:41 PM
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Huh, neat
Results of my own Prism political quiz, showing the following results: - Government: 100% unitary democracy - Economy: 100% social democracy - Society: 50% progressivism, 50% social justice - Religion: 100% atheist - Security: 50% humanist, 50% procedural - Foreign Policy: 100% internationalist
October 24, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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The goal of the health system is to keep people healthy.
Norman Rockwell image of working-class white man in a blue flannel and brown bomber jacket standing up and speaking among a crowd of other people.
October 24, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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Point 13 in "How Complex Systems Fail" is "human expertise in complex systems is constantly changing."

AWS brain drain directly and predictably leads to more frequent and severe outages.

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Screenshot of Point 13 from "How Complex Systems Fail," which reads: " Human expertise in complex systems is constantly changing Complex systems require substantial human expertise in their operation and management. This expertise changes in character as technology changes but it also changes because of the need to replace experts who leave. In every case, training and refinement of skill and expertise is one part of the function of the system itself. At any moment, therefore, a given complex system will contain practitioners and trainees with varying degrees of expertise. Critical issues related to expertise arise from (1) the need to use scarce expertise as a resource for the most difficult or demanding production needs and (2) the need to develop expertise for future use." The phrase "the need to replace experts who leave" is highlighted.
October 23, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Tweet from Dril which reads: "the jduge orders me to take off my anonymous v mask & im wearing the joker makeup underneath it. everyone in the courtroom groans at my shit"
October 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Visiting diplomat on Parks and Recreation, played by Fred Armisen, saying "believe it or not, straight to jail".
October 3, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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You're welcome
Screenshot of the parent post, showing that I've bookmarked it
October 1, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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Pierce Hawthorne from Community dressed head to toe in pillows held on by duct tape.
September 29, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Choose your fighter
Box cover art for the board game Terraforming Mars Logo of the source-available software project Terraform Image of a heavily-terraformed island from Animal Crossing: New Horizons, created by Instagram user minsuuuuuya
September 26, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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September 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Alex, seeing "fridge" mentioned
September 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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"From an attacker’s point of view, package repositories represent a reliable and scalable malware distribution channel." — "The Backstabber's Knife Collection," by Ohm, Plate, Sykosch, and Meier.
The start of the "Discussion and Conclusions" section of the paper, the "The Backstabber's Knife Collection: A Review of Open Source Software Supply Chain Attacks," which reads: "From an attacker's point of view, package repositories represent a reliable and scalable malware distribution channel."
September 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Screenshot of the linked article's closing paragraph that reads: "In Z*tron’s analysis, it’s always bad. It’s bad when they raise too little money because they’ll run out. It’s bad when they raise too much money because it means they need it. It’s bad that AI is so little of big tech revenue, but somehow also “Google, Microsoft, Amazon and Meta do not have any other ways to continue showing growth.” Meanwhile, they are posting record revenue and earnings every quarter. While this post focuses on one particularly weak and instructive section of “How To Argue With An AI Booster”, he has been making this same argument for months, and it is hard to find an analysis of his that doesn’t suffer similarly from being forced into the mold of explaining why this means the bubble is about to pop."
September 3, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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ಠ_ಠ
"As a final example, a buffer overflow checker flagged a bunch of errors of the form: unsigned p[4]; p[4] = 1; 'No, ANSI lets you write 1 past the end of the array.'"
August 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Image of Homer and Bart from The Simpsons, sitting on the living room couch while it's dark out, with no lights on, solely illuminated by the glow of the television. They stare with wide open eyes at you. Homer becomes for you to sit on the couch, saying "JOIN US."
August 27, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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A guy named Giovanni is the Pokémon video game world champion lol
Giovanni, head of Team Rocket
August 18, 2025 at 1:55 AM
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They're arguing in bad faith. Here they asked for examples of using atproto without Bluesky infra, and when someone replied with those examples, they called them an "ATprot booster" and muted them.
Screenshot of a Bluesky thread fragment with four posts: 1. Tynan Purdy: It is important to understand that everything on the AT Protocol is completely public. All of Bluesky, and all of every other atproto app, is public data anyone can access. You can move your account to another host like @blackskyweb.xyz and continue to interact with the whole network. 2. Jay Paul: Blacksky isn't for me (or the majority), by design. Name another place to move, that does NOT require any Bsky'Inc. resources. Completely public, is also exactly what makes ATprot an absolute privacy nightmare. Massive, limitless respect for @rudyfraser.com regardless! 3. Tynan Purdy: I know @tangled.sh has open signups. @oppi.li if someone wanted to move to your pds can they get an invite code? Besides that you can use @zeppelin.social for non-bsky relay and appview. 4. Jay Paul: You're an obvious ATpro booster; this back and forth thread could be endless. Muting it/you now...
August 15, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Vanya and Five from Umbrella Academy both being shocked seeing each other in cars as they drive past each other.
August 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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The first thing Wikipedia has to say about Craig Barrett's leadership at Intel.
Screenshot of the Wikipedia page for Intel showing the section titled "Challenges to dominance (2000s)". It reads: "As Intel exited other markets, the company depended so much on the 80386 and its successors that a marketing employee said that "there's only one product, and Andy Grove's the product manager". After 2000, growth in demand for high-end microprocessors slowed. Competitors, most notably AMD (Intel's largest competitor in its primary x86 architecture market), garnered significant market share, initially in low-end and mid-range processors but ultimately across the product range. Intel's dominant position in its core market was greatly reduced, mostly due to the controversial NetBurst microarchitecture. In the early 2000s, then-CEO, Craig Barrett attempted to diversify the company's business beyond semiconductors, but few of these activities were ultimately successful."
August 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
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Same
Screenshot of a Bluesky feed showing a post by Will Stancil, which I've liked, immediately above the post I'm replying to, by philpax. Will Stancil's post reads: "people love to say 'I'm begging you to read something by an actual expert" and then mean, specifically, Ed Zitron." philpax's post reads "this latest discourse has me liking Will Stancil posts; how regrettable"
August 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM