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Period
November 21, 2024 at 12:24 PM
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Windows tip of the day - if you hold CTRL and Shift when clicking an app icon in the taskbar, it will open that app elevated
August 31, 2023 at 3:15 PM
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Some 6.43M email addresses from the Qakbot/Qbot disruption by law enforcement are now in Have I Been Pwned. Also, the passwords are in Pwned Passwords. Hopefully this will alert victims. #infosec www.troyhunt.com/data-from-th...
Data From The Qakbot Malware is Now Searchable in Have I Been Pwned, Courtesy of the FBI
Today, the US Justice Department announced a multinational operation involving actions in the United States, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and the United Kingdom to disrupt the botnet and malware ...
www.troyhunt.com
August 30, 2023 at 6:17 AM
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"Bottoms and tops, all hate cops"
Sticker spotted in Chicago
August 26, 2023 at 5:54 PM
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If Microsoft completes its acquisition of Activision Blizzard, the $69 billion deal will go down as one of the biggest comeback stories in the history of mergers
How the Microsoft-Activision Deal Came Back From the Dead
If Microsoft Corp. completes its acquisition of Activision Blizzard in the coming months, the $69 billion deal will go down as one of the biggest comeback stories in the history of mergers.
www.bloomberg.com
August 22, 2023 at 4:28 PM
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In summary:

42% (65.3 million) of Elon's followers have no followers.

41% (62.5 million) have no tweets.

Over 25% (38.9 million) created their accounts on or after the date Musk acquired Twitter.

mashable.com/article/elon...
Elon Musk's X follower count bloated by millions of new, inactive accounts
We took a close look at Elon Musk's more than 150 million followers on X aka Twitter. What we found is…concerning.
mashable.com
August 22, 2023 at 1:03 PM
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this man is 52
August 20, 2023 at 3:21 PM
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JFC: 98-year-old mother of the marion county record’s owner has died from being, “Stressed beyond her limits and overwhelmed by hours of shock and grief after illegal police raids on her home.”

Awful follow up to my reporting: https://thehandbasket.substack.com/p/a-conversation-with-the-newspaper
August 12, 2023 at 11:43 PM
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a little something to take the edge off
August 4, 2023 at 7:24 PM
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They did this to sex workers first and no one listened or cared. Maybe they’ll listen now if it means they can’t buy their weed seltzer with a card https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/28/business/mastercard-debit-cannabis-transactions.html
Mastercard Moves to Stop Use of Debit Cards at Cannabis Shops
The decision places more strain on the cannabis industry, which largely operates with cash and is not uniformly regulated across the United States. The drug is still illegal on the federal level.
www.nytimes.com
August 1, 2023 at 8:20 PM
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the internet sucks now
August 1, 2023 at 4:19 PM
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"You never know how strong you are until it’s time to cut your losses and get the fuck out."
Man Reaches Deep Within To Find The Courage To Run From All His Problems
NEW YORK—Drawing from reserves he never even knew he had until this moment, local man Kevin Nachtman reportedly reached deep within himself Thursday to find the courage to run from all his problems....
www.theonion.com
August 3, 2023 at 2:41 PM
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DeSantis's administration paid doctors tens of thousands of dollars to endorse restrictions on trans adults' health care and gave raises to state employees who went along with it, according to new documents unveiled in court.
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article277853063.html
August 2, 2023 at 4:37 PM
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Meanwhile, on Twitter…
July 29, 2023 at 7:08 PM
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Shotspotter sued Vice and also threatened to sue us for reporting on things like this.
ShotSpotter can “misclassify fireworks or sounds from cars as gunshots, and that company employees can alter evidence; during a 2016 police shooting trial in Rochester, a ShotSpotter employee admitted to reclassifying sound from a helicopter to a bullet at the request of police.”
Why Dayton Quit ShotSpotter, a Surveillance Tool Many Cities Still Embrace - Bolts
Julio Mateo and other activists in Dayton, Ohio, tried for years to get police to ditch one of the most controversial trends in law enforcement surveillance technology.  In 2019, the... Read More
boltsmag.org
July 16, 2023 at 3:41 PM
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Twitter traffic tanking. https://radar.cloudflare.com/domains
July 9, 2023 at 3:33 PM
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Things seem to be going just as Musk planned over on Twitter
July 9, 2023 at 5:39 AM
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Threads: People advertising NSFW pictures

Bluesky: People posting NSFW pictures
July 7, 2023 at 7:48 PM
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warning on Threads and data: Facebook will do its best to out you as thoroughly as possible
July 7, 2023 at 5:53 PM