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Dutchess Prim

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Period

November 21, 2024 at 12:24 PM

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Jen Gentleman

@jenmsft.bsky.social

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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Jeremy Kirk

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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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Radical Graffiti

@radicalgraffiti.bsky.social

"Bottoms and tops, all hate cops"
Sticker spotted in Chicago

Pink triangle sticker on a pole featuring barbed wire and the words "Bottoms and tops, all hate cops"

August 26, 2023 at 5:54 PM

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Bloomberg News

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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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Graham Cluley

@grahamcluley.com

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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Best of Dying Twitter

@bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social

this man is 52

August 20, 2023 at 3:21 PM

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Best of Dying Twitter

@bestofdyingtwit.bsky.social

Concerning.

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 19, 2023 at 4:01 AM

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Marisa Kabas

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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

My mother got very, very, very, very upset about this and about that time her lunch did arrive, and she never did eat it yesterday. She refused to eat it. In fact, she refused to eat anything. She refused to go to bed last night. She sat up all night. She was very upset about this. They came into her home. She did nothing wrong.

August 12, 2023 at 11:43 PM

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nae!

@naes.tech

a little something to take the edge off

August 4, 2023 at 7:24 PM

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Evan Greer

@evangreer.bsky.social

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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dustin Couch

@dustinkcouch.bsky.social

the internet sucks now

August 1, 2023 at 4:19 PM

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The Onion

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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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Gillian Branstetter

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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

Days before a state agency began researching whether transgender medical care for Floridians should be covered by Medicaid, officials started lining up experts known for going against the scientific mainstream. The resulting report and state rule revoked Medicaid coverage of treatments for gender dysphoria like puberty blockers and hormone therapy. It was thrown out by a federal judge, who in his June order called the rule an “exercise in politics, not good medicine.” Hundreds of pages of state employee testimony and internal agency records gathered as part of the federal case show how closely the state coordinated with consultants who have taken stances counter to major medical organizations on how to treat gender dysphoria. Those consultants were paid tens of thousands by the state. One grew friendly enough with a top agency official that he took to calling him “mighty Jason” and “J-man” over text messages.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article277853063.

Court testimony from state employees also reveal how an agency under Gov. Ron DeSantis veered from its own procedures to compile a report centered on a topic that has become a major plank of the governor’s presidential campaign. The state employee who was the lead author of the report testified that the process began with a request from the governor’s office. He also testified that he had not seen another instance of the state using this type of report to reevaluate treatments already covered by Medicaid. After the Medicaid report was completed, at least two Agency for Health Care Administration employees involved with it received raises well above the norm for their peers, state data show. “It seemed like a very politically motivated effort to exclude a group of people from coverage,” said Jeff English, a former agency staffer.

Read more at: https://www.miamiherald.com/news/health-care/article277853063.html#storylink=cpy

August 2, 2023 at 4:37 PM

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Best of Dying Twitter

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Meanwhile, on Twitter…

July 29, 2023 at 7:08 PM

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Mike Masnick

@mmasnick.bsky.social

Shotspotter sued Vice and also threatened to sue us for reporting on things like this.

Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · Jul 16

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.”