J Starke
@carbonpunk.bsky.social
Scientist. Policy wonk. Coach. Late diagnosed AuDHD w/Long COVID. Believer in People Power and Good Trouble. Opinions are my own.
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J Starke
@carbonpunk.bsky.social
· Jan 20
Just over here eating fiber and watching The Mentalist
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Following my Washington Post report on Eric Michaud's secret partnership in a crypto-recovery business with fallen hacker hero Morgan Marquis-Boire, Michaud joins him as one of five people permanently banned from #DefCon. defcon.org/html/links/d...
DEF CON® Hacking Conference - Transparency Report
DEF CON Hacking Conference Transparency Report
defcon.org
August 1, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Following my Washington Post report on Eric Michaud's secret partnership in a crypto-recovery business with fallen hacker hero Morgan Marquis-Boire, Michaud joins him as one of five people permanently banned from #DefCon. defcon.org/html/links/d...
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DEFCON has banned Eric Michaud. You need to be an exceptionally toxic sleazebag to get banned from DEFCON. There are literally only 4 other names on the list: John Draper, Jake Appelbaum, Morgan Marquis-Boire, and Chris Hadnagy. defcon.org/html/links/d...
DEF CON® Hacking Conference - Transparency Report
DEF CON Hacking Conference Transparency Report
defcon.org
August 1, 2025 at 11:41 PM
DEFCON has banned Eric Michaud. You need to be an exceptionally toxic sleazebag to get banned from DEFCON. There are literally only 4 other names on the list: John Draper, Jake Appelbaum, Morgan Marquis-Boire, and Chris Hadnagy. defcon.org/html/links/d...
Full blown conspiracy agency, what a proud day for science! *screams into the void forever*
April 8, 2025 at 3:10 AM
Full blown conspiracy agency, what a proud day for science! *screams into the void forever*
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This is everything. More of this.
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with @freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
Wired is dropping paywalls for FOIA-based reporting. Others should follow
As the administration does its best to hide public records from the public, Wired magazine is stepping up to help stem the secrecy
freedom.press
March 18, 2025 at 4:14 PM
This is everything. More of this.
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I rarely tell people to throw their devices into the sea, but you should throw your Amazon Echo into the sea.
www.wired.com/story/everyt...
www.wired.com/story/everyt...
Everything You Say to Your Echo Will Soon Be Sent to Amazon, and You Can’t Opt Out
Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.
www.wired.com
March 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM
I rarely tell people to throw their devices into the sea, but you should throw your Amazon Echo into the sea.
www.wired.com/story/everyt...
www.wired.com/story/everyt...
I don’t even know how to describe how exhausted I am already. Pattern recognition is a gift and a curse 🙃🫠
March 17, 2025 at 5:24 PM
I don’t even know how to describe how exhausted I am already. Pattern recognition is a gift and a curse 🙃🫠
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Very few of our current leaders are made for this moment but they won’t get the fuck out of the way for the people that are
If you have to keep explaining why you did what you did was a good idea, it was a bad idea.
Chuck Schumer is unfit for this moment.
Chuck Schumer is unfit for this moment.
March 14, 2025 at 10:31 PM
Very few of our current leaders are made for this moment but they won’t get the fuck out of the way for the people that are
Crypto wallet hacking company @unciphered.bsky.social was founded by alleged serial rapist and hid it from employees including @johnycsh.bsky.social
March 14, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Crypto wallet hacking company @unciphered.bsky.social was founded by alleged serial rapist and hid it from employees including @johnycsh.bsky.social
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Scoop from me at the Post: one of hackerdom’s biggest fallen heroes, Morgan Marquis-Boire, secretly co-founded the best-known company recovering locked up cryptocurrency.
March 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Scoop from me at the Post: one of hackerdom’s biggest fallen heroes, Morgan Marquis-Boire, secretly co-founded the best-known company recovering locked up cryptocurrency.
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Every. Accusation. Is. A. Confession.
Robert Morris, former Texas megachurch pastor and Trump adviser, indicted for child sex crimes
Morris is a former spiritual adviser to President Donald Trump, and Gateway — one of the nation’s largest megachurches — has been particularly active in Dallas-area GOP politics.
www.texastribune.org
March 13, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Every. Accusation. Is. A. Confession.
The absolute gall of these people
Having had a kid die of measles in my arms as a doctor in the DR Congo, I respectfully disagree that this would be better. Vaccines save lives.
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...
www.thedailybeast.com/rfk-jr-it-wo...
RFK Jr.: It Would Be Better if ‘Everybody Got Measles’
“The measles gave you lifetime protection against measles infection,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. told Sean Hannity on Fox News.
www.thedailybeast.com
March 13, 2025 at 4:18 AM
The absolute gall of these people
Yesterday I learned from my newest Doc that Long COVID is mimicking TBI symptoms in patients (Hi!)
The evidence keeps piling up that any COVID infection at any time can impact multiple body systems.
And yet we’re cramming feds into closets for RTO often with windows that don’t open.
Masks y’all.
The evidence keeps piling up that any COVID infection at any time can impact multiple body systems.
And yet we’re cramming feds into closets for RTO often with windows that don’t open.
Masks y’all.
March 12, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Yesterday I learned from my newest Doc that Long COVID is mimicking TBI symptoms in patients (Hi!)
The evidence keeps piling up that any COVID infection at any time can impact multiple body systems.
And yet we’re cramming feds into closets for RTO often with windows that don’t open.
Masks y’all.
The evidence keeps piling up that any COVID infection at any time can impact multiple body systems.
And yet we’re cramming feds into closets for RTO often with windows that don’t open.
Masks y’all.
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Kash Patel wants to criminally charge groups who received EPA grants for climate change projects. You know, like those greedy bastards at Habitat for Humanity.
He thinks climate change isn't real, so he thinks these groups have committed fraud.
Which of course is fucking crazy.
He thinks climate change isn't real, so he thinks these groups have committed fraud.
Which of course is fucking crazy.
Trump’s FBI Moves to Criminally Charge Major Climate Groups
The Trump administration is targeting climate organizations that received a Biden-era grant.
newrepublic.com
March 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Kash Patel wants to criminally charge groups who received EPA grants for climate change projects. You know, like those greedy bastards at Habitat for Humanity.
He thinks climate change isn't real, so he thinks these groups have committed fraud.
Which of course is fucking crazy.
He thinks climate change isn't real, so he thinks these groups have committed fraud.
Which of course is fucking crazy.
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JUST IN: Citibank reveals in a court filing that it has been asked to freeze funds for a Biden-era climate program by:
-The FBI
-The EPA administrator
-The EPA IG
-Treasury
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
-The FBI
-The EPA administrator
-The EPA IG
-Treasury
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
March 12, 2025 at 3:50 PM
JUST IN: Citibank reveals in a court filing that it has been asked to freeze funds for a Biden-era climate program by:
-The FBI
-The EPA administrator
-The EPA IG
-Treasury
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
-The FBI
-The EPA administrator
-The EPA IG
-Treasury
www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...
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"The lawsuit from the president of the United States African Development Foundation (USADF) asks the courts to spare the agency ... In doing so, it lays out in detail just how Musk and [DOGE] go about their illegal takeovers... "
A little agency is standing up to Musk with a tell-all lawsuit
If you want to know how DOGE is taking over, read this.
buff.ly
March 12, 2025 at 9:01 PM
"The lawsuit from the president of the United States African Development Foundation (USADF) asks the courts to spare the agency ... In doing so, it lays out in detail just how Musk and [DOGE] go about their illegal takeovers... "
Environmental justice programs are so much more than what folks might see on the surface & primarily fund things like providing air filters to communities heavily impacted by wildfire smoke in rural areas. It’s undoing the programs that protect everyone’s air and water.
www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History | US EPA
EPA News Release: EPA Launches Biggest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History
www.epa.gov
March 12, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Environmental justice programs are so much more than what folks might see on the surface & primarily fund things like providing air filters to communities heavily impacted by wildfire smoke in rural areas. It’s undoing the programs that protect everyone’s air and water.
www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
www.epa.gov/newsreleases...
Thank you Matthew Tejada for standing by the values you brought to the fight for environmental justice at the EPA and beyond #goodtrouble #truthtopower
#truthtopower please share. We need to lift up people’s voices, faces, and stories from their communities. We need to fight back and remember we are part of a community that is large and strong, we can’t let them bully us into silence. EJ staff speak #truthtopower. EJ communities speak #truthtopower
March 12, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Thank you Matthew Tejada for standing by the values you brought to the fight for environmental justice at the EPA and beyond #goodtrouble #truthtopower
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it’s not that this US administration has a different, competing version of what it means to do good. They know and even share our conception of good, and oppose it on purpose to make their enemies mad. Consciously, purposefully, gleefully evil.
Rape and support for rapists are now key aspects of U.S federal government policy.
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/fe...
Andrew Tate and brother leave Romania for US after travel ban lifted
Self-styled ‘misogynist influencer’ and brother Tristan had been banned from leaving Romania since December 2023
www.theguardian.com
February 27, 2025 at 12:33 PM
it’s not that this US administration has a different, competing version of what it means to do good. They know and even share our conception of good, and oppose it on purpose to make their enemies mad. Consciously, purposefully, gleefully evil.
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This is not normal! As if federal employees didn’t already feel threatened enough—sure, let the brown shirts have guns; that’ll certainly boost compliance.
February 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
This is not normal! As if federal employees didn’t already feel threatened enough—sure, let the brown shirts have guns; that’ll certainly boost compliance.
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FBI Director Kash Patel expected to also be named head of ATF, three sources tell me and @yamiche.bsky.social.
February 23, 2025 at 12:21 AM
FBI Director Kash Patel expected to also be named head of ATF, three sources tell me and @yamiche.bsky.social.
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