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hi ben

“The main business of humanity is to do a good job of being human beings," said Paul, "not to serve as appendages to machines, institutions, and systems.”

(Kurt Vonnegut)

"The problem tends to show up when a CEO is handed an agentic tool like Claude Code, and has it create something, which will work just fine, and thinks “oh, wait, why do we need so many people, when I can just sit here and make things work?”

This is a bad CEO." #AI https://werd.io/the-honest-truth-about-leaders-who-want-to-replace-their-workers-with-ai/

Suddenly seeing a renewed interest in the Com, or the "community" of English-speaking cybercrime cliques scattered across Telegram and Discord. The Financial Times reports teenagers carrying out sabotage and arson attacks in the UK were recruited by Russia and Iran on Telegram, Discord and gaming platforms. Some of those recruited were reportedly as young as 11.

I've been writing about Com-based cybercriminals and breaches for more than a decade, but it mostly felt like screaming into a void because law enforcement has until very recently completely dropped the ball on coming up with strategies to counter Com-based activity, and the non-stop criminal recruitment that occurs quite openly on gaming platforms like Roblox and Minecraft. The fact that nation states and our adversaries are now using these same criminal communities to carry out their agendas should surprise no one at this point.

https://archive.ph/LTBWZ

This is a super interesting analysis of the English-language cybercrime communities on Telegram and Discord, from a convicted (and reformed?) SIM-swapper who says he found at least 164 call centers that are recruiting callers for telephone-based social engineering scams.

LinkedIn post: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cfrmn/?lipi=urn%3Ali%3Apage%3Ad_flagship3_feed%3Brsdqv1H1TnSKsbPTnsDBkQ%3D%3D

History on the researcher: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/11/convicted-sim-swapper-gets-3-years-in-jail/

On this day in 2002, one of the best movies of all time premiered: Bubba Ho-Tep.

If you haven't seen it yet, drop everything and watch it now.

Synopsis: An elderly man in an East Texas nursing home claims to be Elvis Presley — and may actually be right. His only ally is a Black man convinced he's JFK. Together, in wheelchairs and walkers, they battle an ancient Egyptian soul-sucking mummy that's preying on the residents. Bureaucratic horror meets genuine pathos. Completely unironic.

Solar power hits new milestones in the U.S. even as Trump boosts coal over clean energy
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/nation/solar-power-hits-new-milestones-in-the-u-s-even-as-trump-boosts-coal-over-clean-energy?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Trump family wins, investors lose

Risking little of their own money, the US president and his sons have added at least $2.3 billion to the family fortune from their crypto ventures, while investors they've wooed have taken a $2.3 billion hit, per Reuters

https://www.reuters.com/investigations/under-trump-crypto-playbook-family-always-wins-investors-dont-2026-06-09/

Man jailed due to faulty face recognition says Florida cops ignored other evidence

Lawsuit: "Police let an error-prone AI system stand in for an investigation."
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/man-jailed-due-to-faulty-face-recognition-says-florida-cops-ignored-other-evidence/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social