You may not like it but this is what peak coziness looks like.

Actually, you should like it. I don’t know why you wouldn’t like it.

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Timothy Burke takes an incisive, illuminating look at how mainstream media ALWAYS treat stories of white men in the US — typically heterosexual ones — committing mass murder in the name of right-wing ideology.

His lens for the analysis is New York Times' report on Vance Boelter written by Dan Barry, Ernesto Londoño, and Ruth Graham.

Boelter, à la New York Times, is, it turns out, complex, mysterious, an individual.

#VanceBoelter #NewYorkTimes
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https://timothyburke.substack.com/p/the-privilege-of-depth

Astronomer CEO Andy Byron resigns after a video of him cuddling with chief people officer Kristin Cabot at a Coldplay concert went viral (Eleanor Hawkins/Axios)

https://www.axios.com/2025/07/19/astronomer-ceo-andy-byron-resigns-coldplay-kisscam
http://www.techmeme.com/250719/p14#a250719p14

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Is there such a thing as being a #phishing specialist in #infosec? For a job, I mean. You know, the kind of thing you go pro for from the minor leagues.

I used to love going through the email headers and doing all that stuff like pulling apart attachments. I wrote (IMO) some really great guidelines to analyze potential phish when I worked in a SOC. 🤔

Anywho, is a phishing SME a thing?

Very niche question:

Who in the #infosec community 1) plays #mahjongg and 2) is gonna be at #Blackhat? I’d love to set up some cocktail bar pickup games while we’re in town.