Forgot you couldn’t QT on here. I don’t know what’s wrong with that Ericka Simone person but the story about Taylor Lorenz she’s telling just isn’t true at all and it’s weird that people are spreading it like she’s some kind of acknowledged authority on anything
Sam Thielman
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Newsmonster. Seen at The New Yorker, Slate, NBC News, http://foreverwars.ghost.io | Brooklyner, pacifist, sheepdog to 5yo | he/him | 741.5 (Comic books, strips, etc.)
CecilTeapot
Some of the Tesla goobers are posting these pics on Twitter and I just thought I’d draw your attention to the high-tech attachment system holding together the Car of the Future
BrianKrebsHaven't done this in a while, but let's take a look at some of the fine people making sure Kiwifarms stays online.
Passive DNS says kiwifarms[.]net has been resolving for at least the past 10 months through 103.114.191[.]1, which is assigned to the Autonomous System 1002.
For an AS # that low (there are tens of thousands of them), you'd think it was a big ISP. But it's not. This ISP -- Veilios Hosting -- doesn't even have a website. But it has an OG autonomous system #, and quite a bit of IP space, considering.
Who runs Veilios? A young Canadian man named Curtis Gervais. In 2014, Gervais was arrested for perpetrating more than 30 swatting attacks and bomb threats, including multiple swatting attempts of our home.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2014/05/teen-arrested-for-30-swattings-bomb-threats/
In 2017, Gervais was found guilty of those crimes and got nine months of house arrest, basically.
But I do need a place to braindump
Bluesky has become nonstop Poster’s Madness so I might hang out here today. Not doing Twitter after the whole “we love child abuse” thing
Hey Mastodon what’s up
Chris Hubbs (he/him)Oh man, this piece by @samthielman re: Jordan Neely and Daniel Penny is so, so good.
Trying to be here a little more often. I wrote this over the last several months. I hope you’ll read it and enjoy it. https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/the-comic-strip-writer-who-became-a-legend
Some artists have been caught doing horrible things in their private lives, some have abused the authority over their peers and subordinates that comes with success, and some have used fame to seek out an audience of adoring bigots. These are all very different, varyingly complex problems that ask for different responses from audiences.