Satan 
Stop offering me goats wtf.
soonergrunt
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US Veteran. Generally likes capybaras more than people.
Dan Froomkin/presswatchers.orgRT @froomkin
Almost every Washington Post political news story I read these days feels like it was written by someone absolutely terrified of the right wing and not remotely confident that their editors would back them up. https://presswatchers.org/2023/02/the-washington-post-is-doomed-without-a-major-reset/
Almost every Washington Post political news story I read these days feels like it was written by someone absolutely terrified of the right wing and not remotely confident that their editors would back them up. https://presswatchers.org/2023/02/the-washington-post-is-doomed-without-a-major-reset/
The Washington Post is doomed without a major reset - Press Watch
New ownership, with a powerful sense of public service, could take advantage of the huge opportunity to become the world leader in U.S. political and government news presented by the abysmal failure of the industry-leading New York Times to adjust to the asymmetry of the current political environment.
serious business 
Let's do a quick #OopSec postmortem on this dickwizard Nikolas Sharp, who tried to ransom his employer Ubiquiti for 50 BTC (~$1.5MM at the time) after pilfering internal files.
* Operated from his home address and home internet connection. Thus, when his VPN failed, his system touched Ubiquiti servers using his home IP, which obviously implicated him.
Lesson: Never operate from your home, and if you must, don't use your own internet connection.
Lesson: Configure your VPN connection to fail safe.
* Used a commercial VPN paid with his own PayPal account with his name on it. (Even if his VPN hadn't failed, they probably could have gotten him on this anyway.)
Lesson: Use an onion router like Tor or pay for a VPN with cash or crypto
* Lied to the FBI. This is almost certainly netting him extra prison time.
Lesson: Don't talk to cops. Shut the fuck up!
And finally, this last one really defies reason:
* After the FBI *raided his house* , he went out and leaked a bunch of information to the press, whose reporting resulted in the Ubiquiti stock price taking a dive. As if LEO and the company weren't already incentivized to crucify this straw-brained sackcloth and flannel mockery of a human being, he went out and gave them even more reason and urgency to throw him in a cage.
Lesson: Once again, shut the fuck up!
Don't do crimes, kids, but if you are compelled by fortune or circumstance, maybe come up with a plan that doesn't unravel the moment everything doesn't go perfectly for you.
The BleepingComputer writeup on the story, and the link to a PDF of the indictment docs here: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/former-ubiquiti-dev-pleads-guilty-to-trying-to-extort-his-employer/
Former Ubiquiti dev pleads guilty to trying to extort his employer
Nickolas Sharp, a former Ubiquiti employee who managed the networking device maker's cloud team, pled guilty today to stealing gigabytes worth of files from Ubiquiti's network and trying to extort his employer while posing as an anonymous hacker and a whistleblower.
mtswPart of the reason they are shutting down the API and the third party clients is because they don't want to make it possible for researchers to verify that users are increasingly getting propaganda injected into their feeds (and Musk-hostile tweets and accounts getting silenced)
Rolling Stone“As veterans, we have sworn an oath to our Constitution — and actually understand it; not like the Oath Keepers, right? We’re the real keepers of that oath.” https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/nazi-hunter-fascism-antifa-veteran-1234672732/
MOVED 
Jessica LussenhopThis. Is. FASCINATING: “The vaccine, which contains dead versions of the bacterium Paenibacillus larvae, comes in the form of food. The vaccine is incorporated into royal jelly, a sugar feed given to queen bees. Once they ingest it, the vaccine is then deposited in their ovaries, giving developing larvae immunity as they hatch.” https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/07/science/honeybee-vaccine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
Jen Fraser
PwnallthethingsSo this is interesting. Remember the couple of cases of people shooting at four electrical substations near Tacoma in Washington State, seemingly without obvious reasons on Christmas?
Well, two people just got arrested for it. And it's an interesting story.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-wdwa/press-release/file/1560621/download
God 