the working poor suffer the most from Herr Trump’s erratic governance-by-whim

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/01/world/africa/lesotho-tariffs-textile-industry.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

I love this

https://examplecat.com/

it is most definitely a two-cup morning. I dare not work on my codebase; modules will crumble into byte-dust if I look at anything, much less modify lines.

“the special counsel, John H. Durham, went to great lengths to try to prove that several of the emails were real, only to ultimately conclude otherwise.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/us/politics/trump-clinton-emails-russia-investigation.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Have a pleasant Friday, everyone...

😱

https://arstechnica.com/health/2025/07/mark-of-the-damned-necrotic-ulcer-replaces-mans-cross-tattoo/

well, there is that benefit

to restate Mencken:

Every normal person must be tempted at times to spit upon their hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

After 3 hours or so of looking at this headscratcher from @quad9dns I realize I know less about it than when I started.

Weird weird thing.

https://mastodon.social/@quad9dns/114948517744030082

Nice - glad to see Proton add a standalone 2FA authenticator to their apps, as I hate the idea of storing TOTP in the same place as passwords.

the 2FAS app has been good for this as well, fwiw. But this is a good and laudable move by Proton to increase security and decrease app spread.

#privacy

https://proton.me/blog/authenticator-app

This is why I continue to love infosec mastodon, and our community.

I've got @hrbrmstr on my left firing off whitepapers on early activity signals

I've got @cstromblad to my right experimenting on information aggregation and sharing in all sorts of ways

@cR0w is aloft hurling CVEs and other exploit data at us in real time

@krypt3ia banging on about disinformation and AI

@hacks4pancakes doing their best to remind us not everything's fucked

and here I am, 🎵 stuck in the middle with you 🎵

Oh this looks like some seriously neat data-crunching from GreyNoise! Excited to dive into it later.

#infosec #cybersecurity

https://mastodon.social/@hrbrmstr/114948035250197965

Good morning! New research out from @DomainTools Investigations today!

We leaned on some deep natsec experience as well as available tools and data to lay out the DPRK fake IT worker scheme - the people, the infrastructure, and the behaviors involved, as well as what to watch out for.

#infosec #cybersecurity #espionage #fraud

https://dti.domaintools.com/from-laptops-to-laundromats-how-dprk-it-workers-infiltrated-the-global-remote-economy/

What the fuck

What the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck what the fuck
https://sfba.social/@jonathankoren/114947741041433681

I don'y know which title I like better: Gravy SEALs, or Meal Team 6

truth

https://mastodon.social/@Lazarou/114944746102509432

For reference, this was just one of those autistic moments of mine where the principles of a situation all line up so as to impugn the fabric of reality itself, a cosmic dumpster fire of theoretical superstrings vibrating in the most egregious way possible.

In practical terms stuff is probably okay.

started this on one of Liquitex's ~recycled~ canvases to use up the too much paint i mixed on another thing, so don't judge my adherence to nature too hard, mostly wanted to paint a specific peony from my refs dump bc it looked like the stylised ones in Tibetan art even more than usual

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCK

“when two neutrons love each other very much, they’re often too fast to sustain the relationship. So let’s talk about neutron moderators first, and then we’ll get to the wasps…”

awwwwwww

https://universeodon.com/@HollyCo26588808/114944698664788612