Why is broccoli even in a web server

UK 1815-1914: Peak British empire influence
1920: Peak territory, covering 1/4 of earth
1947-1997: Decolonization and empire decline
2026: "Ahem: But we just passed a law declaring ourselves ruler of the world so now we own all of it."

Just so you know, everyone *else* is getting tons of PHP shells but NOT YOU.

Just so you know, everyone *else* is getting tons of PHP shells but NOT YOU.

"Look up candidates on [sample ballot link] - ignore federal, governor, attorney general. For each contested justice, judge, or appraisal district candidate find differentiating factors, summarize their experience and probable policy leanings"

has saved me soooo much time over doing all these searches manually.

We should have listened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rd1rj2Rp00Y&t=23s

Me: "If feds get your unlocked Signal, they can ID everyone you talk to regardless of whether they use usernames" ... several months later ... "Police get one ShinyHunter unlocked Signal then rapidly arrest others"

Signal is terrible OPSEC for anonymity.
https://scriptjunkie.us/2026/01/tracking-signal-identifiers/

We finally found the source of the mysterious random numbers at the base of the NIST elliptic curves. Just a bunch of rand (lrand48) calls seeded with Unix timestamps from the 90's.

But I want to believe they're part of a backdoor conspiracy :-(
https://www.anthropic.com/research/ecdsa-curve-origins

Now saying production starting in 2028 so, no, you're not getting one anytime soon and no way the prod versions are going to let you do this. But what a way to demo the raw power.

Wow, that's downforce... WHAT
https://x.com/SawyerMerritt/status/2110901817441948006

https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/trezor-wallets-also-compromised-with-implants/

Got stopped by stormtroopers looking for a couple of missing droids for some reason but other than that, the trip was fun.

I like my new shipping company, but to pick up a container from the dock, they insist on going to port 3389

I guess Tao didn't have acne as a kid. I'm jealous.

Here's another good example. Study documents how AI dramatically improves the lives of hearing impaired people across many measures. Huge news! And ~15% of US adults have some hearing trouble. Hugely relevant! Did any reporters cover it? Lol no.

😂 GUILTY
https://www.amazon.com/slc/hub?useAiMode=1

This newly-memory safe ImageMagick now runs image processing on social.scriptjunkie.us. It's slower (big png->jpg here) but image conversion doesn't use much CPU. So being able to magic wand away one of the biggest and most dangerous attack surfaces on the server is pretty neat.