July 27, 2022

Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated

This story is remarkable and getting very little attention.

ajc.comEXCLUSIVE: Atlanta federal pen nearly vacant amid corruption investigationAn investigation into alleged corruption at the U.S. Penitentiary in Atlanta has led federal officials to reassign or replace several prison staffers and transfer roughly 1,1000 offenders to facilities out of state, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has learned.

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Bonnie Tangey @BonnieTangey

Wrote, “will you marry me?” in the sand. Hope it fucks up a couples holiday.

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@mikko @mikko

MCH2022 conference has now uploaded a video of dwangoAC's talk on how to get the Triforce on a Nintendo 64. It's much more technical than you might expect. youtube.com/watch?v=32D9PY…

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Megan Gates @mgngates

He allegedly stole a dead baby's identity, spent 20 years in the U.S. Coast Guard, and continues to hold a security clearance. He's now facing conspiracy and aggravated identity theft charges.

thedailybeast.comKGB Photo Deepens Mystery of Texas Couple Who Stole Dead Babies’ Identities, Feds SayWalter Glenn Primrose, 67, spent 20 years in the Coast Guard as someone else, and now works as a cleared defense contractor in Hawaii.

Weird story about the kgb maybe spies … covered by Christopher Burgess

https://news.clearancejobs.com/2022/07/26/cosplay-or-kgb-the-weird-story-of-a-coast-guard-vet-and-his-wife-who-stole-dead-infants-identities/

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Tuck the Tech @Tuckthetech

If you’ve ever wondered if the USDA has an plan for disposing of horses with explosives… wonder no more.

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Matthijs R. Koot @mrkoot

GPSJam - daily worldwide map of GPS interference derived from aircraft ADS-B transponder data gpsjam.org Excellent project by @lemonodor. HN: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=322453…

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Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!

https://media.ccc.de/v/mch2022-196-signal-you-were-the-chosen-one-

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Darth Putin @DarthPutinKGB

I've decided to make NFTs of all my tanks so that when Ukraine destroys the real tank, I still have a tank and nothing has changed & my invasion can continue. I remain a master strategist.

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Matty @bestestname

Going to put a "Student Driver" sticker on my car and just drive however the fuck I want

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Nick Jones @nojonesuk

secwiki.cloud is our internal cloud knowledgebase, and this release is a culmination of work from 33 of our current staff and alumni going back to 2018. Some thoughts on the wiki, and why I pushed for us to release it:🧵

WithSecure™ @WithSecure

It's cloudy today... and that’s a good thing. Our Global Cloud team has officially released our internal cloud security documentation to the world. Check it out at https://t.co/U0S3tz2Vwe And if you want to help make cloud security a bit clearer, please contribute 🌤🌤

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Shashank Joshi @shashj

Fascinating profile. "The main source of this research consists of original, in-depth oral history interviews with former double agent “M.” He operated from the 1960s through the 1990s for the Dutch Security Service and the CIA against the [Stasi]"

tandfonline.comBetween a Rock and a Hard Place: The Precarious State of a Double Agent during the Cold WarWhile scholarly literature has paid attention to human intelligence professionalism from the perspective of the agent handler, we know relatively little about the precarious positions in which (dou...

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Fuad Alakbarov ⁠⁠ @DrAlakbarov

Thread. Photos of monuments from Yugoslavia known as spomeniks are often shared online, exoticised and wrenched from context.

Database here:

https://www.spomenikdatabase.org

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PUNS @ThePunnyWorld

My wife told me to take the spider out instead of killing him. Went out. Had a few drinks. Nice guy. He's a web designer.

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Arrigo Triulzi @cynicalsecurity

Raymond Chen has started a new processor series on his blog covering AArch64 (aka arm64) - he has previously covered Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, x86, etc. and he is an excellent writer.

devblogs.microsoft.comThe AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 1: IntroductionMake it a double.

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Daphne Keller @daphnehk

Oh, wow. Facebook’s @OversightBoard is taking on a case about Internet Referral Units (IRUs). These are govt bodies, often police, who report content to platforms for removal — regardless of whether the content violates any laws. 1/ https://t.co/tKO44EpHfV

Eli Sugarman @EliSugarman

While all @OversightBoard cases are important, this new case about a UK music video is particularly interesting. That's because it - and all copies of it posted by other accounts - were taken down not once but twice due to UK law enforcement requests. 1/5 https://t.co/XXIu2jRaIg

More on the issue

https://www.lawfareblog.com/when-platforms-do-states-bidding-who-accountable-not-government-says-israels-supreme-court

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Wayne W. S. Hsieh @whsieh

This is an amazing piece by @ghostofchristo1. One thing that struck me about it was re-framing the anti-CCP protests in Hong Kong, which has such an outsized footprint in social media, but which were utterly crushed by the PRC security apparatus. 1/2

paroxysms.substack.comMass Affect: War and the Global Synchronisation of EmotionsOr, what’s wrong with The Current Thing?