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Adam J O’Donnell @adamjodonnell.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Paging @greatdismal.bsky.social … “High power costs, an unreliable grid and the availability of cheap panels made the nation China’s third-largest solar export market last year, and the equipment has become so ubiquitous that it’s now even being used as wedding dowry.”

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Christopher Hale @christopherjhale.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

NEW: On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy told Catholics to “fight every dimension” of the Trump administration’s war on immigrants and to replace politicians who tolerate it. “In abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and of the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.”

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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants

Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Hey, cyberpeople. Help a PhD student out. Did you recently write or supervise a vendor's research report or release research on a blog? Maybe you dropped a vuln at a conference? In general, did you do something that, if we were in any other industry, would be an academic paper? Let me know.

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 08/09/2026

@adamjodonnell.bsky.social we can find people to help Joe out, right?

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Stacey Burns @wentrogue.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Jennifer Nelson’s entry to this year’s Minnesota State Fair crop art

A localized version of Guernica with a loon at the center and a person holding an ICE OUT sign

“My piece was inspired by Picasso's Guernica, a work that was his response to the Nazi's bombing of the Basque town. I thought there was a fitting parallel between these incidents about the high price paid by ordinary people when aggressive regimes try out new tactics of war, as well as a fitting juxtaposition of the darkness of living such an experience and the light we shone through it in our own resistance and care for one another. The patterns near Renee Good and Alex Pretti’s mouths are actually their last words in Morse code: ‘I’m not mad at you,’ and ‘Are you okay?’”

Jennifer Nelson

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DilDog 🅅 @dildog.l0pht.com · 11/07/2026

---===/ cDc DAY /===--- 2026 2026 7/11 2026 2026 HEAL THE LEPERS RAISE THE DEAD CULT OF THE DEAD COW IS IN YOUR HEAD

CULT OF THE DEAD COW

Fantasy-style book cover

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Lauri Donahue @lauridonahue.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

futurism.com/future-socie... lol

As one New York financier told Financial Times journalist Gillian Tett, new hires who were seen as “AI natives” are turning out to have alarmingly shallow ideas. So much so, the anonymous finance worker admitted, that his firm now actively avoids seeking out AI-literate STEM graduates, and opts to comb through humanities students instead.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

In 2017, Criselda Vasquez painted this portrait of her parents and titled it "The New American Gothic." Last month, her father, the man in this portrait, was abducted by ICE after being in the US for 30+ years. The family is now struggling with bills. A GoFundMe has been started: gofund.me/456d8a193

A painting of a man and a woman standing in front of a red Chevrolet truck. The man is holding a hoe; the woman is holding a bucket with house cleaning supplies.

The artist's two parents stand proudly in front of the painting.

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William Shakespeare @shakespeare.lol · 09/04/2026

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

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Dean Preston @deanpreston.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

“The Iran war increasingly looks not only like another shocking humiliation but perhaps the greatest strategic blunder in American military history.”

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 20/02/2026

My wife @debdebdeb.bsky.social and I are heartbroken to share the sad news that our old friend @jasonsnitker.bsky.social AKA Parmaster, has passed away.

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Constantine @ajaxsinger.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

A year ago, we were on the cusp of turning many cancers into chronic rather than terminal diseases through immunotherapy and mRNA vaccines. Today, we're working through the curative qualities of a magical horse paste instead.

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National Cancer Institute studying ivermectin’s ‘ability to kill cancer cells,’ alarming career scientists

The National Cancer Institute is studying ivermectin as a potential cancer treatment, according to its top official, alarming career scientists.

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Dave Vetter @davidrvetter.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I have been overwhelmed by friends and readers reaching out in kindness and with appreciation for my work. It comes as more of a shock than it should, were we not in a time of such hatred and vitriol, and has done me so much good that I am seriously considering getting fired more often. THANK YOU.

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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 02/02/2026

Ok, that is some excellent news.

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Professa Murray @kalimurray.bsky.social · 30/01/2026

1/I have been tracking the Mobile Fortify Database. The most accurate public information is the privacy tech assessment waved through by the Privacy Officer of DHS. A key point: (1) it is based off the CPB Travel Verification App; and (2) it was only supposed to track detained immigrants.

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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 27/01/2026

The misnomered 'mansion tax' below makes no distinction, in its language, between single- and multi-family housing — so by applying to multifamily projects worth $5M in a city where single-family homes cost >$1M, the tax has sharply throttled apartment construction. As was the intention, I suspect.

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Molly Ploofkins @mollyploofkins.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Alex Pretti’s coworkers take a moment of silence this morning

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 25/01/2026

Walz: "We have got children in Minnesota hiding in their houses, afraid to go outside. Many of us grew up reading that story of Anne Frank. Somebody is gonna write that children's story about Minnesota."

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 08/01/2026

“The Conscience of a Hacker” by The Mentor is 40 years old today.

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

It looks like it's been scrubbed from every official 60 Minutes page now. It's only a 30-second promo but here it is if you didn't get a chance to see it.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

60 Minutes, dead at 57. The murder weapon was Bari Weiss.

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Fred, His Enemy Getting a Vote @thefred.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Spiking a news story the day before publication to protect an authoritarian regime is like stuffing ballot boxes after the polls close to rig an election. It's not how the pros do it; if you waited that long, you're already in trouble; and you're not fooling anyone.

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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

News Team,
Thank you for the notes and texts. I apologize for not reaching out earlier.
I learned on Saturday that Bari Weiss spiked our story, INSIDE CECOT, which was supposed to air tonight. We (Ori and I) asked for a call to discuss her decision. She did not afford us that courtesy/opportunity.
Our story was screened five times and cleared by both CBS attorneys and Standards and Practices. It is factually correct. In my view, pulling it now-after every rigorous internal check has been met is not an editorial decision, it is a political one.
We requested responses to questions and/or interviews with DHS, the White House, and the State Department. Government silence is a statement, not a VETO. Their refusal to be interviewed is a tactical maneuver designed
to kill the story.
If the administration's refusal to participate becomes a valid reason to spike a story, we

have effectively handed them a "kill switch" for any reporting they find inconvenient.
If the standard for airing a story becomes
"the government must agree to be
interviewed," then the government effectively gains control over the 60 Minutes broadcast.
We go from an investigative powerhouse to a stenographer for the state.
These men risked their lives to speak with us.
We have a moral and professional obligation to the sources who entrusted us with their
stories. Abandoning them now is a betrayal of the most basic tenet of journalism: giving voice to the voiceless.
CBS spiked the Jeffrey Wigand interview due to legal concerns, nearly destroying the credibility of this broadcast. It took years to recover from that "low point." By pulling this story to shield an administration, we are repeating that history, but for political optics rather than legal ones.

We have been promoting this story on social media for days. Our viewers are expecting it.
When it fails to air without a credible
explanation, the public will correctly identify this as corporate censorship. We are trading 50 years of "Gold Standard" reputation for a single week of political quiet.
I care too much about this broadcast to watch
it be dismantled without a fight.
Sharyn

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NPR @npr.org · 22/12/2025

Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020. n.pr/3MKbmJH

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Rick Steves steps in to save Seattle-area hygiene center serving homeless residents

Steves purchased the property to prevent it from closing. Many homeless people had come to depend on the Lynnwood Hygiene Center, which had operated rent-free on the property since 2020.

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lodrina.bsky.social @lodrina.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

Checking out the NYT Book Review nod to @joemenn.bsky.social Cult of the Dead Cow paperback? Want to support privacy focused technologies? Get some swag for giving back here: forms.gle/cg5AeZCYR6v7...

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

NYT online today.

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The Official Pulpit of CULT OF THE DEAD COW @cultdeadcow.com · 19/12/2025

www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFnO... Important Holiday Content from cDc's spiritual herdmates, The Dead Milkmen!

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Santa Claus is Coming for Your Eyes

YouTube video by The Dead Milkmen

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

mixed use, walkable neighborhoods. rome, 1967

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V_To_The_K 🅅 @v-to-the-k.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Woohoo. New book. Well, the second copy of this book but this one is updated. My old copy will be donated to my lending library I have in front of my house. Thank you @medus4.com and @cultdeadcow.com for an awesome read.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

People ask what it’s like to work inside the media meltdown. It used to be like musical chairs. Now it’s the opening scene in Saving Private Ryan.

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The Official Pulpit of CULT OF THE DEAD COW @cultdeadcow.com · 18/11/2025

CULT OF THE DEAD COW can neither confirm nor deny widespread media reports that the Revised Edition of the cDc book contains ascii art of Dildog's butt and/or the activation codes for the cDc Monster Truck Launcher buried somewhere beneath the Mojave desert.

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Chris Wysopal @weld.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

I'm heartbroken to share that my friend of 30 yrs, Arthur Phillip Delchi, @delchi.bsky.social, DJ Delchi, has left us. A founding force behind DEF CON’s Hackers with Disabilities, a member of cDc Ninja Strike Force, a L0pht regular who DJed our wildest parties (two of those moments captured below)

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Marc Rogers @cjunky.bsky.social · 16/11/2025

We are the mighty and the chosen. Our power cannot be contained. cultdeadcow.com/nsf/

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tweety fish oh wow like a chimera or something spoooky @sifu.tweety.fish · 16/11/2025

@delchi.bsky.social was SUCH a huge cDcNSF booster and organizer. He had a tough time of it, and it affected him a lot of ways, some of which were hard for him and others, but man he put in the work. He was particularly focused on disability access and awareness at hacker cons. RIP.

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The Official Pulpit of CULT OF THE DEAD COW @cultdeadcow.com · 16/11/2025

*FINAL MUSTER* CULT OF THE DEAD COW is saddened to report that longtime cDc Ninja Strike Force member, Delchi, has passed over the great rainbow teleconference bridge. He can now be found amongst the most blessed celestial engineers, venerating the great DemonSeed Elite, k-rad be his name. **

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Beto O’Rourke @betoorourke.bsky.social · 15/11/2025

Spent the evening in San Antonio talking with Texans about the importance of running for a place on the ballot—from local offices to the State House. If we field a strong candidate for every office, we not only have a much stronger chance of flipping seats down ballot but also at winning statewide.

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

The average SNAP benefit per month is $177 a person. The average ACA benefit per month is up to $550 a person. People want us to hold the line for a reason. This is not a matter of appealing to a base. It’s about people’s lives. And working people want leaders whose word means something to them.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

Just arrived: Advance copies of the first revised edition of Cult of the Dead Cow.

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Beto O’Rourke @betoorourke.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

If we’re unable to organize politically, freely contest political decisions, peacefully and democratically vie for power, then we no longer live in a democracy. At that point, we’re once again subjects. That’s why we’re fighting so hard for our rights in TX. www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

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Beto O’Rourke: How Texas can save America

Big media, law firms and the Ivy League are bending the knee. We Texans are fighting back.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 28/08/2025

Trump's tariffs causes SSENSE to file for bankruptcy protection. Devastating to small designers, as SSENSE is an important retailer for them.

Business of Fashion headline reads: "Ssense to File for Bankruptcy Protection After Creditors Push for Sale
The Canadian luxury e-tailer told employees on Thursday that the filing was necessary as tariffs took an unexpected toll on the business, and to preempt a forced sale by lenders, BoF has learned."

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The Official Pulpit of CULT OF THE DEAD COW @cultdeadcow.com · 28/08/2025

cDc SUPPORTS STAFF AT OUR DIFFERENTLY CAPITALIZED ORGANIZATIONAL HOMONYM WHO ARE WALKING OUT IN RESPONSE TO FASCIST OVERREACH

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Beto O’Rourke @betoorourke.bsky.social · 14/08/2025

These guys are in full panic mode.

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The Official Pulpit of CULT OF THE DEAD COW @cultdeadcow.com · 08/08/2025

**CULT OF THE DEAD COW COMMUNIQUE - PRIORITY 00A1** THE HERD HATH CHOSEN ITS OWN - BE ALL AND SUNDRY AWARE: @biascilab.bsky.social now walks amongst us, the Elite of the Elite. Thus it has been spoken, thus it is done. BOW TO THE COW / WORD TO THE HERD **COMMUNIQUE ENDS**

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Beto O’Rourke @betoorourke.bsky.social · 17/07/2025

Back on Bluesky (to stay), wanted to share what I’m up to. Held a town hall in Charlotte (see below) earlier in the week. There’s power in people coming together and listening to one another. If you get a chance to watch some of it, let me know what you think. www.youtube.com/live/cRettGN...

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Live from North Carolina for a Powered by People Town Hall

YouTube video by Beto O'Rourke

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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

It's still insane to me how many people are in complete denial about the, objectively speaking, historic excellence of the US economy under Biden. The right-wing "up-is-down" disinformation campaign was incredibly successful at pushing the lie that the economy was somehow bad.

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Dave Baltrus 🦦 @surtlab.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

All NSF GRFPs to students choosing to attend Harvard in the Fall were just terminated

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