Reposted by JakeMeredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 27/10/2025📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/ 4528291043
Reposted by JakeKatie Mack @astrokatie.com · 19/06/2025Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all. 6253660711254
Reposted by JakeRadley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 16/05/2025500K Mexican-Americans served in the U.S. armed forces in WWII, as did millions of 1st and 2nd-gen immigrants, and 109K noncitizens. Mexican immigrant Macario Garcia won the Medal of Honor in Normandy. When he returned to the US, he was was arrested for trying to eat at a segregated restaurant. 1824255776972
Reposted by JakeCarl Cecere @carlcecere.bsky.social · 17/04/2025I have a story about due process in a mass adjudicatory setting. A while back, there was this group called the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints that had a compound in rural Texas. Well these FLDS folks dressed funny (like bonnets and long dresses and suspenders and corncob pipes funny). 8704195
Reposted by JakeAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 14/04/2025Since the Trump admin continues to claim Mr. Abrego Garcia is a gang member, I thought I'd take the time to put together a timeline, based on all the documents filed in court, which lays out all the "evidence" the government has ever offered. As you'll find out, there's very little "there" there! 10746751771
Reposted by JakeLesley Carhart @hacks4pancakes.com · 06/04/2025Guys, if you’re not American don’t go to DEF CON… www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... really, reallytheguardian.comI was a British tourist trying to leave America. Then I was detained, shackled and sent to an immigration detention centreGraphic artist Rebecca Burke was on the trip of a lifetime. But as she tried to leave the US she was stopped, interrogated and branded an illegal alien by ICE. Now back home, she tells others thinking... 1121182
Reposted by JakeHis Skeletoncy, the Ghoul of Hell @timhodgson.bsky.social · 02/04/2025It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis. It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in a— 404262208282
Reposted by JakeAdam Weinstein @adamweinstein.bsky.social · 25/03/2025Apropos of nothing, remember that time the US military threw Geraldo out of Iraq for drawing a map on TV? "He gave away the big picture stuff," one stunned senior military official told CNN. "He went down in the sand and drew where the forces are going." www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/m... 7464101
Reposted by JakeGerry Canavan @gerrycanavan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025every college, corporate, and nonprofit president right now 121160464816
Reposted by JakePopehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 21/03/2025The most obvious thing about this is it is evil and sociopathic. But there’s another element: speaking as someone who has both prosecuted fraudsters and defended people very wrongfully accused of being fraudsters, it’s absolute bullshit. /1 13137411030
Reposted by Jakeevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 19/03/2025If you're critical of the US government and you are planning to cross the US border any time soon, today is a good day to review EFF's border search pocket guide: www.eff.org/document/eff...eff.orgEFF Border Search Pocket Guideborder-pocket-guide-2.pdf 6423331428
Reposted by JakeRobert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/03/2025Trump did this in 2020 btw while he assassinated Michael Reinoehl. some of us tried to warn about it but as soon as Biden won there was no real desire among elected Dems to hold anyone accountable for stuff like that 201392244
Reposted by JakeTeen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 16/03/2025What exactly is behind that distrust, particularly in the measles vaccine? Here’s how the fully debunked and false conspiracy theories about the measles vaccine came to be.teenvogue.comHere's Where Those False Measles Vaccine Conspiracy Theories Came FromThe MMR vaccine is safe, effective, and the best tool to stop the current outbreak. So why do all those false conspiracy theories persist? 7387102
Reposted by JakeBen Werdmuller @werd.io · 16/03/2025This is absurdly great, but I haven't read a single news article about it. A fully open source, offline-first alternative to Notion that's a collab between the French and German governments because they want to host docs securely and on their own terms. THIS is what Europe should be doing.docs.numerique.gouv.frDocsDocs: Your new companion to collaborate on documents efficiently, intuitively, and securely. 23508175
Reposted by Jakejamelle @jamellebouie.net · 16/03/2025"dei medal" you might as well just put "n*gger medal" because that's what they mean to say 13445118912493
Reposted by JakeMike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/03/2025Haven't seen this reported anywhere but a judge overseeing Florida's attempt to age gate all social media pointed to the failure of D&D to make him worship Satan as a kid to suggest the state needs actual evidence, and not just vibes about a social media moral panic. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/11/j...techdirt.comJudge Uses D&D’s Failure To Make Him Worship Satan To School Florida On Social Media Moral PanicsWhen Florida’s lawyers tried to defend the state’s social media age restriction law by claiming it’s “well known” that platforms harm children, they probably werenR… 11651091453
Reposted by JakeSwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 09/03/2025Oh! She has! In at least one interview she talked about the briefings she's received on counter-intelligence. She has made music videos to click tracks instead of audio so it wouldn't leak. Taylor Swift is a legitimate security expert like almost nobody in the world. She has to be. She's the target. 191171190
Reposted by JakeJen Gentleman @jenmsft.bsky.social · 27/02/2025Fun fact - on Windows, if you press WIN + Period(.), it includes ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ to make it easy if you want to put it in a message, and I'm the one that added it 871176141
Reposted by JakeCypurr Collective @cypurr.org · 18/02/2025Helpful lil privacy checklist guide for activists: activistchecklist.orgactivistchecklist.orgDigital Security Checklists for ActivistsPlain language steps for digital security, because protecting yourself helps keep your whole community safer. Built by activists, for activists with field-tested, community-verified guides. 08749
Reposted by JakeDevourer of Wordles @nomnomnomdeplumb.bsky.social · 06/02/20251. After a very manly bubble bath to cleanse my soul, I remembered a story. It's a true story, one about the difference between frugality, and being cheap, and why frugality is a good idea, cheapness is not. This happens in my home state of Louisiana, and I was told the story over thanksgiving meal 611332
Reposted by JakeStef "inclusion is a human right" Christensen @wikisteff.bsky.social · 12/02/2025Via @zlz.bsky.social on X: "The DOGE website appears to be developed and hosted by Outburst Data, run by current DOGE employee Kyle Schutt. If you view the source of any page on the DOGE website, you'll see that the images are proxied through Cloudflare's ImageDelivery service. 6339130
Reposted by JakeCullen Hendrix @cullenhendrix.bsky.social · 12/02/2025If you've ever used the Polity data, read this from Monty Marshall. tl;dr Polity is coding recent US events as an executive self-coup and an adverse regime change. 4833171514
Reposted by JakeMushtaq Bilal, PhD @mushtaqbilalphd.bsky.social · 07/02/2025Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013. 5174773987
Reposted by JakeMarisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 07/02/2025New — The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) was told this week by DOJ that they'd lose their funding if the org didn't remove any mentions of LGBTQIA+ issues from their public materials, I've learned. Staff were told they need to deadname trans kids in their reports to comply. 620132365814
Reposted by Jakeevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 04/02/2025I'm just going to leave Freedom of the Press Foundation's excellent guide to leaking to the press right here in case anyone happens to need it: freedom.press/digisec/blog...freedom.pressHere’s how to share sensitive leaks with the pressThinking about securely leaking information to news organizations? This guide will show you how. 2528350
Reposted by JakeChad Loder @chadloder.dev · 26/01/2025Documents from a Utah offshoot of the rightwing Oath Keepers militia show that two 2023 leadership meetings of the extremist group were attended by former law enforcement officers, a serving prosecutor and a former elected official.theguardian.comLaw enforcement joined meetings of far-right Oath Keepers, leak showsDocuments uncover ties between extremist group and conservative politics, police and legal establishment in Utah 27757289
Reposted by JakeJamison Foser @jamisonfoser.bsky.social · 22/01/2025White House reporters are excited that after four years of boring interviews with subject-matter experts they now get the adrenaline rush that comes from the personal attention of a president who threatens to have them executed. www.cjr.org/political_pr... 42752561516
Reposted by JakeAnnika Barber @annikabarber.bsky.social · 21/01/2025If anyone happens to need it this week for...reasons...this is the best graphic on the complexity of human sex determination I've ever seen. I use it in an undergrad course on gene regulatory mechanisms. Shoutout to @unamandita.bsky.social! www.scientificamerican.com/article/beyo...scientificamerican.comBeyond XX and XY: The Extraordinary Complexity of Sex DeterminationA host of factors figure into whether someone is female, male or somewhere in between 34814406
Reposted by JakeAleks 🌙 @shay3li.bsky.social · 18/01/2025✨️ Today is my birthday! ✨️ So continuing the tradition from twitter I would like to ask you to reshare my art! 🖤 I wish you a nice and positive day, spend it well and calmly 🖤 #art 3323185
Reposted by JakeJosh Sternberg @joshsternberg.com · 16/01/2025OnlyFans model creates SFW content on PornHub, publishes post to LinkedIn explaining that she gets a much higher rate on PornHub vs YouTube ($1,000 per million views on Pornhub versus YouTube’s $340), and then LinkedIn takes down her post and bans her. www.404media.co/why-this-onl...404media.coWhy This OnlyFans Model Posts Machine Learning Explainers to PornhubJustice Alito should watch this Pornhub video about calculus. 9036431039
Reposted by Jakemore mr. spice guy @juniorhoncho.bsky.social · 15/01/2025you hear Crouching Tiger and you're thinking, well that's gotta be the most fearsome and best camouflaged creature in this title, 3549421055
Reposted by Jakederek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/01/2025The year is 2035. I meet President AOC in the Oval Office. "You've done well," she says. "By telling men to dress gay, you've lowered the population rate by 90%, thereby reducing carbon emissions." She slides me a manilla envelope. I can now afford a home in a walkable neighborhood 668497615456
Reposted by Jakeevacide @evacide.bsky.social · 08/01/2025Gotta love how being a content moderator in California is "bias" but being a content moderator in Texas is not. 618825
Reposted by JakeZack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 26/12/2024For the past few holiday seasons, @carlypage.bsky.social and I have looked back at the badly handled data breaches of the year in the hope — maybe! — companies would learn from the mistakes from yesteryear. Nope! Here's our list of security shitshows for 2024. techcrunch.com/2024/12/26/b...techcrunch.comThese were the badly handled data breaches of 2024 | TechCrunchBlaming victims, months of silence, and suing security researchers all featured in cybersecurity in 2024. 03721
Reposted by JakeVicki Meanieheart 👿 @violence.gay · 26/12/2024harley quinn telling the joker she saw robin 131560464
Reposted by JakeSam TheCravenOne @seemsgood.lol · 26/12/2024The Grinch is the first man to “Become The Joker” 061
Reposted by JakeEncephalophatass (Any pronouns) @encephalophatass.bsky.social · 18/12/2024The trans panic is just a rehash of old homophobic ideas, Exhibit A. 4235911123
Reposted by Jake💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING! 2534597620852
Reposted by Jake🌵 Elise Stickles 🍁 @elisestickles.bsky.social · 23/12/2024Recently talked to a student who admitted to using ChatGPT as a study device - by feeding it all of the class lecture slides and having it generate summaries. So now OpenAI has ownership of all the slides my co-instructor and I created from scratch… 1092033489
