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Local to the general NJ/NYC/PA areas? Shit, even if you got miles to use and wanna come hang out, come join @defcon610.bsky.social for our annual CTF event. Sponsorships & gracious assists by @soberincyber.bsky.social, @seckc.org & Toool Harrisburg. defcon610.org/netrun/

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rand0h @akacki.net · 1h

I’ve been slowly pushed into repurposing our dining room into my office space. Wall needs wall things so since I kinda went apeshit printing this particular @defcon.bsky.social design I found on maker world, decided to arts n’ craft into a shadow box.

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EvilGinx 😈 @sapiosiren.bsky.social · 4h

did it hurt when you fell from the vending machine or were you always a snack

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rand0h @akacki.net · 6h

Is very cozy. That’s just half the room. Just trying to be you when I grow up.

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mrcrypt @mrcrypt.bsky.social · 23h

DEFCON isn’t something I can get to easily so, after @hope.net, this is the event I most look forward to. I will have a puzzle this year! Unleashing some ALL NEW tricks I picked up 😜 PLEASE SUPPORT and feel free to join our madness! 🏴‍☠️🫡

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DEF CON 610 @defcon610.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Heeeere we go again! This month, @akacki.net continues his unbroken streak of true Thot Leadership by talking about a novel and super niche topic you probably haven't heard of before. Trust us.

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rand0h @akacki.net · 29/09/2026

We're trying some new stuff this year for our @defcon610.bsky.social Netrun. Used be a "pub crawl" for the first 6 years but we're trying to bring a wider set of attendees this year. Anyway, with new plans come new costs. Interested in sponsoring? Holler @ me. <3 Defcon610.org/netrun

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rand0h @akacki.net · 29/09/2026

Fewer than some, more than most. There’s a thousand years worth of memories in these 11 @defcon.bsky.social badges.

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Algonquin K Farquhar II @buddhatree.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Excessive rainfall is stored in the balls

a weather pattern map that looks like balls & penis

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rand0h @akacki.net · 28/09/2026

I wanna be like you when I grow up.

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rand0h @akacki.net · 27/09/2026

There we go, much better.

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rand0h @akacki.net · 27/09/2026

Now I need more SAO’s. MANY more. coruscantventures.com/defcon-badge...

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rand0h @akacki.net · 26/09/2026

QR code for a rickroll.

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Steve Marmel @marmel.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Fuck… And I mean this from the tip of my toes to where my hair used to be… …you.

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Sara Gibbs @sararoseg.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

He imposed Shania Law

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rand0h @akacki.net · 26/09/2026

Nor’easter hitting square in NYC. Me catching the 6am home into EWR. Let’s play our game.

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rand0h @akacki.net · 25/09/2026

Aaaaand I’m spent. I blacked out for most of the talk but people told me it was good. I’ve wanted to do this for other talks so I finally got around to it. Slides, notes, & miscellaneous links available here for anyone curious. github.com/DAkacki/GrrC...

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rand0h @akacki.net · 25/09/2026

This is the hottest thing I’ve ever seen

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rand0h @akacki.net · 25/09/2026

Yeah, I’m actually gonna record mine myself just in case mostly so I can improve it for later

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rand0h @akacki.net · 25/09/2026

Day 2 of #GrrCon, let’s get it. There’s a particular vibe w/ a con where talks aren’t recorded. You gotta show up, I respect it. It does nothing for my compulsive self flagellation obsessing over post game tape of my “performance” but for everyone else this is great. grrcon.com/presentation...

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Presentations 2026 - Cyber Security and Artificial Intelligence Conference

Presentations 2026 GrrCON 2026 Presentations Two days. Four tracks. No egos. No divas. Just a good time and good content. Keynotes Thursday · OpeningGrrCON Awakening: Truth, Tactic, Talent - How Human...

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rand0h @akacki.net · 24/09/2026

Yeah dude is way round the bend. Him and Zachary Levi

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404 Media @404media.co · 24/09/2026

So Josh Hawley, noted election denier, referenced 404 Media's work throughout the Flock Senate Hearing yesterday. We are a journalist-founded and owned media publication. Hey Josh, if you're going to use our work, subscribe bro: @jasonkoebler.bsky.social www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...

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rand0h @akacki.net · 24/09/2026

Y’all…this batshit trailer played before resident evil. It’s the kind of trailer that they use to make fun of movie trailers in serious movies. youtu.be/l0pTZqZWs-c?...

youtu.be

GHOST SOLDIER - Official Trailer | (4K) Starring Jim Caviezel

YouTube video by Sony Pictures Entertainment

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SwiftOnSecurity @swiftonsecurity.com · 24/09/2026

*keeps slapping lizard button* "Hey shut up" "How dare you yell at me, dont you know lizards are imperiled by noise pollution?" *returns to slapping lizard button*l

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K. Thor Jensen @kthorjensen.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

All of the world's top tech minds are making X, The Everything App, relevant!

Matthew Rife
@RifeTechnology
Worlds #1 expert on EMFs and its effects upon the human body. Rife Systems Founder and Owner. Scientist. Author. Workaholic.

Matthew Rife
@RifeTechnology
Hello Everyone, It’s Ashley, Matthew’s finance. First of all Matthew is perfectly fine. He hooked in self up to an eeg with 265 electrodes. Im not sure the power source but he went into a seizure. We are in the ambulance now. He is unconscious, but not. Nobody unhooked anything but they tied into the eeg and is sending some sort of messages across the screen. If cook be gargled junk or it could be coherent. We dont know what’s going to happen but his organs and brain all see to be fine. Please pray for us and for God will be done here. He is not done with with Matthew yet. All I know is is called his friend Shawn Webb and said something about making carbon. That may or may not have anything to do with this but we do need his prayers. Thank you everyone.

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rand0h @akacki.net · 23/09/2026

Travel gods smiling upon me with a nice empty cabin on my way to #GrrCon.

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rand0h @akacki.net · 23/09/2026

This feels like my average work day. Am…am I AI?

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rand0h @akacki.net · 23/09/2026

Ya know, I haven't had a chance to ride in a Waymo. But I did just learn the dude who came up with it is one of the felons pardoned by Trump, went right back to being a CEO, and also founded an AI religion. So, there's that. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony...

en.wikipedia.org

Anthony Levandowski - Wikipedia

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rand0h @akacki.net · 22/09/2026

Miss you moooooore

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

These are Axon activity reports. They are equivalent to Flock's network audits that let us reveal cops were doing Flock lookups for ICE, and a cop searched Flock nationwide for a woman who self-administered an abortion. You can now get this for Axon www.404media.co/is-your-city...

timestamped records of license plate lookups in axon

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rand0h @akacki.net · 19/09/2026

“Buckle up, motherfuckers.” - from “More, Everything, Forever” by @adambecker.bsky.social

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Joshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 19/09/2026

Never has it been more crucial to post adorable pet photos

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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rand0h @akacki.net · 19/09/2026

“Modern AI systems based on ‘neural networks’ claim to have an architecture inspired by neurons, but they bear the same resemblance to a real brain that a raincloud emoji has to a nor’easter.” @adambecker.bsky.social I like how this dude writes. www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/adam-...

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More Everything Forever

This "smart and wonderfully readable" (New York Times) exposé shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death...

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Micah @rincewind.run · 19/09/2026

I do not think that AI will collapse but I do think Oracle might and it’s an outcome we should all be rooting for mightily

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God @thegodshow.com · 19/09/2026

JD Vance: "Give us another chance." Another chance to kill more people with ICE, to raise grocery prices even higher, or to send Americans overseas to die in Epstein distraction wars? Get fucked.

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rand0h @akacki.net · 19/09/2026

Question for the group, what are some examples of the stupidest, most egregious marketing hype you've ever seen around AI? Links, screenshots, whatever you got.

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The Volatile Mermaid @ohnoshetwitnt.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I understand that everything is really fucked up, but I implore you to stop telling people not to make jokes about it. We are hanging on by a thread and some of us have no other means of coping.

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Dr. Sarah Parcak @indyfromspace.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I bet they'll do a gang bang up job

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