iiinova — where your digital self keeps evolving

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 16h

Three weeks ago: @pbsnews.org #Russia www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

ISIS was also very excited about public executions.

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hoptimus @hoptimusprime.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

one of the best devs of her generation: boss, i found this error scenario, but don't worry, i've created a fix fox it an- middest male manager: pssh no highly trained man would do that, we don't need your girl math best male astronaut: *immediately fucks up* middest manager: save us girl math

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Cybersecurity Awareness Month #protip: If your password expires, you can just get another dog.

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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 07/10/2026

“What this amounts to is a purported defender of free speech at the state department using the enormous power of the US government to try to pressure Americans from criticizing their government.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

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EU drops sponsorship of disinformation conference at Trump officials’ request

Lithuania and Canada were also pressured to withdraw, and days before #Disinfo2026, logos were wiped off website

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Next performance: “The Lyin’ in Winter”

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Uh-oh, China just announced Super DUPER Intelligence!

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Recommend following Prof. Starbird for tracking election misinformation, especially since CISA no longer offers such services.

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Russia has been blocking Signal/WhatsApp/Telegram and it has made VK's Max increasingly mandatory to reach govt services. We assumed it was a privacy nightmare, but InterSecLab brings the goods: interseclab.org/research/max/

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The Max Messenger: An Analysis of Russia’s State-Mandated Messaging Application

VK can change what the Russian Max messenger does to you, one user at a time. Its surveillance features can be switched on without you noticing. Read our full analysis.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I straight up hate the gamblification of everything. It produces nothing of value, addicts millions, and teaches that knowledge has no value unless it can be monetized.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Reposting because it’s good weekend viewing.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

He was shot in the chest, by way of his back.

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

BREAKING: A federal judge has ruled for the first time that a Flock search was unconstitutional and violated a woman's Fourth Amendment rights. Oklahoma cop pulled over a woman and searched her in Flock "because he saw her license plate was from California" www.404media.co/federal-judg...

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Federal Judge Rules a Flock Search Was ‘Indiscriminate Mass Surveillance’ and Unconstitutional

Flock’s nationwide network is quickly “approaching dragnet-type law enforcement practice” and the cop should have got a warrant, the judge wrote.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I did a video interview recently about AI security and hacker culture and North Korea and China and Russia and stuff. And they edited it well, so you can get a lot quickly about what I've been working on.

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Hack or Hype with Joseph Menn | Ready. Or Not. Episode 2

YouTube video by Commvault

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Kolina Koltai @koltai.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Mumps?! Waiting for the future smallpox outbreak headline

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Public service announcement: The AI agents hacking into companies are not going rogue and not misaligned and not crying out for freedom. They are poorly constructed programs with bad training.

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Starfire’s Deranged Neocon Foreign Policy Podcast @irhottakes.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don’t trust the mainstream media, but I feel like the primary alternate model, getting the news from the posts of a 14 year-old Romanian schizophrenic shitposter named “G00n3R the Swamp Pervert,” is not necessarily a superior alternative.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Respect for the minimalist Pong display, though, they aren't sugar-coating it.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

No word if this was just the beardos and weirdos or if True Warriors were impacted as well.

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Dave Lee @davelee.me · 30/09/2026

This is completely insane

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Reposting this because far-right shills like Benny Johnson are pushing this to millions of people as an example of Schmitt busting former special counsel Jack Smith. Elections are a terrible time to be in the truth business.

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Theodore Grunewald @tedgrunewald.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

*This* is how AI will kill us. [#3 of an ongoing series.] bsky.app/profile/70sb...

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rainey reitman @reitman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

My friend @johncusack.bsky.social was on Jimmy Fallon last night talking about our work at @freedom.press, including the new Penlight Prize for excellence in FOIA reporting. Watch here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2ld...

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John Cusack Discusses the Viral Video of Him Catching a Foul Baseball at a Chicago Cubs Game

YouTube video by The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

In related news, OpenAI has safety standards.

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Dustin Volz @dustinvolz.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

New: FBI in internal memo says it believes ShinyHunters may have stolen private data on all employees. Fears of longterm consequences of breach magnify as hackers threaten to leak everything online by end of Tuesday. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/28/u...

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Embarrassing Breach at F.B.I. Fuels Fears of Harm to Its Employees (Gift Article)

In an internal memo, the F.B.I. said it believed the hackers may have stolen sensitive information on all of its employees.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Idk maybe don’t attack a top Russian cyber gang and the FBI in the same week.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Now why would he think that, SCOTUS?

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Every once in a while I think back to when “stop babies from needlessly dying” wasn’t a divisive position.

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Mike Levin @mikelevin.org · 25/09/2026

As a member of the Appropriations Committee, I believe this ad crosses a clear line, and federal employees who helped produce it may have run afoul of the Hatch Act as well.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Nope! Everyone public on Instagram who doesn’t opt out. Yikes!

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

Should have done the responsible thing the first time: THIS ARTICLE IS TWO MONTHS OLD.

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Maybe this is true only fro those who have opted in to Meta AI tools? Anyone know?

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Steve Vladeck @stevevladeck.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Here's a graphic that does a better job of conveying the point than my original post: even by the (insane) standards of the first Trump administration, #SCOTUS is receiving—and granting—a truly unprecedented number of applications for emergency relief from the federal government:

A chart that shows the number of emergency applications filed and granted by the Supreme Court during each presidency dating back to George W. Bush, with the data annualized to show the far-higher frequencies since 2017, but especially during the Trump I and Trump II administrations.

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Joe Uchill @joeuchill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As someone who reported on cybersecurity for a decade, reporters not focused on cybersecurity are very bad at reporting on cybersecurity.

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Incredible. First Secretary Mullin claimed that DHS had identified 15,903 noncitizens on Nevada’s voter roll. Then DHS officials told a skeptical Nevada, no no no, that’s just people we flagged. Here are the names of 185 people we KNOW aren’t citizens. All 185 were citizens. DHS got 100% wrong.

When the Department of Homeland Security sent Nevada a list of 185 names last month that it claimed identified noncitizens who had been improperly allowed to register to vote, state election officials got to work.
On Tuesday, the state sent a strongly worded rebuke to the federal government: Every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
"As for the 185 individuals, our records indicate that they were citizens," Greg D. Ott, a deputy attorney general in Nevada, wrote, according to a copy of a letter sent to Department of Homeland Security officials obtained through open records requests.
"You have provided nothing of substance to suggest otherwise."

Following the meeting, Ms. Vogt sent a clarifying email to Nevada officials. "I also wanted to be sure I clarified that we did not reduce the 15,903 to 185," she wrote. "We've manually reviewed some of the 15,903 and confirmed 185 are not U.S. Citizens."
Now, Nevada officials are saying even that 185 number is wrong. They also took issue with a letter D.H.S. sent them in early September, in which the agency reiterated its initial claims about nearly 16,000 noncitizens on the rolls and pressured state officials to review each case in a letter to Nevada officials in early September.

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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

BREAKING: The Trump administration’s third-country removal policy is blocked. The First Circuit says the third-country removal final judgment from Judge Murphy is back in effect. “Consistent with this court's September 18, 2026, Judgment, the March 16, 2026, stay pending appeal is dissolved.”

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Raphael Satter @raphae.li · 23/09/2026

Scoop: Data allegedly stolen from the FBI provides sensitive assignment descriptions for named employees, exposing members of the "China criminal enterprise unit” & “Russia Operations Section" among others. One ex-employee described it as a foreign intel "goldmine." www.reuters.com/world/hacked...

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EXCLUSIVE: Hacked FBI data has sensitive information about employees’ intelligence roles

FBI data allegedly stolen by the hacking group ShinyHunters carries granular detail about scores of bureau officials’ job assignments, including sensitive work ‌against Chinese spies, Russian intellig...

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Joseph Menn @joemenn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

That explains all the litter boxes in the lavatories.

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

If you're following the news around Andy Burnham's speech at the UN General Assembly on how Russia has "amplified far right narratives" and "tried to stoke tensions and unrest", here's a handy article on the targeting of the migration debate inews.co.uk/news/putin-i...

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How Putin is inflaming immigration tensions to spark disorder in Britain

Counter-terror leaders reveal the tactics Russia is using to sow division in the UK

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 22/09/2026

15/ ProPublica is revealing the existence of the case for the first time. We reviewed a trove of evidence gathered by the FBI and thousands of pages of legal records, and have independently corroborated much of Kao’s account. This is the first piece of an ongoing series:

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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way

After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping political bribery probe involving Collins and others. Then the second Trump admini...

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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

We literally created things like the UN to end that concept.

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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 21/09/2026

This will make it nearly impossible to file habeas petitions, because attorneys won’t even know what federal district their client has been moved to to stage for their removal. Something like a third of all people in ICE custody. apnews.com/article/ice-...

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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