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Joe Warminsky

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404 Media @404media.co · 30/09/2026
BREAKING: The Trump administration is using a grant program from the 1980s to force cities around the US to funnel their ongoing collection of Flock, Axon, and other ALPR data into large federal surveillance centers that fall under the White House’s jurisdiction, 404 Media has learned
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How Cities Are Forced to Funnel License Plate Data to a Massive Federal Surveillance Program
How the federal government built a massive database of license plate reader data through an anti-drug trafficking program.
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nurse Dana approves
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
The Phillies should receive no home games against the Braves, as a penalty for this past week.
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
the kids’ movie writes itself
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New from the CBO: www.cbo.gov/publication/...
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Estimating the Cost of Combat Operations Against Iran
CBO assesses the Department of Defense's costs for the current armed conflict against Iran, as well as the conflict's economic and budgetary effects.
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Never underestimate your local low-power-FM radio station: Beth Orton is apparently in studio at WOWD right now.
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Taggart @taggart-tech.com · 15/09/2026
The last couple of weeks have been such a tornado of nonsense, I couldn't help myself.
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Everone Is Lying To You For Money
The recent cyber incidents required a pivot from the frontier AI labs. The pivot? Lie and distract.
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WIRED @wired.com · 15/09/2026
WIRED tested samples of four types of peptides. The results show how lightly regulated the industry is, even as popularity surges. www.wired.com/story/viral-...
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Those Viral Bodega Peptides Aren’t Actually Peptides
WIRED tested samples of four types of peptides. The results show how lightly regulated the industry is, even as popularity surges.
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The Young Ones
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Recently was in a tremendous “Hacks” episode www.vogue.com/article/bob-...
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Designer Bob Mackie, Known for His Spangled Creations for Cher and Carol Burnett, Has Died at 87
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Jay Babcock @jaywbabcock.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Untoppable subject, image, design, and method of distribution. Here's to those moments when culture workers get to deliver on all fronts.
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
When a Commanders’ opponent misses a field goal, apparently fans can get free nuggets in the McDonald’s app. The hypothetical corruption scenario is way funnier than somebody missing 2 free throws against the Sixers.
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Jeff Weiss @passionweiss.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Alice Coltrane explaining her connection to the harp - from the Black Journal Alice Coltrane documentary segment produced by National Educational Television (1970)
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
👉 "The money at stake is why some in tech don’t want to take Anthropic’s warnings seriously." (🎁 link) www.wsj.com/tech/ai/anth...
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Anthropic’s Moral Conflict Is Playing Out in Real Time
Dario Amodei created the artificial intelligence lab to be protected from the very threat it is facing.
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Every Phillies group chat says Go Birds in it this morning
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Old British Telly @oldbritishtelly.co.uk · 13/09/2026
[1985] Max Headroom - Terry Wogan comes face to face with the future of television presenting, the world's first 'computer-generated' host, Max Headroom.
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flynnola @flynnola.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Maester Dennys will be in with your grand slam omelet in a moment
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
remove an apostrophe and create a Game of Thrones character Arbys
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
remove an apostrophe and create a Game of Thrones character Lawrys
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
make a band edible: Guided by Vichyssoise
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is the record I most remember from the weeks after 9/11. At the time (especially if you were already bathed in DC post-hardcore) it felt like an exhale, a lightness. Hearing it now, it feels arid, weirder, more insular. Still hits. youtu.be/4rcWQeoNno0
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The Dismemberment Plan - Change (Full Album)
YouTube video by Venom4811
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
AI in the stream / that is all you are 🎶
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
News orgs made so many adjustments on the fly. I was working on a freelance tech & security news roundup when I heard/felt the plane hit the Pentagon. That gig went away immediately as the money was shifted elsewhere. I don’t think that day’s piece ever got posted.
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When do the murderous cyborgs take over? Tryna figure out if I should bother to make holiday plans.
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Nina Jankowicz @ninajankowicz.com · 10/09/2026
Today from @americansunlight.org: an interview with Jonathan D. Katz, expert on museum censorship, on the resignation of Lonnie Bunch II as secretary of the Smithsonian: americansunlight.substack.com/p/smithsonia...
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Smithsonian Failed Trump Administration’s Purity Tests
President Trump insists on limiting the nation’s history to a narrative of unadulterated triumph. Museum leaders have stood in the way.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 10/09/2026
4/ The scandal initially made headlines in the Dominican Republic and the United States. But in only a matter of days, it evaporated from the public eye. How that happened has been unknown, until now…
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How Oneil Cruz Walked Away From a Deadly Crash With a Fixer's Help
When an accident involving top prospect Oneil Cruz left three dead on a darkened road in the Dominican Republic, secret payoffs helped rescue his career and launched a shadowy business empire.
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Valid for Schwarslam too
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Me right now, watching this 4-run inning
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
what if the data center everyone was protesting in your town was the one that handles the "giphy" shortcut in Slack
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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
At least four cyber-espionage groups, most linked to Chinese state intelligence, have been using the same previously unknown Google Chrome vulnerability in attacks beginning late August and continuing into this week, cybersecurity firm Proofpoint said Wednesday.
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Multiple Chinese hacking groups seen using identical Chrome zero-day exploit
A Google Chrome bug identified in August was exploited by at least four China-linked cyber-espionage groups, according to researchers.
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Wordle 1,908 2/6 🟩🟨🟨🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 The strategy I call the Warminsky Taco paid dividends today
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The Record @therecordmedia.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
From @darynant.bsky.social in Kyiv: therecord.media/ukraine-pros...
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Ukraine prosecutor general steps down amid scam call center bribery probe
Ukraine’s prosecutor general, Ruslan Kravchenko, resigned this week over allegations that officials in his office took bribes to shield scam call centers from law enforcement.
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Allan “Ransomware Sommelier” Liska @ransomwaresommelier.com · 09/09/2026
Where the backlash against Flock Safety is having the biggest impact via @suzannesmalley.bsky.social & @therecordmedia.bsky.social
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Where the backlash against Flock Safety is having the biggest impact
Two populous states and two large cities are among the U.S. jurisdictions where leaders have taken direct action to address criticisms of automated license plate readers (ALPRs).
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John Gramlich @johngramlich.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
New @apstylebook.com guidance: "Lake Ontario has carried that name for more than 400 years. Refer to it by its original name. If it is relevant to the story, acknowledge and explain the name Trump has chosen."
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
An Italian collective of "radical hackers and tech developers" said it will shut down operations after the U.S. government declared it a terrorist organization and imposed sanctions. ✍️ @jreddjourno.bsky.social therecord.media/autistici-in...
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Italian tech collective Autistici/Inventati shuts down after US terrorist designation
On August 26, the State Department labeled A/I an “extremist group” operating infrastructure for “far-left militants across the world” and announced that anyone engaging with the group financially ris...
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Had my first student wear Meta glasses to class. The student didn't record - as far as I could see - and after class we had a discussion about privacy, consent, and surveillance and why I would not be allowing the glasses in class again. A Teachable Moment, as they say, that I hope makes a change.
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The Record @therecordmedia.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Our @jgreig.bsky.social explains a very public negotiation between a crypto platform and the self-styled "white hat" hackers who kept $47 million in bitcoin after purportedly exploiting a bug to take $320 million worth therecord.media/liquid-netwo...
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'White hat' hackers take $47 million bounty after $320 million crypto theft
Public negotiations between hackers and the operators of the Liquid Network crypto platform ended with the attackers sending back most — but not all — of what they took.
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Suzanne Smalley @suzannesmalley.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Cities + counties nationwide are cutting ties w/ Flock Safety. More than 90 did so in August alone. LA says it won't renew contract w/o significant new data protections. State govts in TX and FL have issued tough restrictions on the ALPR cameras in the past 2 weeks therecord.media/flock-safety...
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Where the backlash against Flock Safety is having the biggest impact
Two populous states and two large cities are among the U.S. jurisdictions where leaders have taken direct action to address criticisms of automated license plate readers (ALPRs).
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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
On the same day Germany formally blamed Russia for the Leipzig/Halle drone attack, and two power stations were hit with sabotage, hackers encrypted the central IT systems of a municipal utility in Bavaria. No evidence events linked, but what a day, eh?
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Cyberattack encrypts systems at Bavarian municipal utility
A municipal utility in Bavaria is recovering from a cyberattack that encrypted its internal IT systems but did not affect water and electricity services.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
New: a secretive DHS predictive policing unit is analyzing Americans' financial activity, feeding those names to police, then having cops pull them over. Not suspected of any particular crime We're revealing the unit name too: Predictive Intelligence Targeting Team www.404media.co/a-secretive-...
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A Secretive DHS ‘Predictive Policing’ Unit is Analyzing Americans' Financial Habits and Pulling Them Over
404 Media is revealing the name of Border Patrol's predictive policing units, which analyze financial data and have local cops pull people over. The people are not suspected of any particular crime.
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Shoutout to anyone with anxiety-filled Phillies group chats
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Alexander Martin @alexmartin.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
AI has done plenty for my “politicians being daft about technology” scrapbook, but nothing will ever beat the debate in 1924 when MPs grilled the government over “the invention known as the death ray.” One MP asked: “Are the Government taking steps to prevent the use of this diabolical device?”
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AIR "DEATH RAY." (Hansard, 22 May 1924)
AIR "DEATH RAY." (Hansard, 22 May 1924)
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
gonna form a paramilitary group called the Myrtle Squad to get people to take better care of their crepe myrtle trees
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 07/09/2026
Isaac Newton famously wrote “if I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” Academic progress is always iterative and builds on the work of others, and a key component of academic culture is proper citation & attribution. It would be a travesty to let LLMs destroy that.
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The Record @therecordmedia.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Another trove of data stolen from Berlin's government has appeared online, authorities said. Germany's information security agency separately warned about the Rhysida cybercrime group therecord.media/germany-berl...
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Berlin investigates new data leak after hackers publish stolen login credentials
Another trove of data from Berlin's government has appeared online, authorities said. Germany's information security agency separately warned about the Rhysida cybercrime group.
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The takeaway from the Penn State game, for me, was that Matt Campbell iced a freshman kicker when PSU was up 24-0. And then Campbell celebrated.
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
JBL seems to be vastly overestimating the appeal of Benson Boone to MLB TV subscribers
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Steve Kiviat @dcsuburbanite.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
washingtoncitypaper.com/article/7910... No National Park Service concert series in 2026 in Fort DuPont Park that once had concerts there every weekend.
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Fort Dupont Park Concert Series Won’t Happen in 2026
After 54 years, the National Park Service’s Southeast concert series has quietly ended—at least for now, according to an NPS spokesperson.
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I expect a lot of fishing-influencer content from Lake Tahoe
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
From @darynant.bsky.social in Kyiv:
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