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Joe Warminsky

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News Editor at The Record: @therecordmedia.bsky.social [ Tired of bios ] [ Often thinking about music ] [ Etc. ]

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The Record @therecordmedia.bsky.social · 17h
Beyond the potential misuses of its services, Wikimedia said activity by AI agents can be a drain on web platforms that are already operating with limited resources therecord.media/wikimedia-fo...
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Wikimedia Foundation: OpenAI agents tried to edit pages and compromise notes tool
Beyond the potential misuses of its services, Wikimedia said activity by AI agents can be a drain on web platforms that are already operating with limited resources.
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 17h
Shoutout to the electrical tape mustache
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 02/10/2026
A woodcut of a bird beside the text "get some original fuckin ideas already"
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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
Does Golden Gate still have a toggle switch under Siri in System Settings to "turn off" Apple Intelligence?
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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
Gonna tell Brak you vacillated
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
You understood the assignment, it’s gotta be an album-length show, not some sprawling masterpiece
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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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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
7 kingdoms omelette
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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
lol a deep Valley cut and also would be someone's GoT boytoy
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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
Just gobs of saliva flying out for the “Chrétttt”
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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Quintessential “every sound placed well” recording and mixing by J Robbins and Chad Clark.
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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
also: fun psycho boyfriends
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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
If tech journalism fell off, for me, as a side hustle, arts writing mostly stuck around. Various disruptions & degradations of those gigs came later. Found my way back to tech, anyway.
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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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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Watch this ska group willfully ignore that "Take Five" is in 5/4. www.youtube.com/watch?v=NoKH...
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Take Five - Stamford Ska
YouTube video by Stamford Ska
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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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Joe Warminsky @jwarminsky.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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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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