Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 15hgreat work by Eamon to tell the story of run-of-the-mill chinese espionage against the federal reserve. a decade of effort to gather information that is useful, but usually not anything even close to "top secret". 111
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 18hLilly basically solved prediabetes for overweight folks on retatrutide. Incredible. 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026The strangest part about sports gambling ruining a generation of young men, is that even the founder of fan duel got screwed by fan duel and made absolutely zero dollars. Thanks kkr! 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026For a second I forgot that our ambassador to NATO was a toilet salesman for men who believe they are too well endowed for a normal toilet. 020
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026i dont understand how microsoft reports privately that they have a sentinel outage, and publicly that things are green in the same region 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026"“That’s the great thing about fishing,” he said. “You never know what you’re gonna catch.”" love this guy 01810
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026your regular reminder that their supposed news bots often push complete nonsense 110
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's the Uber and airbnb approach. Do illegal activity enough that you get big enough to rewrite the rules (except in certain small munis). Will it work for ai companies blatantly stealing copyrighted material? Seems that way. 010
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026You can abstract this to all crypto currencies. "I bought a utility-less token and hope that some day someone invents a utility that isnt just to enable criminals" 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Ukraine is so powerful that it increased tanker transport rates 5x 010
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026There's also apparently no oversight, which leads to more intentional and unintentional abuse. If you abuse a government system you will be caught and punished, and (eventually) it will be reported to congress. 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Models two years ago were 1). Models today are 2). We spent a trillion dollars to make a tool that is way way better at SQL than I am. Will that be better for society in 10 years? I have literally no idea. 141
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 08/09/2026For at least 10-15 years after ipv6 came out, disabling it became a standard part of any enterprise image build out ... And the first thing a help desk tech did to try to solve a problem. 010
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Guarantee you won't stop reading this interview once you start 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Seth will be back. Nasiriyah vet, four tours. He has my vote. 010
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 02/09/2026Good luck to fellow 413'er @jeromiewhalen.bsky.social . Will toast to you and your fam at McCarthy's at the fair this fall. 010
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026an hour and a half between the outage and a public notification? 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This bot can detect google outages, but not google's outage page? 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 01/09/2026FYSA, unreported google outage, that for some reason they arent disclosing publicly @gcp-incidents.bsky.social 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Congrats, hoarders win again. Please see me for a great deal on vintage Pierre Cardin ties. 120
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 09/08/2026An "unregulated supply" is me selling my extra cherry tomatoes in front of my house. This is the next, extremely obvious, New England Compounding Center disaster. 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 08/08/2026A large amount of maritime assistance, outside of issues very very close to ports, is done by other boaters, or the cg auxiliary, which is itself a volunteer organization (retired people who want to hang out on their boat) 020
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 07/08/2026My brain is full of useless knowledge -- what an 8bit vs 16bit isa slot looks like. The frequency of VHF channel 6. My windows 98 activation key. But I gotta admit, having AI be way better at me at SQL in a brand new dataset is ... Uncomfortable. 020
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 03/08/2026As I'm about to board a JetBlue flight, I'm actually reassured that a bit flip mid air could actually occur, and that the plane was roughly able to handle it within a couple seconds. 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I can't believe how many people I know in real life order peptides from random internet marketers. It will only get worse with bobby jr giving it a stamp of approval. 011
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Attorneys for xAI claim the Minnesota statute “imposes an overbroad, content-based ban on free speech and the tools of visual expression.”. 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 29/07/2026My prediction is that he will surprise to the upside. 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 27/07/2026The grift and the graft is this article is breath taking, even for this collection of bozos 010
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 22/07/2026very cool report from jpmorgan's finance bro department on "patchmageddon" assets.jpmprivatebank.com/content/dam/...assets.jpmprivatebank.com 110
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Season 2 of The Agency is out now and wagner's activity in the CAR is a central theme. Great season of tv. 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 10/07/2026must be some kinda abbott and costello radio transmissions 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 06/07/2026Shout out Pakistan for becoming the new ... Switzerland? 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 06/07/2026did everyone know that pepperidge farm cookies are all named after cities? 000
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 29/06/2026Strangest story went viral for about 45 minutes. A fake news paper wrote a story about a fake Republican startup buying newspapers in Alabama and running them into the ground. But the newspapers all still exist and the names of everyone in the story don't. Very strange social experiment? 094
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I'm thankful for all of Pfizer's innovation to create tofa, but also @mcuban.bsky.social's CostPlus, and generic drug manufacturers in general. Finally available as a generic as of this month. 6482
Reposted by Alex LansteinMartijn Grooten @martijngrooten.bsky.social · 26/06/2026I don't talk a lot about work here, but I looked into a phishing campaign that targeted a Belarusian opposition politician and then turned out to also impersonate at least three popular Ukrainian portals (it was also my first blog post for Censys) censys.com/blog/unc1151...censys.comUNC1151 Phishing Email Targeting Belarusian Politician Points to Multi-National Campaign - CensysNew Censys ARC research discovers that UNC1151's phishing email to a Belarusian politician is linked to a much broader campaign. 095
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 25/06/2026i do this stuff for a living and i would have guessed this was a phish instead of an authentic microsoft email 010
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 20/06/2026This is the kind of niche expertise you used to only be able to get on twtr 050
Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Congrats to all involved! Lot of big names coming together 000