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In July 2026, a China-aligned threat actor, TA419, ran credential-phishing campaigns impersonating prominent economists and AI policymakers, including a former White House Office of Science & Technology Policy leader. More info: www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/thre...

TA419 campaign spoofing former White House Office of Science and Technology Policy employee.

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

great 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".

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Lilly basically solved prediabetes for overweight folks on retatrutide. Incredible.

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

The 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!

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Classic over promise under deliver

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

For 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.

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I once got stuck at that KEF airport in a similar situation, and left passport control but with no where to go. They absolutely do not let you sleep in the airport and to enforce it they have a guy with a pokey stick who stabs you if you close your eyes for even a few seconds, sitting or standing.

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

i dont understand how microsoft reports privately that they have a sentinel outage, and publicly that things are green in the same region

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

i also have never heard of this fad .. i was just a gross 7 year old

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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

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sprite and milk. Really any soda and milk. Loved it.

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

My town in Massachusetts had seen an explosion of kids going to these schools. It started with covid but now the kids come back and talk about the parties/football/weather and all of a sudden bowdoin and union and conn college don't look so hot.

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Ugh I know, the question mark should go outside the quotation marks

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

your regular reminder that their supposed news bots often push complete nonsense

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

TIL that kids call "chatgpt" just "chat"

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

It'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.

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You 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"

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

I was surprised, and a bit bummed!

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Ukraine is so powerful that it increased tanker transport rates 5x

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

With no hurricanes here. Really could be much worse.

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My explanation perhaps reads as some greedy x did greedy y. But no. Gigantic financial gives away shit loads to medical research who does amazing work, and then it sells that work to do more amazing science.

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

There is this very large private investment company called "American century advisors". They donate 40% of all their profits to medical research through the "stowers foundation". Stowers discovered sclerostin which impairs bone growth, and they licensed it to Amgen which made evenity.

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Also it's an amazing drug for seniors with a very cool backstory!

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

There's an even smaller one in the US -- the estrima biro. Only one sold -- for good reason.

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

There'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.

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

They were either high on their own supply, or damn, they could see the future a lot better than I could. I was in the "lol nice job regurgitating the next word" camp for a year too long.

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Models 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.

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

For 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.

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Alex Lanstein @lanstein.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

"and I'm not related to mike lombardi"

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