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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 23/09/2026
Flock Safety says they did a 2026 pen test. Flock customers can download the pen test report. Do you work for a city that uses Flock? Can you please, uh, download the report and send it to me? www.flocksafety.com/blog/flock-s...
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Flock Security Testing 2026: What the Bishop Fox Penetration Test Found — Critical and High Findings Fixed and Independently Verified
Flock's 2026 penetration test was conducted by independent security firm Bishop Fox. See what was found, what's fixed, and how Flock verifies remediation.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 20/09/2026
According to a leaked internal email, Flock is offering buyouts to employees so they can quit since customers are fleeing and everyone fucking hates them www.wired.com/story/flock-...
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Flock Offers Employees Buyouts as Customers Flee
As dozens of cities end contracts for its controversial license plate readers, Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program, WIRED has learned.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 17/09/2026
bro
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Natanael, Tech janitor @natanael.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Lol xdaforums.com/t/3-18-71-pe...
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Exploit Code Not People @cooperq.com · 16/09/2026
Amazing research by Micah! Give this a read!
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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Good 🧵 from Micah here!
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Coach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Yo this is incredible
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials. Here's my analysis of today's @ddosecrets.org Flock leak micahflee.com/flock-camera...
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Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials
This morning, DDoSecrets published an exciting new dataset: Filesystem images of the partitions from an in-use Flock ALPR camera. 404 Media and Wired published a joint investigation into it. I downloa...
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Yael Grauer @yaelwrites.com · 16/09/2026
For the @theverge.com, I dug into a dating scam network that an @anthropic.com spoke about @sleuthcon.bsky.social. It was later described in Anthropic's extremely thorough threat intel report. www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
theverge.com
The sexy AI-powered dating app scams are here
Thousands of people were catfished by scammers supercharged with AI.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
I've got a lot of work to do today but I'm getting absolutely nerdsniped by the new Flock dataset. You can download it here. It's all of the Android partitions extracted from a Flock device ddosecrets.org/article/floc...
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Flock ALPR camera - Distributed Denial of Secrets
Filesystem images of the partitions on an in-use Flock ALPR camera, including custom Android APK files installed on the device, as well as its recorded media. The data reveals how the devices track bo...
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
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@realizingerin
I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Today is the day! A journey that Astra and I started as an essay in The Guardian is now officially out in the world. End Times Fascism – And the Fight for the Living World is in bookstores now. If you are inclined, please buy one from an indie bookseller or borrow it from your local library.
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Noura Aljizawi @noura.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
1/ Exile as "Safe haven" has become an illusion for women & queer activists. Crossing borders is no longer a guarantee of safety when repressive states use digital technology & weaponize intersectional identities to silence them & sabotage lives & rights in exile. Yet, they face such threats alone🧵
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 09/09/2026
Watching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the bigger harm is the normalization of always-listening devices. It's creepy and not normal.
a screenshot from an iPhone and Apple Watch showing "recaps" of conversations from ambient audio.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 09/09/2026
“Make Germany Great Again” — what years do you think he’s nostalgic for?
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 08/09/2026
Post from Mastodon user @intransitivelie@beige.party:

I regret to inform everyone that my copy of QBittorrent escaped its sandbox last night and downloaded a whole bunch of content owned by major corporations, and then my copy of Jellyfin broke containment and added those unfortunately-downloaded media files to its various libraries. I'm conducting an internal investigation to figure out how this happened, which will involve consuming these media files until the answers become apparent. Thank you for your cooperation during this trying time.

I'm happy to give you all the information you need to reproduce these unfortunate and completely unforeseen errors yourself.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 06/09/2026
A/I just announced they’re shutting down. “The possibility that our work may cause legal and financial consequences to those who are close to us - or even only have something to do with us - leaves us no choice.” keepitfree.ai/announcement...
keepitfree.ai
A/I Shuts Down Stay Human · Keep the Internet free
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 04/09/2026
Fetterman was gonna write a pro-Israel op-ed based on talking points from an Israeli ambassador. But his staff didn't tell him when the embassy sent the talking points because it risked violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
Last September, Israel Ambassador Yechiel Leiter met with Fetterman in his office, and suggested an alternative: Fetterman could write an op-ed explaining why he continued to support Israel, according to people familiar with the matter. 

Fetterman agreed, and told Leiter he would write the submission based on any points the ambassador sent over, according to these people. A few days later, embassy staff sent over drafted points for Fetterman to consider. 

Fetterman staffers decided not to tell him about it, out of concern that drafting an op-ed based on suggestions from the Israeli embassy, under the senator’s name, risked violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act. A spokeswoman for Israel’s embassy declined to comment.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 04/09/2026
"elon argues with social media professional, loses badly" will never not be funny
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 03/09/2026
"1Password employees don’t seem impressed by its leaders’ comments based on dozens of emoji reactions we saw in their internal Slack conversations." www.theverge.com/tech/988536/...
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1Password wades into a right-wing mess after funding a Linux project
The controversy surrounds David Heinemeier Hansson, who has posted strident anti-vax and anti-immigrant views.
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Rough Draft vs Final Draft
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 02/09/2026
Very much worth a read
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Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️ @brennan.day · 01/09/2026
Shopify, Stripe, Dell Technologies, Block, Cloudflare, Dropbox, Coinbase, OpenClaw, and TapTap. All companies that have given millions of dollars to a project run by a far-right white nationalist. Why are we okay with this? brennan.day/normalized-f...
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Normalized Fascism in Open Source: $12 Million Given to DHH
Open source has become a safe harbor for far-right politics, from David Heinemeier Hansson's white-nationalist rhetoric and the Omarchy Foundation's $12 million in patron funding to so-called…
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 02/09/2026
I just made a little OpenCode plugin to measure the tokens/sec of various models. Useful for measuring how fast local open weights models are running github.com/micahflee/op...
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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 31/08/2026
The risk of being doxxed is top of mind for many movement workers. Learn what you can do to care for your digital footprint without compromising your work.
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Doxxing Safety Pt I: Prevention and Footprint Management
Doxxing is the deliberate disclosure of personal information in order to bully, harass, intimidate, or instigate a chain of harms against someone. It's a tricky thing to protect against when the jerk ...
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Rita, antifascist🏴 @oldsquida.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
“This is really bad, and I want more people to know what's going on.”
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 29/08/2026
The US just designated an Italian hacker collective (similar to Riseup) a terrorist organization. Please read this article about Autistici/Inventati, which I’ve reposted micahflee.com/the-server-c...
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The Server Called Paranoia: Defend Autistici/Inventati
For twenty-five years, an Italian hacker collective has built communications infrastructure designed to survive censorship, surveillance and police raids. On August 26, the United States designated it...
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
It was a pleasure to chat with the great @hypervisible.blacksky.app about the backlash to Meta's AI glasses, and to luxury surveillance in general. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-revolt...
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The revolt against Meta’s ‘pervert glasses’ is part of a growing storm
AI. Data centers. Flock cameras. Now Meta’s “pervert” glasses. Breaking down the latest stage of a mass resistance to big tech with Chris Gilliard, privacy scholar and author of Luxury Surveillance.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 27/08/2026
attention nerds: I just wrote a nerd post about specifically how I create coding agent sandboxes! hope you find it helpful micahflee.com/sandboxing-c...
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Sandboxing coding agents
At the beginning of the month I wrote about how I've been using coding agents to write high quality code securely. In this post I'll show the details of setting up isolated sandboxes for agents, where...
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Distributed Denial of Secrets @ddosecrets.org · 27/08/2026
Help protect our upcoming publications against censorship or interference by downloading this encrypted "insurance" file: data.ddosecrets.org/DDoSecrets-A... (Torrent: data.ddosecrets.org/DDoSecrets-A...)
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https://data.ddosecrets.org/DDoSecrets-AES/ddosecrets-2026-08-26.aes256
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Emily Mullin @emilymullin.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I'm a staff writer at @wired.com and I'm looking to speak with parents of immunocompromised kids, especially those in areas with measles outbreaks, and how you're dealing with back to school with rising cases. emily_mullin@wired.com
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Chance the Lawyer @chancethelawyer.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
say what you will about the myriad valid concerns with current LLMs but I personally will never get over the fact that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted to his literal death for downloading JSTOR and then a decade later, they downloaded & ingested the entire world and our IP laws just went ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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micah @mjmclain.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
"Here’s a fun fact for you: More cops have been arrested for stalking women using Flock cameras than there are trans athletes in sports."
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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults. In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming. futurism.com/artificial-i...
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Teen Boys Are Using Meta Glasses to Harass and Bully Girls at High Schools and Middle Schools
Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
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emma best 🏳️‍🌈🏴‍☠️🏳️‍⚧️ Mxy @emma.best · 18/08/2026
Leaking and Investigating the Epstein Files, a @hope.net featured panel with myself, @raphae.li, @mikaelthalen.bsky.social and one of the Epstein hackers, is now available as an standalone video (complete with a transcript) Watch it here: emma.best/2026/08/14/l...
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Leaking and Investigating the Epstein Files
This unique panel brought together leading journalists who published and investigated leaked emails from the Epstein files, exposing his network of collaborators and enablers in one of the most explos...
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Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈 @maxdubler.com · 17/08/2026
Very pleased to find out that the tool I used to delete most of my tweets now has Bluesky functionality. The premium version is very much worth the money.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 08/08/2026
Really nice to see that this is a prominent message of the AI Village DEFCON
Artwork that says: “ART is made by HUMANS”
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 08/08/2026
I found the coolest AI stickers at defcon
Stickers with cats looking behind them, with the Anthropic and OpenAI logos as their buttholes
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 06/08/2026
Nice, perv glasses banned from @defcon.bsky.social this year defcon.org/html/links/d...
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DEF CON® Hacking Conference - Photography Policy
DEF CON Hacking Conference Photography Policy
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 03/08/2026
I wrote about agentic coding techniques: why I use it even though the AI industry is evil, stuff about open models, how I ensure high quality maintainable code, and how I sandbox agents micahflee.com/agentic-codi...
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Agentic coding techniques
Since LLMs have been available, I've been doing a lot of coding using agents. Unlike shoving AI into every app, replacing customer support with chatbots, generating endless streams of slop, etc., agen...
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 13/07/2026
This make the US so much better
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 07/07/2026
from a group chat I'm in
One person: anyone know anyone at anthropic? sales has been infuriatingly slow getting back to us about changing account tiers and it's becoming a business risk

Another person: I know this guy Claude there, but he has not much sway
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 26/06/2026
In June 2025 in Spokane, WA, at an anti-ICE protest, police did a mass arrest and took the phones of 23 protesters. They sent the phones to the FBI, who used Cellebrite on extract all of the data from them www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Public records show FBI secretly extracted data from ICE protesters’ phones
Previously unreported documents reveal “extractions” from at least 13 devices after a Washington state protest last June.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 23/06/2026
I know this has been pointed out many times by many people but I just want to reiterate: Anthropic is basically using Kurt Vonnegut's drawing of an asshole as the Claude logo
Kurt Vonnegut's asshole drawingAnthropic's Claude logo
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 18/06/2026
Stephen Miller as Gollum, with a fish in his mouse, sitting in the algea-filled Reflecting Pool in DC
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 02/06/2026
Uhhh I feel like if you don’t beat your wife there is a good answer to that accusation
“Rosenbaum would not weigh in on the accuracy of Pangram’s results. In fact, he didn’t want to talk about them at all. “I don’t participate in that conversation,” he said. “It’s like saying, do you beat your wife? It’s one of those accusations that there’s no response to.””
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 24/05/2026
isaiprofitable.com
isaiprofitable.com
Is AI Profitable Yet?
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