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Bobby Quine

@quine.bsky.social
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Curmudgeonly computer security person. Opinions (and the like) are mine.

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Pete is lost in terms of modern war. I use the example of this outgunned Ukrainian army officer who successfully terrorized a Russian unit for weeks because she "did the math." At the time, someone commented, "yeah, in combat, 'I did the math' beats 'I can do 100 pushups' every time."
Ukrainian female soldier: Okay, I said the idea is this: There is enough time to empty one full can of 32 grenades and be gone by the time the return mortar fire reaches us. I did the math.
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CavsKermit @cavskermit.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Is it official DOJ policy now that anything obtained pursuant to a subpoena or search warrant can be shared with a friendly member of Congress during an active investigation?
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T. Greg Doucette @gregdoucette.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This is the correct take
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 29/09/2026
A reminder that America cannot have a multiracial, multicultural democracy if the United States Supreme Court is allowed to continue to exist in its current form
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
This is so dumb. There are no *good* arguments against impeachment, but the idea that you're going to focus on passing "compromise" legislation instead is silly even on its own terms. You can both impeach and pass bills (and he'll veto anything of substance). Congress can do multiple things at once.
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL) encouraged her Democratic colleagues not to impeach President Trump should the party reclaim control of the House in the midterms. "Don't be impeaching anybody. Let's jus...
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darth™️ @darthbluesky.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
“The announcement ended with another obvious jibe at the administration, this time mocking President Trump’s Truth Social post style: “Thank you for your attention to this matter.””
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
New: hackers say they have personal data on all FBI employees and spouses. I got a sample of 5,000 alleged employees, including name, physical address, phone number, and in some cases spouses. Could be a massive national security and counterintelligence risk www.404media.co/we-hacked-th...
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‘We Hacked the FBI:’ Hackers Say They Have Data on All FBI Employees
A sample of 5,000 alleged agents seen by 404 Media includes names, addresses, phone numbers, and details on FBI employees' spouses.
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
1) Every damn things he's built without Congressional authorization gets demolished on the first day. 2) Christ, he's like a 7-year old. "Oh yeah? Well MY arch is going to be a FORTRESS with GUNS and DRONES and LASERS, you'll be able to CONTROL THE WHOLE CITY from there."
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net · 20/09/2026
“Why is Trump in such a huge hurry to turn the White House and Washington DC into a fortress optimized for murdering people in the vicinity?” is one of those questions that answers itself with just the briefest moment of reflection.
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I Travel Like Sound Dog @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 17/09/2026
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MLC @chicyph80.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Told y’all earlier. The R-aligned pollsters are going to attempt to flood the zone for these last few weeks before the election. They did the same shit in 2022, 2024, and 2025. It will be exhausting. Throw them all in the average & move on with your day.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
Your burrito is fascist now.
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Chipotle Is Working With Palantir to Track Food Safety Risks
The burrito chain has enlisted Palantir for a platform that monitors pest incidents, employee illnesses, and other factors. The partnership comes after a nightmare summer for food safety across the US...
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Dan "Scary" Greene @dmgreene.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A government of hotdog men
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John Breen @breen.tech · 16/09/2026
“For example, with the proliferation of fascist attacks on left radicalism, what we say or who we go after can easily be used by fascists to undermine all resistance”
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Suboptimal that the president is a fucking moron.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
demented fool thinks he's trying to browbeat a few points off a ReFi
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404 Media @404media.co · 16/09/2026
While people around the U.S. are tearing down Flock cameras, one group of hackers went a step further: extracting the camera's software too. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Full investigation by @josephcox.bsky.social and @wired.com’s @dmehro.bsky.social here: www.404media.co/hackers-stol...
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WIRED @wired.com · 16/09/2026
A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days. www.wired.com/story/hacker...
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Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera. Its Data Shows How the System Really Works
A hacker collective pulled down a Flock camera and dumped its data. The files included thousands of videos and logs showing that the device captured 1.6 million images of 50,000 vehicles in 21 days.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 15/09/2026
the truly crazy making part of all of this is that voter fraud EFFECTIVELY DOES NOT EXIST. you have a better chance of finding an actual leprechaun at the end of the rainbow than of finding evidence of voter fraud that influences an election
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Micah @rincewind.run · 15/09/2026
oh thank fuck alito and thomas remain the two worst members of the court but this was the one real fuck with the election hail mary they still had going and I’ll take it
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WWN @waterfordwhispers.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"Oh My God Our AI Is So, So Advanced & Dangerous" Confirm CEOs Of AI Companies Making Huge Losses & In Desperate Need Of Investment loom.ly/wwWgkFc
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Jay Willis @jaywillis.net · 15/09/2026
Genuinely an insane paragraph from Sam Alito. “Voter fraud is real and scary and we have to stop it, so the fact that implementing Trump’s mail ballot rule will disenfranchise millions is legally irrelevant.” Brain melted. A right-wing podcaster in a robe. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
___, (slip op., at 9) (internal quotation marks omitted).
As for the equities, the Government has a strong interest
in enforcing the rule, and implementing it will also “en-
hance the visibility of Federal Ballot Mail” in order to better
detect election fraud. 91 Fed. Reg. 54972. On the other side
of the balance, the plaintiff States invoke the practical ef-
fects of implementing the rule close to the midterm elec-
tions. I take that problem very seriously, but it is not
enough to convince me to deny the application.
First, as the District Court acknowledged, the States dis-
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steven monacelli @stevanzetti.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Karl Rove, who spent his entire adult life getting Republicans elected and has voted straight Republican for decades is now a fake Republican because he drew the line at "deport all Muslims and Indians"
A tweet from a senior editor at the right-wing Texas Scorecard, asking if anyone is surprised Karl Rove is voting for a Democrat (because he finds Bo French too extreme)
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Corey Rayburn Yung @coreyryung.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The man who thinks magnets are neutralized by water, windmills cause cancer, and forest fires are caused by a failure to sweep doesn't seem like the best person to manage AI safety, IMHO.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 12/09/2026
this is a prisoner’s dilemma where if you defect while your opponent cooperates you get hundreds of billions of dollars everyone’s gonna defect
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Justin Baragona @justinbaragona.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is almost verbatim what Tucker Carlson said about immigrants a few years ago, leading to a massive ad boycott at Fox News.
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Micah @rincewind.run · 11/09/2026
I know we say this about a lot these days but "ross ulbricht starts drug marketplace, tries to hire hitmen, goes to jail for life, is pardoned by trump and appears at his convention with a 'become ungovernable' background in support of the literal president" is a little on the nose
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Jan-Werner Mueller @jwmueller-pu.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Democracy is a system where parties lose elections.
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
“People say we are pathetic losers. We are!”
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Raffi Melkonian @rmfifthcircuit.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Honestly, as a sometimes tort defense lawyer, I would suggest less public comments about your prior knowledge of your own products' dangerousness.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
(NYT) - Republicans spent the first five hours of their midterm convention in Dallas warning about socialism on Wednesday before President Trump surprised many of them with an audacious trillion-dollar proposal to redistribute wealth. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/10/u...
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
When everyone is a priority, no one is a priority. That means that Mullin and ICE are going to treat a murderer who just got here with the same level of priority as a guy who’s been here for 25 years raising a family and living like a saint. That’s bad for so many reasons.
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Judd Legum @juddlegum.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🚨 BEWARE of VoteSafe.org 🚨 While it bills itself as a “safe” way to register to vote, it is actually a digital surveillance machine created by Elon Musk’s super PAC.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Great idea for FOIAs!
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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 10/09/2026
Today, we filed a FOIA request with DHS concerning an AI-generated image the @DHSgov X account posted this morning. The image depicts a Transformer facing a South Asian man, over a caption telling "Mr. Singh" to self-deport and get off American roads. We want the prompt.
AI-generated image posted by the DHS account on X, styled as a movie poster. A blue and red robot with the Department of Homeland Security seal on its chest faces a bearded South Asian man in a blue bandana and a monogrammed shirt. A city skyline sits between them at sunset. Text between the two faces reads "SELF-DEPORT OR FIND OUT." Below, in the Transformers logo and typeface, "TRANSFORMERS: AMERICA FOR AMERICANS," and beneath that, "GET OFF OUR ROADS, YOU DON'T KNOW HOW TO DRIVE MR. SINGH." A garbled credit block runs along the bottom.First page of a Project Salt Box FOIA request to the DHS Privacy Office, dated September 9, 2026, addressed to the Office of Public Affairs. It seeks records about the use of generative AI to produce public-facing imagery published by DHS, and describes the image posted to the @DHSgov account that morning.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 09/09/2026
A shady unit at the Department of Homeland Security is using “predictive policing” to try to find evidence they don’t have. trib.al/V8rAiEO
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Secret DHS Unit Pulling People Over Based on Their Financial Data
A shady unit at the Department of Homeland Security is using “predictive policing” to try to find evidence they don’t have.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
applying "Make ___ Great Again" to Germany really does kinda give the game away
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Even if you aren’t aware of any such agreements missing from the State Department’s site, you can still help out by RT’ing this piece…or share it in relevant Reddit subs, email listservs, etc. Tysm 🙏
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Mark Copelovitch @mcopelov.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Again, every one of these bans is not only an explicit violation of multiple ratified international treaties, but also the illegal abuse of giant loopholes in domestic trade laws that must be completely eliminated. This is why SCOTUS ruling only narrowly on IEEPA just enabled more authoritarianism.
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Kylie Eleison @gonebabygone.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The Roaring 20s are back baby, everyone is still mentally ill from a plague and a war, importing Canadian booze is illegal, James Carville is alive
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Grudgie the Wail @grudgie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I do think this stuff is actually important. Trump has no particular belief in an American greatness. He only has a belief that hardcore racism is “great.” This is unambiguous proof of that.
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Max Berger @maxberger.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
If only the media had as much interest in the world's richest person, the primary funder of the Republican Party, who spoke at Trump's Inauguration and gave a Sieg Heil, once again declaring his belief "white solidarity is the only way to survive" as they do some Twitch streamer.
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intracranial aneurysm (spooky, scary) @chemotaxis.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
people have twisted themselves in knots for a long time re: musk's politics. it's really not complicated. he's a white nationalist who saw the opportunity to hurt a lot of non-white people and he took it, gleefully.
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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 05/09/2026
Not The Onion.
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
To succeed in higher education leadership in Florida that you have to be a part of the dominant political regime, which hands out well-paid positions to unqualified officials. Rodeo cowboy who impersonated a police office becomes college President! donmoynihan.substack.com/p/which-stor...
Fred Hawkins, the South Florida State College president who fired the English instructor for her short story, had no higher education background. And yet he was chosen two days after he submitted his application. The board of trustees changed the selection rules to allow someone without an advanced degree to serve as President. Hawkins has no advanced degree, but was a close ally of Governor DeSantis. A former rodeo cowboy, Mr. Hawkins was arrested for impersonating a police officer just three years before becoming university president. One of the trustees explained why he would not support more qualified candidates who had actual experience: “You have to understand that we are political appointees, and they were all Democrats, The governor doesn’t appoint all Republican trustees and expect us to select a Democrat.”
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GOLIKEHELLMACHINE @golikehellmachine.com · 04/09/2026
this shit is going to get so much fucking worse and weirder as the walls start closing in on them
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Joe Sudbay @joesudbay.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
"…I don't agree with him on everything" it's not just about DOGE, ffs how about the vile anti-semitism? the lgbtq bashing? endorsing white nationalism? his fight against Minnesota's law to prevent nudification of women and kids? those are questions she should be asked....
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Joe Perticone @cheetah.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
It was an honor to work with him/ her
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kate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Chuds on Twitter are mad that the cast from MST3K grew and changed as people and don’t do shitty jokes about marginalized people anymore. And guess who’s at the center of it:
Frank Conniff @FrankConniff
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Damn, it sucks that you're like this. I loved The IT Crowd. x.com/Glinner/status...
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So you think men should be in women's prisons, changing rooms and sports? Really?
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