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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Earlier this summer, the state managed to convince a judge that it was capable of doing the lethal injection protocol properly, after a two-day hearing over exactly how they were going to kill Christa Pike.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

The thing I mostly don’t get about this is why the Senate Rs thought reminding the country about Jan. 6th would be a good play five weeks before the midterms.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Not commenting on whether the FBI hack really is as bad as this, as I haven't really read about it, but I do have to wonder how it feels these days to be in incident response where reaching out to the FBI after a ransomware attack was standard operating procedure.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

I don't know if you all have heard about Melania's new invite-only "women's empowerment" grift, but all I will say is that my client has been running a women's entrepreneurial support organization for ten years. Under the exact same, completely made up name.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

The SCOTUS Save Act "opinion" is horrendous for voting, but it's even worse for privacy. The Privacy Act specifically prohibits agencies from sharing PII among themselves without very specific reasons. Roberts seems to think Congress overruled that Act in the immigration act without saying so.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

The numbers nearing 90% on removal are crazy, but the fact that more than half of respondents would be pleased to learn that a military coup had taken place IN ORDER TO SAFEGUARD THE CONSTITUTION is a problem we should probably address.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Went to bed at 8 last night. Woke up for no reason at 1 in the morning, knocked something off the nightstand, and woke up the dogs. It’s going to be a long day.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

We ended PRISM. We can end this.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The Mobile Bay is simply spectacular. Driving across the causeway under those clouds is an experience.

Photo of the blue reflective water of Mobile Bay beneath big fluffy clouds, taken from the causeway.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I am living in a house with two dogs and no dog door for 30 days. Our house where we actually live has a dog door. My heart goes out to those of you who have to live with dogs and without a dog door all the time.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

This was literally a West Wing episode. The proposal got laughed out of the White House.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Indeed it is. The next administration will need to end this company.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Do not bring a storm sensitive dog to Mobile, AL for a temporary relocation in August. It storms here every damn day.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Got up early and got to see five of the six aligned planets in the sky. Today is for sure going to be a good day.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Blanche is awful, but anyone would be. There isn't anyone willing to take that role that wouldn't functionally have the same conflicts of interest that he does. An AG willing to be the AG for the country and not the Prez would never get appointed.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

18 layers of security, and my USPTO password still wound up on the dark web.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Take your data center and shove it, DC BLOX.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Update: Under contract!! 😊🤞😊

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

We are selling my parents' house. It's on a beautiful mountain outside Morgantown, WV, backing up to a state forest that will never get built on. If you happen to know anyone moving to the area or looking for a mountain retreat, here you go. www.zillow.com/homedetails/...

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Two things stand out to me about this story. One, their screaming about the "Green New Deal" was all fake. They only canceled half the grants. Second, did they think only Democrats had jobs because of these grants?

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I am struggling to understand the rationale behind MFA for PACER.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Client asked ChatGPT a fair use question and called me freaking out because he didn't like the answer. I asked him what source ChatGPT pulled. It was the Copyright code, good start. But it was Sect. 101, not 107. I had always said when the robots could answer fair use we'd be in trouble. Not today.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Since the OP of my last repost on this deleted his post, I'll say it again, this is absolutely no way to run a country.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

This is an insanely fucked up way to run a country, now that I think about it.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

It also means that federal pensions are pretty much a thing of the past.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

The Slaughter decision means that government jobs are now at best an 8 year gig and nobody career-minded will ever take a federal position again. It is entirely unclear to me how the US is expected to function going forward.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

As of right now the Google AI still says it's a hoax (it's not)

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

But for heaven's sake folks, stop calling the end of 702 "unprecedented." Having 702 was unprecedented.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

The thing that is annoying about all this for privacy folks is that 702 is the thing that blew up EU-US data transfers for two years and left us with basically no way to do it.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

I am actually really shocked they let FISA 702 die. If it hadn't been for the Pulte fight, I'm not sure it would have happened. The question now is whether anything changes. Do the tech companies just stop responding to warantless subpoenas? Under this administration? We'll see.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

Filing THIS at the DC Circuit at 4:20 pm on a Friday.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

On a happy note, I saw the film "Pressure" today, and it is splendid. Go see it. #pressure #trustscientists

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

The story about what the former governor of Kentucky did to his adopted son is despicable and infuriating. Jonah Bevin was adopted out of Ethiopa and then abandoned in a horrific teen center in Jamaica and left there when the center closed. Help him. www.gofundme.com/f/help-jonah...

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

The USPTO is slapping this logo onto trademark registration certificates now and I HATE it.

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/05/2026

This is seriously fucked. Like for starters they’re using commercial web analytics that are in no way in line with federal privacy disclosure requirements…

Every webpage you load is making phone calls.
Not to people, but to servers around the internet, dozens per second, all invisible to you.
When I opened TrumpRx, I right-clicked the page, opened the browser's built-in inspector, and started reading the list. Mixed in with the routine traffic was a name I recognized:
PostHog. PostHog is a Silicon Valley analytics company whose entire business model is recording what visitors do on a website and reporting it back to whoever owns the site.
Mouse movements, clicks, scrolls, keystrokes. I had not typed anything. I had not clicked anything. I had just opened the page, and it was already on the phone with PostHog telling them about me.

The recordings are not anonymized. IP addresses are not stripped. And the way it is configured, the data looks to your browser like it is going back to TrumpRx, but it is actually being forwarded behind the scenes to PostHog.
That is a technique used to slip past ad blockers by disguising where the data is really going, and it is not something I expected to find on a federal health website. So I went and looked at the other sites the studio had built. Real Food, the federal food policy site. Trump Accounts, the children's savings program. The studio's own homepage, ndstudio. gov. All of them had the same vendor, the same setup, IP addresses not stripped, the same forwarding trick. And on

not stripped, the same forwarding trick. And on ndstudio. gov alone, running alongside PostHog, was something someone had built entirely by hand. Five hundred and forty lines of custom JavaScript with a name embedded directly in the code: AutoMonitor. What it appears to do is rewire the part of the browser that handles how a page talks to the outside world, so that every conversation the page has with any server gets copied and forwarded to a private backend with no public presence. The studio has the structural ability to keep a copy of every recording as it passes through their infrastructure. I cannot prove they are keeping one. The pipe is built that way on purpose, and that is the part that matters.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

He should probably split it with @katmabu.bsky.social and the other Broadview defendants.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

So they're giving it all to James Comey?

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Got a memory notification from FB from 8 years ago where I posted something snarky about M*sk announcing that the Los Angeles 2.7 mile Boring Tunnel would be offering test rides in a few months, in case anyone thinks this Nashville thing is actually going to happen. (The LA tunnel was never built).

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

Data point: Using Adobe's AI assistant to extract a page from a (non-confidential) document and save it as a new document is marginally faster than using the export feature.

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

The irony of this happening 250 years after the Revolution is just screaming

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Tara Stelluto @tarastelluto.bsky.social · 26/04/2026

To be fair, Popeye’s in a ball gown sounds amazing.

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