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First trailer for the first-ever 70mm film and IMAX release of Christopher Nolan's ‘THE PRESTIGE’.
In theaters on January 29.
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Piers Morgan: "If you became a politician, would you carry on drinking beer, or would you give it up, do you think?"
Jaime West: "I don't know, why don't you ask Pete Hegseth, who is drinking whiskey as he's running an illegal war? Why don't you ask him that?"
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George Kittle is a hall of fame tight end but that doesn’t stop him from looking like he’ll strip all the copper wire out of a fifth wheel
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NFC East made history, going two straight weeks without a win.
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Hey Texas, you know that fake trans mailer that went out to hundreds of thousands of Texans today? The one that the org itself didn’t send? But that all the right wing influencers received & had social media posts ready to publish where they feign outrage? /1
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This past Valentine’s Day, 71-year-old Brad Reese, proud grandson of Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups inventor H. B. Reese, posted a scathing open letter to the manager of corporate brand and editorial at Hershey, accusing the company of unforgivably altering many Reese’s products by replacing real chocolate with compound chocolate — basically using vegetable oils instead of cocoa butter to lower costs and replacing real peanut butter with “peanut-butter-style crèmes.”
“And Reese wasn’t alone in feeling like everything was getting worse,” writes Rachel Handler. “Everyone in my life I spoke to agreed that something was amiss, that Reese’s — and commercial chocolate in general — didn’t taste the way it used to.”
Handler would spend the next several months tumbling down a chocolate vortex, encountering dozens of eccentric characters, all disagreeing about the fundamental question of what chocolate even is and who it should be for.
“I learned that — not to sound like a LinkedIn guy — what’s going on with chocolate is a parable for the modern world. That at this particularly bleak end stage of capitalism, everything we once treasured has or will lose its essential essence and MrBeast will always be involved somehow.”
For our cover story, Handler takes a deep dive into the molten belly of the chocolate world. Read it in full: nymag.visitlink.me/vKKky_
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Do you know how hard you have to hit someone *in the shoulder* to tear their ACL?
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I worked at a place that was vehemently opposed to remote work.
They told us, point blank "if you are not here in the office, we have no way of knowing if you're actively working and it is impossible to do the work you do without being here in the office."
To which was responded by someone who was a contractor & not really concerned about his job there (no names mentioned), "So... we're dropping offshore?"
[Visibly confused looks]
"Offshore is not in the office. We have no idea if they're doing their work."
[Panicked looks]: "That's.... uh... different?"
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Family Guy recently made a Civil War version of "Who's on First" that had me crying laughing. It had no business being that good.
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local cop just attempted to stop and frisk me bc i had a foil-wrapped item in my hand. asked me “let’s make this easy, how much weight you got?” didn’t like when i said “you stopped me for donuts?” really didn’t like when it was donuts. sped off.
get absolutely shat on, kid
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A casino installed a smart fish tank in the lobby.
Beautiful thing. Automated feeding. Temperature control. Remote monitoring.
Connected to the internet. Obviously.
Hackers found it.
Exploited it.
Downloaded the high-roller database.
10 gigabytes.
Sent it to Finland.
Using audio and video protocols so it looked like normal streaming traffic.
The fish tank sat in the lobby maintaining water chemistry while stealing credit card numbers.
The casino isolated the fish tank on its own VPN.
Separate network. Segregated. Off limits to everything.
Hackers didn't care. Broke through the isolation anyway.
Once inside the fish tank's system. They pivoted to the main network.
Quietly pulled data. Methodically.
10 gigabytes over time so nobody noticed.
Nobody monitors fish tank outbound traffic.
Why would they.
It's a fish tank.
When Darktrace finally investigated they saw it immediately.
The fish tank sending massive amounts of data to an external IP.
Using protocols designed for audio. Not data.
Clear exfiltration.
The only device in the entire casino that ever communicated with that Finland server.
A fish tank.
Not a computer. Not compromised credentials. Not a malware-laden email.
A networked aquarium.
The lesson everyone learned: IoT devices are security theater.
You can secure them. Lock them down. Isolate them.
They're still connected to something. Still vulnerable to something.
And something will find them.
Even if that something is just checking if a fish tank is running the default password.
We gotta stop admiring bad stuff man. The Eagles’ medical staff could have killed their quarterback.
