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m͒ͧa̷̐̃̓̀̈́̆t̓ẗͦͧ͐̍̏ retweeted
President Trump is undefeated in the stock market.
On May 8th, President Trump told everyone to "go out and buy a Dell."
19 days later, on May 27th, Dell was awarded a $9.7B contract with the US Pentagon.
Today, Dell, $DELL, reported stronger than expected earnings and the stock surged +30%.
Dell's stock is now up +80% since May 8th, adding +$120 BILLION in market cap.
Truly unprecedented.
m͒ͧa̷̐̃̓̀̈́̆t̓ẗͦͧ͐̍̏ retweeted
Had an interview with a “crypto” recruiter. We talked for about 40 minutes, and then they asked me to look at some code.
Their first instruction was to clone the repo. I didn’t. They seemed surprised, so I told them I wanted a moment to check whether it was safe first.
I ran a quick analysis with Claude.
Turns out the code had a backdoor. It would copy my environment variables and send them to a remote server.
The recruiter went speechless and ended the call pretty quickly.
Be careful who you talk to. Scammers are real.
m͒ͧa̷̐̃̓̀̈́̆t̓ẗͦͧ͐̍̏ retweeted
No big deal it’s just Debian Linux running inside WebAssembly running inside the browser running on your phone
webvm.io
m͒ͧa̷̐̃̓̀̈́̆t̓ẗͦͧ͐̍̏ retweeted
The internet is a *really* suboptimal communication method for live events.
Cable TV is orders of magnitude more efficient.
Broadcast, by design, is one-to-many. Each client has a guaranteed amount of bandwidth, often divvied up into multicast streams within the network.
m͒ͧa̷̐̃̓̀̈́̆t̓ẗͦͧ͐̍̏ retweeted
I recently created a "DC Insider Score" by combining data on:
- Congressional trading
- Corporate lobbying
- Government contracts
It quantifies how closely companies are tied to the US government.
CURRENT TOP 15:
1. Lockheed Martin
2. Northrop Grumman
3. Microsoft
4. Honeywell
5. Ford
6. Accenture
7. Pfizer
8. Raytheon
9. IBM
10. UPS
11. Abbott Laboratories
12. Southern Co
13. FedEx
14. Oracle
15. Merck
m͒ͧa̷̐̃̓̀̈́̆t̓ẗͦͧ͐̍̏ retweeted
Here's Steve Kerr's full reaction to the election results from his pregame availability in Boston
m͒ͧa̷̐̃̓̀̈́̆t̓ẗͦͧ͐̍̏ retweeted
This is the third serious security breach at Okta in ~2 years.
Okta sells security as a service: and yet it cannot secure itself. In the past we know it did not follow security 101. Yet another inexplainable incident.
Who can trust Okta after all this?
m͒ͧa̷̐̃̓̀̈́̆t̓ẗͦͧ͐̍̏ retweeted
Westside Knecht is a 10/10 nickname, snoop really cooked with that one
m͒ͧa̷̐̃̓̀̈́̆t̓ẗͦͧ͐̍̏ retweeted
Cookie banners.
Just visited a US website, from the US, that ships a 457.11kB (minified!) JS bundle of a GDPR "banner SDK" from a "trust" provider. Over 3x the size of React. It ships its very own version of jQuery inside.
Going to the "trust" provider website yields a 5.3s LCP (i.e.: 5s+ to load the first screen completely). 53% of visitors experience a similarly terrible loading experience. They couldn't care less.
This is the stuff that's silently destroying the web.
• For most users, these providers have gamified beyond belief your ability to actually block cookies. The primary buttons are always "Accept All", even when you "customize your preferences". More often than not, they're cheating you into accepting everything.
• The amount of JS they ship, downloading from a 3rd party website, is destroying the web's performance
• The aesthetics and function of websites is massively compromised. In the spirit of "privacy and trust", they're eroding the open web in favor of proprietary platforms.
• They undermine the product engineering teams' efforts. I've met so many amazing design engineers who spend countless hours honing experiences, only to have them destroyed by cookie junk.
Cookie banner slop has to stop.
m͒ͧa̷̐̃̓̀̈́̆t̓ẗͦͧ͐̍̏ retweeted
Of all the news subscriptions I have, @404mediaco has the highest scoop:dollar ratio. Incredible work.
@jason_koebler @samleecole @josephfcox
404media.co/this-is-exactly-…
m͒ͧa̷̐̃̓̀̈́̆t̓ẗͦͧ͐̍̏ retweeted
We now live in a world where AI deepfakes trick people daily.
Tonight we see @TaylorSwift calling out the use of an AI deepfake of her falsely endorsing a presidential candidate.
Let’s talk thru how to spot deepfakes in videos, audio (AI voice clones / calls), & social media…
