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Full credit to the Ruthless Podcast! This is unbelievable. What a great catch. If you don’t want Obama back for yet another term, don’t vote for Baby Beto.
James Talarico’s efforts to mimic Obama are creepier than you realized. Check out @HolmesJosh, @ComfortablySmug, @MichaelDuncan and @JohnAshbrook for a side-by-side of these immigration points, which literally sound identical. Stream the full show now on YT.
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Suddenly, she cares when her fellow Muslim is the target. She said this when they were through Melania's underwear.
“He’s not above the law. If he committed a crime, he should be held accountable to it. I don’t care that he was president of the United States. If anything, we set a dangerous precedent if we let folks get away with these kinds of things, especially when it comes to, you know, national security,” Tlaib said.
“No one is above the law and I’ve said that over and over again.”
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Yes, we are at a stage in civilizational decline where extreme measures must be employed against recidivist criminals.
There should be NO people in our society who have unjustifiably seriously assaulted more than one person.
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Bank of America just paid $1.2 billion for willfully violating the Bank Secrecy Act, failing to report $5B+ in suspicious transactions tied to money laundering networks over 7 years.
No one is going to jail. They booked the fine as a line item and sent $8.3 billion back to shareholders in the same quarter.
Meanwhile Keonne Rodriguez and Bill Hill, the founders of Samourai Wallet, are sitting in federal prison for building non-custodial software that never touched a dime of anyone's money. FinCEN itself said Samourai wasn't a money transmitter. Prosecutors charged them anyway.
BofA is a licensed money transmitter that willfully broke the law for years and walked. Two developers who wrote open source code got caged.
Two-tier justice system. Be aware, freaks.
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They’re clearly not staging a calamity to force regulation at all.
ANTHROPIC JUST RAN AN AI THAT COPIES ITSELF ONTO A $55 SMART TV BOX. AND THERE IS NO OFF SWITCH.
Their own red team spent this month trying to build an AI worm. It worked.
No datacenter, no cloud, just cheap boxes sitting in people's homes:
- 15 off-brand Android TV boxes, $55 each
- a 9B model booted on 8 of 9 device types they tested
- GLM-5.2 ran the whole chain alone: find a device, copy its own weights across, boot up, go hunting for the next one
- every copy reaches a new host every 1-2 days
Now the part that should scare you.
They measured it against a botnet that already took 2,000,000 home devices. That many boxes = roughly 133,000 live AI copies at once, about 40 H100s of compute, humming inside fridges and ovens nobody is watching.
In their own words, there is "no centralized point to shut off".
You cannot patch a worm that lives in two million kitchens.
The best security teams on earth audit every line before they ship. Nobody audits the $55 box behind your TV.
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Anthropic's Oct 12 research describes controlled lab tests projecting that small models may gain self-replication capabilities on IoT devices in coming months, but no actual autonomous worm was built, run, or deployed on real consumer hardware. anthropic.com/research/self-…
securityweek.com/small-ai-model…
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"Let me be very clear: there is not a single piece of evidence that Trezor devices have been compromised."
Are you sure?
zetter-zeroday.com/trezor-wa…
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Because nothing says moral success like volunteering someone else's sacrifice while including yourself as a beneficiary.
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Ledger from European official reseller also found to have malicious hardware modification.
PSA the ledger incident isn't limited to Asia
This is a device purchased in store from an official reseller in Europe (a legitimate device doesn't have any of these cables as can be seen in picture 2)
This even seems to be an old version of the 'spy implant' even though the device was purchased a couple of weeks ago. The newer versions usually hide the implant by the screen so it's easier to miss
What's interesting is that this compromised ledger never transfered funds to an exploiter. Either the device didn't work or they were waiting for a more widespread usage of the comprised devices?
If you own a ledger that didn't directly come from the ledger online store make sure to not just rely on the software genuinely check by ledger but to actually open up the ledger yourself to make sure its original, again there are reported cases in Asia, south America and now Europe as well.
@MagicalTux made some useful videos on how to open the ledger and what to look for.
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Many HWWs are made in China or Asia. Ledger uses Foxconn now. Some like Keystone and OneKey are Asian companies.
@FoundationHQ will always manufacture domestically
PALMER LUCKEY WARNS OF CHINESE SUPPLY CHAIN ATTACKS
Oculus founder Palmer Luckey reveals that his company repeatedly discovered hidden surveillance electronics inside product samples received from Chinese factories.
The devices could reportedly record conversations and transmit audio over cellular networks.
“There were multiple times when we discovered actual wiretap electronics in product samples that were given to us.”
His account takes on new significance following reports of a suspected Ledger hardware wallet supply chain attack, in which devices may have been physically modified to compromise users’ seed phrases.
If hardware wallets can be compromised before they ever reach their owners, how much can we really trust the supply chain?
Could American-made hardware wallets like @FoundationHQ become the new gold standard for Bitcoin self-custody?
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Where are those "36+ years of deposits" stored?
Now that you know you've believed bullshit for 36+ years, how will this affect your gullibility quotient in the future?
I won’t be taking any money from “young working Americans”. I’ll be withdrawing from my 36+ years worth of deposits. Just give everyone back their SS contributions plus interest and everyone can fend for themselves going forward.
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Social Security is a pay-as-you-go social program, not an investment with any guarantee of return. Under U.S. law (Flemming v. Nestor) workers have no contractual right nor property right to FICA taxes paid. Congress can alter benefits and eligibility at any time.
ssa.gov/history/nestor…
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Boomers paid into Social Security. But then the big bad govt (that they voted for) spent all that money (on them). So now they deserve to get their money back (from you).
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Tired of this excuse. First of all, social security is not something you “pay into.” If it were, you wouldn’t need younger people to “pay into it” in order to get your check. But you do. Because this is a Ponzi scheme, not a retirement account. What you really mean to say is that your money was stolen from you — which it was — and now you want to steal from younger people to get restitution. That’s the actual case you’re making and it’s exactly as morally deranged as it sounds.
Second, your generation continually for decades voted for politicians who would keep the scheme going. You might not have invented social security, but you damn sure made certain it kept going. Why should younger people have to pay the price for the shitty policies you supported?
Third, you “paid into” social security in a different time. The country is now bankrupted and 40 trillion dollars in debt, and basic things like housing are prohibitively expensive. It wasn’t like that when you were young, because your generation of leadership created this problem.
So the theme here is that there are a bunch of problems you guys either created or contributed to. You can choose to pay the price for that now, or force your grandchildren to pay the price so you can live comfortably until you die and leave them holding the bag. You’ve chosen the latter, and I think that’s wrong. Simple as that.
