I like to build things. Idealist. Here for humor, science, tech, and finance. I’d rather be in my garden.
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Since everyone on fintwit is flexing their financial brilliance, thought I’d join in and let y’all know I’m poorer on paper than I was last week and still feel pretty good about myself.
Mornin ☀️
The deer in my yard and I have reached a level of familiarity where they are entirely unbothered by my presence.
My central interpretation of the election is that Americans aren’t necessarily moving left. They’re becoming increasingly hostile toward anything that threatens their ability to live an ordinary, stable, self-directed life.
And Democrats would be wise to remember this. There was a visceral reaction to swinging the pendulum too far left, and it can just as easily swing back. People don’t like censorship, government overreach, ideological purity tests, identity politics, selective outrage, moral superiority, performative activism, or compassion without common sense/accountability. They don’t like being lectured, shamed, or told what they’re allowed to think. And they don’t like corruption, hypocrisy, or authoritarianism, regardless of which party is responsible.
I think we have some genuinely tumultuous years ahead, particularly with AI(and I love technology). Both parties have shown authoritarian tendencies, and that’s especially concerning as we approach what could be an unprecedented disruption of the labor market. Even if the most optimistic predictions about AI come true, we’re still looking at potentially dramatic workforce transitions, driven largely by the speed of technological change. Millions of people will need retraining in a remarkably short period of time, and we have nowhere near the infrastructure to support that.
Meanwhile, it’s increasingly difficult to imagine where genuinely centrist leadership emerges in a society that rewards extremes. Social media amplifies outrage, political discourse becomes more polarized, and nuance is treated almost like a character flaw.
If the years since COVID have taught us anything, it’s how quickly institutions, social norms, and our sense of stability can deteriorate. Now we’re entering a technological transformation that could happen even faster.
And what concerns me most isn’t the technology itself. It’s the prospect of navigating that transformation with increasingly authoritarian politics, deeply divided institutions, and a population that’s already exhausted.
Just had an impromptu astrology reading & apparently all of my problems can be solved by purchasing an archery set & practicing twice a week.
Glad we got to the bottom of that.
Hey @elonmusk @Safety @Support are explicit threats of gun violence against users permitted on X?
The account below posted a detailed shooting threat, subsequently deleted it, and continues threatening to “expose”anonymous users(myself included).
Oh, and the account also sells paid trading subscriptions, if anyone’s interested. Quite the business model….
My favorite houseguest. Currently teaching her the delicate art of Monday morning breakfast in bed, with a little work sprinkled here and there. 👶🏻💕
It’s 6:07 am on November 1st, and a very intrusive thought has entered my mind.
Is it time to start decorating for Christmas?
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So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and Archive.org went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.