I started a new YouTube channel last week.

Video essays.

No fluff. No skits. Nothing fancy.

But it would mean the world if you gave it a follow / supported the ideas

https://youtube.com/@jawestenberg?si=5tx3MTigeKWOWfpM

@catsalad when I feel that way I boot up fallout new vegas and roam the wasteland for a bit while listening to the in game radio. Something about dealing with a nuclear apocalypse and the survivors rebuilding (NCR) makes me see that even in a worst case scenario progress is possible. Hope you feel better after some shenanigans.

I was interviewed by the National Cryptologic Foundation on forensics in critical infrastructure (and a lot of other stuff!) and it was a very fun chat. They have an interesting assortment of interviews on their podcast and I really recommend you check them out: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5kzzFk7xLyPQnebu1CdTR7

North Koreans supported Kim Il-sung with the intent of taking their country back (from the Japanese) and making it great again. The result has been seven generations of darkness, dysfunction, and an increasing role as a global pariah.

Those who support Trump and #MAGA rather than principles of what is right and fair are building a similar cult of personality and rigidity of thought.

The people enslaved in North Korea need our support. Becoming the next North Korea is not the way to do it.

have The Talk with your friends:

• no, artificial intelligence isn't real now, nor is it just around the corner
• we need laws to prevent capitalists using LLMs to try to circumvent labor laws; we don't need laws to stop "rogue AI" because that's sci-fi bullshit with absolutely no bearing on reality
• no, "ai" is not "inevitable" -- the bullshit word extruders that are being positioned as the next big thing right now are snake oil garbage, and not even profitable snake oil garbage, and there's no path to develop them into anything else because that's just how they work
• if you hear someone talking about how "ai" is going to change everything, treat them the same way you'd treat a scientologist talking about whatever the fuck scientologists believe in: it is bullshit cult nonsense for marks and rubes
• remind them to ponder the question of "cui bono" -- who benefits from the narrative that "ai" is the "next big thing"? the answer: mostly filthy rich american fascists, filthy rich chip manufacturers, filthy rich data center operators, and filthy rich silicon valley entrepreneurs

do your part to counter bullshit fucking propaganda from capitalist scumbags 👍

Edit: this seems to have resonated with a lot of people and I've rejected a lot of nonsense replies or people being contrarian and annoying :dancing_baby: I don't care if you disagree! Write your own post about it! :')

i've always been curious about how to write a Linux USB device driver and this blog post looks like a great intro: https://crescentro.se/posts/writing-drivers/

new zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal https://jvns.ca/blog/2025/06/24/new-zine--the-secret-rules-of-the-terminal/

@arstechnica Savages and thieves.

Anthropic destroyed millions of print books to build its AI models
Company hired Google's book-scanning chief to cut up and digitize "all the books in the world."
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-destroyed-millions-of-print-books-to-build-its-ai-models/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

If you are a US citizen and have an opinion on this, write to your Representative and Senators and let them know. Or call their offices.

If you want a low-effort way of contacting them, see ResistBot:
https://resist.bot/petitions/PVJDDD

Andor actor Diego Luna's speech for Jimmy Kimmel's show was SO AMAZING.
You have to watch it! 👇

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7726WoO7mTM

#USpol #DiegoLuna #Andor

#humanity #empathy #complexity

@glyph Fair. In the area I focus on AppSec or DevSecOps I see LLM “vibe-coding” as another mess to clean up, and wish people would just stop and think even a little bit more before spewing nonsense in their IDE of choice.

@glyph No, just what came to mind when thinking about LLM-generated code. Like tests, it can’t really make better software without requirements and good design

🥵

artist: Grant McAloon

it's happening! "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is coming out tomorrow!

(update: it's out now!! you can get it here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal/)

here's the table of contents:

@glyph no joke, simply my experience has been that while tests are great, without a specific set of requirements and designs to meet them all the tests in the world don’t really help you code better.

@glyph see https://codewithoutrules.com/2018/12/12/tests-are-not-enough/

We are posting this placard at all of our offices and asking our union contract farms to post as well.

We encourage our friends to put up similar placards at their business as immigration agents do not have the right to go on private property without permission.