“Scrub Jay”

perched bird on a cloudy day

North Korea gets away with $3 billion from Binance

Tell me again how crypto is protecting you from those awful centralized currencies?

Official Claude Code Extension Compromise: Security Advisory

This seems bad. Also vibe-coding tools seem an obvious attack surface. I suspect many of their users aren’t sophisticated enough to even notice if and when their computer gets compromised.

I looked down and noticed my (turned-off) phone screen was reflecting strings of overhead lights.

Bad week for Star Trek fen.

Easy enough to find a replacement for ProtonMail - but what about ProtonPass?

Awshit: Manifestos, Fear, and ‘Loser Thinking’: Inside Proton’s AI Reckoning

“The CEO is in full AI psychosis and has been for a while now,” one of the sources told 404 Media.

Hiding in the leaf litter.

Going to try replacing Google News with a combo of DuckDuckGo and AP. Looked at Kagi but AI-generated summaries are a hard no for me. I may miss some news, but disentangling a bit more from Google is worth it.

Defund Elon Musk

As far as I’m concerned, Robert Reich nails it:

But you don’t have to wait until Musk is officially defunded. Stop buying Teslas. Don’t use X. Don’t sign up for Starlink. And support politicians who promise to defund him.

In the short run, doing business with some of Musk’s tentacles might improve my life a tiny bit. But in the medium or long run, that pales next to the grave damage he’s doing to everyone’s life. So I’m all-in on boycotting Musk. (And Bezos too, for that matter).