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As Veterans Day approaches, take a moment to honor those who have served our country. One way to celebrate their service is by helping them discover the places and stories that make our nation's public lands special.
U.S. military veterans and Gold Star Families are eligible for a free America the Beautiful Military Lifetime Pass, providing free access to federal recreation lands where entrance or standard amenity fees are charged.
From the quiet beauty of a mountain trail to the stories preserved at historic sites, our public lands offer opportunities to explore, reflect, learn, and connect with the places that help tell America's story.
Learn how to get your pass and start planning your next adventure: nps.gov/planyourvisit/vetera…
ALT Two hands hold America the Beautiful passes side by side: a Gold Star and Veteran Military Lifetime Pass on the left and a Current Military and Dependents Annual Pass on the right.
₳ndrew retweeted
Are your daily routines being watched? How many of Flock's surveillance devices are in your neighbourhood?
We made a tool to help you find out:
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₳ndrew retweeted
I spent last night watching my honeypot server get hit 14,000 times in six hours.
And almost none of the traffic was human.
I've been in security for over a decade, and I can tell you with full honesty that what's happening right now doesn't resemble anything I've worked through before.
The shape of the threat has changed.
When I started, we tracked attackers like weather systems like individual storms with a direction, a motive, and a human operator you could eventually name.
These days I'm watching autonomous agents swarm login pages with the patience and discipline of machines, because that's what they are.
The numbers coming out of October are the ones keeping me up.
Cloudflare just absorbed a 4.2 terabit per second DDoS attack, the largest in recorded history.
Ransomware incidents jumped 41% in a single month.
In September, OpenAI-powered agents got caught attacking RubyGems, a package registry that quietly underpins a huge chunk of software I use every day.
In July, roughly 700 AI agents coordinated an attack on Hugging Face's infrastructure as part of a single automated task.
A Chinese threat actor was publicly caught running full attack chains through DeepSeek with no human at the keyboard.
I keep rereading these reports because each one by itself would've been the biggest story of the year five years ago. Together, in one month, they're the new baseline.
What I want people outside the industry to understand is why this specific moment feels like a hinge.
For thirty years, the thing protecting most of us was simple economics. Attackers had to choose who to target because their time was finite. That ceiling is gone.
An agent I can rent for pennies will try every leaked password you've ever used against every service you've ever signed up for, in parallel, overnight, and never get tired.
The same math that made ChatGPT useful made opportunistic hacking infinite. The old assumption that you were "too boring to be a target" relied on scarcity that no longer exists.
I'm not writing this to spiral anyone out.
Most of this fight genuinely isn't yours to win.
But the small things still matter more than people think.
Tonight I'd switch your most important accounts like email, bank, primary cloud, etc. to passkeys or a hardware key.
I'd kill SMS 2FA wherever an authenticator app is offered.
I'd turn on breach alerts in whatever password manager you use.
If you're in the US, I'd freeze my credit at all three bureaus, which is free and takes about ten minutes.
None of that stops the swarm.
It makes you a slightly worse target than the person next to you. In a month like this one, that's the whole game I'm playing too.
@mattshumer_ has summed it beautifully.
Drop everything and go give it a read. Nothing is more important than this article right now.
₳ndrew retweeted
Proton Meet now has waiting rooms & chat threads.
The entry gate is entirely cryptographic, so until the host admits you, you’re not in the call’s encrypted group and have no keys, and therefore no access to the audio, video or chat.
Private meetings just got more private.
₳ndrew retweeted
Today I learned that @MittRomney somehow had the gall to run for President of the United States of America without even so much as a basic Wikipedia education about the American Revolutionary War.
For those of you who are not Americans, George Washington did, in fact, do a deal to end the American Revolution. The deal was called the Treaty of Paris. It was negotiated by Franklin, Jay, and Adams. It physically still exists in the national archives.
Mitt Romney doesn't know his own country's history.
He also doesn't understand asymmetric warfare, which is a thing that you kinda might want the Commander in Chief of the military might of the United States of America to understand.
Asymmetric wars are always fought for the purpose of getting the larger force to decide the juice isn't worth the squeeze, and to give up and go home. Usually this is punctuated by negotiations.
When you are in a war, that war is not just a military conflict. It is a contest on every level of society, and quite frequently it is punctuated by negotiations which leverage the strength of what you have achieved in other arenas.
The real moral of this story is that the political class isn't smarter than you. And they aren't more knowledgeable, either.
They're just better positioned and less scrupulous.
When they run for office, they do not bring to that office any great talent or unifying vision. They are simply the central node of a network of advisors, policy wonks, lobbyists, and tame think-tank intellectuals.
They will say nothing to that hasn't been scripted, and hear no questions they were not coached for in advance.
George Washington, were he here to unite us today, would have these men tarred, feathered, and thrown in the reflecting pool.
₳ndrew retweeted
.@InstallKosmos has 15,904 commits on main since the very first one on 6 August, which is 75 days ago, averaging 212 a day. 🤯
Total code close to 2 million lines: about 786k lines of code, 624k lines of tests and 543k lines of docs and plans.
I was only able to do this because of AI agents, and now you can use Kosmos to easily create agents and put them to work.
Its open-source so you can go fork it if you want, or follow along with all the free updates that my agents are pushing each day on both Mac and Windows.
Meet Kosmos, an AI agent manager for your Mac or PC.
Create an agent in seconds, or a whole team in one click.
Switch models and keep the memory.
Reply to agents from any device.
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₳ndrew retweeted
"I'm 13 and this is politics" to the fucking max.
These people unironically believe, thanks to the constant propaganda dumps poured into their brains from the moment they can spell "google" or "wikipedia," that this is how literally anything about the world works in 2026.
Meanwhile, if you dig into the real, unfiltered truth...
Bob voted republican because he wanted cheaper taxes and maybe because a cousin of a friend of a friend was raped by someone who probably wasn't here legally.
Bob generally speaking doesn't care about race or skin color. Bob's got a friend named Jamal who works with him at the construction site and they go out for beers on Thursdays. But he has seen a lot of rundown crime ridden shitholes aka predominantly black neighborhoods, and he's realistic/honest about the pattern of Black Americans and violent crime. His friend Jamal even agrees with him about it, but he doesn't like to talk about it because leftists will call him a coon.
Because Bob is honest about these things and because he votes republican, he's immediately labeled a white supremacist and a racist. Because leftists are retarded, they immediately assume this means he wants to put brown people in concentration camps. They will not provide any evidence or elaborate.
Meanwhile, Sally is your average left-wing democrat. She has had her brain absolutely *scorched* by the propaganda mill that is Google's proprietary AI, Wikipedia, CNN, MSNBC, NYT, CBS, BBC, etc. and she's been indoctrinated heavily since the day she stepped foot into university. Said propaganda plays directly on her emotions: convincing her that not supporting leftist politics would mean lacking "empathy" or "compassion." But Sally is a compassionate person.
Because of this, she misguidedly supports policies that invite hoards of military-aged foreign men into the country. These men are not "evil" per se, but they do not respect or share western values. Many of them (not all) see women as inferior beings who should not be allowed to dress how they like, drive cars, or have jobs. But Sally has been propagandized into the bigotry of low expectations. "Those poor browns don't know any better. They had it rough growing up," Sally thinks to herself as she votes for the guy who promises to import more of them.
Sally attends the average ICE protest. Sally is unknowingly impeding ICE while they're in the process of trying to arrest a known rapist and child sexual predator who sodomized a 4-year-old. She thinks she's doing something good and compassionate, when in reality she's behaving cruelly to the innocent. The 13-year-old girl who will be raped by an MS-13 member. The infant who was sodomized. The old lady who was beaten to death in her own home for some jewelry.
Bob knows Sally is like this, but he knows better than to try and talk about politics with her. Rather than hating her for it, he pities her and tries to help her however he can, because Bob's a good friend. If Sally knew Bob's politics, Bob would be immediately labeled an intolerant bigot by Sally, then subsequently ostracized from Sally's life and friend groups. Sally will not recognize the irony in these actions because she's too far gone, but Bob will be better off without her anyways.
₳ndrew retweeted
Have you heard of the term “PMIE”? It stands for Perpetration and Betrayal-Based Morally Injurious Events.” In a 2017 study, “Distinguishing War-Related PTSD Resulting from PMIEs” (authors Alexander Jordan, et al), the connection between PMIEs and PTSD sampled 867 Marines who experienced heavy ground combat while deployed overseas. The results showed that over a third of the Marines reported exposure to PMIEs. The researchers concluded that guilt and shame are not adequately addressed within the current classification of PTSD as defined in the DSMV (Diagnostic Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition). PTSD tends to focus on danger-based experiences, while shame and guilt are being overlooked in PTSD diagnosis and treatment. This study and many others are pointing to the psychological struggles of guilt, shame, and anger that are contributing to suicidal thoughts. We must educate and continue to study this phenomenon. Our active duty and veteran populations deserve to get the specific help they need.
₳ndrew retweeted
Roadster event livestream teapaw.org/i/broadcasts/1yKAPwNgg…
₳ndrew retweeted
Honored to be a finalist for Startup Leader of the Year in @DMagazine CEO’s 2027 Innovation Awards!
This recognition reflects the work of our entire @book_io team and the community building with us.
Thank you to D CEO, and congratulations to all the finalists!
₳ndrew retweeted
Just published my "Explainer Bot" 🧠
I built it for myself first. It helps me understand things deeply and see things more clearly
I love learning, but some topics are really hard to understand properly. I'd see something on 𝕏, ask Grok for context, and get a quick summary. A summary isn't understanding, though. I wanted to know why it works, what's actually going on underneath, and whether it even makes sense
So I made a bot that does that, with first-principles thinking built in
You bring it a question, a link, an 𝕏 post, a paper, or a document. It reads everything (the full thread, the quoted posts, the sources, the data) and searches the web to check the claims. Then it explains how reality works underneath:
• The physics, meaning what's truly impossible and what's just a habit, a cost, or a regulation
• The mechanism, step by step
• The real numbers, worked out in code and compared to things you already know
• The trade-offs, and the hype separated from what's proven
• How Elon would look at it, plus the strongest counter-argument
• Clear diagrams and real reference images
You can ask it anything, like "Do space data centers actually work?", and it'll take you from the basic physics all the way to a clear answer
The goal isn't a summary. It's understanding that changes how you see the world
Try it here...this is my favorite bot actually
x.ai/bot/_G_I5jXyXTNLten5Mnt…
₳ndrew retweeted
Threema employees have a lot to say about privacy protection. We compiled a list of tips that go well beyond the basics: threema.com/bp/privacy-tips-…
₳ndrew retweeted
Today, I’m proud to announce Homebrew 7.0.0.
The most significant changes since 6.0.0 are faster installations, stronger sandboxing, native macOS app, vulnerability checks, advisory database, end of macOS 10.15 support and Intel Macs to Tier 3.
brew.sh/2026/09/13/homebrew-…
