CIRCLE WITH A DOT

@malipdx.bsky.social Rad

@normative.bsky.social Even if we maintained passenger inspection as a federal responsibility, I'd expect we'd get a better mission focus and better results if the TSA was rolled up under the DOT.

Although I read at one point individual airports could opt-out of using TSA agents, and SFO was an airport that had done so. Not sure if that's no longer possible, but I'm positive at one point it was.

@briankrebs This is an incredibly weird move from the Executive that also suspended the investigation into Salt Typhoon, and has spent most of its tenure nerfing both cyber and conventional security operations in lieu of chasing around line cooks and gardeners.

@gregdoucette.bsky.social Was Temple of Apshai on 2600, or just C64?

@donmoyn.bsky.social We live in such times that I, irony poisoned as I am, cannot tell how much of this statement is truthful.

@bruces I, uh ... cool. Cool beans, team.

@donmoyn.bsky.social There is so much performative bullshit in that thread. No one gives a shit what you order to drink in LA, and your dad is a dumbass to take you to a restaurant where you hate the food. Classic Elon.

@ianbremmer I think you'd be hard pressed to find a single cohort of US voters of any stripe who want to put boots on the ground in Iran.

@spaf Evergreen.

@willrosecrans.com Wtf. This is classic dictator shit. What is the Times doing?!

@donmoyn.bsky.social In fairness, Canadians have been suspicious and distrustful of Americans for decades, but we have always been fans of dim sum.

@donmoyn.bsky.social I'd ask if he's offering this assessment while drunk, but a little tipple might actually make him less of a rancid shart, so ... no, he's just a stupid bigot.

@sdarlington @ianbetteridge Came here to say this. To suggest I was "missing it" is to imply a charitable feeling on my part that is wholly absent in my person.

@ianbetteridge The bar for him to do that is unbelievably low. Fascism would honestly be slightly more tolerable if these goons weren't all such epic dipshits.

@SeanCasten 404 Media recently dubbed them "the Depravity Economy", and I think that's perfect.

@carnage4life Cartoon supervillains who ALSO think they're curing cancer AND splitting the atom simultaneously.

@natematias 404 Media recently referred to this as "the Depravity Economy", and I can't think of a better label.

@chad The Power Corrupts podcast had a terrific episode on Nauru: "the Billion Dollar Shack". Worth a listen as well.

The Billion Dollar Shack

We all know that offshore areas of financial secrecy exist. In this episode, we're going to take a look at the origin story of one of them. It's a story that wi

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@ai6yr @jmorris @Dhmspector @lauren You jest, but that's pretty much how it works in Russia. Rich kids get deferments and exemptions, poor kids end up in the meat grinder.

@PeterLudemann @lauren I'm currently in Toronto and have a handful of Persian friends here who mostly like Canada. Seeing a bunch of Iranian flags on cars, though, it seems like we're at least not on the side of the US in this one.