It amazes me how profoundly stupid these people are. This is almost too dumb to believe. The Strait of Hormuz risk has been talked about for decades, no one at the Pentagon or NSC should be surprised right now.

It is kind of funny that Iran already replaced Khomeini with another Khomeini. Except this one is extra shitty, and now also extra pissed off too.

It gives you more control over when and what Google can do on the device. If you run Google software with network access you have to assume they can track you, but having it sandboxed minimizes what it can do while running and gives you more control over what it does (e.g. you can deny it network access entirely whenever you want).

Last I saw they have something like 900,000,000 active users with around 50,000,000 on a paid plan of some form.

It makes him look so much older for some reason, or maybe he is just aging hard and fast these days. That he has it on at night and indoors does suggest he is using it because he is insecure about something or having some kind of issue the hat covers up.

It’s both. The original technically correct version is with Spanish pronunciation because it is a word from the Spanish language. Many people from Nevada, especially white folks, don’t like the Spanish style pronunciation and insist it is wrong. I personally prefer the Spanish pronunciation because it’s funny when Nevadans get annoyed over it, and I hate bigots.

The supply chain risk designation and threats of imprisonment are completely insane. It’s effectively the corporate death penalty for Anthropic. I expect the stock market would be crashing right now if it were open.

You should look into it then, his actions will make it obvious that he is getting exactly what he deserves.

They can get into most phones for sure, and even if you have GrapheneOS in a paranoid config they can get you if they put in significant effort. They will come at the data from a direction that doesn’t require compromising the phone itself if that’s too much challenge. You need to think about the total attack surface, the phone itself is just one thing. Ultimately it’s about what resources are necessary to get what they want, for most phones the resources are relatively minimal but also most people are not worth the resources to them.

No, the biggest satellite networks are privately owned. The best aren’t obviously because that stuff is all classified but there’s more privately owned satellites monitoring the planet these days. There’s more going up regularly too, it’s a growing industry.

There’s already multiple satellite networks the public can hire. You can pay a company like Planet Labs or Spire Global and get access to thousands of satellites right now if that’s what you want to do. It would be great if the public had access for free but it costs a lot of money to keep satellites in orbit. I think having free access would save some NGOs money but otherwise not much would change.

Definitely suspicious behavior. It’s plausible she didn’t notice them, or that she noticed them but had some other intent besides theft. I wouldn’t jump to any conclusions without further evidence.

I’m convinced Karp has a serious stimulant habit.

Life is a bitch, and then you die. You have to get the good times while you can.

Launched from the solar system on a path out of the galaxy. Or left in the wilderness for nature to have it’s way.

Another one I saw mentioned by the NYT is his missing tattoo. Epstein apparently testified in a deposition that he had a tattoo of barbed wire on his upper arm, except it is not visible in pictures of his corpse. Not sure what to make of that but it’s odd and hasn’t been explained yet.

This hearing was a total disaster for Bondi. There was no hiding what a monster she is, and it’s now come out that photographers captured images of her burn book which included info from illegal DOJ surveillance of members of Congress search histories of the Epstein files. Bondi is spying on Congress while they review the Epstein files, a blatant violation of the separation of powers.

You can understand why Paul Weiss rolled over so easy for Trump. Karp and others were active participants in a sex trafficking ring, if not as actual rapists at least as facilitators for other members of their criminal organization to more effectively exploit their victims.

Another interesting detail, Epstein was already being protected before he was even arrested:

Reiter explained that he was upset when the state attorney, Barry Krischer, rebuffed police efforts to arrest Epstein in 2006. After Krischer declined to prosecute, Reiter took the unusual step of writing a later asking Krischer to recuse himself from the case. When Krischer refused, Reiter then took the case to the FBI.