Kyle Bunch

svp @wearesocial, prev: @rga x #Dodgers, founder @dockworkspro

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

Carl Jung dropped some real bangers

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

Whoops

[Will Compton @_willcompton]

We just witnessed the most grown man moment in college football this year

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

@devahaz case in point

[NoLimit @NoLimitGains]

HOLY SHIT

Americans now feel worse off financially than at any point in 65 years

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

@devahaz “the world’s least resentful or grasping underclass” is definitely not the vibe i get from the masses today

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

@PabloTorre @ClayTravis “would you like to talk to my mom and dad”

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

If you want to see actual good college football coaching in LA, they're practically giving it away in Pasadena ✌️

[Arash Markazi @ArashMarkazi]

UCLA is 7-0 and ranked in the Top 7 in the country. You can watch them in-person at the Rose Bowl on Saturday for $11 on @TickPick. You can get in for free if you’re a student. Many students were also given a link for free tickets for friends and family to attend the game.

[andrew pignanelli @ndrewpignanelli]

We need to move away from what i call “launch slop”

Fast cuts, black and white, historical film, rocket ships. Clips of some
philosopher talking.

It was cool when founders fund did it. Now it looks like shit. Every YC company has the same video. We need a new aesthetic.

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

rally up, concerned internet citizens, especially those of you in and around Los Feliz…

[Hear in LA @hearinladotcom]

YE RUSTIC INN MAY SOON BE DUNZO

In a shocking announcement on the Los Feliz bar's IG an hour ago, the staff have posted a distressing message: the beloved bar's lease is expiring and things don't look good.

They are asking for everyone's help:

To our Los Feliz community and lovers of Ye Rustic Inn, we need you ! 💙 Our outdoor space is scheduled to be removed on Monday and our lease is also looking at an uncertain future. We need our community’s support.

While Rustic may just be a bar to some… to others it is a place to gather, their job, and where some of their best memories are held. It’s a Los Angeles institution and the neighborhood wouldn’t be the same without it.

So we are asking our community to please join us tomorrow at 6:30 for a circle of hope and unity to act as a peaceful demonstration to show how beloved this establishment is to its patrons and staff.

Small businesses deserve to thrive here in LA 💙 Please share and feel free or leave your favorite Rustic memory in the comments.

XOXO
The Staff of Rustic

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

the road to flavortown

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

looks like a very healthy colon

[Alex Tamkin @AlexTamkin]

New Anthropic research: How AI agents shape experts' judgment calls

When experts delegate work to an agent, do they still make the key decisions? We tested this in a randomized trial with 50 professional data analysts.

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

this is going to ruin some political careers

[internet hall of fame @InternetH0F]

Discord to make public server messages findable on search engines like Google

▪️ Applies to servers with at least 1,000 members
▪️ Server admins can opt out
▪️ Feature goes live November 16

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

you’re poking the bear guys, she is going to drop a response track

[Seattle Seahawks @Seahawks]

End Game

[Dayne Young @dayneyoung]

Your parents when a QR code pops up on the tv screen for authentication

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

i'm sure this is the last we'll hear of it

[Pop Crave @PopCrave]

Mercury is in retrograde again until November 13.

[Terrible Maps @TerribleMaps]

It makes sense when you think about it

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

i bet Sorsby would have pulled it out

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

Bro this you @Adventuring_RE

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

@Adventuring_RE dude shut up. link?

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

it’s always the one that manages labels

[Derek Devicemanager @IT_unhinged]

Security called me at 6:12 AM today.

"Patch every PHP server immediately."

I asked what happened.

"Two critical vulnerabilities. Remote code execution. No authentication required."

Cool.

How many PHP servers do we have?

According to inventory: 12

According to reality:

Nobody knows.

We found one running WordPress.

Three running old internal tools.

One under someone's desk.

Two inside vendor appliances.

A forgotten employee directory from 2016.

And a server named:

PHP-OLD-DO-NOT-TOUCH

Naturally, that one runs payroll exports.

Then we found a PHP 5.6 box.

I asked who owned it.

The documentation said:

BRIAN.

Brian left in 2019.

We called Brian.

He said:

"Oh wow, that's still running?"

Excellent.

By 8 AM, leadership joined the incident call.

CEO:

"Can hackers actually get in?"

Security:

"Potentially yes."

CEO:

"Without a password?"

Security:

"Yes."

CEO:

"Then why do WE need passwords?"

Not the lesson.

Finance asked if we could wait until the weekend to patch because downtime affects revenue.

Security explained that the alternative was letting strangers execute code on our servers.

Finance asked for a cost comparison.

At 9:17, someone suggested temporarily taking the vulnerable websites offline.

Marketing refused.

"Our campaign is live."

So for the next hour, the company officially decided maintaining a landing page for 20% off webinar registration was more important than preventing remote server takeover.

We finally patched everything we could find.

Then our scanner discovered another PHP server.

Hostname:

TEMP-PHP-2014

Uptime:

4,512 days.

Nobody knows what it does.

Nobody owns it.

Nobody can shut it down.

But every time we block network access, the warehouse stops printing shipping labels.

Security has classified it as critical infrastructure.

It is running PHP 5.4.

The vulnerability has existed longer than half our employees.

The emergency patch took four hours.

Finding out what PHP actually runs took eleven.

The internet isn't held together with code.

It's held together with servers everyone is afraid to turn off.

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

Called it #hurricaneditka

[Kyle Bunch @bunch]

Bears by 28

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

Look. I don’t want to overstate it. But when you look at contemporary SF — the cults of rationality and dialogue, powerful men having sex with their male mentees, an obsession with “first principles” thinking — it’s hard not to notice some parallels with ancient Athens.