Daniel Poole

Cyber Security Practitioner, father of 3.

[Dr. Maalouf ‏ @realMaalouf]

Jesus never raped a 9-year-old girl, didn’t have sex slaves, never started wars or killed anyone, for starters.

[Defiant L’s @DefiantLs]

Democrat backed Dan Osborn: "At the end of the day, I’m gonna win this election. And then I’ll be the Senator for six years and everybody else can f*ck off... I can go and I can be the voice for LGBTQ and immigration" https://t.co/pIfpkHa8Y0

This needs to go mega viral

If this is how Osborn talks about voters and political opposition behind closed doors, Nebraska deserves to hear it

"Everybody else can f*ck off” is certainly an interesting way to talk about the people he wants to trust him

[Ayaan Hirsi Ali @Ayaan]

When “universal” comes with exceptions for nearly everyone except Catholics, it’s worth asking what “generally applicable” actually means.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Thomas Sowell warned about what happens when society starts treating experts and intellectuals as if they can’t be wrong.

The problem isn’t intelligence. It’s the assumption that being highly educated automatically means having the right answers.

Ideas should be judged by their results, not by the credentials of the person presenting them.

That’s a lesson worth remembering.

[Kevin Sorbo @ksorbs]

Say that again… slowly.

[Riley Gaines @Riley_Gaines_]

You cannot have both "gender identity" and "sex" as protected classes. They're in conflict with one another. So pick one

You can prioritize the man for fear of hurting his feelings or you can protect the girls whom the sports team was designated for

[Phil Venables @philvenables]

Autonomic Defense: Countering AI-Driven Offense at Machine Speed

- High and increasing baselines of control are more critical.

- Speed is necessary but not sufficient.

- The human becomes the governor over the loop, not the operator in it.

https://t.co/GqB2T252nF

[Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog]

They’ve conjured a lynching epidemic out of whole cloth. Meanwhile, back in reality, no black person had been lynched in this country at any time this century. If you’re 40 years old or younger, there has not been an anti-black lynching in your entire lifetime. If you’re 50 years old, there was maybe one in your lifetime and it happened when you were in elementary school.

[Susan Edelman @SusanBEdelman]

Nicole Hannah-Jones and @nytimes did not disclose that her husband, Faraji Hannah-Jones, sits on the. 24-member Panel for Educational Policy, and chairs the contracts commitee, which oversees millions of dollars spent by the city Department of Education.
https://t.co/uzqWoEotKt

[Deep Leaks @DeepLeaksHQ]

No longer a conspiracy theory

US Attorney confirms shops are being setup with the sole purpose of exchanging SNAP benefits for cash

Multiple fake stores, one as small as 150 square feet cashing out as much as $480,000 in EBT per month

$7 million in food stamps turned into cash at 2 locations

“Less than 150 square feet in size, smaller than some bathrooms — stores had one register, no carriages, no hand baskets”

“One legitimate supermarket in the same area as these stores redeems approximately $80,000 in and SNAP benefits per month. Over the last 20 months, the Juswala variety store was redeeming between 3-6x that amount monthly”

The 2 fake convenient store owners caught were both from Haiti

[JS0N Haddix @Jhaddix]

Just for your information:

We (offensive or defensive cybersec people) and threat actors don't have the same capabilities as the frontier labs do.

The API cost of testing ExploitBench like they did would be a whopping ~$59.3M (Astra).

Oh, and you cant do it like they do, they remove all guardrails and classifiers.

What about renting AI hardware in the cloud?

DeepSeek v4? $3.4M
Kimi K3? $16.9M
GLM 5.3? $9.3M

Not to mention the engineering cost to make a harness operate 10,000 agents.

(Napkin-Math based on the Huggingface reports. Exploit bench eval consisted of 10,000 concurrent agents, 8day non-stop run, no limiters)

[Mary Katharine Ham @mkhammer]

I have many thoughts on the Nikole Hannah-Jones story, especially having attended the kind of schools she sent her daughter to, but if we're looking for takeaways, here's a simple one. When an expert in education so thoroughly demonstrates a jarring and near complete lack of expertise in the act of getting an education for her own daughter, we should stop taking advice from her on curriculum, instruction, and all other fads disguised as wisdom she offers. That seems like the least we could do. Her daughter's personal struggle, which is indeed sympathetic, wasn't much of a teachable moment for her, as she doesn't seem to have updated any of her priors (and actually fudges funding facts, so as not to disrupt the narrative of under-resourced schools). But it should be a teachable moment for us, about the outsized influence of a scholar who claims to know better than anyone what her daughter would be up against in the school to which she chose to send her, but was inexplicably surprised and left her daughter completely unprepared for it.

[Ben Shapiro @benshapiro]

Miss Rachel is Mr. Rogers if Mr. Rogers were a nitwit cosplaying as a child to make YouTube slop – and also if Mr. Rogers used his credibility with children to push pro-terrorist propaganda.

[Brit Hume @brithume]

Long thread, very much worth your time.

[Web Security Academy @WebSecAcademy]

Nothing makes us prouder than educating the world's next generation of hackers!

Over the years we've:

👨‍💻 Released 247 free labs
👨‍💻 Served 90,000 up and coming hackers
👨‍💻 Ran an 18,000 strong Discord community
👨‍💻 Served hackers in 170 countries

Hackers are more important than they've ever been. Keep at it 💪

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Thomas Sowell explains how people can become so convinced by an ideal that even a tiny amount of supporting evidence feels sufficient.

His broader warning is about people who start with the utopia they want and then look for evidence to justify it, while ignoring the laws, incentives and real-world consequences standing in the way.

A small piece of evidence can feel convincing when it supports what you already want to believe.

[Pepperdine University @pepperdine]

"The End of Reading Is Here," The Atlantic warned this summer. Pepperdine President Jim Gash isn't so sure - and points to what's actually happening in Pepperdine classrooms as evidence. His response, in @USATODAY:

[Marissa Streit @marissastreit]

It’s easy to preach socialism when somebody else gets stuck with the bill. Former Virginia Lieutenant Governor @winwithwinsome says: before lecturing Americans about how much they should give, are you donating your own money, feeding a family in need, or even tithing? Nobody is stopping you from being generous right now. Watch here: https://t.co/ouMlF01Fxp

[JS0N Haddix @Jhaddix]

Today i faced an issue where a website i used, that indexed massive amounts of data, didn't offer the filtering and searching i needed.

So i built my own site for their data. Better search, Custom filters, grouping, a AI chatbot to ask data questions...

WEB 4.0 is amazing

[Peachy Keenan @KeenanPeachy]

Why am I just learning now that public schools in the New York city ghetto don't assign homework, don't grade tests, don't respond to parents emails or phone calls, don't supervise feral, fighting kids at lunch, don't know or care if their students can read or do grade level math, and give them As on their report cards when they are actually doing F level work?

Why did Nikole Hannah Jones bury this explosive lede?

Why isn't she writing emergency front page @nytimes stories about this shocking, incredible, abject citywide failure that costs people who pay taxes over $50K per student per year?

Why isn't she holding emergency all-hands on deck meetings with @NYCMayor to shut this down, rescue these kids, fire everyone involved?

We all know why. But no one at the Times will say a word. LOL