Dirk de Kok

Engineering leader. San Francisco has my mind, Amsterdam my heart.

[Acyn @Acyn]

OBAMA: He's got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened a Cheesecake Factory. It's gold everywhere.

[Dirk de Kok @dirkdk]

@nico_lrx @Docker Images are available now

[Dirk de Kok @dirkdk]

All ruby should upgrade to 4.0.9 ASAP. Docker images still pending

[Nate Berkopec @nateberkopec]

I recommend everyone upgrade Ruby immediately. This is a DoS and RCE vector if you accept user input into https://t.co/Xv9cCQIZRM() https://t.co/nn3DWW2qDZ

[The Hormuz Report @HormuzReport]

BREAKING: Jared Kushner’s hacked iPhone revealed that Kushner promised MBS and MBZ he would push their agenda with Trump if they participated in a secret fund, with the two royals initially discussing over $10 billion before ultimately placing at least $2 billion into accounts for him, according to a Vanity Fair excerpt from Princes and Thieves.

The revelation lands as Kushner remains deeply involved in Iran war diplomacy, while Tehran has separately accused him and Steve Witkoff of pocketing $9 billion through market manipulation.

[Angry Staffer @Angry_Staffer]

Again:

Why does Musk have operational control over any *military grade* version of anything.

That’s not how DOD contracts work.

[Michael Weiss @michaeldweiss]

The GRU hacked into Jared Kushner's iPhone. Dutch military intelligence (MIVD) then recruited a GRU spy who gave them access to the hacked phone. What MIVD discovered was that Kushner had access to two bank accounts --one Azerbaijani, the other Israeli --where Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and Emirati ruler Mohammed bin Zayed deposited money. It sounds like a slightly far-fetched episode of "Slow Horses," but it's real. And it proves just how eye-poppingly corrupt this administration was and continues to be as its "special envoy" decides the fate of tens of millions in Europe in the Middle East. Simply incredible reporting by Matthew Cole, drawn from his new book on Kushner. https://t.co/8AyV60gg1X

[Noah Shachtman @NoahShachtman]

The Russians hacked Jared's phone. Then Dutch cyberspies reverse-engineered that hack, giving them unprecedented access to his world. Bananas story here in @VanityFair

[Ryan Grim @ryangrim]

Explosive story many years in the making, now out in Vanity Fair by Matthew Cole (who will be on Breaking Points next week, and publishing soon in @DropSiteNews):

Saudi Arabia and the UAE set up multi-billion slush funds for Jared Kushner to use.

Iran-Contra 2 here (except with Iran-Contra, at least the US got some hostages released. Not clear what we got out of this one.)

[The Wall Street Journal @WSJ]

Breaking: Elon Musk ordered the Starlink slowdown that blindsided Ukraine https://t.co/bbLQBC4sbA

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

U.S. job numbers keep getting revised lower, per Bloomberg.

Since the start of 2025, initial jobs reports have been revised down in 16 of 20 months, cutting a total of 793,000 jobs.

That’s an average of nearly 40,000 jobs a month that were reported, then quietly erased.

[Dirk de Kok @dirkdk]

@yitcows 6% in USD or Dogecoin?

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

We’re committing a portion of Anthropic’s shares to the Anthropic Public Benefit Fund, a new wholly owned entity dedicated entirely to the public benefit.

It will start off with 5% of our shares. For every 50% increase in the company’s value over a set baseline, we can contribute up to an extra 2%, subject to our board’s discretion.

In total, this means that roughly 20% of Anthropic’s shares are committed to the public good. Our co-founders have already pledged to donate 80% of their equity, and around half our employees are donating a portion of their equity as part of a donation matching program we’ve run since our founding.

In the post below, we share more details about our new fund.

https://t.co/XzDntVH0vH

[Fareed Zakaria @FareedZakaria]

DOGE made “possible a massive power grab, and that's the real story.”

That’s what author Michael Lewis told me in the second part of our conversation about his book “Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State.”

[Bill Kristol @BillKristol]

Don't know if Trump or associates asked Zuckerberg to disrupt No Kings; or if he saw it as a chance to curry favor with Trump; or if he so believes in Trumpist authoritarianism that he decided to help out.
But it's urgent to stop this from happening again--e.g., on election day.

[Yashar Ali 🐘 @yashar]

BREAKING via AP

President Trump puts new Russia sanctions passed by Congress on hold, saying a waiver is in the US national interest.

[Scott Stedman @ScottMStedman]

Unbelievable. At 9 PM on a Friday night, Trump just waived nearly every sanction the Lindsey Graham bill imposed on Russia. https://t.co/rnFwbQTbYO

[Dirk de Kok @dirkdk]

Why does the @OpenAI API return a 429 rate limited status code when you are out of budget? http status code 402 payment required makes much more sense

[Clive @Clive_99]

I fucking hate this Friday morning commute

[Anthony Scaramucci @Scaramucci]

Dear @katiezacharia — speaking as the world's leading expert on short White House tenures: turn off the news and go enjoy your family. In time you’ll realize that the Universe did you a major favor.

[Matt Murray @murraymatt]

To be clear: Some facts are neither in dispute nor unclear. Our photographer was clearly marked as Press. She was clearly beaten. These are not partisan or risible statements, but indisputable. We urge a thorough investigation and accountability.