Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮

Traffic Rants, Mexican Food, Portland Politics, Barbacoa Research, and the Blazers -- but not necessarily in that order. Reformed hacker. Restaurant consultant.

[Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮 @extramsg]

If you're interested in travel to Mexico, what I've been cooking or eating, etc, check out my Instagram. I reserve twitter for traffic rants, Blazers fandom, retweets of interesting news items, and the occasional trolling these days and little else. https://t.co/5nBDWihwwC

[Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮 @extramsg]

@HaterReport Whines about whining after losing by 20.

[Shoshana Weissmann, Sloth Committee Chair 🦥 @senatorshoshana]

The founder of the Internet Archive explaining why their work is critical and news companies are wrong to fight against them.

- Journalists rely on the Wayback Machine. It preserves histories so when people try to cover things up by changing a website, those histories are available
- Pew found over a 10 year period, a FOURTH of websites they tracked disappeared. That's histories and knowledge lost, without Wayback.
- I didn't realize, but IA isn't a fan of scraping for building AI, and the piece gets into why. I don't exactly agree, but it also makes sense why their tool is built more for human use for capacity reasons.

But this is another good example of news orgs fighting the same tools their journalists use religiously
@TheAtlantic

[Chubby♨️ @kimmonismus]

Whats happening right now is probably way worse than the Hugging Face incident.

AI-powered attacks are hitting real organizations while major platforms disclose breaches and critical flaws.

- Microsoft reports AI agents targeting hundreds of organizations, reaching privileged cloud access in under three hours in multiple cases. It attributes the ConnectWise compromise to the same group.

- CrowdStrike documented four operators running successful AI-agent campaigns. One compromised at least 15 Argentine healthcare organizations.

- PHP2Shell: AI helped turn longstanding PHP flaws into working exploits. Cloudflare’s CEO reports millions of exploitation attempts. Their AI involvement is unknown.

- Railway disclosed possible access to customer secrets. LiteLLM shipped a backdoored release. Zeabur confirmed another breach and is shutting down.

- GitLab patched a maximum-severity flaw affecting 12 years of releases. Node.js patched a serious code-execution vulnerability, with Vercel deploying firewall protections.

Feels like a turningpoint.

[Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮 @extramsg]

@juan_dla_mancha @hoffman_da80344 @ModeledBehavior And the jobs, and the GDP, and the ability to retain and attract talent.....

[Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮 @extramsg]

@ElijahCone This is the viral meme to come out of the movie. It shows her as a deceptive, manipulative, sociopath. I don't think your premise is correct.

[Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮 @extramsg]

@pointmadebball @williamrpowell3 @catsnineteen @CapitalistColts So you would argue that if he dribbled it would have been a carry but if he takes three steps with his hand like that it's not a travel? 🤦

[Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮 @extramsg]

@pointmadebball The ball is gathered when the ball is lifted with palm underneath (or two hands). I count three steps after that. It's a travel.

[max doppelt @maxdoppelt]

In January 2025 my mom’s lung cancer spread to her brain. The drug with the best chance of helping her was approved in China but not here.

A doctor told me, almost as an aside, that if she were Chinese she could buy it at a pharmacy.

So I flew to Shanghai and came home with 26 boxes in my luggage. That was 19 months ago. My mom is still here, still working, and in her words has had an amazing three years.

The drug was approved in China in 2023. The FDA approved it in July 2025. It still is not for sale here. I know of at least 30 Americans who have made the same trip.

I have been scared to tell this story because I worried it could cost my mom access to the medicine keeping her alive. But the problem matters more than my silence. These drugs need to be developed and available here, and that means FDA reform.

Art Allen at KFF Health News told our story this week. It also ran in The Washington Post.
https://t.co/tHKV3L004L

[Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮 @extramsg]

@nyquil_dreamer What a shallow review. "Truth, narrative, and subjectivity has been covered. No more movies about that!" Imagine if we stopped making movies about romance, murder, war, revenge, etc after the first one. Film would have ended in the 1920s.

[Phil Magness @PhilWMagness]

🧵In 2019, California billionaire tax crusader Gabriel Zucman made an astonishing claim to the NY Times: billionaires pay a lower avg tax rate than poor people in the US.

I noticed something fishy though: Zucman's NYT chart did not match his own published data from a 2018 paper

[Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮 @extramsg]

@Locker205 @mattyglesias I don't see how that's relevant. All that matters is that a reasonable audience may believe some inaccuracies are true. And if those damage someone, that person can sue.

[Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮 @extramsg]

@KagedBeast33 @LakeShowERA @ZO2_ He took three steps after the gather (palm under the ball).

[Hater Report @HaterReport]

LaMelo Ball really picked the ball up and started running with it like Bijan Robinson right in front of the ref 😭😭

[Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮 @extramsg]

@king_moodyy @Ballislife If you have your hand palm up under the ball for three steps, you have not only gathered, you have traveled.

[Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮 @extramsg]

@ModeledBehavior That may be. He also hasn't been let go because he's a very good fit for SNL.

He seems to be walking an interesting line here. The monologue clearly didn't kill, but Thompson also doesn't say that it was offensive.

Tires is better than SNL tho.

[Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮 @extramsg]

@jahootsen Everybody wants billionaires' money but not billionaires.

[Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮 @extramsg]

@hoffman_da80344 @ModeledBehavior There has already been measurable effect. 🤷

[Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮 @extramsg]

@hoffman_da80344 @ModeledBehavior Lol. That's a "unique" idea: Unless an economy entirely implodes within a short period of time, any reduction in economic value to it doesn't matter.

[Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮 @extramsg]

@hoffman_da80344 @ModeledBehavior Many already have. 30% of billionaire wealth has left.

[Nicholas Zukin 🐑🔥🌮 @extramsg]

@ModeledBehavior The irony is that they're just mimicking the voices Hank Azaria invented.