PSA: This week was kind of a turning point for AI and cybersecurity. Please take this weekend to do some simple cleanup for your family. Some suggestions:
- Set up a password manager like 1Password and give your spouse or partner access to a shared vault. Teach them how to use it.
- Update your passwords for critical stuff - your email account, your bank or financial stuff, etc. Store in your password manager and use the strongest password you can.
- Use two factor auth for everything you can. SMS is not ideal although better than nothing. Google Authenticator or a passkey is better. Hardware key is safest.)
- Add a sim pin to your phone. Makes it harder to sim jack.
- Update your phone and your computer to the newest releases. Turn auto-updates on.
- Freeze your credit - takes 5 minutes.
- Get an IRS Identity Protection PIN.
- If you’re using claude code or have AI agents that browse the web, they’re probably using Node.js. It’s also vulnerable. Update claude code, update node on your machine.
- If you’re building stuff on your computer, ask claude or grokbot (which is connected to twitter and likely has the most current info) to audit any of your repos for vulnerabilities. Ask grok to make it a scheduled task so it can do this daily - things are moving very quickly in the space right now.
- Consider some light resiliency stuff. This probably sounds silly, but it sounded silly at the beginning of covid too. Having printed out copies of important stuff - especially financial accounts. Having some cash on hand. Having some shelf-stable food and clean water or a water filter. Having a map. Having a generator that can at least power your fridge or some devices. Cheap insurance.
Again, I don’t want to alarm people, but I was taught that you should have a Secure plan, a Comfortable plan, and a Wealthy plan. And it seems pretty clear the secure plan needs to now factor cybersecurity risk as a legit threat. Take a weekend and shore yourself up.
SORRY IF THIS OFFENDS GROCERY EXECUTIVES, BUT I’M DONE.
I just pulled a $4.99 box of cereal off the shelf, brought it to the register, and watched the scanner ring it up as $7.49.
When I told the cashier, she said: "Oh, that’s the digital coupon price. You have to download our store app, create an account, search for the item, and clip the digital coupon before scanning."
ABSOLUTELY NOT.
You inflated the shelf price by 50%, locked the normal price behind an app, and forced me to hand over my personal phone data and email just to pay the actual retail value of a box of food?
Stop hiding basic shelf pricing behind data-harvesting apps.
Jim Montgomery after a 6-2 win vs. Vegas: "That was the best game we've played since the (2025) playoffs. The energy on the bench tonight was the best I've seen it in a long time." #stlblues
“The competition in the ABA was always great. The four teams that survived the merger (San Antonio Spurs, Denver Nuggets, Indiana Pacers, New York Nets) they’re all worthy and I pull for them today no matter who they’re against. This year when San Antonio was playing New York, even though I’m from New York, I was pulling for San Antonio just because they were an ABA franchise.”
NBA and ABA legend Julius Erving sat down with @JeffZillgitt to discuss the 50th anniversary of the merger and more.
Bye weeks are good for the soul and blood pressure. Enjoy the weekend, hit the pumpkin patch, take in nature’s palette of vibrant colors and stay away from the television.
“How ‘bout three on the night?” 🤯
On this day in 2011, Albert Pujols became the third player in MLB history to homer three times in a World Series game as he led the Cardinals to a 16-7 victory over the Texas Rangers in Game 3.
It's National School Bus Safety Week 🚍
As a reminder, a school bus with its stop-arm out and flashing lights means STOP🛑 — kids are crossing! It's not a suggestion, it's the law
OTD in 2013: The most intense staredown in NLCS history had nothing to do with a pitch.
Game 6 at Busch, the anthem ends, and everybody heads for the dugout. Everybody except Joe Kelly and Scott Van Slyke, who just stood there. Cardinals taking the field for warmups, grounds crew finishing up, a Dodgers teammate even slid a helmet onto Van Slyke’s head for safety, and neither guy would blink. Twelve minutes of pure stubbornness, until the home plate umpire threatened to throw both of them out before a single pitch.
Kelly said he always waits for the other team to leave after the anthem, Van Slyke caught on and decided he was not going to be the one to flinch, and both of them still claim they won. Kelly says his step toward the dugout was a deke. Van Slyke threw his arms in the air like he had just won.
The real winner that night was the Cardinals, who went on to blow out the Dodgers and punch their ticket to the World Series. Kelly got the last laugh, and the best part is we are still arguing about it 13 years later.
So, Cardinals fans, who really won the standoff?
“They never had to walk a day in your shoes”… “ They never had to go thru what Alex battled thru”.. “This is for life, it isn’t about football.”
Turn me up Coach…this is ELECTRIC 🗣️
The Adirondack Thunder (@ECHLThunder) are wearing our Barry Melrose logo on their buckets all season long in honor of the big guy. Very cool. Thank you to the organization.