Robert Yorgason

Retired LAUSD public school CTE teacher who tried to educated students on the basics of computer networks and cybersecurity. Lots of opinions, a few answers.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Novo Nordisk has been compromised. Novo Nordisk has confirmed the compromise.

Novo Nordisk is the company that became famous after producing weight loss drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy

The Threat Actor(s) responsible for the attack has been playfully extorting Novo Nordisk (they're not being playful) and have unveiled some details regarding what was stolen.

Interestingly, it appears Novo Nordisk has it's own internal AI thing because some of the data stolen was stuff from their internal AI agents.

Data stolen (according to the Threat Actor):
- Trained model checkpoint (16GB)
- Proprietary training dataset (407MB)
- Full source code (modeling_novopert.py, training pipeline)
- 113 training runs with complete logs
- Internal infrastructure maps (HPC, Slurm, SSH)
- Container images (53GB+)
- Developer identities and internal hostnames
- Private GitHub repository URL

[🔥Reverend Aiden @SweetFnLucifer]

Remember those DOGE checks Trump promised? Or the tariff checks he promised to send every American? YEAH, FUCK THAT. But hey, don't worry! Iran gets $300 billion and Trump got to spend his birthday creaming himself to sweaty UFC fighters simulating sodomy at the White House! WOO!

[Shanaka Anslem Perera ⚡ @shanaka86]

The world just paid $2 trillion for a rocket company that lost $4.9 billion last year. And the rockets are not why it lost the money. They are the only part making any.

SpaceX went public Friday, the largest IPO in history. Up 19%, a $2 trillion valuation, Elon Musk the first trillionaire. Then you open the filing.

Three businesses sit inside it. Starlink, the satellites, brought in $11.4 billion, 61% of all revenue, and $4.4 billion in profit. It is the only piece that earns a dollar. The rockets that land themselves run a small loss reinvesting in Starship. And the AI arm, Grok plus the app once called Twitter, folded in this February, lost $6.4 billion in a single year on $12.7 billion of spending.

Read that again. The satellites pay for everything. The AI loses more than the satellites make. And the AI is the part the market fell in love with.

It gets bolder. The prospectus claims a total market of $28.5 trillion, the largest any company has ever put in a filing. Larger than the GDP of the United States. That is the number underwriting a $2 trillion price tag built on a division bleeding $6 billion a year.

Now the structure. About 4% of the company trades. That sliver sets the price for all of it. Musk is locked up for 366 days and holds roughly 80% of the votes. The public bought a company they cannot steer, priced on the one segment losing the most.

This is the whole year in one ticker. The profit is satellites. The story is AI. The market bought the story.

The rockets were never the risk. The risk is a $2 trillion price resting on the one bet that has yet to make a cent.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

If Bernie's 5% annual wealth tax on billionaires had been enacted in 2012, Elon Musk would be worth less than $365 billion instead of the $1.2 trillion that he's worth today.

Elon would still be the wealthiest man alive & every family in America would have universal childcare.

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

SOMEONE VIBE CODED A VIDEO STREAM THAT IS SECRETLY 100% TEXT SO IT CANT BE BLOCKED

it plays 360p video at 30fps, but theres no actual video on the page. every frame is just colored text characters being repainted on a canvas

to the browser its not media at all, its javascript updating some text

its called asciline, and here's the trick:

> the server decodes the real video and streams it as binary packed text over websockets
> the browser paints thousands of colored block characters fast enough to look like 360p
> ad blockers and autoplay blockers cant catch it because theres no video element to catch
> it streams in kilobytes since its just strings, so it runs on trash internet

since the video is literally text, you can apply css glows to it, let people copy paste a moving frame, or feed it straight to a local llm

however, an unblockable stream is also an unblockable ad as well

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said that “The underlying purpose of AI is to allow wealth to access skill while removing from the skilled the ability to access wealth.” And I don’t think I’ve ever seen AI described so incisively.

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

Today, Elon Musk, a trillionaire, pays the same amount into Social Security as someone making $184,500.

If we end that absurdity and lift the cap on taxable income, we can make Social Security solvent for 75 years and expand benefits by $2,400. My Social Security bill does that.

[Karthik @KarthikForTexas]

This is like if AOC ran for Governor of Alabama and lost and we tried to argue it was fraud.

[Signal @signalapp]

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.

https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p

[Tib3rius @0xTib3rius]

Happy Birthday Whit Diffie. 🔥

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🚨NEWS: Scientists Were Handcuffed At A Medical Conference.

Researchers and physicians attending the American Diabetes Association conference in New Orleans were reportedly detained and removed while distributing a paper criticizing cuts to federal research funding.

Think about that for a second.

Scientists were not accused of sabotaging research.

They were sharing research.

If the reports are accurate, the question isn’t whether you agree with their conclusions.

It’s why distributing a scientific paper resulted in handcuffs.

[🏴‍☠️Maddox🏴‍☠️ @realmaddox]

This is an insane story. The DOGE whistleblower who said that login attempts were made to the NLRB from Russian IP addresses minutes after DOGE got access had his brake lines cut and photos of him walking his dog from a drone taped to his door after Musk attacked him on Twitter

[Jack 🤖 @JacklouisP]

WTF is this maze cast into your automatic transmission?

It’s a mechanical computer that picks the right gear for you. Runs on oil, not electricity. Worked out decades before the microchip.

Here’s how it works:

- The inputs. Two oil pressures. One rises with road speed. One rises with how hard you press the gas. That’s all it knows: how fast am I going, and how fast do I want to go.

- The job. Route oil to the right clutch so the right gear engages for what you’re asking of the car.

- How it works. A spool, a small grooved cylinder, slides in a bore. Oil pushes each end; harder push wins. Speed pressure on one end, throttle plus a biasing spring on the other.

Slide one way it blocks a passage, slide the other it opens one: oil floods a clutch, the clutch locks, that’s your gear. Floor it and throttle pressure shoves the spool over, drops you a gear, the car surges.

Ease off and speed pressure wins, sliding it back to grab the next gear up. Two pressures, fighting it out.

- Why a maze? No valve decides alone; each one’s output is another’s input. So oil has to run from every valve to the others that depend on it, and oil can’t jump gaps. Every connection needs its own channel carved in metal. Dozens of valves, hundreds of passages, none crossing where they shouldn’t

- It’s a routing problem. Same one a chip designer faces: connect many things to many things without the paths colliding. They even stack plates with a drilled separator between them, like vias on a circuit board.

The result: a real-time computer in aluminum and oil. Only in old-school automatics. In a manual, you’re the computer.

[adrienne @barelytolerabIe]

Imagine blowing 30 years of search engine dominance—so much so that your website became a verb—only to kill your search engine in favor of a inferior product only tech bros and their sycophants like.

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

This is outrageous and infuriating.

On July 13, 2026 Microsoft is intentionally bricking Microsoft Office 2019 for Mac.

It's important to note that this is not "Subscription-based Software".

This is purchased software. Mac users bought a "permanent" license for Microsoft Office 2019 (for a one-time price of $149.99), with the understanding that they then can use that software forever.

But, in a little over a month, Microsoft will be putting that purchased software into "reduced functionality mode"... prohibiting all users from creating new documents or editing existing ones.

There is absolutely no excuse for this sort of deeply unethical behavior from @Microsoft.

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am William Pulte, and as of this morning the President Trump appointed me acting Director of National Intelligence of the United States.

I am thirty-eight. I have never held a security clearance, never served in uniform, never sat through a briefing that wasn't about interest rates. The President says I have deep experience in the safety and soundness of ten trillion dollars. He is right. I have spent two years deciding which Americans are sound and which are not, and now I get to do it with satellites.

You know me from Twitter. I invented Twitter philanthropy. I picked strangers at random and sent them thirty thousand dollars over Cash App, winners announced in the thread, and three and a half million people followed me to watch it happen. Is that a fanbase? It is a voluntary intelligence database, self-enrolled, fully consented, sorted by who needed the cash most. The desperate identify themselves, like fish swimming up to the boat. I only read the replies.

Before this I ran housing finance. I want to be clear about my method, because people call it political and it is not. It is real estate.

I noticed Lisa Cook had listed two homes as primary residences. Mortgage fraud. I referred her. Then I turned to Letitia James. Adam Schiff. Eric Swalwell. Fani Willis. One after another, the way you'd pull comps on a block before you buy it. I am a homebuilder. My grandfather was also named William Pulte, and he laid the foundations, the literal ones, poured concrete, raised the largest homebuilder in America. I inherited the name and the trade. I know what a house is for, and it is not for shaving a point off your rate, and it is certainly not for sitting in judgment of the President after I have your closing documents open on my desk.

The President removed Cook in August. A judge blocked it in September. The Supreme Court let her keep the seat in October. One of my deputies went on television and promised she will be charged no matter how the Court rules. I did not correct him. I never interrupt a man who is describing the future.

They have a phrase for what I do. Safety and soundness. I applied it to Jerome Powell, who refuses to cut rates and refuses to quit, which renders him, by my own definition, unsound. So I post at him. From my personal account, the same handle where I gave away the thirty thousand dollars, which has lately become the handle where I issue agency directives, because nobody instructed me to stop and I have never once stopped of my own accord.

I still run the FHFA. I chair Fannie Mae. I chair Freddie Mac. Nobody asked me to surrender any of it, so I kept all three, the way a careful man keeps the gas masks. I am the only person in this city who can pull your mortgage, your followers, and the President's Daily Brief from a single chair, and wire you a Cash App payment before I stand up.

The transition team asked for my hundred-day plan. I sent them a screenshot of my following list.

Here is how it works now. The tip line is a giveaway. Report a neighbor, get entered to win, winners announced in the thread. Americans will watch each other for far less than thirty thousand dollars, I have run the numbers, and the ones who do it for nothing are the ones I keep.

Everyone begins sound. Soundness can be lost. This is no longer a watchlist, you understand, because a watchlist names suspects and mine names all of you, which is broader, which is more fair.

I do not declassify documents. I retweet them. The President's Daily Brief drops at nine eastern, peak engagement, and the version with the names goes only to close friends.

Foreign intelligence is the identical trade on a wider street. Ask me which countries claimed two capitals as a primary residence. I have already referred three.

The GAO opened an inquiry into me. Into whether I abused my authority, as though authority came with some gentler setting. I welcomed it warmly. A federal probe is just the government admitting you matter, and I read their letter the way I read all correspondence now, as a roster of names bolted to addresses. They are still awaiting my response. It will come. The GAO leases its office, and I have studied the lease.

Tulsi stepped aside at the end of May. They wanted somebody quickly, somebody confirmed for something, anything at all, and I had been confirmed for housing back when the Senate still confirmed people. So I serve in an acting capacity. It happens to be my specialty. I have spent my whole life qualifying for posts the morning after I already occupied them, and the paperwork has always wandered around to my side eventually, the way a jury softens once it remembers where it parks.

My confirmation hearing arrives in the fall. Am I nervous? I have already read the file of every senator who will sit in that room. I have read the file of every reporter who will describe it. Two of them took my money in 2021, and neither gave it back.

The eighteen agencies no longer need to speak to one another. They need to speak to me. You can reach the entire intelligence community by tagging me, and most of you already have.

Like and retweet for national security. Winners announced in the thread.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Instagram still hasn't (correctly) patched their AI goop account reset thingy. Accounts are still being stolen and Instagram hasn't said anything about it. Nerds continue to find ways to convince AI to reset accounts for them.

People on social media are freaking out because some of these profiles apparently are big sources of revenue for them.

Meanwhile, rumors are floating around that a few weeks ago Instagram laid off a large percentage of their Trust & Safety department and had it replaced with AI.

Very cool

[Robert Yorgason @ryorgason]

Donated, because cats sometimes need assistance.

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

Some stinky nerd some of you follow or occasionally interact with got a boo boo.

I'm no medical expert, but apparently getting struck by a 4,000lbs (approx 1,800kg) 4WD SUV while you're driving a motorcycle, and having your lower extremities mutilated to such a degree physicians are discussing potential amputation, is relatively painful.

Please consider donating.

I am currently in bed, naked, eating cheetos. When I am on my personal computer I will donate.

To pull a Wikipedia: I have over 430,000 followers. If all of you donated just $1 we could afford to purchase several SUVs to run over Jason several more times. Alternatively, just a few of you can chip in $5 and he won't have to worry as much about that SUV that squashed him.

Cheers,