Someone is hacking US electrical generating plants, and the chief suspect is Russia. Hackers wrote highly targeted emails messages containing fake résumés for control engineering jobs and sent them to the senior industrial control engineers who maintain broad access to critical industrial control systems, the government report said. The fake résumés were Microsoft Word documents …
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Late Night Open Thread: Head-to-Head, Tip-to-Tip
JUST IN: @NBCNews confirms likely only 6 people in room for Friday's Trump-Putin meeting: Tillerson, Lavrov & translators, per official. — Peter Alexander (@PeterAlexander) July 6, 2017 Be afraid, Alaska! Be very afraid! He'll have even less supervision than when he blabbed ISIS intel, called Comey a nutjob and said he fired him to end …
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Open Thread: Apparently April Fools’ Day Has Been Rescheduled
Two VC bros want to remake the Democratic Party in their image and you'll be surprised to know it's hot garbage https://t.co/D6qyoHGvcc pic.twitter.com/545OPGi4ZT — Rob Flaherty (@Rob_Flaherty) July 4, 2017 … To July 3rd. Does an ambitious couple of kingmakers brand themselves the ‘WTF Party’ in all seriousness? Well, they’re venture capitalists quoting gamer lingo, …
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Merriam-Webster: Troll Level, Expert
Good morning! Today's #WordOfTheDay is 'poltroon' https://t.co/2v011MTHD1 pic.twitter.com/1h5r8Xrz9r — Merriam-Webster (@MerriamWebster) July 6, 2017 Their social media director needs a raise. And an award. Hell, give them the whole damn internet. The comments are priceless. "Use it in a sentence" Okay, A classic example of a poltr…. "Without mentioning a Republican." I got nothing. — …
Idiots Abroad Update
Today in our ongoing national embarrassment, Trump scolded the planet’s other nuclear-armed narcissist with awful hair in terms that made George W. Bush sound like Churchill: In Warsaw, Trump said the United States was considering “some pretty severe things” in response to what he called “very, very bad behavior” from the North, although he did …
Thursday Morning Open Thread: Not So Fast, Kobach
KY Sec. of State Alison Grimes to @MSNBC on the reception to Trump's Election Commission: "About as welcoming as a breeze off an outhouse." pic.twitter.com/LDZC8VO57u — Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 5, 2017 Good news (if we can keep it) — looks like the Trump administration’s Voter Suppression Act of 2016 is not garnering the kind …
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On The Road
Good Morning All, This weekday feature is for Balloon Juicers who are on the road, travelling, etc. and wish to share notes, links, pictures, stories, etc. from their escapades. As the US mainland begins the end of the Earth day as we measure it, many of us rise to read about our friends and their …