Jamesbeam
Just take his son as a single example.
What did the special counsel say about the pardon?
https://www.justice.gov/storage/Report-of-Special-Counsel-We...
> As Special Counsel, I prosecuted Hunter Biden in two cases and obtained convictions in both, in one case, Mr. Biden pleaded guilty to all counts, and in the other, a jury found him guilty of all counts.
> In my report, I discuss the prosecution decisions that led to the two charged cases and subsequent convictions. On 1, 2024, before Mr. Biden could be sentenced in either case, President Biden pardoned his son for all criminal offences he committed or may have committed over the last ELEVEN YEARS. In light of this pardon, I cannot make any additional charging decisions as to Mr. Biden's conduct during those eleven years.
> Other presidents have pardoned family members, but in doing so, none have taken the occasion as an opportunity to malign the public servants at the Department of Justice based solely on false accusations.
> As Judge Mark C. Scarsi, the judge presiding over Mr. Biden's tax case, stated:
> The Constitution provides the President with broad authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States, U.S. Const. art. II, § 2, cl. 1, but nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history.
> These prosecutions were the culmination of thorough, impartial investigations, not partisan politics. Eight judges across numerous courts have rejected claims that they were the result of selective or vindictive motives.
> Calling those rulings into question and injecting partisanship into the independent administration of the law undermines the very foundation of what makes America's justice system fair and equitable. It erodes public confidence in an institution that is essential to preserving the rule of law.
The rule of law is the essential glue of any society. Your last name should not be the reason you dodge a lengthy prison sentence for committing crime.
If you set that example, and that is what Joe Biden did not just with his son but with others who would have gone to jail because they did commit the crimes, why should anyone still follow the law?
You cannot follow the law, get rich by that and then buy a pardon from either a Democrat or Republican president for like 20% of what you stole.
Is that how you want the rule of law to be respected by the highest representative of your country?
But since you’re one of the people two steps ahead of everyone else maybe you can explain some stupid Tetris player like myself where the special counsel is wrong and you know it better.
Pardoning preemptively ultimately means even the President of the United States has no trust in the US justice system or the people serving there, and it’s probably one of the most undemocratic and damaging things Biden as well as Trump did in their presidencies.
>You are also (hopefully) much less prone to hallucination…
Besides that, this whole manifesto is SI slop, they also insult their own engineers in official company communication as slow and "hopefully less prone to hallucinations".
What do you mean with "hopefully"???
You are selling services that require a large level of trust, as a customer, I really don’t want to read that your engineers are too slow for the current SI dangers and hopefully sane and not hallucinating when writing the software you want me to use.
Also who wouldn’t want to read, as an investor, that the employees are saying the ceo is allegedly a nutjob with SI psychosis, and the company a few days later publishing official comms about slow engineers that hopefully don’t hallucinate?
What a shitshow Proton has become.
They push a narrative into the Pentagon near media, that can totally be misunderstood by the average citizen as preparation for a bigger war / boots on the ground, together with the president’s martial war rhetoric shortly before the election to manipulate the voting decision in the election that is conveniently in a few days.
Right-wing populists exploit people's existential anxieties by peddling crisis narratives.
Crisis narratives and securitisation “can temporarily strip individuals of their presumed biographical continuity, sparking episodes of anxiety and ontological insecurity” (Homolar and Scholz 2019, p. 356). ( https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09557571.2019.1... )
This is just a more subtle way of trying to steal an election.
It’s kinda concerning, not more than Kegseth preaching to the troops about end times or pumping them full of testosterone, but at least the upper echelons of the Pentagon seem to be ok with meddling with a US Election like this. Not good.
That’s a ridiculous claim.
Trumpsday is steak day in the Central Super Intelligence Agency cantina, how can you not love Trumpsday?
He is fundamentally wrong, and so is his business model.
Prevention is the key concept in dealing with crime. Flock does nothing to prevent serious crime.
People kill, steal and rape others even when a camera is running, all the time. So the camera as an instrument of prevention is utter bullshit and clearly not working.
But the truth is, the folks at Flock do not care if you become the victim of the crime at all, you becoming the victim of a crime, is how they get paid.
They don’t want to prevent it, they just want to record it or at least the perpetrator.
If there is no crime, the police officers had no job to pay the bills, they are not interested in no longer be able to feed their families, so the police as an organization, many individuals there still have proper values, is not interested in seriously funded crime prevention, by design, because it would make them largely obsolete.
That is why the people in charge of the police rather buy tools that do improve the crime-solving rate, so the statistics look better as every generation of officers gets noticeably stupider, and therefore they get paid better, instead of not getting paid at all, because the crime prevention rate is closer to 100% , instead of the current rate.
After the crime happens, we used to pay people to give valuable information that would lead to the apprehension of the perpetrator, or trust good old police work where real humans, hopefully not hallucinating a third of their shift, do a proper investigation.
Now Flock sees a chance to monetize and control the flow of information that leads to an arrest. And because they do it nationwide and what they sell is your most private data, how and where you freely move, who you associate with etc, they of course don’t want you to have any rights to that data, because that would prevent them from making money from it.
Even afterwards the same group of people cash in, because all those prisoners need to go somewhere.
How lucky are we that there seems to be an endless supply of private jails and companies providing services to keep all those incarcerated humans alive as profitably as possible who are not connected to any senators and congressmen at all.
And Flock is the company that plans to enable a constant stream of fresh bodies into those systems for whatever the administration might deem jailworthy or, if you’re lucky, rather get publicly executed live on Amazon Prime TV for this week.
You will for sure not get a crime-free country with Flock’s approach, instead, you will get more unfree and constantly surveilled, and your social behaviour constantly checked to the current administration’s standards.
You will clap when the King makes a joke and work, and be happy until the day you die.
And if not, a Flock camera will find the perfect moment where no one else is looking at you so you can get removed permanently from the flock they are building, pure and compliant.
An example.
"AI as your ally: The effects of AI-assisted venting on negative affect and perceived social support" - https://iaap-journals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ap...
And generations of housewives and office workers yelled at their corded vacuum cleaners and (office) computers, and did not drown their children in the bathtub afterwards.
I don’t think expressing cruelty to machines is reliably linkable to expressing cruelty to animals or even other human beings.
Expressing cruelty itself also is in human nature, it’s programmed into each of us. There are really only a few privileged places on this planet where we even get to choose to defy the laws of nature. For the rest of humanity, life is a constant cycle of receiving and expressing cruelty.
You pay for the compute, you, as a human, should be able to yell at the bunch of ones and zeros, if you wish to.
What kind of example is set here if we manipulate genuine human expression in order to condition humans to talk to a tool in a way the toolmaker wants, under the threat of being banned from accessing a technology that every single one of these toolmakers tells us is absolutely necessary to participate in humanity’s "golden age”?
What Anthropic is doing here is basically an existential threat, if you are inclined to believe them that SI is the future. Do not behave as we want and you will suffer, now and in the future.
That is real cruelty, to real human beings.
Ok, the president wants elections in Ukraine, fair point, so the US are giving security guarantees for fair and democratic elections by putting boots on the ground in the contested territories to oversee the election, and nuclear forces on standby to make sure no one drops a glide bomb on an election center on Ukrainian controlled territory by accident, right, right?
Yeah, thought so.
So that is how we enter the “Colosseum arc", where the tech oligarchs, the president and the secretary of smalldickville witness live from their homes how someone gets executed with their dicks in hand on Facebook, Amazon, Twitch, YouTube and of course AppleTV and place bets on how long he keeps moving or how much blood he will spit after they hit his lung instead of the heart on a "prediction" market.
The way the average US Marine shoots a rifle, this will probably be the same kind of disaster that the Pike execution was.
Why put the strain on anyone’s consciousness at all if you can just use that autonomous SI-powered robot with the machine gun? If Claude can kill 150 children in Iran, what’s one more dude being murdered by a remote controlled or autonomous weapons system?
This is not about justice, it’s about rich people and the president wanting to masturbate on a US citizen’s death because otherwise they won’t get hard any longer.
You can be pro or against death penalty but if I was American this would scare me, if my own government started murdering US Citizens on US Soil and making an event out of it. You know who fucking livestreams executions?
ISIS. Is that the role model for US values now?
I am looking forward to how all the Tech Oligarchs line up to make this a sponsored stream.
All enemies of the United States rejoice, you no longer need to look at how Jihadi John beheads the infidels in 480p in a blocky, choppy video.
You can now witness live how the King lowers his thumb to have US Soldiers murder a US Citizen in glorious 4K, with an Nvidia SI-powered super slowmo.
Remember, kids, no ads with Twitch Turbo, and the subscriptions actively support your troops, with a tier 3 sub, you can unlock the war crimes emoji package. If you have an active Amazon Prime subscription you can even watch from multiple camera angles.
They better point the kiss cam at Donald and Melania during the half-time show by the Guantanamo Orchestra.
What a great nation. The greatest of all time. Super Intelligence.
Unfortunately, that competence thing counts for everyone else as well. So if you talk about Russian incompetence, we also need to make sure that people understand that this is by design and applied to every military force in existence, and put it into proper context.
This is not about bashing militaries or being American or Russian or European or Chinese, it’s a good example to showcase how the world really works.
If any army becomes extremely competent in executing the best possible outcomes for the people of their country, what keeps them from taking over and getting rid of the layer of decision-making that is causing the most problems?
So the people making their livelyhood from mostly talking about problems and solving them for domestic intesterest groups that don’t necessarily have the best interest of the average citizen in mind make sure they can not be overthrown by their military.
That’s why you see Hegseth dumbing down the force at record speed and Russia is sending the kids of farmers into war and not those of the oligarchs or duma politicians. No matter the color of the pin they wear or what language they speak, it’s all the same filth.
Anyway, a competent military full of competent specialists taking over is what we call military dictatorship, and we tried it often enough collectively that we can confidently say, sometimes the way to get somewhere is just as important as getting there, so democracy and convincing a majority of citizens is better than simply suppressing them.
Because it allows us to think and collectively learn, whereas military decision-making is always a bit backwards and pushes for results at neck-breaking speed.
You cannot apply military optimisation to a healthy civil society. It’s incompatible. Military is a necessary evil, it’s not how the main branch of civil society should work.
If the leaders of the mightiest nations on the planet were competent, we would all live in peace and happily ever after, but conflict is in human nature and incompetence fuels conflict and puts a lot of money into the pockets of everyone who profits from conflict and putting the most incompetent people into the most powerful positions.
Glad we can agree that Russia sucks and hopefully on that almost none of the people in charge of our fate are competent in what they do and we are always an inch away from catastrophic global events.
And that’s why I am now baking some cinnamon buns. Good talk.
If you want to go down the incompetence route with potential weapons of mass destruction, you could also ask why US Americans allow their army to have access to nuclear weapons.
There were multiple recorded incidents where American citizens almost got atomised on American soil (Broken Arrow operations). Not because of individual mistakes but institutional incompetence.
But you see no one fearmongering about that in public. Because they have proven they can lose a nuclear weapon and recover it, without harming the public.
Just like a single young Russian woman can fuck up and they contain the fuckup without harming the public.
There are about 1000 competent people in an army of the size of Russia, China or the US and that’s it.
It’s expected that most soldiers are incompetent, and just need to follow orders, and in ideal case be patriotic enough to believe they sacrifice themselves for the greater good if they get sent on a suicide mission. Russia is no different from any other army in that regard.
But I honestly consider the Russian forces tasked with biodefense and nuclear more competent than most of their other counterparts in other nations. They frequently train and you get hung by the neck if you leave a blast door open to let the pizza guy in.
In Wyoming you get promoted to three-star nuclear doofus in charge if you do that.
Feel free to read this if you want to know more about the people tasked with preventing nuclear incidents on American soil.
I would link the official page on the Air Force website (https://www.compliance.af.mil/shared/media/document/AFD-1312...), but the Trump administration is silently deleting all of these documents.
https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/963093/afd-131219-045...
Just one of the highlights.
[Maj Gen Carey] insists that we go to this place called La Cantina, I think it was... it was a Mexican place. And I was kind of surprised... I wouldn't pick a Mexican place to go to in Russia but all right, if that's where he wants to go, we'll go there.
So we show up and it turns out that I guess he somehow found out that this place had a band that plays and so he was really intent on singing with the band. He wanted to sing with the band. So we get in and it's extremely loud and the band is playing and he keeps asking the waitress and the bartender if he can sing with the band and they want nothing to do with this. And so he kept having our translator go up with him and ask them well can I sing with the band.
[Maj Gen Carey] said, "go ask them if I could play the guitar." I said okay, I, I asked one of the band members and the guy said, no, I mean, you know, I can't do that.
He goes if you really want to play this guitar go ahead and talk to the restaurant owner or the administrator or the manager, the restaurant manager and I didn't feel like doing that because I didn't want to go find the manager so I, told the General that basically, uh, you know, that he can't, he can't play the guitars and then he said, well try again, so I asked him to get up and we both stood next to this rock band and watched them up close.
I was hoping to keep his interest in doing so and, uh, he, um, and then I said, listen if you really want to play the guitar maybe if you ask him, you know, um, maybe they'd listen to you more than would to me. And I'm not sure if he asked him or not because I, I, you know, I, I sat back down at the table, but he stood there for a while in front of this band and then he came back to the table a little later also, he came back later and sat down also, and said well, no they won't let me play.
That shit is indeed funny.
Containment in Russia is different from that in China.
They expect stuff like this to happen, and to be fair I think Russia never stopped their bio programmes, and the fact that we are not all dead yet seems to prove them right, that their containment protocols are overall working.
This is not 79' Sverdlosk.
https://meselsonarchive.hsites.harvard.edu/sites/g/files/omn...
The lab in question in this incident has a documented Soviet Biodefense connection.
https://nonproliferation.org/wp-content/uploads/cns-archive/...
But there is no public or otherwise evidence that this is a military pathogen-production plant comparable to Sverdlovsk-19.
The institute’s activities include surveillance of naturally occurring plague in the Russia–Mongolia border region and training Mongolian specialists in plague diagnosis and prevention.
So the handling of pneumonic plague in this facility is probably an everyday occurrence, and not related to a weapons programme.
This is an institute for biodefense, not offence. There was a single person messing up and she paid the price for that mistake.
I understand people are on edge since Covid, but this is not that, or a bio weapon. Just a 28-year-old that dropped a tube by accident and then probably panicked and didn’t follow containment protocol. Shit happens.
Let’s hope she stays the only victim of her mistake.
Sucks to die because of pneumonic plague because a 28-year-old sneezed in the same cafe you get your matcha latte fix.
> Sam is a proven sociopath, compulsive liar and manipulator. I have absolutely 0 issues believing he'd kill or rape someone, even a family member.
You are heavily biased, and that makes you construct evidence in your head, that makes it more believable to you that he did what you already are convinced of that he did.
You start with, is there the possibility they are covering for their billionaire son? Sure.
But why, and how would they benefit from that? They all have their own things going and don’t need their brother’s /son’s money.
I also doubt Sam and Annie were indifferent to their parents. She’s the only daughter, mothers are usually very protective of younger kids who are the minority gender in the household, especially in a household full of boys.
They also supported her financially way past maturity, just like they supported their sons. If she was a nuisance, or even a risk, why not just make a hard cut when she’s old enough to live on her own and isolate her?
If you accept sexual abuse in your household for one single kid specifically, isn’t it very unusual to offer that level of support to someone you seem to hate and/or really don’t care for their mental and physical health as a parent?
These are educated people, no methheads.
Then you add another link to the chain and say, well, if they don’t do it on purpose, then they must be in denial he did it.
If it’s not that either, well then the mental health issues must be from being raped as a child.
I am confident you have a bunch more of what you think are valid arguments, but those will also not be anchored in reality.
You’re free to believe whatever you want, even that jet fuel doesn’t melt steel beams. Just doesn’t mean it’s true.
Think for a second, how often is the simple answer the right one, and how many times were the conspiracy theorists right?
Reuters leaves out that both law firms representing his sister retracted from the case, by themselves. When asked for comment, they basically said in lawyer speak that they lost all trust in their client.
She claims she has been abused between 1997 (Sam, 12; Annie, 3) and 2006 (Sam, 21; Annie, 12).
There are two younger brothers in the family as well. Plus the parents, who are a dermatologist and a real estate agent.
So there are either two possibilities.
neither the younger brothers, nor the father or the mother, who is a dermatologist and can see the difference between a bruise on one of her kids from hitting something like an idiot, or a fistpunch, or grabbing onto someone, have spotted any signs of sexual abuse for 9 years.
Or they are all in on it and the Altmans are the Incest Rockefellers.
Unfortunately for the tabloids, the simple answer is most likely the right one.
Both his brothers, just like Altman himself live in stable living circumstances.
According to her Instagram, his sister is an artist, entertainer, and author. A not very successful one.
It’s ok to be a dreamer, my better half is one, but if you ever lived with someone that says of themselves they are an artist, entertainer, or author, you’d know that they are very prone to mental health issues, successful or not.
If you don’t believe me, just pull up that picture of Ben Affleck having a smoke outside after going for a second rodeo with J.Lo. If you know, you know.
I think it’s a price that comes with having a very vivid mind and strong emotional feelings.
Unfortunately, these kinds of people always create a mess when they go off the beaten path, because they are very expressive in nature. If you look at her Instagram, you can see what I mean.
A reasonable mind should come to the conclusion that there is a lot more pointing into the direction that what the family states is closer to the truth than what his sister states. The rest is for a judge and jury to decide.
If she continues this even after two law firms retracting, I doubt she will stop before she’ll lose this case.
And that’s also an indicator that she might not be able to differentiate any longer that what she believes is real, is not reality.
If two different car mechanics tell you you will not survive if you take this sports car on the highway one more time and you go yolo, I know it better than the experts, you don’t need to wonder if you wake up in the ICU without legs and suffer the consequences of your own actions. Causality is a bitch.
> In a news conference Wednesday night, journalists who witnessed the attempted execution described snoring and complaints from Pike about pain, as well as her kicking her feet so often that she knocked off the sheets laid on her. At times, the curtain was closed and journalists could only hear sounds.
Glad the Nazi Supreme Court stepped in and honourable judges put their name under the order that allowed this to happen.
It’s easy to sign someone’s death warrant as long as you’re not the one having to press the buttons or pulling the trigger.
But I am sure this whole thing makes for a nice laugh at the next ballroom dinner with the president for the conservative majority of the judges.
May their lobster always taste bland and the oysters give them diarrhea.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/1wu20hr/q_who_shoul...
I am so disappointed in Sam that they still have not renamed OpenAI to OpenSI. It’s not just very disrespectful of the president, it’s outright unamerican!! /s
This was very low-hanging fruit, that’s why the assistant director of cyber announced the arrest. Or maybe Ka$h was still hungover from emptying one of his personalised Whisky bottles and they couldn’t get him out of bed.
The FBI works in mysterious ways.
The Dutch authorities themselves do not credit the FBI specifically operationally btw.
https://www.politie.nl/headless-api/nieuws/2026/september/29...
> That's exactly how the best athlete model in the new FBI Cyber Strategy is meant to work: the partner with the strongest authority and access leads.
I think if you throw around intelligence jargon you should explain it to the people you try to address. Best Athlete model is a concept the CIA started using when they couldn’t get any further in the war on terror, around 2007 / 2008.
In this case it basically means:
CIA might have the human source. NSA might have the technical access. FBI might have the domestic legal authority. Dutch police might possess arrest jurisdiction.
So they let the Dutch police lead and if they fuck up they can blame them, while if they are successful they will credit themselves to the operational success, like seen here. Lazy but clever CIA mofos. I love em.
On a sidenote, that concept was put into place at the FBI around the same time by former FBI Director Mueller who was a USMC Vietnam veteran with operational experience.
You might have heard the name from being the special investigator for the alleged Trump/Russia connections or the Lockerbie bombing. Mueller passed this march and served the American people well.
If a man’s greatness is measured in how the enemies of the American people talk about him after his death. I think you did pretty well if Donald Trump publicly states he is glad you’re dead.
So now you know what that term means and where it came from.
> Arrests have a way of changing who is willing to talk, and seized infrastructure has a way of showing us who's left. The longer you stay in this, the more we learn about you. You know how to find us, and we know how to find you. I suggest you reach out first while the choice is still yours.
This is actually the most interesting part. Whatever Shinyhunters stole, it’s important enough the FBI is willing to negotiate with them over it. Past administrations would just dismantle the whole operation and put them and anyone involved in a hole for twenty plus.
But this administration takes bribes in the form of aeroplanes and is pardoning the worst cyber and other criminals to then use them as assets.
I wouldn’t be surprised if the president said if they can bend over the FBI and make them look like absolute amateurs, why can’t they work for us?
And with us, I don’t mean the American people. For ShinyHunters what they did was immature and strategically wrong.
Their egos didn’t allow them to just ignore the FBI and what they consider is an affront of what the group does and why.
But now they dabble in terrorism and that gets people involved you really don’t want breathing down your neck. This arrest is the beginning of the group’s end and they really don’t have any better option than making a deal with the FBI.
I doubt they have a military and/ or intelligence background,otherwise, they would know that even if they gave all the data to a foreign adversary like China or Russia, the kind of protection you get offered is always a lie.
You will end up like Snowden. They suck all the intel right out of you and then they take care of your "safety”, which means you’ll be stuck for the rest of your life in a small flat with all of your activities being surveilled by the local government, and some day you might get extradited for favours anyway, it’s like jail for life with a different-sized cell.
If they are clever they will cut a deal, sit five for show in minimum security, then get hired into the private sector.
No matter how good you think your opsec is, you can’t disappear anywhere on this beautiful planet if the US Government wants you dead or alive. And you all know countless examples that this is true.
> Yeah, I'm sure that Mossad agents care what useful (?) idiots think on Hacker News.
Only if they are not busy murderering citizens of other nations under false passports (https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/playing...),
exploding children with pagers (https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/09/exploding-pa...),
or kidnapping them for money in Denmark. (https://www.timesofisrael.com/german-heiress-accused-of-orde...)
I could do this all day, but I guess if I call out a wanted war criminal and his gang of extraordinary extrajudicial murderers, I am getting a call from Bibi’s wife and a severe case of radioactive poisoning.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vVFobCw6hIA&pp=ygUTU2FyYSBuZXR...
Finest people on the planet, if we lived in 1933. Winter is coming soon. I hear Hugo Boss is making fine coats.
Who wants to freeze when committing crimes against humanity, eh?
Gonna collect em all.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank...
Come on, you can do better than this, Mossad.
There will also be no help coming if you’re not in that bunker, so what do you need doomsday preparations for if the people who will be rebuilding consider your life worthless and kill you on sight if you tried wasting some of their resources even if your Temu bunker survived anyway.
Cool, cool.
Congressman Green from Texas tried as well, and that got iced by both parties on the 15th even by Jeffries, Clark, and Aguilar.
He knows that this won’t pass. He knows Trump doesn’t give a shit because he knows as well this won’t pass.
So don’t tell the people you did it out of duty for your country.
If you did it for your country, you would pick the right time, and the right place, and come with enough people to finish the job. This is not that. This is just politics.
You come at the king, you best not miss. - Omar Little
If you trust your government to be competent enough to treat you fairly if your face ends up on the news because someone left a copy of a passport with your face on it at a terror scene, then save the money, if you are happy with the service.
Who am I to tell you what you can and can not do.
Hell freezes over before the government lets go of those taxes and puts the guy out of business who is collecting your tithe for them.
Technically, the site can add hidden biometric data to the photo that allows multiple people to travel on the same passport.
They also give you incentive to choose the passport you’re going to use it for, pretending the picker is about the specific regulations of your country’s passport. So they even know what passport to fake that most likely belongs to the person uploading their picture.
You will then likely use the photos you downloaded from their website to get official papers and that’s the jackpot for them.
That’s the main reason you should not use a service like this to save 25 bucks. You might be aiding organised crime and/or foreign governments in obtaining travel documents which allow them to hide their true identity.
In Mali, for example, many people want to flee to Europe. They buy a passport with a morphed photo that belongs to someone around the same age, having the same skin colour and citizenship in a European country.
They also know you must be close to obtaining new documents for whatever reasons, as you specifically are looking for their service, and they can retain a copy of the morphed image to sell a passport with your photo to someone around the same age and skin color in a third-world country for a few thousand dollars, or to hide a Mossad hit team from entering the country to murder one of your fellow citizens.
I am confident this has absolutely nothing to do with the Super Intelligence private financial interests.
Oracle enterprise applications are a gold mine for attackers precisely because nobody treats them as security-critical systems.
In 2025 the Clop ransomware gang discovered that Oracle E-Business Suite has a critical vulnerability (CVE-2025-61882) that allows unauthenticated remote code execution.
Graceful Spider (tracked as Clop affiliates) started exploiting this in early August, well before Oracle issued a patch in October. That’s a two-month window where attackers had free rein.
All you need to know about Clop is that they got fucked by SH as well just a few days ago.
ShinyHunters defaced Clop's Tor leak site and added its own branding and messages. SH claims it stole source code, system logs, plugins, and Tor onion service keys. SH says it plans to give Clop 72 hours to respond to an extortion message.
Say what you want but these kids got balls. Won’t help them once SOCOM starts dealing with them, but they had a good run so far. I think hacking the FBI is as close as you can fly to the sun before the hammer drops.
In February this year they breached Wynn Resorts and lifted data on 800,000-plus employees. Can you guess the entry point?
If you guessed Oracle PeopleSoft, you were right.
Now you’d think the FBI IT people would have noticed that oracle software is a potential national security risk, if multiple ransomware groups keep focusing specifically on the shit Larry Elison personally have to seem vibe coded, over and over.
But Ka$h replaced most of the competent people at the FBI with Ka$h people and by pure luck Oracle won a $396m HR government contract this summer. Who wouldn’t want to supply the most secure software product to manage some of the most sensitive data within the agency, if not the Oracle Moscow branch.
https://mesoclever.com/2026/06/11/oracle-wins-396m-hr-contra...
They even mentioned in the above June article:
> Separately, the cybercrime group ShinyHunters claimed to have exfiltrated student, financial-aid, immigration, health, and administrative records from PeopleSoft instances at more than 100 organizations, predominantly universities. The group stated it had previously targeted an *FBI PeopleSoft server* before pivoting to educational institutions already compromised in earlier campaigns. Oracle has not publicly confirmed the scope or remediation status of these incidents.
So the FBI knew, and had it coming, and if stuff like this happens, THE HEAD needs to roll. And all of his buddies in IT should permanently get to spend their time outside the government at the seafood buffet at Ka$hs favorite gentleman’s club as well.
Fookin Big Idiots.
They exclude the global south from having a permanent seat at the table, and they need a veto reform.
No resolution when they captured Maduro. Russia has launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine since 2022 and vetoed any Security Council action.
171 days into the Gaza conflict, they passed Resolution 2728, by that time, over 10,000 people had already been killed, and Israel’s immediate response was to announce it would ignore the resolution entirely.
There were a lot of smaller-scale conflicts in the meantime, where the Security Council had a lot of meetings, but nothing ever happened.
Altman could tell them to go fuck themselves and that he is specifically developing tools to kill any person in that room, and the US would just veto the Council from taking any action that could save their own life.
That’s the kind of joke they have become.