The Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) put out a new opinion earlier this week
arguing that President Donald Trump can assert executive privilege over communications with advisors
-- even if they do not work at the White House or within the government at all.
Experts tell TPM that the legal opinion is likely an effort from the Trump administration and his DOJ
to preemptively interfere with congressional investigations that Democrats plan to launch if t…
"Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body."
—Stella Adler
#acting #coaching #inspiration
Mastering the art of aging gracefully is priceless. As an experienced online business consultant, I take great pride in helping seniors embrace their journey with elegance and optimism. Remember: growing older is a privilege! Let's make the golden years shine with health and vitality. #AgingWell #SeniorLiving
"Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body."
—Stella Adler
#acting #coaching #inspiration
A recent office of legal counsel memo on executive privilege maintains that
private advisers to a president can avoid responding to a subpoena by asserting the president’s executive privilege.
The ability of presidents to shield communications from public view through claims of executive privilege,
whether their own or those of a senior adviser,
was already a powerful tool for presidents to avoid accountability.
But if courts accept the OLC’s new interpretatio…
What is a #name? It is not me, but it is mine. It signifies me. It identifies me. Many cultures historically and presently allow, or even mandate, that individuals choose their name, often ritually, at mileposts in their lives. Maybe more than once, as need be. Maybe more than one name concurrently. But our govt doesn’t like it when trans folk, for instance, adopt a new name when their “circumstances”…
RE: https://social.lol/@nfd/117066613889840745
1) I had no idea
2) I also both hate and fear this.
a) We already have evidence of all of the unauthorized ways people with access rights have abused that privilege
b) We already have evidence of the w…
RE: https://social.lol/@nfd/117066613889840745
1) I had no idea
2) I also both hate and fear this.
a) We already have evidence of all of the unauthorized ways people with access rights have abused that privilege
b) We already have evidence of the w…
Many people wonder why Paulo Freire once said that the revolution was always an act of love for the oppressors too. If you think of Elon Musk, you understand what he meant: He is, by all accounts and by any measurement, the culmination and epitome of the capitalist system. Born in an apartheid state, raised with wealth and privilege created through that, given enough money to buy himself an underdog story when becoming the richest man in the world.
By everything we are told, he's suppo…
I see Hobson's Pledge have set themselves up like a political party, with a website on Nationbuilder. I'd say we're seeing battle lines being drawn & I think the old rich privileged white men (I'd rather not include myself in their ranks, but accept I've benefited from white male privilege) are realising that they're in danger of losing their pre-eminence. They also celebrate British colonialism so I have to wonder if they've ever spared a thought for how colo…
It was a real pleasure and privilege to be invited onto Jamie Lidell’s wonderful podcast, *Hanging Out With Audiophiles*.
Big thanks to @… for surprising me with the introduction - and for his impeccable subsequent editing (including magically dealing with my tendency to stare out of the window and thus not talk into my very directional mic.)
Mr. …
Car is 106 miles away from 150K so I’m deciding where and when I want it to roll (transit gives me that privilege). 50K and 100K were both at my old college dorm 8 and 4 years ago so this one's gotta be somewhere meaningful too
"Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body."
—Stella Adler
#acting #coaching #inspiration
2026: year of the linux desktop LPE
[local privilege escalation]
Zohran Mamdani on July 4th
#Firefox is back at the Nazi bar, looks like.
And as evidenced by the blue check, is paying the #Epsteinclass white supremacist for the privilege.
"Only you can be you. What a privilege! Nobody can reach what you can if you do it. So do it. We need your best, your voice, your body."
—Stella Adler
#acting #coaching #inspiration
Buzz to Boom: Detecting Message Progression Vulnerabilities in Electron Applications via Segmented Directed Fuzzing
Jianjia Yu, Zhengyu Liu, Ziyang Li, Yu Sun, Yinzhi Cao
https://arxiv.org/abs/2607.20698 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2607.20698 https://arxiv.org/html/2607.20698
arXiv:2607.20698v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Electron is a popular framework for building cross-platform desktop applications using web technologies. Such applications consist of multiple processes with different privilege levels that communicate via message passing. When inter-process messages carry attacker-controlled inputs, they can propagate across processes and reach privileged APIs, e.g., command execution. Such a message propagation behavior is characterized as Message Progression Vulnerabilities (MPVs). The exploitation of MPVs is challenging because it often requires multiple steps, e.g., first arbitrary code execution in one process via message passing, and then command injection in another process using another message crafted in the first process. To our knowledge, existing works on Electron security only study unsafe configurations and malicious Document Object Model (DOM) content, i.e., they cannot detect or exploit these vulnerabilities that need to be triggered by complex cross-process exploits via message passing. We present Proton, a segmented directed fuzzing framework for detecting MPVs. Our key insight is to decompose end-to-end fuzzing into per-process segments along message-passing boundaries, where the goals of fuzzing each segment are either: (i) reaching a sink in the current process or (ii) propagating the payload to the next process, to enable the exploration of another process. In the second case, the messages seed the corpus of the next segment. Finally, Proton synthesizes crash inputs from each process to validate end-to-end exploits. We evaluate Proton against 589 real-world Electron applications, resulting in 23 zero-day MPVs. Among them, 22 lead to OS command execution, including projects with over 50k GitHub stars. We responsibly disclosed all findings. To date, we have received 13 acknowledgments, 11 fixes, and 11 CVEs, including a bug bounty from Vercel.
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Punishment and Privilege: The Cinema of Peter Watkins
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September 2, 2026 at 01:15PM
David Lammy has announced he is also leaving government, having been the deputy prime minister for the past two years.
He too posted details of his departure on social media.
Writing on X, Lammy said:
It has been the greatest privilege of my life, coming from humble beginnings in Tottenham, to serve in government as @Keir_Starmer’s Foreign Secretary, Justice Secretary and Britain’s first Black Deputy Prime Minister.
I am immensely proud of what we achieved, in Opposition …
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Bad: Managed to lock myself out of root access on my home server.
Good: The command that did it was "usermod -G docker" (the -a is indeed load-bearing for this use case), so I could privilege-escalate my way straight back to root.
Normal #homelab things.
@cdarwin@c.im
