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gunwaler.bsky.social
OG Woman in Tech #303 #Defcon #Goon #BSidesSurvivor #HardwareHacker #DataPrivacy #SecurityForPeople Occasionally returning to the fight.
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Was hoping for one day off from the horror, but no.... POTUS has no authority here. Local governments set the rules but like we saw in the District of Columbia, can be blackmailed by budget shortages. It is up to every US citizen to prevent the hijacking future elections.

Wow! Interesting tidbit in here that the GOP candidate skipped the open forum, leaving an empty seat with his name card for the voters to address. For seated congressfolk, I don't think the current strategy of cancelling town halls is playing well.

Bold move, Cotton.

I won't delve into my background today, except to share that I felt physical pain reading through this. The sheer, careless disregard the current administration has for the safety of deployed forces is criminal. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...

Excellent piece and beautiful photography!

Yea, I have a lot of questions about what happened at USIP. Anyone who's lived in DC knows the MPD and Feds aren't exactly "tight".

I'll just put this here. joincanada-eh.com#vote

Here's where the rubber meets the road with Musk's abuses and shutting down essential government services. Back in December I told elderly friends to transfer deposits into a savings account SSA doesn't have on file...but it will only slow them down. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

Plain clothes, unmarked vehicles, no warrant or identification. Only the Khalils' very obvious restraint and peaceful compliance de-escalated this illegal detention. Imagine this in a stand-your-ground state with an angry citizen?

I hate when my output is negative and overly-political, so here is a bunny. Thanks @dailybunnies.bsky.social.

Interesting discussion on this thread. I wonder how much the sense of community and a similar dopamine release as in social media addiction also plays into it.

wtaf is going on over there? (I freely admit I had to fact-check this wasn't AI propaganda.)

Terrifying and enlightening read. An uncleared and unqualified DOGE person bullies full access to three restricted SSA databases that should never be combined, accessing them where an unvetted AI system is pooling all the other government data these people have stolen.

Returning to the US has some highlights.

Trying to keep a positive, work-focused head these days...and then I see this. Alas, the country of my birth.

@gillis57.bsky.social's photography is seriously under-appreciated. (His hugs are not.) gillis.media

This is an important thread. It highlights details from a recently-released FBI affidavit concerning activities of Russian-government sponsored group to influence US opinion on social media. The original source is www.justice.gov/archives/opa... (and will be archived as part of the RPGov project.)

ij.org/press-releas...

We all need this right now.