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Puts me in mind of a lyric from "Fiddler on the Roof": "The most important men in town would come to fawn on me. They would ask me to advise them.... And it won't make one bit of difference if I answer right or wrong. When you're rich, they think you really know."

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Via AOC: It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can […]

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Saw this in a gift store #Portland

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I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359 Could anyone who has any Canadian followers […]

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One frustrating aspect of trying to write about all the incredibly reckless and risky actions taken by this administration with govt data is that by the time you're done writing, half the stuff in your story is outdated already, because they've reversed themselves, or they've been reversed. Or […]

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The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) says it has observed increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors to compromise Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services. "The most novel […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

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The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has processed over 10,00,000 consumer complaints. Is yours one of them? Would you be willing to speak to the press about it? Please DM me and I'll connect you to folks coordinating efforts to say CFPB […]

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Attacks on DEI are intended to resegregate #USA and push women out of the work place. This is a #WhiteSupremacist agenda. #AUspol Media should be mentioning this every time it mentions Trump's DEI attacks.

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See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

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The nation is finally coming to grips with home affordability https://johnmenadue.com/the-nation-is-finally-coming-to-grips-with-home-affordability/ #Auspol

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Has anyone got lived experience of using an Apple Watch and an app like SeizAlarm to alert family or pre-warn the wearer about a seizure? Our older teen had his first tonic-clonic (grand mal) seizure out of the blue, fortunately at home, a few days ago and now we’re not going to let him out of […]

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404Media has a good story about how anyone can push updates to the DOGE.gov website: https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Amazingly, this URL is still live […]

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"This isn’t about politics, it’s about holding the line on cybersecurity standards" https://infosec.exchange/@malwarejake/113994050940367653 #InfoSec #DOGE #WTF

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Day 5 of posting about the coup on Linkedin. I can't begin to count the number of people in infosec LI who messaged privately to say keep going, nobody's talking about this here, this is important, etc. That's been nice. But then also a lot of times when I check these peoples' timelines on LI […]

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Imagine being an infosec person in US govt trying to write communicate about today's patches from Microsoft. You wouldn't even be able to properly classify or describe the most serious 0day today --a privilege escalation vulnerability -- because banned "DEI" words.

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The NYT has published a useful graphic showing all the agencies with investigations into or regulatory battles with of Musk's companies that have seen staffing cuts, including the firing of top officials. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/elon-musk-companies-conflicts.html

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Google is now officially a fascist tool, as its contemptible "Gulf of America" change shows -- ans as removing progressive events from the calendar shows. You MUST expect now that Google will gladly hand over your most personal information to the Trump regime or anyone the regime likes. You […]

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Sony should sue.

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Anticipating a purge of federal employees who are "more loyal to science than to Donald Trump," Paul Krugman reminds us that Republicans "have been rejecting science they don't like for a long time." Good overview - from Reagan to covid to RFK, Jr. (and what lies ahead) […]

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Anyone looking for evidence that capitalism is orthogonal, if not opposed, to democracy need only notice that the stock market is bouncing along happily as authoritarians create a constitutional crisis, ignore the rule of law, and eviscerate civil rights. (Only the possibility of tariffs, which […]

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Study finds that people who reported that their parents had bought a lot of things for them - particularly if these presents were offered as rewards for good grades or other accomplishments -- were more likely to be materialistic as adults […]

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This's really something "we may say that changes in the racial makeup of the ruling class accompany a genuine change in relations of production, as the more explicitly extractive and hierarchical aspects of colonialism are abandoned in favor of new and more market-based forms of exploitation—a […]

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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as _Bluesky_ :Bluesky:, is in fact, Blockchain / VC , or as I've recently taken to calling it, Blockchain + VC. ## Why Bluesky is not decentralized: * How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? by @cwebber * An […]

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OpenWrt 24.10.0 - First Stable Release https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-24-10-0-first-stable-release/223845 #openwrt

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Chopping wood and carrying water. Trying to think clearly about thinking together. https://www.wrecka.ge/bridges-scruples/ I'll write a more detailed post later using the thousand-ish words of bridge explanation and nuance I cut from this post so that I could get to the standing wave stuff […]

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Here's a recent story about how a device running #GrapheneOS appears to be extremely resilient to even state actors: https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2025/01/02/british-journalist-could-face-years-in-prison-for-refusing-to-hand-over-his-passwords-to-the-police/7822432/ This […]

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"Everyone is failing! Someone must _______ immediately!" Comrade I don't know how to tell you this in a non-asshole way, but "somebody" is you. That's where we're at. Find people doing the work you want to see and help them.

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I've never understood or liked way American culture fetishises guns. I have met American gun owners, and one of the most common arguments for wide gun ownership was that it would prevent tyranny. That the people would rise against the oppressor, and they'd be well armed, and the would-be […]

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Programming languages train you to not want what they don't provide, which is why programmers should learn a wide variety of different styles in order to not take any shit from language designers

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In case we hadn't figured it out by the time Google supplied AI and other tech to Israel (and then fired its workers who protested - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3gqw1d37l4o), the company's latest announcement ( […]

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This answer about Singapore’s development arc is what I’ll link to next time someone from the outside parrots for the simplistic ‘third world to first’ narrative https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1g91ia3/comment/lt3tsco/?context=3

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Nagi from RecipeTinEats is one of my favorite online recipe people, but did you know her mother runs one about Japanese food also? Nagi’s recipes are from all cuisines, all good, and her mum’s site is Japanese recipes https://japan.recipetineats.com/yaki-udon-stir-fried-udon-noodles/ #Food […]

Puts me in mind of a lyric from "Fiddler on the Roof": "The most important men in town would come to fawn on me. They would ask me to advise them.... And it won't make one bit of difference if I answer right or wrong. When you're rich, they think you really know."

Via AOC: It may not be cool or hip in some circles, but we legitimately do need a massive amount of people to run for office. Flood the school boards, councils, county seats, state legislatures, Congress, etc. Big changes at the top happen when the ground shifts at the bottom. And that can […]

Saw this in a gift store #Portland

I already boosted this, but I want to add more emphasis. I think every Canadian citizen of the Fediverse ought to sign this petition to get the Government of Canada off Xitter: https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-5359 Could anyone who has any Canadian followers […]

One frustrating aspect of trying to write about all the incredibly reckless and risky actions taken by this administration with govt data is that by the time you're done writing, half the stuff in your story is outdated already, because they've reversed themselves, or they've been reversed. Or […]

The Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) says it has observed increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors to compromise Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services. "The most novel […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

The Consumer Finance Protection Bureau has processed over 10,00,000 consumer complaints. Is yours one of them? Would you be willing to speak to the press about it? Please DM me and I'll connect you to folks coordinating efforts to say CFPB […]

Attacks on DEI are intended to resegregate #USA and push women out of the work place. This is a #WhiteSupremacist agenda. #AUspol Media should be mentioning this every time it mentions Trump's DEI attacks.

See here's how to do a headline. fortune.com/2025/02/13/e...

The nation is finally coming to grips with home affordability https://johnmenadue.com/the-nation-is-finally-coming-to-grips-with-home-affordability/ #Auspol

404Media has a good story about how anyone can push updates to the DOGE.gov website: https://www.404media.co/anyone-can-push-updates-to-the-doge-gov-website-2/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub Amazingly, this URL is still live […]

"This isn’t about politics, it’s about holding the line on cybersecurity standards" https://infosec.exchange/@malwarejake/113994050940367653 #InfoSec #DOGE #WTF

Day 5 of posting about the coup on Linkedin. I can't begin to count the number of people in infosec LI who messaged privately to say keep going, nobody's talking about this here, this is important, etc. That's been nice. But then also a lot of times when I check these peoples' timelines on LI […]

Imagine being an infosec person in US govt trying to write communicate about today's patches from Microsoft. You wouldn't even be able to properly classify or describe the most serious 0day today --a privilege escalation vulnerability -- because banned "DEI" words.

The NYT has published a useful graphic showing all the agencies with investigations into or regulatory battles with of Musk's companies that have seen staffing cuts, including the firing of top officials. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/11/us/politics/elon-musk-companies-conflicts.html

Google is now officially a fascist tool, as its contemptible "Gulf of America" change shows -- ans as removing progressive events from the calendar shows. You MUST expect now that Google will gladly hand over your most personal information to the Trump regime or anyone the regime likes. You […]

Sony should sue.

Anticipating a purge of federal employees who are "more loyal to science than to Donald Trump," Paul Krugman reminds us that Republicans "have been rejecting science they don't like for a long time." Good overview - from Reagan to covid to RFK, Jr. (and what lies ahead) […]

Study finds that people who reported that their parents had bought a lot of things for them - particularly if these presents were offered as rewards for good grades or other accomplishments -- were more likely to be materialistic as adults […]

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as _Bluesky_ :Bluesky:, is in fact, Blockchain / VC , or as I've recently taken to calling it, Blockchain + VC. ## Why Bluesky is not decentralized: * How Decentralized Is Bluesky Really? by @cwebber * An […]

OpenWrt 24.10.0 - First Stable Release https://forum.openwrt.org/t/openwrt-24-10-0-first-stable-release/223845 #openwrt

Chopping wood and carrying water. Trying to think clearly about thinking together. https://www.wrecka.ge/bridges-scruples/ I'll write a more detailed post later using the thousand-ish words of bridge explanation and nuance I cut from this post so that I could get to the standing wave stuff […]

Here's a recent story about how a device running #GrapheneOS appears to be extremely resilient to even state actors: https://www.ilfattoquotidiano.it/in-edicola/articoli/2025/01/02/british-journalist-could-face-years-in-prison-for-refusing-to-hand-over-his-passwords-to-the-police/7822432/ This […]

"Everyone is failing! Someone must _______ immediately!" Comrade I don't know how to tell you this in a non-asshole way, but "somebody" is you. That's where we're at. Find people doing the work you want to see and help them.

I've never understood or liked way American culture fetishises guns. I have met American gun owners, and one of the most common arguments for wide gun ownership was that it would prevent tyranny. That the people would rise against the oppressor, and they'd be well armed, and the would-be […]

Programming languages train you to not want what they don't provide, which is why programmers should learn a wide variety of different styles in order to not take any shit from language designers

In case we hadn't figured it out by the time Google supplied AI and other tech to Israel (and then fired its workers who protested - https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3gqw1d37l4o), the company's latest announcement ( […]

This answer about Singapore’s development arc is what I’ll link to next time someone from the outside parrots for the simplistic ‘third world to first’ narrative https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1g91ia3/comment/lt3tsco/?context=3

Nagi from RecipeTinEats is one of my favorite online recipe people, but did you know her mother runs one about Japanese food also? Nagi’s recipes are from all cuisines, all good, and her mum’s site is Japanese recipes https://japan.recipetineats.com/yaki-udon-stir-fried-udon-noodles/ #Food […]

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