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he/him - Professional Threatbutterer with 25+ years in IT, last 10 in #infosec roles. Writing and illustrating a #scifi graphic novel. I am antiracist and antifascist. Support trans rights! Ich bin ein Berliner. #NoAI
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Probably only a week before Nate Silver teams up with Elon Musk

Shit is sliding sideways fast

There's going to be news about a woman illegally detained and being forcely removed from a Coeur d'Alene Idaho Town Hall meeting taking place at the high school by men that would not identify themselves wearing plain clothes because she opposed the republican viewpoints. youtube.com/shorts/hhJdH...

👀 👀 👀 here’s big boy bob attempting to drag one of his constituents out of a public town hall meeting, and threatening to pepper spray her if she did not comply. he stated he wasn’t acting in his official capacity, yet he was wearing a hat that said sheriff and his badge was visible on his belt

Coming around to the view that a certain kind of narcissist simply needs Musk to be a genius rather than a fraud, because they want to believe there’s a hereditary Brahmin class of accomplished, beautiful minds—and that they’re a part of that class.

This account spreading some pretty wild bullshit and conservatives are eating it up x.com/jokaqarmy1/s...

Comin' for Black & Queer people's guns. Watch them work with RFK to get all sorts of normal medications to be disqualifiers for firearms ownership.

Honestly our best hope lies with some deranged rando who takes Musk out for us.

We can not allow Oligarchism to prevail.

this is from a new report on a “third way” on DEI and it is unbelievably naive, which in my view is emblematic of the author, rich kahlenberg, whose willingness to extend good faith to obvious bad faith actors borders on gullibility www.progressivepolicy.org/a-way-out-of...

we live in the worst possible timeline a fucking parody of reality itself

🇺🇸🇺🇦 A large Ukrainian demonstration at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C.

BREAKING: The USDA has confirmed five additional dairy herds in California have tested positive for the virus, raising the total to 732. Currently, 74% of the state's dairy herds are infected with H5N1.

Trump Unsure What Department He Has To Cut To Make JD Vance Go Away theonion.com/trump-u...

Eye of a unknown fly from the family heleomyzidae. #diptera #fly #insect #insects #macrophotography

OUROBOROS - SCION Outstanding compositions in technical death metal #MetalSky #HeavyMetal www.youtube.com/watch?v=jQZ8...

On immigration as American IT people

Growing up in the early 1990s, the ozone hole was a big environmental problem we all learned about. The world took action and the problem is receding. See also, US air and water pollution pre-EPA. Climate change is obviously a much harder problem to solve. But we can. And we must.

"Military history has many examples of soldiers turning threat analysis based on templates into iron-clad paradigms, to their ultimate detriment." 💀 Also relevant to #infosec and quite possibly the ultimate quote about "Death by Powerpoint". youtu.be/AxrwROErlmY?...

VORGA - VOIDEATH Outstanding compositions in cosmic black metal #MetalSky #HeavyMetal www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijlV...

let me say that this is the classic “just asking questions” approach to delegitimizing the achievements of black people. and critically, you don’t even have to be a black person who talks about race. simply being black to these people means you are “obsessed with race.”

Watching the fall of the American Empire in real time is really something.

thehill.com/opinion/camp...

Strong statement by retired Rear Admiral Mike Smith, President of NSL4A: "National Security Leaders for America strongly condemns the removal of senior military officers without just cause. ... Removing experienced leaders with meritorious records weakens the force and emboldens America’s enemies."

Uhhhhhh www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The reporting on this bizarre story (gift link) is incomplete. It doesn't address TESCREAL (R=rationalism) & larger links to both AI boys & certain Trumpists. A Silicon Valley Intellectual Society Kicked Them Out. Now They’re Tied to a Killing Spree. www.wsj.com/us-news/zizi...

Jim Stewartson is not a hero he he is a conspiracy theorist with a track record of working with literal Nazis to target actual experts and academics in the counter far right and counter miss information world. Jim is a dangerous person who will not be leaving my list

Gonna give this a shot today while working on my book. Looks like the plot is roughly "Russia hacks U.S. critical infrastrucutre".

Just look at these paragraphs from the AP story. Hegseth called Brown unqualified solely because he's Black. Then they fired him... and replaced him with a white guy so indisputably unqualified that he requires a Presidential waiver. This is what "merit" means to them. apnews.com/article/trum...

Side note. There are eight members of the joint chiefs. the chair is black. the CNO (navy) is a woman. the other six are white guys. chair and the cno got fired tonight.

You need to understand, you can't reason with these people. You'll never sway their opinions. There is absolutely nothing that will turn them away from Trump. They don't operate like you do. They are true believers.

The thing you need to understand about conservatives is they don't speak the same language you do. They don't respect diplomacy, logic, or reason. The only thing they respect is force, and the authority they derive from it. The only way to reach them is to speak their language back at them.

goddamn this is so satisfying to watch

gottem 😂

WYOMING: “Thank you, Madam chairman.” “I prefer ‘Mister’ chairman.” “Well you all voted preferred pronouns cannot be compelled speech.”

The Sun upset with the plebs showing solidarity with #Luigi

normal country

Firing America's senior military leadership overnight and replacing them with party loyalists is definitely dictatorship stuff, if anyone is under a rock right now.

❗️ US threatens to disconnect Ukraine from Starlink if it refuses to sign minerals deal, — Reuters.

NEW — 19-year-old DOGE engineer Edward Coristine turns out to be the grandson of former KGB spy Valery Martynov, who played a role in a sprawling 1980s espionage saga. www.jacobsilverman.com/p/prominent-...