Helluva way for the president to refer to dead soldiers — soldiers killed in a war he started.

www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Why your prompts could be subpoenaed. My conversation with Meredith Whittaker, president of Signal, out today. links.profgmedia.com/4ucFCOy

You may look at a problem and think "Aha! The solution is to run my own email server." Now you have two problems, Google is marking all of your email as spam, an unknown number of threat actors using your server to spread malware because you forgot to patch something, and a small pile of subpoenas.

God that’s… so depressing

“If [wealthy, powerful people] can get us to accept that the future’s already settled, AI is already here, the end is already here, then we will create that for them. My most daring idea is to refuse.” — @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

a penguin is standing in front of an open door with the words bye bye above it ALT: a penguin is standing in front of an open door with the words bye bye above it

These are the same people who chose to forgo the Oxford comma, so…

And also that everyone in charge of pushing this technology has a bunker for when it all goes to shit.

Dubai Police Threaten Arrest for Social-Media Posts Contradicting Officials The police force of Dubai, an emirate known for its population of social-media influencers and adoption of the Western lifestyle, is threatening jail time for sharing content that contradicts official...

Dubai police are threatening jail time for "any content that contradicts official announcements."

So… like a protection racket. Am I reading that right?

(S+) Iran: So gnadenlos späht Regime die eigene Bevölkerung aus – Ein Insider packt aus US-Präsident Trump fordert die Iraner auf, das Regime zu stürzen. Doch die Führung in Teheran hat einen gigantischen Überwachungsapparat erschaffen. SPIEGEL-Recherchen gewähren Einblick in das Spähsys...

If you're following the situation in Iran, this one is of interest to you.

We can prove how the regime in Iran is using facial recognition software to surveil its citizens.

(Gift link)
www.spiegel.de/ausland/iran...

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

"Mr. Lewandowski, your *special advisor*"

Excited to see this as I talk with fellow laid off writers and ponder launching a freelance collaborative for us to funnel contracts through, you know, so we can eat.

When the media covers war, every other topic fades Trump will do anything to distract from the political damage of the Epstein files

'Subjects that were dominating the news last week are brushed aside. Instead, it’s all war, all the time.'

@sulliview.bsky.social reminds readers not to lose sight of the (many, many) topics that Trump doesn't want you to pay attention to

margaretsullivan.substack.com/p/when-the-m...

Trump’s D.C. ‘takeover’: What we know so far — and where we’re headed How long will this last? Is it legal? And what are our leaders doing?

If you're looking for news on the ground in DC, you can't do better than @51st.news

Can I come too??? I’ve given a couple versions of this over the years, now that I think about it. Maybe we can all exchange notes on why we think no one has listened to us yet 🙄

Dear world, I am not at #Pride, bc I’m busy getting ready for my big fat bisexual wedding 🎉🎉🎉

In disordered discourse:

Engagement > accuracy
Performance > governance
Emotion > evidence
Identity = target

The logic of the algorithm now structures political speech. It rewards those who dramatise difference and punish deviation from the tribe.

DOGE bros don’t do careful or thorough, so everything is just a mess of errors. The chaos is a feature for them. It’s not about efficiency. It’s about destruction.

I do believe that eugenics is the key to this moment & am even drafting something with a friend about how everything we’re seeing them do today comes down to the idea that everyone else should be in service of the perfect white man they imagine themselves to be

I think that’s it for me for now. If you’re around, come find me- purple curly hair, jeans, prolly around for the next few hours at least. If you’re not, and you made it this far in the thread, hope you found it helpful. ✌🏼

I loved his comment “first to secure/secure to market vs first to market” (or whatever it was I said he said earlier in the thread. I won’t apologize; I’m tired.) bc yeah… we keep fuckin around and we keep finding out… sigh

I think he did a good job of stating explicitly that his comments re: administrationS were not specific to the current one; he wasn’t being political, he was talking about the decades-long reality we’ve been facing as a nation that won’t commit to doing the hard thing(s): that is, incentivizing sec

a drag queen wearing a pink wig and a silver dress is sitting on a stage . Alt: a drag queen wearing a pink wig and a silver dress is sitting on a stage saying ooooo guuuurl dramatically

- I *loved* his comments re liability(similar to Biden’s Nat’l cyber strategy a few yrs ago) but ooOooo girl was some of it 🌶️🌶️🌶️: specifically holding *developers* liable.
I don’t necessarily disagree, but it’ll need to be done carefully/with intention & attention to OSS ecosystem cc @aeva.online

Specifically investing in defensive capabilities at scale, bc I 100% agree with Coker on his comments re: who is protecting SLTT, bc they don’t have the resources- $, people, skill, etc- to protect themselves.

My 2 cents: generally good talk, little disorganized but maybe I haven’t had enough ☕️
- great to hear #realtalk on #cyberwar re: #PRC. As others have been saying re PRC & #RUS “grey zone/hybrid warfare,” it’s 👏🏼still👏🏼warfare👏🏼
Maybe if we called it that, we’d do more about it (besides the “trade war”)

Wrapping with RGB quote: real change, enduring change, happens one step at a time.

“We need to start taking steps.”
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Wasn’t able to thread this part properly, but Coker also oft mentioned the national debt, likened to cyber risk in that it’s a problem affecting us all no one is tackling head on

Coker says this is a good point and a challenge, maybe we ought to expand the 5eyes concept in cyberspace.

Need to build trust in our info sharing < my words

We talk to our allies about “the western tech stack;” our allies have thrown back, “We can’t trust you; how do we know you haven’t put some American Magic in those stacks?” Coker says, “Yep, that’s a good point.”

Do u know what’s on our networks bc of yo analysis, or bc YOURE on our networks?