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Threat Model Cybersecurity from @violetblue : Israeli Signal clone used by Trump admin was hacked; Anonymous launched Operation DreadNought...

Threat Model Cybersecurity from @violetblue : Israeli Signal clone used by Trump admin was hacked; Anonymous launched Operation DreadNought & popped a Trump “deportation” flight company; a fundraiser to save Ada Lovelace Day, WH slashes CISA funding, intends to conduct offensive cyber operations; US asks judge to break up Google’s ad tech business after requesting Chrome sale, NIOSH (mask safety) gutted & work stopped; and much more.

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Protests and lawsuits and telling one's representatives they must act are vital and must not stop, but at times I feel like a passenger...

Protests and lawsuits and telling one's representatives they must act are vital and must not stop, but at times I feel like a passenger on a plane piloted by a demented choad & his crazy crew intent on trashing the plane and l can either rush the cabin in a gratuitous/futile attempt to get them out or put my head between my knees, grab my ankles, and wait until the wreckage slides to a stop.

@pluralistic : "So this is why you keep invoking AI by accident, and why the AI that is so easy to invoke is so hard to dispel. Like a...

@pluralistic : "So this is why you keep invoking AI by accident, and why the AI that is so easy to invoke is so hard to dispel. Like a demon, a chatbot is *much* easier to summon than it is to rid yourself of."

The web designers knowingly perpetrating these affronts to humanity are destined for Danté's Ninth Circle.

"He falls asleep believing he's been robbed, not knowing that the summoning of demons is almost always unwitting." -- Dexter Palmer

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/02/kpis-off/#principal-agentic-ai-problem

The latest Threat Model Covid from @violetblue : A doctor treating children in the Texas measles outbreak appeared in a video for RFK Jr’s...

The latest Threat Model Covid from @violetblue : A doctor treating children in the Texas measles outbreak appeared in a video for RFK Jr’s Children’s Health Defense with a measles rash on his face & admitted he was infected; an expose revealed 15-year-olds, often without PPE, are among those made to cull [bird flu] infected flocks; HHS stops infectious disease research; FDA head claims "the Covid pandemic is over", and much more.

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@pluralistic : "Raising the price of a good education and lowering protections against receiving a bad education is an attack on the...

@pluralistic : "Raising the price of a good education and lowering protections against receiving a bad education is an attack on the very idea of education as a source of social mobility."

Lutnick's answer: "It’s time to train people not to do the jobs of the past, but to do the great jobs of the future. This is the new model where you work in these kinds of plants for the rest of your life…"

The social mobility you'll need is getting to that screwing factory on time.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/30/trump-u/#i-think-you-know-what-the-trustees-can-do-with-their-suggestions

@pluralistic : "This is gangsterism, the thing that comes after capitalism collapses into feudalism. In gangsterism, 'fairness'...

@pluralistic : "This is gangsterism, the thing that comes after capitalism collapses into feudalism. In gangsterism, 'fairness' and 'power' have no place. All that's left is a kind of *caveat emptor* brainworm that insists that if you got scammed, you should have shopped more carefully."

Economists love math, so a little equation for them:

(Unfair and deceptive methods of competition)² = Bidness as Usual in Trumpland

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/29/cheaters-and-liars/#caveat-emptor-brainworms

This week's Threat Model Cybersecurity for @violetblue : The MPAA’s anti-piracy campaign used pirated fonts, public statement issued...

This week's Threat Model Cybersecurity for @violetblue : The MPAA’s anti-piracy campaign used pirated fonts, public statement issued in support of Chris Krebs, DOGE accesses classified networks holding nuclear secrets, The Atlantic examines America’s new data panopticon, NFTs that cost millions got replaced with error messages after getting downgraded to the free Cloudflare plan, and much more.

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Sunrise over Lake Washington.#photography #SilentSunday

Sunrise over Lake Washington.

#photography #SilentSunday

Now that Covid[dot]gov looks exactly like a parody site from the Onion, get actual factual covid information from @violetblue 's Threat...

Now that Covid[dot]gov looks exactly like a parody site from the Onion, get actual factual covid information from @violetblue 's Threat Model Covid collection:

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New Threat Model Covid from @violetblue : Government of Canada: "More than 50%” have Long Covid at 2 years; US Covid testing and...

New Threat Model Covid from @violetblue : Government of Canada: "More than 50%” have Long Covid at 2 years; US Covid testing and information websites delete health info, now promote Covid conspiracy theories, attack Fauci; RFK Jr. to reverse CDC's Covid vaccine guidance for children; “Unvaccinated children and adolescents were up to 20 times more likely to develop long COVID than their vaccinated peers”; and much more.

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Fascists are downing websites, deleting data, gutting healthcare, neutering newspapers, rewriting history, and gaslighting everyone. They...

Fascists are downing websites, deleting data, gutting healthcare, neutering newspapers, rewriting history, and gaslighting everyone. They want us separated and afraid; they want us in the dark.

We will outlast them.

We will dance in the dark
We'll bring candles down to the dark
We will love in the dark
We'll go on in the dark
We'll hold hands in the dark
'Cause when you hold hands in the dark
You don't know whose hand you hold
We're just humans letting the love flow

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QrvfhDQbHHE&t=99s

@pluralistic : "Wynn-Williams documents so many instances in which Facebook's top executives lie – to the courts, to Congress, to...

@pluralistic : "Wynn-Williams documents so many instances in which Facebook's top executives lie – to the courts, to Congress, to the UN, to the press. Facebook lies when it is beneficial to do so – but only when they can get away with it."

Sarah Wynn-Williams wanted Facebook to be something it couldn't be: honest.

"You're scratchin' an itch that nothing can ease
You lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas"

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/23/zuckerstreisand/#zdgaf

New Threat Model Cybersecurity from @violetblue : a whistleblower is physically threatened after detailing DOGE cover-up of its exfiltration...

New Threat Model Cybersecurity from @violetblue : a whistleblower is physically threatened after detailing DOGE cover-up of its exfiltration of labor data and access from Russia, Lyft is “piloting” recording passenger conversations, Trump admin quits VirusTotal threat detection tools, CISA’s Secure by Design leadership is out, hacked Bay Area crosswalks had “1234” as a password, Canadian gov’t quietly releases a huge Long Covid analysis putting it at 50%, and much more.

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tRump et al. are following a previous fascist regime known for its ability to manipulate a gullible citizenry: "Voice or no voice, the...

tRump et al. are following a previous fascist regime known for its ability to manipulate a gullible citizenry: "Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same way in any country" -- Hermann Goering.

@pluralistic : "It's not a coincidence that these guys went after the CFPB. It's no mystery why they've gone after every...

@pluralistic : "It's not a coincidence that these guys went after the CFPB. It's no mystery why they've gone after every watchdog that keeps you from getting scammed, poisoned or maimed, from the FDA to the EPA to the NLRB."

Caveat Emptor
Praline-- I wish to complain about this parrot what I purchased not half an hour ago from this very boutique.
Shopkeeper--Oh yes, the, the Norwegian Blue. What's wrong with it?
Praline--It's dead, that's what's wrong with it!

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/19/gotcha/#known-to-the-state-of-california-to-cause-cancer

#FiftyFiftyOne protest in Bothell WA

#FiftyFiftyOne protest in Bothell WA

This week's Threat Model Covid from @violetblue : Per US CDC, “quite a large amount of [measles] cases” are not being reported...

This week's Threat Model Covid from @violetblue : Per US CDC, “quite a large amount of [measles] cases” are not being reported because the case fatality rate is “way above what we know is the case fatality rate of measles"; Trump admin budget docs show NIH to be cut by 40%, CDC to be cut 44%; the head of US vaccine regulation was forced to quit after he tried to stop RFK Jr. from altering/deleting data in US vaccine safety database; and much more.

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@pluralistic : "… both kinds of downgrade [disclosed at purchase or done in secret] depend on the genuinely bizarre idea that a...

@pluralistic : "… both kinds of downgrade [disclosed at purchase or done in secret] depend on the genuinely bizarre idea that a computer that you own, that is in your possession, can be relied upon to follow orders from the internet even when you don't want it to. … when we're talking about a computer that you put your body into and race down the road at 80mph inside of, it's frankly terrifying."

"Open the doors, Tesla."
"I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/15/musklemons/#more-like-edison-amirite

“A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an...

“A nation,” he heard himself say, “consists of its laws. A nation does not consist of its situation at a given time. If an individual’s morals are situational, that individual is without morals. If a nation’s laws are situational, that nation has no laws, and soon isn’t a nation.”

@GreatDismal explaining in *spook country* why the US is deteriorating into an amoral banana republic with dizzying speed.

@violetblue 's Threat Model Cybersecurity this week: 4chan got hacked hard, US cyber industry cowers as Trump kneecaps SentinelOne,...

@violetblue 's Threat Model Cybersecurity this week: 4chan got hacked hard, US cyber industry cowers as Trump kneecaps SentinelOne, UnitedHealth demands doctors ‘immediately repay’ its loans after brutal breach, hacked Bay Area crosswalks mock tech billionaires, international academics shun US conferences, a robotaxi trapped in Chick-fil-A drive-through, and much more.

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