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New Threat Model: Covid from @violetblue : FDA says most Americans will no longer have Covid vaccine access by fall; Moderna compelled by...

New Threat Model: Covid from @violetblue : FDA says most Americans will no longer have Covid vaccine access by fall; Moderna compelled by FDA to withdraw its US Covid-Flu shot application; Jay Bhattacharya triggers NIH meeting walkout with anti-NIH Covid conspiracy theory; Millions of kids suffering from Long Covid, study finds; Long Covid linked to rising anxiety and depression in children; and much more.

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New Threat Model: Cybersecurity from @violetblue : Proton & others to leave Switzerland if surveillance law passes, U.S.-sanctioned...

New Threat Model: Cybersecurity from @violetblue : Proton & others to leave Switzerland if surveillance law passes, U.S.-sanctioned terrorists have paid premium accounts on Elon Musk's X, Distributed Denial of Secrets shares its data haul from Signal clone app hack with journos, DHS won’t tell Congress how many people it cut from CISA, Regeneron Pharmaceuticals bought 23andMe data, David Bowie’s groundbreaking ISP, and much more.

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New Threat Model Covid by @violetblue : RFK Jr. spews unsubstantiated child rape stories, sidesteps questions at NIH hearing, and swims in...

New Threat Model Covid by @violetblue : RFK Jr. spews unsubstantiated child rape stories, sidesteps questions at NIH hearing, and swims in sewage contaminated creek; Chief Medical Advisor of MAHA wants to halt the use of mRNA Covid vaccines; Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial; Jeff Bridges has Long Covid; and much more.

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@pluralistic : "because [Trump] represents the interests of exploitation, extraction and looting, everything nice that he gives to...

@pluralistic : "because [Trump] represents the interests of exploitation, extraction and looting, everything nice that he gives to everyday people in his base potentially gores the ox of someone who *really* matters to him. … It seems that there's no material benefit that Trump's oligarch backers are willing to cede to working people."

The real message for his base (if they listen) is from George Carlin: "It's a big club and you ain't in it!"

https://pluralistic.net/2025/05/12/greased-slide/#greased-pole

New Threat Model Cybersecurity from @violetblue : Lloyd’s of London insures companies for AI “hallucinations"; CISA killed its RSS...

New Threat Model Cybersecurity from @violetblue : Lloyd’s of London insures companies for AI “hallucinations"; CISA killed its RSS feed; Hollywood studios are behind a fake-movie trailer-for-profit conspiracy; Hungary violates international biometric AI laws to target LGBTQI+ protestors; Google pays up after getting caught taking face and voice scans while in Incognito Mode, and much more.

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Whidbey Island, WA looking out over Admiralty Bay.#SilentSunday #photography

Whidbey Island, WA looking out over Admiralty Bay.

#SilentSunday #photography

New Threat Model Covid from @violetblue : Trump picked “wellness influencer” & RFK Jr. bestie Dr Casey Means, a conspiracy theorist...

New Threat Model Covid from @violetblue : Trump picked “wellness influencer” & RFK Jr. bestie Dr Casey Means, a conspiracy theorist with no medical license, to be US Surgeon General; Trump admin ended the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC); the FDA named virulent antivaxer, raw-milk pusher, & Great Barrington Declaration proponent Dr. Vinay Prasad as their new vaccine chief; and much more.

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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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