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#DFIR,
#infosec,
#dadjokes,
#scifi,
#books,
#rpg,
#ttx,
#malware, elder
#genx, and
#gaming nerd. AKA an elder geek. Retired
#leo. Retired from
#infosec in
#OT now too.
Kindness first is useful but telling off toxic folks is on my response spectrum too.
The fact that *not one* person in Harris' camp can explain why they shouldn't launch their fucking media operation on the Substack platform is... probably all you need to know about that endeavor.
In Virginia, our FOIA lawsuit exposed how ICE was planning to open new facilities in the state.
After widespread public backlash, a contractor cancelled the sale of a warehouse that was previously set to be sold to DHS for one of its ICE detention warehouses.
Our country’s increasing obsession with gambling is not unrelated to our country’s poor understanding of disease transmission. We are simply not great at risk/benefit analyses.
Update: In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD *as well as* Surprise, AZ; Upper Bern, PA; and Tremont, PA.
Facts that bear repeating.
In the past week we've learned ICE has secured property to build human warehouses in Merrimack, NH and Williamsport, MD. Just some facts I think bear repeating.
Yes, elections are run by states. That is true today. Here's a list of other things that USED to be true. Feel free to add.
-Law enforcement need probable cause/warrant to enter
-You have the right to Due Process
-You have the right to peacefully protest
-US Presidents may not profit from office
This is holy shit. Holy shit man. This racist asshole brought the full force of the Gestapo to fucking destroy MSP, murder neighbors, kidnap kids, and terrorize a community and the NYT gives him a fluffin
Punxsutawney Phil is said to have seen his shadow, predicting 6 more weeks of winter weather. Follow AP for live updates.
Groundhog Day live updates: Punxsutawney Phil predicts 6 more weeks of winter
Tens of thousands of people are gathering for Punxsutawney Phil, a groundhog that lives in a tree stump, to predict if the already long and cold winter across much of the United States will go on for another six weeks or if an early spring is around the corner.
I would stake my reputation on the fact that Jen nor Chris would have uploaded sensitive documents to ChatGPT.
Elections have consequences.
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Being a violence researcher means that basically everything I post here is some variant on:
“The thing they said would make you safe is actually ineffective and/or dangerous.”
“The thing they said is dangerous is actually a sign of the kind of big changes we need for a safer society for everyone.”
If you're interested in deploying Security Onion on your network, we've just updated our free Security Onion Essentials training. Learn about the platform itself, the included tools, how to download and install it, and how to use it for alert triage, threat hunting, and detection engineering.
New from 404 Media: DHS says critical ICE surveillance footage from abuse case was actually never recorded and doesn't matter. "Due to a technical issue, the Video System failed to record video or audio footage during that period."
www.404media.co/dhs-says-cri...
DHS Says Critical ICE Surveillance Footage From Abuse Case Was Actually Never Recorded, Doesn't Matter
Court records reveal the incredibly sad state of ICE's evidence retention systems.
Tomorrow Is $TSLA "earnings" day - but more importantly, earnings call day in which Elon Musk will make a number of fantastical claims and projections none of which will be remotely happen
(aspirational wink wink)
you should not share a post that's a screenshot without a link to a news item. you should not share a post that's a video or picture without some kind of sourcing. we're in a new bad era and these are now basic practices.
... also photogs and journos gotta eat so share their work.
Todd Blanche, facing disbarment for unethical conduct, pleads with Americans to ignore the evidence of their own eyes and ears and instead accept the lies of the wannabe totalitarian state.
Blanche: "Remember, what we all saw in that 10 or second video is not the full story. Every American should know that. The story goes way beyond that. It starts with the fact that literally for months we have received 0 assistance from the state of Minnesota."
Kyle Rittenhouse traveled to another community with an assault rifle and the cops threw him a bottle of water and said they were glad he was there.
Kash Patel: "You cannot bring a firearm, loaded, with multiple magazines to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple. You don't have a right to break the law." (Pretti was carrying a gun legally.)
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Turn off autoplay. Protect your mental health.
There is a video from across the street of half a dozen or so masked federal agents wrestling a man to the ground, punching him. Then there is a shot, then several others, until he is lying completely still.
You may want to be cautious if you don't want to see the video.
“We don’t like you” nobody fucking asked
if you haven’t listened to songs from populations cursing out their occupying armies lately, I recommend it
Here's the data:
Reminder: ocean heat content is a BETTER metric of global heating than surface temperatures (which are far more prone to fluctuations due to El Nino/La Nina), and unlike surface temperatures, it set a NEW RECORD THIS PAST YEAR:
Using a photo of a disabled, autistic woman violently dragged from her car on the way to a doctor's appointment with this headline certainly is a choice.
This isn't satire. This is a real headline published in the UK.
SCOOP: Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activities on the ground.
Inside the app called ELITE—what ICE uses to find neighborhoods to raid.
‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid
Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure Palantir is building for ICE and the agency’s activit...
quis custodiet ipsos custodes
A reminder that bringing shitty posts over from That Fascist Site to be performatively angry about them here is a choice you don't have to make! You can just leave them there! There is so much else to be legitimately angry about! You will not lack for content!
He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the Consent of our legislatures …
For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us …
For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States.
The thing that really makes Minneapolis different, other than the fact that they straight up murdered someone, is that they've dropped all pretense that this is just about immigration. The state has declared war on its own people, or at least those people who live in cities.
"the state of the commonwealth is everyone is tired of my sorry ass"
www.vpm.org/news/2026-01...
Youngkin set to deliver final State of the Commonwealth Address
How to watch the 2026 Virginia State of the Commonwealth address
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one bizarre own goal is when he killed a $3.5 billion electric battery plant that the state had been negotiating to put in danville. destroyed about 3,500 jobs to score points with conservative media chuds. meanwhile, just a huge fuck you to the rural virginians that elected him!
Just seeing this picture caused me anxiety.
The nostalgia bait content leaves out some of the day to day parts of life in the past:
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ICE is stopping its purchase of warrantless airline travel data, according to a new procurement record. This comes after the company selling it said it would not sell that data anymore, following our months of reporting on the company. More here:
www.404media.co/airlines-wil...Post Your Favorite Star Trek Character. Wrong Answers Only! (if you feel like it)
Post Your Favorite Star Trek Character. Wrong Answers Only! (if you feel like it)
NEW: A police officer in Colorado used evidence from Flock cameras to wrongfully accuse an innocent woman for package theft, then yelled at her on the phone when she told him she had evidence that exonerated her, according to body camera footage obtained by 404 Media.
Cop Used Flock to Wrongfully Accuse a Woman Then Refused to Look at Evidence That Exonerated Her, Body Camera Shows
"Nothing gets in or out of the town without us knowing about it," the cop told her.
Instead of ending the constitution and murdering people, we could have high speed trains and universal health care.
ive seen more articles this week about how the phrase “abolish ice” could hurt dems in the midterms than ive seen articles about how paramilitary death squads terrorizing cities will hurt republicans in the midterms
Whatever happened to cops showing their ID at the door?Or search warrants? Probable cause? Due process? Miranda rights? Why does any cop show made like over a year ago suddenly seem like it's from another time or another country besides America? And why is any American okay with it?
Also, if you work for a government agency, *their* lawyers are not *your* lawyer.
Here is our breakdown of Webloc, the phone surveillance tool ICE has bought which lets the agency track phones in entire neighborhoods. See phones it has data on in an area, follow them home or to work, see the exact route they took
www.youtube.com/watch?v=rurJ...
The ICE Tool That Tracks Entire Neighborhoods
YouTube video by 404 Media
I am begging abled people to just take five seconds before posting and ask themselves whether they’re about to cheapen their point with ableist terms or concepts.
“Tone deaf” is one. Blindness as a metaphor for ignorance is another. And for gods’ sakes, stop calling people stupid and worse.
Something I learned about corporate planning:
Boss: "We need this done in 3 months."
PM: "Okay, here is a 2 month timeline to accomplish this."
Boss: "Really I would like that to be a 3 month timeline."
PM: "Why didn't you say you wanted it done in 4 months then?"
over the course of 1871, congress held seven months of hearings on ku klux klan and other white vigilante violence in the south, they took detailed testimony from hundreds of black men and women attesting to klan terror. (1/?)
Online analysis is really very bad sometimes.
Big Tech means big misogyny.
Smart glasses are being used to post videos of women online against their will.
Over a hundred videos have been uploaded to several social media accounts in which women are asked for their phone numbers.
if you ARE going to use a VPN, you have to understand that most consumer VPNs, paid or free, are basically traps, as the majority log your use and comply eagerly with data requests, with or without a warrant. stick to mullvad and pay with an anonymous method if you pirate/etc or plan to
This is fake, this is not happening. This originated from a parody account.
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it is 2016. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training.
it is 2020. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithfuls say they just need more training.
it is 2026. the cops have murdered someone in minneapolis. the dem faithf
Just saw a content-theft account reposted by someone here. A tip: if their bio says something like, “if you own the original, DM me,” you can tell they are happy to steal, mislead, and profit off other people’s work (and don’t want to be called out about it in public). Personally, I block on sight.
This game is making me dizzy.
This is the heart of it.
Any press coverage that gullibly paints this partisan punitive campaign of retribution as "fighting crime" or "enforcing immigration laws" is actively complicit in a government campaign to punish dissent.
whats missing from all the coverage is that the president is using the military to harass, brutalize and punish areas of the country that didnt vote for him
In case you’re wondering whether the pro-ICE reactions to Renee Nicole Good’s murder are natural, here’s a comment that was just left on my video. My video about anti-transgender bias at the BBC. I haven’t made a video about Good yet.
youtu.be/pWm3dK8tPtoSomeday we are going to discover intelligent life in the Argos system and have a lot of explaining to do with why we repeatedly set different games there as a barren waste of a planet.
I see it as not a lack of trust in people, it’s that if someone is able to perform an action due to a lack of technical controls, they will
This brings back memories of handling fraud and ID theft cases in the early 00s. Companies decided to complying with the strictest states regs instead of having a per state regulation policy.
Typically California had the strictest regs and therefore became the national standard for companies. 1/3
“The Justice Department on Friday announced to employees it is creating an artificial intelligence taskforce to challenge state-level regulations so that AI companies can "be free to innovate without cumbersome regulation…”
DOJ creates task force to challenge state AI regulations
A new group within the Justice Department will target state artificial intelligence laws that it says hinder innovation, according to a memo.
The biggest difference then to now is there was already federal regs on the topic.
Some states were making stricter regs than those federal regs. Businesses that had operations or customers in those states took to complying with the strictest reg so they could have "one policy" on the topic. 2/3
I do not see a similar set of federal regulations on AI usage, so instead of arguing that "having a bunch of states can lead to de facto strictest being followed" the argument is "take all the safeties off and let this thing run" 3/3
Running back to a comfort show tonight. I still cannot believe the musical episode of Star Trek Strange New Worlds was so well done.
youtu.be/B5pAHq3Exz8?...
Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | We Are One (Full Performance) | Paramount+
YouTube video by Paramount Plus
You don’t have to watch anything
Esp if you know it’s a trigger & you don’t got tools/access to community to regulate yourself
We need to be in better relationships with our bodies
There are options other than ignore vs I have to take this trauma directly to the face
Looks like ICE is now cracking down on … Native Americans.
This letter was just posted by the chairman of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North/South Dakota:
“Our Nation is a sovereign government and our members are not immigrants. We are not subject to immigration enforcement on our own lands.”
Well, that is a hell of a way to start a game.
This evening's thought to ponder from Maggies Farm
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Nobody gives a fuck what Stephen Smith gotta say at a time like this.
I am used to having earworms running through my brain. Generally some old disco or movie track from the late 70s, but for the last 24 hours it has been this:
“The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”
― George Orwell, 1984
they didn’t leak it to make the shooter look innocent, but to make the victim look guilty. not guilty of a crime. guilty of having a visibly queer wife. guilty of liberalism. guilty of opposing the regime. they don’t seek to exonerate themselves, only to demonstrate who deserves to die.
In the video that the shooter took, which I believe was leaked to be exculpatory, he appears to yell “fucking bitch” after he shoots Renee Good.
