Brian Beach @bwbeach@qoto.org

“ACLU of Indiana sued to challenge the ban on behalf of five anonymous Jewish, Muslim, and spiritual plaintiffs and the group Hoosier Jews for Choice.”

Not only did the appeals court cite Governor Pence’s religious freedom law in striking down the abortion ban, it also cited the Hobby Lobby case as a reason.

We need more reminders for the far right that they own neither religion nor even Christianity

https://lawandcrime.com/abortion/severely-decreased-their-sexual-intimacy-with-their-husbands-indiana-appeals-court-uses-mike-pences-religious-liberty-law-to-block-abortion-ban/

have you paid no attention?

are you one of those people who say Black Lives Matter but never learned shit about the Civil Rights Movement?

do you think my rights were given to me?

NO. WE PROTESTED AND FOUGHT FOR THAT SHIT.

you do not accept the wretchedness of your political leaders.

YOU FORCE YOUR POLITICAL LEADERS TO DO BETTER.

protests work.

we need to move Biden away from the oligarchy pushing the country into fascism. make Biden better. then vote for him.

@otownKim @DoesntExist

I mean, think about this for just a sec: LinkedIn, Twitter, SnapChat, Instagram, the list goes on and on. The VERY first thing these platforms will do after you've installed the app and logged in is to ask you to share all of the information in your address book. Ever wonder how these social networks got so big so fast? It's remarkable how much of their growth is based on convincing everyone it's totally fine and normal to give away all of the contact information given to them by friends, family and acquaintances.

It is remarkable to me how difficult it is to convince people that if your password manager and your authentication app are on the same laptop, it's not 2FA anymore, it's 1FA and the 1F is the laptop login.

Some thoughts about attribution in the XZ backdoor, having just wasted so many hours digging into the details.

The email addresses used for a couple of years at least by the parties involved have absolutely *zero* trace in any kind data breach or database beyond Github/Gitlab, and maybe Tukaani and Debian and a few mailing lists.

Normally when I see this, the assumption is that we're dealing with a single-use or single-purpose email address that was created either for fraud or b/c someone is super paranoid about privacy.

The people in the latter camp who do this tend to have other tells that give them away, or at least *some* trace or home base in the online world. Especially if we're talking on the order of years using that address.

Either way, very few people do opsec well, and for every year you're operating under the same name, nick, number, email, etc you dramatically increase the risk of screwing up that opsec. And almost everyone does, eventually.

To see this complete lack of presence in breached databases once or twice in the course of an investigation is rare, but to find it multiple times suggests we're dealing with an operation that was set up carefully from the beginning. And that almost certainly means a group project (state-sponsored).

Some astounding dataviz here. Wikipedia visualized: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JheGL6uSF-4

"We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children." ~ Jimmy Carter

Me, an idiot: “So, kids, by setting the thermostat a little lower and eating less meat, we’re doing our part to make the world more sustainable”

VCs, very smart: “We just raised $100 billion dollars from the sovereign wealth funds of three petrostates to build the world’s largest AI supercomputer. It uses as much power and water as Guatemala and the primary use case is for management consultants to autogenerate powerpoints for justifying mass layoffs.”

Concerning the xz affair, I am struggling on how to explain this to a normal person. The best approach so far:

This is as if an attacker succeeded in manipulating the manufacturer of a small part that is built into every car worldwide. Every car that would have been built in the future, the attacker could crash upon pressing a button.

And we noticed only because a car fanatic took a prototype to the racetrack and noticed that when he drives it backward through with hand brakes applied, the lap time would be half a second off.

🤯 The level of sophistication of the XZ attack is very impressive! I tried to make sense of the analysis in a single page (which was quite complicated)!

I hope it helps to make sense of the information out there. Please treat the information "as is" while the analysis progresses! 🧐 #infosec #xz

Easter Sunday and #TransDayOfVisibility on the same day?

This seems rather appropriate.

#TDoV #LoveThyNeighbor #Easter

📚 Currently reading: The Future of Another Timeline by Annalee Newitz (@Annalee)

"“The mind-blowing punk feminist sci-fi time traveling thriller you’ve been waiting for, and which our culture desperately needs. Packed with action, sass, righteousness, and danger, it just might be a perfect book.” —Michelle Tea" https://micro.blog/books/9780765392107

AI and Trust

Watch the Video on YouTube.com
A 15-minute talk by Bruce Schneier.... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/03/ai-and-trust-2.html

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on #libraries

#Covid... We must advocate IAQ for public buildings (& prv.):

Ppl living in urban & industrialized societies spend >90% of their time indoor, breathing indoor air (IA). Most countries don't have leg. IAQ performance standards for public spaces that address concentration levels of IA pollutants. Few bldg. codes address op., maint., & retrof., & most don't focus on airborne disease transmission. COVID has made society realize the importance of IAQ for human h-. h/t E Topol https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adl0677

An Alabama Democrat just flipped a district that Trump won by massive margins after focusing on the right-wing attacks on IVF in her state.

MAGA extremism is deeply unpopular. That's why we're contacting voters whose GOP representatives support legislation that would end IVF as we know it. Help us raise awareness about Republicans' plans to roll back our reproductive freedom: https://indivisible.org/resource/phonebank-voters-about-republicans-hypocrisy-ivf?source=mastodon&medium=directpost

I feel like the funny thing for me with the Tiktok ban is that a lot of Americans, on either side of the debate, don't seem to realize that Tiktok feels to Americans like every single social media platform feels to people outside the US. You're telling me the app is located outside your country and your government's control, and you don't know how its data gets handled in that country? That's every app, to me.

Thom Hartmann shared this on his show today. Thread 🧵via Marty Taylor, Executive Director NewBlueUSA. President niteflyermedia. Pilot. Musician. Political and media consultant. 1/...

A personal story about Donald Trump, Marla Maples. The “Carpet King” Bob Shaw, Adolph Hitler and my wife Martha.