Jayson Massey @jaysonmassey@qoto.org

"But the nature of ransomware is that it is most effective on systems that we just cannot afford to lose."

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2023/02/03/protect-critical-infrastructure/

"At a time when Black people were excluded from many institutions of higher learning, Agnes Berry Montier personified perseverance when deciding to become a doctor. In 1900, there were four medical schools in Philadelphia (Jefferson, Hahnemann, University of Pennsylvania and Women’s Medical College), but they were out of reach for many. They were expensive and often denied admissions to Blacks, women (except Women’s Medical College), Jews, immigrants and working students. "

#Philadelphia #medical

https://news.temple.edu/news/2020-10-14/temple-s-first-black-female-md-graduated-1912

"As a target of anti-Semitism in Germany and abroad between the World Wars, the Jewish scientist was well aware of the harm that discrimination inflicts, and sought to use his platform to speak out against the mistreatment of others."

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-celebrity-scientist-albert-einstein-used-fame-denounce-american-racism-180962356/

"They say they’re aware of the growing international network of White supremacists, but explain that White power groups are now forming political parties, which makes it more difficult for the agency to use its most powerful counterterrorism tools."

#racism #whitesupremacy

https://revealnews.org/podcast/inside-the-global-fight-for-white-power-2023/

"As conservatives are on a mission to change the narrative, there’s no better time to read one of these incredible books about Black history."

https://www.theroot.com/15-books-you-need-to-read-this-black-history-month-1850070334

"The Meaning of African American Studies:

“Black studies is supposed to be an epistemological break, and that’s why it’s dangerous—because it actually wants to try to figure out a way to make this country not racist.”"♦

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/q-and-a/the-meaning-of-african-american-studies

"From black pride to laying the groundwork for rap, how "The Greatest of All Time" left an impact on our nation"

https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/muhammad-ali-4-ways-he-changed-america-155463/

Happy birthday to Philly native Blythe Danner!

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001100/bio

"Elisha Kent Kane, (born Feb. 3, 1820, Philadelphia, Pa., U.S.—died Feb. 16, 1857, Havana, Cuba), American physician and Arctic explorer who in 1850 led an unsuccessful expedition to northwestern Greenland to search for the British explorer Sir John Franklin, missing since 1845."

https://www.britannica.com/biography/Elisha-Kent-Kane

"Walter White is one of the most important yet overlooked civil rights leaders of the 20th century. He played a key role in the Harlem Renaissance and led the NAACP to its zenith as its executive secretary. But what makes White stand out is the unusual method he used to achieve racial justice. His biggest secret? He was a biracial man who passed for white in order to help the NAACP investigate some of the greatest racial atrocities in post-Reconstruction America, helping to establish the organization as a veracious force for African-American justice and liberty."

#blackhistorymonth #naacp #reconstruction

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-black-investigator-who-went-undercover-as-a-white-man-in-the-jim-crow-south?utm_source=pocket-newtab

""So they had the suspect wrong, the house wrong, the suspect wasn't at the house, and the lead investigator knew all of that," Buzbee said."

https://abc13.com/galveston-police-raid-botched-chief-on-leave-doug-balli/12757690/

"The following artists are nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s Class of 2023:

Art rock auteur Kate Bush

rootsy hitmaker Sheryl Crow

hip-hop iconoclast Missy Elliott

metal legends Iron Maiden

post-punk-turned-dance-rock pioneers Joy Division/New Order

eccentric pop icon Cyndi Lauper

pop titan George Michael

country GOAT Willie Nelson

rap-metal firebrands Rage Against the Machine

grunge trailblazers Soundgarden

soul vocal pros The Spinners

alt hip-hop progenitors A Tribe Called Quest

garage blues revivalists The White Stripes

and caustic singer-songwriter Warren Zevon."

https://www.rockhall.com/2023-nominees

"They found that 98.3% of organizations worldwide work closely with at least one third-party vendor that has been breached in the last two years and that over 50% of them have an indirect relationship with 200 fourth-party vendors – third-party vendor’s partners or suppliers – that have been breached in the last two years."

#cybersecurity #vendors

https://www.infosecurity-magazine.com/news/almost-all-organizations-recently/

You can use Buffer to schedule Mastodon posts! I just learned about it. Already filling up my queue!

https://buffer.com/mastodon

How did this man go from picking cotton and contracting polio to winning on the PGA Tour?

"Black History Month: Pete Brown’s Incredible Journey

Pete Brown, the first African-American winner on the PGA Tour, overcame many obstacles with the support of his wife, Margaret."

#blackhistorymonth #birthdays #golf #polio

https://buff.ly/3WUID4g

"Apple is famous for its reputation—warranted or otherwise—for filtering out malicious apps before they end up in the App Store. Combined with detailed fake online profiles and elaborate backstories the scammers use to lure victims, the presence of the apps in the App Store made the ruse all the more convincing."

#cybersecurity #scam

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/pig-butchering-scam-apps-sneak-into-apples-app-store-and-google-play/

Today is the birthday of Charles Lenox Remond, orator and abolitionist.

"Charles Lenox Remond was born into an elite free Black family in Salem, Massachusetts. His parents, John and Nancy Lenox Remond, had been married by the Rev. Thomas Paul, a prominent African American minister and anti-slavery activist, in 1807. Nancy Lenox’s father was a veteran of the American Revolution, having fought with the Continental Army. John Remond had emigrated from the Dutch colony of Curacao as a young boy in 1798. In Salem, John Remond was first a barber and, then, with the assistance of his wife, he operated a successful catering business. The Remonds were also active abolitionists. John became a life-long member of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Association.

Charles, the eldest Remond child, began his career as a public speaker on behalf of the antislavery movement at the age of seventeen. A supporter of William Lloyd Garrison, in 1832, Remond began work as an agent for The Liberator, and later, the Weekly Advocate and the Colored American. He travelled throughout New England delivering antislavery lectures and drumming up financial support for abolitionist publications. In 1840, Remond gave a lecture at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, where he was greeted by repeated applause.

After he returned to the United States sixteen months later, Remond suffered discriminatory Jim Crow practices. In 1842, he was the first African American to address the Massachusetts state legislature to protest racial discrimination on railroads and steamboats. Remond had a close relationship with his sister Sarah Parker Remond, who also enjoyed a successful career as an abolitionist speaker. During the 1850s, they often travelled together on the lecture circuit.

During the Civil War, Remond joined other black abolitionist men, including Frederick Douglass, in the recruitment of African American soldiers into the all-black Massachusetts Fifty-Fourth Regiment of the Union Army, led by Colonel Robert Gould Shaw, a member of a prominent white abolitionist family from Boston.

After the war, Remond continued to deliver public lectures protesting racism. A staunch opponent of segregation of any kind, Remond joined the American Equal Rights Association in 1867. He embarked on his last lecture tour that year in western New York.

Charles Lenox Remond died in December 1873 at his home in Wakefield, Massachusetts and was buried at Harmony Grove Cemetery in Salem."

#blackhistorymonth

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/remond-charles-lenox-1810-1873/

"At first glance, it seemed an absurd way to make traffic safer, and Mockus was ridiculed in the press for pursuing it. But gradually, by making fun of drivers and pedestrians who didn’t follow basic rules and celebrating those who did, the mimes managed to transform the entire traffic culture of the city, successfully infusing Bogotá’s streets with common sense — or, rather, a sense of the commons."

#bogota #traffic

https://beautifultrouble.org/toolbox/tool/replacing-cops-with-mimes/