Jayson Massey @jaysonmassey@qoto.org
Thinker. Coffee drinker. @jaysonmassey on Twitter. #cybersecurity #student in #Philadelphia
Joined Nov 2022
"76% of vulnerabilities exploited by ransomware are old – really old. Many of them were discovered between 2010 and 2019!"
#ransonware #vulnerabilities #cybersecurity
https://blog.knowbe4.com/most-ransomware-vulnerabilities-discovered-before-2020
"I just want you all to consider the costs of vengeance" 🛋️
How would you vote in the 2023 Mayoral Democratic Primary if Philadelphia had Ranked Choice Voting? (1 winners, 50% to win)
"‘Slavery was wrong’ and 5 other things some educators won’t teach anymore
To mollify parents and obey new state laws, teachers are cutting all sorts of lessons"
"Excerpts from Mary Wollstonecraft’s “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.” Passages from Christopher Columbus’s journal describing his brutal treatment of Indigenous peoples. A data set on the New York Police Department’s use of force, analyzed by race.
These are among the items teachers have nixed from their lesson plans this school year and last, as they face pressure from parents worried about political indoctrination and administrators wary of controversy, as well as a spate of new state laws restricting education on race, gender and LGBTQ issues."
This is very sad. What do you do to prevent this?
This article is behind Washington Post's paywall.
#ai #scams #cybersecurity #elderly
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/03/05/ai-voice-scam/
"Treatments for Sex Reassignment;
Granting courts of this state temporary emergency jurisdiction over children present in this state if they are at risk of or are being subjected to the provision of sex-reassignment prescriptions or procedures"
https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2023/254/?Tab=RelatedBills
Jayson Massey
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After their mother died, one Iowa family received a startling letter: Medicaid covered her health care, so the government was recouping its money — by taking the house. It seemed bogus but it was very real. https://t.co/fPJlXsaElh
Great, now we have hate hacking via Zoom.
"KC historian’s presentation on Negro Leagues disrupted by hackers with racist messages"
"Dixon has traveled around the country for nearly 40 years sharing presentations on the history of the Negro Baseball Leagues, tailoring each event to the town he visits. But on Feb. 21, his event was hacked by racist imagery, disturbing him and audience members."
This is today's worst thing in the world!
"As abortion bans across the nation are implemented and enforced, law enforcement is turning to social media platforms to build cases to prosecute women seeking abortions or abortion-inducing medication – and online platforms like Google and Facebook are helping."
"Here was the salient problem: The proponents of these new sciences saw validations and verifications of their theories everywhere. If you were having trouble as an adult, it could always be explained by something your mother or father had done to you when you were young, some repressed something-or-other that hadn’t been analyzed and solved. They were confirmation bias machines.
What was the missing element? Popper had figured it out before long: The non-scientific theories could not be falsified. They were not testable in a legitimate way. There was no possible objection that could be raised which would show the theory to be wrong.
In a true science, the following statement can be easily made: “If x happens, it would show demonstrably that theory y is not true.” We can then design an experiment, a physical one or sometimes a simple thought experiment, to figure out if x actually does happen. It’s the opposite of looking for verification; you must try to show the theory is incorrect, and if you fail to do so, thereby strengthen it.
Pseudosciences cannot and do not do this—they are not strong enough to hold up."
"The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study, by W. E. B. Du Bois—originally published by the University of Pennsylvania Press, in 1899—is widely considered to be the first real case study of a Black community in America. As such, it has become a classic text in the social science literature.
This fine book, however, is no mere museum piece. Both the issues it raises and the evolution of Du Bois’s own thinking—which can be traced between the lines—concerning the “problem” of Black integration in American society are strikingly contemporary."
"Thus, in Popper’s words, science requires testability: “If observation shows that the predicted effect is definitely absent, then the theory is simply refuted.” This means a good theory must have an element of risk to it. It must be able to be proven wrong under stated conditions."
"The Fugates family had an extremely rare genetic defect that caused methemoglobinemia. This condition resulted in their blood not carrying as much oxygen as someone without it.
As a result, their blood is darker, making the skin of Caucasians look blue and their lips look purple."
"Lawnside is a borough in Camden County, in the U.S. state of New Jersey. Lawnside was developed in 1840 and incorporated in 1926 as the first independent, self-governing black municipality north of the Mason–Dixon line" (Wikipedia).
""What [the controversy is] talking about is who gets to be American and which of us deserves to be included in the American narrative --- and Black people deserve to be in the American narrative."
"Silvergate’s troubles may make it harder to get out of crypto and into dollars."
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/4/23623964/crypto-silvergate-bank-run-stablecoins-dollars
A new trailblazer in media! Just in time for #womenshistorymonth
See the whole interview at youtu.be/THLY9PiWDCk
"Forty years later, the oldest Black-owned investment firm in the U.S. manages more than $16 billion in assets. Most of that is in mutual funds and separately managed accounts, though $1.45 billion is in a new private equity fund dubbed Project Black. The brainchild of his co-CEO Mellody Hobson, the new fund aims to buy existing mid-size businesses and install Black and Latino executives who can build them into top tier suppliers to the S&P 500. "
Biden awards Medal of Honor to Black Vietnam War hero after paperwork 'lost' twice
""Davis’ commanding officer recommended him for the military’s top honor, but the paperwork disappeared — something Biden mentioned Friday. The president said the men who were with Davis during the combat operation in Vietnam immediately nominated him for the Medal of Honor, but "some the paperwork was never processed — not just once, but twice."
Davis eventually received a Silver Star Medal, the third-highest combat medal, as an interim honor, but members of Davis’ team have argued that his skin color was a factor in the disappearance of his Medal of Honor recommendation. Ron Deis, a junior member of the team in Bong Son, told the AP in an interview that he thought "someone purposely lost the paperwork.”"
Thinker. Coffee drinker. @jaysonmassey on Twitter. #cybersecurity #student in #Philadelphia
Joined Nov 2022
