Jayson Massey @jaysonmassey@qoto.org

"This is just the latest in the long string of attempts by identity thieves posing as the IRS in hopes of tricking people into providing valuable personal information to steal identities and money, including tax refunds,"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2023/07/03/irs-issues-warning-on-new-tax-refund-scam/?sh=1dc678266c1f

"There’s no way you’d been reading this – and I could not write this – if it weren’t for affirmative action. And there’s no way on earth I could have gotten accepted to fancy-ass schools including Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, UCLA and Berkeley—without affirmative action. Because I flunked basic English."

https://mailchi.mp/gregpalast/confessions-of-an-affirmative-action-baby-174362?e=e6c1f26041

"For home users we are working with Cyber Aware, advising that you create passwords using three random words. You just put them together, like 'coffeetrainfish' or ‘walltinshirt’.

You can choose words that are memorable but should avoid those which might be easy to guess, such as 'onetwothree' or are closely related to you personally, such as the names of family members or pets."

https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/three-random-words-or-thinkrandom-0

"Join the Moms for Liberty Protest at Love Park to sing, pray and walk to the rally. Look out for people wearing Power Interfaith shirts! Bring signs which affirm our students' right to an equitable, safe, and dignified education.

June 30  8:30 AM
LOVE Park to Marriott

https://billypenn.com/2023/06/27/moms-for-liberty-philadelphia-summit-protests-planned/

Join me and Reclaim Philadelphia leaders and members to celebrate our work in the May primary, debrief our movement's wins and losses, learn about ways to get involved with our political department, and look forward to the electoral power we can build in the general election this year!

Can you join me? Click here for details and to RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/june-electoral-strategy-meeting?source=email&

Thanks!

Jayson Massey

"After waking up from a coma, he spent a month getting better post-ICU at Temple University Hospital.

Walker also spent an additional month at the Shriners Hospital for Children rehab facility. He was forced to learn how to walk again and had received over a dozen surgeries. These injuries put his education at risk, but his teachers and counselors at Mathematics, Civics and Sciences Charter School of Philadelphia ensured that Walker could finish classes remotely and still be able to graduate in May. "

https://www.theroot.com/philly-student-banned-from-graduation-after-being-shot-1850561273

Check out my latest Letter To The Editor in the Philadelphia Tribune!

Reparations for all

I keep seeing calls for reparations for slavery. Unfortunately, in America, almost every group has suffered some uncompensated injury. From the Salem Witch Trials to the systematic slaughter of Native Americans and the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, even the harm of Jim Crow laws, race riots and segregation. And what about the treatment of child workers and immigrants before labor unions appeared?

There is much to atone for. We can compensate for these crimes with cash because their effects are still rippling across cities and towns throughout the U.S via inequality. African Americans are around 12% of the population, but only possess 2.5% of the country’s wealth.

These cash payments remind me of a program that is being tested in different cities: Universal Basic Income (UBI), a stipend to raise people out of poverty. UBI participants spent the money on basics, like food, home essentials and utility bills. If that’s what that cash goes to, that’s a clear sign that the current programs we have need to be extended so that these basic items are within reach for all Americans. We can give everyone a SNAP card. We can provide utility assistance to everyone. We can even provide health care to every American.

It’s time to strategize on how to take care of people using the collective power of government. We can, with thought and work, provide a better future for every American. That would honor our ancestors’ struggles.

Jayson Massey
Philadelphia

#reparations #Philadelphia #payments

"We’re back in that very same battle right now, and it’s against the same enemy: ignorance, intolerance, indifference. The box is smaller now. It’s in your pocket."

https://www.niemanlab.org/2023/06/ben-collins-its-time-for-journalists-to-draw-the-sword-and-throw-away-the-scabbard/

"As life expectancy increases, the number of people living with Alzheimer’s and other dementias is expected to double by 2050 in the U.S. For Black Americans, who already are about twice as likely as white Americans to have dementia, the trend is even more alarming."

https://www.ajc.com/partner/making-churches-more-welcoming-for-members-with-dementia-we-dont-want-them-to-think-theyre-forgotten/D2R3O5EFTRFOFMCOGG6K5E3CZE/

https://www.sans.org/blog/top-5-steps-to-immerse-yourself-into-the-cybersecurity-field/

#careers #cybersecurity

"The average total compensation of a systems engineer in the United States is $100,175 to $332,043, according to data from the professional social network Blind."

https://hackernoon.com/the-43-highest-paying-cities-for-systems-engineers-in-the-us/

"The area’s ailing water plant hasn’t seen upgrades since 1997 as the city of 16,000 has been slow to connect hundreds of homes to municipal water lines. Some residents in the city, where 40% of people live in poverty, must decide between being waterless or spending thousands of dollars annually to run individual water systems."

https://capitalbnews.org/water-crisis-investment-fix/?utm_source=pocket-newtab

"I was deeply honored to accept the Walter Cronkite Award today, and ask my fellow journalists an important question:

The next time someone asks you to couch the truth with a lie pushed by a powerful person, what will you do?

Will you help that liar? Or will you fight?" --Ben Collins

https://twitter.com/i/status/1667290076152311810

"According to the latest Verizon Data Breach Report, 80% of data breaches are the result of poor or reused passwords."

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3262972/7-hot-cybersecurity-trends-and-2-going-cold.html

"Mutating, or polymorphic, malware can be built using the ChatGPT API at runtime to effect advanced attacks that can evade endpoint detections and response (EDR) applications."

https://www.csoonline.com/article/3698516/chatgpt-creates-mutating-malware-that-evades-detection-by-edr.html

"the company struggled to combat a sprawling malware threat which appears to have undermined its email security appliances in such a fundamental way that they can no longer be safely updated with software fixes."

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/06/barracuda-urges-replacing-not-patching-its-email-security-gateways/?

“This administration has not only wrought horrific levels of violence in the jails, but is increasingly authoritarian in seeking to shield its abuses from judicial and public oversight,”

https://gothamist.com/news/adams-administration-thumbs-nose-at-rikers-oversight-team-about-jail-deaths-and-violence-says-federal-monitor

"But for better or for worse, though, we’ve developed some coping strategies that some might find useful. So from your friends out West, here are some tips on surviving smoke season:"

https://www.hcn.org/articles/hey-new-york-weve-survived-decades-of-smoke-heres-how-we-did-it

"every society has always had turmoil in it. What no other society has had is 425 million guns and this culture, on the right, that tells young men that to be real young men, they must purchase an AR-15 and go out and solve their problems"

#guncontrol #gunviolence

https://www.propublica.org/article/ryan-busse-explains-roots-of-us-gun-violence