Jayson Massey @jaysonmassey@qoto.org
Thinker. Coffee drinker. @jaysonmassey on Twitter. #cybersecurity #student in #Philadelphia
Joined Nov 2022
Lead Belly was born today!
"Black Girl (Where Did You Sleep Last Night)":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28KEs9xq6X0
Nirvana cover:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hEMm7gxBYSc
Biography:
Lead Belly
Biography
(c. 1888–1949)
Lead Belly was a folk-blues singer, songwriter and guitarist whose ability to perform a vast repertoire of songs and notoriously violent life made him a legend.
Who Was Lead Belly?
Famed musician Lead Belly was born in Louisiana in the late 1880s. Lead Belly was imprisoned in Texas for murder in 1918. According to tradition, he won his early release in 1925 by singing a song for the governor of Texas. Lead Belly was imprisoned again, for attempted murder, in 1930. There, he was "discovered" by folklorists John Lomax and Alan Lomax, who were collecting songs for the Library of Congress. Subsequently, he published 48 songs.
Early Years
Huddie Ledbetter, better known as "Lead Belly," was born in the late 1880s (the date is uncertain) in a country setting in northwest Louisiana. He attended school in Texas until around age 13, playing in a school band, and then worked the land with his father.
He began learning how to play musical instruments as a youth and eventually focused on the guitar, performing as a teenager at local dances. At age 16, he headed out across the Deep South, settling in Shreveport, Louisiana, for two years, where he supported himself as a musician. Around 1912, now living in Dallas with his new wife, Ledbetter met Blind Lemon Jefferson, an accomplished street musician, and the pair began playing together. It was at this point that Ledbetter concentrated on what would become his signature instrument: the 12-string guitar.
The Prisoner
In December 1917, Ledbetter was arrested and charged with murder and was found guilty. Prison is where it seems he picked up the nickname Lead Belly. In early 1924, only a few years into a 20-year sentence, Lead Belly sang for Texas governor Pat Neff a song in which he asked for a pardon. A year later, Neff pardoned Lead Belly and he was a free man.
Only five years later, Lead Belly was involved in a stabbing incident that led to "assault with intent to murder" charges and another prison sentence. Budget issues caused by the Great Depression allowed him to apply for early release, which he did, and the sitting governor approved the application in 1934. (He also sang a song to this governor, pleading for release.)
The Musician Moves North
Lead Belly subsequently ended up in New York and tried to establish himself as a professional musician. It worked to an extent, as his music was embraced by the fervent left wing, and Lead Belly found himself rubbing elbows with the likes of Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.
Unfortunately, in March 1939, Lead Belly was arrested in New York for stabbing a man and served an eight-month sentence. After his release, Lead Belly appeared on two radio series—"Folk Music of America" and "Back Where I Come From"—and landed his own short weekly radio show. He also recorded an album called The Midnight Special and Other Southern Prison Songs before moving to the West Coast a few years later.
Death
While in Los Angeles, he signed with Capitol Records and finally began some serious recording. Even as he achieved success he developed health issues, though, and in 1949 he was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), better known as Lou Gehrig's disease. He toured a little after the diagnosis, but the ALS caught up with him for good in December, and he died at age 61.
He is best remembered for songs such as "Goodnight, Irene," "Rock Island Line," "The Midnight Special" and "Cotton Fields" and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1988.
"The data stolen included customer name, billing address, email, phone number, date of birth, T-Mobile account number, as well as information on the number of customer lines and plan features."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2023/01/new-t-mobile-breach-affects-37-million-accounts/
"It wasn’t just readers that were confused about what stories on CNET involve the use of AI. Beyond the small CNET Money team, few people at the outlet know specific details about the AI tools — or the human workflow around them — that outraged readers last week"
https://www.theverge.com/2023/1/19/23562966/cnet-ai-written-stories-red-ventures-seo-marketing
Change your PayPal password just in case!
"According to PayPal, hackers managed to access the personal information of 34,942 users; however, no transactions were performed from the breached accounts."
Translation: This Amazon program is helping too many charities!!!!
"The @bangordailynews reprinted King's "I Have a Dream" speech but they cut out a bunch of parts they apparently deemed too divisive."
Too divisive? In 2023? Too divisive for whom?
"Many Philadelphians may have heard of King’s role in the fight to desegregate Girard College, of his 1965 speech at the Baptist Temple (known today as the Temple Performing Arts Center) or that with less than 12 hours notice he drew a crowd of 10,000 to the corner of 40th and Lancaster in West Philadelphia for a historic speech now marked by Cliff Eubanks’s mural “MLK at Lancaster.”
#mlk #philadelphia #bapisttemple #lancaster #temple
https://news.temple.edu/2021-01-14/philly-roots-mlk-s-legacy
"From the Birmingham jail, where he was imprisoned as a participant in nonviolent demonstrations against segregation, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., wrote in longhand the letter which follows. It was his response to a public statement of concern and caution issued by eight white religious leaders of the South."
"The Rev. Bernice King, who leads The King Center in Atlanta, said leaders — especially politicians — too often cheapen her father's legacy into a "comfortable and convenient King" offering easy platitudes."
Jayson Massey
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Novelist, essayist, and activist Louise Jenkins Meriwether at a protest in 1957, wishing a MF would… She's still with us at 99 years old. #BlackMastodon
The NFL players, coaches and their union did the NFL's PR work for them by refusing to play that game. The commissioner's office did nothing but delay and try to get the wrong thing done
New year new passwords people!
NortonLifeLock warns that hackers breached Password Manager accounts
""Our own systems were not compromised. However, we strongly believe that an unauthorized third party knows and has utilized your username and password for your account," NortonLifeLock said.
"This username and password combination may potentially also be known to others.""
"Hornetsecurity on Thursday reported that 33% of companies are not offering any cybersecurity awareness training to users who work remotely.
The study also pointed out that this causes security issues because nearly three-quarters, 74%, of remote staff have access to critical data, which creates more risk for companies in this new hybrid-working world."
Millions of Vehicles at Risk: API Vulnerabilities Uncovered in 16 Major Car Brands
"Multiple bugs affecting millions of vehicles from 16 different manufacturers could be abused to unlock, start, and track cars, plus impact the privacy of car owners."
https://thehackernews.com/2023/01/millions-of-vehicles-at-risk-api.html
"P@s$w0rds at the U.S. Department of the Interior: Easily Cracked Passwords, Lack of Multifactor Authentication, and Other Failures Put Critical DOI Systems at Risk"
Look at this summary posted by
Roger Grimes!
"All 17 vulnerability updates are dealt with by a single Chrome patch"
"Buchanan, MacLean notes, was incensed at what he saw as a move toward socialism and deeply suspicious of any form of state action that channels resources to the public. Why should the increasingly powerful federal government be able to force the wealthy to pay for goods and programs that served ordinary citizens and the poor?"
Thinker. Coffee drinker. @jaysonmassey on Twitter. #cybersecurity #student in #Philadelphia
Joined Nov 2022
