ML2 @mathlover@qoto.org

It just hit me that he really turned around mid-fight to go to Sacramento to personally shut down one of Twitter's three remaining data centers on fucking Christmas Eve, and I burst out laughing.

I feel bad for the H1bs left to deal with the fallout though.

There are people in the world who are high profile and highly-targeted; these people need security support beyond normal infosec expertise. They need someone to call who understands the weaponization of surveillance, the complexities of law enforcement, threat modeling, and the limits of hacking.

When I get these phone calls, I refer them to @runasand, CEO of Granitt.

I’m one of the people considered competent in my field in security support for highly targeted people and I get a lot of these calls, so here’s my best way to explain the difference between Runa and me.

There’s a moment in Good Will Hunting where Stellan Skarsgård’s character explains that there are only a few people in the world who can understand the difference between him and Matt Damon’s character in terms of their abilities in math. In this analogy, I'm the Stellan and she’s the Matt :-)

Why am I posting this publicly? Because it'll be easier to simply paste the link to this post in emails in future. Plus, Runa's f'ing amazing and when I personally need help, she's who I call.

@jessicawildfire Also: it's not our fucking job to stop pandemics. That's the government's job. Stopping pandemics is pretty much the textbook example of what governments are for, since individual action isn't sufficient. Things like pandemics are why we cede power over our lives to governments.
Many of us are individually doing everything we can, at great personal expense. But that can't possibly be enough.
Our fucking solution is for the fucking government to do its fucking job.

Next time someone criticizes my coverage of Elon Musk and says something along the lines of "have you built the first successful EV company or launched rockets into space? Then you shouldn't comment!" I'm going to point out that the answer is no, but I've also never destroyed this much shareholder value in a year.

Looks like George Santos created a fake pet charity and then kept the money people donated to help save animals.

Yeah, this is the Republican criminal mind that the GOP base loves and votes for.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2022/12/27/george-santos-resume-embellishments-false-statements-act-cnntm-vpx.cnn

The country where EVs have been most successful is Norway. The runner-up is Iceland. People trying to tell you EVs don’t work in cold weather are working for the oil companies —whether they know it or not.

The broken U.S. disability system relies on a job database from the 1970s to deny applicants. Read via this gift link from @washingtonpost https://wapo.st/3C5s65X

Can't believe I'm only getting $58 next month for food stamps what the fuck.

A new study finds that the loss of wild pollinators has led to a 3-5% drop in fruit, vegetable, and nut production worldwide. The drop has led to an increase of diseases linked to consumption of unhealthy foods.

' Strategies to protect wild pollinators are not just an environmental issue, but a health and economic one as well. "[Doing] too little to help pollinators does not just harm nature, but human health as well..." '

#pollinators #FoodProduction #disease

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/12/221214092320.htm

"twitter is fine, even when i unplug shit it just works"

$TSLA crashing because the company is on autopilot is the most fitting end to 2022 possible

India.
Pakistan.
China.
Kenya.
Malaysia.
UK.
US.
Brazli.
Australia.
South Africa.

The #climate crisis is costing the world billions. The argument that we 'can't afford' to mitigate emissions is increasingly absurd. We can't afford not to. #globalwarming #fossilfuels

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/dec/27/biggest-climate-toll-in-year-of-devastating-disasters-revealed?CMP=share_btn_tw

NEW: North Korean leader Kim Jong Un told the nation's children "the American bastards" want to "steal your hope" and that the military is still in live battle with enemies. The 2-day Korean Children's Union congress ended Tues. and Kim did not attend, state media reports.

@Davidtoddmccarty @mathlover Sinema & now the dude that lied in New York indicate why I see dealing with corruption & money is a way to get more people a seat at the table who will work in a real way to make things better for marginalized group, rather than just obscuring the issue and damaging the cause, follow the money deal with systemic issues that stack the deck against those with means & that will also help support those social issues that put people at risk do both!

💥 Via Steve Vladeck:

#BREAKING: By a 5-4 vote (with Justice Gorsuch joining the more liberal Justices in dissent), #SCOTUS keeps Title 42 immigration policy *in effect*; agrees to decide later this Term whether 19 red states should be allowed to intervene in defense of the policy in the lower courts. #Title42 #news

@mmasnick if anyone knows how to get in touch with Tom Lehrer, the link to "The Remains of Tom Lehrer (disc 1)" on the albums page (https://tomlehrersongs.com/albums/) is broken.

The link is correct from the specific album streaming page (https://tomlehrersongs.com/albums/the-remains-of-tom-lehrer/).

The problem is a typo. The filename on the albums page is `trotll.rar`, when it should be `trotl1.rar`

Mathematician John Conway was born #OTD in 1937. He made broad and profound contributions across all of mathematics, but he is maybe best known by the general public for his "game of life" cellular automaton. Conway passed away in 2020, from COVID-19.