Mike Csees @mikecsees@qoto.org

Let's go for a dusk drive through the prosaically named Economy, Nova Scotia as the moon rises. First stop, the Economy United Church. 1/3 (Hasselblad SWC,
38mm f4.5 Biogon, Fuji 40OH)

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#PoppyKitty playing in the #WAsnow. #caturday #wawx #seattle

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What just popped up on my timeline

Coincidence?

This one is doing the rounds a LOT lately…

All the talk of leaving the birdsite vs. staying on the birdsite to “fight” makes me think of Barry Lopez:

“The amount of energy that goes into the defeat of an enemy is energy that would be better spent in doing something that makes the enemy irrelevant.”

How can we waste attackers’ time, attention, and money? Can we inflict psychological damage on them? In essence, can we f*** with them for better resilience outcomes?

Yes we can! Our new paper — led by @dykstra with other fine folks — answers these questions, introducing the concept of “sludge” against attackers for systems resilience: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2211.16626.pdf

Fintechs Made “Massive Profits” on PPP Loans and Sometimes Engaged in Fraud, House Committee Report Finds

https://www.propublica.org/article/ppp-loans-paycheck-protection-fraud-profits-report by @ken @ProPublica

Poorly worded or grammatically incorrect phishing scams are probably a thing of the past soon. Truly incredible possibilities here for good, though. Pretty much already know how I'm spending my weekend.

@pluralistic

I spent 5+ years as a billionaire's wordsmith, which meant knowing him intimately enough to write in his voice.

I think the thread running through most of them is not a belief in their own basic goodness but rather contempt for everyone else, including and especially their peers. Expressing that contempt with plausible deniability was part of my (usually) unspoken mandate.

Contempt and duper's delight. Those were the last thrills once $$ reached a point of diminishing returns.

https://youtu.be/HsdQrtUJFNw

Spoke with Natalie Kitroeff of NYT about the crisis unfolding 700 miles SE of Miami.

Yes I get that there are soccer matches on the teevee & swastikas on the musk-chan but we have to build our capacity to pay attention to more than one thing at once.

Given gangs control areas of the largest city & aid agencies cannot get in to help people be rehydrated from Cholera don’t be surprised if the tide brings in even more boats full of people trying to escape.

Follow @AbandonedAmerica for some fantastically haunted and historic #photography.

NEW from @Perla_Trevizo and me: An engineering report that the DOJ tried to hide from the public reveals that a controversial private border wall along the Rio Grande could indeed collapse during extreme floods.

We tried for more than a year to get the report through FOIA. Only when @ProPublica lawyers threatened to sue did the government release it.

https://www.propublica.org/article/border-wall-texas-doj-arcadis-webuildthewall

Improve the security of your Mastodon instance as a #MastoAdmin by renegotiating the contract. Take control, change the contract, because it is in your best interest to keep your instance safe from unknown threats.

Running an application in a least privilege manner, is confining the rights of the application to what is strictly needed. It protects the application doing harmful things against itself, protects against other neighbor applications in confinement and protects your host integrity.

Weak. https://presswatchers.org/2022/12/donald-trump-is-not-embracing-extremism-hes-way-beyond-that/
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RT @AndreaBNYC
Smart, from @peterbakernyt.

Trump's embrace of extremism, he lays out, is a feature, not a bug.
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/01/us/politics/trump-extremism-candidacy.html?smid=tw-share
https://twitter.com/AndreaBNYC/status/1598664356753014784

We are excited to announce the release of our report, “Securing Digital Rights for Libraries: Towards an Affirmative Policy Agenda for a Better Internet.” http://blog.archive.org/2022/12/01/internet-archive-releases-report-on-securing-digital-rights-for-libraries/

The rights that libraries have always enjoyed offline must also be protected online.

As a random person from social media whom you do not know, I recommend that you take my advice.

This is very good from @tchambers: tracking the migration from the dustbowl that is Twitter: https://www.deweysquare.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/DSG-Snapshot-of-the-Twitter-Migration-December-12-2022.pdf