Lesley Carhart Oct 12
I have public lists of cybersecurity reporters and pundits on both BlueSky and Mastodon and find it simultaneously encouraging and discouraging how much of the Americans’ content has changed from cybersecurity research to tangential privacy rights and even just social justice in the past six months.
Show threadLesley Carhart Oct 12

We have reached a 50% tipping point for sure. We are way lower on the hierarchy of needs, (bad), but it’s good we are talking about it consistently.

Between the manufactured AI hype crumbling and people being dragged off in the streets, it gives me hope we are taking about human rights.

Show threadLesley Carhart Oct 12
So keep it up, hacker community. When I left Twitter, it was only a few of us speaking out about what we didn’t want to enable. We were mocked and ignored. There wasn’t a huge change in content. I’m glad people have started to realize the reality of the battles we face.
Show threadWilla  Oct 12

@hacks4pancakes I never thought I’d end up staying to fight, but I’m glad to be in Chicago rather than anywhere else in this country. More than anywhere it feels like existence is resistance. I’m tired, but I’m hopeful.

My backup plan became less great when the UK decided to embrace the TERF island moniker completely, so this remains home as imperfect and embattled as it may be.

I just hope if and when we exit this test of our democracy that it changes permanently for the better, and that we get our rights back in full.

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