Bruce Schneier has a good high-level look at threat-modeling under an authoritarian government. Alas, it’s not amenable to a simple recipe approach, but involves carefully thinking through the tradeoffs: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/digital-threat-modeling-under-authoritarianism.html

I thought the section in this screenshot was an especially good point.

For decades the six mile long tank farm along the north reach of the Willamette River, known as the Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub (CEI hub), has lurked with its toxic stew of liquid fossil fuels and chemicals, seemingly unnoticed by most Portlanders, except for its neighbors in Linnton and North Portland who are well aware of its perils. But in the last few years a growing number of people are taking notice of the insanity of storing 90% or Oregon’s liquid fuels in aging tanks on liquefiable soil, on top of two earthquake faults.

On the 9/22 episode of Locus Focus, Marnie Glickman, executive director of the Braided River Campaign and a member of the CEI Hub Policy Project talks about how to help Portland make the right changes in rules and regulations that seriously address the dangerous and climate disrupting Critical Energy Infrastructure Hub.
https://kboo.fm/media/129357-what-can-we-do-about-cei-hub

and coming tomorrow 9/29 on Locus Focus hear from two district 4 city council members - Mitch Green and Olivia Clark - about how the public's concerns need to be addressed.
https://kboo.fm/media/129479-cei-hub-city-council-perspective

More info from XRPDX https://xrpdx.org/urgent-your-comments-needed-for-the-cei-hub-policy-project/

Submit comments before 10/17 https://www.portland.gov/bps/planning/cei-hub/documents

Alternative #4 is the only one to restrict & draw down the dangers!

See also https://www.sierraclub.org/oregon/blog/2025/09/cei-discussion-draft

https://www.hcn.org/issues/56-9/preventing-the-next-fukushima/

#CEIHub #ClimateCrisis #PDX #Safety

The human brain was optimized for:

• Gossip in tribes of 150
• Tracking berries vs. poison berries
• Running from tigers

Now we use it to argue online with strangers about macroeconomic policy.

Evolution’s patch notes are a mess.

My Antifa team leader is pissed.

Having the organisation reclassified has placed us under a totally new compliance framework and making the process changes is going to throw out all our KPIs for Q4. Nobody's getting a bonus in this performance review cycle. What total bullshit.

2005: Your website looks like it was designed by a 3-year-old and barely works, this can't be a trustworthy source of information

2025: Your website looks like it was designed by a 3-year-old and barely works, this is the last bastion of truth on the Internet

I'm on the server floor of a "highly secure data center with 24/7/365 surveillance, direct access control and robust perimeter security".

An actual duck just walked by. 🦆

The panic is absolutely glorious. I think this just became one of the highlights of my life.