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Francisco Escobedo

@FranciscoEscobedo@infosec.exchange

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Tea addict. InfoSec professional. Amateur photographer. Life apprentice.

Francisco Escobedo 18h ago

🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)1d ago

Imagine being so fragile that 🌈 is threatening to your sexuality.

Francisco Escobedo 18h ago

🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄)1d ago

This whole 🐰in bunnies🐰 thing is tickling me so much that I had to make a meme for it.

#InBunnies #Memes

Francisco Escobedo 18h ago

Amelia Meyer 1d ago

Just finished _Begin Transmission: The trans allegories of THE MATRIX_ by Tilly Bridges.

Holy hell did she write what I often felt about these five works. 100% recommend whether you are trans or, probably more important, cis. There is a lot in there for cis folk.

Especially for anyone still convinced that a) _The Matrix_ is just a series of world-changing action films and/or b) only the first one was good and "hurr durr shame they only made the one, woulda been nice for there to be sequels".

Francisco Escobedo 18h ago

Jessica Whatsername 1d ago

💡 FEDI. TIPS

Boosting is really important on the Fediverse because it makes whatever you boost federate its gayness to the entire servers of your followers. A boosted post makes your followers' timelines more gay, and also contributes to the gayness of everyone on the servers of your followers.

Instead of venture capital, the Fediverse relies on human beings sharing gayness. This process creates a wonderful rainbow of gayness.

Francisco Escobedo 18h ago

Jessica Whatsername 1d ago

I think we'd solve a lot of problems if it was just accepted that teens and adolescents should fuck around with their gender presentation

Francisco Escobedo 18h ago

Marcus Hutchins

A programming fact that still amazes me is that the HTTP header which containers the referring url is called "referer", because the developer spelt "referrer" wrong and the spell checker didn't catch it, so it made it into the official standards and they just never changed it lmao

Francisco Escobedo 1d ago

Zeb King 🇨🇦2d ago

Is anyone from #YYJ going to FediCon in Vancouver, and if so, what do you hope to come away with from the conference? #fedicon

Francisco Escobedo 1d ago

teclista 1d ago

¿Conocéis ya todes este gesto, verdad? Hace un par de semanas, en Burgos, detuvieron a un agresor sexual gracias a que su víctima lo hizo y otra mujer lo reconoció. https://elpais.com/sociedad/2025-07-10/la-policia-detiene-a-un-hombre-por-agresion-sexual-despues-de-que-la-victima-hiciese-la-senal-internacional-de-socorro-y-otra-mujer-la-reconociera.html

Francisco Escobedo 1d ago

Jasmine running 2d ago

random reminder that ace people can have sex and non-binary people can have computers

Francisco Escobedo 1d ago

celeste_hearts_non_binary

enby nails! peacetime and wartime flag

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Josh Sutphin 3d ago

This rules so hard ❤️
https://www.status.news/p/the-onion-ben-collins-interview

S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸3d ago

@joshsutphin it does, and that's why i'd love to read the whole thing. link?

@stevenbodzin @joshsutphin, looks like it's this: https://www.status.news/p/the-onion-ben-collins-interview

Peeling Back The Onion

Ben Collins explains how The Onion is thriving by saying what others won’t—and why human-created satire matters in a media landscape increasingly saturated by noise and A.I. slop.

Status

S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸3d ago

@lp0_on_fire @joshsutphin took me a while but i found it too

thank you

Josh Sutphin 3d ago

@stevenbodzin @lp0_on_fire Thanks for catching this. I edited the OP. Apologies for the omission!

S Bodzin, Real American 🇺🇸2d ago

@joshsutphin @lp0_on_fire all good, it's a good habit to be in. Alt text and links, every time (and yes sometimes I skip them, because I am not always in best behavior)

@joshsutphin When the buyout was announced my reaction was "The Onion has been bought out by people who actually like and understand it."

It's a delight every month to see the big white envelope in my mailbox.

Josh Sutphin 3d ago

@Thad I somehow missed all of that. I'd been aware of The Onion of course, but never followed it closely, nor subscribed; that may be about to change though!

@joshsutphin Here are a couple of good articles from last year:

https://variety.com/2024/digital/news/the-onion-sold-global-tetrahedron-1235982383/

https://www.theverge.com/24225592/the-onion-new-owners-print-newspaper-digital-media-gawker-ben-collins-decoder-interview

The Onion Sold to Global Tetrahedron, Owned by Twilio's Jeff Lawson

The Onion was sold to "Global Tetrahedron," owned by Twilio co-founder Jeff Lawson and led by CEO Ben Collins, former NBC News internet reporter.

Variety

Josh Sutphin 3d ago

@Thad Oh, this is like *recent*.

(I mean, okay, it's at least six major epochs in Internet Time, and even in meatspace time last year feels like a decade ago, but still.)

Getting them out from under private equity is real good. This news makes me happy.

@joshsutphin AV Club seems to be doing okay too, though they got bought out by a different company and aren't part of the Onion anymore.

marmarta 3d ago

@joshsutphin what a lovely piece. I wish we-as-society normalized having companies that have as a goal "do a neat thing in a way that allows the people doing the thing to live normal, decent lives". Not accumulate more and more wealth, just: do a neat thing. Have a liveable wage.

Josh Sutphin 3d ago

@marmarta I also really appreciate his point about letting the people who do the thing, *do the thing*. Too many companies' upper leadership constantly interfere, instead of letting the experts they hired actually apply their expertise. Applying one's expertise gives joy and fulfillment and self-worth! All of this is (or can be) a virtuous cycle!

@joshsutphin something i greatly value is the many years my work ran as a small company as a reference point for how that way of doing things absolutely can work (and profitably!)

Josh Sutphin 3d ago

@rf My whole game dev career before 2020 was at small(ish) studios, and they were *so much better* than the big corporate studio I worked for afterward.

My wife and I are running a small press now to get back to this kind of vibe. The corporate world is a mess.

lemgandi 3d ago

@joshsutphin Aright, I am convinced. Just kicked $99 for a hard-copy subscription.

Robin Barton 3d ago

@joshsutphin Very perceptive stance and one I find I support

nantucketlit 3d ago

@joshsutphin My mom had a copy of an Onion omnibus at home when I was a kid. Looking back, I learned a lot about critical thinking and media literacy from reading The Onion. Same goes with Mad Magazine.

David Palk#RejoinEU 💖🇪🇺🤎🕊3d ago

@nantucketebooks @joshsutphin O the halcyon days of MAD . We were all so innocent back then. ✊ 😎

@joshsutphin we are approaching the farmer’s market era of tech and I ain’t sad about it.

@joshsutphin this, louder for the folks in the back.

Make good stuff that people actually want and love. You can make money this way.

Patrick Hogenboom 3d ago

@joshsutphin Thanks so much for pointing this out! Subscribed :D

@joshsutphin my first good tech job was at a small ISP where my manager was previously a managing editor(?) at The Onion. Dude was great to work for, very funny too.

Hot Dog Water Moccasin 3d ago

Does everyone cry when they get hired? It would seem appropriate.

J. "Henry" Waugh 3d ago

@joshsutphin there was also a great podcast segment about The Onion and their process that I'll never forget:

https://www.thisamericanlife.org/426/tough-room-2011/act-one-1

Make 'em Laff - This American Life

Host Ira Glass spends time in perhaps the toughest room on earth, the editorial meeting at the satirical newspaper, The Onion, where there's one laugh for every 100 jokes.

This American Life

6DoF Motion 12h ago

@joshsutphin This popped for me, RE business, and in my case software development: "You actually can do this, you know. You can just try to highlight the beauty of things you like and not try to vampirically extract value at every step."