#CyberSecurity

Fun Fact. You can change your DOB on your Google account to improve your personal security. (your accounts can be linked via your DOB).

Hurry up, because I am guessing that new AU "security" regulation this year will make it harder.

Remember to save the incorrect DOB in your password manager in case you need it for account recovery

On July 3rd, astronaut Nichole Ayers photographed a rare Gigantic jet from the ISS. These upward directed electrical discharges extend 90-100 km high into the atmosphere.

I processed this image from the RAW file, adjusting the white balance, contrast and noise reduction.

Full resolution: https://flic.kr/p/2rhxqcK

Image Credit: Nichole Ayers / NASA JSC / ESRS / Simeon Schmauß

#ISS #lightning #thunderstorm #Photography #giganticjet #tle #transientluminousevent #NASA

The Onion gets me like no other.

https://theonion.com/study-97-of-average-americans-day-spent-retrieving-6-digit-codes/

Marcy Wheeler covers Russian election interference and illegal influence peddling involving Trump's campaign better than anyone else.

One reason Tulsi Gabbard and other Trump gofers, and Saints Greenwald, Taibbi and Mate, keep calling Russia's documented interference a hoax is that they can't keep up.

https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/19/the-secrets-about-russias-influence-operation-that-tulsi-gabbard-is-still-keeping-from-us/

Hawley delays #Medicaid help until 2031 and takes 68% of his money from special interests. I was born in a rural hospital in Waverly & raised around Marshall, MO. I’ll fight for your healthcare—now.
#Missouri #MO4 #RickyDana #MedicaidMatters

https://rickydana.org/2025/07/19/hawley-medicaid-hypocrisy/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

ICE is offering a $132K to $185K per year for supervisory roles & $306K per year to concentration camp managers. Both jobs have ZERO education requirement.

Meanwhile the average starting salary is $46,526 for teachers and $68,485 for nurses. Both jobs require a Bachelors degree & often a graduate degree.

It's a lie that we can't pay teachers & nurses. An uneducated and sick populace is easier to control, creates higher crime rates, and feeds the prison industrial complex. This is by design.

You have been warned yet again, the US cannot be trusted...

Microsoft, under oath, admits the possibility that EU‑hosted data can be accessed by US agencies without any notifications

In sworn French‑Senate testimony, Microsoft’s legal chief for France(M. Anton Carniaux) conceded he cannot guarantee that data on French citizens stored wholly in EU Microsoft datacenters is safe from U.S. silent access and acknowledged that French or any EU authorities might not even be notified if access occurs.

Delivered under oath, this statement is an official legal recognition of the silent‑access risk inherent in relying on Microsoft’s infrastructure.

https://www-senat-fr.translate.goog/compte-rendu-commissions/20250609/ce_commande_publique.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en