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CISA have issued a press release saying they have not "laid off" their red team... In other news, CISA's former red team staff members continue to post on LinkedIn saying they're unemployed.
https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/news/statement-cisas-red-team
thanks @danmcd for pointing me to this excellent TechDirt piece from Mike Masnick that sort of captures my thoughts here:
Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
"While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recognizable plan unfold — a playbook we’re all too familiar with. We’ve seen how technology can be wielded to consolidate power, how institutional guardrails can be circumvented through technical and legal workarounds, and how smoke and mirrors claims about “innovation” can mask old-fashioned power grabs. It’s a playbook we watched Musk perfect at Twitter, and now we’re seeing it deployed on a national scale.
Over the last few weeks, I’ve had a few people reach out about our coverage these days. Most have been very supportive of what we’ve been covering (in fact, people have been strongly encouraging us to keep it up), but a few asked questions regarding what Techdirt is focused on these days, and how much we were leaning into covering “politics.”
When the very institutions that made American innovation possible are being systematically dismantled, it’s not a “political” story anymore. It’s a story about whether the environment that enabled all the other stories we cover will continue to exist.
We’ve always covered the intersection of technology, innovation, and policy (27+ years and counting). Sometimes that meant writing about patents or copyright, sometimes about content moderation, sometimes about privacy. But what happens when the fundamental systems that make all of those conversations possible start breaking down? When the people dismantling those systems aren’t even pretending to replace them with something better?
But there’s more to it than that..."
https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/why-techdirt-is-now-a-democracy-blog-whether-we-like-it-or-not/
Perfect!
In Wyoming, the legislature has decided, that you cannot require others to address you by your preferred pronouns — thinking that this will only hurt trans people, Trump wants to persecute.
So citizen Britt Boril calls in to a committee meeting and deliberately misgenders the male chairman as madam, which he takes offence to — because our rule about allowing disrespect was not meant to be used against us!
(And no, you should never misgenders others, but damn… this move was brilliant)
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My dear friends from the US. On this inauguration day, you should take steps to protect your privacy and to make sure you can communicate safely with friends and people you care about going forward.
My advice: Make today your #SwitchToSignal day.
The FSF's got a lot of damn nerve, asking me for EXTRA money on top of my $140/yr associate membership right now.
Letting RMS just sashay his way as publicly as possible back into the lead role--with neither significant remorse expressed nor visible changes made--put this one directly in the "no, hell no, and in fact get out of my damn office" pile.
Are you listening, @fsf ?
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