In the UK, you can be jailed for opposing genocide but not for supporting it.

https://www.councilestatemedia.uk/p/in-the-uk-you-can-be-jailed-for-opposing

#uk #ukpol

I've was loosely dealing with incident response for a "remote worker scams" at a customer a while ago.....

and my favorite part was The staff member was known by the customer as doing exceptional work. So they might be a North Korean hacker but "they get the job done" which is more than I can say for *coughs* so maybe you should consider hiring them for the productivity.

#infosec

If you're wondering why you are separating the lids from yoghurt cups to recycle them properly, while in a parallel universe nearly 100 private jets arrive for the Bezos wedding, here's why:

Because you are better person than each and every one of these massive cunts.

Website/device age verification is a privacy and security nightmare and everyone who tells you that this is a solved problem is lying to you.

https://gizmodo.com/supreme-court-says-age-verification-laws-for-porn-sites-are-constitutional-2000621265

Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman wanted to have at least 5 Saudi universities among the top 200 in the world by 2030.

So he paid lots of scientists to falsely claim they worked in Saudi Arabia! Some got up to €70,000 a year just for pretending to work there.

Unfortunately they got caught. The newspaper El Pais exposed the scam.

In 2022, Saudi Arabia had 109 professors on the List of Highly Cited Researchers, compiled by Clarivate. After a bunch got caught, the number dropped to 26. 🤣

Someone should carefully check those 26 researchers.

In fact this "List of Highly Cited Researchers" is a fraud magnet. As of 2024, one in three apparently highly cited researchers has been caught engaging in bad practices.

This is a great example of Goodhart's Law: ""When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure".

Thanks to @mansr for pointing this out.

https://english.elpais.com/science-tech/2024-12-05/dozens-of-the-worlds-most-cited-scientists-stop-falsely-claiming-to-work-in-saudi-arabia.html

I have to tip my hat to Microsoft for having worked so hard to convince the world that the City of Munich failed with their Linux migration.

It's of course just a big fat lie. Munich is since 20+ years growing their Open Source footprint. They are sharing and they are growing their use of open source.

https://opensource.muenchen.de

Haaretz has testimony from IDF solders that they were ordered to shoot at unarmed starving Palestinians.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyG1QMDn5zE

(not open access)
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/2025-06-27/ty-article-magazine/.premium/idf-soldiers-ordered-to-shoot-deliberately-at-unarmed-gazans-waiting-for-humanitarian-aid/00000197-ad8e-de01-a39f-ffbe33780000

#genocide #warcrimes #gaza