The death of #Infosec Twitter:

“Over the last 3 weeks of our data (June 21 to July 12, 2023), we saw a weekday daily tweet count drop from the 1,272 pre-Elon average to just 333 tweets a day, which is about a 74% drop.”

https://www.cyentia.com/the-death-of-infosec-twitter/

From @davidpierce from July 3rd, and I hadn't seen it till just now:

"Long-term, I’m bullish on “fediverse” apps like Mastodon and Bluesky, because I absolutely believe in the possibility of the social web, a decentralized universe powered by ActivityPub and other open protocols that bring us together without forcing us to live inside some company’s business model. Done right, these tools can be the right mix of 'everybody’s here' and 'you’re still in control.'”

https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/3/23782607/social-web-public-apps-end-reddit-twitter-mastodon

"American racism has many moving parts, and has had enough centuries in which to evolve an impressive camouflage. It can hoard its malice in great stillness for a long time, all the while pretending to look the other way. Like misogyny, it is atmospheric. You don’t see it at first. But understanding comes."

-Teju Cole

The Romans loom large in the modern world, despite all the centuries that have passed. Some of it is explicit, self-conscious mimicry (like the US senate and neoclassical public architecture). Most of it is unspoken but still very real preservation of Roman forms of domination: our prevailing form of property, the power of our creditors over our debtors, elitist republicanism in lieu of real democracy, patriarchal family structures and treatment of children as property, bonded wage labor, etc.

But, in any case: we’re stuck for now with that legacy from 2,000 years ago.

And…the Romans themselves were only separated from the earliest states in Mesopotamia by a little bit longer than we are from the Romans.

Sometimes history feels like an ocean of time and sometimes it feels like a blink.

“We are all here to serve each other. At some point we have to understand that we do not need to carry a story that is unbearable. We can observe the story, which is mental; feel the story, which is physical; let the story go, which is emotional; then forgive the story, which is spiritual, after which we use the materials of it to build a house of knowledge.”

— Joy Harjo

The G.I. Bill created the prosperity & laid the groundwork for the American superpower. But the postwar boom stopped at the color line. Black American frustration at discriminatory distribution of G.I. benefits would soon erupt into the modern Civil Rights Movement. These discriminatory practices and systemic barriers faced by Black-American veterans under the G.I. Bill had far-reaching consequences that persist today.

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