Brian Hawthorne

@bhawthorne@infosec.exchange
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Advance-Compliance Profile version 2025.1

Strong and able-bodied, white Anglo-American male, Mr. Brownshirt. Not at all autistic nor disabled by Covid since Oct. 2022. No sir. Intersectional ID? I don’t even know what that means. You don’t need to see my ID… This is not the old man you are looking for… I can go… Move along…

“I don’t recognize the old man in the mirror, but he looks like a fun gent I’d like to hang out with.”
“I think person is actually a Swiftie.”
“Even better; nothing says we can’t be both. ¡Viva la diversidad!”

Born at 317 ppm atmospheric CO2
Header pic: Sunset in the Klamath Marsh National Wildlife Refuge.
Thumbnail pic: Me looking out the window and remembering the before time.

Ancient Website That Needs Updatinghttps://www.hawthorne.org/
Signal - free, open source, end-to-end encryptedhttps://signal.me/#eu/Wlulpr3-WFsYENOPs16qnD_eMdAM3f-iRSVUxz_x1TIlbjwzw4FGnL8wUgIsgbQ6
What Long Covid Feels Likehttps://www.huffpost.com/entry/long-covid-feels-like-symptoms_l_640a1f2ee4b0653e296a5a2b
What Not To Ask Me About Long Covidhttps://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/02/long-covid-symptoms-chronic-illness-disability/673057/
#ScalziRuleshttps://whatever.scalzi.com/2025/04/16/the-official-john-scalzi-social-media-faq/
@afg That is a serious sunburn.
I would like to see what the night sky would look like without any of the stars from our galaxy. Just the other galaxies. And yes, please give me eyes capable of not only detecting light that dim but being able to resolve the images as well. Or just give me an app where I can turn the stars off while leaving the galaxies on and let me adjust their apparent magnitude. Many thanks in advance for your prompt and generous attention to this matter.
@afg A weed is defined as a plant growing where you don’t want it. If you didn’t plant them, they are weeds by definition. Your options are to pull them up, or leave them there. If you are sure you didn’t plant them, then pull them up. If you aren’t sure or you planted a seed mix, then let them grow until you can tell what they are!
First Steps to reverse engineer a Growteam mail video ad for future projects (E-waste worries too)

YouTube
@xvf17 At least all the ones that stink.
chat, j'ai pété
Every time I see Chat GPT in writing, I hear it pronounced in French
@kimlockhartga @aud Bingo. That’s it exactly. Spouse and I were just talking about that last night. Time to decide which corporate overlord to pay fealty to. I must admit I have been a lifelong subject of Apple.

Call me alarmist, but in the U.S. I think I see the plan/goals of these horrific Scrooge-like Billionaires:

They are trying to bankrupt us all, take our land and property, and make us live and work in company towns, reside in company housing, and buy exclusively from the company store, to keep both adults and children as indentured servants forever. (They already rolled back Child Labor laws in multiple states.) Anyone who rebels or complains will be imprisoned, to work as slave labor. Imagine what happens to anyone who cannot perform physical labor. Check back in later to see if my dystopian vision is myopic or not. I truly hope to be wrong.

Already, the Federal government has taken away vital services, and they seem intent on destroying public benefits. States are currently not getting disaster funds from FEMA. This is a Five Thousand Alarm Fire.

Fascists did a fantastic job of convincing people that democratic socialism was bad.

They want an extreme form of a Robber Baron economy.

Kristi Noem spoke at RSA today and said she had had a "candid" conversation with tech leaders here in SF earlier in the day. My understanding is they were executives in tech, critical infrastructure, and cyber.

Do you know of anyone who attended? I'm looking for details of the guest list and what the conversation was like. Can keep your identity private. Signal is kevincollier.01, email kevin.collier@nbcuni.com.