Mastodawn

I’m not trans. As far as I know, my kids aren’t at the moment. Nobody in my family is. None of my good friends are. I don’t prescribe medication for gender affirming care. I don’t specifically treat folks for gender dysphoria. So why do I give a fuck?

You don’t punch down. There’s no transgender machine producing trans judiciary and trans politicians and trans PACs to come for my cisgender. There are trans folks being discriminated against, outed, beaten, jailed, and killed. I hate bullies.

Helga 14h ago

Kim Crawley 😷 (she/her)2d ago

Please boost! Please share! #fedihire #fedihired #jobs #infosec #noai

I am Kim Crawley and I research and write about all areas of cybersecurity. I do it the "old fashioned" way by actually using my brain and doing the work... No Gen AI! Fuck Gen AI! I hate Gen AI! I founded Stop Gen AI!

I've worked for:

- Siemens (Digital Industries World)
- BlackBerry Cylance
- Kaspersky
- Hack The Box
- O'Reilly Media
- Wiley Tech
- AT&T Cybersecurity

My portfolio is here: https://kimcrawley.com

- Whitepapers
- Blogs
- Documentation
- Books
- Threat analysis
- Enterprise cybersecurity instruction and consulting

I'm in Tribe of Hackers.

I cowrote The Pentester Blueprint.

I'm writing Technofascism Survival Guide now, successful Kickstarter is still taking late pledges for $12 USD eBooks: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide

Email me: kim(dot)crawley(at)stopgenai.com

Signal: crowgirl.84

Or reply here.

Helga 14h ago

The extra sucky bit about AI is that I'm finding the rhythms of its sentences in my own writing now. (And look, maybe that's the case for the long blog post I just read. Maybe it's not AI at all, it's just that that is the writer's mental model of writing now). I think because we just see SO FUCKING MUCH of it that it's seeping into our consciousness. I feel like I want to start writing deliberately badly, run on sentences, too-long sentences, swearing as much as I fucking like or just fucking off punctuation altogether because FUCK AI.

Helga 14h ago

I start reading what is supposedly a powerful personal story about burnout in open source. Then I start to see the pattern - that familiar tempo. Admittedly there's no "Not x. Not y. Just z'. But there's that faint whiff, like the neighbor is burning toast. The paragraphs are just a bit too regular. Something about the headings. Yeah my dude, you used ChatGPT to write this, didn't you. I'm sure of it. Not sure enough of just how much to comment on the post, and I don't have the energy to get in an argument about it.

Ai both degrades trust - making us suspicious of everything we see and read - and sucks the life and personality out of absolutely everything it touches. I'm so sick of starting to read and going, oh, nope this is machine-generated nothingness. I hate this. I hate all of it.

Helga 14h ago

Chris Nelder 🤘14h ago

QOTD: "It’s getting predictable enough to trade it: every time the 10-year approaches 4.45%, a 'ceasefire breakthrough” materialises out of thin air. The best gauge of the war is the yield curve."

Helga 14h ago

Adam Shostack

15h ago

Whoa, archive.ph was altering its archives...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links

If DDoSing a blog wasn't bad enough, archive site also tampered with web snapshots.

Ars Technica

Helga 16h ago

Not excited about the approach of winter. I don't cope with the cold anymore. The rain is a good thing though. Funny, there's total fire bans at the other endcof my state. 'Straya, god love it.

Helga 16h ago

Doug Belshaw 17h ago

Between 2018 and 2020 I was Product Manager of #MoodleNet, the world's first decentralised digital commons.

Thanks to @mayel and @ivan this became @Bonfire, an increasingly-mature federated app toolkit.

I've started hacking on it to see if I can resurrect the original #OER dream...

#EarlyDays #DontGetYourHopesUp

Helga 16h ago

George Monbiot 22h ago

A billionaire can get what they want with one donation to a political party. The rest of us must fight for years to get even the most basic rights recognised. Money destroys democracy, more than any other cause. The first step towards a better world is to stop the rich buying political outcomes.

Helga 17h ago

What's the kerfufle about SystemD?