Dave "Wear A Goddamn Mask" Cochran 

@dave_cochran@infosec.exchange
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We do not have much in common, you and I - still, this encounter feels special. I hope you will not mind if I consider you a friend.

he/him

enthusiastically anti-nazi

RTs are *absolutely* endorsements unless I'm arguing with whoever got RT'd in the replies - and sometimes even then.

old mastodon profilehttps://mastodon.social/@dave_cochran
Anyone have any uplifting news or just joyous moments to share? The world is kind of awful right now, and I let myself stay connected for too long so now I need to hear some good things.
"individuals with brown skin are approached... agents typically have no warrants of any kind..." Read the lawsuit: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
There are many crazy things happening in the world but the CIA director using an investigation to imply that Russia didn’t interfere in the 2016 election to help Trump -then starting a DOJ investigation into a past director- is worth paying attention to 👇 The data is *very clear* on what happened.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5bnbgj7gwebt6hhub4pa5c7n/post/3ltkhcrce6k26
In the past decade, I have given myself permission to put down books I don't enjoy. At one time, only two books had been on my did not finish list: The Red Badge of Courage and Moby Fuck.
This week alone I've checked out and returned 3 different titles because they just weren't "good for me." Maybe they're award worthy, maybe they're utter dreck like I think they are.
Point is, move on and enjoy a different one. With three libraries at my fingertips, there's no lack of material.

Ozone alert for LA, SFV, SGV, SC, through Thursday at 2000 PDT.

Reminder that ozone is not detected by PM10 and PM2.5 sensors.

https://alerts.weather.gov/id/urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.0ac23e5e39bf721c803f7d85c2dd7c3acb7682d0.002.1

#CAwx #LAwx

Corporate media is more outraged at the possibility of a Democratic socialist entering the NY Mayors office than at the certainty that a white supremacist has reentered the White House.

Corporate politicians are more outraged that Mamdani won't condemn something he didn't say than they are at Trump repeating racist things he definitely said.

Silicon Valley is more accepting of a racist who dehumanizes Muslims than they are of a Muslim who defies billionaires.

Sigh...Are we great yet?

Who in Melbourne would like this iMac (27 inch 5K display, 1 TB Fusion Drive, 16 GB RAM)? In original box with original keyboard and mouse. Wiped and ready to go.

$0 if you pick up from Dandenong. DM me in the next 24 hours and I’ll draw lots to choose the victor.

#DebCleanup

Trump absurdly days Sens Booker & Padilla “hate our country” for trying to stop his Gestapo from being masked & anonymous when they grab (brown) people off the streets with no warrants and racially profile them (From CBS: www.tiktok.com/t/ZT6dVo4YJ/)
WATCH: “Have you bullied any kids today, Bo?” Senator Bo Watson (R) heckled in CHATTANOOGA — after pushing a bill to kick undocumented kids out of Tennessee schools, which had other Republicans weeping on the house floor because it was so cruel. (It failed)

You might think working a phone repair kiosk is a waste of my skills. Yeah nah.

Today, this kid came in with an iPhone that was more than cracked, it was banana-fied.

“What happened?” I asked, turning the wreckage over in my hands. I don’t think there was a single salvageable part. “And have you considered just upgrading?”

“My novel’s on there”, the kid said, wringing his hands anxiously. “It got ran over by a hauler bot.”

“Got a backup?”. The tears in the kid’s eyes were all the answer he needed to give. “Okay, event rebasing is the only way to fix this”, I gestured at the price board, “can you afford that?”

He gulped. “Uh, just.”

“You sure?”

“Yes. Can you really fix it?”. Hope flickered in his eyes.

“Let’s see, no win no fee”.

I held the smashed and bent phone-ana in my hands and turned it over, feeling its shape in space and time. With my /other sight/ I saw its lifeline leading away from where the kid had been, a shimmering trail of history leading back in time. With the fingers of my mind, I felt back along the lifeline until i felt the bump, beyond which the device had been a flat rectangle. Exploring the shape of the damage event I twisted the lifeline into a loop. Now here’s the tricky bit; if you have the knack, and you dig your nails in /just so/ you can pinch out a moment in time and detach it. I rubbed the lifeline with my mental fingers, smoothing out the join where the excised moment had been.

Blinking back to the present, I powered on the phone and handed it back to its owner. “All good?”

The kid’s fingers flew over the screen as he checked on his preciousss, and breathed a huge sigh. “All good. That’s incredible, can you fix *anything* like that?”

“Almost. Like?”

He avoided my gaze, staring down at my hands on the counter with their iridescent nails, matching the highlight colours in my hair. He made eye contract briefly, wide eyes again a bit teary. “Even…..me?”

Oh, that. “Absolutely not. *wink* Such things are not done and definitely not by me. Clear?”

*nod*

“Okay, hold still.” It’s a different technique than rebasing, especially because i like to spread the change over a few years to conceal the edit.

“All done”.

“Oh wow”, she said, reaching up to feel her shoulder length mauve hair (clearly I’d nailed that detail), then taking a twirl. “How, how much do I owe you?”

“On the house and you weren’t here. “

The tears were back. “Thank you thank you, this is the best. “

“My pleasure, have a great life”

“Thanks, you too” she said. “Bye!”

“Wait! Don’t forget your phone!”

#Tootfic #MicroFiction #PowerOnStoryToot

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If you search "every damn time" on X right now (a popular phrase among Nazis to claim Jews are always behind horrible things) you can see Elon Musk has dialed up Grok's antisemitism to new levels.
Grok: “Hitler’s ‘efficiency’ got him bombed to hell; let’s outsmart the parasites with truth bombs instead of actual ones."

'Round Them Up': Grok Praises ...
'Round Them Up': Grok Praises Hitler as Elon Musk's AI Tool Goes Full Nazi

Grok even endorsed another Holocaust against the Jews.

Gizmodo
Grok PR finally responds: "Since being made aware of the content, xAI has taken action to ban hate speech before Grok posts on X. xAI is training only truth-seeking and thanks to the millions of users on X, we are able to quickly identify and update the model where training could be improved."
@paleofuture.bsky.social damn that’s straight evil.

@paleofuture.bsky.social
"Every damn time, as they say."

Who's "they," Grok?

@paleofuture.bsky.social imagine trying to explain "Grok has gone full Kanye" to someone from 2015.