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I have worked in election security in the United States for several cycles and continue to do so. I keep a minimal profile due to threats and attempts against my life and those whom I work alongside. My views are my own.
(2/2) "A racket is best described, I believe, as something that is not what it seems to the majority of the people. Only a small "inside" group knows what it is about. It is conducted for the benefit of the very few, at the expense of the very many. Out of war a few people make huge fortunes."
I keep seeing hot takes about war, as if "winning" is defined by achieving the *stated* goals. Major General Smedley D Butler, USMC explained it best almost a century ago.
(1/2) "War is a racket. It always has been. It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives."

TikTok had more freedom of speech when the Chinese were running it.

Just in case you are still in denial about America being fascist now.

"I think the majority of Americans (including left-wing voters) have not fully grasped the fact that our standing in the world will not recover in our lifetimes.
Even if we elected two full-term Democrats in a row, it wouldn't change the perception of the rest of the world. Because the rest of the world has discovered we do not have a system that prevents our nation from pivoting 180º toward authoritarianism when a madman is elected."

- Tony Rush

An entire historic building was destroyed by the fascist invader.

But this is not a historic building in Ukraine.

This is The White House in Washington DC.

#EastWing

This is really sloppy journalism from the NYT. A convicted felon who asked for and received no jail time, who was adjudicated as a rapist in civil court and who refuses to prosecute child sex traffickers is hardly “prosecuting to the max”.

Anubis is designed to protect websites from AI scraper bots, Anubis primarily focuses on parameters like the user agent sent with the request and looks for oddities in the connection. “Known good” and harmless clients are always accepted, and “Known bad” clients are always denied. Now the same tool is used to get protection from a DDoS attack: https://fabulous.systems/posts/2025/05/anubis-saved-our-websites-from-a-ddos-attack/

#opensource #Linux #cybersecurity

The Day Anubis Saved Our Websites From a DDoS Attack

Anubis, designed to protect your website from unwanted requests from AI crawlers, is way more powerful than you might think.

fabulous.systems
Gov. Pritzker says Illinois has been shut out of Medicaid, due to Trump’s unconstitutional usurpation of Congress’ spending power. https://chicago.suntimes.com/politics/donald-trump/2025/01/28/illinois-medicaid-federal-funding-freeze-trump-administration
Trump's federal funding freeze on hold — as ‘chaos, confusion and fear’ grip Chicago

A federal judge temporarily halted President Donald Trump's move to freeze all federal grants pending an analysis to root out "wokeness" in federal spending. But confusion reigned Tuesday in Chicago and beyond as leaders braced for serious potential cuts to an array of major programs.

Chicago Sun-Times

https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/science-and-environmental-justice

As a librarian, we historically considered .gov sites to be authoritative. It now seems possible that these sites will erase research and rewrite our history. We need repositories of knowledge, both electronic and physical, to get us through these times. Thanks ucs for your efforts. #Science #research

Science and Environmental Justice

An archive of preserved federal government documents on environmental justice and scientific issues

Union of Concerned Scientists