A new paper shows that less than 2 months of exposure to Twitter’s algorithmic feed significantly shifts people’s political views to the right. Moving from chronological feed to the algorithmic feed also increases engagement. This is one of the most concerning papers I’ve read in awhile.

I’m just here to try to reach the geeky kids, maybe LGBTQIA, maybe alt, maybe on the spectrum, maybe just a little weird - and tell them that you can be 40 and have a Star Wars living room, and you can decide to not have kids and still have a life full of meaningful relationships and not regret it at all, and you can be a gamer and learn work skills from it, and you can be single but still do everything and travel the planet, you can be covered in tattoos and piercings and still be a successful business leader & public speaker, you can know trans rights are human rights and still be retired from the military, you can do whatever you want to as long as you show up every day and put in the work and put up a good fight - don’t let the people around you, society, your family, crappy friends, lousy spouses, what “they” told you, or the entropy of it all drag you down. Life can be really unfair, but learn your own personal battles, find your own family, and find meaning in the goofy world.

If you are new here in #cybersecurity, (welcome new influx!) some great hashtags to follow or take a peek at might be: #ThreatIntel #GetFediHired #CyberMentoringMonday #MastodonTips - just a few places to start! There are also almost daily fun photo and post themes, so watch the hashtags on your server and federated!

Pro tip for network & system admins... If you have a load balancer set up in front of your web-facing servers (like OWA, etc), please consider enabling the X-Forwarded-For header to make log analysis easier during the inevitable IR. This header captures the actual source IP of the request and passes it to the backend server, despite the traffic appearing to come from the load balancer's IP. #infosec #DFIR

Gooooo @hacks4pancakes!!! Congratulations on your SANS Difference Maker Lifetime Achievement Award - we're so glad you have a whole lifetime ahead of you to keep being awesome. :)