Today is L0pht Day. In 1998 7 hackers in suits told the US Senate the internet was a house of cards. We said we could take it down in 30 minutes. They looked at us like we'd landed from another planet.

28 yrs later, the gap between what the security community knows and what decision-makers act on remains a fundamental problem.

Miss you, Peter Neumann. He testified that day too, with decades of hard-earned wisdom. We owe him.

The work isn't done. It never was.

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Fascists currently are astonishingly uncreative. This was not true historically. Pre-war fascists had an extremely strong grasp of aesthetics and were doing extremely interesting art. The reason I mention this is that many people assume that anyone doing good creative work is ok, but that's not necessarily true.

The systemic devaluation of art in current fascism probably has something to do with 1980s conservatism like Jessie Helms trying to destroy US arts funding. AI systems are built on this devaluation. But I personally think its likely that a real fascist art will probably emerge soon, if not before the bubble bursts then soon after. Just being pro-human-art is not enough by itself.

The systems that support art as an investment product have strong fascist logics within them. To create antifascist art involves some disruption of fascist logics. The content can be 'political' or not, but the means of production are also an important angle. I feel like the Russian Futurists may be a movement to emulate.

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