Mick T.   

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InfoSec blue team, Principal Consultant.

Perpetual student of leadership.

Toots are my own, and don't represent my employer.
Twitter ExPat (no longer active), profile listed below only for reference

Pronouns: He/Him

Most commonly mistaken for: Sasquatch, Wookie

Twitter (formerly, for reference)https://twitter.com/mick_talbott
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RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/116687159839148977

2018 article.

“[CBS President Dick] Salant reportedly told Cronkite that "we at CBS have established a reputation for honesty and factual reporting and being in the middle of the road….Tell them what it looks like — from your being on the ground, what is your opinion."”

Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language models has now happened at a scale the industry spent 4 years trying to make people forget about.

#AIEthics #WeDontNeedNoAIEthics #WeAintGotNoStinkeenAIEthics

https://www.tumblr.com/dreaminginthedeepsouth/817865966907228160/darren-oconnor-timnit-gebru-was-fired-from?source=share

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💬 0  🔁 17  ❤️ 24 · Darren O'Connor "Timnit Gebru was fired from Google in December 2020 for refusing to retract a research paper, and every single warning that paper made about large language mode…

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2/3 Mechner recounts discovering that even major archives can vanish, forcing creators to rely on enthusiasts and chance discoveries to recover lost history.

When “historical oblivion is the default, not the exception,” what survives is often what individuals decide to save, not what institutions guarantee.

🧵1/3 What if the history of games, films, and culture disappears not because it is lost… but because no one is allowed to keep it? 🎮⚠️

Jordan Mechner, creator of Prince of Persia & pioneering video game designer, reflects on how fragile cultural memory becomes when preservation depends on luck rather than systems.

Read his essay Preserving Gaming History, part of VANISHING CULTURE from the #InternetArchive.
🔗 https://archive.org/details/vanishing-culture-2026/page/131/

Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsofts-coreutils-project-brings-linux-commands-to-windows/

Microsoft's Coreutils project brings Linux commands to Windows

Microsoft announced today at its Build 2026 developer conference the release of Coreutils for Windows, bringing many commonly used Linux command-line utilities to Windows as native applications.

BleepingComputer

RE: https://flipboard.com/@pbsnewshour/headlines-81am25uuz/-/a-djm6RSmST_mA9S4-c5k7lA%3Aa%3A2651838374-%2F0

If this was a person, they would face civil or criminal liability. If your tools harm people, you are harming people

The Public Information Archive (aka the crowdfunded torrent server dishing up all the stuff the Epstein Regime deleted) has been going strong 24/7 since August 2025.

21 new torrents of fresh endangered data have been added. Learn more: https://lydie.cc/data.html

#torrents #datapreservation #information #knowledge #selfhosted #antifa #antifascist #epstein #epsteinfiles

@Nonya_Bidniss reined in, competition version
Capitol Police's new intelligence bureau is monitoring data center critics despite admitting zero active threats to Congress. With 70% of Americans opposed, surveillance is being aimed at lawful dissent.
https://www.kenklippenstein.com/p/exclusive-new-intel-agency-eyes-ai?triedRedirect=true
Congress's CIA Eyes AI Data Center Critics

Congress has its own CIA and it’s sounding the alarm about anti-AI grievances

Ken Klippenstein