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One of the things I like most about infosec is that people in the field tend to have pretty good bullshit detectors. It's tough to prioritize what to do in security without being able to see past the everyday nonsense and chaos of us humans.
True.

To understand Musk's renewed obsession with X and focus on financial services, you REALLY need to understand the X/Confinity merger that became PayPal.

And, particularly, the Peter Thiel-led coup that kicked Musk out as CEO/Chief Strategist.

Here's how that happened. 1/đŸ§” #history #technology

I don't think I've received a more pointless unasked for tschotskes than the Service Now golf club head that was mailed to my work.
no way! A rich dipshit thinks he smarter than everyone, wants to "clean up" twitter and then just treats it like his own personal grievance tool https://www.techdirt.com/2023/04/05/npr-was-twitters-example-of-what-should-not-be-labeled-state-affiliated-media-then-musk-added-the-label-and-retconned-the-policy/
NPR Was Twitter’s Example Of What Should NOT Be Labeled ‘State-Affiliated Media.’ Then Musk Added The Label And Retconned The Policy

For years I’ve joked that everyone who hasn’t thought about trust & safety thinks that it’s easy: just do what I would do. The assumption is that there’s a “right” set of ways to handle these q


Techdirt

Pretty good summary of Republican politics in the US right now.

"How better to protect children from the dangers of books than putting them to work?"

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2023/03/donald-trump-gop-ron-desantis-2024

GOP Elites Can’t Simply Wish Donald Trump Away

They may be done with Trump, but he isn’t done with the party.

Vanity Fair

Oh look. It's another one of those things that Team You're Overreacting swore to me was totally not going to happen after Dobbs:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/03/texas-republican-wants-isps-to-block-a-wide-range-of-abortion-websites/

Texas Republican wants ISPs to block a wide range of abortion websites

Proposed law targets websites that help women get abortions or abortion pills.

Ars Technica
Have been enjoying all the new AI toys, but the more I learn the less magical it feels and now this realization https://www.theverge.com/23604075/ai-chatbots-bing-chatgpt-intelligent-sentient-mirror-test
Introducing the AI Mirror Test, which very smart people keep failing

The launch of Microsoft’s AI chatbot Bing has captivated users. But too many people believe the bot could be sentient when it only reflects our language back to us. Believing in chatbot sentience is failing the AI mirror test.

The Verge

In the recent past, we've been concerned about attacks on grid infrastructure due to geopolitical disagreements. It turns out that the danger is more present from right-wing extremists already present in the United States.

This is becoming a serious issue, and is does not stem from some overseas preacher encouraging it. It comes from paid right wing grifters right here in the US preaching bigotry and encouraging armed attacks against, previously, lgbt people, but now just the general public. They do this under the guise of freedom of speech.

This is a serious threat, and law enforcement needs to be taking these threats much more seriously than they have in the past.
It is not a "both sides" situation. Only one side is shooting up substations and terrorizing children's hospitals.

The car who hit the telephone pole this morning on the off-ramp with a "my driving scares me too" bumper sticker.​