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SOC Manager residing in the USA. Pro-democracy liberal. No blog, no alternate social media accounts at this time linked.
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

@darkuncle you don't feel the "collaboration" /s
And a large portion of it will be paid for by his cult followers. https://journa.host/@w7voa/110340345474960823
Steve Herman (@[email protected])

Damages Trump ordered by the civil jury to pay to Carroll is $5 million.

Mastodon
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
@norb totally and legitimately unsurprising that people wouldn't take a critical look at what these tools actually are. I still feel like there's something useful way to apply this to infosec.