JustaMom

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"Be what you would seem to be..."

-- Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll, 1865

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Profile ImageA photo of old-timey Peanut Butter Kisses: taffy candies in orange and black wrappers. Likely stale. IYKYK.
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Here forideas, discoveries, venting, news, camaraderie, 'the duration'..until I'm not
JustaMomMay 2
Tinker ☀️Apr 30

Looks like Corporate #infosec has made it's choice.

#RSAC is filled with talks embracing AI and making it "secure".

And they invited and encouraged the Trump regime to spread its disinformation - fully sanctioned and encouraged by the conference leadership(and by conference attendees who laughed at the regime's jokes and lies and issued no challenges or stands during the talk).

With the ostracization of #ChrisKrebs by industry and the full embrace of Kristi Noem as a speaker, this was the moment that infosec made its bed.

Y'all lie in it now.

JustaMomMay 2
Eric AlperMay 2
Jill Sobule has passed away at age 66. She paved the way with heart, humor, and honesty. The first openly gay artist to break the Billboard Top 20, her songs like “I Kissed a Girl” and “Supermodel” changed the soundtrack—and the conversation.
JustaMomApr 19
AkaSci 🛰️Apr 18

This newly processed image of a cosmic pillar in the Eagle Nebula M16 has been released as part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations.

The 9.5 light-years tall pillar is 7,000 light-years from Earth.

The intricate structure is sculpted from cold Hydrogen gas by the fierce radiation and stellar winds of stars north-east of this image near the center of M16. New star formation is occurring within the compressed gas of the pillar.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-spies-cosmic-pillar-in-eagle-nebula/
ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll
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Hubble Spies Cosmic Pillar in Eagle Nebula

Hubble releases a new image from the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16). This iconic "Pillar of Creation" is an area where new stars are forming.

NASA Science
JustaMomApr 18
Cory DoctorowApr 18

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/

#Pluralistic

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Pluralistic: Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case (18 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

JustaMomApr 18
Coach Pāṇini ®Apr 18

as the #Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, began talking up new products, five employees stood on a platform above, exposing lettering on their T-shirts that spelled out the words: “Does Our Code Kill Kids, Satya?”

#genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/18/microsoft-ai-israel-gaza-war

Microsoft faces growing unrest over role in Israel’s war on Gaza: ‘Close to a tipping point’

Internal turmoil rises at company over Israel’s extensive use of its AI and cloud computing services in Gaza war

The Guardian
JustaMomApr 15
Show threadJonathan Kamens 86 47Apr 15
P.S. I noticed one error in the article: the description of DNS tunneling is wrong. When someone is using DNS tunneling to exfiltrate data, they're generating the DNS queries with the data in them from inside the network, causing them to be sent to a DNS server under their control outside the network. It's not the server generating the queries as described in the article.
I didn't notice any other substantive errors in the article.
#infosec #DNSTunneling
JustaMomApr 15
Jonathan Kamens 86 47Apr 15
This is a long, well-reported, well-sourced article about all the f*ckery DOGE is doing with exfiltrating data from government agencies for purposes unknown (likely nefarious and illegal).
Many of the dangers and threats cited here are the things I was saying were going to happen to anyone in the media who would listen during my media blitz after I was fired. Glad to see them getting more attention.
#politics #USPol #DOGE #infosec
Ref: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security
JustaMomApr 15
Show threadPetra van CronenburgApr 15

🧵 Read the alt texts of the photos above about the #yarn's history. Here you can learn more about the history of this "more glossy than silk" patent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayon

This #emboidery #floss was a hype since 1905/1910 ... and we can imagine that some of the governesses who had the misfortune to be on board, used it for #embroideries in the luxury rooms of the #Titanic.

#history #textileHistory #histodon #fibreArts #textileArts

Rayon - Wikipedia

JustaMomApr 15
Petra van CronenburgApr 15

🧵 #OTD the #Titanic sank in 1912. When I was a very small child, I knew an old woman who narrowly escaped this disaster. As the governess of a US millionaire's children, she was supposed to be travelling on the Titanic. They arrived too late in England and couldn't get tickets.

Shortly before her death, she gave me some old #yarn. I haven't dared to use it to this day because it's like travelling back in #deepTime. 113 years can feel so near.

#histodon #museum #embroidery #fiberArts #history

JustaMomApr 15
Denis BuckleyApr 15

'“Taxes,” declared Oliver Wendell Holmes, “are what we pay for civilized society.” But these days barbarians are in control.'

https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/happy-tax-evasion-day?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=diqr

Happy Tax Evasion Day!

DOGE is stealing your tax revenue and giving it to rich cheaters

Paul Krugman