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Robert Reich5h ago
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TechnoTenshi   6h ago

Ukrainian hackers, with military intel support, wiped 47TB of data from Russian drone maker Gaskar Integration, halting operations and exposing links with China. Systems and backups destroyed, production paralyzed.

https://prm.ua/en/ukrainian-hackers-destroyed-the-it-infrastructure-of-a-russian-drone-manufacturer-what-is-known/

#cybersecurity #infosec #Ukraine #cyberwar

tsld49m ago
Ethan Marcotte4h ago

“Today, the workers of Snopes.com won voluntary recognition of their union, the Snopes Guild.”

WONDERFUL NEWS https://newsguild.org/workers-at-snopes-com-win-voluntary-union-recognition/

#1u

Workers at Snopes.com win voluntary recognition | The NewsGuild - TNG-CWA

RELEASE: Today the workers of Snopes.com won voluntary recognition of their union, the Snopes Guild. The Guild will now begin the process to develop a contract.

The NewsGuild - CWA
tsld49m ago
Ars Technica3h ago
Permit for xAI’s data center blatantly violates Clean Air Act, NAACP says
Evidence suggests health department gave preferential treatment to xAI, NAACP says.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/07/permit-for-xais-data-center-blatantly-violates-clean-air-act-naacp-says/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
tsld51m ago
Freedom of the Press6h ago

ICE lawyers shouldn't hide their identities in court, and immigration judges shouldn't condone the practice.

This disturbing trend must be stopped immediately.

https://theintercept.com/2025/07/15/ice-lawyers-hiding-names-court/

ICE Lawyers Are Hiding Their Names in Immigration Court

ICE attorneys fighting to deport immigrants are able to obscure their identities — no masks required.

The Intercept
tsld51m ago
George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽5h ago
The hardest disbelief to suspend about the show.
tsld52m ago
Eatsbluecrayon7h ago

That's 5D-educational chess.

#FuckGenAI #ChatGPT #GenAIsucksCamelDong

tsld22h ago
dylan1d ago

Finally finished Careless People, and first of all: definitely recommend if you want a better idea of how the insides of some of these tech companies function in practice. Also good if you want to get very upset.

There's a lot to unpack from the book, but what's really sitting with me right now is Wynn-Williams' insider perspective on what happened with Facebook in Myanmar. 🧵

tsld22h ago
Dr. Lucky Tran 1d ago

This administration is saying that "people should have to prove that they deserve health care" as justification for kicking millions off Medicaid. That's eugenics.

Health care is a human right, and everyone deserves access to health care no matter who they are, what they do, or how they live.

tsld22h ago
Ericka Simone1d ago

So an alliance of 20+ tow truck operators have come together in #LosAngeles. They’re having people follow ICE vehicles around, actively reporting their locations.

As soon as ICE parks their car ANYWHERE, usually improperly… the tow trucks quickly swoop in, tag the ICE vehicle for illegal parking, and tow their cars away as quickly as possible. LAPD is letting it happen, unchallenged.

They’re estimating over 30+ ICE vehicles being towed in the last week alone.

I love LA.
I really do.

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George Takei  🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽3d ago
Government can’t function without people working in it, folks.
Show threadProfessor_Stevens3d ago

@georgetakei

George, that is the point: Trump and the rest of the MAGAts want government to stop functioning. They want Americans to hate their government so much that the people will be willing to replace it entirely with private contractors.

Show threadWenzel 👨‍💻3d ago
@Professor_Stevens @georgetakei with anything, really. It's the playbook populists and worse use all the time.
Show threadProfessor_Stevens3d ago

@stairjoke @georgetakei

What I don't get is why people keep falling for it. I guess motivated reasoning is too compelling to be overcome by reality.

Show threadWenzel 👨‍💻3d ago
@Professor_Stevens @georgetakei I'm not sure, there might be many reasons. The question is, if there is anything that can be done to invalidate that message.
Show threadProfessor_Stevens3d ago

@stairjoke @georgetakei

They elected Donald Trump a second time. We have the answer. It is "no."

What we CAN do is outnumber them. More than half of Americans eligible to vote prefer liberal policies. We just need to get enough of those Americans to vote for them in the form of our candidates.

Show threadWenzel 👨‍💻3d ago

@Professor_Stevens @georgetakei don't underestimate the numbing effect of a two party system.

You either get A or B, no nuance. Looking in from the outside, I live in a country with five parties in parliament, the number one issue I've been hearing about from US citizens nd from political scientists is that people don't want to vote for either option, but a third or fourth option has no chance of getting established.

I don't have a solution or suggestion.

Show threadProfessor_Stevens2d ago

@stairjoke @georgetakei

Your sources match mine: a lot of Americans don't like either party. But a new party would be DOA. The thing is, however, that poll after poll shows that liberal policies are far more popular than conservative ones, among people who don't vote. The solution is to get them to realize voting is worth it.

Show threadWenzel 👨‍💻2d ago
@Professor_Stevens @georgetakei I'd call it a worthwhile part of the solution, not the solution. American politics needs reform, American education needs reform, American society needs to deal with its past, America needs consumer protection especially in areas of food safety and healthcare.
Show threadProfessor_Stevens2d ago

@stairjoke @georgetakei

Like I always say, one of the great joys of being an American is that I live in a world full of people ready to give me advice about what my country needs.

Danke schön.

Show threadWenzel 👨‍💻2d ago
@Professor_Stevens @georgetakei you're welcome, and that's not an American thing, just a thing in a globally connected world.
Show threadProfessor_Stevens2d ago

@stairjoke @georgetakei

I can assure you, Americans are gifted with more guidance from the rest of the world on how to improve ourselves than anyone else.

Show threadWenzel 👨‍💻2d ago

@Professor_Stevens @georgetakei I can believe that, there is even political science on that topic, confirming it for all English speaking countries, not just the US.

The whole world understands "you", but you don't understand many of the other countries' languages. Obviously "you" get tons of comments from foreigners. Also, the US' political system is the subject of jokes internationally, whether that's justified or not, I won't pretend to know.

Show threadProfessor_Stevens2d ago

@stairjoke @georgetakei

I suspect most of those jokes have some nexus with our reality.

Thing is, we're actually very easy to understand. Just consider two distinguishing features of our national heritage:

1. We are the descendants of people who were willing to sail one-way in a wooden ship across a stormy ocean to avoid the crown in a rough "new world."

2. Half of us expanded west, taking our bibles and rifles, but not our textbooks or lab equipment.

1/2

Show threadProfessor_Stevens2d ago

@stairjoke @georgetakei

In other words, we are genetically selected to have a problem with authority and take big risks to get away from it. Half of us are armed and ignorant while the other half are snooty and erudite.

As a result, we squabble with each other all the time about every last thing, because none of us likes being told what to do, but we don't care if squabbling is pointless, expensive, and dangerous. We'll pay that price to get our way.

Got us now?

2/2

Show threadWenzel 👨‍💻2d ago
@Professor_Stevens @georgetakei pretty sure you’re giving genetics too much credit.
Show threaddatenwolf3d ago

@Professor_Stevens @stairjoke @georgetakei

Most people (regardless of baseline mental capabilities) are incapable of thinking in terms of higher degree levels of transitive causality chains.

They see the actions of an entity only on surface level. That's not some belittlement, just a weird an irritating thing about humans: Taking intellectual shortcuts whenever possible.

https://medium.com/mental-models-product/mental-models-product-5-second-order-thinking-893e510c428c

Mental Models & Product #5: Second-Order Thinking - Mental Models & Product - Medium

New to this series? Check out why I started writing it and why mental models are important in the product space 👉 Game Theory & Product Ever had something occur and realized that you should have…

Mental Models & Product
Show threadZiehmerTheGamer2d ago
@Professor_Stevens @stairjoke @georgetakei it's simple really from an analytical standpoint of statements and sentiments. An administration which gave sociopathic and sadistic fascists room to operate. Now, he gave them a voice. They don't care about those who live, or die, it's not important for them.
Show threadZiehmerTheGamer2d ago
@Professor_Stevens @stairjoke @georgetakei I'm reminded of an educator, and so called disability advocate, who is a hard core Trump supporter. As soon as I had picked up on her defending the cuts. and ending the diversity programs. That a poster put on a local article before I left Facebook. They mirrored empathy and sympathy so well they almost passed and instead failed.
Show threadcrazyeddie3d ago
@Professor_Stevens @georgetakei Alternative strategy is to prop up a bunch of idiots as head of state and replace the underlying system with more qualified, but ideologically pure, people who struggle with the unqualified heads. Then declare Trump unfit, replace him, then his cabinet, and finally his appointments, who's replacements are brought up from below rather than outside--essentially saving us from a madman and entering an era of healing and cooperation.
Show threadMissConstrue2d ago

@Professor_Stevens @georgetakei
Precisely this. This has been the goal of the Yeehawdists and their suit-wearing brethren of the Federalist Society since the New Deal.

"drown the government in the bathtub" was the Reagan years, if you remember. The GOP has long wanted to dismantle the architecture which allows people to have rights in a capitalist system.

The Enlightenment is a curse to these people. They want to return to serfs and vassals and lords.

Because they seem to have forgotten about guillotines.

Show threadProfessor_Stevens2d ago

@MissConstrue @georgetakei

Quite. Unchecked wealth inequality always leads to revolution. France. Russia. China. Take your pick.

Gonna happen here, and it won't be any prettier than it was in those other places. Kind of ironic that the people who throw "communism!" around as their ultimate insult don't seem to realize they are doing all anyone can to bring it about.

Show threadMassimiliano Siddi3d ago
@georgetakei Extreme right #Longtermism It hit a red state - this time.
Show threadTheNovemberFella ✊🏳️‍🌈 🇺🇦☸️🛰️🚀3d ago
@georgetakei There's a reason I refer to her as Kristi Noem-nothing 🙄 Nice of her to emphasize it.
Show threadAlex P Roe3d ago
@georgetakei MAGA - Morons Are Governing America 😢
Show threadDDRitter 🏳️‍🌈🎗️🇵🇸3d ago
@alex_p_roe @georgetakei Monsters. Monsters Are Governing America
Show threadEka A.3d ago
@georgetakei
Just like firing of probationary people at call centers for Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, etc, now Trump administration is cutting off the ability to services we already paid our taxes for from FEMA.
Show threadEka A.3d ago
@georgetakei
Next, Trump will try to privatize all of those social services to restore them. This is yet another grift off of your tax dollars. DON'T LET THEM because we'll end up paying huge amounts more for less lower quality services. The salary, equipment, and facilities overhead only administration of Medicare, Medicaid, Social Security, FEMA are very efficient compared to also adding a 15+% profit margin. Plus the workers doing all that work are in the US and get real living wages.
Show threadChampiZen3d ago
@georgetakei You must be a bad person to point this out !...
Show threadArchaide 3d ago
@georgetakei 🤯
Show threadOrdovician3d ago
@georgetakei The Hundred Year Flood has been reset, dont'cha know! 🙄😒
Show threadDoug 🌈🇨🇦 3d ago
@georgetakei basically the Trump administration is saving money by letting it's supporters die.
Show threadgunstick3d ago
@georgetakei it's as if @godpod was pulling the strings by sending the flood on the day the contracts expire. Just tonsend a deadly message to the government. But it looks like the message was not recieved.
Show threadZiehmerTheGamer2d ago
@georgetakei the government doesn't actually work under this administration. As old school as Donald E. Westlake has written how Freddie Trump operated in Bronson for The Hunter which spawned Point Blank with Lee Marvin as Walker and saw Jim Brown take the mantle in The Split. You also had Robert Duvall in The Outfit. All this is, is a busy working arrangement to appear to show empathy and sympathy where Abbott and Trump don't actually have any.
Show threadtoisse2d ago
@georgetakei
They're anti-American
Show threadCome On Giant Asteroid!2d ago

@georgetakei

#PuppyKiller

Show threadder.hans2d ago

@georgetakei alt-text

screenshot of Mike Baker post somewhere

"A day after the Texas floos, FEMA laid off hundreds of call-center workers. Then, records show, the agency did not answer thousands of calls to its disaster assistance line."

That's followed by a screenshot:

1/x

Show threadder.hans2d ago

@georgetakei

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On July 5, as floodwaters were starting t recede, FEMA received 3,027 calls from disaster survivors and answered 3,018, or roughly 99.7 percent, the documents show. Contractors with four call center companies answered the vast majority of the calls.

That evening, however, Ms. Noem did not renew the contracts with the four compan
ies and hundreds of contractors were fired, according to the documents and the p
erson briefed on the matter.

2/x

Show threadder.hans2d ago

@georgetakei

The next day, July 6, FEMA received 2,363 calls and answere 846, or roughly 35.8
percent, according to the documents. And on Monday, July 7, the agency fielded
16,419 calls and answereed 2,613, or around 15.9 percent, the documents show

3/x

Show threadder.hans2d ago

@georgetakei

Some FEMA officials grew frustrated by the lapse in contracts and that it was taking days for Ms. Noem to act, according to the person briefed on the matter and the documents. "We still do not have a decision, waiver or signature from the DHS secretary," a FEMA official wrote in a July 8 email to colleagues.
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4/4 #alttext #alt4you

Show threadjramskov2d ago
@georgetakei Saving a lot of money…
Show threadWesDym1d ago
@georgetakei Sufficiently gross misconduct, malfeasance, or incompetence is indistinguishable from actual malice. We might never know what really happened, or why. Only that many are dead who probably should not be, and that the federal govt has a large role in that, through this department's actions and inactions. But we must try to learn, because besides fixing the problem, we must know who deserves what punishment, and for what.