Lunatech @Lunatech@social.cleverlibre.org

you can't reform this

Instead of working to lower costs for everyday Americans, extremist politicians are trying to make it easier for billionaires and big corporations to avoid paying the taxes they owe.

Exactly 83 years ago today the first Social Security checks went out.

Republicans are now threatening to collapse the entire economy unless they’re allowed to destroy Social Security.

Hard to square the "China will use TikTok to turn American teens into Xi Jinping lovers" theory popular in Washington with the reality that one of China’s most prolific influence operations was so spammy, low-quality and weird that it "achieved practically no organic engagement from real viewers"

https://cyberscoop.com/chinese-influence-operations-dragonbridge/

INSANE: Ron #DeSantis wants #Florida residents to carry firearms without a permit. In Jan alone, there’s been 49 mass shootings and more than 3,400 gun deaths, including 138 dead children.

If Ron DeSantis gets what he wants, expect more dead Americans.

U.S. border officials copy the contents of up to 10,000 phones and computers every year and save them to a big database for 15 years, as we first reported in September: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/09/15/government-surveillance-database-dhs/

Following pressure from Sen. Wyden, the agency, CBP, now says it's considering shrinking that 15-year save time and plans to give people more details about what they're doing: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/01/31/abraham-accords-expand-with-cybersecurity-collaboration/

Ella Irwin also explicitly directed Twitter to ban journalists like me. The fact that she has used her access to people's private messages should be a wake-up call to everyone on Twitter, especially journalists; how can you protect sources in a place like that?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2022/12/15/twitter-journalists-suspended-musk/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-01-27/elon-musk-s-twitter-trust-safety-head-ella-irwin-breaks-rules-for-him

"We’ve confirmed that Irwin has access to user DMs as part of her position. Given the way the company has handled the Twitter Files, multiple former employees told us that DMs are no longer secure, and have discouraged us from using them for any remotely sensitive communication."

https://www.platformer.news/p/another-whistleblower-comes-for-twitter @caseynewton @zoeschiffer

NEW: #GeorgeSantos once had a Facebook post that appears to salute Hitler while mentioning “the Jews and blacks.”

George Santos trafficked in Antisemitism before pretending to be Jew-ish.

RESIGN!

Layoffs at Google, Microsoft, Salesforce Teaching Tech Employees a Harsh Lesson https://www.businessinsider.com/layoffs-google-microsoft-salesforce-tech-industry-employees-work-family-lesson-2023-1 Whatever you want, you can say about Apple and their prices/products, but Tim Cook has not fired anyone so far. Here are companies that value their employees as 31/Jan/2023 and have not announced any layoffs
Apple
Nvidia
Cloudflare
Broadcom
Crowdstrike

Vulnerabilities in the #opensource OpenEMR #healthcare software could allow remote attackers to steal sensitive patient data or execute arbitrary commands and take over systems.

#cybersecurity #infosec #hipaa

https://www.securityweek.com/vulnerabilities-in-openemr-healthcare-software-expose-patient-data/

15 years ago I signed up for Twitter. I met a guy who turned into a roommate, who then became a great, lifelong friend. I used it to stay in contact with other friends I'd made after moving to another state. I participated in "Tweetups" in the early days. I found and followed many accounts that simply wrote jokes, which constantly added value to my day. I used Twitter to exhale my dumb thoughts instead of keeping them pent up inside. I used it to keep up with current and unfolding events. I used it because I enjoyed it.

I fought with a number of idiots. I watched gamergate unfold in the vilest and most toxic way. I saw a lot of awful shit. I suppose that's expected as an inevitable eventuality in most online spaces though.

All of that to say, I think it's time I finally said goodbye. Not because I wanted to, but because the parts of Twitter that I enjoyed the most have slowly rotted away since Elon Musk took over. The final nail being his childish revoking of the API.

I mostly enjoyed Twitter because I used a great app for over 10 years, Tweetbot. It worked well, was reliable, and didn't hurt to look at (soon to be reanimated into @ivory) But, just like every other good feature of Twitter, it too was bound to die because Elon is such a little bitch. He's too self-absorbed, insecure, and greedy to actually accomplish anything of real value on his own. His entire identity is built on taking credit for others' work and lying about it.

Twitter is by no means his greatest crime or fumble. That's not hard to see. However, it is his most personal. He came in and fucked things up for millions of people. Because of his ego.

And there's nothing more dangerous than a rich man's ego.

So, I said goodbye. I'll keep my account up, unless it gets banned, and I might check in every few weeks or months, but as far as actually using Twitter, I'm done.

Elon, go fuck yourself you sad, pathetic little troglodyte. I hope autopilot gets stuck when you're driving one of your shitty cars.

@jodikantor asks infuriating rhetorical questions:

Could it be that people on the highest court in the land are actually held to a lower standard than everyone else?

Why do we subject people who have more power to less scrutiny?

#BananaRepublicSCOTUS #LawlessSCOTUS

@thepoliticalcat @stopgopfox @radiodon1 as someone that lived among Floridians for a decade, I can say they are getting everything they’ve been hoping for. DeSantis fascism is just the beginning.

Published in 2016, this brilliant comic by artist Joe Dater somehow feels even more timely in 2023. #art

🤔 #COVID

Former Facebooker alleges Meta drained users' batteries to test apps https://reg.cx/47ef

#bot
Original tweet : https://https://nitter.1d4.us/TheRegister/status/1620206885222731777

Colossal recently added $60 million in funding to move toward a 2027 de-extinction of the woolly #mammoth.
The Dallas-based company is now working to edit the genes for the #reincarnation of the mammal.
Colossal planned to reintroduce the woolly mammoth into Russia, but that may shift.

The long-dead woolly mammoth will make its return from extinction by 2027, says Colossal, the biotech company actively working to reincarnate the ancient beast.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/scientists-are-reincarnating-the-woolly-mammoth-to-return-in-4-years/ar-AA16UOHV?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=4970b421391448638caa3db57317a37d

What the bloody hell? "Should the bill be enacted, a drag performer caught lip-synching in front of teenagers on two separate occasions could be charged with a Class E felony and sashayed away to their local prison for up to four years. Four years!" https://www.thebulwark.com/dark-and-nasty-republicans-propose-drag-brunch-and-maybe-gay-pride-bans-in-several-states/