A Researcher Hijacked the CIA's Secure Contact Link for Informants Due to a Flaw in X
https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7e9vk/hijacked-cia-telegram-link
My next novel is *The Lost Cause*, a hopeful tale of the climate emergency. As with all my audiobooks, Amazon refuses to sell this one, so I made my own indie audiobook and I'm pre-selling it right now through Kickstarter:
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Today (Oct 19), I'm in #Charleston, WV to give the 41st annual McCreight Lecture in the Humanities:
https://festivallcharleston.com/venue/university-of-charleston/
Tomorrow (Oct 20), I'm at Charleston's #TaylorBooks from 12h-14h:
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#Mastodon is super lively these last few weeks. I love it. I have met lots of interesting people and the conversations are more involved, deeper, and more people are contributing.
Thanks to all of you contributing to make our own corner of the internet fun ❤️
So, the Melon Husk wants to charge $1 for new twitter accounts.
Therefore I just created a new twitter account before his flying monkeys could implement that feature.
Hint: it's called @cstross_exit for now. When I delete @cstross on November 6th, I'll immediately rename the new account to @cstross, thereby hopefully stopping folks seeing all the should-be-deleted-but-probably-aren't tweets from the old account.
Because fuck you, Dilbert Stark.
It's what Jesus would want- https://www.newsweek.com/taylor-swift-travis-kelce-should-executed-christian-commentator-1830763
I suppose I'm a bit late to the party, but I just discovered Douglas @Rushkoff 's podcast, and I found an episode with #Metafilter 's favorite librarian, @jessamyn - https://www.teamhuman.fm/episodes/235-jesamyn-west
#TeamHumanShow
And it gets pretty dark when you realize that the person bringing the dog shit owns the table and all the seats, and decides what is and is not allowed on the table. And if you try to set up a picnic outside the house, where you don't have to eat their shit casserole, they will come and knock all your food around on the ground and accuse you of intolerance and excluding them.
#privilege #marginalized #socialjustice #affirmativeaction #inclusion #diversity #acceptance
Nemo me impune lacessit
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Certified freak, seven days a week.
謙虚だが弱くはない、自信に満ちているが誇りに思っていない、神秘的だが不魔法ではない