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"Covert Fashion Provides Camouflage Against Surveillance Software"

https://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2017/03/13/520021384/covert-fashion-provides-camouflage-against-surveillance-software

‘My jaw dropped’: Ex-NSA workers stunned after museum covers names of women and minorities https://www.rawstory.com/trump-dei-2671104179/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Action Alert from Big Sky 55+!
TOMORROW (Thursday, February 6)

Protect Medicaid National Day of Action

Big Sky 55+ is joining Community Catalyst and groups around the country for a Call-in to Protect Medicaid.
#Medicaid #SEIU #MTPol

Congress is putting together their budget, and planning to make substantial cuts to Medicaid and other programs to pay for tax breaks for the wealthy.

Labor groups sue to block DOGE from accessing key economic data https://www.axios.com/2025/02/06/musk-doge-labor-bls?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

STUDY: "In the Omicron-predominant wave, the mortality rate of #COVID19 decreased, but the number of patients increased, leading to a substantial increase in the number of deaths, especially among the elderly. The mortality rate of COVID-19 was higher than that of influenza in the elderly but not in the young."

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s41479-025-00158-y

Labor groups sue to block DOGE from accessing key economic data
https://www.axios.com/2025/02/06/musk-doge-labor-bls?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Stories by Emily Peck @stories-by-emily-peck-AxiosNews

Last month, the Jewish-American news site #Forward reported a shocking scoop:
The #Heritage #Foundation,
the conservative think tank behind Project 2025,
is planning to “identify and target” Wikipedia editors.
Through analyzing text patterns, usernames, and technical data and employing social-engineering tactics,
Heritage aimed to reveal the identities of anonymous Wikipedia editors it believes are “abusing their position” on the platform.

In the culture of Wikipedia editing,
it is common for individuals to use pseudonyms to protect their privacy and avoid personal threats.
Revealing an editor’s personal information without their consent,
a practice known as #doxing,
is a form of harassment that can result in a user’s being permanently banned from the site.
Although this behavior is strictly prohibited by Wikipedia’s rules,
Heritage has endorsed these scorched-earth tactics in response to what it perceives as antisemitism among certain editors covering the Israeli–Palestinian conflict on Wikipedia.

https://slate.com/technology/2025/02/wikipedia-project-2025-heritage-foundation-doxing-editors-antisemitism.html

Farage does this all the time, the man who goaded the public with violent rhetoric during the Brexit campaign and then a Remain MP got murdered and he just kept on doing it.

https://www.mediamatters.org/january-6-insurrection/right-wing-media-routinely-frame-banal-remarks-democrats-calls-violence

#Uspol #Farage #Brexit #NigelFarage #UKPOL #Ukpolitics

Silicon Valley didn't build shit.

You think any of these companies would have any kind of valuation without HUGE, NATIONAL infrastructure projects, build on and for the public good?

"I am calling to urge you to protect Medicaid and other programs that keep people healthy.

"Medicaid allows children, seniors, people with disabilities, pregnant people, and adults with low incomes to get the health care they need. Nationally it provides health coverage for 36.8 million children, 60% of seniors in nursing homes, and 41% of births.

Begun again have the License wars.

#OpenSource #LLM #ZuckBucks

https://www.zdnet.com/article/why-mark-zuckerberg-wants-to-redefine-open-source-so-badly/

Banksy #Friday #Pissoir #Trump #ArtAsProtest #ArtAsMeditation

Bird flu found in second Georgia commercial poultry flock | Business | gmtoday.com https://www.gmtoday.com/business/bird-flu-found-in-second-georgia-commercial-poultry-flock/article_25829768-d915-11ef-8019-b3a3c6223928.html

#GitHub Is Showing the Trump Administration Scrubbing #Government Web Pages in Real Time
Watch Trump administration play #DEI whac-a-mole on this government agency's GitHub page.
The Trump administration has not tried to hide that it is trying to delete web pages and employee information across the government. But seeing the change logs pop up as they’re happening on GitHub shows exactly how these changes are being done and how they’re rolling out.
https://www.404media.co/github-is-showing-the-trump-administration-scrubbing-government-web-pages-in-real-time/
https://archive.ph/rOx94

Trump has now told the Prime Minister of Denmark, Mette Frederiksen, that the Danes will be forced to sell Greenland whether they like it or not. Madness.

"He was very firm. It was a cold shower. Before, it was hard to take it seriously. But I do think it is serious, and potentially very dangerous." People briefed on the call further said that "The intent was very clear. They want it. The Danes are now in crisis mode," and “The Danes are utterly freaked out by this."

https://www.rawstory.com/trump-greenland-2670990145/

Folks refusing to leave X because "it'd mean the bad ones win". X, Instagram, Facebook... are apps and services you use, not countries to fight for.
If your baker starts dealing nazi propaganda with every baguette they sell... What would you do? Still go there every day and buy some bread to try to make their opinion change? Nah! You will most likely find another bakery.
Maybe not as close or near you, not with all the types of bread you like... But without nazis.
Don't fight for them.

Hey, random #Fediversian.

You're worth it. Keep your chin up.

🫰 from just another crazy nerd.