By the way: @soatok@yiff.life is not an impostor account, it's where I post all my 18+ thoughts (and, eventually, will post NSFW art I commission).

@MaierAmsden @finner @evan Is everything where it needs to be? Absolutely not. But by EVERY measure, election security in the US has made REMARKABLE, steady progress, and continues to do so. And this progress has been far more rapid and sustained that I thought possible a decade ago.

@MaierAmsden @finner @evan And this progress has been reflected in policies and practices across the board at the county, state, and federal levels. Elections are now considered part of national critical infrastructure, with national threat intelligence and guidance provided by CISA (something Trump cut back on, but, to his credit, he created the agency in the first place). Many states now prohibit paperless DRE and are rolling out RLAS. And cybersecurity practices have improved generally.

When you promise to end 2 wars and now there are 3. 😂

#NAFO

@finner @evan (I'm no exception. I want to believe it too! Both for personal/political reasons, and also because it would vindicate speculation that technical fraud is in US possible in practice. So I have to be doubly careful to not fool myself with ghosts in the data.)

They took werewolves and made them boring ​:baa:​

For a sucessful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations for nature cannot be fooled.

— Richard Feynman

@finner @evan Does any of this this *disprove* that there was fraud in 2024 (or 2020, or 2016, or ...)?

No. It's *possible*. But saying that an election was "rigged" is an *extraordinary* claim, and extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, which no one has produced.

@finner @evan Go for it. But understand a few things:

- the supposed "smoking guns" indicating fraud in 2024, like those put forward in 2020, aren't really anything.

- elections are ultimately human endeavors, run by fallible people, and small but inconsequential "irregularities" are normal and expected. But it's often very easy to make them seem much more sinister and significant than they are.

- versions of almost everything claimed about 2024 were claimed by the MAGA people in 2020.

A couple of things about these claims circulating that the 2024 election was "rigged":

1. The supposed "proof" is essentially the same nonsensical statistical gobbledygook that the MAGA people were claiming about 2020, with the parties reversed.

2. There is no legal mechanism to "recount" an election after the results are certified. None. The ship has sailed.

3. SHOCKINGLY, they need funds to continue their "work"

4. Nope, not linking to it. Not giving them oxygen.

Personally, I’ve used a Faraday bag “for real” while out and about with a phone exactly once, and that was under an extremely unusual, particular set of circumstances.

Much discussion about “opsec” (a term I don’t love when talking about people exercising their rights, but whatever) at protests today, including about phones and Faraday containers.

A Faraday container is probably less useful here than you think it is, but if you do rely on one, make sure it actually works. Here’s a post I did a while back on the ins and outs of containing RF: https://www.mattblaze.org/blog/faraday/

In particular, a Faraday bag protects you from a very narrow and specific set of phone-related threats, at considerable usability and functionality cost. And they require a nuanced understanding of what they do and what your threat is to use effectively.

If you don’t know exactly what you need one for, you probably don’t.

@maddiefuzz @thegibson

Don't bring devices to a protest.
Don't bring devices to a protest.
Don't bring devices to a protest.
Don't bring devices to a protest.
Don't bring devices to a protest.

You can and will be tracked even if the phone is locked, even if the phone is in airplane mode, even if the phone is off.

Leave it at home. Bring a bodycam.

@joeinwynnewood yes, it is a U.S. Supreme Court decision, holds everywhere.

the hard truth is that the #PentagonPizzaReport crushed all the experts when it came to predicting #Israel's attack on #Iran

#uspol #eupol #uspolitics #pizza #pentagon #petehegseth #natanz #middleeast