Looks like Corporate #infosec has made it's choice.

#RSAC is filled with talks embracing AI and making it "secure".

And they invited and encouraged the Trump regime to spread its disinformation - fully sanctioned and encouraged by the conference leadership(and by conference attendees who laughed at the regime's jokes and lies and issued no challenges or stands during the talk).

With the ostracization of #ChrisKrebs by industry and the full embrace of Kristi Noem as a speaker, this was the moment that infosec made its bed.

Y'all lie in it now.

Jill Sobule has passed away at age 66. She paved the way with heart, humor, and honesty. The first openly gay artist to break the Billboard Top 20, her songs like “I Kissed a Girl” and “Supermodel” changed the soundtrack—and the conversation.

This newly processed image of a cosmic pillar in the Eagle Nebula M16 has been released as part of ESA/Hubble’s 35th anniversary celebrations.

The 9.5 light-years tall pillar is 7,000 light-years from Earth.

The intricate structure is sculpted from cold Hydrogen gas by the fierce radiation and stellar winds of stars north-east of this image near the center of M16. New star formation is occurring within the compressed gas of the pillar.

https://science.nasa.gov/missions/hubble/hubble-spies-cosmic-pillar-in-eagle-nebula/
ESA/Hubble & NASA, K. Noll
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Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Mark Zuckerberg personally lost the Facebook antitrust case; and more!

Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/18/chatty-zucky/

#Pluralistic

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as the #Microsoft CEO, Satya Nadella, began talking up new products, five employees stood on a platform above, exposing lettering on their T-shirts that spelled out the words: “Does Our Code Kill Kids, Satya?”

#genocide
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/18/microsoft-ai-israel-gaza-war

P.S. I noticed one error in the article: the description of DNS tunneling is wrong. When someone is using DNS tunneling to exfiltrate data, they're generating the DNS queries with the data in them from inside the network, causing them to be sent to a DNS server under their control outside the network. It's not the server generating the queries as described in the article.
I didn't notice any other substantive errors in the article.
#infosec #DNSTunneling

This is a long, well-reported, well-sourced article about all the f*ckery DOGE is doing with exfiltrating data from government agencies for purposes unknown (likely nefarious and illegal).
Many of the dangers and threats cited here are the things I was saying were going to happen to anyone in the media who would listen during my media blitz after I was fired. Glad to see them getting more attention.
#politics #USPol #DOGE #infosec
Ref: https://www.npr.org/2025/04/15/nx-s1-5355896/doge-nlrb-elon-musk-spacex-security

🧵 Read the alt texts of the photos above about the #yarn's history. Here you can learn more about the history of this "more glossy than silk" patent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rayon

This #emboidery #floss was a hype since 1905/1910 ... and we can imagine that some of the governesses who had the misfortune to be on board, used it for #embroideries in the luxury rooms of the #Titanic.

#history #textileHistory #histodon #fibreArts #textileArts

🧵 #OTD the #Titanic sank in 1912. When I was a very small child, I knew an old woman who narrowly escaped this disaster. As the governess of a US millionaire's children, she was supposed to be travelling on the Titanic. They arrived too late in England and couldn't get tickets.

Shortly before her death, she gave me some old #yarn. I haven't dared to use it to this day because it's like travelling back in #deepTime. 113 years can feel so near.

#histodon #museum #embroidery #fiberArts #history

'“Taxes,” declared Oliver Wendell Holmes, “are what we pay for civilized society.” But these days barbarians are in control.'

https://open.substack.com/pub/paulkrugman/p/happy-tax-evasion-day?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android&r=diqr

A judge ruled that Propaganda Outlet Newsmax coverage of Dominion Voting Systems was false and defamatory.

Newsmax Media (NMAX.N) published defamatory and false statements accusing Dominion Voting Systems of rigging the 2020 election


#resist #resistance #uspol #uspolitics #politics #democracy #ruleoflaw #law #judiciary #Justice

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/delaware-judge-rules-newsmax-defamed-dominion-voting-systems-2025-04-09/

#Maine governor criticizes #Trump administration for freezing funds amid #transgender athlete dispute: ‘It’s not rational’

By Alyssa Vega Globe Staff,Updated April 14, 2025

"Maine #GovernorJanetMills criticized the Trump administration on Monday just days after it moved to cut all federal #education funding to the state. The move came in response to Maine’s refusal to enforce the administration’s directive to ban transgender athletes from competing in women’s sports.
In an interview on MSNBC’s 'Morning Joe' Monday, Mills said the state received a series of letters from federal agencies, culminating in an April 2 letter from Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, which the Maine governor described as 'appalling' in tone and substance. Mills said the next day Rollins threatened to pull all education funding to the state.

" 'Because there are maybe two — at most — two transgender athletes competing in Maine schools right now, they decided to shut off funding for our school nutrition program, the school lunch program entirely, on which 172,000 Maine school #children rely for their school meals. That didn’t make any sense,' Mills said. "

Read more:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2025/04/14/nation/maine-governor-janet-mills-criticizes-trump-administration-funding-freeze/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/NRfNV

#USPol #TrumpHatesChildren #TrumpIsABully #MadKingTrump #JanetMills #GovernorMills #TransgenderAthletes #TransAthletes #ProtectTransYouth #SeeYouInCourt #MaineResists #TransErasure #TransgenderRights #TransgenderRightsAreHumanRights

Trump told us the plan today: The Trump administration wants the prison in El Salvador — and, perhaps, others — to hold Americans.

Importantly, Vance, Rubio, and Bondi did not appear surprised or upset by this news — in fact, it did not appear to be news to them at all. This is the plan.

Law Dork: https://www.lawdork.com/p/trump-told-us-the-horrifying-reason

Why Trump And Musk Ignore The Largest Money Laundering Scheme In Human History

#SocialSecurityContractUnderreporting #ICEContractExaggeration #PopularResistanceInvestigation #TrumpAdministrationTransparency #USAIDContractInflation

https://popularresistance.org/why-trump-and-musk-ignore-the-largest-money-laundering-scheme-in-human-history/

@samlitzinger It's all part of the plan...

“The capitalist has no heart, but harpoon him in the pocketbook and you will draw blood.”

- Bill Haywood

@nullagent 🤣

Trophy had it out for him...

Trophy isn't a PATRIOT!

Damn sh*tlib trophy didn't say "thank you" ONCE!

Ohio State's probably gonna get its federal funding frozen for this /s

Coulda happened to ANYBODY, but I'm feeling empowered by their incompetence...didn't know it would involve lifting vaguely heavy? objects but I'm tallying these *wins*...

*edited because I can't spell..

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/jd-vance-fumbles-ohio-states-203151584.html

@nullagent
Remember kids: you too can be vice president as long as you knuckle down, apply yourself... and learn to be a little **worse** at everything.

@nullagent He always looks like he's living in a skinsuit like that alien cockroach monster from MIB.