It’s almost June, your yearly reminder that there is no pride without trans and non-binary people. Don’t support orgs that sacrifice them for a buck.

In January, I wrote about a vast China-based cloud CDN called Funnull that catered to cybercriminals in China and Russia seeking to route their traffic through US-based Cloud providers, particularly Microsoft and Amazon.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/infrastructure-laundering-blending-in-with-the-cloud/

I did not expect this, or so quickly, but it looks like Treasury just sanctioned Funnulll, calling it a major scam distributor.

https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/sb0149

January's story was based on research by Silent Push, which found a large number of domains hosted via Funnull promoting gambling sites that bear the logo of the Suncity Group, a Chinese entity named in a 2024 UN report (PDF) for laundering millions of dollars for the North Korean Lazarus Group.

In 2023, Suncity’s CEO was sentenced to 18 years in prison on charges of fraud, illegal gambling, and “triad offenses,” i.e. working with Chinese transnational organized crime syndicates. Suncity is alleged to have built an underground banking system that laundered billions of dollars for criminals.

@jeffjarvis in 1980s Wisconsin, I campaigned for the Nuclear Freeze mvt. and met a couple who had had themselves sterilized in the 60s because they felt like nuclear war was imminent and they didn’t want to bring a baby into a doomed world. Some people actually do consider the future world their child will live in when deciding whether or not to conceive. Right now, the future has never looked bleaker. Oligarchy created this problem by making income disparity so vast.

One of the reasons we are where we are today is that the majority of the political media sees this all as a game and the only thing they care about is themselves being centered- access and revenue.

Good governance? Helping people's lives? Don't care. As long Trump comes and gives them the attention.

But we have a part in this, too, which is to turn it off and demand and support something better.

Freedom of the press is about more than access | Media Matters for America
https://www.mediamatters.org/donald-trump/freedom-press-about-more-access

We need to start calling social media users what they really are: content providers. Content providers who aren’t paid anything to produce content these companies use to market their products to *other* content providers. #wagetheft #socialmedia #meta #twitter

Surely I can’t be the only homosexual spending early Sunday morning making candied orange and grapefruit peels? #citrus #fruit #lgbtq #granola

As a former employee, this makes me very happy. https://www.kqed.org/arts/13974460/roxie-theater-buy-the-building-san-francisco #roxie #film #sf

Asshole politicians don’t have values, they have victims

this, this is it — this is the post

#harris2024 @kamalaharrisforpresidentnews

If Will Bunch wrote it, you should read it.©

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"You'll be shocked to learn that mainstream media, amid its frenzied coverage of that #Biden book and #cancer diagnosis, is missing the story that matters most to Americans

A vengeful #Trump has shot down Biden's cancer 'moonshot,' with funding down 31%."

https://www.inquirer.com/columnists/attytood/cancer-research-cuts-trump-biden-gallego-slotkin-cryptocurrency-20250520.html

Imagine having a bicycle with a closed chain guard. One day the chain falls off & you realize it's assembled with tamper-proof screws.

Now imagine the manufacturer wanting to make unscrewing that screw a felony carrying a 5-year prison sentence & a $500K fine.

They'd be booed out of business, if not institutionalized.

None the less, that's EXACTLY how DMCA 1201 works.

Despite @pluralistic & others' efforts I feel this isn't clear to the general public.

#tech #business #enshittification

apparently there is a “rave collective” in toronto that has offered to be on-call for any reports of right-wing protests to bring a portable sound system and drown them out with 200bpm hardcore acid techno

i am so fucking here for this

@aulia this sort of obvious error is a predictable outcome of adopting AI in journalism while cutting copy editing staff.

@w7voa ...Stephen Miller the most scary person in my view, kind of Goebbels figure in Trump's entourage.

I hope everyone realizes now that Trump's "Executive Orders" are just his ugly tweets printed on official stationery with better grammar and capitalization. They have no connection to reality, or legality.

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration. https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/04/clearview-ai-immigration-ice-fbi-surveillance-facial-recognition-hoan-ton-that-hal-lambert-trump/

It's funny how when you ask them why they think Pope Francis was "too woke" and request specific examples, they always wound up describing Christ's teachings without a hint of self-awareness.

Spot on.

@TonyStark If you ever want to explain how antisemitism works, I can think of no better example than targeting an American Jewish governor for the Israeli government's actions.

It's not even the point, but Josh Shapiro has called Netanyahu “one of the worst leaders of all time.”

Here's a description of the Russian attempted access to NLRB from the whistleblower complaint. whistlebloweraid.org/wp-content/u...