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Ryan Jamieson

@knitsecurity.com

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Cybersecurity nerd and refugee from X. Owner of Knit Security. Ex Army, RTL, Rockstar Games/2K Games, EY, Amex. Love to stymie criminal actions on the interwebs.

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Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 2d

At this point I'm waiting for drunk driving to be decriminalized.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 3d

I know. Because it doesn't actually work for people who aren't already Democrats. Here in the bubble it's great, tho.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 3d

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Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 3d

They should be able to discuss POLICY but instead, to your point, it's all horse race.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 3d

Right? The root cause is that people want to be HEARD. They feel powerless and ignored and so stirring up shit is how they scratch that itch.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 3d

Bigly. Messaging needs to be targeted to what the office can do for voters. But also, messaging needs to capture the zeitgeist. It's a balance. Trump showed you can win on outright lies, but they come bite you later.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 3d

We need mandatory civics classes, too, apparently, because it seems nobody in our great land has any inkling about how separation of powers is supposed to work. We've got 2 city council candidates in my town running on GAZA. Like, guys, Israel doesn't care about the position of our city council.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 3d

We need both housing and treatment at the same time. And it's not the billionaires that are causing housing shortages, it's NIMBYs that prevent any growth anywhere and conservatives freaking out that someone 'undeserving' gets any sort of assistance.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 3d

It's real. We're in the midst of it with our 7yo.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 3d

I'm sorry. That sucks. I was in the same boat as a kid (enrolled in both Remedial English and AP English in the same semester) and my kiddo didn't fall far from the tree. Wrestling the bureaucracy sucks, but as prior service, we're at least skilled in it.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 4d

Fun fact: the US, by virtue of its geography and size, experiences more natural disasters than any other nation.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 4d

I live in Boulder and have seen fits and starts of people attempting to kick start local journalism back to life. I think a really hard part in doing so is that so many locals will paint it as heavily partisan if it doesn't entirely align with their worldview.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 4d

It's a party led by either opportunists who are taking advantage of an uninformed electorate, or people who don't think further than their next footstep.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 7d

I mean that it was a turning point in that prior mass casualty events caused Congress to take action in some way. That's no longer the case.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 8d

Yeah, Sandy Hook really was a turning point.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 8d

Doubtful. The only things that Trump & Co seem to care about are gaining power and personal enrichment.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 9d

Yeah, I was thinking of this as well. A mass movement to end withholdings would be pretty impactful to the budget, esp. if in April there was also a mass movement to file extensions rather than taxes and eat the 1% monthly penalty. The problem is that feds would just borrow more.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 9d

I mean, how would that pressure any change from the administration?

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 9d

How do you imagine that would work?

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 9d

It’d need to be grassroots. Essentially, instruct people to eliminate payroll deductions, then in April, teach people how to file extensions again and again.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 11d

To clarify, tt says it won't renew with CIS, but it will maintain information sharing with MS-ISAC.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 15d

Deploying to the region != invading. I was part of the '03 Iraq invasion, and I'm not seeing anything now that would make me think we're spinning up the machine to go invade Venezuela.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 16d

We've mobilized Southern Command? When did that happen?

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 16d

Nah. We're going through a rough patch, to be sure, and it'll likely get worse before it gets better, but we're not in civil war, we're not invading our neighbors, we're not seeing widespread extrajudicial killings... We can still right the ship, it just will take a lot of work.

Ryan Jamieson @knitsecurity.com · 18d

Ah, so you're advocating that the left do everything that the right has blamed/accused them of doing since Obama, but, like, for realsies.