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Gary Longsine 📱
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Liberal science is how we discover what's true, and what's not. Information security *is* national security. Free Birdseed podcast, for people who make software. InfoSec NatSec
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 5d
🫟 A Simple Tuneup for Your Cybersecurity 🫟

Every organization, every system, every network, device, and person is under cyber attack from everywhere all the time.

These easy, free tips will help you improve your information security.

You can do this.

Share and "like" this post to help others.
A square image with a black background, a picture of Jupiter on the right, illumineX glass-and-metal logo top center. Text in white: The most important thing you can do to protect yourself from cyber attack is review the security of your email accounts. This thread shows you how. Bottom left slightly larger text in a thin typeface: Simple Cybersecurity Tips
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 2m
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h
JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule
He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.
newrepublic.com
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 4m
Over three election cycles and about 10 years, the MAGA voter pool has grown by about 14 million people, despite an endless stream of lies and career-ending moves by the GOP candidate in all three races.

2016: 62,984,828
2020: 74,223,975
2024: 77,302,580

2/2

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_Un...
2024 United States presidential election - Wikipedia
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 6m
It’s likely that most of us are underestimating the threat from ongoing efforts to radicalize low information voters. 1/2

www.npr.org/2025/06/26/n...
Trump still would have won in 2024 even if everyone had turned out to vote, Pew finds
In 2024, 64% of the eligible-voting population turned out, the second highest in 120 years. New data show that even if all those voters who stayed home had voted, Trump would still be president today.
www.npr.org
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 10m
Vanilla ISIS
Y’allQaeda
American Taliban

Project 2025
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 1h
JB Pritzker and Gavin Newsom are doing something new and important: They understand Stephen Miller's theory of fascist power politics, and they've developed a theory on how to combat it. More Dems need to reckon with Miller's understanding of the moment.

New from me:
newrepublic.com/article/2014...
Inside Stephen Miller’s Secret Plan to Normalize Trump’s Dictator Rule
He wants to supercharge searing civil tensions to get low-information voters to embrace their inner authoritarian. Exactly two Democrats appear to fully grasp this.
newrepublic.com
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euronews.com
Euronews @euronews.com · 3h
Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.
Solar power named the world’s cheapest energy source
Solar energy is now so cheap it costs as little as €0.023 to produce one unit of power, a new study has found.
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Judah Grunstein @judah-grunstein.bsky.social · 18m
From jazz and Elvis' hips to TV and video games, industrialized mass society has never come to grips with the moment when children and the adult world can no longer be kept apart, otherwise known as adolescence.
Denmark plans social media ban for under-15s as PM warns phones ‘stealing childhood’
Mette Frederiksen links social media use to anxiety, depression and lack of concentration
www.theguardian.com
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Laura Helmuth @laurahelmuth.bsky.social · 27m
Six of the nine Nobel Prize winners this year work in the U.S.
Three of the six were born outside the U.S., which is the pattern most years. No country has benefited more from welcoming immigrants from around the world.
www.nobelprize.org
The official website of the Nobel Prize - NobelPrize.org
The Nobel Prize rewards science, humanism and peace efforts. This is one of the central concepts in the will of Alfred Nobel, and it also permeates the outreach activities that have been developed for...
www.nobelprize.org
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 4h
Make sure you read the report about how Stephen Miller deported Waco's favorite Mexican restaurant owner.

www.texastribune.org/2025/10/07/t...
A picture of Sergio Garcia and George W and Laura Bush. It is signed, To Sergio Garcia with best wishes.
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Reverend Aiden @sweetfnlucifer.bsky.social · 13h
JESUS CHRIST, CORPSE ON A FUCKING STICK! Remember how ICE claimed they were rammed by 10 vehicles and had to shoot a woman 7 times? Turns out, her lawyer has footage of a federal SUV slamming into the woman's vehicle, an agent getting out, yelling "do something, bitch!" and opening fire.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h
Not to put too fine a point on it, but unprecedented numbers of immigrants are dying under the second Trump administration. www.thebulwark.com/p/the-moral-...
The “Moral Monsters” Among Us
Immigrants are dying now. Will people of good conscience speak up?
www.thebulwark.com
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AnnieOakleyinGA @annie1x.bsky.social · 18h
#Pinks #ProudBlue
ICE agent called woman “bitch” before he shot her seven times. She was not brandishing a weapon as they claimed. Why won’t they release his name? Don’t let them provoke you. Record everything you can safely.
www.newsweek.com/border-patro...
Border Patrol called anti-ICE protester ‘B****’ before shooting her: lawyer
Lawyer says video shows agents provoked clash before firing, fueling scrutiny of federal use of deadly force.
www.newsweek.com
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 33m
Nobel physics laureate says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US research
Maggy DONALDSON
Tue, October 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM MDT

www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Nobel physics laureate says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US research
It was just past 2:00 am when a mysterious number rang Nobel laureate John Clarke, what he deemed "obviously a joke call" that grew increasingly surreal when he heard "a voice from Sweden."- 'Basic sc...
www.yahoo.com
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 34m
Nobel physics laureate says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US research
Maggy DONALDSON
Tue, October 7, 2025 at 5:27 PM MDT

www.yahoo.com/news/article...
Nobel physics laureate says Trump cuts will 'cripple' US research
It was just past 2:00 am when a mysterious number rang Nobel laureate John Clarke, what he deemed "obviously a joke call" that grew increasingly surreal when he heard "a voice from Sweden."- 'Basic sc...
www.yahoo.com
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 6h
If we look at 20th-century China and Germany as examples, it actually takes a few decades to recover from the type of self-harm that the US is currently inflicting on itself.
And he called US President Donald Trump's efforts to reshape American science and health policy -- including mass firings to government scientists and steep slashes to research budgets -- an "immensely serious problem." "This will cripple much of United States science research," he told AFP, adding that he knew people who have taken enormous funding hits. "It is going to be disastrous if this continues," Clarke said. "Assuming that the present administration finally comes to an end, it may take a decade to get back to where we were, say, half a year ago." "It's a huge problem" that's "entirely beyond any understanding of anyone who is a scientist," he said.
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 6h
The White House is offering “concierge, white glove service” to oil, coal and other fossil fuel companies that are seeking to gain fast approval for their projects, according to an energy official, while slowing down or blocking solar and wind projects.
White House offers ‘concierge’ service to fossil fuel firms, official says
Brittany Kelm, a senior policy adviser for the National Energy Dominance Council, detailed in a podcast how the council works to advance fossil fuel projects.
www.washingtonpost.com
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Gary Longsine 📱 @arbiteriapetus.bsky.social · 39m
Hmm… An Apollo antenna? 🧐🤔 Nope! The Apollo antenna!

www.nasa.gov/image-articl...
Apollo Antenna in Goldstone, CA - NASA
The “Apollo Antenna” was built in 1967 as part of the Manned Space Flight Network (MSFN) and earned its nickname for providing tracking for the Apollo Program. The 26 meter (85 foot) X-Y antenna becam...
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Michel Martin @michelmcqmart.bsky.social · 3h
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTNN...
This Journalist Covered Gun Violence…and It Almost Cost Him His Life | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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Michel Martin @michelmcqmart.bsky.social · 3h
www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDAL...
The Power of the People When America’s Elites Are Absent | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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Michel Martin @michelmcqmart.bsky.social · 3h
I posted the full interview elsewhere; here's the short take on my interview with Adam Serwer on what it means that highly placed individuals are capitulating to the Trump administration's demands .

www.youtube.com/shorts/XLDlO...
Why Are U.S. Companies Cutting Deals with Trump?
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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Michel Martin @michelmcqmart.bsky.social · 3h
What's it like to navigate an autism diagnosis for yourself, your kids, your family ? Taylor Harris wrote a beautiful memoir about her experience
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bpl-...
Mother of Autistic Children Calls RFK Jr.’s Autism Claims “Almost Laughable” | Amanpour and Company
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
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Michel Martin @michelmcqmart.bsky.social · 3h
The Health Secretary has had a lot to say about autism , I wanted to hear from someone who is living it . I posted the whole interview elsewhere
www.youtube.com/shorts/6ZSSK...
RFK Jr.’s Autism Claims “Almost Laughable”
YouTube video by Amanpour and Company
www.youtube.com
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12h
Abridging has always been in vogue. Now, apps like Blinkist take entire books and crunch them down to a series of what are called Blinks—which amount to around 2,000 words. “Is that what books are coming to, a handy social lubricant?” Anthony Lane asks.
Can You Read a Book in a Quarter of an Hour?
Phone apps now offer to boil down entire books into micro-synopses. What they leave out is revealing.
www.newyorker.com
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James L. Bruno @jameslbruno.bsky.social · 6h
With his gilded 90,000 sq ft White House ballroom, Trump follows in the footsteps of Ceausescu, the Kims of N. Korea and other leaders who forced their bad taste on their people at great expense in service to their ego.

“Dispatches From Exile.”
LINK: jameslbruno.substack.com/p/weekly-min...
Weekly Mind Dump: Why Dictators Love Gilded Palaces
History reflects both glory and shame in architecture, structures of divinely-inspired beauty and monstrosities of power-mad potentates. Trump's White House ballroom falls into the latter category.
jameslbruno.substack.com
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AI Firehose @ai-firehose.column.social · 6h
A new framework aligns AI with human preferences, using social choice theory to minimize biases in standard methods. It captures true population distributions, increasing robustness against manipulation in recommendation systems and large language models. https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.05619
Beyond RLHF and NLHF: Population-Proportional Alignment under an Axiomatic Framework
ArXiv link for Beyond RLHF and NLHF: Population-Proportional Alignment under an Axiomatic Framework
arxiv.org
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Portland Mercury @portlandmercury.com · 1d
In response to an investigation launched by the federal government into the Portland Police Bureau’s policing practices at the local ICE facility, the city attorney shot back, laying out a pattern of excessive force used on protesters, and favoritism toward conservative streamers by federal police.
Portland City Attorney to US DOJ: “Please Do Not Fail America”
Portland’s city attorney says federal police are brutalizing protesters, and the government is weaponizing its longstanding settlement agreement with the city. In response to an investigation launched...
www.portlandmercury.com
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