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bill vecchio
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Moving here away from hostile X and it's rampant censorship. I wanted to just read fluff however kept seeing injustice and bots. Interested in just about everything. Be kind. I can be patient when bored.
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Well for what it's worth in the US codes title 1 which is regarding all federal laws in the United States it has the declaration that "words importing the masculine gender include the feminine gender as well".
Screenshot of section 1 of US codes title 1 which contains the definition of words denoting number, gender, and so forth. Specifically " words importing the masculine gender include the feminine as well ".
January 19, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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And they found one alleged arsonist.
Possible arson suspect taken into custody in LA by police. The suspect was detained near the Kenneth fire which the LAPD believes was intentionally set. Source was people magazine
January 11, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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You did see her follow on?
@anntelnaes.bsky.social
Cartoon of Jeff Bezos kissing the ass of a Trump shaped statue.
January 9, 2025 at 7:24 AM
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Have you had your lingon berries today?
Foreign word of the day: jonxaht'e verb 1. (transitive, privative) to leave someone without lingonberries, to deprive of lingonberries.
January 6, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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FYI your posts are being eaten as we speak...
Original copy of Tweet about assigning a "X score" or "social credit score" Result when you click on the post.
January 5, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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The Denver Post this morning has a story about the apartment complex here in Aurora that (incorrectly) claimed that a gang had taken over. @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social @briantylercohen.bsky.social
From Denver Post 12/11/2024 Aurora apartments owner CBZ Management sues Colorado attorney general in bid to quash subpoenas CBZ Management, the owner of several dilapidated apartment buildings in Denver and Aurora, has filed a lawsuit against the Colorado Attorney General’s Office aiming to quash investigative subpoenas that had sought records related to its ownership practices. The suit was filed Friday in Denver District Court by CBZ and several constituent companies that formally own its 11 Colorado properties. The companies want a judge to block several subpoenas the AG’s office sent them in September as part of an investigation into whether the companies violated the state’s consumer protection and safe-housing laws. They also seek a protective order blocking the public release of any personal or financial information obtained via the subpoenas, Seth Klamann reports.
December 11, 2024 at 5:59 PM
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Looks like this...
November 27, 2024 at 12:13 AM
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Even Warren Buffett and Mark Cuban say they don’t mind paying taxes. (Posted this yesterday however do not think anyone saw it).
From May 5th this year.
November 21, 2024 at 4:09 PM
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@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social @ryanshead.bsky.social Warren Buffet for over a decade to my memory has repeated that he is willing to pay taxes and that it would significantly reduce the debit. Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social Agreed. Pretty sure this was suppressed on the other site.
November 21, 2024 at 12:31 AM
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As I stated I’ve not had a chance to vet this, I have a PDF.
security did not taint the results of the 2024 election, we recommend pursuing hand recounts in, at minimum, Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania as they will provide insufficient safeguards against threats posed by the breaches of the election software and will not provide important information in a timely way. Thank you for your time and consideration of this important matter. Sincerely, Duncan Buell Ph.D. Chair Emeritus — NCR Chair in Computer Science and Engineering Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering University of South Carolina* David Jefferson Ph.D. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory* (retired) Election Integrity Foundation* Susan Greenhalgh Senior Advisor for Election Security Free Speech For People Chris Klaus Founder Internet Security System* William John Malik Malik Consulting, LLC* Peter G. Neumann Ph.D. Chief Scientist, SRI International Computer Science Lab* John E. Savage An Wang Professor Emeritus of Computer Science Brown University* *Affiliations are listed for identification purposes only and do not imply institutional endorsement.
November 19, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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Before the breaches in Georgia had been confirmed, the Georgia Secretary of State’s chief information officer testified that having copies of the software would provide a “road map” to the ways the system could be accessed.17 The Georgia Attorney General opposed providing copies of the software to lawyers for the Trump campaign in a late 2020 election challenge, arguing that images of the voting system software would provide “the keys to the software kingdom.”18 Notably, U.S. elections are potentially resilient because there are paper ballots recording the voters’ intent in most states, meaning that even if the voting system is at risk, the will of the voters can be determined reliably by recounting the paper ballots by hand (although we are aware that not all paper ballots are verified by the voter, and not all states take adequate care to protect the ballot chain of custody.) Audits will be conducted in some of the most scrutinized states, but in key states they will not be conducted in a timely way that could reveal any concerns with the vote count. In addition, in most states the audits are insufficiently rigorous to ensure any potential errors in tabulation will be caught and corrected, and they cannot be considered a safeguard against the security breaches that have occurred. Specifically, Georgia’s audits are non-binding, and Michigan, Nevada and Wisconsin laws do not provide that the audit be conducted before certification. Therefore, it would be impossible to know for these critical states if the audits uncovered errors or miscalculations before the state deadlines to seek recounts. 19 Among swing states, only Arizona’s audit laws ensure that, if enough discrepancies are identified, the audit hand count will be expanded to correct a potentially incorrect result. Truncated text...
November 19, 2024 at 1:10 AM
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are counted on Dominion or ES&S equipment; ES&S counts 92% of North Carolina ballots; and either ES&S or Dominion counts 97% of Wisconsin votes. 11 Possessing copies of the voting system software enables bad actors to install it on electronic devices and to create their own working replicas of the voting systems, probe them, and develop exploits. Skilled adversaries can decompile the software to get a version of the source code, study it for vulnerabilities, and could even develop malware designed to be installed with minimal physical access to the voting equipment by unskilled accomplices to manipulate the vote counts. Attacks could also be launched by compromising the vendors responsible for programming systems before elections, enabling large scale distribution of malware. In December 202212 and again in 2023,13 many of us, concerned by the security risks posed by these breaches, wrote to the Attorney General, FBI Director, and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Director outlining the security concerns and urging an investigation. Though there have been limited, localized investigations, 14 there is no evidence of a federal investigation15 to determine what was done with the misappropriated voting software. Other relevant parties have pointed to the serious risks posed by the misappropriation of the voting software. Before it was known that partisan operatives had taken the software, Dominion Voting Systems objected vehemently to providing its software to the same partisan actors who ultimately got copies through voting system breaches, stating that to give its software to biased actors would cause “irreparable damage” to the “election security interests of the country.”16
November 19, 2024 at 1:08 AM
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that runs all of the equipment in Georgia, and certain other states, and shared it with other Trump allies and operatives.4 Subsequent court filings and public records requests revealed that the breaches in Georgia were part of a larger effort to take copies of voting system software from systems in Michigan,5 Pennsylvania,6 Colorado7 and Arizona,8 and to share the software in the operatives’ network. According to testimony9 and declarations10 by some of the technicians who have obtained copies of the software, they have had access for more than three years to the software for the central servers, tabulators, and highly restricted election databases of both Election Systems & Software (ES&S), and Dominion Voting Systems, the two largest voting system vendors, constituting the most severe election security breach publicly known. Combined, their equipment counts nearly 70% of all votes nationwide. Ninety-six percent of Arizona voters use Dominion and ES&S equipment; 100% of Georgia voters vote on Dominion machines; 98% of Nevada votes on Dominion voting machines and the remainder uses ES&S; 69% of Michigan voters’ ballots are counted on Dominion or ES&S equipment; 89% of Pennsylvania voters ballots
November 19, 2024 at 1:06 AM
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Sigh, when computer security software keeps you safe.
That purple mess in the initial post.
This is the image which goes with the text in the initial post. Dear Vice President Harris, We write to alert you to serious election security breaches that have threatened the security and integrity of the 2024 elections, and to identify ways to ensure that the will of the voters is reflected and that voters should have confidence in the result. The most effective manner of doing so is through targeted recounts requested by the candidate. In the light of the breaches we ask that you formally request hand recounts in at least the states of Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. We have no evidence that the outcomes of the elections in those states were actually compromised as a result of the security breaches, and we are not suggesting that they were. But binding risk-limiting audits (RLAs) or hand recounts should be routine for all elections, especially when the stakes are high and the results are close. We believe that, under the current circumstances when massive software breaches are known and documented, recounts are necessary and appropriate to remove all potential doubt and to set an example for security best practices in all elections. In 2022, records, video camera footage, and deposition testimony produced in a civil case in Georgia1 disclosed that its voting system, used statewide, had been breached over multiple days by operatives hired by attorneys for Donald Trump.2 , 3 The evidence showed that the operatives made copies of the software
November 19, 2024 at 1:02 AM
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@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social So an engineer forwarded to me a letter, I've not vetted it, however I do think if it checks out it deserves wide coverage. How to get it to you?
Letter to Harris citing possibility of voting system software breach. Dear Vice President Harris, We write to alert you to serious election security breaches that have threatened the security and integrity of the 2024 elections, and to identify ways to ensure that the will of the voters is reflected and that voters should have confidence in the result. The most effective manner of doing so is through targeted recounts requested by the candidate. In the light of the breaches we ask that you formally request hand recounts in at least the states of Michigan, Nevada, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. We have no evidence that the outcomes of the elections in those states were actually compromised as a result of the security breaches, and we are not suggesting that they were. But binding risk-limiting audits (RLAs) or hand recounts should be routine for all elections, especially when the stakes are high and the results are close. We believe that, under the current circumstances when massive software breaches are known and documented, recounts are necessary and appropriate to remove all potential doubt and to set an example for security best practices in all elections. In 2022, records, video camera footage, and deposition testimony produced in a civil case in Georgia1 disclosed that its voting system, used statewide, had been breached over multiple days by operatives hired by attorneys for Donald Trump.2 , 3 The evidence showed that the operatives made copies of the software
November 19, 2024 at 12:59 AM