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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 11h

@heidilifeldman meanwhile here in IL we're just gonna be invaded while the courts grind away

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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 14h

Discount Goebbels: Don't call us fascist.

Also Discount Goebbels: Can I introduce you to my buddy who thinks the Nazis were the good guys?

Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 15h

From Donald Trump's Roundtable on Antifa just now —
"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."
— special guest Jack Posobiec

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Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 14h

One of the basic points in my new Dispatch piece on the right to record immigration raids and raiders is that ICE agents are already informally “enforcing” their disapproval of at-the-scene recording by roughing up journalists, freelance photographers, and others with cellphone cameras. /1

Walter Olson @walterolson.bsky.social · 1d

New from me at The Dispatch: DHS says it's illegal to videotape ICE agents. That's not what the courts say. @thedispatchmedia.bsky.social

DHS Says Videotaping ICE Agents Is Illegal. Federal Courts Disagree.

Filming law enforcement serves important goals central to a free republic.

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Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com · 17h

1. In a devastating new Pew Research Survey, only 3 in 10 transgender adults report being accepted by their parents.

And only 1 in 10 say they are accepted by their extended family.

This is the lowest number ever found in surveys asking similar questions.

Subscribe to support our journalism.

Pew Survey: Only 31% Of Trans People Report Being Accepted By Their Parents

The survey comes as transgender people experience a legal assault from the far-right in the United States.

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Amy @lolennui.bsky.social · 16h

So cool that whenever someone asks the president, “did you eat the Lindbergh baby” he’s like, “no but I’d be allowed to, I have the right to, I might do it later”

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lucie lukas "minute" hartmann @mntmn.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 16h

BTW if you're looking for an open hardware, repairable laptop made by a small team in berlin with no venture capital, maybe MNT Reform Next could be interesting for you: https://www.crowdsupply.com/mnt/mnt-reform-next

MNT Reform Next

A new 12.5" open hardware laptop that is future-proof, modular, and highly performant

www.crowdsupply.com

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 14h

Unauthorized Improvement!
https://sfba.social/@williampietri/115340138819722945

William Pietri (@[email protected])

Attached: 2 images I can't fix the big things, but I can do something about the small ones. A few days ago I went to the post office to ship something. I put it in one of the flat rate boxes and went to address it. Of the 6 pen-on-chain doodads they had, only one was left, and that one had no ink. Gah! So I ordered some of those tethered pens, which are not expensive, and today I went back to quietly install them. I felt vaguely criminal, but I got all 6 installed and nobody noticed. Making a few thousand people's life slightly better is a small thing with all the chaos in the world today. But it's the thing I could do, and I'm glad of it.

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Viss @viss.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/logitech-will-brick-its-100-pop-smart-home-buttons-on-october-15

if you're gonna do the smart home thing or get into home automation, dont use anything cloud based.

home assistant has an entire community surrounding de-clouding stuff and using brands […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 18h

Excellent information on the established First Amendment right to film law enforcement including ICE agents. https://archive.is/2025.10.08-114704/https://thedispatch.com/article/dhs-ice-agents-doxing-protected-first-amendment/

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 18h

@adamshostack admittedly as someone who makes MFA that protects the whole account and not just interactive logins, this is exactly what bugs me.

Insurance vendors will at some point go "well we tried MFA and that didn't work, better make everyone do something harder and more expensive like PAM" […]

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 19h

@adamshostack I see a second-order effect of this too. When insurance requires a control but they don't understand or specify the way it needs to work under various threat models.

Example: mandating the use of MFA on privileged accounts. Cool; customer can use Duo for domain admin logins and […]

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: @adamshostack.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Back to the general case, cyber insurers have a set of exceptions that lead to policies not paying out, including act of war, but much more importantly, misrepresentation.

A cynical way to think about this is because insurance is competitive, the way new policies are sold is that they ask a […]

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Adam Shostack :donor: :rebelverified: @adamshostack.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 19h

Cybersecurity insurance

First and foremost, in cybersecurity, insurers generally have little idea of what leads to bad problems, and so premiums have been consistently mis-priced as they've learned, often draining reserves, after which premiums shot sky high.

The only insurer I see […]

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20h

@hacks4pancakes this anchoring feels like boomers looking back on their own experience to tell millennials that everything in a good life is easily affordable if you just budget

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Lesley Carhart :unverified: @hacks4pancakes.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 20h

I see so much gaslighting of people who are struggling to find jobs at junior and mid-level cybersecurity by folks who got their last job or first job before 2023. It's unreal and uncalled for. The market and the automation in the hiring processes have gone to hell […]

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 20h

@wdormann "Microsoft is forcing us to use MS accounts!1" is practically a spring-loaded reflex these days, and 99% of replies are to run Linux

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 22h

We’re not dealing with brilliant strategists cleverly laying traps, we’re dealing with impulsive whiners whose advantage is contempt for laws, norms, and morality.

They’re not pulling some elaborate trick, they’re just willing—even eager—to do things regular, principled people consider off limits.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 22h

WLS TV - President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Gov. JB Pritzker "should be in jail for failing to protect ICE officers!” https://abc7chicago.com/post/texas-national-guard-chicago-area-troops-arrive-elwood-illinois-protests-expected-city-wednesday/17962765/

Protests expected Wednesday amid arrival of Texas troops to Chicago area

National Guard Troops from Texas are camped out in the Chicago area; they are expected to begin operations this week.

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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 22h

One result of forcing people to work for survival income is that people get stuck in jobs they aren't actually any good at. A fascist regime seeking loyalists feeds on this and recruits from their ranks. Universal Basic Income would help in this regard too by creating a smaller pool to recruit from.

Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 1d

It's a well-established global phenomenon: secret police organizations always recruit losers, mediocrities, people who can't succeed in a competitive environment, whether bureaucratic, academic or commercial. These are people who will follow orders and engage in depraved, violent conduct when asked.

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Steve Herman @w7voa.journa.host.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Dozens killed or wounded while protesting against Burma’s military government after an army motorized paraglider dropped two bombs on the crowd. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge2l1xj2zdo

Myanmar: At least 24 killed as army paraglider bombs Buddhist festival

Locals tell the BBC the carnage has made it hard to identify victims of the military attack.

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David Ho @davidho.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy · 1d

RFK Jr. fired Dr. Jeanne Marrazzo, former director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, after she filed a whistleblower complaint alleging that the Trump regime had undermined vaccine research and defied court orders. Dr. Marrazzo’s dismissal is part of a pattern of […]

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Greg Bell @ferrix.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy · 21h

@hacks4pancakes more like gate...warning? Gate advising?

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Alex McLean @yaxu.post.lurk.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Lets be honest, we've all already bought all the arduinos we'll ever need

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Brian Harrod @brianharrod.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

FOX NEWS IDIOT: If you thought the masked "Former Antifa Member" Jesse Watters had on last week looked familiar, there's a reason for that... #omg...He was also the masked "former gang member" and masked "Gaza resident" Watters had previously interviewed […]

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