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Cynthia Brumfield
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DC resident and cybersecurity writer, analyst, book author, publisher. https://metacurity.com/ https://cyberriskbook.com/
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I just visited X. First thing I saw was a purely political tweet from DHS railing against the “legacy media” for failing to report accurately.

They are confused - the “legacy media” is mostly all MAGA-owned or MAGA-aligned now. What they must be referring to are us citizens here on social media.
A tweet from DHS proclaiming that Renee Good was stalking and impeding law enforcement the day she was murdered, saying “The evidence speaks for itself. The legacy media has lost the trust of the American people.”
January 11, 2026 at 7:01 AM
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CORPOELEC calls the munitions that took out power in the attack on Caracas "missiles." Says that it has been able to restore 80% of the lost power.

Resilience in the face of devastation: CORPOELEC restores electricity service after attack on substations
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Image of a bombed-out substation in San Bernardino, Caracas.
January 7, 2026 at 7:16 PM
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I’m sorry, what? Is BlueSky automatically translating posts?
A commenter posted a reply to my post and BlueSky is telling me the comment was originally written in Italian even though it appeared in English.
January 7, 2026 at 8:10 AM
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The website for Venezuela's state-owned electric transmission system is down for maintenance.
A down for maintenance notice was posted on Venezuela's state-run electricity transmission system.
January 3, 2026 at 6:12 PM
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New DC street art.
A sticker that reads Stephen Miller is a piece of shit.
January 2, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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There are more white interest social media platforms than I would expect.
A partial image of the white interest groups that this member belongs to.
December 29, 2025 at 11:19 PM
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A few guys I’ve looked at so far just say they are Nazis.
One member who included national socialism under political orientation.
December 29, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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okstupid.lol

Check out some of the profiles. Wow. No wonder chicks don’t like right-wingers, even, apparently right-wing chicks.
A screenshot that reads: After stumbling into WhiteDate.net — a site for “Europids seeking tribal love” (their words, not mine) — I scraped, poked, and prodded the public data, user profiles, and platform quirks. What did I discover? Not just a digital echo chamber of paleo-fantasies and bio-essentialism, but also: Poor cybersecurity hygiene that would make even your grandma’s AOL account blush Image metadata (EXIF) so revealing, it practically hands out home addresses with a side of awkward selfies A gender ratio that makes the Smurf village look like a feminist utopia A paywall system so confusing, we’re still not sure if we accidentally bought a timeshare in Saxony And a paper trail so obvious, even a bot could follow it back to the founder (and probably did)
December 29, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Snuggling with my fur baby this Christmas morning.

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate!!! 🎄🎅
Cat sleeping on my bed next to me.
December 25, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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These dudes
An aluminum ashtray from McDonalds in the 1970s.
December 20, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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He's killing what was once a very vibrant cultural center.

I'm so heartsick. This place has been a refuge for me too many times to count in my life.

www.nytimes.com/live/2025/12...
An image of Donald Trump's name being added to the Kennedy Center facade.
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Very useful interactive piece that clarifies who among the tech/billionaire axis are trying to destroy democracy.
Chart depicting the "kingmakers" among the authoritarian tech network and the connections among them.
December 15, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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h/t infosec.exchange/@catsalad
Photo of a cat who presumably triggered a bank alarm looking through the front doors of a bank.
December 11, 2025 at 12:14 PM
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Apropos of nothing, there is this marvelous guy (I think he’s a model) who takes his cat Eddie on extreme outdoor hikes and now sledding with him. And Eddies seems to love it. Here’s a screenshot from his TikTok account.
Screenshot from a TikTok video by Peter Mai f him holding his cat Eddie, who is wearing a hat, after pulling him through the snow on a sled.
December 9, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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Reaction to this story over at infosec.exchange
The reaction from @cR0w over on InfoSec Exchange, assigning each of the letters of cyber to each of the five pages of Trump's reported cyber strategy.
December 4, 2025 at 6:04 PM
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Sean Plankey’s name appearing on a list of Senate confirmations scheduled for December 4
December 4, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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It's been 10 months since anyone heard from Edward Snowden.
Image of a January 31, 2025 tweet from Edward Snowden that reads "It's quite simple, Senator: if you're more upset at the whistleblower than you are at the lawbreaking they revealed, you're not in a position to be questioning anybody's judgment."
November 29, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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Emerson T. Brooking of the Atlantic Council predicts that genAI is the next frontier of enshittification which will attract state threat actors in particular. AI optimization will supplant search engine optimization, he says.

Oh joy more powerful enshittification ahead. #cyberwarcon
A slide at CYBERWARCON from Emerson T. Brooking with images of article headlines that point to enshittification and predictions on how AI is the next frontier of enshittification.
November 19, 2025 at 8:12 PM
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Really digging this year’s CYBERWARCON logo
A picture of the evolution of warfare rising from early primate with a bone all the way to a threat developer hunched over a laptop.
November 19, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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What an inconvenient fact for MAGA that Trump, in fact, is a convicted felon 34 times over.
Image of an NPR headline that reads: Here's what all 34 felony counts in Trump's hush money ...
November 19, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Oh no. St. John’s University has banned the HOPE Conference because one person claimed it is anti-police.
What we're told - and what we find rather hard to believe - is that all of this came about because a single person thought we were promoting an anti-police agenda. They had spotted pamphlets on a table which an attendee had apparently brought to HOPE that espoused that view. Instead of bringing this to our attention, they went to the president's office at St. John's after the conference had ended. That office held an investigation which we had no knowledge of and reached its decision earlier this month. The lack of due process on its own is extremely disturbing. The intent of the person behind this appears clear: shut down events like ours and make no attempt to actually communicate or resolve the issue. If it wasn't this pamphlet, it would have been something else. In this day and age where academic institutions live in fear of offending the same authorities we've been challenging for decades, this isn't entirely surprising. It is, however, greatly disappointing, as we truly believed St. John's valued the freedom that we have always stood for.
November 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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There's a bit of a Cloudflare outage going on
Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC
November 18, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Looks at the two news alerts back to back.
A NYT alert showing the UN Security approved Trumps’ peace plan followed by a NYT alert showing that Trump will sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia.
November 17, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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A very unfortunate headline.
A headline from a piece in Red Hot Cyber that says "Are Black Hackers Demanding Ransom? Checkout.com Responds: We Fund Those Hunting You."
November 16, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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Love this - a powerhouse of former FCC commissioners and chairmen are pleading with FCC Chairman Brendan Carr to stop violating the First Amendment.

Brendan Carr should ditch speech-chilling policy, former FCC chairs say
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
The petitioners include Mark Fowler, Dennis Patrick and Alfred Sikes, who chaired the commission under Republican Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, as well as Tom Wheeler, who did so under President Barack Obama, a Democrat. Former Republican commissioners Andrew Barrett and Rachelle Chong and former Democratic commissioner Ervin S. Duggan also signed on.
November 13, 2025 at 7:09 PM