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So the richest man in the world spent $130 million to elect Donald Trump.

Now he's being put in charge of a "government efficiency" agency while controlling corporations with billions in government contracts that are also under federal investigations.

See how this works?

Today I was part of the mass layoff at work.
If you're looking for someone that can do the following roles, I'd appreciate it:
- Security Threat Researcher
- Security Engineer
- Threat Detection Engineer
- Incident Response Analyst

This is my message to women, minorities, LGBTQ+, Disabled people, ect. Ruin their lives, tell on them, show them actions have consequences. Report everything you can, encourage others to do the same. This is my message to cis men, back them up, shame the assholes. Let's stand up for each other. Peer pressure can be used for good.

Auschwitz II-Birkenau. In front of a pond located by the ruins of gas chamber and crematorium II. While most of the human ashes from the crematoria were taken away and thrown into rivers, some were also thrown into several ponds near the crematoria.

„To the memory
of the men, women and children
who fell victim to the Nazi genocide.
Here lie their ashes
May their souls rest in peace.”

(Photo: instagram.com/lukos86)

In the past, we have blocked the Bluesky bridge due to duplication of accounts without consent, which now seems to be resolved. However other concerns such as potential long-term moderation load remain.
Requests for unblocking it keep becoming more frequent these days. #tchncs :tchncs: users – how do you feel about it?

#BlueSky isn't decentralised or federated. The outage yesterday is the obvious proof. It may *look* decentralised and they definitely love to outsource traffic and storage costs by claiming that running your own PDS (Personal Data Server) is somehow something federated, but that's all smoke and mirrors. You have to go deep on [1] to find "networking through Relays instead of server-to-server" as their current implementation choice. THEY run the relays. No one else.

[1] bsky.social/about/blog/5-5-202

BlueskyFederation Architecture Overview - BlueskySoon, we’re launching a sandbox environment for federation. In advance, we want to share some technical details about our design decisions.

The RNA technology that was used to develop most of the covid vaccines is driving an absolute revolution in medicine right now. A vaccine for malaria, the disease that has killed more people than anything else in history. Personalized vaccines for cancers — the list goes on and we're just getting started. Much of this development is locked up in commercial pharma companies — there are papers, of course but replicating them in practice, let alone continuing development, is very hard without active access to the team involved. It's also very expensive. A lot of that development money comes from the US government. Now, yes it's a problem that that funding is going to private companies that are ransoming patients for their life savings in exchange for life-saving medicine, but this is as much a regulatory problem as it is a structural one. As long as those teams exist, the possibilities of these tools exist also.

Having an American government that wants to actively dismantle vaccine-related research and eliminate its funding is an existential threat to humanity:

mas.to/@Fitnessfoundry/1134841

mas.toFitness Foundry (Coach Julio) (@Fitnessfoundry@mas.to)🧵“There is no vaccine that is safe and effective” RFK Jr - Trump’s incoming HHS secretary once said. Appointing science denier RFK Jr. as the head of Health and Human Services reminds me of the lies about the COVID vaccine that killed thousands. More lies and conspiracy theories will be a direct threat to our public health and safety. My dad, Rafa, was one of many taken by Covid before vaccines were available. Treatments were limited, and it was a truly heartbreaking time. He fought bravely..

Gaetz has never tried a case & is a credibly accused child sexual predator—Trump wants him as AG

Hegseth has never worked on defense policy & is a credibly accused sexual predator—Trump wants him as Defense Sect

Huckabee doesn't believe Palestinians are human & helped pardon a man accused of Medicare fraud & enabling sexual abuse of children—Trump wants him as the Israeli Ambassador

3 wholly unqualified wealthy white men—but y'all wanna lecture Black & brown people about "DEI & meritocracy."

Who wants some good news?

Last week I spoke to a middle school class about cybersecurity as a career, and AI came up. I asked if they had tried to use LLMs to do their schoolwork—they all had. But every student in the class said it didn't work. Why?

"ChatGPT is too stupid."

Kids are alright.