Notices by Dave Rahardja (drahardja@sfba.social)

“Tesla is the symbol of Musk’s midas touch, and it’s the source of his tangible cash. It’s also the Musk company that’s most dependent on consumer taste and public goodwill, giving the public countless touch points for social pressure of all kinds. The direct line between making the Tesla brand toxic, pushing Tesla into bankruptcy, and bringing Elon Musk’s entire empire down around his ears makes this the perfect lever on which to push back against this unelected oligarch.”

Let’s do it.

#TeslaTakedown #BoycottTesla #BoycottMusk

https://niedermeyer.online/2025/05/09/the-tesla-takedown/

@david_chisnall As long as sales continue to slump, stock prices will continue to come down. Their fundamentals cannot justify their current stock price already; I can only hope stock buyers realize that at some point soon.

@david_chisnall Yeah, TSLA is basically another memecoin. But it’s also held by a lot of institutional owners, and once they start dumping the stock, others will follow. Let’s see how long the irrational exuberance can last!

I think I’ve stopped using #Facebook hard enough (I still use it to visit Groups) that I’ve now fallen firmly into “generic user” category for ads.

And the majority of ads I receive are…guns and gun-related paraphernalia, Christian nationalist-adjacent jewelry, and pro-Trump-branded products.

Whenever I click on “why am I seeing this ad?” the only criteria they ever display is “18+ and living in the US”. So I guess that’s what most US Facebook customers see these days, by default.

It tells you what deep shit this country is in when the chief justice of SCOTUS says that the judiciary should be independent of the executive, and that basic statement is met with somber awe and applause. https://mstdn.social/@knittingknots2/114469660049343678

“All of this begs the question: If I cannot speak up against my government without losing my job, if I cannot protest without being court-martialed, if I’m likely to end up in a camp, if the government cannot be changed by anything I can do here, what value is there in remaining in the U.S.? Conversely, will I be of greater value to my community, democracy, and the world if I once again have a voice? If I can freely able to lobby other governments to recognize the reality of the situation and persuade them to open their doors to Americans fleeing not just tyranny and poor living conditions, but conditions ripe for genocide? What if I can be the person to alert the world to real risk that this does turn into a genocide?”

“Why I Am Leaving the USA”

https://www.damemagazine.com/2025/04/29/why-i-am-leaving-the-usa/

User “mdh2” on Bluesky claims that Mike Waltz wasn’t caught using Signal on his phone, but something far worse: “TM SGNL”, an app made by an Israeli company called “CyberInt”. mdh2 claims that messages on that chat platform are backed up on 3rd party servers.

This appears correct. The screenshot from Mike Waltz’s phone shows the “TM SGNL” product name.

bsky post (login required): hxxps://bsky.app/profile/mdh2.bsky.social/post/3lo57bdld2c2q

#kakistocracy #opsec

Update: TeleMessage’s message store has been exfiltrated. A hacker claimed it took them less than 30 minutes to access it. The archived messages were stored—apparently in plaintext?—in an AWS container, which they accessed.

What’s more, the data contains usernames AND PASSWORDS. Did they really store plaintext passwords?

Absolutely incredible. Mike Waltz and all the clowns that use this product for classified messaging need to be arrested and charged.

#kakistocracy #MikeWaltz #opsec

https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/

Here’s TM SGNL maker’s website. Nowhere on its front page will you find the word “encrypted”. In fact, It appears that the company’s primary product is exporting the contents of WhatsApp, Signal, and Telegram apps on a phone so they can record otherwise E2E-encrypted messages. This product can be used to spy on employees’ private communications on their personal phones.

The TM SGNL app is an “enterprise” (off the App Stores) app that captures messages from Signal and archives it. It is literally designed to circumvent Signal encryption and archive messages elsewhere.

https://www.telemessage.com

TM SGNL product page:

https://www.telemessage.com/signal-archiver-transfer-from-ios-device/

TM SGNL installation page:

https://www.telemessage.com/signal-archiver-ios-installation-upgrade/

Breaking news: cops lie https://zeroes.ca/@maggiejk/114438978416852290

Happy 80th anniversary of Fascists Getting Rid Of Themselves Day to all who celebrate! 🎉

Courtesy of ABC news.

#fascism #antifascist #april30

Absolutely wild to see people online telling others to become *more individually responsible for their own food safety* when regulations are dismantled, instead of, you know, fighting to not dismantle food safety regulations.

There is a sickness in the USian psyche, and that sickness is the assumption that everything must be solved through independent effort. We leave so much potential unused and waste so much time and energy when we take communal solutions off the table every goddamn time.

Psst, hey: HACKERS ARE NOT TECH BROS. The vast majority of hackers never become tech bros. The ethics of hacking runs completely counter to that of tech bros.

Hackers make hardware do things they weren’t intended to do. They circumvent barriers. They string together contraptions that repurpose old stuff to do new things. Hackers aren’t that interested in money; they’re more interested in showing off their skills. They love to learn and make demos and create and share free tech that other hackers then build upon. All they want is acknoweledgement and the respect of their peers.

Tech bros are parasites. They’re greedy bastards who love to erect barriers between people and tech. They extract, addict, monetize. They turn everything fun and useful into a transaction, a dopamine trap, a subscription, a surveillance tool, an advertising outlet, and a vector to extract money from labor and suppliers.

Please don’t get them mixed up.

#hackers #hacking #techbros

#unions #memes #work #antiWork #workLifeBalance

Remember that time #PopeFrancis visited Japan and they gave him a robe with an #anime rendition of his likeness, and he wore it.

OK now what

True.

lol if Biden did this they would skewer him for disrespecting the police https://vmst.io/@jalefkowit/114396177924540918

I love it when employers install creepware #surveillance nonsense because they have zero respect for their employees, and end up publishing two million internal screenshots to the web instead, leaking their most sensitive information.

Very nice, no issues.

#cybersecurity #infosec #assholeBoss

“Employee monitoring app leaks 21 million screenshots in real time”

https://cybernews.com/security/employee-monitoring-app-leaks-millions-screenshots/

Fucking hell https://m.ai6yr.org/@conejoclint/114389571192811239