Notices by Kevin Rothrock (kevinrothrock@infosec.exchange), page 4

I know Substack has generated some toxicity among the WOKE MOB, so I thought I’d ask you, dear readers: What are Enlightened Newsletter Writers using these days to fill people’s spam folders with secret knowledge and insights?

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Somebody could defuse this whole Greenland obsession by explaining the Mercator projection to Trump.

Looks like Margarita Simonyan’s husband, film and TV personality Tigran Keosayan, is in a coma after “experiencing clinical death” due to longstanding heart issues. It’s bad form to speak ill of people on their deathbeds, so I’ll say nothing more at this time. https://t.me/margaritasimonyan/14600

A provocative, I suppose, argument from Reed Albergotti at Semafor, though if we just say that content moderation constitutes “inoculation rather than elimination,” his position weakens significantly, it seems to me. https://www.semafor.com/article/01/08/2025/analysis-meta-content-moderation-was-a-failed-experiment

The more Canadians resist U.S. absorption, the more American they sound.

Trump says, quite incoherently really, that Biden caused Russia’s invasion of Ukraine by insisting that Ukraine “has got to be able to join NATO.”

Thinking about resurrecting The Russia Guy podcast. Any subjects you're burning to hear covered?

https://open.spotify.com/show/17sCNpNH68kQ05GcGGhM8q?si=R9XO0G47QdiuuAgzVYmBjg

Moscow’s eastern flank concerns: Russia’s military prepared detailed target lists for a potential war with Japan & South Korea that included nuclear power stations and other civilian infrastructure, according to secret files from *2013-2014* seen by the Financial Times. https://www.ft.com/content/d345a6e7-2d72-4dcb-9c12-76d571ba75eb

While the govt censorship in the EU often causes my First Amendment skin to crawl, Durov is clearly full of shit here, ignoring Russia’s militarization of speech laws. Maybe Telegram doesn’t enforce Roskomnadzor takedown requests (who would know?), but Russia’s censorship laws ABOUND.

Russia opens a felony case against MediaZona editor-in-chief Sergey Smirnov for refusing to add the "conspicuous statement" disclosure about his "foreign agent" status to his media content as required by Russian law. (The US is poised to impose similar reqs with FARA.) https://ria.ru/20241225/inoagent-1991121933.html

hot take: there will never be another Christmas classic movie because zoomer and alpha cultures are too segmented thanks to streaming and tiktoks. also, young people today are no good.

If I were running the Kremlin’s propaganda department, I would stage a special moment during Putin’s marathon press conference on Thursday where Tucker Carlson swoops in with some prerecorded question dunking on Biden, setting up Putin to preach a phony message of peace in Ukraine.

Interesting: the Ukrainian military’s data show that Russian warplanes have reduced their guided bomb attacks by half since Kyiv started firing Western longer-range missiles at targets inside Russia (which has forced fighter-bombers to farther away airfields). https://www.agents.media/moskva-vdvoe-snizila-intensivnost-bombardirovok-upravlyaemymi-aviabombami-posle-udarov-raketami-atacms-i-storm-shadow-po-rossii/

Assad and his family have arrived in Moscow and received Russian asylum, the Kremlin just told the state media. https://tass.ru/mezhdunarodnaya-panorama/22612655

Leonid Brezhnev and Bashar al-Assad's pops, Hafez, back in the 1970s. This weekend has ended an era in so many ways. Moscow, I know your military base leases at Tartus and Khmeimim technically run to 2066, but don't get too cozy!

lol, Russia’s federal censor has blocked the Naruto fan website jut-su in its latest (and perhaps most pointless to date) assault on the country’s villainous anime culture https://vk.com/wall-34269876_1741877?reply=1741900&w=wall-34269876_1741877_r1741900

Pretty footage of the small asteroid that streaked across the sky in northern Siberia a few hours ago. Observers say it was about 2.3 feet in diameter. It lasted about 5 seconds in the atmosphere. https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/12/04/small-asteroid-lights-up-siberian-sky

Dang — Russia’s MVD has drafted orders that would revoke lawyers’ access to their clients held at police stations. This will only add to the misery and terror detainees already experience. https://regulation.gov.ru/Regulation/Npa/PublicView?npaID=152818

The FBI has charged a Russian woman with two counts of lying to its agents about her ties to the FSB. Like Maria Butina before her, Nomma Zarubina came to America and got busy networking. I did my best to break down the FBI's allegations and summarize Zarubina's case. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/12/03/moscow-s-alleged-decolonization-mole