Notices by watchpocket 🍄🌱 (watchpocket@mastodon.social)

People really need to read this. #GregPalast has been on this almost exclusively and longer than anyone else. #election https://www.gregpalast.com/trump-lost-vote-suppression-won/

It's amazing how little concern there is for voting security. We heard almost nothing about it in the run-up to the 2024 election.

In November 2024 a group of election security experts wrote to vp Harris, "The facts around the voting system breaches are not disputed; it is well-documented that there were severe, multiple voting security breaches before the 2024 election."

https://freespeechforpeople.org/computer-scientists-breaches-of-voting-system-software-warrant-recounts-to-ensure-election-verification/ #elections #security

@elithebearded I htink you;'re right. I've been Pwned!

@elithebearded Is it? If it is, it fooled me. It *is* absurd.

TIL: #kakistocracy - Government by the least qualified or most unprincipled citizens.

On the huge explosion in the use of recreational nitrous oxide: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/galaxy-gas-flavored-nitrous-oxide-drug-epidemic.html

With #facebook, #tiktok and #musktwitter all saturating the news, it's a relief that #mastodon / #fediverse is not a household-name style mainstream outlet. There are two ways a platform can #enshittify : one is when *everyone* joins it, stupefying and ruining it that way; the other is when its owners gradually degrade its services, ruining it for profit.

It's really astonishing that very few outlets of any kind - mainstream or otherwise - are looking into the very solid evidence presented here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkmSXcHLjLE
#voteranomalies #votebymail #insurrection #14thamendment

So the feds have finally realized - with Beijing's #SaltTyphoon hack - that if you have a backdoor to #encryption for the good guys, the bad guys will get in as well. It's about time. They brought it on themselves with #CALEA.

https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/04/encryption_backdoor_debate/?td=keepreading

I still know a lot of folks who refuse to believe that this happens. You can lead them to water but. . . .

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/apple-agrees-to-pay-95m-delete-private-conversations-siri-recorded/

#Session may not yet be quite as polished as #Signal, but its commitment to providing genuine robust, no-metadata privacy is intact. #SessionMessenger

Interesting to note that after Australian law enforcement visited a #SessionMessenger employee at his home & started asking questions, #Session moved its entire operation to Switzerland. @dmandl @markhurst

Playing with the Session Messenger app. Works perfectly with one friend but another pal and I cannot seem to exchange a message to save our butts. Still looking into it.

@dmandl
The Beach Boys edit was intentional, yes. I meant the John McLaughlin was botched. You described it as "f'd."

@dmandl It doesn't sounds intentional at all. But maybe someone as masterful as he is doesn't botch notes.

@dmandl The John McLaughlin? Intentional? It sounds terrible.

@dmandl The Beach boys change surely could have been mixed in better!

@dmandl Wow, what a hilarious blotched note. (And I thought before I heard it that it would be something I *wouldn't* hear.)

@dmandl As if someone has already doubted what they say.

More of Peanut and Penny on this snowy #caturday

#CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse #cats