Notices by Kee Hinckley (nazgul@infosec.exchange)

We've moved into a new phase of fascism. Where the government is threatening to shutdown nonprofits like the Ford Foundation for funding news organizations who pointed out that Charlie Kirk was racist. Miller, who calls the shots for anything in this regime that has to do with promoting white men, has called those nonprofits terrorist organizations. And remember that Congress is talking about revoking passports for anyone who supports terrorists organizations.

This is moving very fast. And any such actions will be greatly enhanced by Palantir technology, which can easily map who supported what organization, and who said what on social media, to their address, SSN, and tax records. Hitler had IBM to organize tracking his enemies. Palantir is millions of times more powerful.

#USPol

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/vance-miller-announce-crackdowns

❝ The crazy thing is not that garlic isn’t grown from seeds; it’s that, for the most part, it can’t be. Ever since people began cultivating garlic — six millennia ago by some estimates, 10 by others — it’s primarily been done through asexual reproduction. In all those thousands of years, scarcely a single plant was coaxed to produce one solitary seed.
And so it forgot how.
About 15 years ago, a Missouri farmer and former union painter named Mark Brown began trying to coax true seeds from his garlic — an attempt, essentially, to undo thousands of years of domestication.
❞ https://ambrook.com/offrange/crops/so-you-think-you-know-garlic?utm_source=clivethompson&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=linkfest-38-tk-tk-and-tk

If you're wondering what you can do about ICE as a white person in a blue state...

#uspol

#NotTheOnion

Someone spent two weeks "generating a book" in ChatGPT.
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/nhLwG2Idrt

This is like a parody of queer erasure.

❝ Before the first update, the Stonewall National Monument page acknowledged that "before the 1960s, almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, or queer (LGBTQ+) person was illegal.” The revised version then stated, “almost everything about living openly as a lesbian, gay, bisexual (LGB) person was illegal.” Now, a new version of the page indicates that “Before the 1960s, almost everything about living authentically as a gay or lesbian person was illegal.” ❞

The pot is boiling.

https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/after-trans-people-trump-now-erasing

❝ While humpbacks commonly use bubble nets to trap prey and bubble trails during mating, these bubble rings seemed to occur only during relaxed, voluntary encounters with humans — not while hunting or competing for mates. ❞
https://www.kqed.org/science/1997307/humpback-whales-blow-bubble-smoke-rings-to-communicate-with-humans

I was having sushi in #Split, #Croatia / #Hrvatska (excellent fish, but Croatia's idea of "spicy" needs work) when I was faced with the following doors during a bathroom break.
I guess if you have a Prince Albert you need to find a door with a champagne bottle on it.

Won't be the last.

@evan @NaClKnight This is what I get for rewriting sentences just before posting.
13th in the world. The Balkans in general are all in the top group,

Croatia has one of the tallest populations in Croatia. A fact I am reminded of every time I use a urinal.

#uspol Firing all your top assistants without thinking about what they're going to tell the press? Not a good idea.

(I know, we don't know who leaked this, but multiple people did, and immediately after they were let go....for supposedly leaking things.)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/20/pete-hegseth-signal-chat-yemen-attack

❝ For example, researchers from four universities analyzed short snippets of audio transcribed by Whisper, and found completely fabricated sentences, with some transcripts inventing the races of the people being spoken about, and others even attributing murder to them. In one case a recording that said, “He, the boy, was going to, I’m not sure exactly, take the umbrella” was transcribed with additions including: “He took a big piece of a cross, a teeny, small piece.... I’m sure he didn’t have a terror knife so he killed a number of people.” In another example, “two other girls and one lady” was transcribed as “two other girls and one lady, um, which were Black.” ❞ https://dair-community.social/@timnitGebru/114338469117858107

Now there's a protest sign you don't see often.

When old Soviet Union jokes are applicable to the US, you know something has gone terribly wrong.

Laura Loomer, who once chained herself to Twitter's door when they blocked her account, and then got upset when nobody cared that she was there, has apparently fired the head of the NSA.

Can we rename this age from "Anthropocene" to "Surrealocene"? https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/114277557858332727

❝ These men—human beings with names, histories, dreams—were marched through a gauntlet of armed guards, beaten, stripped naked, shaved, and thrown into overcrowded cells. A photojournalist on the scene described watching men age a decade in two hours. He watched as one young man sobbed, “I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.” This man was slapped for his tears, beaten for his vulnerability.

No phone calls. No visitors. No books. No talking. Just exile to a place “so cold and far from home they may as well have been sent into space, nameless and forgotten.”

And all of this—every slap, every sob, every stolen dignity—stamped with American approval. Coordinated with American officials. Executed with American efficiency. ❞

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/03/28/what-is-it-exactly-that-being-an-american-means-to-you/

For 240 years the U.S. has fueled its growth with cheap and abused labor forces that weren't allowed to vote; slaves, prisoners, women, children, migrants, indentured labor (H1B visas), "permanent" residents, and offshore workers.

Ironically, this extremely unethical model is being disrupted not because we suddenly developed a national conscience, but because the current regime has deliberately erased that part of history and so doesn't realize its importance to their own wealth.

But the wheels of progress must keep rolling. We've already seen increased use of child labor, as well as calls to eliminate women's suffrage. I expect prison labor in farms and factories to be a huge growth industry moving forward. And at some point it may occur to the regime that instead of deporting migrants, they should put them in work camps.

Don't comply. Don't stand aside.

After sweeping up the dog hair in the house I have come to the conclusion that I don't need a robot vacuum, I need a leaf blower.

I really didn't need to feel this seen.