Notices by Fi 🏳️‍⚧️ (munin@infosec.exchange)

that news about the shopify ceo deciding to make his company ai-first came to mind immediately when I saw this.

GDPR says trans rights https://www.wearequeeraf.com/a-trans-refugees-court-case-against-hungary-just-improved-trans-rights-across-all-of-europe/

@silverwizard

this was specifically inspired by a conversation where someone noted how subservient that system's output's affect is, and seeing how it's uncritically trusted by, e.g., those setting tariffs.

Chewing on this a bit, I'm realizing that there are certain people who will trust anything that someone tells them,

if the 'someone'* who tells them is performatively subservient,

and I'm suddenly realizing a lot of shit about why social engineering works as well as it does.

* "someone" in this sense may include things that are not actually people

vibe raters?

@alex02 @inthehands @alice

I doubt it. From personal experience, being lied to by those who are notionally older, more experienced, and - crucially - endorsed by all those around you as 'right'? fucks your head immensely.

Even if, as you're suggesting, they have doubts? there is no safe way for them to express or explore those doubts: they would, in fact, be told that they are stupid for having them.

Judging people who are in abusive situations by your own standards isn't useful for you or them, and it gets in the way of fixing the situation; extending compassion - even if you think they don't deserve it - tends to work better for actually addressing the problem.

Do you want to be righteous, or do you want to be effective?

oh hey, we're at the "corporate extraterratorialism" part of the program here; we'll be seeing corpscrip show up any day now I expect.

https://www.wired.com/story/startup-nations-donald-trump-legislation/

This is cute, but recall that billionaires habitually write* books** about the good*** they do for humanity.

If you want to uno reverse card that dude, asking him to boast about his accomplishments ain't really gonna work. You'd need to have someone with actual authority over him, for a start.

https://mastodon.social/@mmalc/114059113127687796

* hire someone to
** "memoirs"
*** "good" is a bullshit concept that depends on adherence to shared values between those involved, and billionaires do not share values with the rest of humanity; the term is meaningless in this context.

Anyway, the actual "working surface" here is that someone who has, ostensibly, power over you is demanding you justify your existence -

and this is critical -

according to his specific values,
that do not align with the job's values.

I wonder if I can mod a keyboard to easily access dagger, double-dagger, etc. footnoting marks.

@mcc

Hi, my name is Werner Brandes. My voice is my passport. Verify Me.

new meme format shows some promise I think

@puppygirlhornypost2 @foone

"Only pull requests from organizations with a public DEI policy will be accepted"

:blobcatthinkingsmirk: Hey if you put a DEI policy in your open source projects, the feds can't use it now right?

There's a lot of shit you can control, even when the overall environment is threatening.

And doing something agentic - something that derives from your knowledge, skills, and practices, that comes from within rather than being a reaction to something outside - makes for a much more settled mindstate.

That's been one of the fun parts about this whole bullshit-

all my professional blue teaming skills?

Exact same thought processes, but setting "queer people" as the group to be defended, and it works out great.

Probably a pretty significant part of why I've not been panicking - this is just another defensive security situation; I know this, and I know that my skills work in these situations.

Remember, you're fighting someone who does not see you as being a real person.

Organize your risk assessment accordingly.

tho, for situational awareness, the fash have been known to put razorblades and other harmful objects behind their posters.

Please exercise caution and wear PPE if you engage in this activity.

Attackers have time and budgetary constraints too.

@foone

too gentle. clippy would be a wire mother, no?