Notices by Fi, infosec-aspected 🏳️‍⚧️ (munin@infosec.exchange), page 2

Like, genuinely:

If you are vulnerable to this, you are vulnerable to this on purpose.

@ryanc

they'll still call it that. A lot of people look for some kind of authority when something happens that they don't like, or for some reason to avoid helping others. Religions are a great way to structure exclusionary horseshit.

@ryanc

this is "remove Tallahassee from the map"

Apropos of the weather situation in Florida, I'm seeing some talk about a storm surge on the order of 25 feet.

That's uh.

Well, here's a comparison of what happened with 15.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1848_Tampa_Bay_hurricane

@ryanc @gsuberland

KBAs were already deprecated; I think this rev forbids them.

I fucking love NIST 800-63

https://toot.cat/@devopscats/113195219507804828

There are no exceptions.

The only way that an interaction can be consensual and voluntary is if you can say 'no' and have that refusal respected.

Really basic concept that most people learn when they're two -

being able to say "no" to someone is a prerequisite for being able to have a consensual, rather than coerced, interaction with them.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/23/24252438/x-blocked-users-view-public-posts

Correlation does not necessarily indicate a causal relationship absent further factors showing a direct influence,

but this does align very strongly with the concerns that this voting bloc routinely responds to, and presumably the exposure to these dynamics influences the understanding of the others in the community as to what normative human experiences are meant to be.

https://boingboing.net/2024/09/23/brain-damage-linked-to-religious-fundamentalism-harvard-study-finds.html

So if the people who demonstrate the greatest piety are also those most vulnerable to faulty memory -

confabulation is a common symptom that arises when the brain seeks to make sense of incomplete or missing information; the brain 'tells a story' to fill in the details, in much the same way as you hallucinate the illusion of continuity of vision and elide out the saccading that your eyes normally do -

then your community's greatest influence, and its understanding of normative behavior, ends up having to incorporate authorities who are not consistent in their ability to maintain a solid basis of narrative in consensus reality.

So in intensely religious communities, one of the measures of 'normalcy' is the public perception of piety.

And this has a lot of implications for the community as a whole, especially as regards who is considered to be an "upright" and trustworthy member of the community.

As those of us who grew up queer and closeted viscerally understand,

"normal" behavior is always "what those who have power relationships in the immediate area consider to be the bounds of acceptable conduct"

There's no such thing as an objective measure of normalcy: it is always a statement of conformance or deviation from the social context.

The idea that there is someone out there who is ultimately responsible for this is one which feels deeply comforting.

The idea that there is some external authority that you can cite to rationalize what you have done to others is a tool of incredible perceived value.

The idea that there is some fundamental rule of what is Right and Wrong means that your inability to understand what's going on is much less important.

The idea that there exists an objective Normal that is defined by someone who has final authority?

It's a way to trigger the endogenous opioid system: you are Right, and that provides Comfort.

Having a memory you cannot trust is deeply fucking scary.

I won't go into the decades of worry about that which resulted in the name I use here, but I understand the incredible, existential horror that results from realizing that others are holding you to account for something you do not have solid memory of having done.

And the mindsets that result, when you try to compensate for this when in a situation of threat and judgement rather than compassion.

And this'd be why even "good" jobs need unions. https://www.cartoonbrew.com/artist-rights/lionsgate-signs-deal-with-ai-company-runway-hopes-that-ai-can-eliminate-storyboard-artists-and-vfx-crews-243035.html

Thinking about how in the early versions of the Aladdin story, the genie -

the powerful entity that Aladdin and the Chinese Magician used to carry out their tasks, that acted in accordance with their instructions and had no self-motivation -

is not only an excellent metaphor for the kind of behavior that people want from AI

but was referred to textually as "the slave of the ring"

Very -explicitly- as a slave.

People who endorse the use of AI as a human replacement aren't looking for workers.

They're looking for slaves.

I like 'accuracy debt' as a descriptor, but we're going to need a neologism to call out "you got fucked by someone else's copilot horseshit"

https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/113089194424067464

It doesn't matter if it's "just a little thing"

It's still a harm to you.