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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I'm taking a bit of a social media break. Y'all be good to each other.

Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I don't think you're trying to be malicious here, otherwise I would've simply blocked you and moved on. But since we're in a "give advice to strangers" mood here, I'll offer some myself: Do not be a reply-guy. Do not offer unsolicited advice to someone you don't know and haven't built trust with.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

This list is cryptocurrency, surveillance tech, and generative AI erasure.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

No, and it makes me think Andy Yen might've been operating their social media accounts directly. It's just so nutty watching all of these tech CEOs publicly lose their minds simultaneously.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I'd love to say that Song of the South should be rereleased with a warning banner... But then I realize that the vast majority of people who would watch it would be racists for racist reasons, and for that reason alone I'd prefer it stay locked away, because screw 'em.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Thank God they never made any sequels.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

It's worth remembering that he doesn't have a job despite being wrong. He has a job *because* he is wrong. Paying someone to be this consistently wrong about everything for decades is an intentional choice.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

May her memory always be a blessing, Wendy.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

JD Vance is a man perfectly predicted by Dorothy Simpson's "Who Goes Nazi?" 43 years before his birth.

The saturnine man over there talking with a lovely French emigree is already a Nazi. Mr. C is a brilliant and embittered intellectual. He was a poor white-trash Southern boy, a scholarship student at two universities where he took all the scholastic honors but was never invited to join a fraternity. His brilliant gifts won for him successively government positions, partnership in a prominent law firm, and eventually a highly paid job as a Wall Street adviser. He has always moved among important people and always been socially on the periphery. His colleagues have admired his brains and exploited them, but they have seldom invited him—or his wife—to dinner.

He is a snob, loathing his own snobbery. He despises the men about him—he despises, for instance, Mr. B—because he knows that what he has had to achieve by relentless work men like B have won by knowing the right people. But his contempt is inextricably mingled with envy. Even more than he hates the class into which he has insecurely risen, does he hate the people from whom he came. He hates his mother and his father for being his parents. He loathes everything that reminds him of his origins and his humiliations. He is bitterly anti-Semitic because the social insecurity of the Jews reminds him of his own psychological insecurity.

Pity he has utterly erased from his nature, and joy he has never known. He has an ambition, bitter and burning. It is to rise to such an eminence that no one can ever again humiliate him. Not to rule but to be the secret ruler, pulling the strings of puppets created by his brains. Already some of them are talking his language—though they have never met him.

There he sits: he talks awkwardly rather than glibly; he is courteous. He commands a distant and cold respect. But he is a very dangerous man. Were he primitive and brutal he would be a criminal—a murderer. But he is subtle and cruel. He would rise high in a Nazi regime. It would need men just like him—intellectual and ruthless. But Mr. C is not a born Nazi. He is the product of a democracy hypocritically preaching social equality and practicing a carelessly brutal snobbery. He is a sensitive, gifted man who has been humiliated into nihilism. He would laugh to see heads roll.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Really wish there was a "thanks, I hate it" button in bsky instead of just a "like" button.

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 16/01/2025

🧵 THREAD: Our reporter spent the past year reporting inside the State Department, trying to answer the central question of Biden’s foreign policy: How did the U.S. let Israel get away with widespread horrors in Gaza?

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James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Oh hell yeah buddy. Who the fuck needs serious people doing oversight of intelligence. Bent that knee. FUCK INDEPENDENT BODIES OF GOVERNMENT WOOOOOOOOOOOO LETS GOOOOOOO FUCK INSTITUTIONS JUST FUCKING LIGHT THAT SHIT ON FIRE WHO EVEN CARES ANYMORE NOTHING MATTERS WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

We are once again proving François Truffaut's maxim: “There’s no such thing as an anti-war film."

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

I am calling for a total and complete shutdown of Republicans watching subversive films until our country can figure out why they cannot grasp irony.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Yeah, they were pulling this same crap over on Mastodon earlier today before they dirty deleted there, too. I'm glad I had the opportunity to drag them for it beforehand.

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Micheál Keane @aexia.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

@proton.me has deleted but here it is in case you’re wondering why you should definitely not trust them with your email

Proton @proton.me • 10h
Dems had a choice between the progressive wing (Bernie Sanders, etc), versus corporate Dems, but in the end money won and constituents lost.
Until corporate Dems are thrown out, the reality is that Republicans remain more likely to tackle Big Tech abuses.
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olive consumer's floating skull @machete.gay · 15/01/2025

We need to return to the intelligence community being a bunch of weird nerds doing even weirder jock shit.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Buddy, do you really think that being a stranger posting a reply saying "don't worry so much" in response to these concerns is likely to engender my respect or serve as a convincing argument?

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Mira of Kyiv 🇺🇦 @reshetz.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Cultural exchange

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

There's a lot of room to blow things up with budgetary impoundment, removal of legal immigration status and possibly birthright citizenship, wrecking healthcare, deregulation, tariffs, purges of civil service and military, mass deportations, abuse of insurrection act and war powers resolution, etc.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Maybe, but he has at least two year's control of every branch of government, a major of state governorships, and detailed plans through Project 2025. The only good news is his majorities in Congress are slim, and his party and nominees are fractious and disorganized.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Yep, people hear "Office of Management and Budget" and tune out thinking it's just a bunch of boring accountants, but the reality is they drive cross-agency coordination and detailed implementation of executive orders and white house policy. It's no coincidence Vought led much of Project 2025.

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The Onion @theonion.com · 15/01/2025

Pete Hegseth Faces Difficult Confirmation Hearing theonion.com/pete-he...

“Clearly he’s not fit for the Defense Department if he can’t even manage a simple cover-up.”

Gina Palermo, Jingle Approver

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Russ Vought is one of the most dangerous nominees because of his competency. There are plenty of stories about the chaotic evil nominees that will wreak havoc through bumbling incompetency, but Vought is the lawful evil bastard that will break this country with laser-focused intention.

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Joe Katz @joekatz45.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Russ Vought is getting his hearing to be director of the OMB as we speak. He is the most dangerous Trump nominee who hasn't broken through in the headlines. Project 2025 and Schedule F/civil service purge architect, Christian Nationalist, sword of the dictatorial presidency. Thread:

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I've got a shipment of hominy coming in from Rancho Gordo shortly and will probably try my hand at posole sometime later this month.

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Black Hills Information Security @bhinfosecurity.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

There's valuable info from online platforms, social media, public databases, & breaches. Using these examples of OSINT in your investigative routine can help you become a better ethical hacker. Tools: TraceLabs' OSINT VM - www.tracelabs.org/initiatives/... The OSINT Framework - osintframework.com

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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

justice alito, make me editor of PornHub and let me bundle insane fanfiction about the Illuminati alongside hardcore pornography and i will save this nation

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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 15/01/2025

I am once again reminding everyone that “general” is the adjective in “attorney general.” Calling an attorney general “general” is like calling an in-house general counsel “general.” Also reminding folks that when Ted Cruz was Texas solicitor general, he begged his wife to call him “general.”

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Counterpoint: There is no such thing as a meeting that is not improved by a cat.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Just a reminder: Yes, we should celebrate the ceasefire. But no, you absolutely do not have to give Trump credit for the Israel/Gaza ceasefire, if for no other reason than his intentional exclusion and antagonizing of Palestinians with the Abraham Accords helped get us into this mess to begin with.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

How does this work architecturally? Is it just an independently-developed app view that consumes from the Bluesky relays? If so, is it consuming the full firehose or jetstream?

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

This is especially crazy given their catastrophically bad demographics issues, including massive gender gaps and near-certain population collapse.

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David_j_roth @davidjroth.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Working out a scenario where Pornhub has to launch a prestigious monthly print magazine in order to stay online in Tennessee. This is how we bring the business back: ransoming access to stepsister-stuck-in-washing-machine content with long-form literary criticism and Malcolm Harris book excerpts.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.

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Josephine Riesman @josie.zone · 15/01/2025

Pete Hegseth is the kind of guy you used to send on a Crusade so he’d stop bothering you and die from incompetence

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Lindsay P Cohn @lindsaypcohn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I think this point needs some amplification. Military force is never an end in itself; it is always in the service of some end. But the mechanism of how to achieve a human behavioral end from a use of violence/force is not straightforward or automatic.

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Catalin Cimpanu @campuscodi.risky.biz · 15/01/2025

Live streams from the last ShmooCon security conference, which took place last week, are available on YouTube www.youtube.com/playlist?lis...

youtube.com

ShmooCon 2025 - YouTube

You can reach me at https://twitter.com/Strong1Wind

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Matthew Hahn @matthewhahn.com · 15/01/2025

I am a former incarcerated firefighter. I served in a California fire camp from 2009 to 2012. Misinformation is afire on the internet, so here are facts about the prison firefighter program, all in one place. A thread.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

OK, but how often are EU law enforcement agencies taking the lead on any meaningful malware takedown work? I know I have some bias here, but I feel like it is either US or a Five Eyes partner in the lead most of the time.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I was once pulled over, issued a warning, and screamed at by a cop for slowing down to let a cyclist cross at a marked crosswalk. It was US Park Police, which checks out. Can't imagine why Americans might dislike cops.

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Jessica Ellis @baddestmamajama.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I think it’s very important for Republican women to know that Pete Hegseth’s accuser is a married mom and a highly respected Republican aide, who went to the police immediately after the assault. They still don’t believe her. Your fascism will not save you from their misogyny.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

I am losing so many brain cells every day to the psychic damage of this relentless stupidity.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

It's really good! All episodes are now up on D+.

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Dave Wilburn @davemwilburn.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Skeleton Crew was so good. I will gladly take Star Wars: Space Goonies over a hundred seasons of Book of Boba Fett.

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