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Josh Yavor

@schwascore.evil.agency

Founding Partner, @credible-security.com Recovering CISO and middle school teacher. Would rather be coaching swimming. I intend to keep singing. https://evil.agency Was @schwascore on Twitter

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Angry Fleece?

27.05.2025 22:12 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

We made a truly unique drill for subscribers this week β€” practicing how to anticipate & effectively communicate to business leaders the impact of accumulating tech debt on the company’s ability to respond to security incidents.

Subscribe to join!

21.05.2025 10:47 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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New Mexico made childcare free. It lifted 120,000 people above the poverty line The state, which has long ranked worst in the US for child wellbeing, became the first and only in the country to offer free childcare to a majority of families

Why is this story not in an American paper

Let’s tell more stories of how responsible governance can benefit more people and give them increased opportunities, instead of the supposed inevitably of the oligarchs having everything there is

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

11.05.2025 22:50 πŸ‘ 1938 πŸ” 817 πŸ’¬ 33 πŸ“Œ 19

you know who else came from chicago and was on "a mission from god"

08.05.2025 17:29 πŸ‘ 19207 πŸ” 4593 πŸ’¬ 669 πŸ“Œ 394
Trump is already using his stablecoin to get a cut of a $2 BILLION deal with a shady UAE fund.
Trump is already using his stablecoin to get a cut of a $2 BILLION deal with a shady UAE fund. YouTube video by Senator Elizabeth Warren

Trump is already using his stablecoin to get a cut of a $2 BILLION deal with a shady UAE fund.

The Senate will vote on the GENIUS Act, a crypto bill which would make the President's grift even easier.

If we don't fix that problem, no Senator should vote for it.

06.05.2025 21:29 πŸ‘ 1278 πŸ” 313 πŸ’¬ 48 πŸ“Œ 12
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TM SGNL, the obscure unofficial Signal app Mike Waltz uses to text with Trump officials Yesterday, a Reuters photographer captured a photo of the freshly-ousted former National Security Advisor Mike Waltz checking his Signal messages during a Trump cabinet meeting. If you're not familiar...

I wrote up a detailed analysis of TM SGNL, the unofficial Signal app that senior Trump fascists use to organize their war crimes micahflee.com/tm-sgnl-the-...

02.05.2025 21:36 πŸ‘ 1265 πŸ” 459 πŸ’¬ 30 πŸ“Œ 50

Sign your names or you're a toaster, American cyber pros. https://www.eff.org/press/releases/eff-leads-prominent-security-experts-urging-trump-administration-leave-chris-krebs

29.04.2025 03:34 πŸ‘ 92 πŸ” 42 πŸ’¬ 17 πŸ“Œ 5

I keep catching strays from "technology is neutral" people, so let's set things straight.

1) Technology is not neutral, especially the subset of technology called "algorithms"
2) The form-factor that makes a technology into a tool is not neutral
3) How tools are productized is not neutral

[rant]

29.04.2025 14:21 πŸ‘ 3204 πŸ” 719 πŸ’¬ 45 πŸ“Œ 106

So to sum up the Wisconsin arrest issue:

ICE didn't have a juridical warrant. They only had an administrative warrant.

The DOJ has not convened a grand jury to indict the judge. They only got a criminal complaint before a magistrate judge.

This is ridiculous.

25.04.2025 17:09 πŸ‘ 18880 πŸ” 5556 πŸ’¬ 688 πŸ“Œ 295

πŸ’š

22.04.2025 22:08 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

It's tough out there right now, but at least we have Rex Manning Day.

Damn The Man, save The Empire.

09.04.2025 00:25 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

image of watchmen's doctor manhattan, a superhero who is entirely blue and nude, sitting on a rock, small in frame, on what is depicted to be a very pink version of the surface of the planet mars. he looks pensive.

It is 2002. I am 18 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2008. I am 24 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2020. I am 36 years old. We are in a once-in-a-generation economic crisis.

It is 2025. I am 41 years old. We are in aβ€”

02.04.2025 22:01 πŸ‘ 26431 πŸ” 8356 πŸ’¬ 411 πŸ“Œ 685
Computational Journalist New York, New York, United States

Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach."

Salary: $120K-$140K
Remote: βœ…

Come join us!

06.03.2025 22:11 πŸ‘ 7235 πŸ” 2371 πŸ’¬ 148 πŸ“Œ 102
SwiftOnSecurity (@SwiftOnSecurity@infosec.exchange) This is a story about CISA. About what it meant and means to someone in the trenches. Years ago, and now.

If you work or worked for CISA, please read this from @swiftonsecurity.com

infosec.exchange/@SwiftOnSecu...

You are appreciated, and we are sorry for what’s happened to your hard work.

01.03.2025 19:38 πŸ‘ 319 πŸ” 118 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 3

It’s remarkable how much weakness this conveys on the part of Vance and Trump. It’s classic bully weakness:

Vance: [Dumps on Ukraine]
Zelenskyy: [pushes back]
Vance: [pikachu face] HOW DISRESPECTFUL

Pathetically weak.

28.02.2025 18:45 πŸ‘ 2304 πŸ” 366 πŸ’¬ 94 πŸ“Œ 12

Watching Putin’s little stooges try to bully Zelenskyy in our goddamned White House is pretty repulsive.

28.02.2025 17:47 πŸ‘ 24196 πŸ” 3957 πŸ’¬ 474 πŸ“Œ 128

After 20 years in #IncidentResponse across dozens of organizations, I've seen firsthand that effective communication can make or break a security/privacy incident (and even prevent some!).

Check out the new Discernible Drills & let me know what you think!

#SecurityCommunications

26.02.2025 15:08 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm so excited for this!

We have so many hard lessons learned and proven tactics/strategies to share to improve security outcomes for organizations stuck on common challenges with shared responsibility models.

If you can't join us today, give us a follow to catch the recording when it's published.

25.02.2025 15:17 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Graph showing that while the numbers of female, black, and black female pilots went up, the number of Air Carrier fatalities went down.

Graph showing that while the numbers of female, black, and black female pilots went up, the number of Air Carrier fatalities went down.

So @jennybeatty.bsky.social did some great work pulling together data from multiple sources to answer the question "Does diversity in pilot ranks negatively impact safety". While any partly sane person already knew the answer, her work proves the answer is no.

www.jennybeatty.com/airline-safe...

24.02.2025 19:23 πŸ‘ 701 πŸ” 208 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 14

It's also just terrible management, generally.

23.02.2025 19:43 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I literally reported this Wednesday.

22.02.2025 15:11 πŸ‘ 8107 πŸ” 1721 πŸ’¬ 151 πŸ“Œ 58

The mistake a lot of folks make is comparing against late-stage fascism, especially end-stage fascism as it was (lucklly) being defeated, and drawing comfort from the differences.

Of course the beginning doesn't look like the end.

Look at how historic examples started, and compare against that.

23.02.2025 00:51 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

DOGE is like if Fyre Festival was a government agency.

22.02.2025 22:45 πŸ‘ 24550 πŸ” 4904 πŸ’¬ 291 πŸ“Œ 236
Turkey's democracy goes bye

Turkey's democracy goes bye

Turkey was not always an autocracy. It had a democracy. It still has elections. But its real democracy has gone away through shock and awe.

It can happen everywhere if you're not vigilant and have shared agreement in the democratic project.

One day it's just....gone.

21.02.2025 01:13 πŸ‘ 276 πŸ” 70 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 2

There's something wrong with the world today....

Except I do know what it is πŸ™ƒ

20.02.2025 18:54 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Executive orders are not laws of the land that all citizens have to follow. They’re directives for the employees in 1 branch of federal government.

If Trump wants new laws, make him use the process laid out in our constitution.

Don’t comply in advance.

19.02.2025 22:16 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Gotta appreciate the small joys when they happen.

Today's joy: needing/getting to use footnotes while writing a client report

19.02.2025 15:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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US postmaster to step down months after reporting billions in losses Louis DeJoy, who has headed US Postal Service since 2020, warned in November of potential β€˜end of this organization’

How are we still not past the notion that the USPS is *not* a moneymaking organization? This whole article concedes to the idea that the postal service "loses money" without even mentioning that it's because it's a public service.
www.theguardian.com/business/202...

19.02.2025 03:07 πŸ‘ 19 πŸ” 4 πŸ’¬ 3 πŸ“Œ 0

Counterpoint: no they don't. Having every website independently implement E2EE DMs is a colossal waste of resources at best, and dangerous at worst. Use DMs for what they're good for: exchanging your Signal handles.

18.02.2025 11:53 πŸ‘ 11 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0