@klnnurv
kln_nurv on .toot.io, .chaos.social, .infosec.exchange steam, (ask) on session/keybase/element/matrix/riot. Cybersecurity & privacy. Based in Thailand. Anti-fascist. Anti-billionaire. Be nice to each other & help those in need. Build a better world.
"Offices belonging to Elon Musk's social media platform, X, in France are being raided by the Paris prosecutor. Its cyber-crime unit is conducting the searches, it said in a statement on X. Europol is assisting." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Another poison pill buried in Mark Carney’s budget: a repeal of a reduced postage rates for books and shipments between libraries.
Libraries across the country are sounding the alarm for what it would mean for the viability of another essential public institution.
#FreePalestine
Hong Kong's Democratic Party, beacon of liberty since 1994, dissolves amid Beijing's choking crackdown, arrests crushing 30 years of defiant voices. #HongKong
The ACA isn't just "health care for people who don't have a conventional employer." It also disallows something that was incredibly common 20 years ago, which I fear is getting lost to generational memory: insurance companies could deny you health care for essentially any previous health problem.
So let's review the rules of etiquette:
-It's okay to dislike a movie.
-Xenophobia is not okay.
-Harassing people because they like something you don't like (or vice versa) is not okay.
You're welcome 🫡
Straight out of the worst dystopian scenarios.
The wealthiest individual in the world (and likely the one who causes the most harm, between DOGE and X) has succeeded in introducing his revisionist (denying the Holocaust) and anti-Semitic disinformation tool into (El Salvador) classrooms.
A screenshot of an Embraer 145 from ICE flight contractor Key Lime Air/Denver Air Connection on a tarmac with with guards and detainees . In the lower right hand corner is a contraption with a bunch of nylon straps and metal fasteners.
A closeup of the contraption
I’ve heard from immigration attorneys that clients say ICE guards lay out the WRAP device (essentially a full-body straitjacket) on the tarmac as a threat — “do what we say or you’re getting the WRAP on the whole flight.”
And here’s proof, from Seattle livestream today via @lalabote.bsky.social.
NIGERIA: 102 foreigners deported, incl. 50 Chinese nationals, convicted of ‘cyber-terrorism and internet fraud’. Deportees were among 792 suspected cybercriminals arrested in a single operation last December. trt.global/afrika-engli...
With what has been happening, I'd say don't travel to the US unless you absolutely must. And if you must travel, don't bring a smartphone or laptop.
I'm not sure what would trigger CBP/TSA more: refusing to unlock a device, or not having any devices at all.
Famed anti-racist expert Leonard Zeskind, who warned of fascism's rise, has died www.kcur.org/news/2025-04...
Carl Sagan when asked, "Are you a Socialist?"
I'm going to post this video every day so we never forget what Trump did J6
@democrats.org
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This child's death is on every Senator who voted to approve the appointment of an anti-vaxxer to run HHS. I just read that it appears that we're not going to have vaccines for flu and Covid next year. How many more deaths?
House Republican leadership has advised caucus members to avoid in-person town halls, fearing that voter backlash may become viral if circulated online.
🐔 www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...
We're at the scene in Goodfellas when Jimmy, Tommy, and Henry are planning the Lufthansa heist and the overnight security guard is in on it. Very easy to engage in wanton criminality when anyone who investigates you is bounced out and anyone else who might want to (DOJ) looks the other way 🙃
“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed
A photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.
Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."
Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.
In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
It's sad that so many media outlets have fallen for all the distractions, from Greenland to Gaza to tariffs that keep getting delayed, when the real goal is Musk's dismantling of the government
The Philadelphia Inquirer gets it. Our latest editorial: www.inquirer.com/opinion/edit...
Do not give away your power.
If it was ever anything else, the CDC is now a wholly political organization, dedicated to suppressing information that would harm the president, and manufacturing cause to harm his opponents.
public health factors nowhere into leadership's ambitions.
Measles outbreak expands in West Texas around county with low vaccination rate
If RFK Jr is confirmed as HHS secretary, expect these headlines to become even more frequent and tragic.
"Anyone who has studied science under the Nazis...cannot fail to be dismayed and alarmed at the parallels in the response so far of scientific institutions and academies to the purges and abuses of power following Trump’s executive orders" 🧪 #scicomm
www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/scie...
A black and white digital image featuring the Anonymous Guy Fawkes mask with the text: “Knowledge is free. We are Anonymous. We are Legion. We do not forgive. We do not forget. Expect us.”
So-called #Anonymous accounts that sell knowledge under the name of our collective are deceiving and manipulating people.
