The Anarkat @Anarkat@computerfairi.es

"When science fiction is coupled with a dystopian and/or authoritarian landscape, it can make for a powerful experience. Neofeud is no exception... It forces you to think about the economic and social impact that negative race relations in the United States have on people." http://steamshovelers.cool/neofeud/

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Please forget the Alamo

The reason spellcheck doesn't underline "payed" is because it's a nautical term for sealing a deck. WHICH IS USED OFTEN ENOUGH TO INCLUDE ON STANDARD SPELL CHECK FOR NON-PIRATES APPARENTLY???

bunnies ARE good

it's another #TimeTheftThursday everyone! How's everyone asserting their right to live free despite capitalist structures today?

Capitalism is offensive, report all ads

You get one gender for free then you gotta buy the rest

people be saying nice things to each other on here like its no big deal

I'M SORRY EVERYONE I'M JUST REALLY ENTHUSIASTIC ABOUT PRETTY DRESSES FOR EVERYONE WHO WANTS THEM....

having a dress that ACTUALLY FITS was my lifechanging moment of "oh shit... fashion is a thing I CAN PARTICIPATE IN TOO instead of just watching sadly"

also

eshakti dresses

have

pockets.

anyway https://www.sweetdisabled.com/sweetdisabled/recs-eshakti is the more thorough love letter i wrote to them, 10/10 highly recommend go get yourself a kickass pretty dress

(I suggest boosting this toot rather than the one at the top of this thread; I believe it is more accurate.)

Yesterday, the instance admin of hackers.town - TheGibson - posted a toot with three slides from a PowerPoint presentation - I think about advertising infosec as a career. (It's deleted now - https://web.archive.org/web/20190304191940/https://hackers.town/@thegibson/101693197693941092 is a copy on the Wayback Machine, https://web.archive.org/web/20190304192001/https://hackers.town/system/media_attachments/files/000/666/042/original/5b6195e9e881954e.png?1551714968 - cw: glancing reference to prison rape - is a copy of the first slide.) Among other remarks, they referred to themself as a "Proud Member of FBI Infragard".

Understandably, given the large fraction of the Fediverse population who are leftists, social justice advocates, anti-war activists, or any combination of the above, a great many people were very upset at sharing their private correspondence with someone bragging of their participation in an FBI-affiliated organization. We are who the FBI has targeted for decades.

What is InfraGard? Going by my own limited research and what infosec people have said in response to this outpouring of distrust:

InfraGard, as an organization, is a public-private partnership that presents itself as having a broad mandate to share information between (implicitly, in both directions) private organizations like major corporations and the FBI. InfraGard, as an organization, has little in the way of transparency - in fact, what information it shares, it tends to share confidentiality and with a rule that those receiving it cannot cite InfraGard as a source. (This kind of thing is called "Chatham House Rules", apparently.) According to those who have interacted with it and spoken up, said information is no more than "hey, here is a computer security threat we've seen and some things you all can do to deal with it" - basically on par with the FDA sharing advice on how to comply with new food regulations.

This hasn't particularly allayed the fears of people who viscerally distrust the FBI. Like the ACLU said in 2004, from what little is shared with the general public, InfraGard could easily be another organization designed to facilitate the funneling of private information to the FBI without a warrant so they can better spy on the public - something US intelligence and law enforcement agencies have done many times under many names, changing those names but not the practice whenever outsiders find out about one and scream bloody murder. We don't know, and we have every reason to distrust.

And that 'proudly' from TheGibson - the entire tone of the slides, in fact - doesn't foster confidence in anyone that they draw their lines on what they are willing to participate in /anywhere near/ where they'd have to for people to feel comfortable trusting their judgment.

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