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Open Culture: “Two days after Adolf Hitler became Chancellor of Germany, the Lutheran pastor Dietrich Bonhoeffer took to the airwaves. Before his radio broadcast was cut off, he warned his countrymen that their führer could well be a verführer, or misleader. Bonhoeffer’s anti-Nazism lasted until the end of his life in 1945, when he was …
Cyber Insider: “A Mozilla-led campaign is calling on major tech platforms to block surveillance firm ShadowDragon from scraping user data from over 200 websites — including Reddit, Tinder, Duolingo, and Etsy — to support U.S. government surveillance programs, especially those run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). The controversy centers on ShadowDragon’s flagship tool, SocialNet, …
Wired: ‘We conducted a survey of 730 software engineers and developers to explore how they utilize AI chatbots in their daily work, unveiling some surprising insights. The results indicate a fractured landscape; while some programmers embrace AI as an integral part of their workflow, others remain steadfastly opposed. This divergence raises an important question: is …
Follow up to The High Cost of Team Trump’s Sloppy OPSEC via Raw Story: “A new analysis suggests the widely condemned error triggered by National Security Adviser Mike Waltz, who included a journalist in a group chat discussing top-secret war plans, may not be an isolated incident, leaving him open to potential national security risks. That’s …
Washington Post via MSN – The proliferation of artificial intelligence tools and overreliance on software such as ChatGPT is making the job market increasingly surreal. “The speedy embrace of AI tools meant to make job hunting and hiring more efficient is causing headaches and sowing distrust in these processes, people on both sides of the …
Above the Law – One of the first things you need to know in a fight is who you can and can’t rely on. Thankfully, time and resources were saved by knowing that Paul Weiss is a lost cause. But the search is still on for compatriots willing to speak out against the current administration’s …
Updates this week to my LLRX guide, Climate and DEI Deleted From Government Websites, Federal Workers Fired, Colleges Erase Programs, Law Firms Blackballed, Holocaust Erased The Guardian, March 26, 2025. Trump’s ‘climate’ purge deleted a new extreme weather risk tool. We recreated it | The Guardian has recreated a searchable climate future risk tool developed …
Ars Technica: “Forcing the use of general search terms can help people change their minds. People are often quite selective about the information they’ll accept, seeking out sources that will confirm their biases, while discounting those that will challenge their beliefs. In theory, search engines can potentially change that. By prioritizing results from high-quality, credible …
If nothing else, the endless Trump/DOGE/MAGA coordinated attacks on every aspect of federal government services is bringing to light, all be it too late it would seem, the vast expertise and responsibilities of government employees who work for dozens of agencies and departments that most Americans have never heard of before. Via Wired [unpaywalled] – …
Washington Post [unpaywalled]: “…An economic treatise by a top Trump adviser is being read as a roadmap of his tariff policy. But even he says it’s not what Trump is implementing In July 1944, during World War II, hundreds of economic policymakers from dozens of countries gathered at a hotel in Bretton Woods, New Hampshire, …
This OPSEC Special Bulletin, on the left, went out to the Pentagon during the same time period that SECDEF was using an unauthorized Signal chat. The Bulwark: The top issue of the 2016 presidential election, the one that changed Donald Trump from a TV loudmouth to a world historical figure, was information security. Hillary Clinton’s …
Do you have, readily available, a valid copy of your birth certificate, indicating the first and last name by which you currently identify and conduct all other business and commerce related activities? If not, be prepared as this is yet another in a litany of rapid fire orders that Trump has issued to subvert our …