Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Pure lying from Trump and he's "winning" because Biden is a mumbler...

Anyone that thought this about catching Trump being Trump, was sadly deluded. It was all about him appearing the confident strongman. That’s all he had to achieve. And he’s done that already, while Biden looks weak, sometimes confused, and unable to land any punches. It’s very alarming. Very.

Trump lies with energy and strong voice. Biden fumbles with truth. Journalists will proclaim Trump the winner.

CNN has decided, based on its pre-debate "coverage", that the two major-party candidates are very much equivalent.

The network's correspondents surely know that they are pushing the worst kind of false balance, but it is what they do routinely.

Business as usual in Big Journalism will be seen by honest historians as one of the most effective enablers of fascism in America.

Supreme Court just legalized bribery of public officials. A perfect and grotesque endorsement of the kind of corruption that Trump world stands for. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/06/26/supreme-court-bribes-gratuities-corruption-mayor/

#Apple takes out a billboard to dunk on Google #Chrome's #privacy problems. (They are not wrong, but Safari could be improved as well). https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/apple-google-billboard-safari-privacy-19532631.php

other honorable mentions:
• COMMITTEE THAT BELIEVES ALL CAMPAIGN DONATIONS ARE BRIBES, AND WILL, THEREFORE, DENY ALL CONTRIBUTIONS.
• COMMITTEE TO ELECT LITERALLY ANYBODY ELSE FOR PRESIDENT

@adamshostack You’re expecting fidelity to the law from the Fifth Circuit? Or from Thomas and Alito?

The fact that Microsoft Teams 🤮 contains a feature called "Teams" where actual teams can create a Team, and at Microsoft the teams working on that feature probably have a Team to discuss the Teams feature, suggests that there exists a Microsoft Microsoft Teams Teams Teams' Microsoft Teams Team.

Stanford University's contempt for journalism it doesn't like is on full display here.

Just reprehensible, and it should put to rest some of the longstanding mythology about the school's political leanings. https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/stanford-presses-prosecution-student-journalist-19523761.php

Update: The vote is on hold, apparently.

The EU is moving closer to making strong encryption illegal so it can spy on everyone (except, of course, EU officials). As this post notes, "It couldn't be clearer that the aim of this bill is China-style mass surveillance and not better protecting our children."

https://www.eureporter.co/business/data/mass-surveillance-data/2024/04/15/leak-eu-interior-ministers-want-to-exempt-themselves-from-chat-control-bulk-scanning-of-private-messages/

While watching S1E1 of "Pee-wee's Playhouse" (1986) on #YouTube just now, I noticed for the first time an image of "Bob" from the Church of the SubGenius on a wall. I don't know how I missed that all these years, but please cut me some ... slack.

Them: You’re acting weird.

Me: First of all, I’m not acting…

I feel like if Europe is going to insist on using 0-based indexing for floors in their buildings Americans should insist on using it for their monarchs: "King Louis the 0th", "Charles the Nothingth", "Ferdinand the Null", etc.

Just basically gonna have to assume for the rest of our lives that any cloud/content hosting service offered for free is at best temporary and at worst some kind of trap

7 in 10 Americans Want SCOTUS to Be Subject to Investigation Over Ethics Issues https://truthout.org/articles/7-in-10-americans-want-scotus-to-be-subject-to-investigation-over-ethics-issues/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Remember kids:

IRC is free.
IRC is a open standard.
You can run your own IRC server.
IRC doesn't collect data on you and sell it.
You can still moderate your channels via invite, voice, and ban modes.
You can run a server on a 486.
IRC doesn't try to up sell you on "nitro".
IRC doesn't need to make money to make some VC happy.

Having this as my default www root page to scare all security auditors to stone

The Kasperski ban should make everyone reconsider closed-source software. If Russia can threaten cybersecurity through anti-virus software, who says the US can't do so through Microsoft and Apple? Open-Source is the only way to control your data.
#opensource #digitalsouvereignity