Circuit boards have a certain beauty that rarely gets appreciated. With the right lighting and the right lense they look like a busy city street. I took this with my Olympus D E M5 MARK III and a M.Zuiko ED 30mm F3.5 macro lens. This is a raw image, I didnt use any post processing. Follow me if you want to see more! #electronics #photography #macro_photography #PCB_art
THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑💻
for July 7th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue
- Rockstar gets Lapsus$ hacker sentenced to indefinite hospitalization
- Drama with The Intercept’s Signal tipline
- Spain’s government bans #Palantir over national security concerns
- #Facebook restarts tracking people off Facebook
- #Wisconsin residents within 30 miles new #Fairweather data center suing #Microsoft over the "not only excessive, but consistent and pervasive" noise
- Some really good advice about leaving #Flock cameras alone
- #ICE is going after online critics
- What an #AI “cyber nuclear war” would actually look like
...and much more.
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THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠
for July 2nd, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue
- Confirmed totals for the Ebola outbreak, current but with reporting delays: 1333 cases, 399 deaths
- Healthcare workers at risk in the Ebola outbreak zone due to insufficient PPE; public health officials racing to combat misinformation and panic
- PBS New Jersey warns cat guardians to keep felines inside due to H5N1 prevalence
- Screwworm detections now up to 29
- RFK Jr. to end all Covid-19 Emergency Use Authorizations (EUAs) "for drugs & biological products & for medical devices"
- Study: fourfold increase in Tuberculosis observed in post-acute-COVID patients
- Long Covid's effect on the global workforce
- Wastewater hints at summer wave
...and much more.
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Best of luck with that appy bill …
I'm making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS
THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑💻
for June 23rd, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue
- Tesla Autopilot kills again
- A handy website for tracking Tesla deaths
- Another LastPass breach
- Meta internally doxed its own AI-surveilled employees
- Literally no one wants a data center
- Reckless mass firings at US counterterrorism branches
- @hackaday cracks a prison tablet
- A predatory pharma company got its recipes doxed
- Commodore's new dumb phone
...and much more.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@zackwhittaker/116795508582464798
How entirely unexpected.
<*checks BINGO card*>
Oh.
THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠
for June 18th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue
- #Ebola outbreak is the 3rd largest on record: currently at 837 confirmed cases, 196 deaths
- MV Hondius's #Hantavirus #ANDV exposure quarantine period ends June 21st
- Immune dysregulation from Covid can contribute to reawakening of dormant cancer cells
- Three studies: Covid vaccination (all types) has broad cardioprotective effects
- Study: metformin taken during acute infection confirmed to help prevent Long Covid
- @ProPublica reporting on #DigitalColonialism digs into US officials conditioning aid on disclosure of private health data of millions of Africans
- @thesicktimes will host a virtual variety show for Pride on June 30th! 🏳️🌈 🏳️⚧️
...and much more.
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@thatkatharine The day that real (and accessible) medical science can 100% assure me that if I get covid I won't die, get brain damage, or contract long covid will be a life-changing day for me.
Until then... I do not want any of those things and I will thus continue to do what's in my power to prevent them.
I am not cavalier about my life, my brain, or my health.
One more time for the people in the back:
I will always hate your real names proposal.
I will always hate your backdooring crypto proposal.
I will always hate your hack back proposal.
These ideas are bad and you cannot dress them up in any way that will change that.
For those of you who enjoy small acts of kindness:
A few days ago, I went to a photographer to get new ID photos after starting my transition.
His job was simply to take the official pictures and send me on my way.
After taking the passport photos, he looked at me and asked:
“Are these your first photos as a woman?”
I smiled and said, “Yes.”
He paused for a moment and said:
“That’s not acceptable. You’re not allowed to smile in passport photos. It can’t be right that you don’t smile in the first photos of your new life.”
Then he asked me to look back into the camera and smile.
He took a few more portraits, printed three large photos for me, handed them to me, and said:
“These are your first photos as a woman. Take them. Consider these a gift”
I nearly cried.
Sometimes people don’t realize how much a small gesture can mean to someone else. 💜🏳️⚧️
If you see someone posting a photo of a sign at a furry convention that advertises HIV / STI testing while sounding offended, it's a queerphobic dogwhistle.
Spread this to your friends/families to inoculate them from bad memes.
https://soatok.blog/2024/09/30/why-are-furry-conventions-offering-hiv-testing-to-attendees/
I haven't been able to find any tech journalists or outlets reporting on Section 224 of the 2027 #NDAA (H.R.8800):
"...the provision reaches across 'seemingly every area of defense tech,' including artificial intelligence, quantum technology, autonomous systems, directed energy, cyber and biotechnology. He said the most alarming terms were 'network integration' and 'data fusion,' since the bill does not clearly define them."
Has anyone seen any good coverage or analysis from tech journalists or experts on Section 224?
https://www.military.com/2027-ndaa-provision-seeks-sweeping-us-israel-defense-tech-integration
#AI #cybersecurity #infosec #dataprivacy #SurveillanceState #technofeudalism #EndtimesFascism #NationalSecurity
COVID-safe Bay Area Art, Performance, Livestreams, and Protests
🗓️ Week of June 7th - 13th 🗓️
by #CovidConscious SF journalist Charles S. Lewis III #CSL3
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girl you said we'd always be
then you rm -rf'd me
thought our love was gone forever
but i had snapshots back to december
THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠
for June 4th, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue
- 3 weeks after #WHO declaration, #Ebola outbreak spreads to 24 separate locations
- @STAT on Ebola: "...as of 6/1 there are 633 confirmed & suspected... #Uganda is now up to 15 cases.”
- Trump-admin-planned Ebola quarantine center (for Americans) in Kenya on hold after protests turn deadly
- #hantavirus #ANDV cases remain at 13; five exposed passengers currently in gov't quarantine to leave early
- #FDA approves oral antiviral ensitrelvir (Xocova) as post-exposure Covid prevention treatment
- Study: association found between Covid infection & increased risk for #HPV -related cancers
- Study: atypical obstructive sleep apnea common in #LongCovid
...and much more.
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THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑💻
for June 2nd, 2026
by independent journalist @violetblue
- #Microsoft gets hit with infosec backlash for threatening researchers (who promise revenge)
- @adafruit blog goes dark after disclosure threats
- #Github #Copilot disaster makes the Titanic look like a bathtub toy
- #Huawei thanks the US for changing the chip market in their favor
- #Instagram accounts hijacked via helpful #Meta #AI support bots
- @timnitGebru was right
- #MyPillow denies being hacked two days before hackers leak thousands of internal files
- An #SF housecleaning bot startup is wrecking #Airbnbs
- A revolutionary new pickup truck #EV starts with a real key and has no app
...and much more.
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Happy Pride Month!