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The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate.
That’s a quote from Thomas Jefferson, and it’s super-relevant to our situation today. Our schools aren’t doing enough to create an educated electorate, and most of our journalists are doing a terrible job.
International Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
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Security Challenges for Democratic Elections
Wednesday, 11 September 7:00-8:30 am US EDT / 12:00-1:30 pm UK / 1:00-2:30 pm CET / 2:00-
3:30 pm Tel Aviv / 7:00-8:30 pm Perth / 8:00-9:30 pm Japan / 9:00-10:30 pm Canberra
zoom meeting https://hal.zoom.us/j/95800400015?pwd=sMWRs55vWatnl6PLRhDRfRZ3rbLKiz.1
The Supreme Court thought Trump is going to WIN the Election….so they wanted him to have TOTAL POWER via their Immunity Ruling.
But after Kamala Harris WINS the Election…..the Supreme Court will OVERTURN their Immunity Ruling….so Harris does NOT have Total Power.
– Tell your friends and family in Pennsylvania to go out and vote, this election is too close for comfort. This election will not be decided by the popular vote, but by a few thousand voters in 3 battleground states.
– Kamala Harris has officially proposed that households worth more than $100 million would pay an annual minimum tax worth 25% of their combined income and unrealized capital gains.
– Supreme Court refuses to revive Biden’s latest student loan debt relief plan
– Trump budget would spike deficits by nearly 5 times Harris proposal, says Penn Wharton
– BREAKING NEWS FROM 2017:
Trump Budget Deeply Cuts Health, Housing And Other Assistance for Low- and Moderate-Income Families And Gives Tax Breaks To Upper Class.
– Project 2025’s tax plan would replace all income taxes with sales taxes.
Guess who gets hit hardest by sales taxes? Working families. The Project 2025 plan would mean a $5,900 tax increase for the middle 20%—and an average $2 million tax cut for the top 0.1%.
MUSK
– Elon Musk Makes His First Political Hire—in Promise of Chaos to Come
Elon Musk’s new hire is a troubling sign of his plans to influence the next election in favor of Donald Trump.
– Brazil Supreme Court ordered Twitter/X to block fake news, hate accounts violating laws+undermining democracy.
– Musk refused & closed all offices in Brazil.
– Court gave him 24hrs to appoint a legal rep in Brazil or it’ll Block X/Twitter in the country of 217million.
– Silicon Valley’s Very Online Ideologues are in Model Collapse
Like an AI trained on its own output, they’re growing increasingly divorced from reality, and are reinforcing their own worst habits of thought.
– Rootless Masculinity Influencers Are Pivoting to Wildly Antisemitic Claims
– MUSK FAA grounds SpaceX after rocket falls over and shoots flames everywhere.
ARLINGTON CEMETARY
PHOTO OP STUNT
-Trump was struggling to get into Arlington National Cemetery until Speaker of the House Mike Johnson intervened to get Trump in for his illegal campaign stunt.
– Pay attention cause it’s going to get worse. Arlington is a shiny object creating rage and owning the news cycle. To take away from Kamala. It’s only August.
– For Trump, Arlington Cemetery controversy goes from bad to worse
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-arlington-cemetery-controversy-goes-bad-worse-rcna168747
Tech etc.
– 70 minute Michael Saylor Interview “Recently I traveled to Brazil to discuss #Bitcoin with a wide variety of investors, executives, bankers, technologists, policy makers & journalists. Here I cover @MicroStrategy, Digital Assets, and the institutional adoption of $BTC as Digital Property/Capital around the world.
– White House Report: U.S. Federal Agencies Brace for $7.1 Billion Post-Quantum Cryptography Migration
— FINALLY!!! NSA releases copy of internal lecture delivered by computing giant Rear Adm. Grace Hopper
In one of the more unique public proactive transparency record releases for the National Security Agency (NSA) to date, NSA has released a digital copy of a lecture that then-Capt. Grace Hopper gave agency employees on August 19, 1982. The lecture, “Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People,” features Capt. Hopper discussing some of the potential future challenges of protecting information. She also provided valuable insight on leadership and her experiences breaking barriers in the fields of computer science and mathematics. While NSA did not possess the equipment required to access the footage from the media format in which it was preserved, NSA deemed the footage to be of significant public interest and requested assistance from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to retrieve the footage. NARA’s Special Media Department was able to retrieve the footage contained on two 1’ AMPEX tapes and transferred the footage to NSA to be reviewed for public release.
“The most important thing I’ve accomplished, other than building the compiler, is training young people,” Rear Adm. Hopper once said. “They come to me, you know, and say, ‘Do you think we can do this?’ I say, ‘Try it.’ And I back ’em up. They need that. I keep track of them as they get older and I stir ’em up at intervals so they don’t forget to take chances.”
– @BoringSleuth As part of my research into Telegram’s relationships On-Chain (Blockchain), I came across a wallet I believe to be theirs sending Ethereum to the Bitpoint Hacker. You won’t believe who else is connected or close by:
– Google found evidence that a group of Russian government hackers, aka APT29, are using exploits that are “identical or strikingly similar” to those previously made by spyware makers Intellexa and NSO Group.
– 2 men from Europe charged with ‘swatting’ plot targeting former US president and members of Congress
“Szabo organized and moderated chat groups to coordinate swatting attacks against 40 private citizens and 61 officials…”
K12 EDUCATION
– “Visa” required for EU entry starting next year
– The Changing Role of the US Dollar The US dollar’s dominance in the global economy faces challenges due to geopolitical fragmentation and populist backlash against globalization.
– Without Guardrails, Generative AI Can Harm Education
New study led by researchers at Wharton and Penn reveals that using generative AI improves student performance, but also makes it harder for students to learn and acquire new skills.
The researchers designed an experiment with nearly 1,000 high school math students in Turkey to determine whether large language models can harm or help their education. One group of students was given GPT Base, a chat interface similar to ChatGPT-4, to help them during practice sessions. A second group was given GPT Tutor, an interface similar to ChatGPT-4 but with safeguards. It includes teacher input and is designed to guide students with hints rather than directly giving answers.
Finally! Found my thread on the Trump administration paying $52M for 3.5M Covid tests to a UAE company. Speaking of Jared Kushner & the UAE, I don’t think we ever got an answer as to why the WH paid $52 million for 3.5 million COVID tests thru a bank in Abu Dhabi at the end of March.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1294127818822037504.html
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2020/07/how-jared-kushners-secret-testing-plan-went-poof-into-thin-air
BANKS
– All the Devils from 2008 Are Back at the Megabanks: Leverage, Off-Balance-Sheet Debt, Over $192 Trillion in Derivatives, Shaky Capital Levels
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/08/all-the-devils-from-2008-are-back-at-the-megabanks-leverage-off-balance-sheet-debt-over-192-trillion-in-derivatives-shaky-capital-levels/
– Crypto Took Down Another Federally-Insured Bank and Just Handed Its CEO a 24-Year Prison Sentence
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/08/crypto-took-down-another-federally-insured-bank-and-just-handed-its-ceo-a-24-year-prison-sentence/
– In the Span of 72 Hours, Four People Tied to a Hewlett-Packard Criminal Case Died in Two Separate Events
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/08/in-the-span-of-72-hours-four-people-tied-to-a-hewlett-packard-criminal-case-died-in-two-separate-events/
– Jamie Dimon’s Washington Post OpEd Gets Pummeled at Yahoo Finance
https://wallstreetonparade.com/2024/08/jamie-dimons-washington-post-oped-gets-pummeled-at-yahoo-finance/
HR
Hey Veronica!
Veronica finally getting summoned by HR
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezsuulepyOA
Origin Stories: Plantations, Computers, and Industrial Control
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