PRIVACY / SECURITY
PBS Secrets in Your Data | Full Documentary | NOVA | PBS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ih_GGQX_zmM
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Learn about MeshNets and join us testing out a platform that works when the internet goes down….
1st Meshnet meeting Wednesday, May 22nd at 7 pm EST
More on the Chat Link
https://communitybridge.com/events/communitybridge-town-hall-2024-05-22/ access code = together
Don’t let this go unnoticed
The FEC is currently considering a proposal that would create a secret process to determine whether groups can get a perpetual exemption from disclosure requirements and hide key information from the public:
The FEC should not block disclosure of large political donors through secret proceedings
HEALTH
Researchers discovered a potential breakthrough in delaying the onset of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease and treating hydrocephalus. They developed a drug that can help clear fluid and cellular debris from the brain.
https://x.com/vipintukur/status/1791870287912276387
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41593-024-01604-8
“After nearly three years, the rate of heart attack, stroke, and death was 4.5 times higher in people with microplastics in their plaque than those without.” Microplastics in arteries linked to heart disease risk
Buy loose leaf tea instead of tea bags according to Plus boil your drinking water! Don’t use plastic Tupperware or bottles for drinks, and definitely don’t heat anything up in plastic or place hot food/drink in plastic.
New: Decades ago, Kris Hansen showed 3M that its PFAS chemicals were in people’s bodies. Her bosses halted her work. As the EPA now forces the removal of the chemicals from drinking water, she wrestles with the secrets that 3M kept from her and the world. https://propub.li/3yqzZUF
AI
Interview Of The Week: Meredith Whittaker, AI Ethics Expert
<https://theinnovator.news/interview-of-the-week-meredith-whittaker-ai-ethics-expert/>
Meredith Whittaker is President of Signal, an encrypted messaging service, and a member of the Signal Foundation Board of Directors. She has over 17 years of experience in tech, spanning industry, academia, and government. Before joining Signal as President, she was the Minderoo Research Professor at New York University (NYU), and served as the Faculty Director of the AI Now Institute, which she co-founded. Her research and scholarly work have helped shape global AI policy and shift the public narrative on AI to better recognize the surveillance business practices and concentration of industrial resources that modern AI requires.
Hackers unbrick trains. “She emailed a group that called itself “Dragon Sector,” and soon after, a trio of hackers reported for duty. A collection of coders with normal day jobs who come together in their off hours to defend cyberspace from malicious intrusions, they consider themselves “white-hat” hackers.” https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/their-trains-were-stalled-these-hackers-brought-them-back-to-life/ar-BB1mGuN3
The hacker cred is real.”They coordinated with partners not over Slack, but via the 1990s-era Internet chat system IRC.” And then it becomes a right to repair case. “It was an electronic leash that seemed to tether any repair work to the manufacturer. And it was a problem, the hackers say, that extended to other trains across Poland. One train on a different railway even had code that signaled a mechanical breakdown even though the system was working fine.”
Two Santa Cruz students uncover security bug that could let millions do their laundry for free
Woman Stuck in Tesla For 40 Minutes With 115 Degrees Temperature During Vehicle Update
Joseph Cox@josephfcox
Nonconsensual AI Porn Maker Accidentally Leaks His Customers’ Emails
New: recently we reported that a nonconsensual AI porn creator was making so much money from Patreon that they quit their full-time job. After Patreon kicked them, the creator informed their subs… but CC’d all of them, showing us their identities
https://www.404media.co/nonconsensual-ai-porn-maker-accidentally-leaks-his-customers-emails/
Adult webcam platform paid $2.6m into controversial influencer Tristan Tate’s bank account, leaked documents show
ICIJ found Paxum Bank, favored by the porn industry, processed Tate’s transactions until shortly before he and his brother Andrew Tate were charged with rape and human trafficking.
Paxum Bank, favored by the porn industry, is owned by Russian-American entrepreneur Anton Postolnikov. Postolnikov emerged as a major investor in Digital World Acquisition Corp., the publicly traded investment vehicle that merged with Trump Media.
Axon’s AI is now writing police reports directly from bodycam footage. Says cops are actively using it. What could go wrong?
How Google’s AI could accelerate the Web’s decline
Google Search AI Overview told searchers to drink urine to pass kidney
stones
https://www.seroundtable.com/google-sge-drink-urine-to-pass-kidney-stones-37339.html
Sisters in Christ group pays property taxes on Senate candidate Steve Garvey’s home. Why?
POLITICS
1988: “Several Bush campaign staffers forced to resign after it was disclosed they were ex-Nazi war criminals including Laszlo Pastor and Yaroslav Stetsko.”
Rent and home prices are skyrocketing. One big reason why? Wall Street buying up homes. Democrats introduced bills aiming to ban corporate ownership of single-family houses. Lobbying groups have already spent $500k trying to squash the bills.
It’s now cheaper to rent than buy in all 50 of the top metros nationwide, per Bankrate. The typical monthly mortgage payment for a median-priced home ($412,778 per Redfin) is $2,703. Meanwhile, the typical monthly rent is $1,979 as of February, a 36.6% difference.
The Permanent Counterrevolution
On politics and government in a fascist America “During his 21 years in power, 18 of them as dictator, Il Duce framed fascism as a revolution of reaction against the left, against liberal democracy, and against any group that threatened the survival of white Christian civilization. Carrying out a violent destabilization of society in the name of a return to social order and national tradition, fascism pioneered the autocratic formula in use today of disenfranchising and repressing the many to allow the few to exploit the workforce, women’s bodies, the environment, and the economy. Trumpism is in this tradition.”
https://newrepublic.com/article/181265/permanent-counterrevolution
Dick Durbin needs to haul Alito and Thomas before the Senate Judiciary Committee to get to the bottom of their collision with Trump’s attempt to overthrow American democracy. Will he find the courage?
https://hartmannreport.com/p/the-supreme-scheme-how-alito-and-7a9
Above the Law attended the Federalist Society’s 2009 National Lawyers Convention. They noted that Paul Singer was a “personal friend” of Justice Alito, and that he (Alito) “talked about going on a deep into the wilderness with Paul Singer” in Alaska. According to Manhattan Institute’s 2010 Form 990, Paul Singer was the chairman of the board.
Let’s cut to the chase. Colombian nation Valentina Gomez is running for Jay Ashcroft’s job as SecState of Missouri. Her family are foreign spies run by the IDF. She and her brother are interfering in our election and also messing about in human trafficking prosecutions.
They have covers and lots of handling/financing.
The Missouri GOP, run by IDF, is giving them a platform.
https://x.com/ericgarland/status/1792570361453613117
Mike Flynn associate @IvanRaiklin says “it’s just a matter of time” b4 @ElonMusk & @HouseSpeaker hold a “joint press conference” to “disclose & release the Twitter direct messages” of the people on his “Deep State Target List,” which he claims will prove seditious conspiracy. 1/
https://x.com/jennycohn1/status/1792384372857065659Jesse
Leon Rodgers—founder of the “City Elders” organization—says that their end game is “theonomy” (a form of government in which society is ruled by the Old Testament). City Elders is tied to the New Apostolic Reformation (NAR). The express goals of the explicitly dominionist “City Elders” group include establishing a governmental office in Oklahoma by 2026 & a “City Elders Council” in all 3141 counties in America by 2026 b4 going international. They have ties to the New Apostolic Reformation. #CROW 1/
Trump tells NRA crowd that Biden should be executed
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-threat-biden/
Jared Kushner’s Latest Massive Foreign Investment Deal Sparks Uproar
Nepo baby Jared Kushner just got another big gift from a foreign government.
https://newrepublic.com/post/181657/jared-kushner-foreign-investment-deal-serbia
The pro-russian government of Serbia just gifted a prime $160,000,000 city center property to Trump’s son in law. Since Russia can’t pay the Trump clan directly, anti-US authoritarian governments are being used as conduits. Democracy for sale.
Helicopter carrying Iran’s president crashes.
Fate of Iranian president and other officials in helicopter crash still unknown. Still no word on the fate of Iran’s president, foreign minister, and
other officials in a helicopter that crashed many hours ago earlier
today in East Azerbaijan Province. While the position of the
helicopter is reportedly known from telemetry, searchers have not yet
reached the craft due to the remote, mountainous terrain, rain, cold,
and fog.