Danielle Langlois

@linkwatch.bsky.social Maybe don’t encourage the blocking of people who are sharing important information that people on Bsky need to see, even if it’s only posted elsewhere.

The Trump White House hasn’t posted on BlueSky in several months but you need to know that this is the deeply dystopian crap they’re posting on Twitter.

WAR IS NOT A VIDEO GAME

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A great time to make sure your Weather Radios have batteries. (Yeah, I’m talking to you, American Midwest! ❤️)

Mopers need to redirect their energy toward civic engagement! Especially any retirees! (Not you, you’re always working, but anyone who is retired and feels helpless can check out @thirdactorg.bsky.social)

Ok. WOW.

These are so impressive!

Once I watched one of the top NAR guys (think it was Ché Ahn) say that “Kamala was Jezebel” and would be eaten by dogs in the street… to a cheering audience of women… I understood *how* wild.

⚠️ Holy moly, I DIDN’T KNOW THIS.

Due to changes at the USPS,
if you drop MAIL into a BLUE BOX,
it DOES NOT GET POSTMARKED
UNTIL 2+ DAYS LATER.

This impacts people who register to vote by mail, people who vote by mail, and folks who file their taxes by mail!

Congratulations! It's the end of the month Gift Article Giveaway! I'll add to this thread over the next 24 hours, but to start us off, here's a neat piece in the NYTimes from last year.

50 States / 50 Fixes: A series about local solutions to climate change. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Sure would love to hear THEIR synopsis of the Sermon on the Mount.

Bananas. With nuts.

Shush, you *know* you need more intellectually honest print media in your life.

I’m not going to tell you to imagine more positive outcomes because who knows, it can’t hurt…

(but even physicists say that shit works)

There wasn't a single area of our lives that wasn't touched by the web. We could now control our entire lives, economy, and grid via a remote web control. And we had never paused to think that, along the way, we were creating the world's largest attack surface.

Book cover THIS IS HOW THEY TELL ME THE WORLD ENDS: The Cyber-Weapons Arms Race, by Nicole Perlroth

In light of the attack on Iran, how hackable is your city? If you live in America, it’s probably worse than you think.

From an excellent book by @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social:

“WHAT HAD SAVED Ukraine is precisely what made the United States the most vulnerable nation on earth.”

🧵

Adam McKay is rewarding people’s addiction to social media (and wants you to read Current Affairs magazine).

ABF

Always. Be. Fundraising.

(Hey, it was the Awwwwties!)

Why I sleep poorly: bsky.app/profile/lang...

Every podcast (and old movie) benefits from the singing of A-HA . 🤓 😂

Rachel Maddow’s show replays starting now and BOY HOWDY DO YOU WANT AN ULCER? 😂💯⚠️ Because Kristi Noem is fucking up our national security at the worst time imaginable.

(Don’t miss minute 15ish to 27.)

Photo of the friendly-faced New York City Mayor Mamdani, saying "and as always, let's look out for one another."

Despite the upsetting world news, I wish you all a smiling Mayor Mamdani-style Monday. 🥰

Looks like Mom bought their shirts with “room to grow.”

Insulin Pumps?

I won’t let an Alexa in my home because *they’re* hackable…

Aw, shucks.

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“Over and over again, the United States failed to reach the same sobering conclusions. We failed to see that the world of potential war has moved from land to see to air to the digital realm.”

Prologue

‘This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends’

by @nicoleperlroth.bsky.social

….In the weeks after I left, Ukrainians cast their vote in the presidential election on paper. There would be no fancy ballot-marking machines; every vote would be marked by hand…. the idea of migrating Ukraine’s elections to computers struck everyone I met during my time there as pure insanity.

Ukraine had another edge on the USA: its sense of urgency. After five years of getting beat up and blacked out by one of the world's greatest predators, Ukraine knew that its future depended on a vigilant cyber defense.

…The biggest secret in cyberwar—the one our adversaries now know all too well—is that the same nation that maintains the greatest offensive cyber advantage on earth is also among its most vulnerable.

At the NSA—whose dual mission is gathering intelligence around the world and defending U.S. secrets—offense had eclipsed defense long ago. For every hundred cyberwarriors working on offense, there was only one lonely analyst playing defense.