The Risk Whisperer's Guide to Cyber Resilience Podcast Episode · Voices of the Vigilant · 07/23/2025 · 51m

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Tanks being moved into DC. National guard being mobilized in LA. Paramilitary thugs being unleashed across America. It's summer in America and fascism is in full bloom.

Random Monday: someone on this flight just starting chewing juicy fruit gum and I'm suddenly 7 and want some more than I've wanted anything.

Happy Pride!

In a moment like this, when our country is in peril, don’t ask the meaning of life. Life is asking, “What’s the meaning of you?”

Powerful words.

Got to take a ride in a friend's 1944 restored Willy's Jeep. So fun! I giggled most of the ride

May the 4th be with you!

The world turned upside down.

ALERT: I had not seen this article until this morning. It is a pretty big deal. Mike Waltz isn’t actually using Signal. He’s using a copy or third party version of Signal created by a company called TeleMessage the point of which is to allow archiving of messages. The app claims to preserve …

Open source AI hiring bots favor men, leave women hanging by the phone Easy fix: Telling LLMs to cosplay Lenin makes 'em more gender blind Open source AI models are more likely to recommend men than women for jobs, particularly the high-paying ones, a new study has found.…

Open source AI hiring bots favor men, leave women hanging by the phone

Tell me you know nothing about history without telling me you know nothing about history.

Or just know nothing in general. *Sigh*

RFK Jr. asks CDC for new measles treatment guidance amid his unfounded claims Kennedy claimed that drugs like budesonide and clarithromycin "have been shown very effective" for measles, but doctors say they don't fight the infection itself.

‘Kennedy told reporters that there were "many, many good ways to treat measles and doctors need to know that and to know those methods.’

One problem; there is no treatment for measles. Signed, a doctor who’s been forced to deal with measles because of this stupid fraud.

Not gonna lie, it's extremely sketch for Kristi noem to speak at RSA on how she's gonna rebuild CISA, when CISA didn't show up, Chris Krebs was on another stage, and she's part of the destruction of all of our cyber defense capabilities....

Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

Rev. Barber, surrounded by police, praying in the U.S. Capitol Rotunda.

BREAKING: Police just surrounded Rev. William Barber, prominent activist and pastor, as he and others prayed in the U.S. Capitol Rontunda.

Police then expelled everyone (including press!) from the Rotunda to (presumably) arrest them.

I've covered protests here a lot. Never seen anything like it.

“Your Home Without China” 🇨🇳

An incredible interactive graphic examining which household categories rely on Chinese production:

@nytimes.com
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Art.

This is what we’re working towards, but we gotta make it happen!

Every April, we celebrate Independent Bookstore Day to remind us how vital indie bookstores are to our communities and society. It’s a day of joy and solidarity, and significant financial impact for these bookstores. This year, Amazon is undercutting that with a “Book Sale” on the same day—a calculated move by a company that has already put half the bookstores in the country out of business, controls over 60% of the market and sells far more books than all indie bookstores combined. The people at Amazon responsible for the timing of their "Book Sale" should be ashamed, but they are shameless.

Man, this is a pretty fucking gross move from Amazon, huh? Good on @bookshop.org for not mincing words, though:

@chickgonebad.bsky.social @vespavixen.bsky.social

On the one hand, Trump publicly saying he doesn’t know anything about what is going on besides what he’s being told might be a lie to try and shift the buck but on the other the evidence for “he is not actually mentally competent to run the country” is getting stronger by the day

I mean Indiana Jones was about it but he and Marian at least fed my love of it to find good role models

"Furthermore, I expect the German legal profession to understand that the nation is not here for them, but that they are here for the nation"

Hitler, 1942

Doesn't sound much different, does it?

In the wake of what Judge Dugan did (100% legal), now is a good time for everyone to know what she knows:

An immigration or administrative warrant is *not* a judicial warrant. You are not obliged to obey it. Indeed, you can let the person out the back door. docs.google.com/presentation...

Yeah, keep using AI. Please. By all means.

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