Posts by demi7en@infosec.exchange
(DIR) Post #ASftgclP36Z24Qk50y by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2023-02-14T15:48:20Z
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@arstechnica Someone forgot something...Here:
(DIR) Post #ASmjN7F6NdH1NAPc2q by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2023-02-17T22:55:42Z
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@arstechnica fascinating.I'm a stickler for stoic realism (until reason tells otherwise!), but I'm glad that after half a century of regressive politics people are back at studying all the various aspects of psychedelics.
(DIR) Post #ATOXsZgvWL29MiOZay by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2023-03-07T17:25:18Z
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Business uber alles...This #AtlanticCouncil report appears to boil down to suggestion that businesses in the Free World... wait for it... *petition* the CCP dictatorship so that the #CCP can more productively use #HongKong as a newly-neutered #bankingcolony in its pursuit of global objectives.Just like before, but now with "more, better repression" for #Hongkongers...Everybody knows "lobbying" the CCP is beyond pointless so these collaborating corporations will instead lobby governments in democracies against any restrictions on business projects the CCP deems beneficial to it.Oh well, it is a *choice* to aid and abet repressive #dictatorship — fundamentally hostile to any form of democracy — through business.#PRC #china #zeitenwende #globalism #fuckhumanrights #humanrights@hkdc_us_mirror
(DIR) Post #AUQQfVBE8UchVTjQoq by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2023-04-07T11:49:46Z
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⬆️ @arstechnica “But the genetic flaws don't appear to end with the misidentification of raccoon dog genetic material. According to the Nature study, the China CDC scientists also found traces of various animals that were extremely unlikely to be present in the market. That includes the highly protected, and generally large, giant panda (Ailuropoda), as well as bears (Ursus), chimpanzees (Pan), grey seals found in the North Atlantic (Halichoerus), and rodents from the Chilean Andes (Octodon). ( 👀 )It's unclear why the Chinese scientists did not correct their analysis, but now that the metagenomic data is publicly available following the publication, outside researchers are keen to dig into it.”#covid #covid19 #wuhan #wuhanvirus #CCP #china #pandadiplomacy
(DIR) Post #AUXmTiuhYye9oeSUG8 by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2023-04-11T13:34:20Z
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One suspects the F-16 issue has been under debate for some time already and *perhaps* (hopefully) it has already been decided, but some details (logistics, maintenance, armament) remain to be sorted out. The sooner the better, one would think.#FreeTheFalcons #Ukraine #SlavaUkraini @anderspuck @noelreports
(DIR) Post #AUfag9C5VRGbWbC5a4 by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2023-04-15T07:59:47Z
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@stux Why does this remind me of that famous Steve Jobs hiring pitch?#pepsi #sugarwater #thinkdifferent
(DIR) Post #AXHDK1LINyQMugTh8i by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2023-07-01T22:59:48Z
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Once you find some accounts to follow, consider browsing through *their* follows to find shared interests or familiar people.In the absence of (dodgy) corporate 'feeding' algorithms, here you pick your own menu. Besides subscribed 'follows' you ought to make good use of hashtags. Try subscribing to *many* hashtags/keywords such as #Ukraine, #NAFO ;-) #natsec etc. and words-du-jour like, um, #prigozhin, and you should always use hashtags in your posts to aid discoverability in the fediverse.Also, get your buddies to at least establish a presence here. Eventually encrypted DMs will become a reality (they're in the Mastodon to-do) and hopefully one day in the not too distant future you'll have an EU- or Intl.org-provided secure instance to call your own.Until couple of days ago I still *watched* (w/o account there) a handful of #twitter accounts and the replies there were largely a cesspool of inauthenticity or outright manipulation. Mastodon aims to be much healthier in that respect, but requires some cranial elbow grease, especially initially. Patience is a virtue and good things come... @berlinbridge @anderspuck
(DIR) Post #AYCZu1cJFGcXJFJebo by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2023-07-29T21:12:53Z
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☝️ re: Environmental crisis ahead 💡️ One idea: Stop buying 1) disposable shit 2) from repressive and hostile states.Instead buy less, buy sustainable and from responsible countries *only*.#climatecrisis @peterdutoit
(DIR) Post #AZXGJkgMD4UIsFpewy by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2023-09-07T20:51:54Z
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@chowderman @anderspuck Caution and guaranteed Ukrainian victory (a must) aren't entirely exclusive positions. The AFU is grinding down russian capabilities at a steady pace and waiting for the ideal time and place to commit forces. While that happens the kremlin bunkerwanker gets weaker by the minute and who knows what's happening behind the scenes in that cesspool. The russki drone staining Romanian soil isn't hybrid but kinetic.
(DIR) Post #AZaUS50EtppFEnc4hc by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2023-09-08T21:46:52Z
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🤔 That's just about the most optimistic kremlin wishlist for 2024.I think the kremlin bunker resident might have to give these goodies a pass and the best he can hope is being alive this time next year.I'm quite certain he avoids all windows (bunkers are great for that). Does he ever change his underpants? Based on the well documented obsessive 'distancing' at least not very often, but never...?@chowderman @anderspuck
(DIR) Post #AaKxnjDvVPmsoMdAQa by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2023-10-01T18:53:57Z
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“If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor.” (Desmond Tutu)@randahl
(DIR) Post #AasBjIZpmkTqSra6BE by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2023-10-17T21:03:34Z
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The expert on American evangelicalism is (still) a religious believer in one of its branches... It's kinda fascinating.On a personal note, when I worked in mental healthcare in my student years I recall taking a break at a (safe) balcony where a patient pointed at city rooftops in the horizon and stated how "there are 800-year-old people living there". What can you add to that? Well, another patient helpfully corrected that "no there aren't, they are 600-year olds...".Still, it sometimes takes one to know one. Not being immersed in these religious fundamentalist movements I couldn't begin to dissect them like someone who's an insider.#trump #evangelical #christiannationalism #murica #maga #patriarchy #whitesupremacism @benjaminwittes
(DIR) Post #Abhn3A3g4PtHTVx42y by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2023-11-11T17:31:52Z
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@noelreports 🧐 A carrot pretending to be a stick?Ukrainian territory is inviolable as a whole, with no special carve-outs for the ruscist imperialists. Until Article 5 applies in full, there are known ways to help Ukraine get there.#Ukraine #nato
(DIR) Post #ApgRyHZ2iOuWhxRvdo by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2025-01-02T21:11:09Z
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@frameworkcomputer No parts made in a dictatorship? At least no logic chips... 😬
(DIR) Post #Apx9TgcAY7WMivJo9I by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2025-01-10T22:06:15Z
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@gimulnautti @AliceStollmeyer The maga ideologues behind trump have been executing putin's wishlist since the beginning. WhyTF do people still presume trump would suddenly start operating on the basis of human decency or values? 🤯Oh, and Bezos' WashPost is finally fully clear about his sycophantic agenda too.It is now in the interest of them all for Ukraine and Europe to stand together, alone.#maga #trump #putin #bezos #washingtonpost #sanewashing #Ukraine
(DIR) Post #AspCgdvc3geFgRbPhg by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2025-04-06T19:46:44Z
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I've seen lots of commentary on the US nation-wide #Handsoff protests and one thing that struck me — as someone who marched in the massive crowds of the 2019 Hong Kong (umbrella) protests — is how well-intentioned supporters of American democracy are 'selling' the participation there as FUN.It's not wrong of course, but I do find it weird, just a tad flippant and perhaps uniquely American cultural phenomenom.I've seen lots of humour (in public until banned), sarcasm and joy being in the company of like-minded others, but fun...?The MAGA cult are of course notorious for their gaudy frivolity and 'buying' whatever moronic lies are fed through the tubes to that captive segment of 'muricana, their version of "fun".#Hongkong
(DIR) Post #AspCgjJC3RTuN1foeW by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2025-04-06T19:54:32Z
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A totally quick recap to those who don't know what happened in Hong Kong between early June 2019 and January 2020:Hongkongers were promised by the UK-PRC (CCP China) handover treaty signed in 1984 that after the handover to PRC sovereignty in 1997 HKG would retain its civil liberties like freedoms of speech, media and assembly plus political autonomy with *universal suffrage*.Initially after 1997 there remained a semblance of democracy although the legislature was always preloaded with indirectly 'elected' seats guaranteeing the CCP-aligned "popular minority" control of the legislature. Furthermore the all-powerful "Chief Executive" (essentially a governor) was supposed to be elected by the people but CCP "re-interpreted" the treaty to allow *itself* to choose the candidates! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯Hong Kong continued to function as Chinese dictatorship's banking colony and as a powerful tool to play around the international trading system, but instead of making progresss towards the promised democracy through universal suffrage and especially after Xi Jinping took power in the PRC in 2012 the CCP stooges running Hong Kong began rolling back Hong Kong's civil rights.In early 2019 the "HKG govt" announced they were going to change local laws to allow "suspects" to be extradited to the notoriously unjust PRC to be convicted in CCP's kangaroo courts.Thousands marched but the "gov't" ignored them. By early June 2019 there were tens of thousands protesting, and the HKG regime set its police force to teargas and baton-charge the pro-democracy crowds...People were outraged and the crowd grew to hundreds of thousands marching orderly through the city's long main avenues despite the draining heat and humidity.On June 15 a demonstrator known as the Raincoat Man (Marco Leung) fell of a high rise building during a protest. The following day saw a record *2 million* people flood Hong Kong's roads. Out of a population of 7+ million.There would be several million+ marches in the following weeks and months, but the steadily increasing *POLICE VIOLENCE* and various legal and other threats by the regime would start scaring regular people off from joining. (Note: my avatar here is an ambigram character combining 警 'police' with 暴 'brutality' — ACAB only applies in authoritarian states)All the while the local regime ignored people's "Five Demands, Not One Less" and cracked down on any peaceful pro-democracy activism ever harder.A law banning *masks* was enacted on Oct 4. A few months later when Covid-19 hit HKG masks would be both banned and compulsory... 🤷♂️Anyway, violent police crackdown, zero compromise by the regime and later strict Covid rules (no gatherings above 3 people!) would ensure that protesting was not only futile but criminalized. The regime was engaged in a "WHOLE PROCESS CRACKDOWN" on all remotely democratic activism.On 30 June 2020 the HK puppet regime imposed "National Security Law" (NSL) on the city; essentially anything the CCP considers threatening or 'insulting' to its dictatorship was criminalized.#Hongkong #ccp #china
(DIR) Post #AspCgp6eUz0yLrqswC by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2025-04-06T19:57:45Z
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This recap covers only the tiniest fraction of what went on in 2019 and what followed. CCP now has total control of all levers of power and influence in its #BankingColony without civil liberties. Its propaganda blaming "foreign forces" for "black-clad violence" was broadcast on all global authoritarian media. Many Hongkongers, especially youth and families with kids, have emigrated or fled the territory.AFAICT only a small minority of Hong Kong's expats participated in the protests, but many more have since left due to the repressive atmosphere. Some sosiopathic sycophants have apparently moved there though in search of profit along with russians (probably shipping tech back to militant russia and helping skirt international financial embargoes...).One final #trump anecdote: In 2020 when the CCP-imposed "state security law" (NSL) was coming into effect (in typical CCP style, the 'law' is *retroactive*, meaning any perceived *past* infringement can and will be prosecuted!), one of the globally famous pro-democracy faces, young Joshua Wong, tried applying for political asylum at a US mission in Hong Kong but he was denied entry by the trump 1.0 admin...For his devotedly (he's s practising catholic) peaceful advocacy of promised democratic rights he's been incarcerated until 2029 at least. In a gaol without air-conditioning or heating more akin to a Chinese laogai. Just like all the other peaceful advocates of democracy.“President Trump said, ‘Why don’t we just open up? Why don’t we just let a huge portion of people from Hong Kong move to the U.S.?’ And I loved it,” Pottinger told us. “You know, my view was just, transplant the whole damn city and make a new Hong Kong in America. [Trump] was like, ‘They’re going to be industrious; they’ll be great. They’ll make great Americans.’”But Stephen Miller, Trump’s far-right political adviser, stopped the immigration scheme from going further. He was “very persuasive,”https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/11/hong-kong-activists-washington-dc/675693/#JoshuaWong #Hongkong #ccp #china
(DIR) Post #AspCgvUyjS2SB3HOgi by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2025-04-06T20:02:11Z
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World's democracies condemned the crackdown in Hong Kong, but did nothing to impose costs on the CCP dictatorship. Instead business (read: Chinese exports) only grew and grew. Gotta empower them despots! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Hong Kong's pro-democracy struggle presented an opportunity for democracies to stand up against dictatorship, but we failed miserably.Giving the #CCP yet another free pass (after its repressive occupation of Tibet in 1950-1951 and the 1989 Tiananmen massacre) surely emboldened #putin to invade #Ukraine in 2022.Repression of Tibetans, Uighurs, South-Mongolians, Hongkongers... or a billion+ voiceless Chinese brought no consequences, but at least the invasion of *European* Ukraine gave us Europeans a limited wakeup.It's not enough. We could have aided developing democracies when the Soviet empire fell in 1989-1991 and *not aided* repressive regimes. Instead we doubled down on doing business without limits and empowered the likes of Chinese dictatorship.There are things I love about Europe, and things I am deeply ashamed of. Talking about human rights while empowering despots belongs in the latter category.Some foreign individuals did "Stand with Hong Kong" though. At least one here in Mastodon is, as always, still busy fighting authoritarian takeover. Now in her homeland of the USA.“Your freedom and mine cannot be separated.“— Nelson Mandela#Hongkong #Tibet #Uighurs #ccp #china #EuropeanDefence #AxisOfDespots
(DIR) Post #AtlKYj6k5Wxsz4rZhI by demi7en@infosec.exchange
2025-05-04T21:09:44Z
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@FediFollows Luke? Luke!?