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Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

I don’t like seeing my work on election security (and that of my colleagues) misrepresented. But I think the alternative - not doing it at all - would be far worse.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Anyway, I just finished running a conference on election security in which we discussed real problems (and celebrated real progress). I'm fully braced for a flood of out-of-context soundbites being used to disingenuously support nonsense, because that just comes with the turf here.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The problem, of course, is that the full story is *boring*. It's nuanced, undramatic, and full of tedious technical details. But you have to engage with it to make actual progress.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

An essential dilemma of election security research is that activists and true believers selectively cherrypick findings to make unsupportable or misleading claims.

There *are* real vulnerabilities in many US election systems, and we have to discuss them in order to identify and mitigate them. But that isn't the same as saying that any election has been hacked or rigged (something there's no evidence of).

I don't know of any way to counter cherrypicking other than just telling the whole story.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

The effect is that there aren't enough of these people to completely ruin things, but enough that you get a little knot in your stomach every time a stranger approaches you, knowing that there's a 1 in 20 chance that they're one of the Magic Truthers, looking to expose your malicious lies.

Boosted by mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze"):
mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Imagine you're a professional magician at a magic conference. 95% of the attendees are other magicians, looking to improve their craft and learn new ideas.

But 5% of the people there are self-appointed "investigators", seeking evidence that magic involves *actual* supernatural powers. To them, all the workshops, lectures, and literature about sleight of hand and technique are part of an elaborate subterfuge by elite magicians to hide the truth.

That's what working in election security is like.

Boosted by jwz:
VeroniqueB99 ("Vee") wrote:

I'd say it's time to malfunction and destroy civilizations. Who's with me?

Boosted by jwz:
zoom_earth@mapstodon.space ("Zoom Earth") wrote:

Tropical Storm #Erin looms closer to the northern Leeward Islands.

Erin will likely become a hurricane soon, bringing the risk of heavy rain, flooding, and landslides to the Leeward Islands, Virgin Islands, and Puerto Rico this weekend.

Live tracker here: https://zoom.earth/storms/erin-2025/

Attachments:

• gifv: Satellite imagery

Boosted by ChrisWere@toot.wales ("Chris Were ⁂🐧🌱☕"):
jaz@toot.wales ("jaz :twt: :wales_flag:") wrote:

New blog post:

https://jaz.co.uk/2025/08/14/there-is-one-fediverse-there-are-a-million-fediverses

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

@defcon Here was our talks schedule. Again, give us a week or so to get the videos up.

https://www.mattblaze.org/papers/VV2025-schedule.pdf

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io ("Thomas 🔭🕹️") wrote:

EU peeps, please sign this
https://crm.edri.org/stop-scanning-me

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
pezmico@mastodon.nz ("Ika Makimaki") wrote:

🇵🇸 🍉 ✊
This Saturday, August 16th, is a National Day of Action where we will be calling on the Government to Sanction Israel. More than 30 locations around the country will be taking action.

Join us as we March from Britomart to Aotea Square to force the government to take notice of our call.

Please bring your flags, banners, pots and spoons and energy as we rally for Palestine.

https://www.psna.nz
https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100064134091562&sk=events

#FreePalestine #sanctionIsrael #fromTheRiverToTheSea #NZPol #Aotearoa #Auckland

Boosted by adele@social.pollux.casa ("Adële"):
osnews@mstdn.social ("OSNews") wrote:

AmiBrowser: the Chromium engine running on a Linux host talking to a 68K Amiga application

We removed ads from OSNews. Donate to our fundraiser to ensure our future!

Covering the Amiga world is always a bit of a crapshoot, since for what is surely an incredibly small segment of the computing world, it happens to be incredibly complex, with mu

https://www.osnews.com/story/143070/amibrowser-the-chromium-engine-running-on-a-linux-host-talking-to-a-68k-amiga-application/

#AmigaAROS

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
catsalad@infosec.exchange ("CatSalad🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :blobcatrainbow:") wrote:

UwU touwnament

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
CyReVolt ("Daniel 黄法官 CyReVolt 🐢") wrote:

When you find yourself stuck in recursion, think of Rózsa Péter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R%C3%B3zsa%5FP%C3%A9ter

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

Thanks to everyone - speakers, attendees, volunteers - who participated in a terrific #VotingVillage at @defcon last weekend! I think it may have been our best event yet.

A few audio glitches have delayed some of the sessions, but I expect we'll have the videos of all the talks up on our YouTube channel in a week or so. Watch this space for links.

Now I will take a long post-conference nap.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
SolenedeM@piaille.fr ("Solène 🫏🇫🇷🇲🇲💚🇵🇸") wrote:

@aral @palestine

Alt de la photo :
Capture d'écran d'une conversation Signal avec une gazaouie :

Les forces d'occupation progressent actuellement dans le nord de Gaza, plus précisément dans le quartier de Zeitoun et aux abords de celui de Sabra. Des familles fuient sous les bombardements. Malheureusement, les médias ne couvrent pas ce que nous traversons actuellement.

Photo d'un passeport et d'un diplôme palestiniens de l'Université Al-Quds avec le message suivant :

Je prépare actuellement mon sac d'urgence pour être prête si la situation dans la région s'aggrave.

#Gaza #Journalisme #Presse #Medias #Journalistes #France #Politique #Gouvernement

Boosted by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻"):
theverge@c.im ("The Verge") wrote:

Meta’s AI policies let chatbots get romantic with minors https://thever.ge/td8y #Meta #News #Tech #AI

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
DrPsyBuffy@mstdn.social ("Buffy the Psych Prof") wrote:

People already saying they won’t vote for Newsom kill me. I’d literally vote for a cat turd if it meant we could beat fascists

aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan") wrote:

Two of the families in Gaza that I’m in touch with are thinking of setting up a group fundraising effort, inspired by the work of @divya.

We need someone who will take on the huge responsibility of setting up the fundraiser and managing it all.

If you have the time and are up for the challenge, please reply to this thread (direct messages are fine).

#Gaza #genocide #mutualAid #fundRaising #fediAid #helpWanted

Boosted by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
brucelawson@vivaldi.net ("Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊") wrote:

@slightlyoff I'm surprised that you can even buy The Open Society and Its Enemies on Amazon.

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk ("Neil Brown") wrote:

> We have been forced to geo-block access from the United Kingdom to the lgbtqia.space services and community.

> This action is a direct result of the UK's Orwellian "Online Safety Act" a piece of legislation that, despite its name, is incredibly dangerous to online privacy and makes the internet absolutely not safe for marginalized communities and the volunteers who run services like this one.

> Our condolences on the loss of freedom of expression.

https://lgbtqia.space/

#OnlineSafetyAct

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

The story will eventually break. Legacies tarnished, reputations broken. The only saving grace for anyone involved is to be the first to come forward. Be the whistleblower blower. Don't go down with the ship. For what? For #Meta? That's silly.

#Threads #SocialWeb #IndieWeb

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:

If the #Threads interpolation story ever breaks, and the world learns the details of how, exactly, the #SocialWeb folks sold us out, one thing is for sure—

Mark Zuckerberg will throw them under the bus so damn fast. Those NDAs aren't saving anyone.

He sacrificed his highest ranking Lieutenant, Sheryl Sandberg, just to save face in front of Trump. You think he won't do the same to some W3C nerds and the founder of his competition if need be?

lol okay.

#Fedipact

https://www.thedailybeast.com/zuckerberg-threw-sheryl-sandberg-under-the-bus-during-his-meeting-with-trump/

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

1. accidentally open linked-in
2. read a post, get a bit rage-baited
3. read comments to go ❤️ whoever gives the response I don’t feel like typing out.
4. realize all of the comments are just platitudes that sound like they could’ve been written by AI.
5. Realize the original post sounds like it could be too.
6. close LinkedIn.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
streetartutopia@mastodon.online ("Street Art Utopia") wrote:

At The Hip Hop Museum in Bronx, New York!

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

“The person accidentally added to the group chat is not a law enforcement official or associated with the investigation in any way, and said they were added to it weeks ago and initially thought it was a series of spam messages.”

#HeadDesk #HeadDesk #HeadDesk

https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/115028495194904783

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
arclight@oldbytes.space wrote:

I just saw a post by "Kenny Logins" that read "Fortran favors the old" and I'm pretty sure that's the best thing I may read today or maybe this year.

Boosted by aral@mastodon.ar.al ("Aral Balkan"):
housepanther@goblackcat.social ("House Panther :verified_paw:") wrote:

@aral I feel the same way! And I am Jewish by heritage too. I absolutely hate what Israel is doing to the Palestinian people.

mattblaze@federate.social ("Matt Blaze") wrote:

This motion study was captured with a Zeiss 40mm lens on a Pentax 645Z camera and 10 stops of neutral density. The 13 second exposure was timed so the train was passing in front for roughly half the exposure. The regular corrugated surface of the commuter train worked well to allow the station building to retain detail while still clearly showing the train streaking by in front. A freight train (which passed by a few minutes earlier) worked comparatively poorly for this.