The_Gibson @thegibson@hackers.town

Conundrum for the night:

An overwhelming majority of civil society researchers engaged in counter-influence operations research believe that governments should be leading efforts and funding into counter-influence operations, and yet governments and political leaders are themselves primary actors in committing influence operations in the first place.

Initial reaction: this points to a fundamental disconnect between the expected role of government by civil society, and the practical reality of power as a source of influence (and hence governance, generally).

Today only 5% of counter-influence operations initiatives research are government-run.

Coming this Saturday, at a Silicon Valley #forth Interest Group near you...

https://git.sr.ht/~vertigo/talks/tree/main/item/svfig/2021/apr/reveal.js

Wow. Discord ends talks with Microsoft. No deal! (indirect source: )

https://twitter.com/gregisenberg/status/1384592545901056000

Even if you didn’t know weed was legal you could look at this and know for sure that weed was legal.

I'll give you my Toots when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/16080

Chicken Wolf about to drop the hottest album of 1885

One of the fun things about using Raspberries Pi and the like for microcontroller-like projects: my wall clock is also the DNS and DHCP server for my LAN.