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💻 cybersecurity research at Consumer Reports 🖊️ independent investigative tech reporting 📣yaelwrites.com ✉️ [email protected] 💥#alwaysantifascist 🎤opinions are mine, but you can have some
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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · Sep 9
US tech companies enabled the surveillance and detention of hundreds of thousands in China
An AP investigation reveals that U.S. technology companies to a large degree designed and built China’s surveillance state, playing a far greater role in enabling human rights abuses than previously k...
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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 5h
oof the puzzled pint puzzles were too difficult for my group tonight! though to be fair we were also playing music bingo and trivia at the same time.
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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 7h
Yeah there are definitely repercussions and a lot of factors at play!
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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 7h
I have stories from the “other side”
(what happens when you turn down freebies or refuse to promote something) but it’s not food-related.
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Dominic Armato @darmato.bsky.social · 11h
The problem isn’t the clumsy, ham-handed ones like this. The problem is that we ride people like this out of town on a rail, then turn right around and like and share and follow “good ones” who do stuff just ethically bankrupt out in the open, but with a smile.
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Amy Donohue @thefabulousone.bsky.social · 11h
These influencers are bullshit. JL Patisserie is one of the best pastry shops in Arizona! (You've seen my pics!)
This food "influencer" is nothing more than a spoiled brat and I'm glad she's leaving AZ. GTFOH
www.12news.com/article/life...
Foodie feud: What’s behind the tension between a local bakery and influencer?
A James Beard-nominated chef and a Phoenix food influencer shared words after a viral video sparked debate over the role of influencers in small business reviews.
www.12news.com
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paris martineau @paris.nyc · 18h
i was surprised to learn that bc most protein powders are considered dietary supplements, they basically fall into a regulatory grey area

there's no federal limit on the amount of lead they can contain and neither manufacturers nor the FDA have to prove these products are safe before they're sold
Protein powders and shakes, like all dietary supplements, fall into something of a regulatory gray area. There is no federal limit specifying the amount of lead allowed in protein powders. And while the FDA requires that manufacturers keep their products free of harmful contaminants, it largely leaves it up to companies to decide what counts as harmful and test their own products for compliance. Before 1994, manufacturers had to prove herbal products were safe before selling them. That changed after Congress passed the Dietary Supplement Health and Education Act. The law sharply limited the FDA’s authority, leaving supplements far less regulated than drugs. Today, supplements are “presumed safe unless found otherwise,” says Cohen at Harvard Medical School, and most products face scrutiny only after reaching the market—meaning unsafe or contaminated supplements can reach consumers before problems are caught.
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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 1d
ICYMI www.theverge.com/policy/79849...
American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
The Frog is owning the president.
www.theverge.com
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Consumer Reports @consumerreports.org · 6d
Our new Consumer Cyber Readiness Report with @aspendigital.bsky.social and @gca.bsky.social found a continued racial disparity in financial losses related to scams.

See what security experts recommend to stay safe: innovation.consumerreports.org/2025-Consume...

#CybersecurityAwarenessMonth
Those who have lost money to a digital attack or scam
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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 2d
don’t need an editor
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🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 5d
In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.
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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 2d
so excited that @cryptovillage.bsky.social managed to get the slides that didn't work at @defcon.bsky.social up on the video of my talk! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4zi...
DEF CON 33 - Back to Basics: Building Resilient Cyber Defenses - Yael Grauer
YouTube video by DEFCONConference
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the feminine pristiq @r4v5.imgay.lol · 2d
like, i already felt gross sharing an industry with the No Means Maybe Laters, but this shit is beyond the pale
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the feminine pristiq @r4v5.imgay.lol · 2d
how do you trust the people involved with making and implementing these product decisions to walk the same streets as you and your loved ones, knowing this is how fucked their model of consent is?
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d
bitch what
Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 2d
"I give voice to the voiceless. When a middle-aged woman walks into Reformation, the salespeople barely blink. But if she wears a large mustard-yellow acrylic choker designed by a Scandinavian architect? She exists!"
I’m a Chunky Geometric Statement Necklace, and I’m Here to Solve the Woman Invisibility Problem
They say women disappear with age, but if that’s true, why do their necklaces keep getting bigger? Society shuns women with crow’s feet and crepey ...
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Ian Coldwater 👻🌿 @lookitup.baby · 2d
Boss, we’ve got a problem. Users don’t want this stuff! They keep wanting to turn it off, even when we keep turning it back on!

Boss: I have an idea
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Pavel @spavel.bsky.social · 2d
bitch what
Onedrive settings. A toggle for using AI to detect and identify faces is set to on. The caption says, you can only turn off this setting 3 times per year.
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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 2d
Me thinking about how people might get upset when I unsubscribe but it’s because I signed up twice with different email addresses.
a close up of a woman 's face with a triangle and a mathematical formula .
Alt: a close up of a woman’s face with a triangle and a mathematical formula .
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"spooky sukkot" daniel s. @self.agency · 2d
it's gettin silly out here
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Lynn Stahl @msbtterswrth.altgov.info · 3d
Hot off the presses! If you need a bigger size to print your stickers let me know!
The Portland frog as a founding father, surround by the words "give me ribberty or give me death"
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sarah jeong @sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3d
I have a theory www.theverge.com/policy/79849...
American politics has devolved into shitposting and aura farming
The Frog is owning the president.
www.theverge.com
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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 4d
wouldn't you be an answer? :)
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Tara Haelle @tarahaelle.bsky.social · 5d
Don't count on the #CDC for evidence-based information about #vaccines these days. But there still remain plenty of other resources for getting that information. Here's where to start.
Where to find accurate vaccine information amidst the CDC’s ongoing collapse
With the CDC no longer a trustworthy source, use these resources to find reliable, accurate, evidence-based information about vaccines.
healthjournalism.org
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rm lininger* @0xdaeda1a.bsky.social · 4d
Fido for all!
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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 4d
security keys for the people
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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 4d
Welp.

today.ucsd.edu/story/cybers...
Cybersecurity Training Programs Don’t Prevent Employees from Falling for Phishing Scams
Cybersecurity training programs as implemented today by most large companies do little to reduce the risk that employees will fall for phishing scams–the practice of sending malicious emails posing as...
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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 4d
It's the year of...
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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 4d
Linux distros aren't the only open-source operating systems.
9 Open Source Operating Systems That Aren't Linux
Want something different from the same old Linux distros? Try one of these OSes.
www.howtogeek.com
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🎃Yell👻Growler🧙🏻‍♀️ @yaelwrites.com · 4d
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Welcome to Chechnya
Inside the Russian Republic’s deadly war on gays.
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❀°。Der Siebenschläfer *.ﾟ✿ ⋆ @sababausa.bsky.social · 5d
The history books having to explain cartoon frog = fascist, inflatable frog = anti-fascist…
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Kim Zetter @kimzetter.bsky.social · 4d
TIL today
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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 4d
Printing presses kept their letters in cases.

Capital letters went in the upper case.
Smaller letters went in the lower case.

This is why we say ‘UPPER CASE’ and ‘lower case.’

Ok, but what did we call them before the invention of the printing press?

MAJUSCULE and minuscule.
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