Jim Prosser
@jimprosser.bsky.social
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Jim Prosser
@jimprosser.bsky.social
· Feb 21
Encrypt everything. Get Yubikeys. Get as much data off the big platforms as you can. For everything else, harden your account with as many security measures as possible. This is not the time for anyone to be blasé about security.
Assume your government is an adversary.
Assume your government is an adversary.
All props to @zamosta.bsky.social, but I think the "why" is even simpler: In the 2010s, tech didn't need government to grow. Now it does, both for federal contracts and the policy conditions that enable cheap debt (or the government's own backing of debt). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
Opinion | I Worked All Over Silicon Valley. This Is How It Lost Its Spine.
www.nytimes.com
November 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
All props to @zamosta.bsky.social, but I think the "why" is even simpler: In the 2010s, tech didn't need government to grow. Now it does, both for federal contracts and the policy conditions that enable cheap debt (or the government's own backing of debt). www.nytimes.com/2025/11/12/o...
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Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
November 12, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Yes there's a lot of denial, but I've seen it: when it snaps, it snaps hard.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
"Powerful men covered up child sex abuse" isn't outlandish when you've seen that happen in church, boy scouts, school athletics, and every other social pillar of your conservative middle-class life in the past few decades.
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Heads up: YouTube TV is giving a $20 credit to subscribers over the Disney/ESPN mess, but you have to actually go into the settings to claim it.
This is not a spam tweet, the settings page link is here: tv.youtube.com/settings/ser...
This is not a spam tweet, the settings page link is here: tv.youtube.com/settings/ser...
November 10, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Heads up: YouTube TV is giving a $20 credit to subscribers over the Disney/ESPN mess, but you have to actually go into the settings to claim it.
This is not a spam tweet, the settings page link is here: tv.youtube.com/settings/ser...
This is not a spam tweet, the settings page link is here: tv.youtube.com/settings/ser...
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November 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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"If we had a contingency fund."
You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded?
www.notus.org/trump-white-...
You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded?
www.notus.org/trump-white-...
October 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
"If we had a contingency fund."
You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded?
www.notus.org/trump-white-...
You mean like this contingency fund the Trump Administration just deleted off their website? The one they are legally required to use to keep SNAP funded?
www.notus.org/trump-white-...
Cory Doctorow's media tour for Enshittification made me think: as much as companies that take the enshittification path deserve scorn, companies defying that path deserve sharing and patronage. Not to glaze them, but to show we see their choice and appreciate their values. A few from my daily life:
October 30, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Cory Doctorow's media tour for Enshittification made me think: as much as companies that take the enshittification path deserve scorn, companies defying that path deserve sharing and patronage. Not to glaze them, but to show we see their choice and appreciate their values. A few from my daily life:
Never underestimate Mario Cristobal’s capacity to lose to Stanford teams that have no business winning on paper
October 25, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Never underestimate Mario Cristobal’s capacity to lose to Stanford teams that have no business winning on paper
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One for the “can non-white people be super racist” column
Eric Adams, endorsing Cuomo: "New York can't be Europe, folks ... Those Islamic extremisms that are burning churches in Nigeria, that are destroying communities in Germany, that have taken over the logical thinkings. And that's what I'm fighting for."
October 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM
One for the “can non-white people be super racist” column
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Everybody agrees the current American healthcare system is bad
The Republican Party spends years cooking up horrific plans to make it Even Worse
People say "omg please don't do that, we like being alive"
It gets presented as The American Healthcare Debate
The Republican Party spends years cooking up horrific plans to make it Even Worse
People say "omg please don't do that, we like being alive"
It gets presented as The American Healthcare Debate
DeSantis said “Most people, particularly under 50, what they really need is a catastrophic plan that’s affordable, where then they can pay whatever they’re doing out of a health savings account.”
floridapolitics.com/archives/761...
floridapolitics.com/archives/761...
Ron DeSantis says people under 50 don’t have much use for comprehensive health insurance
'Catastrophic care' should be enough for them.
floridapolitics.com
October 20, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Everybody agrees the current American healthcare system is bad
The Republican Party spends years cooking up horrific plans to make it Even Worse
People say "omg please don't do that, we like being alive"
It gets presented as The American Healthcare Debate
The Republican Party spends years cooking up horrific plans to make it Even Worse
People say "omg please don't do that, we like being alive"
It gets presented as The American Healthcare Debate
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It's less than 24 hours after 5-8 million Americans marched against a president who called them domestic terrorists, and there is zero reference to it on the current NYT home page, except for a Bouie op/ed that came out several days earlier.
October 19, 2025 at 7:55 PM
It's less than 24 hours after 5-8 million Americans marched against a president who called them domestic terrorists, and there is zero reference to it on the current NYT home page, except for a Bouie op/ed that came out several days earlier.
Blessed be the pepperoni
October 18, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Blessed be the pepperoni
Good time to toss your Ring gear
aaand there it is:
amazon's ring will finally be fully integrated into a municipal and federal mesh surveillance system on demand
amazon's ring will finally be fully integrated into a municipal and federal mesh surveillance system on demand
Amazon's Ring partners with Flock to let law enforcement agencies that work with Flock request footage from Ring doorbell users (Amanda Silberling/TechCrunch)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
October 17, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Good time to toss your Ring gear
Wonder how all the doctors and researchers at UCSF Benioff Childrens Hospital, one of the best in the world, feel about this assertion.
Utter sycophant.
Utter sycophant.
For years, San Franciscans considered him the rare big-hearted billionaire. But days before his Dreamforce conference begins, Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff said he would support President Trump sending the National Guard to SF and that Trump is doing “a great job.”
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/u...
Marc Benioff Says Trump Should Send Guard Troops to San Francisco
www.nytimes.com
October 11, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Wonder how all the doctors and researchers at UCSF Benioff Childrens Hospital, one of the best in the world, feel about this assertion.
Utter sycophant.
Utter sycophant.
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Argentina edition of Libertarian bible
October 11, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Argentina edition of Libertarian bible
Rollin’ into Portland with the crew
October 11, 2025 at 2:30 AM
Rollin’ into Portland with the crew
News organizations have *completely* given up on reminding their audiences that all these White House-imposed tariffs - like the new China one being bandied about by Trump today - are almost certainly unconstitutional. Oh even that the actions are being contested in front of the Supreme Court!
October 11, 2025 at 12:58 AM
News organizations have *completely* given up on reminding their audiences that all these White House-imposed tariffs - like the new China one being bandied about by Trump today - are almost certainly unconstitutional. Oh even that the actions are being contested in front of the Supreme Court!
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This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.
Trump: "Portland, I mean -- every time I look at that place it's burning down. There are fires all over the place. When a store -- there are very few of them left -- but when a store owner rebuilds a store they build it out of plywood. They don't put up storefronts anymore. They just put wood up."
October 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
This man is being Gorilla Channel'd with a rotating selection of AI slop riot porn by several known white supremacists who are secretly running the government.
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Everything is content. TikTok deal isn’t real but the content has been made. Hegseth military speech clipped up for socials before it had even finished. Alligator Alcatraz was partly an influencer activation.
Obviously not the main point here, but it's interesting how this is framed as content rather than policy.
"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations
"BREAKING" is typically what journalists or influencers say when they have a big story -- not what government officials say when they launch "undercover" operations
October 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Everything is content. TikTok deal isn’t real but the content has been made. Hegseth military speech clipped up for socials before it had even finished. Alligator Alcatraz was partly an influencer activation.
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This is fascism.
Federal officer blasts chemical spray into vocal but nonviolent Portland protester, video shows
The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.
The interaction illustrates how federal law enforcement officers do use aggressive tactics against protesters who yell and needle officers but don’t appear to present clear physical threats.
October 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
This is fascism.
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Reopening the government isn’t a Republican priority.
Protecting Trump from the release of the Epstein files is.
Protecting Trump from the release of the Epstein files is.
October 3, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Reopening the government isn’t a Republican priority.
Protecting Trump from the release of the Epstein files is.
Protecting Trump from the release of the Epstein files is.
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Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.
October 3, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Don’t believe anyone who tells you that intelligence shows anything “without a doubt,” but even if the intelligence was water-tight, this strike was still murder. No law permits the deliberate, premeditated killing of civilians.
In a world of shrinking local broadcast TV news, this is excellent investigative stuff from KGO here in San Francisco. abc7news.com/post/ca-insu...
Safari, limo, 5-star resorts: CA insurance boss' taxpayer-funded travel, security raise questions
"If we are spending taxpayer money on excursions like it's a vacation... the people of the state have the right to ask those questions," said one political analyst. Records show Ricardo Lara's travel ...
abc7news.com
October 2, 2025 at 2:47 PM
In a world of shrinking local broadcast TV news, this is excellent investigative stuff from KGO here in San Francisco. abc7news.com/post/ca-insu...
Our national brand, under both Republicans and Democrats alike, used to be opportunity.
Our national brand now is grievance.
Our national brand now is grievance.
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Our national brand, under both Republicans and Democrats alike, used to be opportunity.
Our national brand now is grievance.
Our national brand now is grievance.
When is a smart country going to open up their visa program to just brain-drain America?
October 1, 2025 at 5:01 PM
When is a smart country going to open up their visa program to just brain-drain America?
Trump wants his own Iraq war, by the sound of it
September 27, 2025 at 6:34 AM
Trump wants his own Iraq war, by the sound of it