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Wow, this is wild as a new #conservation tool! 😁🤞
"A new project, jointly led by the University of Stirling and Dutch tech for good start-up Hack the Planet, has for the first time developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered wildlife camera that could hugely benefit conservation by identifying real-time animal-human conflict."
#HWC #conservation #CameraTraps #FieldWork #wildlife #human-wildlifeConflict
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Wow, this is wild as a new #conservation tool! 😁🤞
"A new project, jointly led by the University of Stirling and Dutch tech for good start-up Hack the Planet, has for the first time developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered wildlife camera that could hugely benefit conservation by identifying real-time animal-human conflict."
#HWC #conservation #CameraTraps #FieldWork #wildlife #human-wildlifeConflict
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Wow, this is wild as a new #conservation tool! 😁🤞
"A new project, jointly led by the University of Stirling and Dutch tech for good start-up Hack the Planet, has for the first time developed an artificial intelligence (AI) powered wildlife camera that could hugely benefit conservation by identifying real-time animal-human conflict."
#HWC #conservation #CameraTraps #FieldWork #wildlife #human-wildlifeConflict
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#Trouble series of @submedia are theme-centered videos made to seen in groups and spread awareness, tips, tools and experiences from activists.
This episode #8 is called "Hack The Planet: The Internet As A Battlefield" and has info on #Anonymous, #Hacking, #Security, #Privacy and includes the apprearce of Jeremy Hammond (https://freejeremy.net/).
The video is free/libre to stream, download and share, but if you can be sure to donate to the #SubMedia team.
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Interview with controlfreak
“I see and hear the world through a filter of tape noise, glitch and warble.”
NHAM: Hey control! First of all, what’s the best way to address you? ctrl? C2? ctrlfrk? control.org? controlfreak? Or did we get it right first time?! And how did you come to adopt these monikers?
controlfreak: All valid.
As a teen it was hard finding other kids that would show up to band practice. So I decided to just do all the things as needed, jokingly as a control freak but mostly just for dependability. Shout out to 4-track cassette. I also have a hard time turning the other cheek to the litany of terrible things in the world that are realistically well out of our individual control. Plus it’s made for a rad domain for approaching 30 years.
Hack the planet.
NHAM: Well it’s lovely to have this opportunity to catch up with you thanks to a brand new release: an album of 10 unique covers, called REPLICATE1.0.
You’ve chosen to cover a range of artists including Editors, Hilary Duff, Soft Cell and Siouxsie and the Banshees. How did you go about choosing which 10 tracks you wanted to cover?
controlfreak: While there are historical and personal ancillary and tertiary reasons certain tracks resonate and made the cut, the primary and absolute definitive criteria was Rule no.1, do I yell it at the top of my lungs when doing loud farm work with closed ears on? That’s the secret sauce!
There were a few complicating factors. First, I don’t like covers and other than for some encore sets in tours over the decades, haven’t really published any. But as many of us do, I’ve had an obscenely long list of candidate tracks should and if I were to tackle some. The variety on the whiteboard is wild.
I’m an ex-drummer not a singer, which makes quite a few tracks I’d love to musically tackle, a bit more, daunting.
Individual track lore can be found on the album page.
NHAM: Would it be fair to say you like to add an extra ounce of oontz, a gritty edge if you will, to broadly electronic, synth pop?
controlfreak: Sure. I court the structures of dance music but exist in an industrial wasteland.
To my mind there can never be enough kick drum(s).
I feel after a certain point, hyper clarity and sterile overproduction has far overshot any utility, so I prefer a “flawed” human touch and organic grit.
I see and hear the world through a filter of tape noise, glitch and warble. My head is full of horror soundtracks to movies I’ll never afford to make. I do have the production background where I could possibly make more pop accessible sounds, but turns out it’s just not my nature. I’m in a good space personally when being less clinical and more organic, chunky, broken and abrasive. Sounding angry is my happy place. I appreciate it’s not for most but always excited when folks cut loose and dip a toe into my dark oontz waters.
On REPLICATE 1.0 I tried to not get too abstract and deconstructive. I hope I put my “sound” stamp there but with some reverence to the source material to be well recognisable. If it induces a wee head scratch or, even better, a nod I am amped to have anyone along for the ride.
NHAM: You only allowed yourself one or two vocal takes on any of the tracks on this album. What was the reasoning for this? Not wanting to put too much strain in yourself / Not wanting to fall in to the eternal pit of perfectionism / or something else?
controlfreak: All of the above. This was Rule no.2 for the project. I had to do all the vocals and force one-takes for all parts. Most days during this project’s creation, one take was more than I could physically muster.
Could I have done better on many vocals especially at later times, absolutely, but this was the rule. The decision to do a vocal session was sometimes because I felt like I could and sometimes because I felt there was no way I could, each surprising me at times in all directions. Also, nothing is ever “done”. As a healing project, it was important to document where I was and what I could or couldn’t do. There is pain, failure, determination and success all in here and I’m enjoying the reflection. Did I text a friend a couple nights in this process that I blacked out during vocal tracking, yes, yes I did. Lore.
NHAM: Do you have a favourite of the ten covers?
controlfreak: My favourites in terms of personal resonance with the source material but also reflecting on persevering and actually managing to do them at all are “I Felt the Pain” by Anything Box, and “Be Mine” from Robyn.
My overall favourite in a sincerely comical way is of course the Hilary Duff track “With Love”. A few metropolitan terrestrial radio shows have played that one and I have quite a chuckle thinking of someone nipping out to grab a cheeky Nando’s and bumping scan on the radio and getting hit with EBM Hilary Duff.
NHAM: There are guest appearances on a few of the tracks from Adam Colegrove, Jamie Hill and Shannon Curtis. Tell us more about how and why these came about
controlfreak: Part of the rules of the project was I had to do everything myself, especially the vocals, which is my least favourite and capable part.
However, another part of my challenge for 2025 was if I wake up in the morning, I want to make music with friends. Since I have been working in parallel on original music, remixes for others and some collabs, I felt it was still in the spirit of the game to bring in some tiniest bits of morale boosting cameos for REPLICATE.
I had been touring with Adam’s projects for years where we’d show up in each others’ live sets, and he has featured on multiple control.org and C2 releases (see PENTALOGY and the fourth estate medicate video).
I could write an entire coffee table book on how awesome Shannon (@shannoncurtis) and Jamie (@hilljam) are. The precursor to attempting this covers project was doing some remixes to get back in the studio via I Am and One Thread. They had zero hesitation in allowing me to endirtify their gorgeous work. Their energy is infectious. Their encouragement is unwavering. Their 80s Kids covers project was a huge boost for me to really have a go at compiling and finishing REPLICATE. I can’t send enough black heart emojis their way.
It’s also been very positive getting many old and dear art and life friends embedded into the upcoming original albums.
That others are willing to abet and contribute to my a/v hijinks is just wild.
NHAM: You’ve said this project was a ‘vehicle to try and get back into producing music’. It certainly seems to have been successful as the past few months have seen you make remixes for other people, play live shows, release a music video AND you’re currently deep in to work on a new album. Can you elaborate on why your creative output had previously stalled?
controlfreak: I have been generically open that serious scary and debilitating health declines stole much more than just my creative time/space/energy.
During recent years one of my means of trying to put two fingers in the air to my situation was mostly anonymous extreme volunteerism on music community building projects. I have two settings, go too hard, and go way too hard. I’m told it helped many but it was neither safe nor good for me.
Having to be an infinite fountain of positivity and a community pillar is one of the hardest things I’ve done. Having to be chronically online to infinitely seed positivity and hope against the monolithic doom of ALL social web/media including if not especially the Fedi is hard.
Unending requests, misconceptions and assumptions, hate et al at the project are one thing, but THE WORST was being stuck in a front seat bearing witness and proxy to so much struggle, and how hard it is out there for all the cousins, especially the bard class. That takes a massive toll. Already in physical health debt this all added an emotional and mental debt that came due.
The wild irony is doing all the things to foster positive organic community building, activism against tools that make life harder for artists, and exploring how to normalise direct support for independent and marginalised artists relegated my personal artistic output at zero.
Selfish as it may be, for self preservation I needed to make space to try to fight to make the space to even be able to sit at a studio desk for 15 minutes. Then see about getting back into making noise as a release valve and fuel for my health battle. Remixes were the dipping of the toe, the covers album project was the cannonball into the deep end. The live shows were wildly ambitious but fully supported by my awesome clinical team. As some confidence and energy built, more work on originals started to take place concurrently.
I hope to continue growing creative activities with recordings, live sets, remixes and sound commissions in 2026.
NHAM: Although it may have come at the expense of your own work, what you managed to do with RFF was huge. You built and galvanised a whole community – a scene around Fedi music – one with kindness, compassion and community at its core. You must be proud of what you achieved there?
controlfreak: It’s nice to see resonance and ripples in community and ethos of things I did differently to prove there was a place for organising and rallying organic community, attribution, consent, empathy, normalising as direct as possible support for indie artists.
Problem being, on the “social” interwebs there is no cruise control. That galvanisation requires someone to be always on, always connected to the many, and always fighting. Fighting: atrophy; platform splintering/visibility/reach/scale/enshitification; bad dev actors (indie and corpo bros alike); funding going to projects that will not help artists and/or in fact harm marginalised folks; the VIP talking head class that hate artists taking a gram of attention from them; IRL doom; and the general walls of noise. That’s a lot of fronts to fight in order to be positive and uplifting. The Fedi has been very good at burning out anyone with a sense of duty to community.
RFF got proper out of control in the best sense for artists and friends for a few years. It was a powerful moment in time where together we proved a project and “popular” account could be totally about lifting up others which was like magnetic repulsion for the egotistical number go up movers and shakers. That level of “isolation” in plain sight and the always on and fighting sucked exponentially for the hamster sprinting in the wheel.
So yeah, love/hate. Loved the results for others, hated being stuck there. I hope the gauntlet thrown down helped adjust some durable baselines for how we treat artists, one another, and how we might assemble and celebrate in spaces outside of as many corporate and influencer stresses and pitfalls as possible.
NHAM: Tell us a little more about yourself. Where are you based, where have you come from, where have you been and how important has music been throughout your life?
controlfreak: I live at the foot of a mountain in the middle of nowhere on an island in the middle of nowhere.
Toured in the 2010s (fun!), but mostly the 90s (less fun!) as an artist, DJ, engineer, hired gun, all the things. Hilarious and traumatising road stories for days.
I was apparently attending some rather rocking concerts in the womb and then up on shoulders. I grew up on the road with a rock band. I was treated as an adult with agency, respect and as one of the crew. There were always pillows or milk crates around so I could sit or stand wherever I wanted to learn how to do all the technical stage and performance things. I was legit working tech crew as an ankle biter. There is old film of me at barely six years old sitting in on drums utterly dwarfed by the kit.
My musical upbringing was light on formality and theory, but very practical and from the literal school of rock. I was always supported and encouraged to perform, experiment and discover. As much as my mum had a fit over me rewiring everything and had to endure daily drumming, decades later she was still front and centre at my recent online concerts taking screenshots and being amped up for hours afterward. She said, “you can never be dark enough to scare me off”. Nice one mum.
NHAM: Currently in progress, what might we expect from your upcoming original album?
controlfreak: I’ve just released some more videos, the latest volume in my mangled sound asset series Broke and Dirt 004, and on 19th March I’ll be performing the control.org album manipulate, celebrating its 25th release anniversary for the *ahem* NHAM in concert series!
Coming up next for original releases is a control.org album called ERADICATE. It is primarily stripped down EBM and industrial club bangers with a few usual introspective and goth adjacent excursions.
Hoping to drum up (lol) remix, sound asset, soundtrack etc. donate-what-you-can commissions and, for continued support in this years studio campaign so I can also develop more custom live shows, do more collabs; an EP of reworking old material called REGENERATE; and the next covers album REPLICATE 2.0. All outlined here. There are even more album plans on the whiteboard of doom.
NHAM: And outside of the music what keeps you ticking? We’ve seen some lovely posts of your garden, your cat and even your own carefully manicured cricket strip!controlfreak: Thanks to friends and lovely strangers’ support last year, I’ve been able to again explore music as a therapeutic tool to be as vertical as I can for as long as I can. But, yes, other things I do in my bloody minded manner that both on paper and in practice I should not be doing are subsistence farming and fast bowling. Shout out again to my clinical team for encouraging my resistance.
NHAM: Lovely to chat with you. We love the new covers album, Replicate 1.0, and are very much looking forward to the new album when it comes. Stay vertical!
controlfreak: And Stomp in Solidarity!
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*April 7*: Anthropic announces Mythos and says, in announcing Project Glasswing:
> We do not plan to make Claude Mythos Preview generally available*May 28*: Anthropic announces Opus 4.8 and includes this note:
> [We] expect to be able to bring Mythos-class models to all our customers in the coming weeks.Good thing it only took them a few weeks to cripple it so it couldn't be used to hack the planet.
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ACHL@{39c3,fosdem}
@fossdd • Joined: Dec 25, 2020hey, this is my fediverse account (aka. my vent from real life). you might also know me as the funny cat person
hacker on @alpinelinux and @postmarketOS. oh, and i like cats. meow. and not a techbro!
{rave,hack} the planet!!
yearly at FOSDEM, GPN, FrOSCon and congress, in case you want to assasinate me
#nobot #exceptrobotgirls #noai #noafd
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"Hackers" was released 30 years ago today.
I was 15 years old. My friends and I would watch this movie all the time together, while we aspired to be as elite as these guys. One night we videotaped ourselves hacking into a friend's BBS and changing his logon ANSi to something rather crude - and turning to the camera to say, "Well shit on me..." 😂
We knew the plot and most of the tech was bogus. That didn't matter to us. It was the *feel* of the movie that captured our imaginations - the style, the underground cyberpunk culture they portrayed, the early techno/electronica soundtrack (a masterpiece). We were computer nerds and this movie made us feel like hackers. Hack the planet!!
#hackers30th #hackers1995 #movies #hackers #cyberpunk #hacktheplanet #htp
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"Hackers" was released 30 years ago today.
I was 15 years old. My friends and I would watch this movie all the time together, while we aspired to be as elite as these guys. One night we videotaped ourselves hacking into a friend's BBS and changing his logon ANSi to something rather crude - and turning to the camera to say, "Well shit on me..." 😂
We knew the plot and most of the tech was bogus. That didn't matter to us. It was the *feel* of the movie that captured our imaginations - the style, the underground cyberpunk culture they portrayed, the early techno/electronica soundtrack (a masterpiece). We were computer nerds and this movie made us feel like hackers. Hack the planet!!
#hackers30th #hackers1995 #movies #hackers #cyberpunk #hacktheplanet #htp
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"Hackers" was released 30 years ago today.
I was 15 years old. My friends and I would watch this movie all the time together, while we aspired to be as elite as these guys. One night we videotaped ourselves hacking into a friend's BBS and changing his logon ANSi to something rather crude - and turning to the camera to say, "Well shit on me..." 😂
We knew the plot and most of the tech was bogus. That didn't matter to us. It was the *feel* of the movie that captured our imaginations - the style, the underground cyberpunk culture they portrayed, the early techno/electronica soundtrack (a masterpiece). We were computer nerds and this movie made us feel like hackers. Hack the planet!!
#hackers30th #hackers1995 #movies #hackers #cyberpunk #hacktheplanet #htp
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"Hackers" was released 30 years ago today.
I was 15 years old. My friends and I would watch this movie all the time together, while we aspired to be as elite as these guys. One night we videotaped ourselves hacking into a friend's BBS and changing his logon ANSi to something rather crude - and turning to the camera to say, "Well shit on me..." 😂
We knew the plot and most of the tech was bogus. That didn't matter to us. It was the *feel* of the movie that captured our imaginations - the style, the underground cyberpunk culture they portrayed, the early techno/electronica soundtrack (a masterpiece). We were computer nerds and this movie made us feel like hackers. Hack the planet!!
#hackers30th #hackers1995 #movies #hackers #cyberpunk #hacktheplanet #htp
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"Hackers" was released 30 years ago today.
I was 15 years old. My friends and I would watch this movie all the time together, while we aspired to be as elite as these guys. One night we videotaped ourselves hacking into a friend's BBS and changing his logon ANSi to something rather crude - and turning to the camera to say, "Well shit on me..." 😂
We knew the plot and most of the tech was bogus. That didn't matter to us. It was the *feel* of the movie that captured our imaginations - the style, the underground cyberpunk culture they portrayed, the early techno/electronica soundtrack (a masterpiece). We were computer nerds and this movie made us feel like hackers. Hack the planet!!
#hackers30th #hackers1995 #movies #hackers #cyberpunk #hacktheplanet #htp
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Mistodon: w3rd up, d00dZ, anyone got 0-3 day wareZzz? (checks notes) Sorry, it seems I was talking like the wrong kind of #pirate on #TalkLikeAPirateDay. (Ah well, in for a penny, in for a pound. Hack the planet!) This #ANSIart #JollyRoger was drawn by AdeptApril for the occasion.
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burned as long and as hard as I could trying to catapult B4UDW3RK5 into orbit. all I can do now is coast on inertia and hope for the best. if nothing pans out in the next couple weeks and I'm back at my day job the dream is dead.
hack the planet.
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Just release this new thing to read nmea messages from neo-6mv2 GPS module with rpi, right now tested with rpi3 running Raspbian GNU/Linux bullseye and bookworm.
Some nmea messages still on TODOs mode.Feedback from usage and contributions are very welcome. Also if you like it, please leave a ⭐ I would appreciate it ;)
<3 & Hack the Planet!
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Just release this new thing to read nmea messages from neo-6mv2 GPS module with rpi, right now tested with rpi3 running Raspbian GNU/Linux bullseye and bookworm.
Some nmea messages still on TODOs mode.Feedback from usage and contributions are very welcome. Also if you like it, please leave a ⭐ I would appreciate it ;)
<3 & Hack the Planet!
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Just release this new thing to read nmea messages from neo-6mv2 GPS module with rpi, right now tested with rpi3 running Raspbian GNU/Linux bullseye and bookworm.
Some nmea messages still on TODOs mode.Feedback from usage and contributions are very welcome. Also if you like it, please leave a ⭐ I would appreciate it ;)
<3 & Hack the Planet!
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100th post, as fine a time as any to do the traditional #introduction before nobody on #mastodon does them anymore.
I’m a #hacker , a parent, a founder & CEO, government advisory board member, cat food servant, defender and participant in democracy, & an arm wrestling and karaoke enthusiast — not necessarily at the same time, but not opposed to trying it all at once either.
Carpe brachium karaoke as they say. 💪🏼🎤
Here we go. Get a snack & some water, this is long. 🍪 🥛
My professional passions include #SystemDynamics & #security with my #focus on helping organizations & governments develop healthy sustainable #VulnerabilityDisclosure programs that may end up growing into a #BugBounty program, or helping existing programs mature & evolve.
🌺🏝️ 🌺🏝️ 🌺🏝️ 🌺🏝️
🌺I founded & run https://www.Lutasecurity.com & we employ dozens of people, mostly in the US, to help some of our customers manage their #VDPs and #BugBounties as internally-placed personnel.
📜Services: https://www.lutasecurity.com/services
💻Hiring: https://www.lutasecurity.com/careers
💵Referral bounties: https://www.lutasecurity.com/referralbounty
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I helped launch #HackThePentagon in 2016, which was the first bug bounty of the US government & the first time it was legal to hack the USG.
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This was after I created Microsoft’s first bug bounty programs in 2013, paying out the most at the time for brand new exploitation techniques, which would later lead to me directly helping the US renegotiate the #Wassenaar Arrangement to clarify “intrusion software” and “intrusion software technology” export control exemptions to more easily allow for hassle-free exchange of 0day & malware samples across borders for vulnerability disclosure & incident response.
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I also started two vulnerability research programs, Symantec Vulnerability Research & Microsoft Vulnerability Research. The latter was also the first formal major vendor multiparty #SupplyChain vulnerability coordination & disclosure program.
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I now serve on 3 Federal advisory boards in cyber.
⚖️NIST ISPAB: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/ispab/members
💱Commerce ISTAC: https://tac.bis.doc.gov/index.php/documents/members-listing/422-istac-website-listing/file
🚨DHS CSRB: https://www.dhs.gov/news/2022/02/03/dhs-launches-first-ever-cyber-safety-review-board
🎙️Fun fact: Despite mainstream media lip service about getting diverse voices on TV, and my extensive direct experience in US domestic & foreign cyber policy & norm-setting, I have *never* been invited to be on broadcast news to talk about it. Not one time. But there are the same dudes with none of my experience showing up on TV all the time.
📺 Email [email protected] if you can change that.
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👩🏻⚖️ Speaking of gender equity, I was the lead plaintiff in the attempted class action gender pay and promotion discrimination lawsuit against Microsoft.
💵💪🏼 https://www.theverge.com/22331972/pay-equity-now-pledge-katie-moussouris-microsoft-lawsuit
When it failed to get class certified due to some legal gotchas, NOT because of lack of data and evidence, I decided to drop my case and founded https://www.payequitynowfoundation.org/blog & created
https://www.manglonalab.org/ to fight for #PayEquity in our lifetime.
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🌸Another fun fact: I’m asked about the gender stuff way more often than any of my professional work or national security work. I view this as The Lady Tax & I’m all paid up thanks.
🙅🏻♀️Don’t ask me about how to attract more diverse candidates, don’t ask me to mentor your mentee, and don’t ask me for any more free labor. Don’t ask any historically marginalized people to do free labor, especially to solve your diversity puzzle.
👏🏼I highly recommend https://blacktechpipeline.com/ if you are serious about not just hiring but welcoming more black workers into your company. There are specialty recruiters out there for you to pay, so don’t ask every woman or person of color you know to help you with that unless they are being paid to do it.
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🧩 Miscellaneous bits if you’ve made it this far is that I studied molecular biology, biochemistry & mathematics but dropped out to become a systems administrator, a professional Linux developer, then a hacker for hire.
🔐 I still hack by accident (because hacksidents happen), and nobody should have to be the coauthor/coeditor of the International Standards on how to do Vulnerability Disclosure to get an organization’s attention.
👩🏻🏫 ISO standards overview: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-L3DNZtK8lc📲 Clubhouse hack: https://www.wired.com/story/clubhouse-bug-lurkers-ghost/
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🙄 Despite my entire career being technical, when my company tried for venture capital funding to build something cool, we were met with sexism & lack of imagination & I was hilariously asked more than once if I had a technical cofounder.
It’s cool, joke’s on them. We’re #profitable and growing.
🤨https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgyvza/this-hacker-is-trying-to-close-the-gender-pay-gap-in-cybersecurity
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I participate in Democracy with more than voting. Anyone with the bandwidth should look into doing it too.
1. Google “find my Legislative district”
2. Go to your State website & search by your address
3. Look up your Legislative District’s (LD) website to find out how to join
4. Attend monthly LD meetings
5. Run for Delegate per LD or be appointed like me when not enough people do 1-4
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🛑Ending abruptly is on brand for me as a neuroatypical person, so I’ll leave you with this thought:
🐈 I named my 17 year old cat Scapy (rhymes with happy) after the Python tool of the same name. Because he is dumb & fuzzy.
😸If you get that joke, you pretty much get me.
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✌🏼Be kind, drink water, touch grass, save the planet, save Democracy, pet cute animals. ✌🏼 -
Hey! So you may have been wondering why has #DCG201 been silent in March so far. In short, we are all busy but long answer, we are speed running setting up resuming in-person meetings and our Co-Founder @Sidepocket has some HUGE announcements on #lockpicking soon!
Stay tight! Hack The Planet!
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An image I was working on last night while passing out candy
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A serene and colorful sky scene
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Sometime soon I’ll be working on a review of the #xencelabs medium pen tablet bundle running on Linux using it with #krita
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#ToySwaps and the #CircularToyEconomy: How to Raise Waste-Free Kids
Ash Gregg, July 24, 2025
"Kids outgrow toys fast — sometimes faster than we can recycle the packaging. What starts as a sweet moment of play often ends up as clutter, then waste.
Behind those bright colors and fun shapes lies a hidden environmental truth: the toy industry is one of the most wasteful in the world. Most toys are made of plastic. Few are designed to last. And almost none are built with end-of-life reuse in mind.
But there’s a better way — and it doesn’t mean denying kids joy or imagination. In fact, it can inspire more of both.
Welcome to the circular toy economy: a movement built on #sharing, #reusing, #fixing, and reimagining play. It’s not just good for the planet — it’s good for your home, your budget, and your children’s values."
1. The Hidden Impact of the Toy Industry
2. What Is the Circular Toy Economy?
3. Host or Join a #ToySwap
4. Create a #ToyLibrary or #BorrowingCloset
5. Embrace #ToyRotation (Minimalist Parenting Hack)
6. Choose #Sustainable, Open-Ended Toys
7. #Repair or #Repurpose Before You Recycle
8. Talk to Kids About Waste and Sharing
Final Thoughts: Raising Planet-Protectors#SolarPunkSunday #CircularEconomy #ToySharing #ReduceReuseRecycle
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Dear friends of tooting, tweeting, chirping, twitching, 🦞
As someone who lives in Tooting and wants to send the billed ionaires to our terror Tories on Mars (Tooting crater) ... I am no longer twittering. So I am an X-hex, not another wishy-washy hack. So still 🦋- tweet on #Mastodon #Universeodon and the other federation planet of #worldservers. I may also chirp or twitch.🕊️ Actually, I think twitch is a live game streaming centralisation? I am amongst the #interesting, the forgotten, the #alliance. 🎉
What other #words can we #appropriate? I am not-anonymous, 2chan is my Daddy. 4chan is my way into 16chan (for groaned-ups only)?
Are we the enema of the #twittering classes or the #future #feature of social madia? Social madia is not just a form of T-rump cheeky boy-trumpet. Is also a way of fixating #truths behind real #communal #cooperation and shared #happier #achievable #reality.
Canz I spell? Of course. I iz magick, not mindless. Well in terms of #Buddhist #dharma I am mostly 'armless and un-minded. Probably need a minder. I could be so good for you with my own instance of servers. Working on it, honest injun. 🪶 Which is a phrase politically unloaded.
#Follow your knows. #Heal your #gut. Flight your fancies. Be the #Peace and quite #revolting ...
Pictures of pets removed as they are all imaginary. -
Dear friends of tooting, tweeting, chirping, twitching, 🦞
As someone who lives in Tooting and wants to send the billed ionaires to our terror Tories on Mars (Tooting crater) ... I am no longer twittering. So I am an X-hex, not another wishy-washy hack. So still 🦋- tweet on #Mastodon #Universeodon and the other federation planet of #worldservers. I may also chirp or twitch.🕊️ Actually, I think twitch is a live game streaming centralisation? I am amongst the #interesting, the forgotten, the #alliance. 🎉
What other #words can we #appropriate? I am not-anonymous, 2chan is my Daddy. 4chan is my way into 16chan (for groaned-ups only)?
Are we the enema of the #twittering classes or the #future #feature of social madia? Social madia is not just a form of T-rump cheeky boy-trumpet. Is also a way of fixating #truths behind real #communal #cooperation and shared #happier #achievable #reality.
Canz I spell? Of course. I iz magick, not mindless. Well in terms of #Buddhist #dharma I am mostly 'armless and un-minded. Probably need a minder. I could be so good for you with my own instance of servers. Working on it, honest injun. 🪶 Which is a phrase politically unloaded.
#Follow your knows. #Heal your #gut. Flight your fancies. Be the #Peace and quite #revolting ...
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Meanwhile, in #Maine...
How Concerned Citizens Drove a #NeoNazi Out of Rural Maine
#ChristopherPohlhaus wanted to build a #fascist training compound in America’s whitest state. His neighbors had other plans.by Mira Ptacin | The Atavist Magazine | October 31, 2024
"The first step in establishing a neo-Nazi compound is to clear and level the land. These sites tend to pop up in rural America, which means that there’s brush to hack down, tree stumps to pull up, and piles of debris to burn. All this work is done to make room for the barracks, kitchens, and meeting halls where modern-day devotees of Adolf Hitler will live, work, and train together.
"When Christopher Pohlhaus moved to the forested lot where, like other neo-Nazis on other forested lots before him, he planned to start a fascist revolution, he brought two RVs with him. That meant he had somewhere to bunk down at night. But he didn’t have running water. I can’t say how he bathed when he first arrived; as for other matters of hygiene, perhaps he used the woods.
"Pohlhaus’s parcel of 10.6 acres does not have an address. Technically, it’s in #SpringfieldMaine, a hamlet of fewer than 300 people. The closest city, about an hour’s drive away, is #BangorMaine. That’s where Pohlhaus, a gym rat, eventually joined Planet Fitness. To get home after a session of lifting, showering, and doing whatever else he needed to do, Pohlhaus would take Route 2 north, then turn eastward on Route 6. He would drive to Bottle Lake Road, take a right, and drive about two miles before taking another right on a gravel lane called Moores Road. Eventually, among scattered hunting camps, Trump banners, and 'Support the Blue' signs, he would come to a metal gate situated on a dirt road. Behind the gate sat the land of Pohlhaus’s dreams.
"Pohlhaus, 37, is a former U.S. marine, an itinerant tattoo artist, and a hardcore white-supremacist influencer. He is loud and hostile, and proud to be both. His voice is pitched surprisingly high, and he has a slight Southern drawl. He has a large body and small bald head; a blue-black tattoo crawls up the right side of his face, from his chin to his forehead. Over the years, Pohlhaus has collected thousands of social media followers, who know him by his nickname: #Hammer.
"Hammer had been living in Texas for a few years when, in March 2022, he bought the land in Maine. He told his followers that he was going to use it to build a haven, operational center, and training ground for white supremacists. He invited them to join him. Together, he said, they would plant the seed of a #WhiteEthnostate, and they would engage in violence, if necessary, to nurture it. 'An unarmed man sacrifices his family to the unpredictably [sic] of chaos,' Hammer wrote online in 2021.
"Hammer packed his bags and headed north, meeting with various white supremacists along the way. He solicited donations for his new compound in the form of cryptocurrency, and later set up a page on GiveSendGo, a Christian crowdfunding site. He raised close to $10,000 before the campaign was shut down earlier this year.
"Once he’d settled in Maine, Hammer kept his followers abreast of his progress breaking ground, frequently posting photos and uploading videos to Telegram. There was Hammer standing next to a pile of freshly chopped wood, snowshoeing through the forest, holding a beer in front of a bonfire. Followers saw him cradling an AK-47 in his arms. (Caption: 'All this Slavic war training in the Maine woods has me exhausted!') Hammer posted footage from a celebration he held with about eight of his followers, where he claimed they sacrificed a goat. Another clip showed Hammer helping a man in a balaclava slice the palm of his hand as part of an initiation ritual.
"Hammer appeared excited, optimistic. He was careful—or thought that he was careful—not to reveal his exact location, lest it attract unwanted attention from his enemies, including the media and the FBI. If people wanted to join him at the compound, they could get in touch directly.
"But unbeknownst to Hammer, he was being followed. A longtime #Mainer was determined to wipe the smirk off the neo-Nazi’s face. Indeed, he hoped to run Hammer out of the state for good."
Read more:
https://longreads.com/2024/10/31/how-concerned-citizens-drove-a-neo-nazi-out-of-rural-maine/
#USPol #Fascists #Nazis #ICE #FuckNazis #NoPlaceForHate #GlobalProjectAgainstHateAndExtremism -
Dear friends of tooting, tweeting, chirping, twitching, 🦞
As someone who lives in Tooting and wants to send the billed ionaires to our terror Tories on Mars (Tooting crater) ... I am no longer twittering. So I am an X-hex, not another wishy-washy hack. So still 🦋- tweet on #Mastodon #Universeodon and the other federation planet of #worldservers. I may also chirp or twitch.🕊️ Actually, I think twitch is a live game streaming centralisation? I am amongst the #interesting, the forgotten, the #alliance. 🎉
What other #words can we #appropriate? I am not-anonymous, 2chan is my Daddy. 4chan is my way into 16chan (for groaned-ups only)?
Are we the enema of the #twittering classes or the #future #feature of social madia? Social madia is not just a form of T-rump cheeky boy-trumpet. Is also a way of fixating #truths behind real #communal #cooperation and shared #happier #achievable #reality.
Canz I spell? Of course. I iz magick, not mindless. Well in terms of #Buddhist #dharma I am mostly 'armless and un-minded. Probably need a minder. I could be so good for you with my own instance of servers. Working on it, honest injun. 🪶 Which is a phrase politically unloaded.
#Follow your knows. #Heal your #gut. Flight your fancies. Be the #Peace and quite #revolting ...
Pictures of pets removed as they are all imaginary. -
Never before have I watched #ElectroMagneticField recordings. This weekend will change that, thanks to Lee V!
- abstract: https://www.emfcamp.org/schedule/2024/161-gas-boilers-suck-hack-yours-today-save-money-save-the-planet
- video: https://media.ccc.de/v/emf2024-161-gas-boilers-suck-hack-yours-today-save-money-save-the-planet#l=eng&t=0 -
Inside #ShadowDragon, The Tool That Lets ICE Monitor Pregnancy Tracking Sites and Fortnite Players
What a piece by @404mediaco
ShadowDragon: Feeding the mass surveillance machine by tracking people who play Fortnite (and probably, I guess, other popular online games), scraping images from BabyCenter (a site for expectant parents), and social media sites for the Black community, the bodybuilding community, and others.
ShadowDragon also has the capability to monitor/scrape information from hundreds of social media sites/games/websites. Who plays a game and expects to end up in an ICE database?
This is insane.
You are being watched.
#privacy #privacymatters #opsec
https://www.404media.co/inside-shadowdragon-ice-babycenter-pregnancy-fortnite-black-planet/
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I’m generating 52 news stories for my sector, and it’s been good at forcing me to develop individual planets. I will barely scratch the total number of planets, but I’ll at least have a little better idea of what’s out there, and a sample from each faction.
To generate ideas I’ve been using the “event theme” chart in Black Sword Hack (The Dark Gods' Oracle, page 98) and the TNS generator on Freelance Traveller. Could use another news Oracle.