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So my other big piece of the day is an inside look at the struggle for the future of the CVE program that just went live at CyberScoop.
Many thanks to Jay Jacobs of Empirical Security, Nick Leiserson of the Institute for Security and Technology, Mitchel Herckis of Wiz, Brian Fox of Sonatype, Peter Allor of the CVE Foundation, Ben Edwards of Bitsight and a few experts who go unnamed for their insight.

A meditation on miracles and near-death experiences
In Yale Divinity School’s latest “Quadcast,” religious historian Carlos Eire — author of the recent “They Flew: A History of the Impossible” — discusses evolving Protestant and Catholic views on miracles and other social phenomena.

When you're trying to get #Google to help them fix a problem they have in relaying an email to a list (they are forwarding as if it they are originating your non-GMail email, thus incurring an SPF failure) their helpful support team to the rescue (see image attached).
FYI... the second thing they want is a screen cap of the client SMTP config.
Very temped to send a screenshot wit…

Generation Get To It With Jordan Pickard
Jordan Pickard brings not only his own knowledge and experience of human performance, but a whole range of guests that will ultimately leave you feeling inspired and motivated...
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Na - was ist schon wieder down? Richtig.
"Amazon Web Services has now issued a further update, stating in a post at 10.29 a.m. ET that it is once again experiencing network connectivity issues in the US. "
10.29 a.m. ET == 16:29 CEST
https://cnn.it/4qlp9pk

🆓 Government gestures leave roots of Indonesia protests intact
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/02/asia-pacific/politics/indonesia-protests-root-problems-intact/

Government gestures leave roots of Indonesia protests intact
Experts say little has been done to address the economic inequality fueling the unrest, leaving deep resentment to linger and flare up again.

The debate regarding the “Goldwater rule” has intensified
following President Trump’s recent rambling presentation in Pennsylvania
(Trump rails on affordability ‘hoax’ and flings racist attacks in rally-style speech, 10 December).
As a physician with decades of experience in health policy, I believe the current discourse misses a vital distinction:
the difference between prohibited diagnosis and legitimate observation.
The Goldwater rule was designed to prevent …

The #IWW #GDC as an antifascist organization was always kind of a hack. It was a beautiful hack and it worked well for what it did.
In 2016, as Trump was rising, I found info from the Twin Cities GDC. They were super organized, building an amazing community defense organization. When we (Seattle) went to set up our chapter, following their lead, they were extremely supportive. When I got shot, Twin Cities folks were at my house keeping my partner safe. They literally flew people out to support us. They very much remain in my mind when I think about what mutual aid looks like.
Unionism is an important strategy of a larger fight. But it's important to realize that it's not the other way around. The GDC was built to defend the union, because there wasn't something larger to do that work. It filled a gap.
When we organized against Trump, we tried to make the GDC the greater thing. We tried to make the GDC into the vehicle for social revolution against the fascist threat... And it sort of worked. We were able to do a lot.
But that was never what it was built to do. It was always built as an appendage of the IWW. This contains its own problem. If Unionism is the revolutionary movement, then it becomes impossible to build a truly revolutionary society. Unionism centers "workers" which implicitly decenters those who can't work in the traditional sense (the young, the elderly, those physically or mentally able to work). It also decenters care labor that hasn't yet been widely commodified. Sure, there are all types of hacks to patch the holes, but the fundamental construction starts from the wrong assumptions.
It felt, for a while, like things could go another way. Like that our ability to bring members in could shift things a bit, maybe set the GDC on more equal footing with the core focus of the IWW. But that was always an illusion, far less important to think about than the crushing terror of the regime we were fighting.
Now, I will absolutely trash talk the IWW on occasion but in the end I do think they're doing good and important work. Any criticism I have should be taken with a grain of salt... And I know I do have a lot of salt. Again, Unionism is an important strategy. It's useful both in improving immediate material conditions and as part of the most powerful weapon we have against the capitalist system: the general strike. It's important, I can't say that enough. But it's not sufficient.
I've been thinking about this a bit recently, and I wonder if there are any other GDC organizers or former organizers who might be feeling the same. Feel free to DM me. I'd like to get some more perspectives and see if my understanding from several years ago deviates significantly from what other folks are feeling right now.
I'd also like to bounce some ideas around that come from my own organizing experience.

Bye week comes at opportune time for Raiders after 31-0 loss to Chiefs https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/bye-week-comes-at-opportune-time-for-raiders-after-310-loss-to-chiefs

Just finished "Kirby's Lessons for Falling (In Love)" by Laura Gao. I'd previously read her autobiographical graphic novel "Messy Roots" which was excellent, and this book continues that trend. Yet another complicated look at a Chinese-American immigrant experience, wrapped into a queer romance with a dose of spirituality in there as well. I think the background metaphor of falling is really strong, and gets used in so many senses it's beautiful.
#AmReading #ReadingNow