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It has been 15 years since 𝘊𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘻𝘦𝘯𝘴 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘥 began its reign of terror on our democracy.
𝟐𝐎𝐎%-𝐌𝐀𝐓𝐂𝐇 $𝟏𝟎 𝐍𝐎𝐖 𝐓𝐎 𝐄𝐍𝐃 𝐂𝐈𝐓𝐈𝐙𝐄𝐍𝐒 𝐔𝐍𝐈𝐓𝐄𝐃 − https://demsdefend.org
In the past 36 hours, our donations for a campaign to pass Amy Klobuchar and Adam Schiff's Constitutional Amendment to ban Dark Money have …

Democrats Defending Democracy

Russia denies Putin pushed Iran for 'zero enrichment' nuclear deal: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/14/russia-denies-putin-pushed-iran.html

Great piece on how one settler-colonial state #China, supports another settled-colonial state, #Israel, in quietly helping fund the displacement of #Palestinians.
Shouldn't be a surprise except to tank…

How China is quietly aiding Israel's settlement enterprise
Away from Beijing's lofty rhetoric about defending Palestinians, Chinese firms are helping to sustain illegal settlements

"Who makes the rules? Because no dogs allowed… that is a new rule."
"I want to know about my freedom. I didn’t go to war defending that freedom so that I could live in a cellar under the boot heel of Chairman Bud Askins."
"War never changes."
-Cooper Howard, The Ghoul
#fallout

Going to #NoKings Saturday? Try to recruit the newly radicalizing to defunding the police, to defending all in our communities facing displacement—immigrant, queer, unhoused, unable to pay rent—in short, to fighting local fascisms, so we can better fight national fascism, at ICE centers

Dear god, now Chelsea is up 2-0. What has happened to PSG’s defending?!?
#ClubWorldCup #CHEPSG #fedifc

Who could've guessed?
https://ni.hil.ist/@mu/114840348453639236

I have my share of issues with Parkrose Permaculture, but she has a lot of things I do strongly agree with. I can't stress enough that you never dehumanize your enemies. You can respond appropriately to violence. You can defend yourself from them by any means necessary. But you do not dehumanize them. You always limit your response to the minimum necessary to defend yourself.
There are a number of former Nazi skins who became antifascists after realizing they were wrong. Those folks tend to be some of the most dedicated because they feel a debt, and some of the most knowledgeable because they were there. Coming out of these types of cults, police included, is hard and takes time. A lot of us don't have the ability to work with them. But some do.
By repeatedly humanizing your opponent, you can break some of them. The #Seattle Police Department was not defunded but saw a massive reduction in numbers because their morale was destroyed. Some people will never change. Some people are broken and feel like they need the power. But if you change one person's mind, even give them something to think about, it's a crack. If even one cop quits, that's one less trained gun pointed at you in the future.
The 18 year old marines and federalized national guard troops out there are literally kids. A lot of them came from poor communities. They are being used in a way they haven't been trained to do, doing things they (should) have been told are not legal. They joined to get out of poverty, to go to college, or to "defend the American people" (regardless of how misguided that is). Few, if any, of them joined to abuse people. They will be especially open to persuasion.
Remind those troops that they are carrying out illegal orders, that they are being called on to violate their oath to protect the constitution, that they are suppressing the free speech of the fellow Americans they swore to defend. Remind them that the people they could be illegally arresting now are just like their parents, their neighbors, their families, the friends who didn't join. Remind them that this is the first step. They will be called on to kill Americans if they let this keep going.
Remind them ICE sleeps in hotels while they sleep on the ground. Remind them that their drunk and incompetent leadership thinks of them as disposable tools. Remind them that some of these people are out protesting *for them* against cuts to the VA and other services. Remind them that the people they're defending refuse to make college free so they can recruit from poor schools. Remind them that they will always be welcome when they're ready to join the side of freedom and justice.
When you dehumanize your enemies, you unify them. When you humanize your enemies, you can divide them. There is no weapon available to us right now so powerful as compassion.
https://youtu.be/YtWOYUDMsBw

Defending Against Prompt Injection With a Few DefensiveTokens
Sizhe Chen, Yizhu Wang, Nicholas Carlini, Chawin Sitawarin, David Wagner
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07974

Defending Against Prompt Injection With a Few DefensiveTokens
When large language model (LLM) systems interact with external data to perform complex tasks, a new attack, namely prompt injection, becomes a significant threat. By injecting instructions into the data accessed by the system, the attacker is able to override the initial user task with an arbitrary task directed by the attacker. To secure the system, test-time defenses, e.g., defensive prompting, have been proposed for system developers to attain security only when needed in a flexible manner. …

As Reddit turns 20, a look at its AI efforts, including the Reddit Answers chatbot, while it battles unauthorized scraping of user data for AI training (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/06/28/reddit-20-fighting-ai-defending-data.html…

At 20 years old, Reddit is defending its data and fighting AI with AI
After two decades, Reddit faces the emergence of AI chatbots that threaten to inhale its vast swaths of data and siphon its users.

Oh, dear - did I call Fetterman a DINO?
'You aren't fooling us': Democratic senator called out for defending ICE ramp-up - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/john-fetterman-2673068171/

Three-time defending Iowa boys team has new coach https://www.sportingnews.com/us/high-school/boys-basketball/news/three-time-defending-iowa-boys-team-has-new-coach/fde900a1ddac0a2cd2d58165

"Tadej Pogacar secured his 100th career win on stage four of the Tour de France, after the defending champion narrowly outsprinted the race leader Mathieu van der Poel just before the line in central Rouen.
Having exploded past Van der Poel in the final metres, Pogacar said all wins were “special” but “100 victories later, it still feels super good to cross the finish line first”. "
The Guardian

Walmart heiress Christy Walton is facing backlash, and Walmart is facing some calls for a boycott from Trump supporters
after placing a full-page ad in The New York Times urging Americans to attend town halls and engage in civic discourse.
While the "No Kings Day" ad did not mention Donald Trump by name, its emphasis on values like honoring commitments to allies, defending against dictators, and respecting trading partners was widely interpreted as a critique of Trump…

Walmart Faces MAGA Boycott After Heiress Funds 'No Kings' Ad
While the "No Kings Day" ad did not mention Trump by name, its emphasis was widely interpreted as a critique of his agenda.

Rugsafe: A multichain protocol for recovering from and defending against Rug Pulls
Jovonni L. Pharr, Jahanzeb M. Hussain
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06423 h…

Rugsafe: A multichain protocol for recovering from and defending against Rug Pulls
Rugsafe introduces a comprehensive protocol aimed at mitigating the risks of rug pulls in the cryptocurrency ecosystem. By utilizing cryptographic security measures and economic incentives, the protocol provides a secure multichain system for recovering assets and transforming rugged tokens into opportunities and rewards. Foundational to Rugsafe are specialized vaults where rugged tokens can be securely deposited, and anticoin tokens are issued as receipts. These anticoins are designed to be in…

It appears federal funding cuts to MS-ISAC , albeit to an outsider of the program, is going to exact some significant changes to the org, including the introduction of some new membership fees for some services.
https://www.cisecurity.org/ms-isac/defending-ameri…

Real Madrid's defending is brutally bad and PSG is ruthless in transition. Gave up a third goal inside of 25'.
Loving every minute of it.
#ClubWorldCup #PSGRMA #fedifc

We are now at the point where our government is literally terrorizing tens of millions of hard working Americans as a matter of strategy.
What can we do?
Call your Senators and Rep and demand they fight Trump’s insane and illegal escalation of the past few days.
Contact your local party and Dems and encourage them to hold solidarity press conferences defending the State of California
as this escalation/attack is not just on California and Los Angeles
- it is …

Vulnerability and Defence: A Case for Stackelberg Game Dynamics
Azhar Iqbal, Ishan Honhaga, Eyoel Teffera, Anthony Perry, Robin Baker, Glenn Pearce, Claudia Szabo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07316

Vulnerability and Defence: A Case for Stackelberg Game Dynamics
This paper examines the tactical interaction between drones and tanks in modern warfare through game theory, particularly focusing on Stackelberg equilibrium and backward induction. It describes a high-stakes conflict between two teams: one using advanced drones for attack, and the other defending using tanks. The paper conceptualizes this as a sequential game, illustrating the complex strategic dynamics similar to Stackelberg competition, where moves and countermoves are carefully analyzed and…

The US cutting the delivery of essential weapons to Ukraine confirms that the US is no longer a reliable NATO-ally, shortly after the NATO-summit where continuing support of Ukraine was agreed upon. The Baltics states are rightly worried, no way Trump will risk war for defending them.
#usa #nato

Another donation made to The Good Law Project. Honestly, they have already made some great progress on defending my safety in relation to the Equality Act and EHRC, its money well spent.
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As Ukraine awaits stalled US weapons, Trump says he's 'helping a lot' in war with Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/07/as-ukraine-awaits-stalled-us.html

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2409.03788 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

HSF: Defending against Jailbreak Attacks with Hidden State Filtering
With the growing deployment of LLMs in daily applications like chatbots and content generation, efforts to ensure outputs align with human values and avoid harmful content have intensified. However, increasingly sophisticated jailbreak attacks threaten this alignment, aiming to induce unsafe outputs. Current defense efforts either focus on prompt rewriting or detection, which are limited in effectiveness due to the various design of jailbreak prompts, or on output control and detection, which a…

It's been 7 months since the D-party lost the easiest-to-win election the US has ever had. And it's been 4 months since FFOTUS took office and became a modern Caligula.
And what has the D-party done?
Nada. Nada. Nada. The old faction is spinning in useless circles defending Biden's inexcusable decision to continue to run until too late. The younger element still shows no sign of engaging in the voting part of politics. Our middle-age element still looks first at t…

Later this year, the Trump administration will release its
5-year offshore drilling plan proposal,
which is expected to target the East Coast, West Coast, Gulf of Mexico, and Arctic Ocean for
new oil drilling.
This will launch a 60-day comment period and public hearings across the country.
Surfrider has a long and proud history of defending U.S. coasts,
including stopping the first Trump administration’s offshore drilling plans.
We are ready for t…

Congress Sells Out Our Ocean in the Largest Fossil Fuel Giveaway in U.S. History
Congress Sells off the Ocean as Part of the Big Beautiful Bill

My article just out:
Progressive Jews (and non-Jews too!) need to revive the social democratic politics of solidarity. It brings poor & middle together, in contrast to the politics of far-left "allyship" & elite charity which both drive them apart.
https://www.

After Zohran Mamdani’s upset, there’s a way forward for pro-Israel progressives
In the fight for economic fairness for all, Jews shouldn't have to give up on defending their particular interests, writes a long-time contributor to Dissent magazine.

'Suffering from a System That Got It wrong': Black Man Jailed on First-Degree Murder Charges for Defending Himself Against White Men Who Assaulted Him During Road Rage Attack Sues
https://atlantablackstar.com/2025/06/17/black-man-jailed-on-first-degree-murder-charges-for-defending-himself/

OCR Complaint: Smith College (Defending Education)
https://defendinged.org/complaints/ocr-complaint-smith-college/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p111#a250623p111

Someone educate the admins at mastodon.social that holocaust and Holocaust are different things. Note the capitalisation.
What israel is perpetrating in Palestine is *a* holocaust, not *the* Holocaust. And yes, it is genocide. And yes, they’re also guilty of close to eight decades of apartheid, ethnic cleansing, and settler colonialism. All these things can be (and are) true at the same time.
Basically, if you’re defending israel in any way, shape, or form right now, you’re the w…

Sable Shade🇦🇺 ☮️4️⃣🇺🇦🇵🇸 (@Sable_Shade@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image @aral@mastodon.ar.al And holocaust free, according to mastodon.social #Palestine #GENOCIDE #HOLOCAUST #childMurders #siegheilisrael #abomination #disgrace #evilAsItGets #theHumanVirus #whatsWrongWithUs

Both Harvard and Columbia are failing to articulate the need and meaning of education, besides economic value. There is no sense of humanity or the humanities or the search for a truths. Both schools are for-profit companies in the minds of their boards, and their presidents reflect that understanding.
From: @…

MISLEADER: Defending against Model Extraction with Ensembles of Distilled Models
Xueqi Cheng, Minxing Zheng, Shixiang Zhu, Yushun Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.02362

MISLEADER: Defending against Model Extraction with Ensembles of Distilled Models
Model extraction attacks aim to replicate the functionality of a black-box model through query access, threatening the intellectual property (IP) of machine-learning-as-a-service (MLaaS) providers. Defending against such attacks is challenging, as it must balance efficiency, robustness, and utility preservation in the real-world scenario. Despite the recent advances, most existing defenses presume that attacker queries have out-of-distribution (OOD) samples, enabling them to detect and disrupt …

Trump Organization scrubs the Trump Mobile site of language indicating the T1 Phone phone is to be made in the US, now says it is "brought to life" in the US (Anthony Robledo/USA Today)
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2025/06/25/trump-cel…

Trump Mobile reiterates claims that new phones are 'made in America'
President Donald Trump's newly launched cellular service is defending its claims that its T1 cellphones are made in the U.S.

Ukraine's Constitutional Court appointments: A test of EU commitment: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/02/ukraines-constitutional-court-appointments-a.html

Big Food Loves SNAP, But Isn’t Defending It - Ms. Magazine
https://msmagazine.com/2025/07/02/snap-walmart-hunger-food-corporations-grocery-stores/

S06E01: Defending Mother Earth from The Doctrine of Christian Discovery #NoKings with Faithkeeper Oren Lyons https://podcast.doctrineofdiscovery.org/season6/episode-01/

When you are wrong you just admit it.
When you **** up in a major way you uninstall the app.
This is not a you problem.
This is a me problem.
But holy cow, I didn't know F-Droid was this militant in defending it's features.
Don't let the programmers out their cages!
They are wild!
Let the public relations people talk to people(well not much to do if the programmers ate them! Don't let them out of their cages!!!)

Donald Trump issued an Executive Order on April 9, 2025, directing federal agencies to investigate #Miles #Taylor, a former Chief of Staff at the Department of Homeland security, for his public criticisms of the president.
This appears to be the first time in U.S. history that a president has explicitly invoked his in…

End Presidential Revenge: Support Miles Taylor's Legal Defense
Join over 200 bipartisan leaders in defending democracy. Support the legal fund opposing presidential retaliation against whistleblowers like Miles Taylor. Stand up for constitutional rights today.

Hoe futiel het ook lijkt, teken evenals ik toch maar, net als @… . Dat maakt duidelijk dat we met velen zijn.
http://www.stopreturnfascism.org

Instead of defending budget bill, GOP touts one that doesn't exist (Catherine Rampell/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/19/gop-budget-misleading-regressive/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzUwMzA1NjAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzUxNjg3OTk5LCJpYXQiOjE3NTAzMDU2MDAsImp0aSI6IjE5NzkyNWE5LWUyOTQtNDcyYS04ZGQ3LTg1YThmYjBhYzUyNiIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI1LzA2LzE5L2dvcC1idWRnZXQtbWlzbGVhZGluZy1yZWdyZXNzaXZlLyJ9.UPLr5rLHo1-2WHkNVbPfQY9H-G3i7FG5FXvtPobSV4A&itid=gfta
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p119#a250619p119

#PeteHegseth

#urbanism talk today:
It was a bit stupid for the government (defending the court case) to agree with the prosecution that it w…

A Comparative Study on Proactive and Passive Detection of Deepfake Speech
Chia-Hua Wu, Wanying Ge, Xin Wang, Junichi Yamagishi, Yu Tsao, Hsin-Min Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.14398

A Comparative Study on Proactive and Passive Detection of Deepfake Speech
Solutions for defending against deepfake speech fall into two categories: proactive watermarking models and passive conventional deepfake detectors. While both address common threats, their differences in training, optimization, and evaluation prevent a unified protocol for joint evaluation and selecting the best solutions for different cases. This work proposes a framework to evaluate both model types in deepfake speech detection. To ensure fair comparison and minimize discrepancies, all model…

Imprisoned For Exposing US-Israel's War Plans Against Iran https://thedissenter.org/imprisoned-for-exposing-us-israels-war-plans-against-iran/

Inside Job: Defending Kubernetes Clusters Against Network Misconfigurations
Jacopo Bufalino, Jose Luis Martin-Navarro, Mario Di Francesco, Tuomas Aura
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21134

Inside Job: Defending Kubernetes Clusters Against Network Misconfigurations
Kubernetes has emerged as the de facto standard for container orchestration. Unfortunately, its increasing popularity has also made it an attractive target for malicious actors. Despite extensive research on securing Kubernetes, little attention has been paid to the impact of network configuration on the security of application deployments. This paper addresses this gap by conducting a comprehensive analysis of network misconfigurations in a Kubernetes cluster with specific reference to lateral…

Chelsea playing a strong lineup, but their defending, especially headed balls back across the face of goal... has been shocking in the second half. 👀
Conceded two goals in 4 minutes. Immediately after conceding the second, Nicolas Jackson gets a straight 🔴 for a textbook studs up challenge high up the leg. Indefensible. He'd just subbed on and was on the pitch for 4 whole minutes.
#FLACHE

First Choice Women's Resource Centers v. Platkin (Alliance Defending Freedom)
https://adfmedia.org/case/first-choice-womens-resource-centers-v-platkin/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250616/p163#a250616p163

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.10639 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCR_…

Latent-space adversarial training with post-aware calibration for defending large language models against jailbreak attacks
Ensuring safety alignment has become a critical requirement for large language models (LLMs), particularly given their widespread deployment in real-world applications. However, LLMs remain susceptible to jailbreak attacks, which exploit system vulnerabilities to bypass safety measures and generate harmful outputs. Although numerous defense mechanisms based on adversarial training have been proposed, a persistent challenge lies in the exacerbation of over-refusal behaviors, which compromise the…

Fate of Iran’s Uranium Stockpile Unclear
After U.S. Strikes
Senior U.S. officials said the attack had severely damaged Iran’s nuclear facilities -- but conceded they did not know the whereabouts of its supply of near-bomb-grade uranium!
Trump suggested that a new government could take over in Tehran:
“If the current Iranian Regime is unable to MAKE IRAN GREAT AGAIN, why wouldn’t there be a Regime change???”
Trump wrote in a post on his social media site.

Iran Live Updates: Israel and Iran Report New Strikes as Trump Raises Prospect of Regime Change
Residents in central Tehran said they could see and hear heavy strikes, while Israel said it was defending itself from an attack. Earlier, President Trump suggested that a new government could take over in Tehran.

Now Julia Lopez from #harvest is talking about defending your #Rails app.
#brightonruby #brightonruby2025

As the head of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt has done little to uphold his organization’s claims to fight antisemitism
as the “leading anti-hate organization in the world.”
Instead, he’s shored up the ADL’s role as little more than a fierce pro-Israel lobby group known for defending Israel by attacking its critics.
With no sense of irony, much of this effort manifests as defamatory speech
— at least in the everyday, if not the legal, sense
— by…

MIT Student Condemned Genocide — So ADL Chief Said She Helped Cause Boulder Attack
Jonathan Greenblatt accused commencement speakers of spreading antisemitic lies — and suggested they’re responsible for violent attacks.

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning Scheme with Mitigating Model Poisoning Attacks: Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures
Jiahui Wu, Fucai Luo, Tiecheng Sun, Haiyan Wang, Weizhe Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.23622

Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning Scheme with Mitigating Model Poisoning Attacks: Vulnerabilities and Countermeasures
The privacy-preserving federated learning schemes based on the setting of two honest-but-curious and non-colluding servers offer promising solutions in terms of security and efficiency. However, our investigation reveals that these schemes still suffer from privacy leakage when considering model poisoning attacks from malicious users. Specifically, we demonstrate that the privacy-preserving computation process for defending against model poisoning attacks inadvertently leaks privacy to one of t…

Santa Barbara's turnout was just one example of the historic nationwide mobilization.
The “No Kings” protest brought millions to the streets in over 2,100 cities and towns across the country.
Organizers stated this movement has exceeded expectations,
uniting citizens to reject authoritarian overreach, defend fundamental freedoms,
and protect vulnerable communities.

Thousands Show Up for 'No Kings' Protest in Santa Barbara
Over a thousand demonstrators lined Cabrillo Blvd Saturday to join the nationwide "No Kings" protest opposing the Trump administration and defending democracy.