@Techmeme@techhub.socialOmnicom's DM9 returned three Cannes awards after a NC state senator and CNN Brazil found the company had used AI to manipulate their content and used it for ads (Emmanuel Felton/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/11/30/deep-fake-whirlo…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialOmnicom's DM9 returned three Cannes awards after a NC state senator and CNN Brazil found the company had used AI to manipulate their content and used it for ads (Emmanuel Felton/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/11/30/deep-fake-whirlo…
@cdarwin@c.imIn early 2023, Paul Newby, the Republican chief justice of North Carolina’s Supreme Court,
gave the state and the nation a demonstration of the stunning and overlooked power of his office.
The previous year, the court — then majority Democrat — had outlawed partisan gerrymandering in the swing state.
Over Newby’s vehement dissent, it had ordered independent outsiders to redraw electoral maps that the GOP-controlled legislature had crafted to conservatives’ advantage.
@servelan@newsie.socialIowa must pay $85K because state troopers blocked trans students from Capitol restrooms - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/09/iowa-must-pay-85k-because-state-troopers-blocked-trans-students-from-capitol-restrooms/
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeThe government shutdown threatens US government cybersecurity, which is already in a weakened state due to budget cuts and layoffs. And threat actors are taking notes on the chaos.
Check out my latest CSO piece with thanks to Michael Daniel of the Cyber Threat Alliance, Max Shier at Amentum, and Jeffrey Wells of Sigma7 for their insight.
Government shutdown deepens US cyber risk, exposing networks to threat actors
@cdarwin@c.imHow long after a sovereign ruler of a repressive state murders one of your columnists should you make a deal with him?
The answer, it turns out, is a little over six years.
https://www.theverge.com/amazon/667916/jeff-bezos-amazon-saudi-arabia-jama…
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeDon't get whipsawed by the overwhelming amount of cybersecurity news. Check out today's Metacurity for a concise rundown of the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Former defense firm GM pleads guilty to selling cyber exploits to Russia,
--Nation-state hackers breached key US telecom services firm Ribbon Communications for nearly a year,
--US government agencies back bid to ban TP-Link routers,
--Hacktivists breached Canadian critical inf…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialTo my eyes, this is an act of war by the US upon the nation of Venezuela. (Not to mention the blurring of GPS and the sinking of boats by the US.)
If indeed a state of war now exists (to borrow a phrase from FDR's speech to Congress after Pearl Harbor) then Venezuela could be anticipated to wage war against the US - endangering US people (including tourists) everywhere in the world.
El Cheato and Whiskey Pete are getting the US in Vietnam Part II.
"Trump says airs…
@servelan@newsie.socialMamdami "is the one who comes off as eminently principled and reasonable, while apoplectic Jewish leaders are having an increasingly difficult time explaining why a genocidal, apartheid nation-state is a “building block” of their Jewish identity."
**Over 1,000 Jewish Clergy Can’t Be Wrong on Mamdani and Anti-Zionism – or Can They?** | Portside
https://portside.org/2025-10-30/over-1000-jewish-clergy-cant-be-wrong-mamdani-and-anti-zionism-or-can-they
@cdarwin@c.imIn a post on X, the U.S. military's Africa Command confirmed it had conducted a strike that killed multiple militants at the request of Nigerian authorities.
The strike occurred in “Soboto state,” an apparent reference to Sokoto state, the post said.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzCISA warns of ‘significant’ threat to federal networks after nation-state hackers stole F5 source code, undisclosed bug info https://therecord.media/cisa-directive-f5-nation-state-incident
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeF5 disclosures breach tied to nation-state threat actor
https://cyberscoop.com/f5-breach-nation-state-actor-sec-8k-justice-department/
@servelan@newsie.socialTexas:
Teachers are outing trans students thanks to state's new "Don't Say Gay" law - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/11/teachers-are-outing-trans-students-thanks-to-states-new-dont-say-gay-law/
@inthehands@hachyderm.ioRemember that authoritarian movements of all kinds, but especially fascist movements, do not initially have the power to force an entire nation state to bend to their will. They need — not just benefit from, but absolutely •need• — the passive acquiescence of large numbers of people.
Loud, annoying, visible resistance punctures the lie that it’s inevitable, that people who keep their heads down will be rewarded in the end.
@arXiv_csCY_bot@mastoxiv.pageFarewell to Westphalia: Crypto Sovereignty and Post-Nation-State Governaance
Jarrad Hope, Peter Ludlow
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09840 https://arxiv.org/p…
@marcel@waldvogel.family«Condemning the alteration of Levine’s portrait, he [former deputy assistant secretary for health policy Adrian Shanker] said, it was “hard to understand that this was a priority under a government shutdown.” »
https://www.inquirer.com/politics/nation/r
@grumpybozo@toad.socialI’d love to have accounts tagged with their owners’ general location. Nation. State. Time zone. Context matters. @… https://
@UP8@mastodon.social🫵 Nation-state hackers deliver malware from “bulletproof” blockchains
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/10/hackers-bullet-proof-hosts-deliver-malware-from-blockchains/
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems"""
Traditional politics of assistance and the repression of unemployment were now called into question. The need for reform became urgent.
Poverty was gradually separated from the old moral confusions. Economic crises had shown that unemployment could not be confused with indolence, as indigence and enforced idleness spread throughout the countryside, to precisely the places that had previously been considered home to the purest and most immediate forms of moral life. This demonstrated that poverty did not solely fall under the order of the fault: ‘Begging is the fruit of poverty, which in turn is the consequence of accidents in the production of the earth or in the output of factories, of a rise in the price of basic foodstuffs, or of growth of the population, etc.’ Indigence became a matter of economics.
But it was not contingent, nor was it destined to be suppressed forever. There would always be a certain quantity of poverty that could never be effaced, a sort of fatal indigence that would accompany all forms of society until the end of time, even in places where all the idle were employed: ‘The only paupers in a well governed state must be those born in indigence, or those who fall into it by accident.’ This backdrop of poverty was somehow inalienable: whether by birth or accident, it formed an inevitable part of society. The state of lack was so firmly entrenched in the destiny of man and the structure of society that for a long time the idea of a state without paupers remained inconceivable: in the thought of philosophers, property, work and indigence were terms linked right up until the nineteenth century.
This portion of poverty was necessary because it could not be suppressed; but it was equally necessary in that it made wealth possible. Because they worked but consumed little, a class of people in need allowed a nation to become rich, to release the value of its fields, colonies and mines, making products that could be sold throughout the world. An impoverished people, in short, was a people that had no poor. Indigence became an indispensable element in the state. It hid the secret but most real life of society. The poor were the seat and the glory of nations. And their noble misery, for which there was no cure, was to be exalted:
«My intention is solely to invite the authorities to turn part of their vigilant attention to considering the portion of the People who suffer … the assistance that we owe them is linked to the honour and prosperity of the Empire, of which the Poor are the firmest bulwark, for no sovereign can maintain and extend his domain without favouring the population, and cultivating the Land, Commerce and the Arts; and the Poor are the necessary agents for the great powers that reveal the true force of a People.»
What we see here is a moral rehabilitation of the figure of the Pauper, bringing about the fundamental economic and social reintegration of his person. Paupers had no place in a mercantilist economy, as they were neither producers nor consumers, and they were idle, vagabond or unemployed, deserving nothing better than confinement, a measure that extracted and exiled them from society. But with the arrival of the industrial economy and its thirst for manpower, paupers were once again a part of the body of the nation.
"""
(Michel Foucault, History of Madness)
@cdarwin@c.im“The assault by the Trump administration on honest history is hitting everyone,”
A. S. Dillingham, a tribal member of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and a historian at Arizona State University, says.
This assault on history is particularly glaring this week,
as repression and censorship push teachers and politicians alike to acquiesce to the celebration of a sanitized falsehood
instead of using the Thanksgiving holiday as an opportunity to reckon with the dispossession…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGoogle says North Korea hackers are using "EtherHiding" to embed malware on blockchains, the first time it has seen a nation-state threat actor using the method (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/secu
@joe@toot.works🤨 The GOP reeeeeaally hates the needy.
"The Trump administration late Saturday told Wisconsin state officials to "undo" their fulfillment of food assistance benefits amid a court battle over funding for the nation's anti-hunger programs during the longest federal government shutdown in U.S. history."
#Wisconsin #SNAP
@villavelius@mastodon.online"The Arab world is becoming more pragmatic, more secular, and more modern.
Israel could have been part of that story. It could even have become one of its leaders. Instead, Netanyahu, whose entire political existence feeds on fear and division, keeps Israel chained to its past. He preserves the old Israel, a nation always searching for the next enemy. A region being reborn now faces a state growing old."
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialAs 2025 nears its end I wonder...
1. In 2050 will Israel still be a country or a smoking (and possibly radioactive) ruin? (I fully support the peaceful, safe existence of Israel. However, the genocidal acts of its government [as distinct from the citizens of Israel] are inviting a very strong, possibly nation-ending, response from others. I also fully support the peaceful, safe existence of a sovereign state for those in Gaza and the West Bank.)
2. Will the United States still …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialUS cybersecurity company F5 discloses a cyberattack in August by suspected nation-state hackers that stole undisclosed BIG-IP vulnerabilities and source code (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/securi…
@servelan@newsie.socialSchool district bans trans athletes in defiance of state policy - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2025/10/school-district-bans-trans-athletes-in-defiance-of-state-policy/
@cdarwin@c.imSending women who get abortions to prison for decades.
Outlawing IUDs.
Sharply restricting in-vitro fertilization.
These are the strictest abortion prohibitions and punishments in the nation being considered by South Carolina lawmakers,
even as opponents of the procedure are divided over how far to go.
The bill faces a long legislative path and uncertain prospects, even if it clears the state Senate subcommittee that’s reviewing it.
But the measure up for a …
@servelan@newsie.social"**A proposal to reopen the U.S. government that passed the Senate on Monday contains language that would outlaw the sale of consumable hemp products across the nation.**"
Federal action may end fight over intoxicating hemp products in Texas
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5600856-federal-action-may-end-fight-over-intoxicating-hemp-products-in-texas/
@cdarwin@c.imA major southern California highway was being shut down while the U.S. Marine Corps stages a demonstration set to involve live fire on Oct. 18,
pitting the state's governor against the federal government yet again.
Interstate 5 will be shut down from Harbor Drive to Basilone Road,
a stretch of the main artery over 15 miles,
from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. local time, the California Highway Patrol announced the morning of Oct. 18.
The news comes after days of back-an…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialSo, the state of Israel (as distinguished from the citizens and residents of Israel) has resorted to high seas piracy to promote its killing of innocents in Gaza and the sale of all of that beach-shore land to Trump and friends to develop as hotels and golf courses.
Israel has a right and just claim to exist as a sovereign nation. So do the people of Palestine.
The force and strength of that claim is increasing for the Palestinians.
And the force and strength of that claim…
@newsie@darktundra.xyzMajor US law firm says hackers broke into attorneys’ emails accounts https://therecord.media/us-law-firm-hackers-breached-email
@cdarwin@c.imIt is always disturbing when MAGA politicians go off halfcocked about socialism.
Here are some of the “radical left” socialist programs that Warner must be complaining about:
Medicare
Medicaid
The Affordable Care Act
Social Security
SNAP (food stamps)
Meals on Wheels and Office of Aging services
Every single one of these programs was once characterized by right-wing politicians as a
“socialist program.”
@cdarwin@c.imTexas National Guard troops arrive in Illinois over leaders’ objections
Photographs Tuesday showed Texas National Guard troops carrying rifles and riot shields at the Joliet Army Reserve Training Center in Elwood, Illinois,
about 50 miles southwest of downtown Chicago.
In a statement over the weekend, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) said 400 Texas troops were ordered to deploy to Illinois and other states,
calling the move an “invasion.”
The Trump administration…
@adjb@social.lol📝 📢 Join us November 18, 6:30 PM EST for Unraveling the Roots of Colonization in New York State — a benefit for the #LandBack return of Onondaga Lake.
We’ll explore how colonial legal doctrines still impact Indigenous lands today and hear from Onondaga Nation leaders.
📍 New York Society for Ethical Culture, NYC
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