Sabine Hiller<p>Timothy Snyder unpacks Vance's visit of <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/pituffikspacebase" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pituffikspacebase</span></a> </p><p>"We [USA] are the only ones ever to have invoked Article 5, the mutual defense obligation of the <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NATO</span></a> treaty, after 9/11; and our European allies did respond. Per capita more Danish soldiers were killed in the Afghan war than were American soldiers"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Vance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Vance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arrogance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/MuskTrump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MuskTrump</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Denmark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Denmark</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Greenland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greenland</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Canada</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Imperialism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Imperialism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/TimothySnyder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TimothySnyder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ukraine</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/Russia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Russia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.ie/tags/BoycottAmerica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BoycottAmerica</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in-greenland" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">snyder.substack.com/p/vance-in</span><span class="invisible">-greenland</span></a></p>
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Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mstdn.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GottaLaff</span></a></span> </p><p>When you're building Facebook and Twitter, moving fast and breaking things is fine.</p><p>In this case moving fast and breaking things means real people suffer real injuries.</p><p>The <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arrogance</span></a> combined with <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ignorance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ignorance</span></a> is astonishing and distressing. The history of migrating large, complex systems is not encouraging ( <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/COBOL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>COBOL</span></a>, anyone? Even SSA still uses it, for a reason)</p>
Michael Fenichel<p>🎯<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Truth</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/joncooper-us.bsky.social/post/3ll6a5e2rzs2y" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">bsky.app/profile/joncooper-us.</span><span class="invisible">bsky.social/post/3ll6a5e2rzs2y</span></a></p><p>vs. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/GQP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GQP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/incompetencce" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>incompetencce</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arrogance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpVirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpVirus</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a></p>
Impish4249<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@chrisstoecker" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>chrisstoecker</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@GOP" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>GOP</span></a></span> </p><p>This is truly mind blowing.</p><p>Essentially no <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OPSEC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OPSEC</span></a> at all, not to say that <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/signalapp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>signalapp</span></a> is insecure, it is not, the OPSEC is totally broken when <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> officials choose to make up their own rules and play fast and loose for convenience.</p><p>Certainly adversaries will see this level of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/incompetence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>incompetence</span></a> as an easy future <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/attackvector" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>attackvector</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NATO" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NATO</span></a> is now saying not only that the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a> won't keep its word, they can't even keep a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/secret" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>secret</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arrogance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nationalsecurity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nationalsecurity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hegseth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hegseth</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/rubio" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rubio</span></a></p>
Wisdom in Space<p>The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.<br> -- Soren Kierkegaard</p><p>⬆ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/SorenKierkegaard" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SorenKierkegaard</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arrogance</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Skepticism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Skepticism</span></a></p><p>⬇ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Panorama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/ChacoCanyon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChacoCanyon</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/PuebloBonito" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PuebloBonito</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Ruins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Ruins</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/360panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>360panorama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NewMexico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewMexico</span></a></p>
ClareBear :tinoflag:<p><a href="https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/political/544317/embattled-former-minister-andrew-bayly-climbing-mt-everest" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">rnz.co.nz/news/political/54431</span><span class="invisible">7/embattled-former-minister-andrew-bayly-climbing-mt-everest</span></a> What a non story. Slow news day is it RNZ? And I think you spelt “disgraced” wrong <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/nzpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nzpol</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/lazymps" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lazymps</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.nz/tags/arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arrogance</span></a></p>
Michael Fenichel<p>Today, in this age of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/TrumpVirus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TrumpVirus</span></a> anti - <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/truth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>truth</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a> & <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhQExEUdhxU" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=bhQExEUdhxU</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>My preferred "history repeating itself" would involve Sir Stable Genius and his owner from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Muskville" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Muskville</span></a>, facing the same consequence for flagrant indifference to the human masses' condition. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arrogance</span></a> vs. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/guillotine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>guillotine</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MakeAmericaSaneAgain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MakeAmericaSaneAgain</span></a> (or saner!)</p>
Frank Müller 🌻<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://rheinneckar.social/@amayer" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>amayer</span></a></span> I know. That’s why I used the subjunctive. IMHO he doesn’t even know how to write democracy. Maybe he needs it to be spelled:</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Domination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Domination</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Egoism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Egoism</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Manipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Manipulation</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oppression</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Corruption</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Repression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Repression</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arrogance</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Control" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Control</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Yoke" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Yoke</span></a></p><p>These are the only words <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> understands in the context of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/democracy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>democracy</span></a>. And so he continues to destroy and divide the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/USA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>USA</span></a>.</p>
Paul Wermer, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0<p>The Washington Post formally announcing that it is now a propaganda rag, not a newspaper that can be relied on to report accurately on issues.</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/feb/26/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/media/2025/feb</span><span class="invisible">/26/jeff-bezos-washington-post-opinion?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Bezos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bezos</span></a> is a prime example of the <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ProblemOfBillionaires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ProblemOfBillionaires</span></a> - <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Greed</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/Arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arrogance</span></a> and <a href="https://sfba.social/tags/ObeyingInAdvance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ObeyingInAdvance</span></a> in full evidence.</p>
FarhadGoing through old files & found things I lost to severe <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/depression?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#depression</a>.<br>
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Now I'm looking forward to start over & leave the past behind.<br>
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Have given up trying to <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/change?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#change</a> others, just looking to a place to isolate, grow <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/vegetables?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#vegetables</a>, have an <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/aquaponics?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#aquaponics</a> system & some <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/chickens?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#chickens</a>.<br>
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I feel like I'm living in 1930s & have to set up my life for the next horrible 20 years since most people are too busy looking through their self built tunnel, silencing & attacking anyone who doesn't .<br>
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I feel like my father before revolution in <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/Iran?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iran</a>, warning us with his <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/wisdom?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wisdom</a> to look beyond the words & never trust the mullahs, our <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/arrogance?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#arrogance</a> & <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/ignorance?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ignorance</a> destroyed our lives.<br>
<a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/NeverAgain?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#NeverAgain</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/Gardening?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Gardening</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/Survival?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Survival</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.automat.click/discover/tags/Politics?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Politics</a>
Wisdom in Space<p>Holy war inflames religion into arrogance.<br> -- Kevin Phillips (American Theocracy)</p><p>⬆ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Wisdom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Wisdom</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Quotes</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/KevinPhillips" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KevinPhillips</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Arrogance</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Religion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Religion</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/War" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>War</span></a></p><p>⬇ <a href="https://c.im/tags/Photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Photography</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Panorama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Panorama</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/Hammock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hammock</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/KinderhookCreek" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>KinderhookCreek</span></a> <a href="https://c.im/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a></p>
Nando161<p>When <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arrogance</span></a>, <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/denial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>denial</span></a>, and <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cruelty</span></a> are the point <a href="https://partyon.xyz/tags/commonsense" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>commonsense</span></a> is mind blowing.</p>
Impish4249<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>VeroniqueB99</span></a></span> </p><p>Funny how powerful people like <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Musk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Musk</span></a> who chant <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/freedom" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>freedom</span></a> only want it for themselves....</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/greed" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>greed</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arrogance</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/controlfreak" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>controlfreak</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/weirdo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>weirdo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/mysogony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mysogony</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/charity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>charity</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/manipulation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>manipulation</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"All my life I have been an admirer of the United States and its people. But I am frightened of it now, and I am even more frightened of them."</p><p>~ Andrew Coyne, writing from Canada</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arrogance</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/bullying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bullying</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ignorance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ignorance</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportations</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/militarization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>militarization</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AmericanExceptionalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanExceptionalism</span></a><br>/1</p><p><a href="https://robertreich.substack.com/p/a-view-from-north-of-the-border" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">robertreich.substack.com/p/a-v</span><span class="invisible">iew-from-north-of-the-border</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"Contempt is a dangerous way to lead a country."</p><p>~ Mariann Edgar Budde</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arrogance</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/bullying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bullying</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ignorance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ignorance</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportations</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/militarization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>militarization</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AmericanExceptionalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanExceptionalism</span></a><br>/4</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/24/bishop-mariann-edgar-budde-sermon-that-enraged-donald-trump" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/commentisfree/</span><span class="invisible">2025/jan/24/bishop-mariann-edgar-budde-sermon-that-enraged-donald-trump</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>“When I walk away from this experience, one of the things that is most alarming to me is just how easy it is to actually control people. It doesn’t take secret police. It doesn’t take guns. It doesn’t take gulags.”</p><p>~ David Pressman</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arrogance</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/bullying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bullying</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ignorance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ignorance</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportations</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/militarization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>militarization</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AmericanExceptionalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanExceptionalism</span></a><br>/3</p><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/magazine/david-pressman-interview.html?smid=nytcore-android-share" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2025/01/16/magazin</span><span class="invisible">e/david-pressman-interview.html?smid=nytcore-android-share</span></a></p>
William Lindsey :toad:<p>"America’s love affair with confident stupidity continues to reach awful new heights. The bill will come due. The piper will need paid. The damage will be extensive."</p><p>~ David DeWitt</p><p><a href="https://toad.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Republicans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Republicans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/Americans" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Americans</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/cruelty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>cruelty</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/fascism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fascism</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arrogance</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/bullying" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bullying</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/ignorance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ignorance</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/immigrants" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>immigrants</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/deportations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>deportations</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/militarization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>militarization</span></a> <a href="https://toad.social/tags/AmericanExceptionalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AmericanExceptionalism</span></a><br>/2</p><p><a href="https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01/24/americas-love-affair-with-confident-stupidity-has-reached-awful-new-heights/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/01</span><span class="invisible">/24/americas-love-affair-with-confident-stupidity-has-reached-awful-new-heights/</span></a></p>
WordofTheHour<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arrogance</span></a> : the act or habit of arrogating, or making undue claims in an overbearing manner</p><p>- French: arrogance</p><p>- German: die Arroganz</p><p>- Italian: arroganza</p><p>- Portuguese: arrogância</p><p>- Spanish: arrogancia</p><p>------------</p><p>Report an incorrect translation @ <a href="https://wordofthehour.org/r/translations" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">wordofthehour.org/r/translatio</span><span class="invisible">ns</span></a></p>
Semantically Secure<p>As I write this, the most recent big move by Matt Mullenweg in his ongoing dispute with WP Engine was to <a href="https://anderegg.ca/2024/10/13/acf-has-been-hijacked" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">abuse his position to seize control of a WP Engine owned plugin</a>, justifying this act with <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/secure-custom-fields/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a security fix</a>. This justification might, under other circumstances, be believable. For example, if WP Engine <a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-6-3-8-security-release/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">weren’t actively releasing security fixes</a>.</p><p>Now, as I wrote on <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41825692" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a Hacker News thread</a>, I’d been staying out of this drama. It wasn’t my fight, I wasn’t deeply familiar with the lore of the players involved, etc.</p><p><strong>BUT!</strong> This specific tactic that Mullenweg employed happens to step on the toes of <a href="https://ma.ttias.be/wordpress-get-secure-cryptographic-updates/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">some underappreciated work I had done from 2016 to 2019 to try to mitigate supply chain attacks against WordPress</a>. Thus, my HN comment about it.</p><p>Mullenweg’s behavior also calls into question the trustworthiness of WordPress not just as a hosting platform (WP.com, which hosts this website), but also the open source community (WP.org).</p><p>The vulnerability here is best demonstrated <a href="https://xoxo.zone/@lazerwalker/113297704893474421" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">in the form of a shitpost</a>:</p>“Matt” here is Mullenweg.<p>I do not have a crystal ball that tells me the future, so whatever happens next is uncertain and entirely determined by the will of the WordPress community.</p><p>Even before I decided it was appropriate to chime in on this topic, or had really even paid attention to it, I had been hearing rumors of a hard-fork. And that maybe the right answer, but it could be excruciating for WordPress users if that happens.</p><p>Regardless of whether a hard-fork happens (or the WordPress community shifts sufficient power away from Mullenweg and Automattic), this vulnerability cannot continue if WordPress is to continue to be a trustworthy open source project.</p><p>Since this is a cryptography-focused blog, I’d like to examine ways that the WordPress community could build governance mechanisms to mitigate the risk of one man’s ego.</p><p><strong>Revisit Code-Signing</strong></p><p>The core code, as well as any plugins and themes, should be signed by a secret key controlled by the developer that publishes said code. There should be a secure public key infrastructure for ensuring that it’s difficult for the infrastructure operators to surreptitiously replace a package or public key without possessing one of those secret keys.</p><p>I had previously begun work on <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/49200" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a proposal to solve this problem</a> for the PHP community, and in turn, WordPress. However, my solution (called <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/49200" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Gossamer</a>) wasn’t designed with GDPR (specifically, the Right to be Forgotten) in mind.</p><p>Today, I’m aware of <a href="https://sigstore.dev" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">SigStore</a>, which has gotten a lot of traction with other programming language ecosystems.</p><p>Additionally, there is <a href="https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specification" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">an ongoing proposal for an authority-free PKI for the Fediverse</a> that appears to take GDPR into consideration (though that’s more of an analysis for lawyers than cryptography experts to debate).</p><p>I think, at the intersection of both systems, there is a way to build a secure PKI where the developer maintains the keys as part of the normal course of operation.</p><p><strong>Break-Glass Security with FROST</strong></p><p>However, even with code-signing where the developers own their own keys, there is always a risk of a developer going rogue, or getting totally owned up.</p><p>Ideally, we’d want to mitigate that risk <strong>without</strong> reintroducing the single point of vulnerability that exists today. And we’d want to do it without a ton of protocol complexity visible to users (above what they’d already need to accept to have secure code signing in place).</p><p>Fortunately, cryptographers already built the tool we would need: <strong>Threshold Signatures</strong>.</p><p>From <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9591/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">RFC 9591</a>, we could use FROST(Ed25519, SHA-512) to require a threshold quorum (say, 3) of high-trust entities (for which there would be, for example, 5) to share a piece of an Ed25519 secret key. Cryptographers often call these t-of-N (in this example, 3-of-5) thresholds. The specific values for t and N vary a lot for different threat models.</p><p>When a quorum of entities do coordinate, they can produce a signature for a valid protocol message to revoke a developer’s access to the system, thus allowing a hostile takeover. However, it’s not possible for them to coordinate without their activity being publicly visible to the entire community.</p><p>The best part about FROST(Ed25519, SHA-512) is that it doesn’t require any code changes for signature verification. It spits out a valid Ed25519 signature, which you can check with just libsodium (or <a href="https://github.com/paragonie/sodium_compat" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">sodium_compat</a>).</p><p><strong>Closing Thoughts</strong></p><p>If your threat model doesn’t include leadership’s inflated ego, or the corruption of social, political, and economic power, you aren’t building trustworthy software.</p><p>Promises and intentions don’t matter here. Mechanisms do.</p><p>Whatever the WordPress community decides is their best move forward (hard forks are the nuclear option, naturally), the end result cannot be replacing one tyrant with another.</p><p>The root cause isn’t that Mullenweg is particularly evil, it’s that <a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">a large chunk of websites</a> are beholden to only his whims (whether they realized it or not).</p><p>One can only make decisions that affects millions of lives and thousands of employees (though <a href="https://ma.tt/2024/10/alignment/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">significantly fewer today than when this drama began</a>) for so long before an outcome like this occurs.</p>Edit of <a href="https://xkcd.com/2347/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">XKCD</a><p>If you aren’t immune to propaganda, you aren’t immune to the corruption of power, either.</p><p>But if you architect your systems (governance and technological) to not place all this power solely in the hands of one unelected nerd, you mitigate the risk by design. </p><p>(Yes, you do invite a different set of problems, such as decision paralysis and inertia. But given WordPress’s glacial pace of minimum PHP version bumps over its lifetime, I don’t think that’s actually a new risk.)</p><p>With all that said, whatever the WordPress community decides is best for them, I’m here to help.</p><p><a href="https://scottarc.blog/2024/10/14/trust-rules-everything-around-me/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://scottarc.blog/2024/10/14/trust-rules-everything-around-me/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/advanced-custom-fields/" target="_blank">#AdvancedCustomFields</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/arrogance/" target="_blank">#arrogance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/automatic-updates/" target="_blank">#automaticUpdates</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/automattic/" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/code-signing/" target="_blank">#codeSigning</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/cybersecurity/" target="_blank">#cybersecurity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/ego/" target="_blank">#ego</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/matt-mullenweg/" target="_blank">#MattMullenweg</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/news/" target="_blank">#news</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/pki/" target="_blank">#PKI</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/plugin-security/" target="_blank">#pluginSecurity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/power-corrupts/" target="_blank">#powerCorrupts</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/secure-custom-fields/" target="_blank">#SecureCustomFields</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/security/" target="_blank">#security</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/software-governance/" target="_blank">#softwareGovernance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/supply-chain/" target="_blank">#supplyChain</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/supply-chain-security/" target="_blank">#supplyChainSecurity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/supply-chain-security-2/" target="_blank">#supplyChainSecurity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/threat-models/" target="_blank">#threatModels</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/trust/" target="_blank">#trust</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/wordpress/" target="_blank">#WordPress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/wp-engine/" target="_blank">#WPEngine</a></p>
Minty<p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/DeSantis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>DeSantis</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/arrogance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arrogance</span></a> <br>Ron DeSantis is refusing to take Harris' call on Hurricane Helene</p><p>An aide to the Florida governor said that Harris' call "seemed political" and that she "was trying to reach out, and we didn’t answer."</p><p><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/kamala-harris/ron-desantis-harris-call-hurricane-helene-political-rcna174276" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nbcnews.com/politics/kamala-ha</span><span class="invisible">rris/ron-desantis-harris-call-hurricane-helene-political-rcna174276</span></a></p>
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