Austin

computer dude, security guy / 🇺🇸🔎 / prev. product security @salesforce, @WestVirginiaU 💛💙 / my posts are for me, not you or my employers 🌎♻️

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

Please prioritize your mental health.

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

@WVUFLU Even funnier when you consider he spends more yearly in taxpayer dollars just traveling to Florida … here’s $15k+ in flight time alone last year.

https://t.co/eMMiN3qS4f

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

Here's some more data!

Oliverio has raised 2.7x more total $ from West Virginians with a higher avg contribution ($798 vs $219).

But Williams gets contributions more frequently, and accounting for campaign start dates his velocity already leads $158.27/day vs Oliverio’s ~$155/day.

(source: https://t.co/KT7CdXCMi7 & WVSOS data)

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

Two years ago—after being fed up with how broken the State's website was—I did a similar effort syncing data to a local SQLite database to show that Morrisey's campaign was primarily funded by out of staters & that he only spent 12% of those funds in WV.

https://t.co/ySFJtCyMJo

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

In classic West Virginia fashion, the @wvsosoffice doesn't even know themselves where money is coming from in its own elections.

In state? Out of state? We don't know!

https://t.co/5UNz9OLUj1

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

I made a website that tracks campaign finances, including independent expenditures, in West Virginia elections.

https://t.co/zTN5oJYrpa

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

https://t.co/iznUadYoBu

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

Two years ago I wrote that TikTok under Chinese ownership was a national security issue — not because they could control the feed ... but because they were collecting sensitive personal data on millions of Americans who weren’t even their users.

https://t.co/43lfEvgGtE

[Bloomberg @business]

Some US state healthcare sites sent personal information — location, race, immigration data — to TikTok, Meta and other big tech companies. Experts say existing privacy laws aren’t enough https://t.co/qu2xjPhUNf

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

This type of collection continues today under US Government oversight, but it isn’t unique to TikTok.

Sharing off-platform activity data, and using server-side events in recent years to bypass client-side ad blockers, is endemic across the entire adtech and data brokerage ecosystem.

The US desperately needs a comprehensive national data privacy law.

Until then ...
https://t.co/QQUCyo6RBQ

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

When you apply for a loan ... TikTok knows.
When you confirm your prescription ... TikTok knows.
When you search for a specialist for your medical condition ... TikTok knows.

Even though you never used TikTok ... they know everything you use, and they're learning more everyday.

[WVU Mountaineers · Let’s Go! @WestVirginiaU]

From the mountains to the moon! It's no surprise that 3 WVU alumni have a hand in executing the Artemis II launch that has captured the hearts of people around the globe. ⛰️🚀

Read their story! https://t.co/6NAstbYCtF

Let's Go!

[NASA @NASA]

We see our home planet as a whole, lit up in spectacular blues and browns. A green aurora even lights up the atmosphere. That's us, together, watching as our astronauts make their journey to the Moon.

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

Tune in now as the astronauts have just pulled up to the launch pad and the closeout crew begin their final preparations of the Orion spacecraft for its historic flight returning humanity to the Moon.

[NASA @NASA]

We're going around the Moon. Come watch with us. Artemis II's four-astronaut crew is lifting off from @NASAKennedy on an approximately 10-day mission that will bring us closer to living on the Moon and Mars. The launch window opens at 6:24pm ET (2224 UTC). https://t.co/X27QJejNDt

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

Missing from this story is my close friend @TaylorHose — Artemis II Closeout Crew Lead, West Virginia native, @WestVirginiaU alum, and the guy who’s trained the last 6+ years for exactly this moment.

He and his four-person crew will strap the astronauts into the Orion capsule (a spacecraft he’s spent hundreds of hours inside himself), close the hatch, and perform the final closeout — making them the last people on Earth to see the crew before this historic launch and until their safe return.

[Charleston Gazette-Mail @wvgazettemail]

In these hills, where the fog settles low in the mornings and the rivers cut their slow, familiar paths, most people would not expect the road back to the moon to begin here, but it does.

It starts in the rooms filled with the software hum of computers and the calm resolve of people who understand that space exploration is not only built on rockets, but on the diligence of those who stand behind them. As NASA prepares to launch Artemis II — the first crewed lunar flyby in more than 50 years — as soon as Wednesday, West Virginians are tied to a journey far larger than themselves.

From software assurance in Fairmont to aerospace materials in Ravenswood and specialized testing in Shepherdstown, the Mountain State’s influence on the mission is clear.

🚀 FULL STORY: https://t.co/KfhVxrCkHU

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

It departed from Ramstein AB after purportedly picking up wounded soldiers in Jordan.

Muwaffaq Salti Air Base in Jordan was reportedly targeted by Iran in the first days of conflict, with radar systems supporting THAAD batteries left destroyed.

https://t.co/lLI6ax3t41

[Gianluca Mezzofiore @GianlucaMezzo]

NEW: The radar for a THAAD system was struck and apparently destroyed in Jordan while two other THAAD radar systems may have been hit in the UAE, satellite images show - w/ @ThomasBordeaux7 https://t.co/qiuWVQgyda

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

This C-17, recently flying an Air Mobility Command mission under callsign RCH869 and believed to be carrying some of the first injured soldiers brought stateside from the US attack on Iran, is from the West Virginia National Guard’s 167th Airlift Wing.

#AE07F0 96-0006

[Andrew Leyden @PenguinSix]

A C-17 (RCH869) took off from the Middle East, with a stopover in Germany, and landed earlier this evening at Joint Base Andrews. About two hours later, a convoy of specially equipped medical ambulances, called Patient Evacuation Vehicles, along with an ambulance bus, departed with a large police escort, taking the Beltway to Walter Reed Hospital in Bethesda. Though unconfirmed, these likely are some of the first injured soldiers from the US attack on Iran being brought back to the United States for medical treatment.

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

@CalebChamberla6 West Virginia, hands down.

Materials, strategic logistics, natural gas, and skilled labor access all in a beautiful & low-cost startup environment easily edges out its neighbors.

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

Under callsign REACH 1846, #AE07E4 94-0070 is currently flying RAF Mildenhall through Europe into the Middle East on an Airlift Mobility Command mission.

As one of over 110 C-17s deployed to the area, it's a top tracked flight on @flightradar24.

https://t.co/XSDpPieFL0

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

According to public ADS-B data, 6 of the 8 C-17s from @WVNationalGuard's 167th Airlift Wing have been deployed to and shown activity in the Middle East in the last 7 days.

#AE07CE 89-1190
#AE07E3 94-0069
#AE07E4 94-0070
#AE07F0 96-0006
#AE0817 00-0181
#AE10BF 01-0196

[Brad McElhinny @BradMcElhinny]

I asked the governor today about reports of National Guard unit deployments to the Middle East. All that to say he didn’t exactly say

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

Other OSINT analysts have also noted this activity recently:

https://t.co/JVSdEtaIyw

[Armchair Admiral 🇬🇧 @ArmchairAdml]

Six C-17s from Ramstein and Spangdahlem headed to the Middle East tonight.

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

West Virginia's population has ranked among the nation's highest % relying on Medicaid in the decades since its inception, often topping charts.

So when this dataset dropped on spending in 2018-2024, I knew I wanted a way to easily explore data in-state.

https://t.co/QGNHvWj0qN

[DOGE HHS @DOGE_HHS]

Today the HHS DOGE team open sourced the largest Medicaid dataset in department history.

This dataset contains aggregated, provider-level claims data for a specific billing code over time.

For example, using this dataset, it would have been possible to easily detect the large-scale autism diagnosis fraud seen in Minnesota.

Download the data yourself:
https://t.co/6h2c6loE9y

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

Follow the money—$10.5 billion of it—in Medicaid & CHIP payments to over 80,000 healthcare providers in West Virginia at https://t.co/ipwy0mlEyA.

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

ICYMI

https://t.co/dJUcAbfdCB

https://t.co/I0ISkye57l

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

West Virginia has their own version of George Santos.

A fraud is, so far, slated to take office because voters did not participate ... because opposition failed to do an inch of research ... because certain news organizations decided to forgo their mission.

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

🚨 A Berkeley County Grand Jury has indicted Joseph De Soto. He was charged with:

- Unlicensed Practice & Misrepresentation of Authorization to Practice Medicine
- False Indication or Inducement of Authorization to Practice Medicine
- Misrepresentation of Military Status or Award
- Threats of Terrorist Acts
- Grossly Inaccurate Campaign Finance Statement

[Austin @AustinDizzy]

A magistrate ruled probable cause was found to charge De Soto with terroristic acts.