Josh Vittie, MPA

Master of Public Admin grad, Emergency Management wonk, avid reader, news junkie, volunteer, explorer, & concerned citizen.

[Sierra Club @SierraClub]

Yosemite is not Donald Trump’s to give away. We will use every tool at our disposal to stop this corruption.

[Save Standard Time @SaveStandard]

@Breaking911 TERRIBLE. Permanent DST means 8:45am sunrise in most states. Tell the Senate to amend to permanent Standard Time!

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: In a landmark 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rules that "geofence warrants," which allow law enforcement to collect sweeping smartphone location data over a broad area, constitute an "unreasonable search" and violate the Fourth Amendment.

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

No one believes me when I say this, but the decline in reading is already having dire consequences for art & culture. The media you loved in your youth—shows, albums, films—was made by artists who were widely read. You will not have that quality of art in a post-literate world.

[Josh Vittie, MPA @jvittieMPA]

“supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.” 2/2

[Josh Vittie, MPA @jvittieMPA]

Friendly reminder: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,” 1/2

[Boze Herrington, Library Owl 😴🧙‍♀️ @SketchesbyBoze]

Many people can’t grasp that school is supposed to be the BEGINNING of your education. The pursuit of knowledge doesn’t end at graduation, and you will be poorly informed indeed if you’re not learning history & reading great books in your adult life.

[Colleen Coble @colleencoble]

I don't get upset about much, but there's an issue going on in the publishing world that's very distressing. I keep seeing people tell writers not to use em dashes or ellipses because people will think their book was written by AI.

Here's the truth--54 of my books were stolen to train AI. Stolen books happened to most authors I know. We used those em dashes and ellipses FIRST. They are OUR tools and don't belong to AI. Authors, use all the tools at your disposal and fight back!

I use Grok to research medical stuff, especially about my husband's cancer. I ask it things (anything you search on a search engine uses AI) but it never writes anything for me. Every em dash and ellipse in my books are put there by me and they will stay there.

There's a frenzy of AI accusations out there, but as readers, please don't join in on the witch hunt. Most of us are just using the writing tools they've always used.

[Sooraj @iAnonymous3000]

It should NOT be this hard to buy a privacy-respecting printer.

Seriously.

A printer should be one of the simplest devices in the house. You send it a document. It puts ink or toner on paper. That should be the whole relationship.

Instead, the mainstream printer market has become a swamp of cloud accounts, mobile apps, subscriptions, cartridge DRM, remote diagnostics, vendor lock-in, and “smart” features nobody asked for.

HP is the canonical example of how bad this got.

HP+ ties the printer to an HP account, an internet connection, and original HP ink for the life of the device. Dynamic Security can reject cartridges based on vendor-controlled firmware rules. Instant Ink turns printing into a subscription relationship.

Why does it need to talk to the vendor just to do the one job it was built for?

And from a security perspective, this is a nightmare.

A Wi-Fi printer is a computer on your LAN. It has firmware, network services, a web admin panel, default settings, cloud features, and sometimes stored documents or saved credentials.

A compromised printer can expose services.

It can:
- advertise itself to the LAN
- store print jobs and scans
- keep address books and scan destinations
- hold credentials for scan-to-email, scan-to-SMB, scan-to-FTP, LDAP, or remote management

And it usually sits on the same network as your laptop, phone, NAS, smart home devices, and sometimes work machine.

Used printers are worse.

Assume the previous owner left behind Wi-Fi settings, scan destinations, address books, stored credentials, and cached documents.

One reason to prefer black-and-white: many color laser printers can embed machine identification codes into printed pages.

Yellow dots are the famous version. The broader issue is forensic marking.

Good intel on this is weirdly hard to come by.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I've introduced HR 8470, the Surveillance Accountability Act, with @RepBoebert.

It requires a probable cause warrant before the federal government can search your private data — even if that data is held by a third party.

Warrantless searches are unconstitutional.

[Dean Abbott @DeanAbbott]

I know I've said it before, but I'll say it again.

Very few people appreciate what America lost when we lost newspapers.

Just being able to sit down every morning in silence and peruse news, opinion, sports, advice, recipes, interesting human interest stories all in one place was such a pleasure.

The Internet has never produced anything that comes close.

[Josh Vittie, MPA @jvittieMPA]

@Cmdr_Hadfield Happy Yuri’s Night to all who celebrate!

[Josh Vittie, MPA @jvittieMPA]

@KeraRolsen Congratulations, Ma’am!

[Josh Vittie, MPA @jvittieMPA]

@KeraRolsen The longer I read, the worse it got.

[Suzie Dawson @Suzi3D]

This is a genuine & urgent warning.

DO NOT under any circumstances integrate ANY AI agent into any part of your life.

Don't give it Whatsapp access. Don't give it SSH keys. Don't let it access your surveillance cameras.

You are NOT in control of it and you never will be.

[Amy McGrath @AmyMcGrathKY]

The Department of Homeland Security has been issuing subpoenas to major tech companies (Reddit, Facebook, Instagram, etc.) asking for the names, email addresses, and phone numbers of Americans whose social media accounts criticize ICE.

This is a complete violation of your rights. The First Amendment doesn’t have an asterisk that says “unless you criticize the government.” It protects all of us.

https://t.co/YzpUf3ry41

[Travis Akers 🇺🇸 @travisakers]

The First Amendment protects your right to criticize the government. The government cannot target people simply for tracking or criticizing ICE. The Trump administration’s actions are illegal and unconstitutional.

Demanding names, emails, and phone numbers of critics creates a chilling effect. It sends the message, “speak out and we will come for you.”

The Fourth Amendment also protects against crime fishing expeditions without probable cause.

In America, dissent is not a crime.

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

Congresswoman @repdeliaramirez: " Congress designed DHS [Department of Homeland Security] to violate our rights under the pretense of securing our safety."

" DHS cannot be reformed. It must be dismantled, and something new must take its place because if we let DHS persist, it will continue to be a weapon that can be pointed at anyone. "

[City of Cincinnati @CityOfCincy]

The City of Cincinnati will be activating the warming center at St. Anthony Center (1615 Republic Street) on Monday, January 19 from 6am -7pm. There will be breakfast, lunch, snacks and blankets while open.

More info: https://t.co/5Tbc13RYTV

[Mayor Andrew Ginther @MayorGinther]

Winter Warming Centers are open across Franklin County and the Central Ohio region thanks to our partners at @CommShelterBd. LEARN MORE ▶️ https://t.co/MKpW6tQ17G