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Professor Engineering and Technology, teaching courses in engineering, networking, wireless, and routing.

[Mark Hammond @MarkHam80780803]

“Where is Vader today?”
“He’s paying the Rebel Alliance $300 billion dollars after defeating them completely, every day for the last four months, sir.”

[Doc  @DocAtCDI]

My housekeeping style is best described as: there appears to have been a struggle.

[🇺🇸 🦅Simple Man 🦅🇺🇸 @Soaringeagle45]

Funny 🤣😂😎

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Leonardo da Vinci invented the self supporting bridge between 1485-1487.

This is how it works.

[Liam Nissan™ @theliamnissan]

President Baldy McScrotumNeck is deteriorating before our very eyes, folks

[The SHADOW (AKA Rebel) @BurtonIncognito]

Is he becoming a pelican?

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

That's so cruel. No one should repost this over 100 times.

[Ellen Barkin @EllenBarkin]

The Bishop is never wrong

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Seeing a girl in Kenya wearing shoes far too small for her feet inspired Kenton Lee to design durable shoes that grow with children.

[Róisín Michaux @RoisinMichaux]

If true this would be a huge win for feminism. Women are grossly underrepresented in the dictatorship and authoritarianism fields.

[The Sting @TheStingisBack]

35 years ago today, we met this gorgeous couple. In a true act of love, he gave her lotion, which she rubbed on her skin while he danced for her like a “naughty boy.” Sadly, he never got to finish the suit he was making for her.
#HappyValentinesDay2026 #ValentinesDay

[Alex Cole @acnewsitics]

Super Bowl is happening in a Spanish-named state (California), in a Spanish city (Santa Clara), surrounded by San Jose, San Francisco, Los Gatos, Los Altos, etc., and people are mad Bad Bunny speaks Spanish?

[mariana Z @mariana057]

The fact that “hemorrhoids” aren't called “asteroids” is a major missed opportunity for science, health, and the English language

[Robert Graham @robertgraham]

Fuck.
This was an excellent product used my many, bringing far more value to us than it cost to produce.

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

If you are considering taking a job offer, you may want to ask what your token budget will be.

[Robert Graham @robertgraham]

"What qualifications for that, I have no idea" -- Dolezal

I do.

It was CISA talking about election computers. They weren't talking about anything non-computer related.

Among the reasons is that "DREs" have been replaced with "BMDs", everywhere it matters (swing states).

DRE's record votes electronically, you simply have to trust them, there is no verification.

BMDs use computers to mark paper ballots, which can be audited, by the voter themselves, as well as later audits. Now, voters can't practically review the entire ballot, but they can certainly look to verify that if they voted for TRUMP, that it says TRUMP on the paper ballot.

This, alone, made 2020 the most secure election (from the computer perspective) in history, well, going back to 2000, when the Bush-v-Gore fiasco made so many states adopt DREs to fix the problem with mechanical machines.

They meant even more. They worked with county election officials all over the country. They understood the problems, and how they were being mitigated. Managements systems, BMDs, and other equipment were more secure as a whole than they had been in the past.

Moreover, CISA didn't mean this as "just trust us". That's an obvious fallacy which is why Republicans mis-represent that statement.

What CISA instead meant is "don't trust them" -- don't simply trust Trump's claims of hacked computers without evidence. There's no reason to doubt computer security unless you have evidence of a security problem. No such evidence exists.

Mike Lindell spent millions promising to have "Absolute Proof" of hacked computers, and then when the time came, refused to show anybody the proof. Somehow Republicans ignore this "just trust me" claim from Lindell and are now eagerly voting for him for governor.

After 5 years, Trumpists still have provided zero evidence of any problems with the computers. They only keep pointing out things they and their followers don't understand about computers, claiming anything not understood is evidence of computer problems.

Somehow Republicans recognize a fallacy of a government agency saying "just trust us" without evidence, but not the equally obvious fallacy of Trump/Trumpists saying "just trust me" without evidence.

Yes, yes, there are some fact-checkers who also point to the CISA "most secure" claim, so the Republicans aren't completely unjustified in their criticism here. But overall, Trumpists who are the intellectually bankrupt side, not the Democrats.

It was @C_C_Krebs who made that statement. He can better describe the qualifications, and where I err in describing them.

The point is simply that "qualifications" exist, and that if Sen. Dolezal doesn't know them, it's because he's willfully ignorant. Most of Trumpism is about willful ignorance, not simply not knowing such things, but deliberately so.