MrTone 42

[Jim Acosta @Acosta]

Aspiring WH press sec Scott Jennings on January 6th, 2021: “Well, I’ve been wrestling with this question all day. I mean, he’s clearly violated his oath of office to preserve protect and defend the constitution, to the best of my ability. And no one could with a straight face argue that he has preserving, protecting or defending it. And in fact, it’s the opposite of defending it. It’s under attack.
So, he is certainly not doing any of that to the best of his ability. So, if you want to strictly look at his oath. He’s violated it. You can make an argument he violated it his weekend when called the Georgia Secretary of State as well, which seems like a lifetime ago.
I don’t know the answer, I know that there are things being discussed. I don’t know what the right thing to do is tonight. He doesn’t seem like to me, based on the tweets that were remove that he learned any lesson after this got out of hand today. This is what you get when you steal an election? He didn’t learned anything when this happened today.
And so, if that’s going to be his attitude for the next two weeks I’m very fearful of what other insurrection type activities. And that’s exactly what it was, it was an insurrection. And it should be labeled as such, I can’t believe more people haven’t been arrested for storming the Capitol of the United States.
And I can’t frankly believe there are still Republicans tonight, siding with the people who storm the Capitol by voting for these objections. Siding with the people who are wearing animal pelts and horns, and scaling down the walls of the U.S. Senate? It’s absurd, and it’s a stain on this president, on our party, on our country and I cannot believe what I saw in my television today. And I had to explain to my children at home.” https://t.co/C8HM60jDQz

[RAND @RANDCorporation]

No single safeguard can prevent a bad actor from using AI to help build a biological weapon.

But our new report identifies nine interventions that, layered together, could meaningfully lower the risk of a significant AI-enabled attack. https://t.co/xrAGACJfDY

[Doug Borton @BortonDoug]

@anders_aslund Americans, for the most part, are not very smart. We're undereducated, intellectually incurious people with narrow horizons and shallow interests. We're apathetic, easily manipulated, and irrationally sure that we'll remain on top of the heap forever. 🤷‍♂️

[😼 @dutchessprim]

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[MAGAts_Exposed @MAGAts_Exposed]

The MAGA crowd spent months thirsting over "Emily Hart," an AI-generated blonde who loved beer and ice fishing, only to find out she was actually a 22-year-old male medical student in India farming them for licensing exam money.

The creator literally admitted he tried to make a progressive version too, but left-wing users immediately called it out as "AI slop" and moved on. Meanwhile, the right-wing alpha males were paying real subscriber cash to a Fanvue account for a Jennifer Lawrence lookalike generated on a laptop in South Asia.

Turns out the ultimate "cheat code" for the anti-woke crowd is just a blonde prompt and a digital MAGA hat. You truly cannot make this up.

[Hafeظ @XHafeZX]

@Mollyploofkins

[The Shallow State @OurShallowState]

I'm going to predict that when the damage assessment is complete, well into the future, Trump's greatest crime will prove to be espionage - AND - it will be the most catastrophic breach of national security in American history.
We will discover he passed secrets to Russia from day 1 because he was compromised; and did favors for the Saudis shortly after, purely for personal profit; and who knows what the hell else.
His many Useful Idiocies will boggle the mind. And his America First gaslight will be remembered as Trump BEFORE America. His treachery - some done for power and profit, and some purely for pathological reasons like paranoia, revenge, and contrarianism, will have massively impacted the globe, permanently shifted wealth, and cost many millions of lives.
And a good deal of it might not have happened but for our legacy media's widespread normalization of his disorders.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Elon is actively trying to suppress this account, and this video.
They're losing and they're trying to steer the narrative by censoring. Post this video everywhere. Fuck Elon. Fuck Trump.

[Joe Trippi @JoeTrippi]

Umberto Eco, writer: “The tragedy of the Internet is that it has promoted the village idiot to the level of bearer of truth” - AS USA https://t.co/fJjQ3PA7Ah

[MrTone 42 @MrTone42]

@RealAirPower1 Lots of vacuum tubes in that system!

[Ayzaa @Ayzacoder]

5. Move Sensitive Emails

Turning off Gmail's smart features helps, but for truly private emails, consider using a separate service.

For medical, legal, or financial emails, use a free Proton Mail account. It offers end-to-end encryption and doesn't use AI to scan your emails.

Keep Gmail for newsletters, promotions, and less sensitive messages.

[Marco Foster @MarcoFoster_]

Neil deGrasse Tyson: “There’s an intellectual scientific vacuum that is descending upon the US and that has consequences. If you’re okay with the US losing its scientific leadership, you will get the country you voted for. That country is one where we will no longer innovate. We will be less secure, less healthy, and less wealthy because some community of people who influence what this country is do not see the value of science”

[Vatnik Soup @P_Kallioniemi]

Finnish school food sure hits different.

[Norman Ornstein @NormOrnstein]

I will repeat a number I use in every speech: we are close to having 70% of Americans living in only 15 of our states, 50% of Americans living in eight states. The skew in the electoral college is becoming greater by the day.

[Pissed off American Voter💙💙💙🌊🌊🌊🌊 @JanetLei5]

@HQNewsNow @Oceanblue721

[MrTone 42 @MrTone42]

@kylegriffin1 This morning, actually. A little over $11 million, in total. 💪

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

My kids have measles, I lost my job, and a parasite that the CDC no longer monitors has given me explosive diarrhea. But at least now there’s no plaques honoring Black scientists at the Smithsonian.

[Marilyn 🇨🇦 @MarilynMuranoX]

Greater religiosity certainly does not equal greater morality or better behavior.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

In 2020, an Israeli digital intelligence company named Cellebrite told the world they could crack Signal.

Signal is the world's most secure messaging app.

Cellebrite sells phone-cracking tools to the FBI, ICE, Saudi Arabia, Russia, and over 60 governments. They charge millions per contract. Police use their devices on protestors, journalists, and dissidents.

So when they bragged on their blog about breaking Signal, the man who built Signal got curious.

His name is Moxie Marlinspike.

A few months later, Moxie wrote a now-legendary blog post.

It started with a sentence no one expected.

"By a truly unbelievable coincidence, I was recently out for a walk when I saw a small package fall off a truck ahead of me."

Inside the package was a complete Cellebrite forensic device.

He took it home. He opened it. He reverse-engineered the software the FBI uses to break into your phone.

What he found was embarrassing.

The software had massive security holes. Old code from 2012. No protection against malicious files.

In simple terms, any app on a phone could plant a hidden file that would take over the Cellebrite machine the moment it scanned that phone.

Once the machine was hijacked, Moxie could rewrite every report Cellebrite had ever generated. Every police case. Every court submission. Every piece of digital evidence.

Then he published the exploits on the internet for free.

Cellebrite's stock dropped. They quietly removed Signal from their list of supported apps a week later.

Here's the wildest part:

The same man who hacked the FBI's favorite phone-cracking company also built the encryption that protects three billion people every day.

WhatsApp uses Moxie's encryption.
Google Messages uses Moxie's encryption.
Facebook Messenger uses Moxie's encryption.

Three billion people. One man's code. Given away for free under the AGPL-3.0 license.

The FBI publicly admitted in court they cannot break Signal. Bill Barr personally complained about it. The DOJ tried to legally force Signal to add a backdoor. Signal said no.

Mark Zuckerberg uses Signal personally. Edward Snowden uses Signal. Every privacy researcher on Earth uses Signal.

The repo is signalapp/Signal-Android. 28,000 stars. No ads. No tracking. No phone number leaks. No backups stored on any company's server.

Just messages between two phones, that no government on Earth has ever been able to read.

100% Open Source.

(Link in the comments)

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

The Trump play book.