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Marcus Hutchins :verified: (@malwaretech@infosec.exchange) (Infosec Exchange)
Attached: 1 image It's really jarring watching how right-wing media regularly scrape social media for super unhinged takes that basically nobody agrees with, writes entire articles implying they are commonly held view among the group they want to attack, then they use the outrage generate from the article to undermine the rights of the entire group based on a straw man they built from a single post.
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Good morning everybody and welcome to Tuesday. I'm drinking coffee and doing braille display maintenance this morning, along with sorting some Microsoft Word fuckery with a large document. Otherwise lots of work to get to today. The coctail didn't happen last night because I fell asleep, but ingredients are in the fridge for when I get some downtime.

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Chris Trottier (@atomicpoet@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)
Attached: 1 image Sen. Marco Rubio just wrote this editorial regarding a potential TikTok ban. It's apparent to me that his gripe isn't with TikTok's surveillance or algorithms or data collection per se. It's that a Chinese company is doing it. Apparently, if TikTok were American, they would be peachy keen. But Chinese? That's bad! I don't like TikTok, and I believe it's generally an evil corporation. Yet I also dislike how Sen. Rubio is pushing yellow peril. https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/tiktok-other-social-media-controlled-enemies-must-banned-now-we-cant-wait-longer
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Tom Morris (@tommorris@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)
“Media discovers tech entrepreneur widely proclaimed for years to be smarter than Einstein, kinder than Jesus, and wiser than Solomon actually isn’t”. No questions then get asked as to who made said proclamations and no lessons are then learned as to why it might be a good idea to approach widely hyped technology with weary skepticism, as is pretty common among technologists actually working at the coalface.
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Chris Trottier (@atomicpoet@mastodon.social) (Mastodon)
People who say, "The Fediverse doesn't allow search" are literally making that up. And it's easy to refute. Do a search for your username on Google or DuckDuckGo, and you'll find so many of your posts. In your Mastodon account preferences, you can also set how indexable you want to be. If Fediverse search was impossible, why is so much of the Fediverse indexable by Google?