Brandon Downey
Infosec professional, photographer, math enthusiast, occasional augmented reality warlord. Peculiar but refined tastes in triangles, cinema, and cocktails. Some skill with Azad.
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Opinions are my own and not those of my employer
- Reposted by Brandon DowneyDEF CON legal update: Truth is a complete defense against defamation. The Hadnagy lawsuit against us is over. Summary judgement. Dismissed, with prejudice. You can read the judgment here storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us... . Stay tuned for a more detailed report. #defcon #legalupdate
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- Reposted by Brandon DowneyIt's 2015. President Barack Obama has accepted a "sky palace" jumbo jet from the Qatari government, which he'll own after he leaves office. "Everybody relax," he says in an interview with the New York Times. Everyone does. The networks then televise the military parade in his honor on his birthday.
- As a security professional, this is literally insane from a signals intelligence and safety standpoint. Just looking past the overt grift & corruption, somebody at the NSA is looking at this and has started doing shots.
- TIL Megachurches have apps now. My wife: "Are they AI enhanced? Because if so they could call it 'Your Own Personal Jesus'". Couple it with that cryptocurrency for indulgences and NFT "relics" of the True Cross, and it's a billion dollar idea.
- Yeah, I was playing that little game where I imagine the worst version of things: 1. The pope says he wants an international treaty to regulate AI 2. Yudkowsky also wants this (hell he wants nukes to use on AI builders). He then concludes... 3. To stop the Basilisk, I must become a Catholic.
- I want to encourage people to realize that most immigrants here illegally are effectively doing something less damaging to our society than someone speeding. Even if you think it's wrong, the punishment should fit the crime. But this....
- A man pulled up to a gas station to fill up his truck. ICE agents surrounded him and took him away. But his children were left behind. “They arrested someone,” witness said. “They left the children inside the truck.” www.sfgate.com/centralcoast...
- Reposted by Brandon Downeyimagine an ant which lives on a map of your hometown. there are many things which you know about your hometown which that ant can never learn. but it is not the case that the ant living on that map knows nothing about your hometown.
- Folks, this movement *is working*. My wife & I are about to go to our tenth #teslatakedown. Every one feels like a better use of our time.
- You know who's got thousands of thumbs and is not staying home for a week? The #teslatakedown movement 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍 www.businessinsider.com/tesla-model-...
- If you ever doubt liberty as a virtue that we ought to pursue as a society, look at this clip. Snatched off the street for writing an essay the administration didn't like, and locked up a thousand miles away from her home. And it took a MONTH for her to win her freedom.
- Rümeysa Öztürk, the Tufts PhD candidate whose sudden arrest by federal immigration agents made national headlines, walked out of a Louisiana detention facility after a judge ordered her release. “Thank you for all the support and love,” she told supporters outside. trib.al/UkF8nkC
- Reposted by Brandon DowneyHow successful has Tesla Takedown been so far? Insane. Via @arstechnica.com... www.offmessage.net/p/more-boyco...
- Reposted by Brandon DowneySo let me get this straight: masks are bad and un-American if worn to fight a pandemic, but good if worn by people claiming to be government agents when they kidnap people off the street
- Reposted by Brandon DowneyThere are currently more kids in Texas with measles than there are transgender collegiate athletes in all of America. Guess which one they want you to focus on.
- My whole life Republicans have been warning us about an out of control, unaccountable federal government. They are never, ever beating the rap that they were just projecting. Or: "Some people study history *in order* to repeat it."
- The way we were treated at Delaney Hall is almost unbelievable. ICE shoved me, manhandled @repbonnie.bsky.social, and arrested Mayor Baraka. They disrespected us and tried to stop us from conducting the oversight we’re elected to do. But we’ll never back down in our fight for what is right.
- I like that it could be a headline describing a Civ game.
- Even if you're not a Star Trek fan, Diane Duane is someone you should help. For one, I still spot Romulan spies based on the way they separate their food because of her.
- Friends, there;s no good way to give you this news (and I still so much watt to believe it's a terrible nightmare: but it's not.) Briefly: gone now, untimely, unexpectedly, and already so very much missed: @peter.petermorwood.com www.tumblr.com/dduane/78306...
- Reposted by Brandon DowneyNEW — I’ve obtained audio of new acting FEMA head David Richardson threatening staff in an all hands meeting this morning. As first reported by Reuters, he told those who resisted change in the agency, “Don’t get in my way…I will run right over you.” Listen to the clip here:
- Reposted by Brandon DowneySenate Republicans are trying to jam Democrats with a stablecoin bill that helps Trump rake in hundreds of millions of dollars—just as he tanks the economy and raises costs for everyone else. Rolling over without fixing this bill would be a huge mistake.
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- Reposted by Brandon DowneyBREAKING: In a groundbreaking rebuke to REI’s unionbusting and human rights abuses along the supply chain, REI members reject the corporate board nominees that were up for election this year.
- Reposted by Brandon DowneyIllinoisans deserve dignity, privacy, and the freedom to live without fear of surveillance or discrimination. I'm issuing an Executive Order to safeguard the rights of those with autism in our state as Trump's administration threatens those very freedoms.
- Reposted by Brandon DowneyNEW: The rate of sepsis in Houston surged 63% after Texas banned abortion. In the Dallas-Fort Worth area, where hospital leaders empowered doctors to intervene before patients’ conditions worsened, it rose just 29%.
- Reposted by Brandon DowneyCybertrucks are piling up -- apparently no one wants to buy them -- but they can't stop making them, b/c shutting the factory down is too expensive. Great work all around.
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Cassocks are red Conclaves are dope Wake up babe we got a - Reposted by Brandon DowneyICE agents are trained to be monsters, and local police are conditioned to assist them, not you. www.welcometohellworld.com/they-dont-ne...
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- This guy seems to think gay people are people, thinks the poor and the working people deserve rights, and he thinks you should stick your thumb in the eye of fash-y latecomers to the faith that is supposed venerate the son of a carpenter. More than I could ask for.
- Reposted by Brandon DowneyThe new surgeon general is an anti-vax wellness influencer who dropped out of their medical residency after attending Stanford Medical School?
- #wokepope (complimentary)
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- So has the new pope had Malort?
