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Nonya_Bidniss

@Nonya_Bidniss@mas.to

Retired deep state IC/civil servant. Scientific & technical intelligence re pandemic threats, chem/bio weapons, bioscience, emerging tech; personal staff of senior GOs; tech writer, speech writer, senior editor; also worked at various analytic & research labs. Today I hike, cook, read & watch #scifi. Degrees in biology & strategic intelligence. Currently in N. Alabama :( #veteran #atheist #antifascist #natsec #fedi22 🌻
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GottaLaff, to random
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Emptywheel:

Tommy Tuberville says he went to Gotham to help an accused felon threaten a judge's family.

Via David Lurie:

Tuberville is a bad co-conspirator.

Aaron Rupar:

Tommy Tuberville admits on Newsmax that "one of the reasons he went" to NYC yesterday was to "overcome this gag order"

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@GottaLaff He's a very stupid man, as are his voters.

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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Hannah Arendt Explains How Propaganda Uses Lies to Erode All Truth & Morality: Insights from The Origins of Totalitarianism

I finally read this book about a year ago as I was trying to process past basic anger about the Trump regime & MAGA phenomenon. I came away from the book feeling depressed. But I'll probably read it again. It just has so, so much in it.

https://www.openculture.com/2022/02/hannah-arendt-explains-how-propaganda-uses-lies.html

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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I listened to part of Morning Joe this morning and has he lost his mind? He was going on about college students demonstrating for . What is his major malfunction? I know he's a conservative but yuck. The students are demonstrating against obvious Israeli gov't war crimes & their schools' various types of ties to Israel & the war. Joe Scarborough's biases make him sound like a liar or an idiot. Giving the Israeli gov't a pass isn't a moral good.

Nonya_Bidniss, to infosec
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Any folks recommend the best contractor hiring in vicinity of Ft. Eisenhower? (Ft. Gordon). A friend is looking for an established contractor with good benefits hiring people at GS-13 equivalent level to staff CYBERCOM, TRADOC or other major commands.

GottaLaff, to random
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preamble.

Pagliery:

It's Day 16 of Trump's NYC criminal trial. The moment has finally arrived.

The consigliere. The disbarred lawyer. The author of Revenge. Michael Cohen.

Prosecutors question him 1st, so get ready for a finger-pointing session.

Prosecutors have walked in.

The chief of the investigations division, Susan Hoffinger, is chatting w the court reporter.

Matt Colangelo and Joshua Steinglass are fiddling with papers.

Becky Mangold and Christopher Conroy are talking.

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@GottaLaff Tuberville is an endless embarrassment to his state. So are the voters who put him there.

Nonya_Bidniss, to ageofsigmar
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Wargaming experts always caution that games shouldn't be treated as predictors of the future, but only as experiments to explore possibilities. Nonetheless, this seemed to confirm the worst fears of critics who believe Trump could destroy and make Europe vulnerable to attack. https://www.businessinsider.com/a-wargame-simulated-a-2nd-trump-presidency-it-found-nato-would-collapse-2024-5

ai6yr, to books

Ha! Someone planted a banned book in my Not-A-Trademark-Registered-Library. Do you know which one?

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@ai6yr Looks like several candidates there that might raise the hackles of a feral, repressed, white christian nationalist

Nonya_Bidniss, to Podcast
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Today on my walk I listened to @Dahlialith 's #Amicus #podcast titled "How Originalism Ate the Law -- Part 2: The Trap. I didn't notice the title at first and now I have to listen to Part 1: The Trick. In any case, if you have the opportunity you really should listen (in order). Really good discussion. https://slate.com/podcasts/amicus

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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HOLY SHIT right now I'm seeing the northern lights in Huntsville, Alabama 🤯

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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Why do I keep getting no-follower, locked, French language accounts trying to follow me? Seems like what could be called "inauthentic behavior." I've been blocking them.

kimlockhartga, to bookstodon
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@bookstodon Recently, Libby has changed (for me). I can no longer return an e-book directly through Libby, if I have sent it to my Kindle. I have to return it through Kindle. Is this also true of other e-book library services?

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@kimlockhartga I noticed this too, it's irritating. But what would happen before is I'd return the book in Libby but it'd sit there "live" in my Amazon account until the original checkout time expired. I assumed this disparity was the reason for the change. @bookstodon

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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Surprise! "The study found that so-called TRAP laws were associated with an increased rate of murders among young girls and women committed by their intimate partners."
https://gizmodo.com/tough-abortion-laws-boost-murder-rates-girls-women-1851459068

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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Something about the heinous Trump regime's family separation policy that I don't know if a lot of American citizens recognize explicitly: he did this to each of us, too. What he did to us is called "moral injury." He did evil in our name and the torture of children by stealing them from their families is a guilt we bear because he was the leader of our nation. He injured us by cruelly harming those families. We can't have him in the White House again. He's a depraved child torturer.

w7voa, to random
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A US Army staff sergeant who was visiting his girlfriend in Russia was arrested and remains in custody on charges he stole from her, https://www.stripes.com/branches/army/2024-05-07/army-soldier-arrested-russia-theft-korea-13781609.html

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@w7voa I posted this on r/Army a few minutes ago and mods deleted it right away 😂

Nonya_Bidniss, to random
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat: "To normalize extreme ideas, you get them circulating through institutions and the public sphere, aiming for prestigious platforms that offer maximum legitimacy. Enter the Supreme Court, which is making itself the tool of bad actors who want issues that should be settled in a democracy seen as up for discussion–including whether a head of state can order an assassination of a political rival and pay no consequence." #SCOTUS
https://lucid.substack.com/p/information-warfare-and-the-supreme

PadraigOCinneide, to random
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Our lawnmower's battery charger stopped working over the weekend. $200 for a new one, which is like 1/3 of a lawnmower. Ugh.

I ordered the weird screwdriver to open the case for $7, watched a 20 min YouTube with someone debugging a similar model. I was able to take it apart and solder back together a component that had come loose. 💅 It's been up and working for 20 minutes with no explosions or even bad smells.

Being willing to attempt to repair stuff is such a superpower. YouTube is amazing. ✌🏻

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@PadraigOCinneide YouTubers have helped me fix a lot of things from a microwave door to a lawnmower, and just prep for regular home improvement projects.

Nonya_Bidniss, to space
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If you're interested in the livestream for tonight's for the Boeing crew test, it'll be starting here in a couple of hours. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wb3qcR2tUQs

cstross, to random
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Welp, just crawled past 90K words (of a target 100K), and began the last chapter of the last Laundry Files novel.

And Bob has stopped semi-ironically asking "are we the baddies?" and (inadvertently) made it clear that the answer is—

https://youtu.be/ToKcmnrE5oY?feature=shared

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@cstross The last Laundry Files novel! 😭

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@cstross Good to hear! I can't believe it's been that long. What the hell have I been doing...

Viss, to random
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so san francisco has gone full cyberpunk, i guess.

https://www.sfgate.com/tech/article/rent-bed-pods-downtown-techies-18388110.php

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@Viss Uhhh...these things just have a curtain? This seems colossally unsafe? 😳 Oh I get it, no women stay in these things.

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@Viss Seriously

Nonya_Bidniss, to H5N1
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Potential headlines for stories on in dairy cattle:

The Dark Side of the Moo

Watching for Lethal Mootations

Source: adapted from the latest episode of This Week in Virology episode 1111: Taming of the Flu / https://www.microbe.tv/twiv/twiv-1111/

Jennifer, to scifi
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I need some new science fiction to read, who has some suggestions? I don't like military sci-fi. For reference, my favorite series is the Expanse, I also enjoyed Scalzi's Collapsing Empire, I love Robert Charles Wilson's books. I mostly enjoy space operas and unique stories about technology, for example I really liked the recent book Mountain in the Sea about AI and intelligent octopus. Suggestions from the awesome Bookstodon community? @bookstodon

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@philip_cardella Yes, this is a great recommendation. I would add, somewhat along the lines of The Mountain in the Sea, try the Poseidon's Children trilogy by Alastair Reynolds. Excellent. Also the Children of Time trilogy by Adrian Tchaikovsky. @Jennifer @bookstodon

seachanger, (edited ) to random
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“We were confronted by counter-protesters who engaged in blind reactionarism that had little to do with the genocide we were protesting as well as our demands. We condemn the hateful actions and rhetoric of the counter protesters, who threw food and made violent threats”

University of Mississippi: ‘abhorrent’ counter-protesters condemned
Largely white, male group taunts pro-Palestinian protesters on campus and one man makes racist gesture towards Black woman

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/article/2024/may/04/university-of-mississippi-counter-protesters

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@seachanger The photo speaks for itself. A perfect snapshot of all those young white men who are now and will likely forever be monumentally contemptible loser creeps.

Nonya_Bidniss,
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@seachanger Bullies spawn bullies unfortunately

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