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Matty @bestestname
Going to put a "Student Driver" sticker on my car and just drive however the fuck I want
3:34 PM ∙ Apr 27, 2022
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Nick Jones @nojonesuk
secwiki.cloud is our internal cloud knowledgebase, and this release is a culmination of work from 33 of our current staff and alumni going back to 2018. Some thoughts on the wiki, and why I pushed for us to release it:🧵
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WithSecure™ @WithSecure
It's cloudy today... and that’s a good thing.

Our Global Cloud team has officially released our internal cloud security documentation to the world.

Check it out at https://t.co/U0S3tz2Vwe

And if you want to help make cloud security a bit clearer, please contribute 🌤🌤

2:12 PM ∙ Jul 26, 2022
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Shashank Joshi @shashj
Fascinating profile. "The main source of this research consists of original, in-depth oral history interviews with former double agent “M.” He operated from the 1960s through the 1990s for the Dutch Security Service and the CIA against the [Stasi]"
tandfonline.comBetween a Rock and a Hard Place: The Precarious State of a Double Agent during the Cold WarWhile scholarly literature has paid attention to human intelligence professionalism from the perspective of the agent handler, we know relatively little about the precarious positions in which (dou...
6:59 PM ∙ Jul 26, 2022
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Fuad Alakbarov ⁠⁠ @DrAlakbarov
Thread. Photos of monuments from Yugoslavia known as spomeniks are often shared online, exoticised and wrenched from context.
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9:29 AM ∙ Jul 26, 2022
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Database here:

https://www.spomenikdatabase.org

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PUNS @ThePunnyWorld
My wife told me to take the spider out instead of killing him.

Went out. Had a few drinks. Nice guy. He's a web designer.

5:17 AM ∙ Jul 26, 2022
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Arrigo Triulzi @cynicalsecurity
Raymond Chen has started a new processor series on his blog covering AArch64 (aka arm64) - he has previously covered Alpha, MIPS, PowerPC, x86, etc. and he is an excellent writer.

devblogs.microsoft.comThe AArch64 processor (aka arm64), part 1: IntroductionMake it a double.
10:27 AM ∙ Jul 27, 2022
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Daphne Keller @daphnehk
Oh, wow. Facebook’s @OversightBoard is taking on a case about Internet Referral Units (IRUs). These are govt bodies, often police, who report content to platforms for removal — regardless of whether the content violates any laws. 1/ https://t.co/tKO44EpHfV
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Eli Sugarman @EliSugarman
While all @OversightBoard cases are important, this new case about a UK music video is particularly interesting. That's because it - and all copies of it posted by other accounts - were taken down not once but twice due to UK law enforcement requests. 1/5 https://t.co/XXIu2jRaIg
5:33 PM ∙ Jul 26, 2022
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The Adalah ruling highlights an unresolved tension between widely held goals for restricting online content and the constitutionally permissible means available to

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Wayne W. S. Hsieh @whsieh
This is an amazing piece by @ghostofchristo1. One thing that struck me about it was re-framing the anti-CCP protests in Hong Kong, which has such an outsized footprint in social media, but which were utterly crushed by the PRC security apparatus. 1/2
paroxysms.substack.comMass Affect: War and the Global Synchronisation of EmotionsOr, what’s wrong with The Current Thing?
12:09 AM ∙ Jul 26, 2022
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