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Dwight (DB) 🤔 🇨🇦

The Paradox of Tolerance disappears
if you look at tolerance, not as a moral standard, but as a social contract.

If someone does not abide by terms of the contract, they're not covered by it.

In other words: since the intolerant are not following the rules of the social contract of mutual tolerance, and have broken the terms of the contract, they are no longer covered by it, and their intolerance should NOT be tolerated.

inspired by "Tolerance is not a moral precept" by Yonatan Zunger

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Sal De Gusto

I am 60, I am #Vegan, and I just learned how to make chocolate from scratch.

This has been kept from us. It is eye-blinkingly easy. The effort : reward ratio is beyond what you can imagine, because everything you can imagine starts and ends with chocolate.

Nestlé, Hershey, Mars you motherfuckers, now I know Kung Fu.

Edit: Adding the recipe I started with. Sorry I didn’t put it here in the first place, we learn. asaucykitchen.com/homemade-cho

Photo of some homemade chocolate in a glass container, four plain cubes, one with shredded almonds.
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Doc Impossible

*Long, long sigh*

Trials for an mRNA vaccine for pancreatic cancer have shown a 75% cure rate, when administered after diagnosis. Only 2 patients had their cancer return.

Life expectancy after diagnosis with PanCan, under conventional treatment, is less than a year.

My dad died from pancreatic cancer in 2018.

Im not going to do an explainer thread for why this is an incredibly big deal today. You can ask someone else, or read the study for yourself.

I miss my daddy.

nature.com/articles/s41586-024

NatureRNA neoantigen vaccines prime long-lived CD8+ T cells in pancreatic cancer - NatureIn a phase 1 trial, patients with pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma who were treated with surgery and bespoke neoantigen mRNA vaccines combined with anti-PD-L1 and chemotherapy exhibited marked long-lived persistence of neoantigen-specific CD8+ T cell clones, which correlated with prolonged recurrence-free survival at a 3.2-year follow-up.
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BrianKrebs

Drop what you are doing and read this incredible story from Wired, if you can. After that, come back here.

wired.com/story/edward-coristi

It mentions that a 19 y/o man who's assisting Musk's team and who has access to sensitive government systems is Edward Coristine. Wired said Coristine, who apparently goes by the nickname "Big Balls," runs a number of companies, including one called Tesla.Sexy LLC

"Tesla.Sexy controls dozens of web domains, including at least two Russian-registered domains. One of those domains, which is still active, offers a service called Helfie, which is an AI bot for Discord servers targeting the Russian market.While the operation of a Russian website would not violate US sanctions preventing Americans doing business with Russian companies, it could potentially be a factor in a security clearance review."

The really interesting part for me is Coristine's work history at a company called Path Networks, which Wired describes generously as a company "known for hiring reformed black-hat hackers."

"At Path Network, Coristine worked as a systems engineer from April to June of 2022, according to his now-deleted LinkedIn resume. Path has at times listed as employees Eric Taylor, also known as Cosmo the God, a well-known former cybercriminal and member of the hacker group UGNazis, as well as Matthew Flannery, an Australian convicted hacker whom police allege was a member of the hacker group LulzSec. It’s unclear whether Coristine worked at Path concurrently with those hackers, and WIRED found no evidence that either Coristine or other Path employees engaged in illegal activity while at the company."

The founder of Path is a young man named Marshal Webb. I wrote about Webb back in 2016, in a story about a DDoS defense company he co-founded called BackConnect LLC. Working with Doug Madory, we determined that BackConnect had a long history of hijacking Internet address space that it didn't own.

krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/dd

Incidentally, less than 24 hours after that story ran, my site KrebsOnSecurity.com was hit with the biggest DDoS attack the Internet had ever seen at the time. That sustained attack kept my site offline for nearly 4 days.

krebsonsecurity.com/2016/09/kr

Here's the real story behind why Coristine only worked at Path for a few months. He was fired after Webb accused him of making it known that one of Path's employees was Curtis Gervais, a serial swatter from Canada who was convicted of perpetrating dozens of swattings and bomb threats -- including at least two attempts on our home in 2014. [BTW the aforementioned Eric Taylor was convicted of a separate (successful) swatting against our home in 2013.

krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/ca

krebsonsecurity.com/2017/02/me

In the screenshot here, we can see Webb replying to a message from Gervais stating that "Edward has been terminated for leaking internal information to the competitors."

Wired cited experts saying it's unlikely Coristine could have passed a security clearance needed to view the sensitive government information he now has access to.

Want to learn more about Path? Check out the website pathtruths.com/

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Andrea Junker :verified:

Allow me to address the elephant in the room:

The Trump administration is not setting the course for a four-year term.

The Trump administration is setting the course for an everlasting dictatorship.

Are we all clear on this?

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Galen

Leaving Instagram for @pixelfed and trying @Mastodon as well—even though I never really used twitter or threads. Billionaires don’t care about privacy or foreign threats. They care about owning us so they can sell our information and use it to train ai models. The TikTok banning was a clear display of the power these oligarchs have to lobby the United States government. Now, they’re working together under the trump administration as we descend into full-blown fascism.

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