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Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
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Rizzler. 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. Ham. Currently in N. Alabama :( #veteran #atheist #antifascist #natsec 🌻🌻#ActuallyAutistic #nobot
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Where the Axe is Buried by Ray Nayler
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Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQd4JdFP0d0

Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange
Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange

Felt this way in 2016 and still feel this way today. 8 years of feeling all this, all the time.
#Trump #fascism

Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange

Here is my book rating system:
⭐⭐️⭐⭐️⭐⭐️⭐⭐️⭐⭐️ = insanely good, unique, get it!
⭐⭐️⭐⭐️⭐⭐️⭐⭐️ = very good, highly recommend
⭐⭐️⭐⭐️⭐⭐️ = solid read, recommend
⭐⭐️⭐⭐️ = badly written/edited, don't recommend
⭐⭐️ = Didn't finish, horrible, burn before reading


Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQd4JdFP0d0

Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange

Just imagine...in a few months there are going to be thousands of old retired people like me trying to learn linux because their perfectly good old computers can't run Win11. And from what I hear it's probably best they don't. I'm f'ing DONE with Microsoft. But this is going to be a nightmare for a lot of people helping their parents or grandparents get the hang of things. Luckily I found an old-timey-1990s-looking interactive web tutorial that is just the thing to ease into it. To my surprise it turns out having been a DOS user decades ago (didn't even have Windows!) is coming in handy once again.

Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange

So Win10 support is ending soon so I did a trial run of Ubuntu to see how it feels. Mostly things ran ok. Little bit of a learning curve with the UI. Large learning curve for LibreOffice. Then I start reading the docs and discover there is no firewall. I look for Linux firewalls and get confused immediately because the apps sound like they are their own Linux distros. And it looks like I would have to learn a lot of command line stuff. On the ok side of things, I did find apps for things I use such as Plex, Private Internet Access (VPN), and my printer loaded up just fine. I'm too old for this shit

Ok I've got the firewall figured out and found the Ubuntu documentation for it. I was confused by the UI documentation. Problem solved.

Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange

β€œThere is a lot of H5N1 virus on these farms,” says Seema Lakdawala, an associate professor of microbiology and immunology at the Emory University School of Medicine and senior author of the new study, which has yet to go through scientific peer review. β€œIt is everywhere. We need to be expanding biosafety measures, biosecurity measures and trying to control where the virus is.”

The findingβ€”that the virus is β€œeverywhere”—fits with what has been seen in previously published work, says Richard Webby, who studies host-microbe interactions at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. β€œIt’s a ridiculously contaminated environment,” Webby says.

So far no human-adapted mutation has taken off, but "with so much virus on affected farms, there’s a chance that future human-oriented mutations could arise"

We don't need another pandemic while malicious, anti-science lunatics are in charge of U.S. public health.
#H5N1 #HPAI #BirdFlu #dairy
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bird-flu-could-be-spreading-through-the-air-on-dairy-farms-preliminary-study/

Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange

No civilian needs this kind of firepower. Yes, I'm a veteran, I've shot all kinds of U.S. and foreign military weapons of all calibers. I've owned guns for sport, hunting, and self defense.

When I worked in DOD I recall a weird time when a wave of dick measuring swept through my office when all the civilian men were buying ludicrous assault weapons for no reason than to feel like their sense of manhood was fulfilled for each other's approval. Nobody needed those guns for anything. It was a result of a uniquely American, manufactured gun worship that advertising has successfully linked into many men's sense of their own maleness. Kind of pathetic in my opinion.

No civilian needs this kind of firepower. We had limitations on 2A before. We even have some limitations on it now. We can do more. Take military style assault weapons off the market.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/ap-us-med-cdc-campus-shooting_n_689a5b9ee4b0be3f5edc7d3b

Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
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re: Medical Death Discussion

@pixelpusher220@dmv.community Let me just clarify there are a short list of prion diseases. The one in the video is due to a genetic disorder, not from eating anything. But I guess if someone literally ate the brain matter from a diseased person, yeah, the prions would be there and could start converting one's own normal prions into the mutant state. Yuck

Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
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https://www.thedailybeast.com/why-trumps-chilling-flex-of-brute-force-is-so-disturbing/

Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange

We all know Trump is in the Epstein investigation but I don't want to believe that of the thousand or so FBI people they had combing through the files to look for names, not one of them would turn whistleblower immediately if they found something in there substantiating and corroborating the claims that Trump raped Epstein/Maxwell's trafficked girls. There's no way that out of all the people who've seen these files by now, not one of them would have blown that whistle, especially after living through the total subversion and humiliation of the agency.

Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange

Trump is doing all this tariff shit, FOR NO REASON. He's insane and he's damaging what was an economy humming along pretty well until Jan 20. Best recovery of any country after the pandemic. All that is gone. No reason for it other than Trump being a deranged and very stupid old adjudicated rapist, 34-count convicted felon, and pedophile.

Side note:
#ICE must be destroyed and #DHS must be disbanded.

Nonya "Fucking Bitch" Bidniss
@Nonya_Bidniss@infosec.exchange

Let's not forget that all of these people and Elon Musk need to be investigated for crimes once we kick fascist ass https://projects.propublica.org/elon-musk-doge-tracker/