"I have always been fascinated by the law of reversed effort. Sometimes I call it ‘the backwards law’. When you try to stay on the surface of the water, you sink; but when you try to sink, you float … insecurity is the result of trying to be secure … contrariwise, salvation and sanity consist in the most radical recognition that we have no way of saving ourselves."
– Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity
"As CMIYC isn't running at DEFCON this year, Password Village has worked with In.security to bring Jabbercracky to DEFCON to fill the void this year!
This will be a 48-hour event running from 12:00 noon on Friday 8th - 12:00 noon on Sunday 10th August."
Ignominious #Bill Passed By an Inglorious Body. #Millions will lose #health #insurance, BUT top 1% - #billionaires - get a big #tax break. #Senate Votes to Comfort the Comfortable and Afflict the #Afflicted. The bill #SENATE #republicans #maga #JDVance passed on Tuesday is probably going to kill a lot of people...the cuts to #Medicaid and #AffordableCareAct projected to leave 12M #Americans newly #uninsured. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/an-ignominious-bill-passed-by-an-inglorious-body-afflict-afflicted-comfort-comfortable-trump-republicans-medicaid-bbb #SNAP #schools #education #food #insecurity #politics #GOP
Syria faces wheat crisis as drought and war push millions toward hunger https://www.byteseu.com/1142299/ #and #as #Conflicts #Crisis #decades #devastating #drought #faces #follows #Food #harvests #hunger #insecurity #Kurdish #million #millions #more #people #producers #push #pushing #rival #scrambling #shrinking #Syria #Syrian #than #toward #War #wheat #worst
This Disease Affects Millions. Trump May Kill the Cure.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DzoD1O9wf4Y
Researchers recently made a breakthrough that could help cure epilepsy — but Trump's science cuts could completely eliminate this work and jeopardize everything...
“The act of deporting people who in many cases have left their own land for reasons of extreme #poverty, #insecurity, #exploitation, #persecution or serious deterioration of the #environment, damages the #dignity of many men and women, and of entire families, and places them in a state of particular vulnerability and defenselessness,” #PopeFrancis wrote in a recent letter to U.S. bishops.
#Inflation fears drove much of the downturn. Respondents expect inflation a year from now to run at a 5% rate, up 0.1 percentage point from the mid-month reading & a 0.7 percentage point acceleration from February. 
At the 5-year horizon, the outlook now is for 4.1%, the first time the survey has had a reading above 4% since February 1993.
#Trump #economy #tariffs #jobs #insecurity #trumpcession #recession
https://data.sca.isr.umich.edu/
#Consumer sentiment worsens as #inflation fears grow, University of Michigan survey shows
It was the 3rd consecutive decrease & stretched across party lines & income groups, survey dir Joanne Hsu said.
…In addition to worries about the current state of affairs, the survey's index of consumer expectations tumbled to 52.6, down 17.8% from 1 month ago & 32% for the same period in 2024.
#Trump #economy #tariffs #jobs #insecurity #trumpcession #recession
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/28/consumer-sentiment-worsens-as-inflation-fears-grow-university-of-michigan-survey-shows.html
#US #stocks are falling steeply Friday following discouraging updates on inflation & how much US households may be willing to spend given all the #uncertainty about #Trump’s escalating #TradeWar.
The S&P 500 was down 1.5% in midday trading. That would make this the 5th losing week in the last 6 for the index….
The Dow was down 520 points, or 1.2%, as of 11:30AM ET, & the Nasdaq composite was 2.1% lower.
#economy #tariffs #jobs #insecurity #trumpcession #recession
https://apnews.com/article/market-rates-trump-tariffs-91a5088aa36966aaf5e0971147a66930
Due to watchTowr's excellent analysis - aptly named "Get FortiRekt" - I am tempted to include an additional column in my bingo sheet that says "Node.js used for critical functions", I mean wtf, a 53K LoC Node monolith? https://labs.watchtowr.com/get-fortirekt-i-am-the-super_admin-now-fortios-authentication-bypass-cve-2024-55591/
#cve-2025-55591 #insecurity-appliance
For the German #AfD it's the best kind of #Terrorism they could only hope for.
Fueled by their own (and likewise) #Propaganda, executed by a non-white foreign national and seeding #Fear & #Insecurity during an election campaign. Moreover the reaction of state #Authorities and (almost all) political #Parties here ignores the (online) #Radicalisation of the #Terror - suspect and focuses on #Migration & #Surveillance.
It's so effective, I'm afraid we will even see more of this shit soon.
#PrecisionAI brought to you by #PaloAlto. LOL kannste Dir nich ausdenken. #AI #KI #security #insecurity
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/addy-ahuja_prismacloud-paloaltonetworks-awsreinvent-activity-7269829464266539008-wSl3
@ai6yr i think about this graphic a lot, too
thanks to @dannotdaniel for making me aware of this:
look at this picture
distill it in your mind
it is from 2016
this is the entirety of the #MAGA movement, their driving impetus in policy and deranged venting, the central axis across which all of our fates depend upon:
#american #white #male #insecurity
thus their #misogyny and their #racism
#vote #harris #election2024!
#Harris pivots to name drop all the #Republicans who are now backing her, including former vice president #DickCheney.
#Trump, Mr. #Insecurity, is driven totally crazy when #Democrats bring up his fmr advisers who have turned on him, particularly #JohnKelly, his fmr chief of staff. #KamalaHarris is doing just that tonight -- bringing up all the former administration officials who have spoken out against Trump.
Whiny baby says, “I fired most of those people, not so graciously” 
Trump to think that Harris is getting bigger crowds. It triggers Trump's inadequacy/insecurity-driven, dysfunctional competitiveness to think that people 'like' Harris more.” https://tinyurl.com/43vc9rw5 #trump #Insecurity #press
The #UnitedNations has suspended food distribution in the southern #Gaza city of #Rafah due to lack of supplies and #Insecurity.
It also said no #AidTrucks have entered the territory in the past two days via a floating pier set up by the US for sea deliveries, and warned that the $320m (£250m) project may fail unless #Israel starts providing the conditions #humanitarian groups need to operate safely.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/21/un-suspends-food-aid-in-rafah-over-lack-of-supplies-and-insecurity
#IsraelHamasWar #Palestine #OPT
Create Insecurity
Whenever possible, go beyond the expertise of your enemy to cause confusion.
3/n
The "Costs of War" project, based at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, estimates that the total death toll in post-9/11 wars – including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iraq, Syria and Yemen – could be at least 4.5-4.7 million:
Stephanie Savell (2023) https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/papers/2023/IndirectDeaths
Blair is one of the Western leaders who shares complicity for this appalling death toll: https://mondediplo.com/2003/07/01ramonet
State lying has been thrown down the memory hole by media outlets who welcome him with open arms.
(to be continued)
