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• Post #4440511

  THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻 for August 4th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue@mastodon.social - Water systems in twelve US states targeted in a coordinated #cyberattack - The “escaped AI” story gets worse - Deliberately backdoored Android TV boxes belie a botnet - How to combat intrusive #AI - Hacker summer camp has begun! #BlackHat #BSidesLV #DEFCON34 - Far-right choads are making AI doxbots - A look at The #ReligiousPredatorTrackingProject - The @Bellingcat@mstdn.social Ch...

• Post #4371295

  THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠 for July 30th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue@mastodon.social - US #Cyclosporiasis cases pass 18k in 45 states with multiple #Cyclospora outbreaks now on record - #DRC & #Uganda #Ebola outbreak cases are at 3,360 and deaths at 1,487, with affected areas experiencing serious food shortages and starvation - #Covid summer surge is creeping up in multiple countries worldwide - Massive study review concludes #Covid19 infection increases a “wide range of auto...

• Post #4121210

  THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠 for July 23rd, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue@mastodon.social - #Cyclospora : new additional outbreak found (source as yet unknown); total cases climb past 12k in 41 states - #Ebola : 2400 confirmed cases with 100 deaths; WHO believes true numbers are 4x higher; 80% of new cases are outside known transmission chains - #H5N1 : livestock cases fall in Idaho but rise in Utah and Texas; more wildlife cases found in Australia - #Measles : cases-per-year hit 35-y...

• Post #4099662

  Absolutely brilliant reporting by @zadrozny@mastodon.social Via Bluesky: "Get in, there’s a new secret political influence campaign paying people to post. This time, a network targeting people in Michigan. First paid to post about how hard it is to afford groceries and gas, the accounts have gone hard in recent days, supporting Haley Stevens." https://www.ms.now/news/haley-stevens-michigan-senate-paid-influencer-campaign #Michigan #MichiganPolitics #Midterms #Abdul4Senate #Abdul...

• Post #3949189

  "The Marketside finding deserves its own paragraph, because of what CDC told NBC News on Friday morning: shredded lettuce sold in grocery stores or served in other restaurants is not affected. Taylor Farms’ own recall notice lists consumer retail bags of shredded iceberg lettuce and iceberg salad. Both statements are in the public record this weekend and they cannot both be true. Federal officials themselves told STAT that other brands, restaurants, retailers or distribution channels coul...

• Post #3925772

  THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠 for July 16th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue@mastodon.social - #Cyclosporiasis outbreak, the largest in US history, soars past 5000 cases over at least 31 states - #Ebola 's true infection count believed by the #WHO to be 2-4x official numbers - #H5N1 cause of death for over 1.2M hens in Utah, as #Aotearoa #NewZealand beings vaccinating their endangered birds - #Covid counts inch up worldwide as #SummerWave2026 starts its upward curve - 2020-2022 stud...

• Post #3668970

  THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠 for July 2nd, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue - Confirmed totals for the Ebola outbreak, current but with reporting delays: 1333 cases, 399 deaths - Healthcare workers at risk in the Ebola outbreak zone due to insufficient PPE; public health officials racing to combat misinformation and panic - PBS New Jersey warns cat guardians to keep felines inside due to H5N1 prevalence - Screwworm detections now up to 29 - RFK Jr. to end all Covid-19 Emergency Use Aut...

• Post #3668969

  THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻 for July 7th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue - Rockstar gets Lapsus$ hacker sentenced to indefinite hospitalization - Drama with The Intercept’s Signal tipline - Spain’s government bans #Palantir over national security concerns - #Facebook restarts tracking people off Facebook - #Wisconsin residents within 30 miles new #Fairweather data center suing #Microsoft over the "not only excessive, but consistent and pervasive" noise - So...

• Post #3403674

  #MasayoshiSon is truly the gift that keeps on giving. https://youtu.be/DtM0Cjb0dEU #GooseValue #EggsDoNotLayEggs #GoldenEggFactory #ItWasTheGooseThatCreatedValue #GooseValue71 #AI #SoftBank #Surrealism

• Post #3140357

  Video of @edzitron 's interview on Bloomberg linked in the quoted post (which is very much worth a watch!): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbKDmkJPVvI #AI

• Post #3140356

  THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠 for June 4th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue - 3 weeks after #WHO declaration, #Ebola outbreak spreads to 24 separate locations - @STAT on Ebola: "...as of 6/1 there are 633 confirmed & suspected... #Uganda is now up to 15 cases.” - Trump-admin-planned Ebola quarantine center (for Americans) in Kenya on hold after protests turn deadly - #hantavirus #ANDV cases remain at 13; five exposed passengers currently in gov't quarantine to le...

• Post #1909375

  THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠 for Apr. 30th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue - #HHS Director #RFKjr justifies defunding #mRNA vaccines by stating “Covid is gone” in testimony to Congress - Acting #CDC Director Jay Bhattacharya blocks publication of a report showing Covid vaccine efficacy - 78-year-old retired scientist and former aide to Dr. Fauci arrested by the FBI at gunpoint for “concealing federal records related to the debate about the origin” of Covid - #WHO removes its tweet from...

• Post #1852027

  THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠 for Apr. 9th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue - New OECD analysis of the economics of #LongCovid - How children may be at increased risk for BA.3.2 "Cicada" - New study: Covid transmission in families with children is common - #3Dprinting air purifiers - The connection between Covid and "everyday antifascism" - Eye symptoms may be a sign of higher-severity Long Covid - Journalist @juliametraux of @motherjonesmag is look...

• Post #1852025

  🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 🎯 Also: crypto, AI, and #theNetworkState have spent millions of dollars to manufacture what you think you know about Katie Porter. Don't give the technoligarchy free access to your mind.

• Post #1852023

  COVID-safe Bay Area Art, Performance, Livestreams, and Protests 🗓️ Week of April 19th - 25th 🗓️ by #CovidConscious SF journalist Charles S. Lewis III #CSL3 ✨Please help support this community service and the independent journalist who compiles it each week, even $1/month would help a great deal!✨ https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-safe-bay-155969598 #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafeArts #CovidSafeEvents #CovidSafeFun #BayArea #SanFrancisco #PerformingArts #Activism #CSBAA

• Post #1852022

  THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻 for Apr. 28th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue - #SANS trains #ICE now - How the US government evades data laws - #SamAltman apologizes for more #AI deaths - @lawfare argues that AI companies should have a duty to inform/protect (like therapists) - Claude AI deleted a whole company and said it knew what it did was wrong - More revenge #Microsoft 0-days are in the wild now - KitKat releases a Faraday cage - Violet's debrief after #BlackHat...

• Post #1640866

  THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY 🧑‍💻 for Apr. 14th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue - Researcher rebukes #Microsoft disclosure process and drops unpatched #0day online - The wild process of encrypting and decrypting biological material - 30 #WordPress plugins were bought for six figures and then backdoored - #Iran ’s hackers poke at US water/energy targets - #France disavows US #BigTech data control and moves from Microsoft to #Linux - #IBM to pay Trump admin $17M in punishment over i...

• Post #1361727

  THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠 for Apr. 16th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue - For those who stopped taking precautions: how to start again in #CovidYear7 - Processing the pandemic as a slow-motion Mass Casualty Incident - Study: #LongCovid leaves a distinct immune signature in the blood - Neurological damage from Covid can affect the brain's control over breath - How clean air benefits attendance and learning in school settings - High Covid transmission rates in #Delhi #India...

• Post #832851

  THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠 for Mar. 26th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue - Up to 60% of health care workers may have long COVID 4 years after infection - The dangers of repeat Covid infections - Discussion on highly mutated BA 3.2 ("Cicada") from experts & variant trackers - Study: COVID vaccines not tied to risk of sudden death - The unknowns of having Long Covid while pregnant - NHS workers with Long Covid feel abandoned by the system - The challenge o...

• Post #764876

  THREAT MODEL: COVID for Mar. 5th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue - It's International #LongCovidAwarenessMonth - A list of locations worldwide lighting landmarks in teal for #LongCovid this month - #PhysicsGirl @dianna is back with her first science video in 3 years! - US Covid hospitalizations, deaths 2x higher than RSV - #Australia : Covid “leading cause of acute respiratory infection related mortality” across the majority of 2023–2025 - New research: Covid can direct...

• Post #764873

  THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠 for Mar. 12th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue - #USmilitary study concludes 42% of #Covid infections lead to #LongCovid "regardless of initial disease severity” - RFK’s #MAHA Institute calls to eliminate all childhood vaccines - A new Long Covid treatment guide - Babies with Covid “develop more serious disease than those with RSV” - Trump admin removes more Covid datasets - #Aotearoa #NewZealand ’s new Covid report smothered by disinformation -...

• Post #764868

  THREAT MODEL: COVID 🦠 for Mar. 19th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue - #LongCovid affects 18 million Americans (that we know of) - Over 150,000 uncounted Covid deaths occurred 2020-2021 - Study of higher education during Covid shutdowns shows certain subjects are better taught online - #UK Covid Inquiry report due out today; UK in “much worse position” than before Covid - #RFKJr ’s ACIP/CDC vaccine advisory board is spreading a “report” that Covid vaccines cause a condition just...

• Post #713178

  THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY for Mar. 10th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue - New White House Cyber Strategy sounds a lot like the Iran “strategy” - @defcon ’s new Almanack is here to drink milk and combat authoritarianism - Misleading headline alert on all those Proton-FBI stories - Russian state-sponsored hackers linked to ongoing @signalapp & #WhatsApp phishing scheme targeting gov't officials, military personnel, journalists - The wild post-disaster #Chernobyl...

• Post #505269

  THREAT MODEL: CYBERSECURITY for Feb. 24th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue - People across the US are destroying #Flock cameras - #Discord ’s “new” ID check tool was on a US government server - #Arizona and #Colorado want ID scanning for all computer and phone use - @wikipedia banned #ArchiveToday for DDoS attacks - Some rando used #AI to hack #FortiGate - @financialtimes unmasked a Russian oil smuggling ring (from Kremlin-controlled Rosneft) through the ring’s use of a single e...

• Post #505268

  THREAT MODEL: COVID for Feb. 26th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue - Tulane: #Covid causes “persistent brain inflammation and small blood vessel injury, even after the virus was no longer detectable” - #LosAngeles recognizes #LongCovidAwarenessDay - #LongCovid “represents an unprecedented case of patient-led illness definition” - Retired ER doc pens plea for airborne Covid prevention in hospitals - A pilot for a Covid-19 Defense Toolkit for adults with #cancer - @bloomberg cover...

• Post #505267

  From @OlgaLautman : "Sweden confirms it intercepted a Russian drone approaching France’s nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle while it was in port. My latest…" https://olgalautman.substack.com/p/sweden-jams-russian-military-drone #Russia #Sweden #France #kleptocracy #MafiaState #ProjectRussia #ZonesOfInfluence

• Post #505263

  COVID-safe Bay Area Art, Performance, Livestreams, and Protests 🗓️ Week of March 1st - 7th 🗓️ by #CovidConscious SF journalist Charles S. Lewis III #CSL3 ✨ Please help support this community service and the independent journalist who compiles it each week, even $1/month would help a great deal! ✨ https://www.patreon.com/posts/covid-safe-bay-151912858 #Covid19 #CovidIsNotOver #CovidSafeArts #CovidSafeEvents #CovidSafeFun #BayArea #SanFrancisco #PerformingArts #Activism #CSBAA

• Post #374139

  THREAT MODEL: COVID for Feb. 19th, 2026 by independent journalist @violetblue@mastodon.social - #CovidCautious Olympian wins Gold and breaks record - #NIAID staffers ordered to remove #biodefense, #pandemic preparedness language on website - The musicians making concerts safer with Covid precautions ( #Deerhoof! ) - #FDA reverses stance to review Moderna #mRNA flu shot application - Study: Covid in 39% of hospital air samples during outbreaks - France sees its first court case over death...