Liz Katz
@lzkatz.bsky.social
www.gocomics.com/doonesbury/2...
Code at the end has a 404 error, but here's a list:
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Code at the end has a 404 error, but here's a list:
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Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for May 18, 2025 | GoComics
Read Doonesbury—a comic strip by creator Garry Trudeau—for today, May 18, 2025, and check out other great comics, too!
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May 18, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Code at the end has a 404 error, but here's a list:
pen.org/banned-words...
Code at the end has a 404 error, but here's a list:
pen.org/banned-words...
I absolutely hate it when a News article has "could" or "might" in the headline.
April 13, 2025 at 2:28 PM
I absolutely hate it when a News article has "could" or "might" in the headline.
While Musk wants to see our financial and personal data, he refuses to share his own.
March 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
While Musk wants to see our financial and personal data, he refuses to share his own.
This is frightening to me on an even more personal level than usual. This "comes as Musk and his cohorts are publicly threatening social security benefits, citing unsubstantiated claims of mass fraud."
www.wired.com/story/doge-o...
www.wired.com/story/doge-o...
These Are the 10 DOGE Operatives Inside the Social Security Administration
The team working at the Social Security Administration appears to be among the largest DOGE units deployed to any government agency.
www.wired.com
March 14, 2025 at 4:00 PM
This is frightening to me on an even more personal level than usual. This "comes as Musk and his cohorts are publicly threatening social security benefits, citing unsubstantiated claims of mass fraud."
www.wired.com/story/doge-o...
www.wired.com/story/doge-o...
Pay attention!!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/619...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/619...
Vulgar Rangers hat selling big on secondary market as other team hats removed from MLB online shop
Rangers hat becomes valuable collectors item as others now poised to follow suit
www.nytimes.com
March 14, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Pay attention!!
www.nytimes.com/athletic/619...
www.nytimes.com/athletic/619...
Courtesy of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, how to make yourself less valuable to Meta.
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How to Change Your Meta Settings | Make yourself less valuable to Meta. Brought to you by Last Week Tonight with John Oliver.
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March 3, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Courtesy of Last Week Tonight With John Oliver, how to make yourself less valuable to Meta.
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Reposted by Liz Katz
I am in Canada, but will do something (still sorting out what, I admit). So many of my friends and colleagues are under threat or having their work actively dismantled. We can’t be complacent either. I don’t think the public understands what they are losing, and that isn’t limited to the USA 🧪
We are experiencing an assault on science unparalleled by anything I’ve seen in my life. It’s not one issue or another anymore, the entire institution is under attack by the most powerful individuals in the country.
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
This Friday, where will you be?
standupforscience2025.org
March 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I am in Canada, but will do something (still sorting out what, I admit). So many of my friends and colleagues are under threat or having their work actively dismantled. We can’t be complacent either. I don’t think the public understands what they are losing, and that isn’t limited to the USA 🧪
Took the money I'll have from canceling my @washingtonpost.com subscription yesterday and set up a recurring donation to @apnews.com .
#freepress #freespeeach
#freepress #freespeeach
February 27, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Took the money I'll have from canceling my @washingtonpost.com subscription yesterday and set up a recurring donation to @apnews.com .
#freepress #freespeeach
#freepress #freespeeach
Reposted by Liz Katz
The headline makes the point. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u... by @peterbakernyt.bsky.social, a former Moscow correspondent.
February 27, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The headline makes the point. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/u... by @peterbakernyt.bsky.social, a former Moscow correspondent.
I'm looking for a charity that supports litigation for a free press. This one keeps popping up. Anyone have an opinion? #freedomofspeech #FreedomOfThePress
www.rcfp.org
www.rcfp.org
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
The Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press provides free legal guides and resources to help reporters understand their rights.
www.rcfp.org
February 26, 2025 at 9:50 PM
I'm looking for a charity that supports litigation for a free press. This one keeps popping up. Anyone have an opinion? #freedomofspeech #FreedomOfThePress
www.rcfp.org
www.rcfp.org
Canceling my Washington Post subscription today.
Bezos Orders Washington Post Opinion Section to Embrace ‘Personal Liberties and Free Markets’ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
Bezos Orders Washington Post Opinion Section to Embrace ‘Personal Liberties and Free Markets’ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
Bezos’ Directive for Washington Post Opinion Pages Leads to Editor David Shipley’s Exit
David Shipley, The Post’s opinion editor, is resigning after trying to persuade Jeff Bezos to reconsider the new direction.
www.nytimes.com
February 26, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Canceling my Washington Post subscription today.
Bezos Orders Washington Post Opinion Section to Embrace ‘Personal Liberties and Free Markets’ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
Bezos Orders Washington Post Opinion Section to Embrace ‘Personal Liberties and Free Markets’ www.nytimes.com/2025/02/26/b...
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I'll be trying this out today
I'll be trying this out today
Analysis | Delete your digital history from dozens of companies with this app
Americans finally have some privacy rights. Permission Slip makes telling companies to delete or not sell your data simple. Really.
wapo.st
February 21, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I'll be trying this out today
I'll be trying this out today
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe...
Please read about his Early Life.
Please read about his Early Life.
Adolphe Sax - Wikipedia
en.m.wikipedia.org
February 20, 2025 at 8:45 PM
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolphe...
Please read about his Early Life.
Please read about his Early Life.
Reposted by Liz Katz
FBI cancels community outreach programs for seniors
February 17, 2025 at 11:11 PM
FBI cancels community outreach programs for seniors
Pennies cost 3.7 cents each to make. Canceling them will force everyone to move to nickels, which cost 13.8 cents ea. to make. Making the extra nickels we will need will actually cost the US $78M more than if we don't cancel pennies.
February 14, 2025 at 3:33 PM
Pennies cost 3.7 cents each to make. Canceling them will force everyone to move to nickels, which cost 13.8 cents ea. to make. Making the extra nickels we will need will actually cost the US $78M more than if we don't cancel pennies.
Reposted by Liz Katz
The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.
DOGE’s Website Is Just One Big Twitter Ad
The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.
www.wired.com
February 13, 2025 at 7:03 PM
The source code for the new Department for Government Efficiency’s “official US government website” points to X as its primary source of authority while sharing links to the site sends users to x.com.
Reposted by Liz Katz
The tech giant claims they removed several events from Google Calendar because maintaining their presence wasn't "sustainable"—but critics are crying foul.
Google Blasted After Removing Pride Month And Black History Month From Calendar App
Truly shameful.
www.comicsands.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:05 PM
The tech giant claims they removed several events from Google Calendar because maintaining their presence wasn't "sustainable"—but critics are crying foul.
Trump fires USAID inspector general one day after blistering report
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Trump fires USAID inspector general one day after blistering report
Paul K. Martin, appointed by President Joe Biden in December 2023, was informed of his dismissal through an email from the White House.
www.washingtonpost.com
February 12, 2025 at 7:29 PM
Trump fires USAID inspector general one day after blistering report
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Reposted by Liz Katz
I had missed DOJ's final rule (re: selling bulk sensitive data) cites our reporting into the commercial surveillance of military & intelligence personnel + Chinese black markets. page 11/421!
reporting by @dmehro.bsky.social + @agreenberg.bsky.social + me. also @suzannesmalley.bsky.social! ☺️
reporting by @dmehro.bsky.social + @agreenberg.bsky.social + me. also @suzannesmalley.bsky.social! ☺️
![Additional open-source reporting released since issuance of the NPRM
underscores the increasingly urgent risks posed by countries of concern obtaining access
to government-related data or bulk U.S. sensitive personal data. For example, on
November 22, 2024, cybersecurity researchers presented their findings after monitoring a
collection of black-market services that recruit and pay insiders from a wide range of
Chinese information technology (“IT”), technology, telecom, and other companies, to sell
their access to individuals’ data to online buyers. As a result, according to the
researchers, these black-market services create an ecosystem for the public to pay to
query individuals’ data, including call records, bank accounts, hotel bookings, flight
records, passport images, and location data.14
On November 19, 2024, WIRED released the results of an investigation in which
they bought the digital advertising data and location information on phones in Germany
12 Suzanne Smalley, US Company’s Geolocation Data Transaction Draws Intense Scrutiny in Germany,
The Record (July 18, 2024), https://therecord.media/germany-geolocation-us-data-broker
[https://perma.cc/ME9F-TAQ7] (citing joint reporting by the German public broadcaster Bayerische
Rundfunk and digital civil rights opinion news site netzpolitik.org). 13 Id. 14 Andy Greenberg, China’s Surveillance State Is Selling Citizen Data as a Side Hustle, WIRED (Nov. 21,
2024), https://www.wired.com/story/chineses-surveillance-state-is-selling-citizens-data-as-a-side-hustle/
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![from a U.S. data broker and used it to track the movements of United States Government
contractors, intelligence personnel, and soldiers. 15 The investigation uncovered and
tracked “38,474 location signals from up to 189 devices inside Büchel Air Base, a highsecurity German installation where as many as 15 U.S. nuclear weapons are reportedly
stored in underground bunkers”; 191,415 signals from up to 1,257 devices at Grafenwöhr
Training Area, “where thousands of U.S. troops are stationed and have trained Ukrainian
soldiers on Abrams tanks”; and 164,223 signals from nearly 2,000 devices at Ramstein
Air Base, “which supports some U.S. drone operations.”16 The researchers observed
patterns that went “far beyond just understanding the working hours of people on base,”
including “map[ping] key entry and exit points, pinpointing frequently visited areas, and
even tracing personnel to their off-base routines.”17 As WIRED explained, “foreign
governments could use this data to identify individuals with access to sensitive areas;
terrorists or criminals could decipher when U.S. nuclear weapons are least guarded; or
spies and other nefarious actors could leverage embarrassing information for
blackmail.”18
Similarly, on October 28, 2024, journalists found that “the highly confidential
movements of U.S. President Joe Biden, presidential rivals Donald Trump and Kamala
Harris, and other world leaders can be easily tracked online through a fitness app that
their bodyguards use,” which tracked their precise location data even when they used the
15 Dhruv Mehrotra & Dell Cameron, Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear
Vaults and Brothels in Germany, WIRED (Nov. 19, 2024), https://www.wired.com/story/phone-data-ussoldiers-spies-nuclear-germany/ [https://perma.cc/P5H6-3DFB].](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:o4pdps2jkn7uhrdgadni7djk/bafkreihulukati2l3nqm2qunecdzd45kq46ni22bpqc6xrb45wddho3gj4@jpeg)
February 12, 2025 at 2:36 PM
I had missed DOJ's final rule (re: selling bulk sensitive data) cites our reporting into the commercial surveillance of military & intelligence personnel + Chinese black markets. page 11/421!
reporting by @dmehro.bsky.social + @agreenberg.bsky.social + me. also @suzannesmalley.bsky.social! ☺️
reporting by @dmehro.bsky.social + @agreenberg.bsky.social + me. also @suzannesmalley.bsky.social! ☺️
5calls.org is an easy app to use to make calls, but this article shares other ways.
Six ways to send a message to your representatives
Let politicians know what you want.
www.theverge.com
February 12, 2025 at 1:13 AM
5calls.org is an easy app to use to make calls, but this article shares other ways.
Reposted by Liz Katz
“This afternoon AP’s reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing.” www.ap.org/the-definiti...
AP statement on Oval Office access | The Associated Press
The Associated Press issued this statement on Tuesday from Executive Editor Julie Pace: As a global news organization, The Associated Press informs
www.ap.org
February 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
“This afternoon AP’s reporter was blocked from attending an executive order signing.” www.ap.org/the-definiti...
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Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“
February 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Associated Press: “Today we were informed by the White House that if AP did not align its editorial standards with President Donald Trump’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, AP would be barred from accessing an event in the Oval Office.“
The deleted CDC pages have been saved here. It doesn't replace the canceled programs, but it might help somebody. (Thank you Deborah Kelch.)
acasignups.net/25/02/07/lin...
acasignups.net/25/02/07/lin...
Links to archived versions of every CDC.gov page available pre-purge (Part 1 of 15)
UPDATE: I've converted the entire CDC.Gov website archive index into a new page with an alphabetical drop-down menu for easier navigation here: CDC Website As horrific as it is that the Trump/Musk Adm...
acasignups.net
February 11, 2025 at 8:04 PM
The deleted CDC pages have been saved here. It doesn't replace the canceled programs, but it might help somebody. (Thank you Deborah Kelch.)
acasignups.net/25/02/07/lin...
acasignups.net/25/02/07/lin...
This is a newsletter from the Neuron. Please read the deep fakes article. I think it very important to be prepared.
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PLUS: 7 o3-mini prompts to learn anything...
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February 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
This is a newsletter from the Neuron. Please read the deep fakes article. I think it very important to be prepared.
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