marie
@mariekalb.bsky.social
she/her.
Red team/offensive security testing & privacy work. Most recently at Meta (left because…yikes). Previously Tall Poppy, Salesforce, NCC Group.
personal account - nothing here reflects the views of my employer.
Red team/offensive security testing & privacy work. Most recently at Meta (left because…yikes). Previously Tall Poppy, Salesforce, NCC Group.
personal account - nothing here reflects the views of my employer.
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see the funny thing is he is technically correct about the health benefits of breast milk for an infant, but it is specifically better in terms of transmission of antibodies to buff the immune system, which he thinks is made up nonsense
December 8, 2025 at 9:20 PM
see the funny thing is he is technically correct about the health benefits of breast milk for an infant, but it is specifically better in terms of transmission of antibodies to buff the immune system, which he thinks is made up nonsense
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"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
Holy shit.
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
Reuters reporting that new admin instructions on visas are if you worked at a platform in trust & safety or content moderation or on fact checking or online safety at an platform you *and your loved ones* are ineligible for H-1B visa.
www.reuters.com/world/us/tru...
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
"We can't allow fact checkers into the country" is late-stage USSR shit, real end-of-empire stuff
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Conning neurodivergent people into working for The Bad Guys is not the kind of equity we’re asking for. Historically, we don’t fare well in fascist societies, and it’s in our interest to fight back, not fall in line.
Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship is in fact bad because neurodivergent people participating in technofascism will not save us. Latest for @motherjones.com www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
The problem with Palantir's new neurodivergent fellowship
Critics have accused the company of being technofascist.
www.motherjones.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Conning neurodivergent people into working for The Bad Guys is not the kind of equity we’re asking for. Historically, we don’t fare well in fascist societies, and it’s in our interest to fight back, not fall in line.
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DUFFY: You should wear a tuxedo to your flight.
ALSO DUFFY: But the airport will be a gym.
ALSO DUFFY: But the airport will be a gym.
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
DUFFY: You should wear a tuxedo to your flight.
ALSO DUFFY: But the airport will be a gym.
ALSO DUFFY: But the airport will be a gym.
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I have a friend who is super into fitness who, years back, had done some videos about all of the many ways he is able to workout in an airport while waiting for a flight. It's not that hard. You don't need a designated workout area.
*internal screaming* I'm so fucking sick of these people. Just walk around the airport like a normal person if you need to stretch your legs my god.
Duffy: "My daughter pointed out a video from Dr. Paul Saladino where he was complaining that there are no pull up bars in airports, which prompted me to call Sec. Kennedy to give me Paul's number to start the conversation."
December 8, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I have a friend who is super into fitness who, years back, had done some videos about all of the many ways he is able to workout in an airport while waiting for a flight. It's not that hard. You don't need a designated workout area.
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i am never again going to let a conservative get away with complaining about the liberal nanny state because these assholes actually *are* the nagging, inappropriately intrusive boogeymen conservatives have been bleating about for my entire adult life, mind your fucking business
NEW: Dr. Oz is quite literally telling his federal employees to eat less.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services employees.
Dr. Oz Tells His Federal Employees to Eat Less
“You don't have to try every cookie on the holiday table,” wrote Mehmet Oz in an email to all Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services staffers.
www.wired.com
December 8, 2025 at 9:23 PM
i am never again going to let a conservative get away with complaining about the liberal nanny state because these assholes actually *are* the nagging, inappropriately intrusive boogeymen conservatives have been bleating about for my entire adult life, mind your fucking business
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we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
December 8, 2025 at 6:07 PM
we all got cowed into avoiding "virtue signaling" as if the public affirmation of socially agreed upon ethical principles was somehow cringey instead of a significant part of what a "society" even is. now all there's left is vice signaling, and it's reshaping society.
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i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.
@handsoffnyc.bsky.social is training thousands of New Yorkers on how to protect their neighbors from ICE. Today, they are currently running two trainings in Brooklyn and the Bronx, both of which hit capacity because interest was so high.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
This is the way, y’all—we protect each other, and we know it.
December 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
i’m at the brooklyn training. amazing energy.
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36 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️ 🎢 #AcademicSky 🇨🇦
December 6, 2025 at 7:02 PM
36 years ago today, 14 women, most of whom were studying engineering, were killed by an anti-feminist gun man at École Polytechnique in Montreal. I was a young graduate student studying physics at the time and I will never forget. #MontrealMassacre #NeverForget 🧪 👩🔬 ⚛️ 🎢 #AcademicSky 🇨🇦
The fact that I read the picture before the caption and immediately went “like the Grover book?”
Me: I have a book idea that might actually be commercial!
Agent: That's great!
Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book.
Agent: There it is.
Agent: That's great!
Me: The title is a reference to a classic 1971 Sesame Street Golden Book.
Agent: There it is.
HERE IS THE NEWS IN A MORE READABLE FORMAT
December 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
The fact that I read the picture before the caption and immediately went “like the Grover book?”
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This is why the professions of "data driven" decision making always make me ragey. Data doesn't drive. It doesn't even provide answers without a lot of analysis and human interaction. People often want easy answers though, even if they're wrong.
December 4, 2025 at 2:28 PM
This is why the professions of "data driven" decision making always make me ragey. Data doesn't drive. It doesn't even provide answers without a lot of analysis and human interaction. People often want easy answers though, even if they're wrong.
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This does not mean those accommodations are unfair.
What it means is that there are probably a lot more people who deserve accommodations but aren't able to get them because their parents have not been able to take the time and money to get them diagnosed.
What it means is that there are probably a lot more people who deserve accommodations but aren't able to get them because their parents have not been able to take the time and money to get them diagnosed.
December 4, 2025 at 2:21 PM
This does not mean those accommodations are unfair.
What it means is that there are probably a lot more people who deserve accommodations but aren't able to get them because their parents have not been able to take the time and money to get them diagnosed.
What it means is that there are probably a lot more people who deserve accommodations but aren't able to get them because their parents have not been able to take the time and money to get them diagnosed.
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I keep thinking about LSAC data saying students with accommodations get higher scores.
The most obvious possibility to me is not "some students unfairly get accommodations"; it is, "people with wealth are more likely to get accommodations."
The most obvious possibility to me is not "some students unfairly get accommodations"; it is, "people with wealth are more likely to get accommodations."
December 4, 2025 at 2:20 PM
I keep thinking about LSAC data saying students with accommodations get higher scores.
The most obvious possibility to me is not "some students unfairly get accommodations"; it is, "people with wealth are more likely to get accommodations."
The most obvious possibility to me is not "some students unfairly get accommodations"; it is, "people with wealth are more likely to get accommodations."
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what with the "shrug, eugenics isn't inherently bad" guy and the "accommodations have gone too far" defenders, it really feels like a rough week (or rougher week than usual) for disabled people, and I would politely ask the universe to KNOCK IT OFF
December 4, 2025 at 2:36 PM
what with the "shrug, eugenics isn't inherently bad" guy and the "accommodations have gone too far" defenders, it really feels like a rough week (or rougher week than usual) for disabled people, and I would politely ask the universe to KNOCK IT OFF
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And the hits keep coming for disabled folks, though this one has been a long time coming: #CDC employees are forbidden to WFH. There's no real reason for this, and it's especially cruel given that CDC offices were subject to gunfire just months ago.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/02/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/02/c...
CDC staff with disabilities feel stranded as HHS implements new policy
CDC is asking employees seeking telework as a reasonable accommodation to return to the office until their requests can be processed under a new HHS policy.
www.statnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:06 PM
And the hits keep coming for disabled folks, though this one has been a long time coming: #CDC employees are forbidden to WFH. There's no real reason for this, and it's especially cruel given that CDC offices were subject to gunfire just months ago.
www.statnews.com/2025/12/02/c...
www.statnews.com/2025/12/02/c...
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good Lord
December 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
good Lord
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Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.
New from 404 Media: ChatGPT told a violent stalker to continue running his misogynistic and threat-filled podcast despite the “haters,” and to visit more gyms to find women. The man stalked women in multiple states, including touching and following from work
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
www.404media.co/chatgpt-spot...
ChatGPT Told a Violent Stalker to Embrace the 'Haters,' Indictment Says
A newly filed indictment claims a wannabe influencer used ChatGPT as his "therapist" and "best friend" in his pursuit of the "wife type," while harassing women so aggressively they had to miss work a...
www.404media.co
December 3, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Will continue to bang this drum: this is the system university admins are cramming into every aspect of education. This is the system we are told “isn’t going anywhere” so we all have to adjust to it.
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I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
December 3, 2025 at 8:10 PM
I think part of What's Going On with billionaires is that the daily friction of interacting with normal people is part of what anchors people to the real world, and once you have enough money to buy your way out of the friction you can knock down a load-bearing column propping up your sanity.
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is it a good idea to
1) decide that a technology is militarily important,
2) deport as many people as you can who do it to your biggest rival for that technology,
and
3) also deport a bunch of other scientists who have nothing to do with it, but who now have a reason to be upset with you
1) decide that a technology is militarily important,
2) deport as many people as you can who do it to your biggest rival for that technology,
and
3) also deport a bunch of other scientists who have nothing to do with it, but who now have a reason to be upset with you
Apparently every Chinese academic in any field of “interest” to the PLA is getting their visa rejected for, more or less, presumptively being a spy. My friend’s visa is denied because she studies “neuroscience.” What she actually studies is jaw pain - but ICE is flatly rejecting all appeals.
Just got the word that the Trump administration is throwing a brilliant medical researcher friend of mine out of the country because they’re Chinese. Insane and unreal. Literally doing research in the US to help the US
December 2, 2025 at 9:33 PM
is it a good idea to
1) decide that a technology is militarily important,
2) deport as many people as you can who do it to your biggest rival for that technology,
and
3) also deport a bunch of other scientists who have nothing to do with it, but who now have a reason to be upset with you
1) decide that a technology is militarily important,
2) deport as many people as you can who do it to your biggest rival for that technology,
and
3) also deport a bunch of other scientists who have nothing to do with it, but who now have a reason to be upset with you
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Non-disabled people taking advantage of accommodations is an order of magnitude less of an issue than people with disabilities not being accommodated appropriately.
December 2, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Non-disabled people taking advantage of accommodations is an order of magnitude less of an issue than people with disabilities not being accommodated appropriately.
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can our journalism scientists create a form of news that Mike Johnson can read?
RAJU: If defenseless survivors were killed, would that constitute a violation of the laws of war?
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
MIKE JOHNSON: I'm not going to prejudge any of that. I was pretty busy yesterday. I didn't follow a lot of the news.
December 2, 2025 at 4:05 PM
can our journalism scientists create a form of news that Mike Johnson can read?
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Trump has never once in his life extemporaneously used the phrase "western civilization." He was once asked about western liberalism and thought they were talking about California Democrats. One of the more blatant tells for a Miller-written screed.
Trump: “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries … denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.“
November 28, 2025 at 5:13 AM
Trump has never once in his life extemporaneously used the phrase "western civilization." He was once asked about western liberalism and thought they were talking about California Democrats. One of the more blatant tells for a Miller-written screed.
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How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
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I have volumes of ugly tracts about how Jews, Germans, Finns, Hungarians, Poles, and "Papists" can't possibly acclimate to American life because they are hereditary degenerates.
What I always find fascinating about comments like this is that they have been made about literally every immigrant group throughout American history: Germans, Irish, Miller's Jewish ancestors, etc.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 2:19 PM
I have volumes of ugly tracts about how Jews, Germans, Finns, Hungarians, Poles, and "Papists" can't possibly acclimate to American life because they are hereditary degenerates.
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The You Look Like a Thing and I Love You ebook is on sale for $2.99 at most US ebook places!
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- King of the Poop Bug
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November 27, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The You Look Like a Thing and I Love You ebook is on sale for $2.99 at most US ebook places!
www.janelleshane.com/book-you-loo...
If you want a text-searchable copy of my book, now's your chance! Now you can find phrases such as:
- peeled rosemary
- Chaosrug
- King of the Poop Bug
- Silly Walks
www.janelleshane.com/book-you-loo...
If you want a text-searchable copy of my book, now's your chance! Now you can find phrases such as:
- peeled rosemary
- Chaosrug
- King of the Poop Bug
- Silly Walks