"Time is on Russia’s side, Russia’s economy is completely invulnerable to sanctions and is booming, Moscow has true friends and allies who support it, a massive, untapped manpower pool, and Putin is politically unassailable."

https://simplicius76.substack.com/p/new-raft-of-articles-tighten-the?publication_id=1351274&post_id=138959073&isFreemail=true&r=lp6h7

Last day for authors to submit books to the Based Book Sale…

https://thefederalist.com/2023/11/20/conservative-guerrilla-marketing-like-the-big-based-book-sale-is-how-we-fight-leftist-gatekeepers/

How much US troops currently “glow in the dark”.
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Neocons finally admit it

Israel-Palestine war: How Meta is once again failing Palestinians - Nadim Nashif

"Last month, Meta disabled the Facebook page of Quds News Network, a prominent Palestinian outlet with around 10 million followers, along with a number of other Palestinian media pages. The state of Israel, which routinely pressures social media companies in an effort to control the narrative, quickly took to X (formerly Twitter) to post a seemingly inconspicuous “thank you”.

The Palestinian flag emoji, for instance, has been flagged as “potentially offensive” by Instagram, resulting in it being hidden. Another “technical error” encountered by Palestinian users on Facebook and Instagram prevented the display of images of Palestinian victims in hospitals, because they were deemed to be “nude” pictures.

Among the most significant and disturbing examples was Meta’s inexplicable mistranslation of innocuous Arabic phrases in the bios of some Palestinian Instagram users to add the word “terrorist”. The company later attributed this to an interpretive error."

https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/israel-palestine-war-meta-palestinians-failing-again

t.me/robinmg

Elon Musk comments on the victory of Javier Milei.

"Prosperity is ahead for Argentina"

Thank you Elon, very cool!

Excellent breakdown of the Rockefeller / Gates model of 20th century population control tactics.

https://www.markmallett.com/blog/the-war-on-creation-part-ii/

Science Unshackled: Restoring Causality to a World in Chaos is now available in paperback, Kindle and PDF. Get yours today https://matthewehret.substack.com/p/my-new-book-has-now-hit-the-press

Legal Cybersecurity advices (offensive/defensive)

The name of this field is extremely broad, the realm of cybersecurity is just as large as any other in tech but tends to be even more dynamic and fast paced. For those willing to study and learn cybersecurity, there are several paths you can choose from and several places to learn

Today, we're going through two of what are considered some of the biggest CyberSec platforms. Hack The Box and Try Hack Me. The reason being these two are the best entry-level to advanced platforms that provide several different modules and courses as well as virtual machines for you to practice while learning. The platforms are also very affordable compared to other options (NEITHER IS FREE, how to get discounts bellow)

Both platforms have modules covering basic to advanced techniques of both offense and defense, which you can choose freely from, some modules about specific things might not be available at a 'pro' level of knowledge but provide a reasonable understanding of most topics

Hack The Box - The platform has 3 main 'services' or sub-platforms if you will.
— Academy: which has courses that are rated by difficulty, proficiency and type. The modules are very well built with good explanations and most will not be too difficult, if they are, HTB also has a forum where users can seek help.
Students can apply for student subnoscriptions which are cheaper and will give you access to modules up to 'Tier 2' (there are 5 tiers, from 0 to 4) as well as unlimited uses of their virtual machine used for practice (called 'attack box')

— Labs: Labs is the competitive/practical side of the platform, more specifically CTFs and 'Boxes' which are virtual machines meant for you to attack and find the flags to prove your progress. Soma companies keep an eye on Labs and also create their own challenges in order to find people with the skills they seek and get them familiarized with their systems in some cases. You can form teams and create your own boxes if you have a rank that's high enough

— CTF: As the name suggests its a competition-oriented sub-platform, some of these CTFs will be restricted to college students only, others are open or private, you can form teams and do everything else as in Labs, the main difference being prizes in money for the CTFs among other perks

ATTENTION: None of these three above are free, but considering the alternatives which will sometimes charge you for 100 USD/mo, HTB is very cheap

Try Hack Me - A platform with just as much to offer but in a small package
— THM has a simpler User Interface and offers both courses and practice in the same place, just as Hack The Box, Try Hack Me has modules that approach different fields and techniques while also allowing for practical learning with their Virtual Machines

— The platform has two main learning methods, being those the modules and the practical ones which are VMs with varying difficulty that will test what you have learned in specific modules or several at once. The competitions are CTFs and King Of The Hill, the same as HTB, meaning you have to attack and defend against other people

— THM also offers student subnoscriptions which allow you to have full access to its content

Both platforms have its pros and cons, but nothing too expressive in regards to capabilities. Both platforms teach things ranging from OSINT and Social Engineering all the way to actual 'blue team' (defensive) and 'red team' (offensive) skills that can both range from specific tools all the way to techniques for specific systems or attacks

You can get student subnoscriptions in both platforms

Both platforms are also good ways to prepare for real Cybersecurity Certifications if you intend to get a job in this area since the difficulty of their VMs vary and some might be harder than the ones in certification tests
A platform worth noting is Virtual Hacking Labs, which costs 100 USD/mo as cited above, most other alternatives will not be as cheap as HTM or THM

Milei’s WEF page: www.weforum.org/people/javier-gerardo-milei/

"Radio Fatigue is the latest U.S. disease... It is produced by too much listening to emotional broadcasts of war news and the ranting of misguided propagandists who stir up emotions... It merely produced headaches, stomachaches, loss of sleep and wastage of our most precious national resource — emotional drive." (Daily Mirror, 1942)

"There has been a lot of talk in the German press about the need for an appraisal of pandemic policies. This talk has flowed in directly inverse proportion to anybody’s willingness to actually appraise anything."

https://eugyppius.com/p/why-were-german-politicians-so-eager?publication_id=268621&post_id=138966310&isFreemail=true&r=lp6h7

🇱🇻🏳️‍🌈 Remember when people were like "Eastern Europe is really conservative and will totally remain like that, despite being politically, culturally and economically dominated by the liberal west".

📎 Baron of the Taiga

“Delingpole is an interesting creature. He is all at once cantankerous, sweet, vitriolic, witty, mean, snobbish, naughty, naive, fun, cocky, and petulant. All this contradictory complexity is housed in a puckish, jockeylike frame, topped with a big, toothy smile, and dolorous, equine eyes. We get on very well, when he’s not testing me on my knowledge of Russian literature and classical music like an irascible, pompous school master.
I want to both cuddle him, and punch him repeatedly.”

Abi is SO right. https://abiroberts.substack.com/p/forgive-me-mr-icke-for-i-have-sinned?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2

Meta Instagram users accuse platform of censoring posts supporting Palestine - Kari Paul

"Meta made similar excuses in May 2021, during a separate series of escalations in Palestine during which Facebook and Instagram users posting about Palestine reported a similar reduction in the reach of their posts. Those incidents prompted a letter signed by more than 200 Meta employees demanding the company address such shortcomings. A subsequent independent analysis commissioned by Meta found that the social networks had violated Palestinian human rights by censoring content related to Israel’s attacks on Gaza."

In addition to allegations of shadow banning and outright censorship, Meta was under fire this week after users documented a glitch that translated “Palestinian” followed by the Arabic phrase “Praise be to Allah” to “Palestinian terrorists” in multiple profiles. A former Facebook employee with access to discussions among current Meta employees said the issue “really pushed a lot of people over the edge” – internally and externally.

“You cannot keep blaming it on glitches when it’s spreading misinformation and dehumanizing Palestinians by feeding into the narrative that all Palestinians are terrorists,” said the former employee, who spoke anonymously for fear of retaliation. “It’s very overwhelming for a lot of the employees of the company.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/18/instagram-palestine-posts-censorship-accusations

t.me/robinmg

“Delingpole is an interesting creature. He is all at once cantankerous, sweet, vitriolic, witty, mean, snobbish, naughty, naive, fun, cocky, and petulant. All this contradictory complexity is housed in a puckish, jockeylike frame, topped with a big, toothy smile, and dolorous, equine eyes. We get on very well, when he’s not testing me on my knowledge of Russian literature and classical music like an irascible, pompous school master.
I want to both cuddle him, and punch him repeatedly.”

Abi is SO right. https://abiroberts.substack.com/p/forgive-me-mr-icke-for-i-have-sinned?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2