Bard spotting on Bluesky 27 March 2025

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Just with iOS, there is a setting called Lockdown Mode, which implies that there are 3 categories of attacks which work against iOS at the device level - attacks which exploit automation & scripting, attacks which exploit zero-days in the app, & attacks which exploit the os / firmware / silicon.

Pwnallthethings (@pwnallthethings.bsky.social):

Not only a thing they can do but a thing they do in fact do

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

99.9% of users can't predict and so can't protect against silicon / firmware / OS exploits. iOS does allow deactivating scripting & automation features (siri, apple intelligence) per app, so those should be the first things you turn off for Signal.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Lockdown mode disallows wired connections to the device - which runs the risk of the device being irrecoverable, bricked, if an exploit breaks a critical OS file. But it also prevents the charging cord from mirroring your screen.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

But as an example – despite the strong OS level sandboxing, it is still possible to jailbreak iOS, and a famous exploit that leveraged a flaw in how iOS handled a glyph-compression library shows it can be done on the fly, and all the user sees is the phone crashed/rebooted

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

I do not, for one second, believe that the Trump functionaries using Signal bothered to turn on Lockdown Mode. It can't be turned on by mobile device management admins / config profiles. It makes the device slower in some ways and it blocks a lot of web video streaming. No sportscasts.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

This is, IMO, an extremely promising activity to undertake.

What does it take to persuade i.e. the Uihleins and Musks and Andreesens and other oligarchs to not just stop supporting Trump but actively fund an opposition to him

They all think the leopard their face won't eat.

Craig Johnson (@cajohnson-craig.bsky.social):

What if Trump overeaches and his coalition breaks? Let's think about the main parts of his coalition (mainstream conservatives, techno-libertarians, fascists, and Christian nationalists), how and why they might leave, and what it would mean for the future of his Presidency (1/?)

Jen (@jenuhveeve.bsky.social):

Hints of grey tribe breaking from red are emerging. Keep watching.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

"Good people on both sides" now "Good people only those white supremacists who instigated homicidal race riots that day to prevent the removal of a monument to a genocidal slaver"

Philip Bump (@pbump.com):

The bar is so high and yet this is still one of the most embarrassing executive orders yet.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

He's gonna order them to take down the plaque bearing The New Colossus. I can see it.

Lisa Stampnitzky (@lisastampnitzky.bsky.social):

Is there a word for governance by sadism? This is sickening

hannah gais (@hannahgais.bsky.social):

The U.S. has entered its fashslop era.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Fascism. It really is dark triad personality disorder enacted by hijacking government

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The entire point is to terrorise anyone and everyone

Not just asylum seekers

Not just lawful permanent residents

Not just visa holders

Not just non-citizens

EVERYONE

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com):

RUBIO: We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa

REPORTER: You're saying it could be more than 300?

RUBIO: Sure. At some point I hope we run out because we've gotten rid of all of them.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

That is his motivation, to "… get rid of all of them".

"Them" includes anyone he and his boss hate. Anyone who doesn't play ball. Anyone who frustrates their crimeing. Anyone.

Everything's ungodly (@diffusedwavelength.bsky.social):

Does he think Cubans, including himself, will be spared? Or he must not care..

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The entire point is to terrorise anyone and everyone

Not just asylum seekers

Not just lawful permanent residents

Not just visa holders

Not just non-citizens

EVERYONE

Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com):

RUBIO: We do it every day. Every time I find one of these lunatics, I take away their visa

REPORTER: You're saying it could be more than 300?

RUBIO: Sure. At some point I hope we run out because we've gotten rid of all of them.

Mr. Jason (@herr-jason.bsky.social):

There's nothing to stop them from going after anyone.

Sam (@very-simple.com):

So…have they told any of these 300 or so people that their visas have been revoked such that they could, at minimum, choose to leave the country before they get arrested? Or are they just going to surprise people with arrest?

Jonathan Cohn (@jonathancohn.bsky.social):

A stunning assault on the First Amendment

Before Rubio's confirmation, senators and pundits acted as though he was a "sane," "rational," "normal," "moderate" nominee. He's constantly showing himself to be a right-wing extremist.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

If they told them, then they wouldn't be able to leverage the terror of Schrödinger's Visa against the millions of others they want to legalistically lynch

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Swimming in my mind is the hypothesis that Waltz' Signal leak is a limited hangout, meant to "prove" to the world that they (people with the best security clearances) "know" that Signal itself is secure & unbreakable

But that presupposes they're competent

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Why hypothesise a clever op to promote a secretly backdoored comms platform when the simpler explanations - that they're incompetent, law-scoffing fascist failsons - & that there's almost certainly a clever, undocumented exfil pathway between cellular modems & the encryption enclave silicon…

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Or just … message stores in the cloud

Zeroisanumber (@zeroisanumber.bsky.social):

They're just dipshits who think they're cleverly evading federal record retention laws. If I hadda guess the entire upper-echelon of government is doing this along with Elon and all of the DOGE kids.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Cosigned

Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net):

"We're all trying to find the guy that did this."

Singal is a pathetic hack trying to push the same narratives that caused this while trying to absolve himself of the blame. It's his fault this is happening.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Singal's media ecosystem is crawling with KiwiFarmers. His former PA for his podcast worked with KFers - including a virulent neoNazi - to kite LoTT into directing terrorism at Austin ISD teachers & students. He cocktail-hours with Musk's transphobic inner circle. He wrote a piece whitewashing KF.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

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Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Blocklist Advisory #1 for my Transphobes Blocklist:

Jesse Singal is a transphobe. Jesse Singal made a tweet on Twitter a few years back announcing that he deep-dove KiwiFarms in an attempt to proclaim KiwiFarms Did Nothing Wrong.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Singal has a bodycount from running interference for Trumpism, GenderCrits, and KiwiFarms.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

If you want a picture of MAG*merica's future, imagine a halftime show of Lee Greenwood singing "God Bless the USA", forever

Angela Watercutter (@waterslicer.bsky.social):

NEW from @davidgilbert.bsky.social: "According to a Federal Communications Commission response to a FOIA request from WIRED, the single biggest source of anger was not about the performance itself. It was that there were not enough white people on stage."

www.wired.com/story/super-...

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

The United States of America imagined by MAGA is so fragile that a student newspaper op-ed criticising another nation can utterly destroy the United States

(@frickswasticars.bsky.social):

But also so strong it can invade Canada, Mexico, Greenland, Panama, Gaza, Iran, and China all at once.

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

in an unexpected turn of events kira has finished her exam, her wires still hurt so she got birthday weed. she is high for the first time in like 7 months.

Ersatzsquatch (@emdashel.bsky.social):

Nice! Whatcha up to?

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

6 2

Ersatzsquatch (@emdashel.bsky.social):

62 WEEDS?!

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

6 foot 2 i just had 20 mg thc and 20 mg cbd and i couldn't remember which was the foot and which was the inches symbol

Ersatzsquatch (@emdashel.bsky.social):

Lolol. Did the weed make you grow?

Are you Kira in Wonderland?

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

i've been 6"2 for 22 years

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

You are Kira in Wonderland

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

i just got the joke and i can't stop giggling need to find that tiny cake

Congresswoman Maxine Dexter, M.D. (@repdexteror.bsky.social):

RFK Jr. is not wrong. We are failing to keep our communities healthy. This message resonates with many.

But I have serious concerns about his ability and expertise to lead such a sweeping overhaul of the HHS workforce. We need accountability, not just rhetoric.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Resign immediately. You do not have the abilities and skills needed to meet the moment.

Max Shields (@maxshields.bsky.social):

Bit sus, no?

Art Candee 🍿🥤 (@artcandee.bsky.social):

Pete Hegseth allegedly having a Russian email address is the least surprising thing I've read today.

Max Shields (@maxshields.bsky.social):

Totes sus. bsky.app/profile/thor...

Captain Thoreau (Josh) (@thoreau.bsky.social):

but wait there's more, Art!!

He has a RUSSIAN BURNER PHONE LINKED TOO!!!

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Haven't looked into this, but there's the possibility that someone in Russia felt it might be convenient to manufacture a whole set of social media named for Hegseth

Unless these can be confirmed to be used by / created by him, could just be an impostor

Max Shields (@maxshields.bsky.social):

Good observation. Sadly hard to tell these days given how everything is going.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

A curse upon the houses of all who have contributed to the contingency where reasonable people have to recoil in disgust and perform intellectual labour to examine why Laura Loomer is within the same room as the truth

Stephen C. Rea (@stevierea.bsky.social):

Laura Loomer on Infowars yesterday: "So, either they have incompetent people in positions of power, or they're not doing enough vetting, or, you know, some aspects of the Trump administration are just being run like a frat house."

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Trump's finally gonna kill those wind and solar farms inconveniencing the view from his golf resort hotels

Emily Atkin (@emorwee.bsky.social):

NEW: A secret kill list of clean energy project grants is circulating through the energy department

I obtained the latest version, which includes six projects "seen as vital for turning variable wind and solar production into a reliable, round-the-clock power source" heated.world/p/secret-ene...

SE Gyges 🏴☠️ (@segyges.bsky.social):

does anyone have a theory for why (effectively) selling an image that is (effectively) labelled "Studio Ghibli" without permission from Studio Ghibli wouldn't be illegal

because it seems super illegal

i find it very amusing and i like it, but this is true of many things that are illegal

Max Kennerly (@maxkennerly.bsky.social):

There's a whole cottage industry of baloney justifications for the plagiarism machine having one-way IP rights, but I simply do not see how "produce this work in the style of [specific artist] which you can do because you have their complete works in your training" can possibly be fair use.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Reasons why illegal: Dilution of trademark, fraud, defamation, tortious interference with business relationship, forced association …

(ianal ianyl atinla)

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

speaking into a flashlight your screen had a resolution of only 80 x 25

Kiraculous the Cyborg🏳️⚧️ (@kiraculous.net):

(speaking into a flashlight) every time you went on line you had to hear your computer's tortured screams

Orc (@tysasi.bsky.social):

As g-d themself intended!

/r/dallas is a discussion forum with 4 mods, down from 7 mods 5 years ago, and an unacceptable long running policy and practice that can be expressed as "Moderating here comes after job, commute, cooking, family, sleep, holidays, exercise, naps, and blowing our noses".