🚨 NEW: I regret to inform the public the individual blocking @RepMaxineWaters @MaxwellFrostFL et. al lawful entrance to the Dept. of Education today appears to be Tobie Jansen van Rensburg, an offensive cybersecurity expert from South Africa who runs "Grey Owl Cyber Defense".
They wiped his face from PimEyes, but I still found him.
They are seeding disinformation, seen here possibly using the stolen identity of a Black man on Threads.
This works by seeding lies that aren't verifiable, yet appear highly passable at first blush.
David Fridie does exist, and did work at DoE, but has no Internet presence, including on LinkedIn, so it's impossible to verify without contacting him directly.
Even more concerningly, LinkedIn thinks I should be looking at these three posts when I search for David Fridie.
One of those is the account of William Resinger, who says he's accomplished military SERE training, which is specialized/hardcore training given to special forces only.
Resinger's most recent LinkedIn post, as of 2 hours ago, states: "From what I understand, they got everything they need now so everything from here on out is futile"
Note his educational background, also shown below.
I rest my case and leave you to draw your own conclusions. Lawmakers must investigate, NOW!!
🧵 Authoritarians follow a predictable playbook, and you can often spot it before it is too late. THREAD of core behaviors of dictators who want to hold power at any cost
1. Aggressively centralize power.
They weaken parliaments, courts, and watchdogs, often by using "emergencies" or legal tweaks to concentrate authority in the executive while claiming to respect the rule of law.
Elections keep their veneer of legitimacy, but rules, districts, oversight bodies, and term limits are quietly manipulated to make losing nearly impossible.
1/ Stockton’s mayor called this a gang-related incident.
WRONG! A lone gunman, not multiple as initially reported. Sheriff bungled initial response by wrongly assuming contours of the crime before arrival on scene, then failed to enter. Chased down victims while others bled out.
2/ Bc they’re habituated to community violence, not lone gunmen in mass shooter scenarios, they arrived fast yet unequipped, then failed to properly assess/secure the scene and find the gunman. The key witness who saw the shooter exited to seek a paramedic to help his dying son.
3/ Amari Peterson, 14, may have coded before he was loaded into the ambulance. The paramedics forced Dad to ride upfront, then drove slowly, and never told him his son had died. At the hospital, he was stonewalled by hospital staff as to status at the Sheriff’s behest for 7 hours
1/ Yesterday, Press Sec Karoline Leavitt appeared at the 78th annual National Thanksgiving Turkey Pardon wearing what can only be described as pilgrim cosplay 💀🦃
This wasn't an accident. A thread on political fashion as ideological theater. 🧵
2/ The outfit immediately drew comparisons to 17th-century Puritan dress, specifically the clothing women may have worn at the mythologized "First Thanksgiving" in 1621. Media called it "full cosplay" and "pilgrim-core." But dismissing it as a fashion miss understates the matter
3/ The "First Thanksgiving" narrative is one of America's most contested origin myths. Historians have spent decades unpacking how this story sanitizes colonization, erases Indigenous perspectives, & constructs European Christian settlers as top protagonists of American identity.
I can tell you how they did it, because they tried to do it to me—
Be very careful with anyone new being joined to your Signal chats; be cautious with what you say in group chats where you don't explicitly know (IRL) and trust every member.
2/ They may try to use people of color to lure you in, or use some other commonality between you and their surveillance persona. They may appear on the surface to be genuine activists. Ask a lot of questions, act legally in your dealings, and follow your gut.
3/ I am not a lawyer. I suggest folks seek legal advice from a competent professional. But it stands to reason that if you follow the law, and distance yourself from those who don't intend to, you can keep your nose clean enough to avoid this type of risk
🚨 THREAD: NEW preprint paper by Cornell University researchers found that @elonmusk's @Grokipedia cited the white nationalist site VDare 107 times, the neo-Nazi site Stormfront 42 times, and the conspiracy site Infowars 34 times. 👀👇 1/🧵
#AdversarialML #AIethics
2/ Their analysis of over 880K articles revealed 12,522 citations to sources deemed low-credibility by academic research (3x higher than Wikipedia). They found ~5.5% of Grokipedia articles have citations to sources strictly blacklisted by the Wiki community for unreliability.
3/ Unlike Wikipedia's volunteer-based system, Grokipedia centralizes control through Elon Musk’s xAI.
Researchers identified 1,050 instances where Grokipedia cited AI conversations with the Grok chatbot as authoritative sources.
Legacy reporters ignored while the new MAGA-friendly press corps boasts of a direct hotline to officials. Access is now a reward for loyalty. The govt has created an information asymmetry where approved narratives get speed and access; critical inquiry gets the silent treatment.
New press badges have been issued to outlets linked to conspiracy theories and defamation. The official record of US military action is now curated by outlets prioritizing partisan activism over objective fact-finding. Conspiracy theories are entering the official briefing room.