Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉
mastodon 4.7.3Cybersecurity writing, and former professor at the Open Institute of Technology.
Previously IOActive, Venafi, AT&T Cybersecurity, BlackBerry, Hack The Box, Synack, Tripwire
Author of:
The Pentester Blueprint via Wiley Tech
Hacker Culture: A to Z available now via O'Reilly Media
Technofascism Survival Guide
https://www.kickstarter.com
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Certified zero COVID zealot!
#fedi22 #COVID #COVIDIsAirborne #goth #infosec #ActuallyAutistic #ADHD
This is a warning about Meta and Threads.
Please boost this here and outside of Mastodon so that pregnant people in the United States are informed that using Meta/Threads is dangerous.
I'm unlikely to get pregnant but I have ZERO presence on Meta/Facebook/Instagram/Threads as a matter of principle.
Stop Gen AI has upcoming online workshops on how to avoid Gen AI!
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Starting June 12th.
Open to all. No registration needed. No new software is needed. Enjoy participating in our Jitsi Meet hosted workshops through our embedded web app.
More information: https://stopgenai.com/free-events-learn-how-to-avoid-gen-ai-workshops-june-2026/
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One day, the Gen AI bubble will burst and tech companies will hire highly experienced human beings with impressive bodies of work to do research and writing about cybersecurity. (We will probably need to deal with all the tech debt and vulns from slop code.)
Until then, I need to pay my rent.
Please share. ❤️ #fediHire #Fedihired #infosec
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This campaign is for Technofascism Survival Guide, the book that I'm publishing in a couple of weeks or so.
It's timely because of shit like this: Palantir, OpenAI, and the entire "AI industry" collaborating with the US government for technofascism.
My book is full of advice for good, ordinary people. There are lawful ways that you can protect yourself.
I know it looks like my campaign raised a lot, but that's a cumulative total since January.
I need your late pledges to pay my rent.
My Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/kimcrawley/technofascism-survival-guide/
Share this far and wide.
Gen AI:
- Gen AI datacenters demand way more power than "old fashioned" datacenters.
- Gen AI datacenters drain the Earth of its limited potable water.
- Gen AI poisons the air of poor neighborhoods (see Elon Musk's xAI in Memphis for an example)
- The climate is getting worse and worse each year, Gen AI is accelerating climate destruction. (I have MIT citations.)
- The vast majority of Gen AI output is bullshit because it simply repeats word patterns, picture patterns, does not understand meaning, isn't "intelligent."
- People who hate Gen AI: Greta Thunburg, Naomi Klein, good people everywhere.
- People who love Gen AI: Elon Musk, Sam Altman, every billionaire who wants to steal what little we have left.
The Sick Times:
Absolutely disgusting that The Sick Times promotes pro-Gen AI shit.
On top of that, people with Long Covid deserve factual help, not a planet destroying bullshitting machine.
Seriously, fuck The Sick Times for this.
Please follow my lead: Unsubscribe and stop donating!