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Joined February 2013
Time to call it quits here in @X. Moving over to #Bskysocial, hope to see you there @timocybersec.bsky.social
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An excellent thread by @RadioFreeTom. Even a regular joe like me is in awe how the media reacts to Putin’s bs threats precisely as they were intended. To scare the living daylights out of politicians and ordinary people in Western democracies
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When r*ssia kills Ukrainian civilians in their residential blocks - it’s just a normal day online. When Ukraine wants to defend itself - it’s a major WW3 escalation. Doomed. This world is doomed.
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The moral cowardice of Scholz can only hurt #Ukraine, his country and the rest of Europe. Citizens in the west deserve a better, wiser and more courageous breed of politicians than this.
Chancellor Scholz told me that he planned to call Putin. His call, in my opinion, opens Pandora's Box. There may now be other conversations and phone calls. Just a lot of words. And this is exactly what Putin has long sought. It is critical for him to weaken his isolation, as well as Russia's isolation, and to hold mere talks that will lead nowhere. He has been doing this for decades. This has allowed Russia to avoid making any changes to its policies, effectively doing nothing, which has ultimately led to this war. We understand all the current challenges and we know what to do. And we want to make it clear: there will be no “Minsk-3”; we need real peace.
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Timo Laaksonen retweeted
Ukraine has held its ground for nearly three years against one of the world’s largest militaries. Where others might have surrendered, Ukraine endures. Even with dwindling support and North Korea’s direct involvement, it stands, deserving far more respect than it’s given.
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I don’t really do endorsements. I’m not shy about sharing my views, but I hate politics and don’t trust most politicians. I also understand that people want to hear from me because I am not just a celebrity, I am a former Republican Governor. My time as Governor taught me to love policy and ignore politics. I’m proud of the work I did to help clean up our air, create jobs, balance the budget, make the biggest infrastructure investment in state history, and take power from the politicians and give it back to the people when it comes to our redistricting process and our primaries in California. That’s policy. It requires working with the other side, not insulting them to win your next election, and I know it isn’t sexy to most people, but I love it when I can help make people’s lives better with policies, like I still do through my institute at USC, where we fight for clean air and stripping the power from the politicians who rig the system against the people. Let me be honest with you: I don’t like either party right now. My Republicans have forgotten the beauty of the free market, driven up deficits, and rejected election results. Democrats aren’t any better at dealing with deficits, and I worry about their local policies hurting our cities with increased crime. It is probably not a surprise that I hate politics more than ever, which, if you are a normal person who isn’t addicted to this crap, you probably understand. I want to tune out. But I can’t. Because rejecting the results of an election is as un-American as it gets. To someone like me who talks to people all over the world and still knows America is the shining city on a hill, calling America is a trash can for the world is so unpatriotic, it makes me furious. And I will always be an American before I am a Republican. That’s why, this week, I am voting for Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. I’m sharing it with all of you because I think there are a lot of you who feel like I do. You don’t recognize our country. And you are right to be furious. For decades, we’ve talked about the national debt. For decades, we’ve talked about comprehensive immigration reform that secures the border while fixing our broken immigration system. And Washington does nothing. The problems just keep rolling, and we all keep getting angrier, because the only people that benefit from problems aren’t you, the people. The only people that benefit from this crap are the politicians who prefer having talking points to win elections to the public service that will make Americans’ lives better. It is a just game to them. But it is life for my fellow Americans. We should be pissed! But a candidate who won’t respect your vote unless it is for him, a candidate who will send his followers to storm the Capitol while he watches with a Diet Coke, a candidate who has shown no ability to work to pass any policy besides a tax cut that helped his donors and other rich people like me but helped no one else else, a candidate who thinks Americans who disagree with him are the bigger enemies than China, Russia, or North Korea - that won’t solve our problems. It will just be four more years of bullshit with no results that makes us angrier and angrier, more divided, and more hateful. We need to close the door on this chapter of American history, and I know that former President Trump won’t do that. He will divide, he will insult, he will find new ways to be more un-American than he already has been, and we, the people, will get nothing but more anger. That’s enough reason for me to share my vote with all of you. I want to move forward as a country, and even though I have plenty of disagreements with their platform, I think the only way to do that is with Harris and Walz. Vote this week. Turn the page and put this junk behind us. And even if you disagree with me, vote, because that’s what we do as Americans. vote.org
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Not only a story about honorable public service and American heritage of presidency but as importantly about the principles of true leadership. An impressive and enlightening article by @RadioFreeTom
I'm always effusive when my friend @RadioFreeTom posts a new article in @TheAtlantic because they are so prescient & descriptive of our current state. But this is a masterpiece. It especially touches my soul as a former soldier. Thanks, Tom. theatlantic.com/magazine/arc…
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Timo Laaksonen retweeted
😂 Free speech equals my speech. Neutrality equals my side. Objectivity equals my views. Same as it ever was.
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Love it that Trump preferred to comfortably forget about the fact that Zelensky came to the US to meet with Biden and also talk to Harris AND Trump, too. Because this is what a wartime leader of a country under attack in the largest European war of aggression since 1945 would be doing -- talking to the currently serving American president and also to potential next American leaders who can soon enter the White House and start defining policies towards Ukraine, less than two months away from the November election. Besides, that was a gesture of respect towards DJT and his role in U.S. politics. Ukraine is obviously interested in not taking sides in the U.S. presidential campaign and demonstrating its readiness to work with whoever wins the race. Zelensky is responsible for saving a 40-million European country from Russia's relentless war of extermination, the outcome of which greatly depends on the U.S., so it's just silly to seriously believe he's in a position to "campaign for Harris" now. But sure, why not spit Zelensky in the face, directly insult him, call him a "salesman," mock Ukraine's desperate fight for survival against one of the largest war machines in human history deathly feared by the entire West -- and for what? For extra two seconds of cheap demagoguery of the I-will-end-this-war-within-24-hours populism that Trump himself does not really believe in?
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I've never been subjected to a job #scam. Have you? Here's @_larppa from @FSecure Threat Intel and Milla Saari from our People & Culture team pointing out that these scams are indeed out there to get you and how you can protect yourself from falling victim youtu.be/qVs-Bd9yUZc
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Timo Laaksonen retweeted
⚠️ Breaking: North Korea just burned an 0-Day in Chromium. They used it to install a Windows rootkit and the campaign targeted cryptocurrency platforms and users. Here's what we know:
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Timo Laaksonen retweeted
Hello @POTUS. Hallo @Bundeskanzler. How many more Ukrainians will you allow Russia to kill before you do what is right? Self-defense isn’t escalatory. Impunity is.
As millions of people all across Ukraine experience the horror of one of the largest Russian missile attacks of the entire war, let us hope that Ukraine's allies are finally reviewing the policies that forbid Ukraine from putting a stop to it.
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Sweden shows character and conviction when and where it matters #SlavaUkraini
🇸🇪Foreign Minister @TobiasBillstrom: "We have never put any restrictions on the weapons that we have delivered to Ukraine🇺🇦, and we do not intend to do it now. Ukraine has already put those weapons to good use."
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I hope that, in the wake of the Kursk offensive, as well as devastating drone attacks on Russian airbases that have become an everyday reality, at least some in the West now see it crystal clear that absolutely nothing is "over" and it is just silly and short-sighted to push Ukraine to "negotiations with Putin" that means nothing but "unconditional surrender to an aggressor that has absolutely not won the war and is facing its own grave problems." Ukraine and the Ukrainian military, with appropriate support from the free world, can and will derail and curtail the most brutal European aggressor since Adolf Hitler.
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Here's the best thread on #Ukraine that I've seen in a looong time. Must-read for all politicians in the West #SlavaUkraini
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If Ukraine's offensive operation in the Kursk region is not persuading the West that it needs finally to drop its obsession with "escalation management" and get rid of its self-defeating, paralyzing fear of Putin and his trash-talk threats -- I don't know what else will.
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Deliveries of HIMARS, Western tanks, Storm Shadow missiles, ATACMS, and F-16s did not start a nuclear war. This is an undeniable fact proven over time. The excuses for delaying or denying these deliveries were bullshit, regardless of how some people tried to spin it.
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