kravietz 🦇 @kravietz@social.privacytools.io

> When customers set up a Linux virtual machine in their cloud, the OMI agent is automatically deployed without their knowledge when they enable certain #Azure services. Unless a patch is applied, attackers can easily exploit these four vulnerabilities to escalate to root privileges and remotely execute malicious code (for instance, encrypting files for ransom).

https://www.wiz.io/blog/secret-agent-exposes-azure-customers-to-unauthorized-code-execution

@profoundlynerdy

There's 8 GW nuclear power operating in Germany, scheduled to be shut down next year, and replaced by gas and coal.

"Energy prices in Europe hit records after wind stops blowing. Heavy reliance on wind power, coupled with a shortage of natural gas, has led to a spike in energy prices"

Now, go complain to Lazard and BNEF with their "wind and solar cheapest in the world" conclusion out of a careful cherry-picking 🤷

https://www.wsj.com/articles/energy-prices-in-europe-hit-records-after-wind-stops-blowing-11631528258

@jcbrand

Revolving door is a frequent phenomenon in all industries and while it looks bad from ethical point of view, it's legal. The company is clearly relying on his experience to make the process as efficient as possible, but again, they are doing it within the frames of the existing laws. Hiring Gottlieb doesn't replace the whole regulatory process, which is driven by an institution, not a single person.

Also from the same article:

> At the Schneider Children's Medical Center in Petah Tikva, an unvaccinated 17-year-old boy is hospitalized in critical condition. He suffers from PIMS syndrome and has been connected to a heart-lung machine. PIMS is an inflammation caused post-coronavirus in children and its symptoms are high fever, rash, abdominal pain, loss of appetite, general weakness, and decreased blood pressure.

#covid

> Hai Shaulian, a well-known Israeli activist against coronavirus vaccines, died on Monday morning at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon due to the coronavirus. Shaulian called on his followers on social media not to get vaccinated against the virus under the headline: "There is no epidemic - the vaccine is unnecessary and dangerous."

https://www.jpost.com/breaking-news/leader-of-anti-vaxxer-community-dies-of-covid-19-679339 #covid

@jcbrand

> financial incentives shape certain processes

Sure, the economically sound course of action for the FDA assessment teams would be to escalate the levels scrutiny as that would directly translate to more money.

@jcbrand

Your owns source says otherwise, but you still prefer to believe in "funded by vaccine manufacturers" conspiracy. There's some serious quasi-religious bias here.

@jcbrand

Enter alt-med, who sells terminally ill patients overpriced snake oil that is *guaranteed* to have no therapeutical effect, often drawing them away from actual drugs that are toxic but give at least say 25% chances of survival.

In 2004 I was saddened by death of a legendary Polish singer Jacek Kaczmarski, who suffered from throat cancer. I was then shocked to learn he refused chemotherapy and instead spent 100'000 CHF in some phony "holistic threapy" clinic in Switzerland.

@jcbrand

I've read all books by Jürgen Thorwald and Siddhartha Mukherjee long time ago so yes, I'm familiar with the history of the medicine.

Especially Mukherjee's book on cancer talks a lot about the toxicity of the early anti-cancer treatments and further progress.

What you are missing here is that all of these treatments, even ineffective or toxic, were still the best option for terminal patients, who chose them over certain death.