A quick Google search gives tons.

• Introducing Cloudflare's 2023 phishing threats report: This report analyzes global survey responses, simulated phishing exercises and real-world attacks, and reveals a 1,265% increase in phishing emails since the launch of ChatGPT, a generative AI tool that can create convincing fake content¹.
• CISA, NSA, FBI, and MS-ISAC Release Phishing Prevention Guidance: This guide outlines phishing techniques malicious actors commonly use and provides guidance for both network defenders and software manufacturers to reduce the impact of phishing techniques used in obtaining credentials and deploying malware².
• The State of Phishing 2023: This report takes an in-depth look at cybersecurity threat trends with insights into how cybercriminals are swiftly advancing and what is required to stop them. It also highlights how attackers use deceptive links, identity deception, and brand impersonation to trick their victims³.
• 2023 'State of the Phish' - Findings Sneak Peek: This study covers more countries and more threat types than ever, and uncovers critical gaps in people’s security knowledge and behavior. It also shows how today’s cyber threats are evolving and how attackers exploit the entities we trust and need to get work done⁴.
• The Biggest Security Threat of 2023? It's Phishing: This article explains how phishing works and why it is still such a threat, and what you can do to keep yourself safe. It also warns about the dangers of spear phishing, HTTPS phishing, email phishing, and vishing⁵.

These are some of the sources that I found that support the claim that phishing is one of the top cyber security threats and vectors for 2023. I hope you find them useful and informative. 😊

Source: Conversation with Bing, 12/24/2023 (1) Introducing Cloudflare's 2023 phishing threats report. https://blog.cloudflare.com/2023-phishing-report/. (2) Introducing Cloudflare's 2023 phishing threats report. https://blog.cloudflare.com/2023-phishing-report/. (3) CISA, NSA, FBI, and MS-ISAC Release Phishing Prevention Guidance. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/10/18/cisa-nsa-fbi-and-ms-isac-release-phishing-prevention-guidance. (4) CISA, NSA, FBI, and MS-ISAC Release Phishing Prevention Guidance. https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2023/10/18/cisa-nsa-fbi-and-ms-isac-release-phishing-prevention-guidance. (5) The State of Phishing 2023 | SlashNext. https://slashnext.com/state-of-phishing-2023/. (6) The State of Phishing 2023 | SlashNext. https://slashnext.com/state-of-phishing-2023/. (7) 2023 'State of the Phish' - Findings Sneak Peek | Proofpoint US. https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/security-awareness-training/2023-state-of-the-phish-findings-sneak-peek. (8) 2023 'State of the Phish' - Findings Sneak Peek | Proofpoint US. https://www.proofpoint.com/us/blog/security-awareness-training/2023-state-of-the-phish-findings-sneak-peek. (9) The Biggest Security Threat of 2023? It's Phishing - MUO. https://www.makeuseof.com/biggest-security-threat-2023-phishing/. (10) The Biggest Security Threat of 2023? It's Phishing - MUO. https://www.makeuseof.com/biggest-security-threat-2023-phishing/.

https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1735441592146911415#m

Falcon 9 launch of 21 @Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from California targeted for later tonight → spacex.com/launches

Dec 14, 2023 · 11:28 PM UTC

Starlink Group 7-9 launch out of SLC-4E in California currently scheduled for 2023-12-15 05:04 UTC, or 2023-12-14 21:04 local time (PST). Booster 1082-1 (new booster!) to land on Of Course I Still Love You.

Webcasts:

• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WGTDdOVJy0
• NASASpaceflight:
• The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLs2CwcYbGE
• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uqby0Qq10Gg
• SpaceX:
• The Space Devs:

Edit: Launch pushed to 2023-12-15 08:30 UTC, or 2023-12-15 00:30 local time (PST).

Edit2: Launch pushed to 2023-12-16 05:19 UTC, or 2023-12-15 21:19 local time (PST): https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1735542795149115652#m

Now targeting Friday evening on December 15 for Falcon 9's launch of @Starlink satellites → spacex.com/launches

Dec 15, 2023 · 6:10 AM UTC

Edit3: And... delayed again to 2023-12-29 05:19 UTC, or 2023-12-28 21:09 local time (PST): https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1735855397817508270#m

Now targeting Thursday, December 28 for Falcon 9 to launch @Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from California → spacex.com/launches

Dec 16, 2023 · 2:52 AM UTC

https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1734702161420763362#m

Targeting Tuesday, December 12 for a Falcon 9 launch of @Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Florida → spacex.com/launches

Dec 12, 2023 · 10:29 PM UTC

Starlink Group 6-34 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida currently scheduled for 2023-12-12 04:00 UTC, or 2023-12-11 23:00 local time (EST). Booster 1081-3 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

Webcasts:

• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6qe8c9jnQWU
• NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4AANV0fOZQ
• The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZuXCSS-_F8
• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MC6rgW8Odjw
• SpaceX: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1734793705025106357#m
• The Space Devs:

Edit: Launch rescheduled for 2023-12-13 04:00 UTC, or 2023-12-12 23:00 local time (EST).

Edit2: Launch rescheduled for 2023-12-13 04:39 UTC, or 2023-12-12 23:39 local time (EST).

Edit3: Propellant load has started: https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1734786417396687310#m

Propellant load has begun for tonight’s launch of 23 @Starlink satellites from Florida. All systems and weather are currently go for launch

Dec 13, 2023 · 4:04 AM UTC

Edit4: Strongback retract has started.

Edit5: Abort at T-1:45.

Edit6: Scrub was due to winds: https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1734799020005138588#m

Standing down from tonight's Falcon 9 launch of Starlink due to high ground-level winds. Vehicle and payload are healthy. Targeting no earlier than Wednesday, December 13 for next launch opportunity

Dec 13, 2023 · 4:54 AM UTC

Edit7: Launch postponed due to unfavorable recovery weather: https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1735000272689320148#m

Due to unfavorable recovery weather conditions in the Atlantic Ocean, we are standing down from today's Falcon 9 launch of Starlink. SpaceX teams will continue to monitor weather and a new launch opportunity will be shared once confirmed on the Range

Dec 13, 2023 · 6:14 PM UTC

Starlink Group 6-31 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida currently scheduled for 2023-12-02 04:01 UTC, or 2023-12-01 23:01 local time (EST). Booster 1078-6 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

Webcasts:

• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IstYna1FlE
• NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hssOK0O0wzM
• The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iICTYRTfCQo
• Space Affairs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUjxmwoeEMU
• SpaceX: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1731160339562332345#m
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u8NrTl4AL8

Edit: Launch pushed to 2023-12-03 04:00 UTC, or 2023-12-02 23:00 local time (EST).

https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1730744954862116945#m

Targeting Saturday, December 2 for a Falcon 9 launch of @Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Florida → spacex.com/launches

https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1730745475429789842#m

Teams are keeping an eye on weather conditions for liftoff, which are currently 40% favorable

https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1731154322212503607#m

Less than 30 minutes until Falcon 9’s launch of 23 @Starlink satellites from Florida → spacex.com/launches

Edit2: Strongback retract has started.

Edit3: Stage 1 LOx load complete.

Edit4: Stage 2 LOx load complete.

Edit5: Liftoff!

Edit6: MECO, stage separation, M-vac ignition, and fairing separation.

Edit7: Nominal entry burn.

Edit8: Stage 1 landing confirmed.

Edit9: SECO.

Edit10: Deployment of 23 @Starlink satellites confirmed

[2023/11/15] On Tuesday night, the IDF released footage showing boxes of guns, weapons and flak jackets hidden behind an MRI scanner that it said were used by Hamas terrorists.

I've been trying to avoid active commentary, but this is just plain silly. An MRI machine isn't a tarp to hide weapons under. It's an incredibly complex and dangerous piece of machinery whose operation is impacted by the presence of metals in the vicinity. The MRI magnet is on as long as the MRI is powered: it's standard procedure to not allow metals within the room an MRI machine is in. MRIs are basically never turned off because quenching can harm the superconducting magnets (don't ask me how, I don't know). There are records of guns being discharged by an MRI machine and there are records of people being hit in the face when a knife is magnetized by the MRI. Out of all the places in a hospital, the MRI room is the worst place to store guns and weapons (especially explosives...), though I imagine modern flak jackets would be fine because they're made of soft fibers.

Sources seem to suggest that MRI scans were being conducted in al-Shifa:

[2023/11/14] Shifa has over 500 beds and services like MRI scans, dialysis and an intensive care unit. It conducts roughly half of all the medical operations that take place in Gaza, according to the Health Ministry in the Hamas-run territory.

[2023/11/15] National Security Council spokesman John Kirby, citing intelligence sources, said Tuesday that Hamas and other militants “used some hospitals in the Gaza Strip, including al-Shifa, and tunnels underneath them, to conceal and support their military operations and to hold hostages.”

[2023/11/15] The US said on Tuesday that its own intelligence supported Israel’s conclusions that Hamas used al-Shifa as a command centre and used tunnels beneath the complex to conceal military operations and possibly hold some of the more than 240 hostages seized during last month’s attack into Israel.

[2023/11/15] Israel has said for years that Hamas has used Al Shifa, the largest hospital in Gaza, as a cover for their operations. Hamas and hospital staff have repeatedly denied this. Officials have also suggested that some of the 240 captives seized by Hamas after the initial incursion into southern Israel on October 7 might be held under the Gazan hospitals.

[2023/11/15] “We understand that there's a substantial Hamas infrastructure in the area, in the vicinity of the hospital. Potentially under the hospital, and it's something we're working on. It'll take us time. This war is a complex war,” [Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Richard Hecht] stated.

[2023/10/27] Palestinian health officials have been daily releasing a death toll of those killed in Israel's bombardment of the enclave. On Thursday, as questions have been raised about its figures' validity, the ministry released a document that gives a death toll of 7,028, with all but 281 having been identified by name, age, gender and identification number. By gender, 3,899 are female and 2,813 are male. There are also 2,665 deceased children, according to the ministry.

The document in question: https://www.moh.gov.ps/portal/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/%D8%AA%D9%82%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%B1-%D9%86%D9%87%D8%A7%D8%A6%D9%8A-%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%85%D8%A7%D8%A1-%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B4%D9%87%D8%AF%D8%A7%D8%A1-1.pdf

[2023/11/10] Israel has revised its official estimated death toll of the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks, lowering the number to about 1,200 people, down from more than 1,400, a spokesman for the country’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday night.

[2023/10/27] Speaking with reporters on Friday, the UN agency for Palestine refugees (UNRWA) chief, Philippe Lazzarini, said that few have doubted the credibility of the figures in previous wars. “In the past, the five, six cycles of conflict in the Gaza Strip, these figures were considered as credible and no one ever really challenged these figures,” Lazzarini told reporters in Jerusalem.

[unknown date] The IDF has claimed that the Gaza Health Ministry "continually inflates the number of civilian casualties"

[2023/10/25] U.S. President Joe Biden said on Wednesday he has "no confidence in the number that the Palestinians are using" for the death toll in the Hamas-run Gaza Strip

Toyota's been claiming solid state batteries are just around the corner for 13 years.

• 2010: Toyota unveils prototype LiCO2 solid state cell. Predicts use in hybrids.
• 2012: Toyota unveils prototype Li10GeP2S12 solid state cell. Predicts mass production of 1000-km EVs in 2015-2020.
• 2014: Toyota claims to have achieved 400Wh/L in solid state prototype cells. They adjust range estimates to 500 km.
• 2017: Toyota predicts commercialization 2020-2025.
• 2019: Toyota predicts it will have functioning solid state EV prototypes by the Olympics.
• 2020: Toyota claims it already has a mostly-functioning prototype.
• 2021: Toyota's solid state EV is a no-show for the Olympics.
• 2022: Toyota claims solid state hybrids will be commercialized by 2025.
• 2023: Toyota claims it will have solid state batteries commercialized by 2027-2028. They still claim 1000-km range, but with the qualifier that the BZ4X is understood to have 500 km range today instead of the 300 km measured by 3rd parties. So they are effectively sticking to their 2014 range prediction.

Toyota may well produce a solid state battery, but they've moved the goalposts enough times that it would be foolish to take them at face value now.

https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1714024099335520624#m

Targeting Saturday, October 21 for two Falcon 9 launches of @Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from California and Florida → spacex.com/launches

Starlink Group 7-5 launch out of SLC-4E in Vandenberg, California currently scheduled for 2023-10-21 07:47 UTC, or 2023-10-17 00:47 local time (PDT). Booster B1061.16 to land on Of Course I Still Love You.

Webcasts:

• Spaceflight Now: none
• NASASpaceflight: none
• The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uu0zs8DyeTc
• SpaceX: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1715643518407045165#m
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEXSLNuMpLc

Edit: Nominal launch, booster landing, and Starlink deployment. SpaceX also uploaded another nice video of deployment: https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1715761698441986444#m

Starlink Group 6-24 launch out of SLC-40 in Florida currently scheduled for 2023-10-22 02:17 UTC, or 2023-10-21 22:17 local time (EDT). Booster B1080.4 to land on A Shortfall of Gravitas.

Webcasts:

• Spaceflight Now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAnqjCzpqjI
• NASASpaceflight: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9vq6unjnYw
• The Launch Pad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5slYycMAIHo
• SpaceX: https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1715913671040471138#m
• The Space Devs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxJrrnTyZNI

Edit: https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1715906452718768356#m

Propellant load has started and our team is counting down to today's second Falcon 9 launch of @Starlink satellites. Launch weather in Florida is pristine → spacex.com/launches

Edit2: Liftoff!

Edit3: B1080 has landed for the 4th time!

Edit4: M-vac shutdown.

Edit5: Deployment confirmed + video from SpaceX: https://nitter.net/SpaceX/status/1716145619520368705#m

America: you can ALWAYS count on it doing the reactionary, right wing (wrong) thing when presented with and/or creating its own problem(s).

Mass incarceration has been an abject failure from every angle. Obviously from a left wing viewpoint, sometimes liberals also share this viewpoint, prisons like the US has are an abomination. I don’t think in [2023] I need to go into details about why prisons, from a societal standpoint, as implemented in the US do not work, can never work, and really only exist for the most nefarious reasons. Chief among those reasons: “punishment” of those the dominant in-group considers lesser than (ie black people, poor people, homeless people, disabled people of all types, people with mental health crises, habitual drug users, etc.). There’s also secondary and tertiary reasons, the private prison industry, “school to prison pipeline,” etc.; money, basically. Racism and general right wing, evangelical, puritanical views of the world are the primary driving reasons though. Not much to “debate” there. For more info the band System of a Down released a song about this shit TWO DECADES ago, which besides being a banger, lays out pretty clearly and without pulling punches why the prisons exist and the horrors they’re inflicting on the population.

Something which is treated as weirdly controversial is treatment of prisoners. Even if you’re some pro-cop, raging racist who believes that everyone in prison deserves it (ignoring your own daily law breaking, of course, because the system is literally designed so that we are all criminals and only remain free due to the good grace of our local police influenced by our personal attributes such as wealth, income, and skin color) that is absolutely no justification for lumping on the added torture and complete denial of humanity and modernity to the prison population. Cutting to the chase here, there’s absolutely no justification for not allowing unlimited access to all the things a modern person has come to accept: books, mail, email, and yes, I know this one is craaazzzzzyyyy to the right wingers… but access to the internet. All of this given free of cost to the prisoners. The costs associated with internet are seriously negligible anyway. Of course it would have to be monitored, limited access to some sites probably, but just generally, barring like online predators or whatever, there is NO justification to not provide this service for the majority of the day for the majority of prisoners. Right wingers will insta-scoff at this as if “giving” prisoners access to literally just engage their minds a tiny amount will make millions of otherwise law abiding citizens go out and shoot a grandma on the street just to end up in cushy solitary and browse facebook 16 hours a day forever. This is seriously their argument. “Prison “has” to be horrific otherwise everyone will want to go!” The same logic is applied to the few social services offered to US citizens: “welfare,” SNAP (“food stamps”), social security disability, unemployment pay, Medicaid, all that stuff and more is means tested to fuck to the point that if you aren’t basically already homeless you aren’t getting diddly squat. Why? Well of course if you “give” a starving person food you’re just encouraging laziness! (Pay no attention to the capitalist class behind the curtain who does no labor and produces no value who only exists by sucking the surplus-value, the profits, from the same people who they then create laws to deny basic amenities to).

Our society is evil. There’s no nice way to put it. We all live moment to moment with this knowledge of the darkness perpetrated upon the most vulnerable portions of our society (and the world, but that’s a different post) with our implied permission. If you are the one to speak up, to call out the obvious injustices or to simply ask for some relief of the suffering of people the government is nominally supposed to be protecting… you are the crazy one, the annoying one. You’re the one who should shut up and realize the world isn’t so pretty. When confronted with reality they don’t want you to say out loud they make YOU the problem. And we’re all too happy to shut up and try to never think about the horrors done daily. It’s easier that way. Easier to never think, try not to feel, pretend we’re the good guy for acknowledging the problems but never actually doing anything to fix it. But hey, we briefly got outraged, and that’s what matters. That will fix things.