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Kevin Russell<p>The aphorism, the dictum of the Twenty First Century, which should be carved into every Public Building, every statue, every street and painted on a thousand billboards.</p><p>"Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely."</p><p>Billionairism is barbarism.</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/corruption" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>corruption</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/powerCorrupts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powerCorrupts</span></a> <br><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/uspol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uspol</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/cdnpoli" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>cdnpoli</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/uk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>uk</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/eu" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>eu</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/piketty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>piketty</span></a></p>
Ian Chai<p>Yusoff Rawther was obviously framed. So who had the power to do that and would benefit from framing him? 🤔 <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AnwarIbrahim" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnwarIbrahim</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PowerCorrupts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerCorrupts</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://www.malaysiakini.com/read4free/746686/$tTPrY$OV#comment-or-20-minutes-that-changed-yusoffs-life" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">malaysiakini.com/read4free/746</span><span class="invisible">686/$tTPrY$OV#comment-or-20-minutes-that-changed-yusoffs-life</span></a></p>
anilmcUnarmada for Gaza: Long bars, extreme content
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/washington-george/5402/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Washington</b></a></p><blockquote>It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism. A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position.</blockquote><p><b>George Washington</b> (1732-1799) American military leader, Founding Father, US President (1789-1797)<br>Essay (1796-09-18), “Farewell Address,” <i>Claypoole’s American Daily Advertiser</i>, Philadelphia</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/washington-george/5402/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/washington-george/54…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=ChecksAndBalances" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ChecksAndBalances</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=despotism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>despotism</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=dictatorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dictatorship</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=government" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>government</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=power" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>power</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=powercorrupts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powercorrupts</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=separationofpowers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>separationofpowers</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=tyranny" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>tyranny</span></a></p>
Semantically Secure<p>As I write this, the most recent big move by Matt Mullenweg in his ongoing dispute with WP Engine was to <a href="https://anderegg.ca/2024/10/13/acf-has-been-hijacked" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">abuse his position to seize control of a WP Engine owned plugin</a>, justifying this act with <a href="https://wordpress.org/news/2024/10/secure-custom-fields/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a security fix</a>. This justification might, under other circumstances, be believable. For example, if WP Engine <a href="https://www.advancedcustomfields.com/blog/acf-6-3-8-security-release/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">weren’t actively releasing security fixes</a>.</p><p>Now, as I wrote on <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41825692" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a Hacker News thread</a>, I’d been staying out of this drama. It wasn’t my fight, I wasn’t deeply familiar with the lore of the players involved, etc.</p><p><strong>BUT!</strong> This specific tactic that Mullenweg employed happens to step on the toes of <a href="https://ma.ttias.be/wordpress-get-secure-cryptographic-updates/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">some underappreciated work I had done from 2016 to 2019 to try to mitigate supply chain attacks against WordPress</a>. Thus, my HN comment about it.</p><p>Mullenweg’s behavior also calls into question the trustworthiness of WordPress not just as a hosting platform (WP.com, which hosts this website), but also the open source community (WP.org).</p><p>The vulnerability here is best demonstrated <a href="https://xoxo.zone/@lazerwalker/113297704893474421" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">in the form of a shitpost</a>:</p>“Matt” here is Mullenweg.<p>I do not have a crystal ball that tells me the future, so whatever happens next is uncertain and entirely determined by the will of the WordPress community.</p><p>Even before I decided it was appropriate to chime in on this topic, or had really even paid attention to it, I had been hearing rumors of a hard-fork. And that maybe the right answer, but it could be excruciating for WordPress users if that happens.</p><p>Regardless of whether a hard-fork happens (or the WordPress community shifts sufficient power away from Mullenweg and Automattic), this vulnerability cannot continue if WordPress is to continue to be a trustworthy open source project.</p><p>Since this is a cryptography-focused blog, I’d like to examine ways that the WordPress community could build governance mechanisms to mitigate the risk of one man’s ego.</p><p><strong>Revisit Code-Signing</strong></p><p>The core code, as well as any plugins and themes, should be signed by a secret key controlled by the developer that publishes said code. There should be a secure public key infrastructure for ensuring that it’s difficult for the infrastructure operators to surreptitiously replace a package or public key without possessing one of those secret keys.</p><p>I had previously begun work on <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/49200" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a proposal to solve this problem</a> for the PHP community, and in turn, WordPress. However, my solution (called <a href="https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/49200" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Gossamer</a>) wasn’t designed with GDPR (specifically, the Right to be Forgotten) in mind.</p><p>Today, I’m aware of <a href="https://sigstore.dev" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">SigStore</a>, which has gotten a lot of traction with other programming language ecosystems.</p><p>Additionally, there is <a href="https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specification" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">an ongoing proposal for an authority-free PKI for the Fediverse</a> that appears to take GDPR into consideration (though that’s more of an analysis for lawyers than cryptography experts to debate).</p><p>I think, at the intersection of both systems, there is a way to build a secure PKI where the developer maintains the keys as part of the normal course of operation.</p><p><strong>Break-Glass Security with FROST</strong></p><p>However, even with code-signing where the developers own their own keys, there is always a risk of a developer going rogue, or getting totally owned up.</p><p>Ideally, we’d want to mitigate that risk <strong>without</strong> reintroducing the single point of vulnerability that exists today. And we’d want to do it without a ton of protocol complexity visible to users (above what they’d already need to accept to have secure code signing in place).</p><p>Fortunately, cryptographers already built the tool we would need: <strong>Threshold Signatures</strong>.</p><p>From <a href="https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc9591/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">RFC 9591</a>, we could use FROST(Ed25519, SHA-512) to require a threshold quorum (say, 3) of high-trust entities (for which there would be, for example, 5) to share a piece of an Ed25519 secret key. Cryptographers often call these t-of-N (in this example, 3-of-5) thresholds. The specific values for t and N vary a lot for different threat models.</p><p>When a quorum of entities do coordinate, they can produce a signature for a valid protocol message to revoke a developer’s access to the system, thus allowing a hostile takeover. However, it’s not possible for them to coordinate without their activity being publicly visible to the entire community.</p><p>The best part about FROST(Ed25519, SHA-512) is that it doesn’t require any code changes for signature verification. It spits out a valid Ed25519 signature, which you can check with just libsodium (or <a href="https://github.com/paragonie/sodium_compat" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">sodium_compat</a>).</p><p><strong>Closing Thoughts</strong></p><p>If your threat model doesn’t include leadership’s inflated ego, or the corruption of social, political, and economic power, you aren’t building trustworthy software.</p><p>Promises and intentions don’t matter here. Mechanisms do.</p><p>Whatever the WordPress community decides is their best move forward (hard forks are the nuclear option, naturally), the end result cannot be replacing one tyrant with another.</p><p>The root cause isn’t that Mullenweg is particularly evil, it’s that <a href="https://w3techs.com/technologies/overview/content_management" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">a large chunk of websites</a> are beholden to only his whims (whether they realized it or not).</p><p>One can only make decisions that affects millions of lives and thousands of employees (though <a href="https://ma.tt/2024/10/alignment/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">significantly fewer today than when this drama began</a>) for so long before an outcome like this occurs.</p>Edit of <a href="https://xkcd.com/2347/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">XKCD</a><p>If you aren’t immune to propaganda, you aren’t immune to the corruption of power, either.</p><p>But if you architect your systems (governance and technological) to not place all this power solely in the hands of one unelected nerd, you mitigate the risk by design. </p><p>(Yes, you do invite a different set of problems, such as decision paralysis and inertia. But given WordPress’s glacial pace of minimum PHP version bumps over its lifetime, I don’t think that’s actually a new risk.)</p><p>With all that said, whatever the WordPress community decides is best for them, I’m here to help.</p><p><a href="https://scottarc.blog/2024/10/14/trust-rules-everything-around-me/" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://scottarc.blog/2024/10/14/trust-rules-everything-around-me/</a></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/advanced-custom-fields/" target="_blank">#AdvancedCustomFields</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/arrogance/" target="_blank">#arrogance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/automatic-updates/" target="_blank">#automaticUpdates</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/automattic/" target="_blank">#Automattic</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/code-signing/" target="_blank">#codeSigning</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/cybersecurity/" target="_blank">#cybersecurity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/ego/" target="_blank">#ego</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/matt-mullenweg/" target="_blank">#MattMullenweg</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/news/" target="_blank">#news</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/pki/" target="_blank">#PKI</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/plugin-security/" target="_blank">#pluginSecurity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/power-corrupts/" target="_blank">#powerCorrupts</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/secure-custom-fields/" target="_blank">#SecureCustomFields</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/security/" target="_blank">#security</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/software-governance/" target="_blank">#softwareGovernance</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/supply-chain/" target="_blank">#supplyChain</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/supply-chain-security/" target="_blank">#supplyChainSecurity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/supply-chain-security-2/" target="_blank">#supplyChainSecurity</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/technology/" target="_blank">#technology</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/threat-models/" target="_blank">#threatModels</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/trust/" target="_blank">#trust</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/wordpress/" target="_blank">#WordPress</a> <a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://scottarc.blog/tag/wp-engine/" target="_blank">#WPEngine</a></p>
SueDiOh<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@PJ_Evans" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>PJ_Evans</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mas.to/@havvyhh2" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>havvyhh2</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@CStamp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CStamp</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>GottaLaff</span></a></span> <br>Seems that way. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PowerCorrupts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerCorrupts</span></a>.</p>
Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦<p>J.D. Vance on <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trump" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Trump</span></a> # ... a thread.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/JDVance" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>JDVance</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/hypocrite" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>hypocrite</span></a> <br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/powerCorrupts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powerCorrupts</span></a> </p><p>01/x</p><p><a href="https://x.com/sbg1/status/1812930006915355104" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/sbg1/status/181293000691</span><span class="invisible">5355104</span></a></p>
Mr. Mustache<p>I have been seeing too much of "Now Biden can use the king powers to save us from Trump!" As some sort of gotcha.....<br>The answer to tyranny is not more tyranny. Such power, once given and used, even by a good person, will inevitably be used badly.</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PowerCorrupts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerCorrupts</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PowerBelongsToThePeople" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerBelongsToThePeople</span></a></p>
Sweet Home Alaberta 🇨🇦 🇺🇦 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇲🇽<p>These law students have been harmed and should pool their new knowedge into a class action against the lawyers and the law school for slander and for harming their future earnings.</p><p>If a spectator at a floor hockey game can get a million $ for a wayward puck, what is the combined value of severely harming a couple dozen law careers?</p><p><a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/FascistOppression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FascistOppression</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/FuckingLawyers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FuckingLawyers</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/InjusticeSystem" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>InjusticeSystem</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/PowerCorrupts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerCorrupts</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/TMUlaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TMUlaw</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/McCarthyism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>McCarthyism</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.thestar.com/opinion/contributors/tmu-law-school-students-deserve-an-apology-from-prominent-lawyers-who-rushed-to-judgment/article_6d608728-241d-11ef-8a21-7367be2a60ab.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">thestar.com/opinion/contributo</span><span class="invisible">rs/tmu-law-school-students-deserve-an-apology-from-prominent-lawyers-who-rushed-to-judgment/article_6d608728-241d-11ef-8a21-7367be2a60ab.html</span></a></p>
Critical Cupcake<p>Given the eerie similar nature of most rags to barbarity stories, in that good people turn evil, could you ever see yourself as a dictator? </p><p>Before you scoff, remember how much evil came from the perception of doing good, or changing the nation.</p><p><a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/CriticalQuestions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CriticalQuestions</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Quiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Quiz</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/PubQuiz" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PubQuiz</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/RagsToBarbarity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>RagsToBarbarity</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Evil" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Evil</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Good" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Good</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Dictator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Dictator</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/StayHome" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StayHome</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/StaySafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StaySafe</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/StayHomeStaySafe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StayHomeStaySafe</span></a> <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/PowerCorrupts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerCorrupts</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/rsQ5YKixQmw" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/rsQ5YKixQmw</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
ltmcdies<p>continuing my "catching up on films or TV I have missed"<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WomenTalking" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WomenTalking</span></a> so well done...<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SarahPolley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>SarahPolley</span></a> derserved her <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/oscars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>oscars</span></a> <br> thing that struck watching it was.... the men in the film and those who commited those crimes IRL...<br>HAD all the power and control within their compounds, over the lives of their women and kids...<br>and wasn't enough power and control... they had to use cow tranquillers to gain more control<br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PowerCorrupts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerCorrupts</span></a> and there is nowhere an authoritarian will not go to exercise power.</p>
Stefan Bohacek<p>And as the fediverse continues to take off, it would be really worth looking into moving to a smaller instance, maybe even starting your own* with a few friends or family.</p><p>The lesson here really should be not letting power concentrate in the hands of a few people.</p><p>* See <a href="https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/lessons-learned-from-running-a-single-person-mastodon-instance/#hosting" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stefanbohacek.com/blog/lessons</span><span class="invisible">-learned-from-running-a-single-person-mastodon-instance/#hosting</span></a> for paid services that do most of the hard work for you.</p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/decentralization" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>decentralization</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/capitalism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalism</span></a> <a href="https://stefanbohacek.online/tags/PowerCorrupts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerCorrupts</span></a></p>
JDS<p>He had such high hopes. Then came the <a href="https://awscommunity.social/tags/redripple" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>redripple</span></a> followed by <a href="https://awscommunity.social/tags/georgesantos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>georgesantos</span></a></p><p><a href="https://awscommunity.social/tags/powercorrupts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powercorrupts</span></a></p>
fmc01<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>mastodonmigration</span></a></span> "But if you wish to know what a man really is, give him power. This is the supreme test. It is the glory of Lincoln that, having almost absolute power, he never abused it, except on the side of mercy.” <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/TheMusk" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TheMusk</span></a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/powercorrupts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>powercorrupts</span></a></p>
T L Holaday<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://journa.host/@brianklaas" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>brianklaas</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@jeffjarvis" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jeffjarvis</span></a></span> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/PowerCorrupts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PowerCorrupts</span></a> <a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/tags/BrianKlaas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BrianKlaas</span></a></p>