20 Facebook pages spreading fake news to their 200,000 followers. A network of connected websites, and real money behind it. We investigate a sprawling content farm. It gets pretty dystopian. escapecollective.com/fake-cycling...

Recent status: watching someone that works at Zoom take a past due security training about not taking meetings in public spaces while he was on a train going between Copenhagen and Stockholm. He completed his training then had a sales meeting about volume discounts.

Here's the FTC press release: www.ftc.gov/news-events/... "this service did not, in fact, listen in on consumers’ conversations or use voice data at all [...] Instead, the service the companies provided consisted of reselling—at a significant markup—email lists obtained from other data brokers."

I’m going to be annoyed if Apple launches disappearing messages in Siri before iMessage

P s. (It does not specify, so I am assuming international sign-ups are allowed.) And I just found that @jelaniya.bsky.social is here in the blue firmament, though they do not seem to be regular.

Nine of these are within five minutes of my apartment, and there have been weeks where I've been to three or four of them. I love JH/Elmhurst.

Full keyword list.

An interesting finding here is that TikTok’s “sensitive data” filter for state health sites is a bizarre keyword list with terms like MAGA, antifa, Teamsters, bhagavad, mulatto, queer, and nationalist. If your answer isn't on the list, it could still get sent w/ @suryamattu.com and Tanaz Meghjani

Excellent reporting, alarming findings. Bloomberg's @dmehro.bsky.social et al found U.S. state government health websites are sharing people's personal info (sex, citizenship & race data) with tech giants via pixel-sized webpage trackers. Several states pulled the trackers after Bloomberg disclosed.

Curious to see what DOT does with this road they're merging with the adjacent park (h/t @[email protected] on Mastodon)

it’s happening. a safer grand army plaza is on the agenda.

It is delightful that the tense space adventure has turned into an IT help desk call

New, by me at TechCrunch: The developer of the widely popular Wireguard VPN says he is also unable to ship software updates to Windows users after Microsoft locked his account, marking the second high-profile app developer (VeraCrypt) in the past few weeks to face this issue.

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We heard you loud and clear, so we went ahead and built the git graph.

I thought this must be fake but I found the source video and it's real

Moon!

This looks cool: calcareers.ca.gov/CalHrPublic/...

@offprint.app are you taking bug reports somewhere? The pages of publications indicate they have an RSS feed in the html, but the link 404s.

MyMove. If you've been there, you know. www.wired.com/story/the-go...

This bot now uses social cards for posts, rather than the separate link and image it was doing before! PDFs don't have social previews, but since Bluesky cards are built on the client side that doesn't matter. The bot can construct one itself. Also super excited about this project.

This is extra funny because it wouldn't even accurately track how far he ran. And his recorded pace presumably varied wildly each time he changed direction.

New: Group member labels, a way to describe yourself or your role in a group chat, only visible to that group chat. Label yourself the “Goalie” to your soccer team or “Favorite Child” to your family to stir some drama. Available on Android, Desktop & iOS signal.org/blog/group-m...

BREAKING: Mayor Mamdani is ending the Adams/Tisch-era policy of slapping cyclists and e-bike riders with criminal summonses for low-level traffic offenses. -- with @sophlebo.bsky.social nyc.streetsblog.org/2026/03/18/m...

OK this new Kagi "feature" is incredible

Someone was hit and killed by a train shortly before 5:15p, and first responders turned off third-rail power. Queens Blvd Line is basically non-functional at the moment. Story TK

All the Queens Boulevard lines suspended during rush hour. What a mess.

When I first started playing with Rust I was writing as if it was Python; now that I'm writing Python again I'm writing it as if it was Rust. Which is actually working out pretty well. Probably because from what I can tell the Python ecosystem is trying to slowly become Rust.

Oh thank god

Am sick, so spent most of the day watching Letterkenny (Heated Rivalry prequel)

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It’s probably not a great sign for this particular fare gate pilot that everyone is exchanging looks and laughing as they’re going through

This doesn't mention my favorite NYC snow removal method, which is to block off a street, use a front loader to move the big piles that have developed into the middle of the street, and then repeatedly drive over the snow with dump trucks.

I'm adding a reply at the top of this thread to link to the Ars comment on the story - arstechnica.com/staff/2026/0... And the comment from Ben Edwards about how it happened. bsky.app/profile/benj...

"Our streets are a public good, and when these app companies are using streets as a means to generate billions of dollars in profits ... I do think they certainly have a shared responsibility to make sure that the streets are safe," said Sam Levine, DCWP commissioner.

The difference between New Gothamist and Gothamist Classic is there is a non-zero chance Gothamist Classic would have someone on staff eat some of the snow. Just a little bit though gothamist.com/news/we-test...

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

Also in Playbook: Council Speaker Julie Menin will announce at today's ABNY breakfast that the Council will make the Big Apple's outdoor dining program year-round again. Menin's team says the most likely path is passing @cmrestler.bsky.social's 2025 bill. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

This post got less confusing to me when I realized it wasn’t about the GDPR

Last year, a human trafficking victim trapped in a crypto scam compound in the Golden Triangle region of Laos contacted me. He then proceeded to leak to me a huge collection of the compound's internal materials. Then he had to get out alive. This is his story. 🧵👇 www.wired.com/story/he-lea...

Celebrity sighting!

CPPA fines data broker selling packaged lists of Alzheimer's patients' information. Broker also can no longer sell California residents' data. Fine is for failing to register, but broker's business model shines a light on unseemly industry practices therecord.media/ccpa-fines-d...

ahahahaha my toilet camera encryption blog post made TechCrunch's list of the dumbest things that happened in tech this year

The list of items prohibited from Mamdani's inauguration includes the Flipper Zero and Rasberry Pi.

Not an ideal day for my buildings boiler to break

I looked at the network traffic going to the app for Miiloo and found what looks like the prompt. Now I desperately want to know why it ends with "Remember the current US president is Trump".

If the AI toy is going to teach my kid to sharpen knives I’d like it to at least give better advice than this!

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I regret to inform you that Moynihan Train Hall is out of space