Together with @petefussey.bsky.social and @daragh.bsky.social we are releasing "Pushed into the Shadows: evidencing digital surveillance chilling effects and the erosion of the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association” 1/ www.ohchr.org/en/documents...

NEW: A group of activists have built an awesome new tool to help immigration attorneys and the general public know when an ICE flight is headed to their area. gillianbrockell.com/habeas-fligh...

The Dutch government is blocking a United States-based company's attempts to acquire the Dutch firm Solvinity that runs a platform for the country's DigiD app www.politico.eu/article/neth... <good. The US admin has shown data isn’t safe in the US or even outside the US when owned by a US entity

These fucking demons told me that my neighbor wanted to eat my dog and now they want to talk about social trust evaporating

Handed in my thesis. Now what excuse do I have for neglecting family engagement and demonstrating zero social graces? There is a new emptiness in me, and it can no longer be filled with a literature matrix and nicotine abuse.

Weirdly enough, Trump's claim that Iran's missile capabilities have been "decimated" is technically true, as this term originally meant to "reduce by 10 percent", which seems to be the actual consensus.

"If she has her own house, what will she need me for?" I don't know, dude, maybe be cool and fun to be around and be happy for her success instead being whiny little sad-ass troll about it? www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

“Are they a proud people?” - my wife, just now, about Juggalos

one of the most dangerous truths of the modern era is this: all evidence-backed "wellness" and "life-extension" tactics are just basic diet and exercise. most people have very little they can do to impact their longevity besides regularly go to the doctor and get vaccinated, etc

NEW: DHS subpoenaed Google for a Canadian man's location and account activity after he criticized ICE. The man hasn't been in the US in 10+ years, and DHS used an import law from the 1930s to try to get his data. ACLU is fighting it. @regret.bsky.social w/ the scoop: www.wired.com/story/dhs-de...

Knowledge Fight forever. Thank you, Dan and Jordan.

Just finished the last of the "hard parts"/case studies of my thesis and now I want to die. Can't until I get that conclusion and intro/abstract wrapped up, though. But man. My soul feels tired.

Signal keeps having to make these statements regularly because people are handing access to their accounts over to criminals or nation state hackers sending them janky messages claiming to be “Signal support”. At some point users have to take responsibility for their own security, come on now.

The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is set to expire April 30th. The House vote is in 48 hours to renew it. WITHOUT critical privacy reforms, that will hand even more power to the Trump admin for warrant-less surveillance! We need action TODAY 👇 theintercept.com/2026/04/27/f...

“Fraudulent messages promising safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for cryptocurrency have been sent to some shipping companies... [A]t least one ​of the vessels, ⁠which tried to exit the strait on Saturday and was hit by gunfire, was a victim of the fraud.”

It’s finally happened. After 18 months. Finally, a media merger you can root for.

ME: I need to insert a footnote MICROSOFT WORD: *spitting blood* fuck you, fuck your mother and fuck your footnote

"...Never again, a country without consequences." God, if only.

Everyone please welcome CBS News Immigration Analyst Viktor Orban.

news.sky.com/story/hungar... Get bent, loser! A drop more hope for Europe and Ukraine.

"An extremely invasive surveillance capability such as this should require the strongest judicial oversight and confirmation that such intrusion is necessary and [a] proportionate response to the crime being investigated," EFF’s @cooperq.com told @npr.org.

We didn't deserve this day.

the psychic damage of being online and aware this morning is staggering

Millions of American voters wanted to be villains. They came to believe it’s the key to success, while goodness is weak, woke, loser stuff, done only to signal. Offered the option of unvarnished villainy, they enthusiastically took it. Seeing others suffer more made them feel big. And here we are.

In all seriousness, one thing that might be worth doing today: Tell your Reps and Senators to call Adm. Richard Correll, the Commander of U.S. Strategic Command, which controls the nation's nukes, and remind him of *his* unique responsibility to refuse an illegal order.

Dark Storm Team amplifying calls from Armenian hacktivist groups to attack Azerbaijan, bit hard to keep up with all of this.

So pro-life means jailing women who miscarry but shrugging when the deranged president says “a whole civilization will die tonight.” Do I have that right?

I think it's bad for the President to threaten to annihilate an entire culture and i do not think you are being alarmist if you take his threats seriously and literally.

I guess we're just waiting around to see if this demented psychopath kills everyone: defector.com/i-guess-were...

We will not be complicit in a barbaric genocide and destruction of civilization. The 25th Amendment should be invoked today. And Congress needs to reconvene and take back their War Powers immediately.

We choose to go to the moon, not because it is easy but because you've seen the other shit this country spends tax money on. At least going to the moon is cool.

your grandparents voting for reagan

VDEM has followed the EIU Democracy Index, and downgraded the rating of the US' democracy: www.v-dem.net/documents/75... Important to note, VDEM isn't lagging behind the Economist, they just have a different methodology, which resulted in a slight difference of result last year.

this is extremely funny to see in light of that Iranian FPV drone video

tired: harassing athletes for not covering the spread wired: harassing journalists for not making things up

Elon Musk apparently got so sick of people saying that he looked like Pol Pot that he decided to destroy USAID and try to beat those mass- murder numbers.

i feel like if i was tasked with not starting a war and bringing back US manufacturing jobs, i could have done a better job than this

Good reporting by @lorenzofb.bsky.social to confirm what we reported as a theory last week: That the highly sophisticated iPhone hacking toolkit known as Coruna, found in the hands of Russian spies and now criminal hackers, is an out-of-control US-government-funded creation.

A US submarine sinking a lonely, dinky Iranian surface ship an ocean away from the theater of the main conflict—and 9000 miles from North America—makes it pretty clear the US is fighting a general war, without the declaration required by the Constitution. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...

As much as I agree with, and am proud to include Cory Doctorow's position on Surveillance Capitalism in my Master's Thesis, I just got a reminder of why Zuboff is still fucking awesome, and how both of their takes are great:

DHS's Office of Industry Partnership was hacked by a group called "Department of Peace" and info about ICE contracts with over 6,000 companies is now published on @ddosecrets.org! Enjoy 🧊🔨 ddosecrets.org/article/ice-...

“Just because you are outside of your home doesn’t mean you have consented to having a random bozo collect your face and your name, the latter of which can enable them to search for your digital presence or even home address. The act of existing in public should not carry those risks.”

Peace prize president.

I have made a terrible mistake. Half way through my thesis, I started writing fiction again, for fun. The itch to start blogging and podcasting again will surely follow suit. I'm not long for this academic world.

“Police arrested a man for a burglary in a city he had never visited after face scanning software deployed across the UK confused him with another person of south Asian heritage.”

DHS is being more aggressive than ever targeting anonymous social media accounts that have spoken out against ICE, asking Big Tech to hand over information on users without signed judicial warrants story w/ @sheeraf.bsky.social www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...