NEW: A hack-for-hire group targeted victims with Android spyware and with phishing attacks to break into iCloud backups. The group, codenamed BITTER, has alleged ties with Indian government, and attacked victims in the Middle East and North Africa, including journalists and government officials.

NYT reporting that under this ceasefire each ship will pay $2M to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. It was $0 before Trump launched this illegal war. 100-130 ships pass the Strait daily. Trump just gave Iran an extra $100M-$130M per day. Masterful gambit, sir. Impeach and remove this fascist—NOW.

I've seen Pakistani diplomats at the UN build coalitions far bigger than what you might expect. Smooth, funny, well dressed operators. The UN can be a bubble and they have risen in several resolutions I've worked on.

“Acts or threats of violence the primary purpose of which is to spread terror among the civilian population are prohibited.” Geneva Convention Additional Protocol I and Department of Defense Law of War Manual, § 5.2.2

#Artemis II - Mission Control flip their mission patches to the return side as instructed by Orion crew “Integrity we are earth bound and ready to bring you home” We now see the crescent of the earth as Orion’s signal beams back, which marks the beginning of their journey back to Earth 🚀🌕🌍

It was so comforting to have a president that wasn’t a malignant narcissist.

NEW | 2025 was a record year for internet shutdowns — 313 times. Authorities imposed shutdowns to control information and restrict access. The #KeepItOn coalition spent last year documenting shutdowns across the world. These are the findings ⬇️ 🧵

Pope Leo XIV's top Middle East envoy rebuked Pete Hegseth for invoking God in justifying the US-Israel war against Iran. Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa called Hegseth’s actions “the gravest sin we can commit at this time.”

Pete Hegseth removed 4 decorated Army officers—2 Black, 2 women—from a promotion list. The Army Secretary refused, calling their records exemplary. Hegseth overrode it. Possibly illegally. They gave decades to this country. He erased them & called it meritocracy. This is white Christian nationalism.

“Someone decided to compress the kill chain. Someone decided deliberation was latency. Someone decided to build a system that produces 1,000 targeting decisions an hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people on Capitol Hill are refusing to stop it.”

@wajali.bsky.social watching the Giants v Yankees?

I'm attending a conference (RightsCon) this year that has a resident zebra at the venue. Couldn't be more stoked.

Defamed sign at #sxsw The Creep State is Watching!

UPDATE ON THE HORMUZ COALITION (Mon, March 16): 🇫🇷 France: REJECTED 🇬🇧 UK: REJECTED 🇮🇹 Italy: REJECTED 🇪🇸 Spain: REJECTED 🇯🇵 Japan: REJECTED 🇳🇴 Norway: REJECTED 🇨🇦 Canada: REJECTED 🇦🇺 Australia: REJECTED 🇩🇪 Germany: REJECTED 🇨🇳 China: NO RESPONSE 🇳🇱 Netherlands: NO RESPONSE 🇰🇷 South Korea: NO CONFIRMATION

Only six Black men have won Best Actor. Michael B Jordan is the 6th. Wow.

#oscarsSoQuiet why can't we hear the audience?

NEW | Hundreds of companies are pitching shady surveillance tech to EU migration agencies through industry events that evade lobbying transparency rules. See the 450+ companies involved ⬇️ www.accessnow.org/companies-po...

Pro and anti-Iran war protest right now near Times Square. #Iran #nyc

The latest Freedom on the Net report found that gov't investments in #AI sovereignty could enable repression. To protect human rights, policymakers & tech firms in democratic countries should work with civil society & embed safeguards in these systems, write Kian Vesteinsson & Grant Baker:

Defenders of the damn union

‘Keep bombing people until they stop talking about the Epstein Files’ is the main plank of U.S Foreign Policy in 2026.

Trump: Americans may be lost and we may have casualties. Americans, you cool with dying for Netanyahu and his genocidal government?

Goddamnit

Don't support any elected officials who take money from OpenAI. Their lobbyist Cheri Bustos, ex DCCC chair, is now President of Next America Era that is taking money from all these freaks to promote "pro growth" ads ahead of 2026 and 2028. www.axios.com/2026/02/08/c...

It's curious to see Google Gemini summarize a spammy phishing email, without Gemini or Gmail recognizing the threat. All Google showed was a graphic offering a free @starbucks Yeti tumbler.

I do hope Green Day donates all their Super Bowl money to the right causes.

Last month, the Trump administration pulled out of 3 key global #cybersecurity organizations. Former #cyber diplomat Chris Painter warns that the withdrawal will hamper intelligence-sharing, coordinated response, and capabilities, leaving both the U.S. and its allies vulnerable:

Happy Black History Month

“Rand Hammoud, the surveillance campaigns lead at Access Now, said Pall Mall leadership needs to set up “clear criteria for industry engagement … to protect the credibility of an initiative that depends on good faith participation.” therecord.media/spyware-make...

Mail for my 10 month old telling her that the hospitals and doctors who've treated her no longer will. Thanks so much @mountsinaigi.bsky.social and Anthem for failing your patients.

I see you Brooklyn

Friday massacre for press freedom and democracy

People should follow Tom Homan with big bags marked $50K

The Last Action Hero soundtrack had no business being this good.

Uganda shut down its internet at 15:00 UTC (6pm local) today as a security measure during national elections. #UgandaElections2026 Not the first shutdown in Uganda. They did the same thing five years ago, @lawyerpants.bsky.social and I wrote up a post about it: www.kentik.com/blog/from-eg...

NEW: NSO Group has released a transparency report that is even less transparent than its own previous transparency reports, as it contains no data or information on customers at all. Experts say the report is just an attempt to appease and push the U.S. government to be removed from a blocklist.

Primary any Democrat who supports ICE. Enough. They're killing American citizens.

NEW: Second video shows ICE shooting in Minneapolis. A woman, a U.S. citizen, was killed

BREAKING: The US has seized the Russian-flagged tanker “Marinera,” according to a US official.

George Saunders has hopeful thoughts for the US of A, from Lincoln in the Bardo ...

NEW: Meet the folks at AccessNow's Digital Security Helpline, who have been investigating government spyware for more than a decade, helping journalists and dissidents all over the world. I spoke to Hassen Selmi, who heads the incident response team, to learn how his team fights spyware abuses.

NEW: Apple, Google, and WhatsApp now regularly notify their users if they suspect they have been targeted or hacked with government spyware, such as that made by NSO Group or Paragon. We spoke to experts and wrote a guide on what to do, and where to go, if you receive one of those notifications.

If US investors maintain a client base with the infamous NSO Group, the country becomes complicit in its abuses, turning a blind eye to authoritarian surveillance while losing moral authority to condemn it, David Hatami argues

So the word drop is getting close to having two opposite meanings, like sanction and cleave do.

can someone with a genAI account please make me: a burly lumberjack type man daintily sipping espresso out of a Yeti-branded European sized cup with pastel flower designs.

Someone needs to tell the AI note takers that no one is going to show up to these optional meetings in December

I dont speak french but this seems a bit harsh

I know there's a lot of news tonight @wajali.bsky.social but I got our 8 month old to sleep by 730pm by myself, so