Piracy obviously is not theft, and pirating something does not take money out of the IP owner's pocket. Which is a real fuckin' tragedy because if Ubisoft lost money every time I seeded the entirety of Watch Dogs 2 (yes I know I'm Golden Gate Claude about this game) I'd've done it fifty times over.

The page is built on Wordpress so there is an RSS feed built in, just not advertised anywhere. Here it is: dannybate.com/feed/

@dannybate.bsky.social I've been reading and enjoying some of your articles on your webpage. Is there an RSS feed I can subscribe to follow as you publish new articles? Thanks!

Late civil rights icon Cesar Chavez accused of sexually abusing young girls in the movement for years Dolores Huerta also discloses for first time that that Chavez raped her. Gift link:

Israeli forces shot all four members of the Bani Odeh family in the head, including their 5yo and 7yo. The 7yo, Othman, was blind and had special needs. This comes a day after Israeli settlers shot 28yo Amir Moatasem Odeh and stabbed his father.

US-Israeli forces have struck 32 ambulances and 120 schools in Iran, according to the Iranian government via Reuters:

This is a great story. We live in the future and if we could just get people to shut the fuck up about mRNA conspiracy theories we could annihilate cancer and probably several degenerative diseases as well. But: ChatGPT did not write the code or do the heavy lifting.

Kuwait has an exit visa that's trapping people in the country and it's in times like these you realize states consider people like cattle

From a friend in Beirut this morning, who in the last few days has seen several Israel missile strikes within walking distance of their home.

Over the last few weeks you've probably seen photos from the Gulf depicting war and destruction. But the region is a beautiful place that is home to diverse millions. I hope these pre-war photos from Bahrain can convey some of that. photos.pratyush.zip/revisiting-bahrain-i/ #bahrain #photography

New photoblog with some snaps from walks around Philly's Chinatown and Italian Market: photos.pratyush.zip/of-towns-and...

Pet language peeve of mine is when people write “I genuinely believe XYZ” or “I wholeheartedly believe XYZ” where XYZ is not controversial in the least. The adverbs there are useless! Dispose of them!

It is very easy to read statements like this as a joke. This is not a joke. We have proven with AI, completely by accident, what knowledgeable people have been saying for decades: the environment that rich people live in gives them a very specific personality disorder.

"The legal frameworks governing base use are complex, and the terms of these agreements are not publicly known. For Iran, keeping that ambiguity alive serves a strategic purpose that long predates the current conflict..." writes @elhamfakhro.bsky.social

"Cars are the most absurd means of transport in a city. They are parked 95 per cent of the time. It takes two tonnes to move someone who weighs 70 kilogrammes. And the denser the city, the more absurd it is."

New photoblog with some snaps from walks around Philly's Chinatown and Italian Market: photos.pratyush.zip/of-towns-and...

Ms Rachel talking to Deiver Henao, a 9yo in an immigration detention center www.instagram.com/reel/DVzUzoz... What a world

Evil piece of shit company and person

CW: rape . . . . . . IDF soldiers anally raped the Palestinian man with a knife and were caught on camera. They also severely beat him. The victim required surgery for a perforated rectum. The IDF is now dropping charges because of the outcry from the Israeli public IN SUPPORT OF THE RAPISTS.

So I don’t think a sitting president has ever threatened the life of a soccer team coming to their country’s World Cup?

Get BARTmogged, gasmaxxers!!

*Sees a deeply authoritarian, unrepentant absolute monarchy ruling over a highly stratified, racialized society and an economy that manages to somehow be both incredibly hypercapitalist and overwhelmingly state-owned*: This was the last stronghold of neoliberalism 😢

"Leaving is a choice that is typically not available to the lowest-paid migrants, who are bound by employment contracts, debts or family obligations. And whatever the risks they face in the Gulf countries ... they keep coming, because the remittances they send home are a lifeline."

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA They're platforming an ACTUAL NAZI NOW I'm laughing to keep from screaming

New — My case for why it’s not enough to call this “Trump’s war” when violence abroad implicates us all, and how we don’t need hindsight to know that unequivocally opposing this war will be the correct (and only morally defensible) choice:

Victims in our countries seldom get profiled and humanised in Western media. This is a portrait of a life cut short. What a tragedy. "Saleh Ahmed (55) lived in the UAE as an expat for 25 years, sending under £500 per month in earnings to Bangladesh for his wife and four children."

New photo blog: snaps from a trip up to NYC photos.pratyush.zip/not-hanumank...

New photo blog: snaps from a trip up to NYC photos.pratyush.zip/not-hanumank...

Every time I think this story can't get more horrific, a new detail emerges. The 'double-tap' strike is a technique the IDF perfected in Gaza. The first strike is deadly, eliciting panic as those nearby rush in to help survivors. Then, once they are all in one place, the second strike arrives.

I think the takeaway a lot of people are missing is that the state is keeping a database of trans folks by tracking everything from gender markers to name changes and attaching corresponding flags to their record. It should be pretty evident where they're going with this:

I have a whole file of these stories that I point to whenever someone responds to allegations of domestic abuse/violence with "If it was so serious, why didn't she call the cops?"

Not a single US newspaper will publish this photo. No news channel will broadcast it. The graves are being prepared for more than 80 young children killed in the US/Israeli strike on the school in Minab, Iran on Saturday. (📸 Middle East Observer)

I wrote a new post on anonymous credentials and how to build them. All of this is in service on a longer future post on how these will fit into age verification systems. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2026/03/02/a...

The first person in Bahrain to be confirmed to die was a migrant worker from the debris of an intercepted missile

I am pro Iranian people. I stand with them against their own government’s repression AND against the imperial violence in the form of bombs dropped from the sky from Israel & the US who have already killed hundreds. I support neither imperialism or dictatorship. Sahar Delijani said it best:

there's literally no way to liberate a people by murdering their children en masse. Israelis use liberating Gaza from Hamas as a justification just like I'm seeing Americans (including Iranian-Americans) justify it here. but it makes you a monster, an accomplice to monstrous things.

The IDF are horrifying monsters

Via @osinttechnical.bsky.social on X "Footage of an Iranian ballistic missile slamming into the headquarters of the US Navy's 5th Fleet at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Bahrain earlier today." x.com/Osinttechnic...

New post: The Brief Blizzard(?) Some frames from the recent "blizzard" in Philadelphia. This post is slightly different from previous ones: for a few locations, I couldn't choose between two different shots, so you get both. photos.pratyush.zip/the-brief-bl...

New post: The Brief Blizzard(?) Some frames from the recent "blizzard" in Philadelphia. This post is slightly different from previous ones: for a few locations, I couldn't choose between two different shots, so you get both. photos.pratyush.zip/the-brief-bl...

Some accepted papers at IACR Eurocrypt 2026 are now available online: iacr.org/cryptodb/dat...

Some abstract photos from the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts in Philadelphia: photos.pratyush.zip/abstraction-...

Photographs from evening walks around Philadelphia: photos.pratyush.zip/evening-walk...

Photographs from evening walks around Philadelphia: photos.pratyush.zip/evening-walk...

Some abstract photos from the Kimmel Center for Performing Arts in Philadelphia: photos.pratyush.zip/abstraction-...

I will just continue to say, opsec does matter, now more than ever. Please do not look to Johnny-come-lately "all the anarchists I don't like are feds, actually" adventurists for opsec advice. Especially when they've spent the past 48 hours saying it's good and virtuous to snitch-record protesters

New blog post about my visit to the Philly Art Museum. photos.pratyush.zip/a-night-at-t... #photography #streetphotography #philadelphia

New blog post about my visit to the Philly Art Museum. photos.pratyush.zip/a-night-at-t... #photography #streetphotography #philadelphia

breaking up the doomposting with some snaps from in and around Philly's Amtrak station. photos.pratyush.zip/train-statio... #philadelphia #photography #streetphotography