I've never seen a population more united. If people can hold onto that unity, if people can accept that different people will have different ways of confronting fascism, if we can remind NGOs and orgs that they can join but not control the resistance, then, well, people here will write history.

If you don't want ICE to know you were at a protest, taking a burner phone is not going to help you stay anonymous if you go home afterwards. www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

I've said for years now that LLMs are merely a novel form of Lossy Compression. This is well known to folks working in the field -- but those whose jobs depend on the lie will not say it on record! I'm glad to see research exploring this on frontier models. futurism.com/artificial-i...

This is why so many of us in academia don’t care how many “good” uses of AI you can show us. Maybe one day things will be different. But, along with enabling cheating & undermining pedagogy, the current commercial technologies on offer are criminal enterprises stealing from us & breaking the law.

With #Greenland raising awareness of our massive 24/7 dependence on US clouds for vital services, I made a list of what (government) stuff would break here under US sanctions. It is EXTREMELY depressing. Tip: also make a list like this one for your own country! berthub.eu/articles/pos...

In hiding... in the United States. Families are in hiding in the United States. Government gangs are forcing families into hiding in the United States of America.

It’s been reported locally, but I’m not sure how much national notice this has gotten. As part of this invasion by shithead goons, they are putting ICE agents in jetbridges and other parts of the airport at Minneapolis-Saint Paul. If you are flying Delta via MSP, you are putting yourself at risk.

If anyone was still pretending this isn’t just about excluding trans kids from public life, the Trump administration just opened a Title IX investigation into a Maine school district because a trans student is on a *co-ed* cheerleading squad.

In 2022 I started tracking changes in how news outlets were describing trans people, and set up a bot to record every article pushed to the Google News index based on a handful of search phrases, including “biological sex” in both the US and UK. The amount in 2023 alone was absolutely staggering.

there's a link in the replies but the long and short of it is: it's zinc chloride, which can basically cause heavy metal toxicity that can cause permanent respiratory damage as well as liver damage.

Jacob Frey: "We need our officers responding to the basic day to day 911 calls. We don't have the capacity to deal with that and all of this conduct that we are seeing from ICE on a daily basis. Today and yesterday I was out on a couple major commercial corridors in our city. People are scared."

The "internet safety" bills being rammed through Congress and state legislatures are this generations equivalent of the Patriot Act — a path for mass surveillance, censorship and surrendering of fundamental rights. It creates ICE for the internet.

This. The challenge is that people were taught *that* the nazis were bad, but not *why* the Nazis were bad. Studying Black History, Indian History, and African History, would have revealed why Hitler didn't see himself or the Nazis as bad, and the danger and rot lurking in our societies.

3D PRINTED VUVUZELAS. Minnesota, you know what to do www.printables.com/model/441398...

AOC: I want everybody to understand that the cuts to your health care are what’s paying for this. You get screwed over to pay a bunch of thugs in the street that are shooting mothers in the face.

Going through my old notes, this quick list of bullets I jotted down 5 years ago, to explain tech culture to someone outside the industry, really holds up.

This week, two young trans athletes will see their rights debated at the Supreme Court. As last year's Skrmetti decision showed, scientific truth will have no place in the decision by the extremely conservative court. That's our top story leading off the week. www.assignedmedia.org/breaking-new...

Minneapolis uterus havers: if you’re bleeding out of cycle and wondering why, it’s the tear gas. Really, it does that

The forces of Enshittification are hard at work…

THIS WEEKEND: More than 1,000 marches and vigils are taking place nationwide to honor Renee Nicole Good, demand accountability for ICE’s killing of Renee, and make visible the human cost of ICE’s terror. Please join us: mobilize.us?tag_ids=2913...

Germany is a big country. It's taken the police in Germany 50 years to shoot 500 German citizens to death. From 1975 until now. That's including the period of civil unrest prior to reunification. US police will shoot 500 people before 4th of July weekend, then will shoot another 500 by Christmas.🤷🏿‍♂️

For those keeping score, Bellingcat, The New York Times Visual Investigation Team, & Washington Post's Visual Forensic team have all published analysis showing the ICE shooter wasn't in the path of Renee Nicole Good’s vehicle when he shot her, contradicting statements by the President & his cronies

Five years ago, I sheltered in the Capitol, praying the lock on my door would hold. Alarms blared. Rioters screamed, "Kill the infidels." I held my breath, not just because I was in danger, but because our democracy was. Democracy held, and I do still believe we can keep it.

Meanwhile, Europe continues onwards towards full implementation of the Cyber Resilience Act...

Utah commissioned it's department of health to do a systematic review of gender affirming care for trans youth. In a 1000 page plus report found it was beneficial and the evidence was substantial. The lawmakers rejected it anyways. www.deseret.com/politics/202...

Under the Biden administration, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) got private firms to pledge to hit certain memory-safety goals. This was called Secure by Design. Then Trump cut CISA's budget and Musk's goons forced out much of CISA's staff, ending Secure by Design

Here's a tragedy of DOGE that most people will never know about, even though it has big consequences: no one is left to coordinate the transition to memory safe systems code. 🧵

So I have the cover story in next month's TNR. I interviewed the heads of police groups; immigration defense attorneys, ex-judges and ex-prosecutors; former DOJ and DHS officials, and the former head of Border Patrol. They're all horrified at what we've seen, and they all fear what's coming.

So, what did we achieve for 🇪🇺's cloud situation in 2025? It is now crystal clear our governments can't continue to run on 🇺🇸 clouds. Yet even now, neither buyers or sellers of cloud tech in 🇪🇺 sense the urgency. Below I elaborate & discuss an unorthodox way out of this mess: berthub.eu/articles/pos...

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If we can't even identify our enemies then how can we fight them? Trump's National Security Strategy is the longest suicide note in American history www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...

The second-best time to leave US-controlled social media platforms & move to a decentralized open source alternative … is today …

German photographer Christian Vieler captures the hilarious moments when dogs try to catch treats mid-air. [📹 vieler. photography] #FridayVibes #FridayFun

This article is ten years old. www.engadget.com/2015-12-02-p...

"Trump's administration wants the International Criminal Court to amend its founding document to ensure it does not investigate the Republican president and his top officials, threatening new U.S. sanctions on the court if it did not." www.reuters.com/world/us/us-...

Whoa !

If I walked away from everything tech related tomorrow, it could be to run a combination café & motorcycle shop… 🤔 I love cooking for friends (but not enough to do that full time) and need somewhere to wrench on my own bike, so why not? (Do these exist in Europe? I miss the ones in the PNW!)

The thing to understand about "age verification" laws is that they are not just for kids The only way to "stop kids from doing xyz online" using age-gating is to demand a government ID (or invasive biometric face scan) from EVERYONE. This means associating your gov ID with EVERYTHING YOU DO ONLINE

Leaving Spotify can be difficult, that’s why we had @janus.bsky.social put together this guide to find a more sustainable way to release, discover, and listen to music so you can kick Spotify for good 😜 touchgrass.fightforthefuture.org/how-to-ditch...

Remember when 🌈’s were good for business? 😒

All of the UK is pretending that the UK secretly passed the equality act in 2010 that required a national bathroom ban along with a full ban of trans people from society and it was only discovered fifteen years later. It's obscene.

who decided to call it Secret Santa when Nondisclosure Claus was right there

Being among the first interrogated and ultimately fired by DOGE, I certainly felt we were facing the business end of a right-wing conspiracy theory 🧵

Did you really read this whole long thread? Wow! Go spread the word: DOGE isn't actually over.

Excited to announce that I’ll be giving the keynote at FOSS Backstage in Berlin in March! 26.foss-backstage.de/aeva-black-t...

Compilations of 15 second Sora videos posted on accounts like this are already doing big numbers, along with Sora generated rage bait. Legislation should require AI detection tools to be an integral part of the posting process, and tag likely AI generated posts and lower their algorithmic ranking.

Cybersecurity isn’t ready for the conversation about how bad sexism and ageism are in the whole pen test / red team community, or how influencer culture and the saturated market are enabling it to get worse. www.linkedin.com/pulse/tryhac...

Breaking: The FCC has voted 2-1 along party lines to eliminate cybersecurity requirements for telecom companies that the commission adopted at the end of the Biden administration. Telecoms had lobbied for the change. Democrats said it would invite another Salt Typhoon. Story coming shortly.