pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.

Jeanines — On and On @jeanines-band.bsky.social @slumberlandrecords.com @skepwax.bsky.social ftherules.net/2025/11/08/j...

Etran de L’Aïr – Imouha ftherules.net/2025/11/06/e...

Unit 42 report on spyware that exploited a zero-day in Samsung phones. Used in targeted attacks in the Middle East and with possible links to Stealth Falcon, a group linked to the UAE government and which has previously targeted journalists and activists unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/landfall-is-...

404 Media is so worth the 100 dollars or so I send it every year.

This is how you make a point. (@simonkuper.bsky.social for the FT) on.ft.com/47riQsV

EFF and AV Comparatives team up to see how well anti-virus apps detect Android stalkerware. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

I'm about to be without internet for 24 hours and now I'm trying very hard to read all the internet while I still can.

There's some really big caveats to this. A thread.

I just successfully applied for an ETA to visit the UK. Approval within minutes. This makes me better off than 90% of the world's population. And still, for a country I called my home for more than eight years, it also sucks. The enshittification of moving across borders.

I'm so sorry to hear about Dick Cheney. Always have been.

Buying a metro ticket in Paris is harder than getting into the Louvre surveillance server.

If you read an amazing article from Teen Vogue about politics in the last several years, chances are that Lex McMenamin wrote it. Any publication that is serious about meeting this moment would be lucky to have them.

It's exciting that my French has reached a level where I can comfortably buy food. Anyway, the waiter misunderstood my order and also replied to me in English. (In fairness, this is Brussels.)

My sister, who is a teacher, used ChatGPT to create a poem in a specific form that is eleven words long. It gave her a twelve word poem. She then used this to teach the kids a lesson about AI.

Stereolab – Cybele’s Reverie @stereolabgroop.bsky.social ftherules.net/2025/11/01/s...

I always struggle to describe Dutch cuisine. I now realise "functional" is pretty accurate.

Tbh, I find the fact that it's already the 31st of October scarier than any Halloween thing I've seen.

The Museum of the Occupation of Latvia is one of the best history museums I've ever been to: it knows how to tell a story, it doesn't just show objects. I thought this in 2004 and thought so again during my second visit today. If you ever find yourself in Riga, consider spending an hour there.

Sometimes, when I'm writing something, my thoughts drift off and I finish a sentence on autopilot, often writing something else than I intended. Now I wonder if I might be ChatGPT.

We need to talk about Sudan. After more than 18 months of an inhumane siege and starvation in El Fasher, the RSF militia are committing mass killings of civilians on an unimaginable scale. There is so much blood it can be seen from space.

Joel Cusumano – Two Arrows @joelcusumano.bsky.social ftherules.net/2025/10/30/j...

I have become vegetarian. Except during meals. (This is Israel's logic regarding the "ceasefire".)

I've been awake for 24 hours. How long is that in baseball games?

I should probably not be making slides at 2am because the jokes are getting kinda silly and I i guess I won't find them funny at 2pm.

The Pains of Being Pure at Heart – Higher than the Stars @thepainsofbeing.bsky.social @slumberlandrecords.com ftherules.net/2025/10/27/70/

Where can I submit a suggestion to name UAC-0195, the Russia-linked threat group that hacks Signal accounts of prominent Ukrainians, "Atlantic Bear"?

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms). It’s also concerning. 1/

The Ekphrastics – This Month At The Roman Bros. Gallery @ekphrastics.bsky.social ftherules.net/2025/10/25/t...

I don't know who this Emily Dickinson lady is, but all these em-dashes makes it clear she had ChatGPT write her poems

*checking the news after six hours of being mostly offline* I wonder what thing just happened that, if someone had predicted this six hours ago, everyone would have called them crazy?

Did I mention I started a music blog? Well, I started a music blog. You can follow it here as @ftherulesblog.bsky.social

"Most rival parties seemed to accept [Wilders's] assumption that the biggest threat to a country below sea level comes from would-be refugees (44,054 last year), rather than from, say, climate change"

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

As a former conference organiser, I know there's nothing worse than a speaker who doesn't reply to emails, despite being prompted multiple times. So it's pretty embarrassing to be that speaker now.

Dad, what's a metaphor?

The primary advantage of using Signal over WhatsApp is that Signal does not store metadata. Just sayin'. www.forbes.com/sites/the-wi...

Tullycraft – Tarrytown ftherules.net/2025/10/19/t...

The Cords – When You Said Goodbye @slumberlandrecords.com @skepwax.bsky.social ftherules.net/2025/10/17/t...

Snõõper – Company Car ftherules.net/2025/10/16/s... www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vNS...

SCOOP: A man who worked on developing hacking and surveillance tools for defense contractor L3Harris Trenchant was notified by Apple that his iPhone was targeted with mercenary spyware. The developer believes he was targeted after he was wrongly accused of leaking zero-days developed by Trenchant.

One lesson from yesterday's AWS outage is that we found a flaw in the advice to "have a Signal groups with core staff as a backup channel during outages". (So change that to also have their phone numbers so you can use WhatsApp or Telegram or SMS if needed.)

Our story from this weekend: www.reuters.com/world/china/...

Young queer people make me hopeful about the world. That's it.

Using Tor doesn’t require a lot of technical know-how, you just need to download a browser and familiarize yourself with some basics. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

Predictable.

I been robbed. All my arts gone.

I started a music blog where I post about songs I like, in case that is your thing.

NOW: US court permanently bans Pegasus spyware maker from hacking WhatsApp. NSO Group can't help their customers hack WhatsApp etc. ether. Must delete exploits & R&D. Bad news for NSO. Huge competitive disadvantage for the notorious company. Big additional win for WhatsApp 1 /

If your protest privacy/security advice does not start with a discussion of threat models, it is probably not good advice.