A fun fact about McCarthyism is that just two and a half years after he was condemned and censured, Sen. Joseph McCarthy drank himself to death at 48. Fevers break. Petty tyrants fall. Censorship and persecution drive good people to stand together and fight back.

My DEFCON talk "We are currently clean on OPSEC" now has over 30k views on YouTube, so now more people watched my talk than attended DEFCON itself. If you haven't seen it, please do! The Trump admin's incompetence is mindbogglingly BONKERS www.youtube.com/watch?v=KFYy...

I actually think it’s good when deeply offputting users have horrible AI avatars. its the 2025 version of this

We're at the point where the Trump does something worse than Watergate daily, often multiple times a day. And none of it makes news; it's just normal now.

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If you have an extra $10 a month to spare, here's a list of worker-owned cooperative news sites you might want to support: • 404 Media • Defector • The Flytrap • Flaming Hydra • The Appeal • Aftermath • Racket • Hell Gate • The 51st • The Colorado Sun • Range Media • Discourse Blog • Pop Heist

so, about those Tesla door handles... www.thesun.co.uk/news/3677623...

Meta said this didn’t violate their policies, which is no surprise coming from the company that had grooming chatbots on their platform.

The mechanism here is the same as the Threads posts you see on IG - it’s recommending content based on what you already view on IG, but with her twist they didn’t know they were cross-posting to Threads. That raises a lot of uncomfortable questions about Meta’s recommendation algorithm and tagging!

Replace them all. Primary every single one. They are useless to us as we fight this autocracy.

"identity is a control plane" goes hard af

Or it just means you’re a bad person

Prince spotting! (I think) @anildash.com youtu.be/0_9gIyyREhY

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I hadn't realized that Blacksky is running an entire separate stack federated with bluesky, that's huge

The fact that Matthew Dowd lost his job for pointing out Charlie Kirk’s hate speech, while Brian Kilmeade openly suggests we should euthanize the homeless and there is zero outrage, shows exactly what is terribly wrong with today’s political mainstream media.

If we added in-line translation, how many of you would use it? Pls comment w your emoji of choice 🧚‍♀️ bc likes are not indicative enough of want

Ashley Rindsberg and Fox News are furious at Wikipedia editors for “attacking” Charlie Kirk by... listing the viewpoints he prominently and publicly advocated

Banner week for pieces of shit.

"Healthy debate" = when I criticize you "Cancel culture" = when you criticize me

how do you reckon with the present moment without also reckoning with fucking bitcoin, the nazi takeover of American libertarianism between 2012 and 2018, the Hogan v. Gawker lawsuit and Mark Fucking Zuckerberg like okay yeah gamergate fits in there too but look at all this other shit that happened

From an Atlantic editor. I cannot get over how the entire centrist hivemind is attempting to wish into existence a person, and a movement, that does not exist. You are journalists, you are supposed to describe things as they are, not how you want them to be!

(not getting likes because my posts are bad) they must be engaging in ritual progressive denunciation

The international tram driving championships are live on YouTube right now! www.youtube.com/embed/smp0vo... One of the events is "tram curling" where the tram gives a little cart a shove and tries to get it to stop at the right point

Here are some things that Charlie Kirk said in his life. The man is dead, and so it only seems fair to share his legacy by cataloguing the values he spread while alive.

Hype! github.com/letsencrypt/...

@justfutureslaw.bsky.social Congratulations on your EFF Award tonight!

@sflcin.bsky.social congratulations for your @eff.org award tonight!

Let's put a spotlight on our EFF Awards winners! ✨ @erie.bsky.social has been busy filing federal court declarations to protect American's data and warning Congress about 'DOGE burning the house down'. Don't miss her at the EFF Awards on Sept 10 in San Francisco! eff.org/effawards

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It’s time

While the Trump administration tries to cancel offshore wind for "national security" reasons, here's the CEO of Ukraine's largest private energy company

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge? It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

Recently there has been a lot of dividing & heated discourse about ActivityPub and AT Protocol. Yesterday at the Social Web CG meeting, I proposed releasing a statement on this discourse, you can read the full statement here: github.com/swicg/genera... #activitypub #atprotocol #atproto #SocialWeb

Love love love these Friday evening @railway.com dispatches

One hour of John Williams 🔥🔥🔥 www.kdfc.com/articles/cla...

This Labor Day, Kickstarter United is asking for your help preparing for a potential workplace action. You can read our full statement and join our efforts to win a fair contract here: www.gofundme.com/f/support-ki...

Such a grand tune!

On Lobsters an unpleasant-but-technically-correct user finally got banned, and I realized that an unpopular opinion of mine is that mods are always right. I don't care about the letter of the CoC or about transparency, even. Moderation is the human and nuanced job that shapes a community.

When It Happens, blast any Democrat who "looks forward to working with Vance" directly into the sun. Democrats need to make it clear from minute one that they have this guy's number, know he doesn't have the juice, and that they're going to make his life a living hell from the moment Trump drops.

Yup. Yesterday was horrible.

He is manipulating data and making absolutely horrific decisions without consulting some of the best experts in the world. They have no recourse. If you wish to rage at someone, may I suggest any Republican Senator. 2/3

leaflet.pub/discover page is pretty cool. scrolling through, finding a publication, then clicking the writer to see how many of my bsky peeps follow the author is a baller vibe check

what’s the name for a version-and-dependency-and-more manager like `uv`? I don’t know, but I’m building one for Ruby anyway andre.arko.net/2025/08/25/r...

Today, we're launching the first Beta of Bounce, a tool that lets you migrate your social graph across protocols! We got such a positive response from our announcement, and we're so excited for folks to try it out. Here's what you need to know when you Bounce: blog.anew.social/bounce-beta-...

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I recently wrote a local magazine article where I talked to some folks who had gotten into vibe coding and what I found really surprising was the sheer excitement and community they were building, complete with events. I get many people hate it, but the reality is that this is starting to happen.

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just… just imagine being a worn-out husk of a political human being motivated only by getting ahead at any cost and feeling enjoyment only from seeing other people suffer… and trying to compete with this. impossible.