Evergiven when

some workarounds for age-gating

I’ll never get over it.

if I haven’t submitted an emoji proposal to the unicode consortium to support an inside joke we have, at some point, you have to ask yourself: did I ever truly love you?

I’m saying “FWIW” and “FYI” more than usual today, can’t be a good sign

watching for the ads

some are watching a sports game today but I know many that are geared up to watch the bad bunny show

my number one gripe about The Algorithm is sometimes I see something & don’t fave it & can never find it again because it has popular terms and no relationship to my feed, it’s like a cloud sailing by

ICYMI: 950+ Google workers signed a petition demanding that executives "disclose all contracts and collaboration with DHS, CBP, and ICE, and to divest from these partnerships." www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/b...

Cool github.com/cfinke/Epste...

I’m joining for this now too! Should be fun. If you’re in CVille, hit me up. dtdlab.virginia.edu/event/digita...

DHS is waging a bi-coastal assault on the free speech rights of people speaking truth about power. Last fall, in a separate case, the agency unsuccessfully sought the identity of our client who discusses ICE activity on Instagram. www.aclunorcal.org/press-releas...

There is zero reason for a billionaire to own an adversarial news outlet in a kleptocracy. And so billionaires are gutting the media companies they own, reorienting them to better align with the regime, and spending money on bribes rather than journalists www.404media.co/the-washingt...

"Those who were laid off include Caroline O’Donovan, the Post’s beat reporter covering Amazon"

this is exactly what @meredithmeredith.bsky.social has been warning everyone about

I feel much like how every millionaire is a policy failure, every Super Bowl ad is probably for a product that should not exist (I’m bracing for the AI ads)

I am glad DOJ is using old school age checks rather than scanning the faces of everyone searching the Epstein files

this is your sign to turn on Lockdown Mode

Welcome back bill to not have facial recognition technology at Wegmen’s and other places of public accommodation legistar.council.nyc.gov/LegislationD...

34 #Oklahoma legislators sue to block upload of state residents’ data to AAMVA’s national #realid database: papersplease.org/wp/2026/01/2...

Thank you to @justinhendrix.bsky.social and @techpolicypress.bsky.social for a great interview about “Your Data Will Be Used Against You.” @nyupress.bsky.social Worth a listen. www.techpolicy.press/how-to-apply...

I believe NSO Group has one goal: Bring Pegasus spyware to America. They're trying to create the perception that they are a reformed company. But they just got caught trying to hijack diplomatic efforts to whitewash Pegasus spyware 1/

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remind me to try to be more like Catherine O’Hara whenever you can

Watch the full training.

This is fiscal AND technological responsibility bsky.app/profile/thec...

A Minnesota woman observing ICE agents in her car was cornered on one-way streets. An agent approached, called her by name—citing facial recognition. Days later, her Global Entry and TSA privileges were revoked, with no explanation.

New from 404 Media: here is the user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE. A map shows people on a map; ICE clicks them, brings up their dossier. ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target. We obtained it, you can now read the document for yourself: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

The search and seizure warrant for Hannah Natanson explicitly authorized law enforcement personnel to use her fingers and face to attempt to unlock her phone.

Who’s watching the watchers watching the watchers? Well it’s me, but it everyone in the watching chain too and some other people. Watching is getting less and less linear.

Teaching Kafka tonight

I stay subscribed to government industry listservs and periodicals for “insider knowledge,” but a lot of the time the flat industry speak (the nature of the beast) feels like it’s eroding knowledge I previously had, I must stay strong

thinking about how the pros of friction-maxxing are fidelity and protection, e.g., Tidal high fidelity audio not loading offline, Proton docs requiring login and also being slow to load

if any focus groups want to know what millennials truly want I can unlock the secret for them (it’s public healthcare and decentralized social media)

If “sharing information about suspicious cars that drove by on the Internet” is illegal, than Kash Patel better be cracking down hard on Nextdoor before he bothers with Signal.

the @merriam-webster.com dictionary right now 2 is cool www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/c...

so good

I've seen threads about how privacy slows organizing. My thoughts: 1. People are rightfully overwhelmed by all this surveillance 2. Risk modeling balances that tension; folks need more info on how to prioritize the protection of data that could be used to criminalize them 3. Respect others' agency

this serious & good thread is going viral appropriately my silly side thought is how I am "winter person" that could be invaded in the winter easily, maybe I am "an internet person that could not be invaded online," but no I could be invaded anywhere I think, maybe not in my own mind but even then

Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old intensive care unit nurse was shot and killed by federal agents in Minneapolis, on January 24. DHS claims he died after an armed struggle, but videos of the incident appears to contradict that claim. Read our analysis here: www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/01...

We've just published this great essay by Georgia Edwards, Zuzanna Wojciak and shirin anlen from @witnessorg.bsky.social on how GenAI is threatening OSINT journalism's core assumptions and how to address that threat A piece worth your precious time reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/ai-unde...

In case you were wondering, if passed, the Protecting Law Enforcement from Doxxing Act would almost certainly face immediate First Amendment challenges.

DHS wants to learn from the best on how to use large datasets to target people. (The best is Ad Tech). sam.gov/workspace/co...

The fact that they’re trying to extort MN for more target data (& extend what DOGE has been doing on the federal level) should encourage local governments to triple down on their sanctuary city / state shield laws.

We the people have the power. Join us tomorrow, January 26, for a virtual training on how to exercise your right to document ICE abuses in your community. RSVP using the link below. When using that link, Indivisible will know you came from us; their privacy policy applies.

Minnesota ICE-watchers did this. By relentlessly documenting ICE/BP/DHS abuses—taking on personal risk to do so—they’ve gotten the horrors into more information streams. Got more people to pay attention, undermined Trump regime lies, and shifted the stances of some Democratic officeholders.

How to help Minnesota (and yourself): a clear, straightforward guide of steps you can take naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/h...

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