Hundreds of scientists say stop! ✋🚨 Governments should pause plans for mandatory #AgeChecks on online services until serious #privacy and #security concerns are addressed. 👉 Read more on #AgeVerification, why scientist say NO & whether your country wants it: tuta.com/blog/age-ver...

“Israel’s latest war on Lebanon is intended to uproot and dispossess Lebanon’s Shia community as a whole. Aside from committing war crimes, Israel is trying to instigate a new sectarian conflict in Lebanon” — my comments to @dawnmenaorg.bsky.social

So predictable. While Trump and Hegseth posture, millions around world have their lives turned upside down by their cavalier, ill-thought-through attack on Iran, whose regime clings on, and people suffer. Everyone suffers from the devastating consequences, except the immoral morons who launched it.

Oil prices wouldn't be all over the news today if more of our economy was powered by local, secure renewable energy. This isn't an "energy crisis". It's a fossil fuel crisis. 44% of UK electricity came from renewables in 2025. More of that plus an electrified economy => no more oil shocks.

Casualty figures are rapidly increasing. Just a day after health minister’s presser, ministry says toll of a week of Israeli strikes on Lebanon has risen to 486 killed and 1,313 wounded #lebanon #beirut

There is already documented evidence of Israel using white phosphorus over Lebanese homes www.hrw.org/news/2026/03...

Is letting bot farms choose your shadow cabinet a clever idea?

Have you heard about the mathematician who published her first paper in Nature at the age of 10?

The government should have left X long ago.

US privacy law is a complex mess that varies by state with nowhere near the strong rights-based protection we have in Europe. The EU-US "data bridge" only works because of a single Biden-era executive order and even then it only covers companies who deliberately opt in

But sure... US law enforcement (or any other country's, for that matter) would be a perfectly safe custodian of (i) a back door to encrypted communications, (ii) escrowed keys, (iii) pre-emptive, consentless client-side scanning. Do Not Legislate Systemic Vulnerabilities Into Consumer Products!

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

If you want to win on the left, just run Mamdani's campaign. IE. Have values you don't compromise on, and have plans for making things better and stick to them. Be authentically a person who is trying to do well.

Waiting for victims to report Internet scams is a losing game. Paudel and Stringhini propose LOKI, a data-driven framework that proactively hunts for fraud. By mining toxic search queries, it automatically surfaces tens of thousands of undiscovered scam sites. www.ndss-symposium.org/ndss-paper/l...

Just a reminder: "No organization put more boots on the ground at the Capitol on January 6, 2021, than the Proud Boys, and they were at the forefront of every major breach of the Capitol’s defenses, leading the on-the-ground efforts to storm the seat of government" www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/p...

Every single time I read an article that reports how Israel gave an evacuation order to a foreign sovereign territory that they're going to bomb 'pre-emptively', I wonder how we got to a point where telling civilians that you're going to murder them is seen as decency?

Farage is a shirker, and has been in every elected role. As an MEP he skived off the Fisheries meetings when he should have been representing the UK, and only showed up in the EP for the chance of a soundbite on camera. He *doesn't want* public office - just the grift that goes with it.

At some point Western leaders are going to have to act on the fact that we can't afford Trump's chaotic, irresponsible behaviour. There need to be consequences.

Ooof. bsky.app/profile/paro...

Isn’t it delightful that all the edtech advocates, who attacked and demeaned anyone who challenged Google schools, or edtech governance etc, all of them are falling over themselves to agree with a white man, Haidt, criticising screens in schools. No ethics at all.

The asymmetry of the value placed on human life is so striking. Israel has a goal to recover 40-year-old remains; to do so, it invades a sovereign country, and the lives of 26 Lebanese are an afterthought. Their names not even worth printing in the New York Times.

True, *but*... it's not only Big Tech that wants a panopticon: we don't exactly see the politicians fighting against that as an outcome, do we?

Oh my. I've just seen, in a builder's quote, someone described as a "mattress logistics operative". Their task would have been to move the mattress from one side of the room to the other, and then back again after the interior work was done.

Just for shits and giggles, here’s a deeply ironic instance of one such dark - give us your email to read for free - pattern: @taylorlorenz.bsky.social’s piece for The Intercept on age verification as the end of online anonymity. But that’s what burner email addresses are for, right?

California is embedding age verification directly into digital devices. For those of us concerned with personal liberties, this is an emergency. California’s Age-Verification Law Is a Civil Liberties Test […]

Trump violated our Constitution by waging war without Congressional authorization. Senate Rs had the chance to defend our Constitution. They failed. They failed to defend our Constitution. They failed to rein in Trump’s poorly planned and illegally-launched war. They failed the American people.

For #Israel, drawing the #USA into a #war was clearly a cover for continued expansionist aims... what other country can get away with demanding an evacuation of a city in another sovereign country so they can bomb it? And hasn't #Beirut suffered enough? #Lebanon www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

I'm excited to share the success of our 2025 Internet Society Community Advocacy Fellowship. We brought back in-person workshops in Latin America and the Asia-Pacific to help local advocates build the skills they need to defend the Internet. 1/6

But surely this is impossible, because as everyone knows, 1 - law enforcement can't arrest people for CSAM, because encrypted communication exists, and simultaneously 2 - law enforcement and justice officials are perfectly safe custodians of the keys to your private communications. Mmmmm hm.

It's not a (free) check: it's a rebate on the tax they have paid and the billionaires have avoided.

I am getting sick of having my constructive, worthwhile activities in the US, Middle East and elsewhere fouled up by the self-serving tantrums of a man too unstable to be allowed near the levers of power. A "privilege problem", I know, and others are suffering far worse, but it is pissing me off.

Proxy war crimes are also war crimes.

they're just phoning in the WMD threats now, they just told us they destroyed the nuclear capacity only last season!

Alex Pretti and Renée Good were murdered by federal agents. Soon after, Secretary Noem labeled them 'domestic terrorists.’ I gave her the chance to recant and apologize for the pain she's caused their families with these outrageous lies. She refused.

FULLY FUNDED PHDs IN POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY I'm looking for *two* PhD students to join my ERC project on refugee-led approaches to displacement justice. The positions are funded for four years, and you get to join our lovely community in Bristol. Please share widely! philjobs.org/job/show/30997

I've been covering the "social media addiction" trial and the narrative you were given or have come to about social media is a VERY convenient and intoxicating one, but it's simply not the reality of how the internet works. And it's so crucial for those suffering to recognize that

"Siri, what does 'blithering' mean?"

Trump, suffering from dementia, is confused about where his father was born. It was in the Bronx, not in Germany. Trump's grandfather was an immigrant who came here after getting kicked out of Germany for evading the draft.

Extreme Long shot but, if anyone visited the Permanent Exhibition at the National Museum of Finland between 1995-2016 and has any pictures of the interpretation panels/display/presentation of the Suontaka sword then I'd be extremely grateful for copies! Many thanks!

📞🇫🇷 Voici la liste de numéros d'urgence à contacter pour les Français touchés par la guerre au #MoyenOrient, diffusée par le Quai d'Orsay

"The Peace President."

It feels particularly horrible this is announced at a moment the government is getting set to to participate in a war that is threatening to massively escalate and destabilise not just the region but the global economy upending millions and millions of lives

While we're all distracted by Iran, Shabana Mahmood is continuing Labour's sprint Right... In my over half a century on this Earth, I have never seen a British political party more determined to lose the next election. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

Lord Peter Ricketts, former head of the Foreign Office: “If you’re going to attack a country you have to show it is in self-defence and that there is some kind of imminent threat. You can’t make that case here…An indifference to international law is dangerous.” www.ft.com/content/b988...

La nouvelle guerre déclenchée par Israël et les États-Unis contre l’Iran ce samedi matin a un air d’attendu et de déjà-vu. Néanmoins, l’objectif est différent de celui affiché pendant l’offensive précédente de juin 2025. Cette fois, la cible est le régime lui-même. Par Gwenaelle Lenoir

Heads up SW! 🧡🖤 From a friend - WARNING: Amazon is updating it's list settings. With the new update, "your address may become visible to gift purchasers through delivery updates and tracking information" #spicysky #infosec

Remember Yachtgate - the original Mandelson scandal? In 2008, he was caught on an oligarch's boat in Corfu. The Epstein files now reveal the full picture: a web of Russian money, paedophile kompromat and New Labour access that shaped a decade of British politics www.thenerve.news/p/peter-mand...

The rampant data sharing fueled by online tracking has serious consequences. Privacy Badger blocks online tracking to prevent your browsing data from being used against you. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Since the start of Trump’s second term, his administration has embraced a wide range of authoritarian tactics, policies, and actions that undermine human rights. Ahead of tonight’s State of the Union address, revisit HRW’s research documenting abuses🧵⤵️