We are very happy that today Apple issued a patch and a security advisory. This comes following 404 Media reporting that the FBI accessed Signal message notification content via iOS despite the app being deleted.

Two copy editors high-fiving so hard right now

EXCLUSIVE: The SPLC indictment, the Klan history behind it, and the ignominy of Todd Blanche. Another dark day for DOJ. Tonight, at Law Dork:

MuckRock has a rare part-time (~15 hrs/week) front-end dev role opening! Flexible scheduling, 100% distributed team, 100% open source work that drives transparency, journalism and civic engagement. Expected pay starts at $80/hr depending on experience. docs.google.com/document/u/1...

NEW: The Consumer Federation of America is suing Meta, alleging that the company misled consumers about its efforts to combat scam advertisements and violated Washington DC's consumer protection laws. www.wired.com/story/meta-i...

Free speech absolutism.

That Palantir would do this is both shocking—not because this is some weird heel turn, but because it is a fully mask-off moment for tech bro fascisti—and also the least surprising thing from a company that has always been creepy as fuck.

the tech fascists think they are so clever and smart but their entire worldview is just a bunch of stale apologetics for race hatred and fascism

I forgot that the plural of pierogie is pierogie, forgive me.

Something like eight people blocked me for this so maybe it is my most unpopular opinion! Maybe up there with 🍍 🍕 even!

was hoping to run into @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social on my NYC trip but no luck so far. just a million super nice strangers looking out for each other. oh, and the best pierogies.

Unpopular opinion: I like it when people play music in public without headphones. It gives me a chance to find out what they’re into without needing to strike up a conversation.

Flying to NYC for an awards dinner not three weeks after getting laid off is a nice reminder of the value of having projects (freelance, volunteer, etc.) that aren't tied to employment.

It shocks me how many businesses still don’t seem to get that Trump’s cultural revolution did not actually happen

Good for him but I am tired of learning about all the ways a 41-year-old candidate for U.S. Senate supposedly has a lot more growing and learning to do. Maybe do that before the Senate? And maybe try out a lower office before then? Or maybe we just watch him blossom into another Sinema/Fetterman.

nonzero chance the FBI is plugging LLMs into wiretap data under the legal theory AI alone can’t implicate 4th amendment concerns (semi-known 702 issue). or the NSA has now hard coded wiretaps across all newly built US data centers due to expanded ECSP scope. or probably both.

I'm not sorry, Dave. www.fastcompany.com/91518448/stu...

Alice in Wonderland but instead of getting big or small it’s potions to either keep me up or help me sleep. (I guess this wouldn’t work if I was asleep, my story writing career is coming to an end.)

monthly spa days and facials, super fancy food and cocktails now and again, and I would get bailey food from the farmer's dog.

The thing about Platner is that he'll screw up, make some statement, and it's supposed to be fine. Has he met with disabled folks in Maine? Met with advocacy groups? Understood the harm of the word and how the disabled are under attack? He never does the work required to be worthy of redemption.

I accidentally got dressed up all nice for a phone screening today

stego

Doctors say that most serious childhood diseases are caused by viruses. A guy who eats dogs and snorts cocaine off toilet seats says they are caused by radiation from 5G cell phone towers. For a busy parent, it can be hard to know who to trust.

NGL there is something genuinely just very funny about telling the pope to read up on Catholic theory

Everything is fucking dumb all the time now

FUCKING LEAVE SUBSTACK NO SHIT THEY SUPPORT NAZIS IF YOU BIG PUBS LEFT SUBSTACK THEY WOULD HAVE LESS $$ FFS a lot of us already made the leap because we believe that fighting fascism is more important than doing the easy thing and complaining about it hey support NAZI-FREE liberatory writing:

in a world without random alt-med bullshit we could be researching useful things instead of having to disprove made up things.

Donald Trump is blockading the Strait of Hormuz and JD Vance is fighting the pope, who is from Chicago, and we are discussing celebrity death doulas in the blue sky, where we all went after twitter fell...I tell the visitor from 2005

I hereby adopt employment jelly--just for a little while, I hope.

no shit www.cnn.com/2026/04/14/h...

The “never talk about race because it might alienate the racists” wing of the Democratic pundit class must be having an aneurysm

like, this is why you should in fact care about this. because the alternative is not to forgive past failures and let people change. the alternative, as a lot of people are pointing out, is to accept a totenkopf as a virtuous symbol of your movement.

I think treating a Nazi tattoo as a cool litmus test which weeds out whiners is bad? Like, that is not the party I want to vote for or to represent me?

the argument is that Platner is awesome because he has a Nazi tatoo, and if you think Nazi tattoos are bad, you're an online scold and should be mocked.

YOUSE GUYSE NAZIS ARE BAD yes, even worse than people who get offended about things you don't get please trust us, the jews, on this? (Please also do not ignore the 3rd gen Latinae kids in a few decades whose finely tuned instincts about ICE will be, trust, on fucking point.)

@xbow.com hi! wondering if there is a press contact I can reach out to for a story about Mythos, etc.?

@doctorow.pluralistic.net put it well recently: pluralistic.net/2026/03/02/n...

I feel like I'm inundated with (intelligent, thoughtful) people sending me prompts they sent to their favorite LLM and what the LLM response was, and it just reads like fan fiction to me and my eyes glaze over. I think this is my new least favorite genre.

Today, EFF sent complaints to the attorneys general of California and New York urging them to investigate Google for deceptive trade practices over Google's broken promises to users targeted by the government 🧵(1/4) www.eff.org/press/relea...

@stanislavfort.bsky.social I sent you an email but would love to speak to you about your report for a piece I'm writing if you are available...

if i come back, do you want to start over to find good content for me and risk losing me again because now you have insufficient data? be my guest. such an idiotic approach by the firm who doesn’t even let me see what i’ve liked in a list. you don’t even let me use my data, why’d i care to lose it?

netflix responding my membership cancellation request with “your profiles, your likes, everything will be deleted, are you sure?” and i’m like “don’t tempt me with good time”. someone at netflix got that entirely backwards. i don’t need my data to stay with you, you need my data to keep me.

Carry yourself with the confidence of a person who charges $500 to read a single paragraph.

It is so weird how the most wholesome activities draw so much drama. Community garden plot turf wars. People being weirdly competitive about how fast they can make PB&J sammiches for the unhoused (when there’s a finite amount of bread). Next will I see public library fist fights?

Why is it easier to buy concert tickets than it is to make a medical appointment?

1. Your goal is to retrieve your treasure from a monstrous entity. 2. All you need is a pen and paper, but expensive software makes it much easier. 3. The rules are constantly being updated, but they’re still shackled to a system from the 1970s.

be gay, do... well actually the government was the one doing crimes

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In the end, Hungarians showed us not only how to beat a thuggish nationalist, but also how to defeat our own stubborn cynicism. Set some Google news alerts. Get a little invested. The future can still be ours. Nothing is inevitable.