And if crypto isn't your bag, there are many other ways to support our work to protect #InternetFreedom🩵 Help us defend our rights to freely and safely preserve evidence and protect eyewitnesses. ✨https://www.open-archive.org/donate #DefendHumanRights #FundInternetFreedom #ArchiveForward

Evidence only matters if it survives. We protect it from censorship, blackouts, manipulation, and data loss. Your support keeps eyewitnesses safe and evidence intact—whatever comes. Donate by 6/19 & your gift will be matched 4x or more: internetfreedom.torproject.org/projects/ope...

If you're new to Signal, it might feel a little overwhelming to get the hang of, but you can get it set up and working pretty quickly. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

​​As always, @kurtopsahl.bsky.social, is on point. Grateful for this and even more grateful for his support as one of our founding board members🫶 Donate now to help us defend our right to securely archive, verify, and encrypt (Save) our media: internetfreedom.torproject.org/projects/ope...

🔐📸Secure archiving protects people, their evidence, and #InternetFreedom. @torproject’s new blog highlights how our work fosters accountability, memory, and media sovereignty. Learn more ⬇️ blog.torproject.org/preserving-e...

What if $1 could stretch as far as $100? The campaign is live! We’re exploring a new way to fund #InternetFreedom. One small contribution can have a huge impact. Become part of it here: internetfreedom.torproject.org/projects/ope... @osservatorionessuno.org @torproject.org

#PrivacyFirst #HumanRights tools like ours should be public goods. They’re not, which is why we must reclaim how #InternetFreedom is funded. This funding campaign is as participatory, decentralized, and resilient as our #FLOSS work, liberating us from single point-of-failure legacy funding models.⬇️

Incredibly proud of this collaboration to better protect us & our histories! It’s a dream come true to put nearly a decade’s worth of community co-research into action & share our harm reduction tools with the world! I live for de-enshittifying our little corner of the web. #MoveSlowAndFixThings

Good, but missing Ariane Louis-Seize’s ⚰️Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person Jarmusch’s 🧛‍♀️Only Lovers Left Alive Ana Lily Amirpour’s🦇A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

“Blue Bonds are the good version of Trump's beloved shitcoins…Blue Bonds are a source of public prosperity, backed by a present or future Fed under democratic control, accountable to the people.” - @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy Cory Doctorow pluralistic.net/2025/10/04/f...

"Get it all on record now. Get the films. Get the witnesses. Because somewhere down the track of history some bastard will get up and say that this never happened." – Dwight D. Eisenhower, Germany, 1945

The rich don’t spend the money they have, and the poor don’t have money to spend. This is a problem when 70% of the economy relies on consumer spending. Closing our nation's wealth gap isn’t just the right thing to do. It’s essential to save our economy. https://youtu.be/S6dCh48b4oI?feature=shared

Fifty-one years ago today.

Lea, who holds a Ph.D. in cryptography and serves on the USENIX board, will discuss designing systems that make doing the right thing easy. See more about the session here: www.usenix.org/conference/u...

From ransomware to state-sponsored actors, security is deeply entangled with people, systems, and incentives. The key lesson is that security isn't just about fixing bugs, but about understanding motivations and building alliances. 2/3

"The share feature creates a predictably formatted link which allowed people to search Google for the indexed material." I'm old enough to remember when people got criminally prosecuted as hackers under the CFAA for this exact behavior.

There are concerts and plays happening. Pride parties. People who live in DTLA (80k+) and people out at bars and restaurants in Downtown L.A.

ICE activity is happening across the country, and will likely draw protests in many places. Trump is authorizing military deployment nationwide, regardless of whether protests involve violence *or are even happening yet.* 14/19

Moreover, the line between military and civilian government is one of the most critical protections for democracy. An army turned inward can quickly become an instrument of tyranny. That’s why domestic deployment should be an absolute last resort. 11/19 www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

Civil unrest should be handled by civilian law enforcement except in the most extreme situations. Soldiers are trained to fight and destroy an enemy; they aren’t trained to safely handle and deescalate civil unrest situations. 10/19 www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/do...

The memorandum says that the Guard will be protecting ICE personnel and federal property. As a practical matter, this will almost certainly involve serving basic police functions, such as physical crowd control, that the military normally isn’t allowed to perform. 9/19

But it would be a mistake to focus too much on which statutory power is being used here. What matters it that Trump is federalizing the Guard for the purpose of policing Americans’ protest activity. That’s dangerous for both public safety and democracy. 8/19

Trump is instead relying on a statute, 10 USC 12406, that allows the president to federalize the Guard when there is a rebellion against the authority of the U.S. government or when “the President is unable with the regular forces to execute the laws of the United States.” 6/19

Ordinarily using federal troops (including federalized National Guard forces) to suppress civil unrest would be illegal under the Posse Comitatus Act. But Congress can legislate exceptions. The relevant exception here is the Insurrection Act. 4/19 www.brennancenter.org/our-work/res...

That’s alarming enough. But Trump has also authorized deployment of troops anywhere in the country where protests against ICE are occurring or are likely to occur, even if they are entirely peaceful. That is unprecedented and a clear abuse of the law. 2/19

If you are planning to peacefully protest, take heed…a thread.

“If we allow our tech competitors all over the world to reverse engineer/erode the high monopoly rents extracted by these American tech firms, we do something very effective in this trade war because the only thing keeping the SMP500 afloat are these tech monopolists." @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

We’re looking for a Senior Campaign Director! Know someone who’s a good fit or could spread word? Tag them in the comments! 👇

Two of the most impactful and powerful resources you have available to you are your attention and endurance. Allocate them wisely. Understand there are immediate, mid, and long-term goals. Do not conflate every action into one, and also remain focused on the bigger picture.

The notion that a human rights-centered approach hinders progress is a dangerous fallacy. For too long, “innovation” has been used as an excuse to sideline trust, safety, and user rights, writes shirin anlen.

#OtD 19 Feb 1896, André Breton, anarchist, antifascist and founder of surrealism, was born. More information and sources: stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9082/birth-of-andre-breton

Comparison at a very high level between Bluesky, ActivityPub (fediverse), and Nostr soapbox.pub/blog/compari...

A bug in Cloudflare (and just the nature of how CDNs work) let an attacker learn the broad location of Discord, Signal, Twitter users by just sending them an image, according to a security researcher. It works because check which data center cached the image www.404media.co/cloudflare-i...

Question for the old punks: What are some of the worst local band names you can remember? (Not bad bands, just dumb/gross/ridiculous names)

Lies about the wildfire are out of control www.readtpa.com/p/the-rights...

Yes, we’re hiring another historian! Remote within US only, unfortunately (I do not make the rules). And Mark is correct that we’re interested in hearing from History PhDs!

Enjoy Strength Through Failure, today on #freeform #radio @wfmu.bsky.social , 3pm. You’ll feel a lot better if you do! #dj #experimentalmusic #electronicmusic #jazz #radioshow #liveradio

Yay, my fav film pod @youaregood.bsky.social did an ep on my fav la film. I always thought the LACMA skate scene was homage to the Louvre scene in Bande á part. This may not be the truth, but it is what I wish were true. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/y... youtu.be/J9i771qYngY?...

You’ve been missed @julieklausner.bsky.social! I can’t think of a better person to chronicle the end times and make me feel seen in a copium/hopium sea. Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

1/ We're experiencing a huge influx of users, and with that, a predictable uptick in harmful content posted to the network. As a result, for some very high-severity policy areas like child safety, we recently made some short-term moderation choices to prioritize recall over precision.

chill advice for people getting into digital security for the first time, before downloading anything or getting hung-up on what devices you need or getting lost in long lists of do's-and-don'ts... did you do a risk assessment first? here's how to do that (a guide for journos but useful for many!)

//// USPol //// This was defeated last week. They immediately brought it back – & this time it needs only a simple majority to pass. Use this form, or go to 5calls.org , which doesn't require your phone # – just a ZIP to find your reps – and gives a script up front. You can leave a message 💙

Jay: I think social media should be basically common infrastructure that society gets to use and evolve it as society evolves, building a more democratic form of social media to reflect a democratic society.

I don't just wear a mask when I leave the house to protect myself, I do it bc even if I don't know u, I want u to live. I want u to thrive. I want u to go home to your family and not to a hospital bed. I want u to flourish. My neighbors. My friends. My family. Strangers passing by. I've got you.

We’ve put a lot of work into making Bluesky a healthier social network. This app is designed to give you a choice — in what you want to see, what you don’t want to see, and how you want to interact. Some tips on how to customize your experience: