as this circles around, i wanted to share some more pieces abt flock's history: www.404media.co/tag/flock/ haveibeenflocked.com/news www.aclu.org/news/privacy... www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a... www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... data.aclum.org/2025/10/07/f... www.aclu-co.org/press-releas...

📢⚠️ An AWS supply chain flaw dubbed #CodeBreach nearly gave attackers full control of the AWS Console, thanks to a two-character bug in a regular expression (regex) filter. Read: hackread.com/how-2-missin... #Cybersecurity #AWS #Vulnerability #SupplyChain #CloudSecurity

Interesting to see the Guardian's @dpcarrington.bsky.social weighing in on this. My take, as someone covering microplastics heavily for the past year (and currently sitting at a 200+ person conference with many of the scientists in question): www.theguardian.com/environment/...

How City AM editor Steve Dinneen exposed an AI-generated pitch, "London's Fried Chicken Wars," traced to Nairobi-based Wilson Kaharua.

movie pitch: a couple goes on a first date, each with AI earbuds instructing them on what to say. Eventually, the two AI systems fall in love.

A hacker known as Martha Root broke in and deleted three white supremacists websites at the end of a talk during the annual hacker conference Chaos Communication Congress in Germany.

Watch as researcher Martha Root infiltrates and wipes white supremacist dating sites like, leaks thousands of profiles on #okstupid.lol after a live demo at CCC 2025. Read: hackread.com/white-suprem... #Cybersecurity #Hacktivism #CCC2025 #okstupidlol #MarthaRoot

This is absolutely amazing. Hurray for science! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Arabische cartoonisten hebben een field day.

Investigadores suizos crean recubrimiento de papel térmico a base de madera para tickets y etiquetas, logrando imprimir sin disruptores hormonales. ecoinventos.com/investigador...

politeness and being upfront goes a long way.

The Online Safety Act comes into effect on Friday, which means the internet's going to get fucked for everyone in the UK. You'll have to provide some form of age ID to access so many websites, including Bluesky. IDK what to do about it other than wait and see how it all plays out.

Selling your digital soul to use Bluesky's DMs isn't just a bad idea, it's the law

"The Digital Sovereignty movement is a big deal in Europe for a reason. Today, over 90% of European data resides on servers operated by non-EU and primarily American companies. This dependency exposes EU entities to data privacy, economic leverage, and potential risks of foreign surveillance."

yep! unpaywalled:

I've made this point multiple times before but if Bluesky wants to grow, the things they need aren't opinion pundits but accounts that publish new information. That's breaking news reporters, politicians and stuff like official organization accounts that publish official statements.

Tech company directly using its userbase as leverage lobbying to enshittify real life

THANK'S - dashare.zone ADMIN

The latest in a long line of terrible humans seeing if they can destroy people lives before asking if they should. If only sociopaths were seen as bad instead of rewarded.

Amid calls for Netflix show Adolescence to be shown in schools, research shows that the drama triggered an outpouring of misogynistic abuse on incel forums @sanyaburgess.bsky.social reports ➡️ Read more: inews.co.uk/news/tv-show...

Wacom drawing tablets track the name of every application you open | Discussion

Winning at life. Asked a question, got useful answers, deleted it before getting a single 'I have somehow managed to detect a sinister agenda in your question' reply. Think I might go buy a lottery ticket while my streak is running.

🚨 bnuy look!

Family-based cognitive behavioral therapy, such as the SAFETY program, may help reduce suicide attempts and improve mental health outcomes in adolescents following suicidal behavior. doi.org/g9hmnm

Team Fortress 2 updated with a whole bunch of fixes thanks to the community having the source code #TeamFortress2 #TF2 #Steam #FPS #FreeGame

Years later, I can still feel the bouncy Skype ringtone of calling my grandpa in Russia right in my bones @restofworld.org put together a Skype memorial of global users sharing their memories in audio/video This piece is a delight and beautiful palate cleanser! restofworld.org/2025/skype-s...

The Scottish Government are shocked, that doing pretty much nothing to reduce car use has resulted in pretty much no reduction in car use. You just couldn't predict it...🧐🙄☹️ www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

unfollowing everyone on linkedin except this guy

Appalling stuff from Keir Starmer. Of all people, Starmer - a former human rights lawyer - should know that it’s possible to disagree with a court decision and affirm your support for a vulnerable group. Instead, he threw trans people under the bus. What a coward.

Official abuse of state security has always been bad, now it's horrifying

Librarians in UK increasingly asked to remove books, as influence of US pressure groups spreads - www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a... this is an awful development; needs to be mapped and fought #censorship #lgbt

I’m speaking up in support of @thekrebscycle.bsky.social & @sentinelone.com Cybersecurity should be a non-partisan issue that unites us in our shared mission to defend our country. National security can’t afford the chilling effect on both public & private sector www.lutasecurity.com/post/in-supp...

Albrecht Koschorke's little book on the poetics of Mein Kampf, who it spoke to and how, captures exactly this motive for immersion in fantastical rhetoric one knows is false drb.ie/articles/lit...

Sierra Leone has reduced maternal death rates by almost 75% since 2000

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Oil tankers on fire off the shoulder of Yorkshire. I've watched CEOs of fossil fuel companies swell and glitter with obscene wealth as the world goes dark. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in acid rain. Time to die.

(@)digirights: Adverse appeals court ruling could kill #gpl software license • The Register https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/27/adverse_appeals_court_ruling_could/ Defence of #foss #licensing rests on the shoulders of a guy in Virginia https://tooot.im/@digirights/114082772381658972

Humility is an incredibly valuable thing if you are seeking things like truth, scientific knowledge, and a better society. It is not a valuable thing for supremacists.

India wants backdoors into clouds, email, SaaS, for tax inspectors

‘Making us a joke': Elon Musk slammed on his app after insulting Poland foreign minister www.rawstory.com/musk-poland-...

"for sale" by Pawel Kuczynski old.reddit.com/r/europe/com... instagr.am/pawel_kuczyn...

This is funny-sad. Both platforms turned to shit because of shareholders and ad revenue interests. Now they're like "hey let's try doing that again!"

BEGINNING OF THE END FOR LEASEHOLD Labour published its Commonhold White Paper, the first step to making commonhold the default tenancy. That means: • No ground rent • Ownership of buildings from day one • Control over how they’re run

On this International Women's Day, don't forget the chained woman of China and thousands of thousands victims of women trafficking in the country. The Secret Campaign in China to Save a Woman Chained by the Neck www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

"We're in a situation where only some of us will survive.... It will be either Russian journalists and human rights watchers, or Vladimir Putin and his killers." more on Putin's latest convicted spies - www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

The TAKE IT DOWN Act is bad and dangerous, and I'm amazed that basically no one seems to have pointed out that in his endorsement in front of Congress this week, Trump himself talked about how he would abuse it to remove content he didn't like. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/06/t...

Four senior members of Donald Trump’s entourage have held secret discussions with some of Kyiv’s top political opponents to Volodymyr Zelenskyy, just as Washington aligns with Moscow in seeking to lever the Ukrainian president out of his job. www.politico.eu/article/dona...

#climate #science

The long-term, multi-system complications after Covid hospitalization among ~64,000 cases and 310,000 matched controls. Excess of Type 2 diabetes, kidney, lung and neurological disorders. Replicates prior work by @zalaly.bsky.social and colleagues www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A good news story. "The most recent survey, which covers the year to July, shows that only 1% of India’s households fell below the international poverty line in 2024...India has, therefore, all but eliminated the most extreme forms of poverty." www.economist.com/finance-and-...