A massive WhatsApp security flaw exposed the phone number of almost every user on the planet – despite the fact that parent company Meta had been alerted to the vulnerability way back in 2017. Security researchers were able to use what they described as a “simple” exploit to extract a total of […]

Tactical flashlight which can blind you permanently.... (sold on Amazon.ca -- curious if also available in the US) https://recalls-rappels.canada.ca/en/alert-recall/health-canada-warns-gniby-rechargeable-green-powerful-tactical-flashlight-adjustable #recall #flashlight

Today I am stepping down from my role as the CEO of #mastodon. Though this has been in the works for a while, I can't say I've fully processed how I feel about it. There is a bittersweet part to it, and I think I will miss it, but it also felt necessary. It feels like a goodbye, but it isn't—I […]

"Æthelred the Unready" They didn't mince words with the monikers for the early kings of England. We should really bring this back for powerful leaders.

Chatting with a friend about Cloudflare's intermittent outages today, they brought up an interesting point: How many organizations have started relying on Cloudflare to do basic security blocking and tackling stuff, like stopping SQL injection attacks at the edge? Maybe your devs were lazy at […]

Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @[email protected] as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the […]

Contractor Recruiting People on LinkedIn to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE, Will Pay $300 “The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media […]

Our Founder, @Gargron is stepping down from his position as CEO. He shared a reflection on his time building and growing Mastodon on our blog. We want to take a moment to express the Mastodon team’s deep gratitude and admiration for Eugen, and for the technology and community he has built here […]

Another reminder that a 13-year study found that protected bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for all road users. ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. For sharrows, it’s actually safer to NOT have them. Via @usa.streetsblog.org @nyc.streetsblog.org

"Hey classmate! I saw you in Algebra today. Do you want to join our protest group?" https://www.404media.co/this-college-protester-isnt-real-its-an-ai-powered-undercover-bot-for-cops/ #law #uspol

Washington State has a map up of no-cost vaccines available through their childhood and adult vaccine programs: https://experience.arcgis.com/experience/d9883df272e44f20ae6a76279f5d6a0b. This is for #COVID #COVID19 , but other vaccines too. Call the provider to check on availability before you […]

Whee! Perfect timing for bird flu! We have the most competent federal government and CDC now! /s ABC News: 1st US human bird flu case in 9 months confirmed with strain only seen in animals before https://abcnews.go.com/Health/suspected-human-bird-flu-case-1st-us-9/story?id=127519769 #birdflu […]

Attorney General Bonta Warns Fundraising Platform Flipcause to Immediately Stop Its Operations https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bonta-warns-fundraising-platform-flipcause-immediately-stop-its

RE: https://sfba.social/@MLNow/115546596294847231 The SF mayor tried to appoint a random person he’d met at a night market to be a city politician. It turned out that this random person’s primary claim to work was ‘managing a pet store.. extremely poorly’. This whole fiasco happened because […]

This thing that 404 is writing about in the US—the dehumanizing fake content created purely because Facebook pays people to make it? https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-videos-of-ice-raids-are-wildly-viral-on-facebook/ It has a direct precedent in the Myanmar genocide and has been widely […]

This is pretty wild. Checkout.com got hacked by a group that claims to be Shiny Hunters again. Checkout said in blog post that it would not be extorted by criminals. "We will not pay this ransom. Instead, we are turning this attack into an investment in security for our entire industry. We […]

#California’s state agency CalPrivacy is building a new Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP 😂). Starting Jan 1, 2026, you’ll be able to submit a request through DROP, asking data brokers to delete your data. Starting Aug 1, 2026, data brokers are required to start regularly processing […]

People think "politics" is what you say, but politics is in fact how you wield power. In that sense, driving a car is one of the most profound ways to reveal what your actual politics are. How people drive reveals the sickness at the heart of our society: wanting power, but not responsibility.

CPH Daily Bulletin 11/12/2025 ICE Agent Pulls Gun on #santaana Observer, As Police Watch and Do Nothing https://lataco.com/ice-gun-aimed-santa-ana #iceraids #california

World still on track for catastrophic 2.6C temperature rise, report finds Fossil fuel emissions have hit a record high while many nations have done too little to avert deadly global heating […] [Original post on ai6yr.org]

It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]

I had no idea, until today, that SFMTA had a podcast. I haven't listened to it, so no idea if it's informative or anything. https://www.sfmta.com/taken-transportation-podcast #sfba

Currently I have this video as trailer on the #steam page for 'Endless Darkness' but it's kinda crappy Is there maybe someone who could make something better? You'll get a free game key + in-game NPC as a little thank you I don't wanna use AI, not even for trailers

AP: ByHeart recalls all baby formula sold nationwide as infant botulism outbreak grows "....At least 15 babies in 12 states have been sickened in the outbreak since August, with more cases pending, according to state and federal health officials. All of the infants were hospitalized after […]

standards at big news outlets is a problem & leads to so much red tape and fear and is a big part of why our media is so fucked and toothless and cowardly bari weiss sucks and yes you need lawyers and quality control and smart journalists and editors but there is too much red tape @ corporate media

@adriabailton thanks for hosting #writephant 😊 #SelfPromo My next book, Grace & Favour, releases on Sunday, and is a friends-to-lovers gay romance: “Leo Sweetwater keeps three closely-guarded secrets: his affections lie with men, he's in love with his best […] [Original post on mastodon.au]

*crying* "Where did all of these awful racist and antisemitic hateful people come from?" *confused crying* -Guy standing under ten-foot high neon sign that says "WOKE" with a big red bar crossing it out.

They had me at the headline: AI isn’t replacing jobs. AI spending is "From Amazon to General Motors to Booz Allen Hamilton, layoffs are being announced and blamed on AI. Amazon said it would cut 14,000 corporate jobs. United Parcel Service (UPS) said it had reduced its management workforce by […]

I think most people with some interest in bike infrastructure and urbanism will have at least a passing acquaintance with John Forrester and his regrettable influence on American city planning, but this 90-minute-long video really lays out all the gory details. Let's talk about it! You can […]

I just was on a panel for DarkSky International's Under One Sky conference. The panel was about novel and emerging sources of light pollution, I was there to yell a lot about Reflect Orbital. One of the other panelists was Jolyon Troscianko, who studies animal vision at night (how totally […]

I just build and deployed the latest #Phanpy version to https://phanpy.hear-me.social to the latest version. Phanpy is an alternative UI for federated applications like Mastodon, Pixelfed, and others. It is awesome. If you haven't tried it, you should. @cheeaun

Have you heard of “The Populist Playbook?” A few years ago, I posted what I still consider one of my most important messages. It was about “The Populist Playbook” that I’ve watched play out often over my 33+ years of city planning. Since then, it’s only gotten worse. Do the steps sound familiar?

Weird question/request time! Anyone (in the USA) have a "nite rider" lumina light that no longer works and you still have any of the mounting pieces for? I don't want to buy new parts for a light I found on the side of the road, but it has no way to attach it to a bike right now. If you do and […]

We’re excited to release Mastodon 4.5 into the world! Arriving just a few months after the last release, this version brings the long-awaited Quote Posts feature, along with many other goodies. Here’s a quick look (you should read our blog post for more!) […]

Because of the Trump shutdown, the United States has closed the dining facility at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas and told US troops stationed in Germany to seek supplies from German food pantries. All while Trump maintains threats of military action against multiple US cities and foreign countries.

New, from me: Cloudflare Scrubs Aisuru Botnet from Top Domains List For the past week, domains associated with the massive Aisuru botnet have repeatedly usurped Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft in Cloudflare’s public ranking of the most frequently […] [Original post on infosec.exchange]

New research finds that despite lacking a centralized brain, sea urchins show a surprising degree of nervous system organization, with a diversity of cell types, each with a different specialization, and a complex system of light-detecting cells as well. I often assert to people that as we've […]

Interesting tidbits from the Prop 50 results map - Highest percentage of yes votes was in San Francisco County, at 84.1% - Followed by Marin County at 80.6% - No other county topped 80% - Fresno County was almost exactly evenly split - Highest percentage of no votes was in Lassen County at 79% […]

Until this morning, I had never seen a polling place inside a coffee shop. But there it was! I guess you could drink coffee and eat a sandwich while voting! #sfba #california

It's my fediversary! Three years ago today I said goodbye to several hundred thousand followers at the nazi bar and joined this community. No regrets! Thanks for making me want to stick around :)

Look what was delivered today, @clayrivers ! Fieldnotes on Fortitude: Resilience in Resistance from @ourhumanfam Looking forward to reading, studying and learning from it. From the publisher: FIELDNOTES ON FORTITUDE: RESILIENCE IN RESISTANCE is an […] [Original post on oldfriends.live]

Did you watch the unfuckingbelievable interview that 60 Minutes aired last night on Trump? The travesty is that the edited version should never have been edited, as we can see from viewing the transcript of the entire batshit crazy interview. Wherein Trump contradicts himself many times and […]

For more information on the Libby AI feature and pushback: https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/26/libbys-library-app-adds-an-ai-discovery-feature-and-not-everyone-is-thrilled/ @heyrochelle

@queerromanceclub #queerromanceclub I apologise, I’ve let the ball drop for the Queer Romance Club November read (got ever so slightly frantically busy the last few weeks…). The theme is classics/old favourites, and I thought maybe instead of running a vote and picking a single book, queer […]

wow okay (Screencap from https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:zknk3rjsatent75sdbbopown/post/3m4lg3ya2g22l ) #uspol #uspolitics #Politics #nypol #nypolitics

An update for yesterday's post 😁 "Portland coffee shop has now raised over $200,000 to feed people losing SNAP benefits" gift link = […]

Well, here's one thing SF city government is doing that's good, at least! Also nice to see the National Guard used for something helpful. - San Francisco residents who get CalFresh will receive gift cards from the city with emergency funds to cover the missing benefits. - California is fast […]

The first release candidate for Mastodon 4.5 is ready for testing! We expect to release the final version early next week, but please test it out and provide feedback! Full release notes and update instructions are available on our GitHub release page […]

meta talks about its recording light and yet the vast majority of viral videos we see that were filmed with meta ai glasses seem as though the subject is completely unaware of what's happening or otherwise feels like they can't say anything www.404media.co/metas-ray-ba...