What happens if we can't make another CPU...ever? What fails first? How long would datacenters last? Does the Internet start to fracture? Of course, it's a hypothetical thought experiment. But it's interesting to think about:

Telling. Quantity of male versus female dialogue in best picture films of recent decades (by @puddingviz)

I love this. $1 is all they ask for! 🖤 I encourage you to do something to help a fellow human being in need. And share if you’re not able to donate.

SSDs are pretty reliable in a technical sense.
 That is, unless you make a really, really bad mistake in firmware. 
 HP had a line of ~20 different Enterprise SSD models for datacenter use.
 In exactly 3 years, 270 days and 8 hours, every one is irrecoverably bricked.

The climate crisis is causing an invisible health crisis: brain health. On this ep, neuroscientist and environmental reporter @compatibilism.bsky.social reveals how the climate crisis intersects with our psychological, mental and brain health. Listen now: www.planetcritical.com/p/how-the-ec...

There is a lot of demand for digital privacy and security advice out there right now and lots of people are giving advice and writing guides. I beg them to do a few things: 1. Be explicit about the threat model your advice is meant for.

excited to share that we are following through on our earlier commitments and putting together an independent+neutral organization to house the DID PLC system, includes the directory service

anti-anti-fascist feels like it should have a one-word synonym

Newsletter: A message to those asking “what do I do now?” How to protect yourselves, and how to fight. www.citationneeded.news/wind-the-clo...

Finally: remember to take care of yourselves. There is a long road ahead, but we’re in this together.

as you cancel disney subscriptions, please remember to support your favorite independent media. there are amazing people doing critical work with very little support, and things are only getting harder. here are some of my favorites: www.citationneeded.news/friends/. feel free to post yours below!

I wrote an article to celebrate scroll-driven animations finally landing in Safari 26, here are some things you probably want to know before using them: cydstumpel.nl/start-using-...

Genocide is not just the mass killing of people. It has a legal definition. Here’s a brief video I made a while back to explain genocide vs ethnic cleansing under international law:

EFF isn't afraid to punch above our weight ✊ That's why we call out—and even sue—governments and companies that illegally spy on you. But we can't do this work without public support. Donate today! eff.org/join

Everyone knows that the x86 ISA is big.
 Modern CPUs have ~1000+ mnemonics. Guess how many make up 90% of compiled C/C++ code? TWELVE. I'm not kidding. The question is…what if we shrank it?

This C code is disgusting. But also really, really clever. This contest (IOCCC) has been breaking minds since 1984. Time to find out: - Can gov-grade tools defeat unreadable code? - Hiding Salmon in Unicode is not very effective - Why did I just get Rickrolled?

Just woke up from a dream in which I was footworking. I love everything 400 years and oceans between us couldn’t take: expressive language, smacking lips (kissing teeth), dancing, cooking, singing… I cherish it all. ❤️🖤💚

Banksy is a pillar of British culture. He’s been daubing walls for three decades. As soon as he satirises peaceful protesters being dragged through the courts for holding placards opposing Israel’s genocide, he faces being unmasked and prosecuted.

📣 NEW -- In The Economist, discussing the privacy perils of AI agents and what AI companies and operating systems need to do--NOW--to protect Signal and much else! www.economist.com/by-invitatio...

In 4 days my memoir 📕 'This Is for Everyone' will be published. The book tour kicks off the same day with many more events following. Follow the journey on the book's Instagram - instagram.com/sirtimberner...

Until now, if you lost or broke your phone, your Signal message history was *gone,* a real challenge for everyone whose most important conversations happen in Signal. So, with careful design and development, we’re rolling out opt-in secure backups. signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups

This is pretty cool. The source code for Microsoft BASIC for 6502 (Apple II, Commodore PET, etc) from 1978, released under the MIT license. opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2025/09...

i don't enjoy the romanticizing of some golden past of the web that web never died you made all the decisions about where to publish and where to spend your time

I'll be speaking at the @defendourjuries.bsky.social press conference today, ahead of the pro-Palestine protests this weekend. Already, seven of its spokespeople have been pre-emptively arrested, in a gross infringement of their right to free speech and free assembly. This is what police states do.

An important update from Francesca Albanese, special UN Rapporteur on Palestine. The flotilla fully complies with International Law. Any attempt to violate the flotilla’s mission is a violation of International Law which @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu has said she will uphold. Empty words, Ursula?

Just 9,000 years ago Britain was connected to continental Europe by an area of land called Doggerland, which is now submerged beneath the southern North Sea. Part of the reason why the UK is a world leader in off-shore windfarms. (by @historyinmemes)

Where users face threats to their privacy and security online, EFF’s technology tools are there to defend them. www.eff.org/tools

Collapse: Who does it really hurt? Listen to the full interview with Cambridge scholar for existential risk, Luke Kemp, to find out everything you couldn't have possibly imagined about what happens when empires collapse: www.planetcritical.com/p/luke-kemp

> Tim Wu coined the term ‘tyranny of convenience’ to describe the tendency for ease-of-use to prevail over other concerns such as privacy and accountability: ‘Created to free us, [convenience] can become a constraint on what we are willing to do, and thus in a subtle way it can enslave us’ Real.

This, by @jasonhickel.bsky.social, is the clearest explanation I have yet read of why the US and UK governments continue to support the Israeli government, regardless of its great crimes against humanity. jasonhickel.substack.com/p/why-does-t...

I’ve been on a filesystem kick, and it’s interesting to see the DNA of older ideas pop up in modern designs.
 BeFS was crazy in the 90s; the whole architecture was basically a searchable database.
 Skimming through their book…it sounds a lot like current Apple FS design.

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I spoke with @mmasnick.bsky.social who wrote the paper that inspired the creation of bsky (he's now on their board of directors) about the development of @blackskyweb.xyz these last 2.5 yrs. We talk about Blacksky stealing market share from bsky (😉), content moderation, and all the stuff we ship 🚢

Reminder that surveillance is an essential ingredient to fascism. Reclaiming privacy is an act of resistance.

2018: Democrats denounce ICE 2019: Democrats denounce ICE 2020: Democrats denounce ICE. 2021: Democrats fund ICE again. 2022: Democrats break funding record for ICE. 2023: Democrats break funding record for ICE. 2024: Democrats break funding record for ICE. 2025: Democrats denounce ICE.

"we need to focus on kitchen-table issues" hey wtf are you talking about at your kitchen table, if not the military being deployed to your cities and your family members being kidnapped by ICE and the genocide in Gaza going on two years and states maneuvering to make elections less democratic and

Norway sucks for programmers. It's not what you think. The country code completely breaks the official YAML 1.1 spec. NO evaluates into Boolean false...regardless of case. This can cause cryptic, hard to debug errors; especially in YAML-heavy environments like Kubernetes.

"Creating a single interface for government data about us is dangerous if it works, and also dangerous if it doesn't," EFF's Cindy Cohn writes in the Mercury News and East Bay Times. Fighting tech-enabled tyranny and protecting privacy and security is a team sport. Are you ready to join the fight?

“Who the fuck is we?” - Black American proverb

I look forward every week to the new Stephen Collins cartoon. This one is a standout, but then they all are.

How to detect bulls%!t – the Carl Sagan way.

white people in 2025.

@owenjones.bsky.social Hey, do you know what happened to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social? He just disappeared 🙁

idk - branding humans like cattle, chaining them to dead bodies, feeding them to each other, filling them with gunpowder then blowing them up, burying them alive for insects to eat -- it being so bad mothers killed their children and people jumped from ships to drown seems, like, super bad dude

Didn't realise that about the east coast... Topographical map of Australia www.instagram.com/p/DA1lzfQMtJi/ by @cstats1 via Instagram user: @discover_our_planet_

📊 The Gallup Institute conducted a study among 1,000 #Meta users in Germany. The results are clear: Only 7% actually want their #Facebook and #Instagram data to be used by Meta for #AI training. 👀 Read more: https://noyb.eu/en/noyb-survey-only-7-users-want-meta-use-their-personal-data-ai