David (Matir)
@matir.bsky.social
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Hacker and Security Engineer. Progressive AF. Queer rights and trans rights are human rights. 🏳️🌈
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Greg Sargent
5 months ago
Media and Dems are still getting this badly wrong: Trump is deeply unpopular! Recent approval numbers: 38-54 (Quinnipiac) 39-60 (AP) 40-56 (Gallup) 41-58 (Reuters) 39-56 (Economist) On the pod,
@lakshya.splitticket.org
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newrepublic.com/article/2010...
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Trump Is a Weak, Failing President. These Brutal New Polls Confirm It.
As new national polls show Trump’s approval tanking, a leading analyst explains how the data shows that Trump is far more unpopular than is commonly acknowledged—and details why this matters for 2026.
https://newrepublic.com/article/201031/trump-weak-failing-president-brutal-new-polls-confirm-it
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Ezra Levin ❌👑
11 months ago
I'm a big fan of crowdsourced google docs to organize opposition to authoritarianism. This is a good one.
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Jake Williams
11 months ago
Again, @Microsoft - unsolicited advertisements for games have NO PLACE in Windows 11 Professional. Please slap whoever decided this was appropriate.
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Neon Chinchilla
about 1 year ago
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I had been considering buying a new car this year. However, the new tariffs have essentially just guaranteed that won't happen. Even if I could find something American made that would meet my requirements, the higher costs I'll be paying on other goods mean I won't have money left for that.
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Jeffrey Vagle
12 months ago
N.B. that the "US Right" depicted here is not a fringe movement, but is now the entire Republican Party, which is in charge of our fed government, many state governments, and a significant portion of our judiciary. It not only *can* happen here, it *has* happened here.
www.ft.com/content/3046...
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After the rapid rewards cuts today, gonna go ahead and cancel my Southwest airlines credit card.
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Anne Applebaum
12 months ago
Since writing this article, I have received messages from federal civil servants who tell me it is accurate, and that they are frightened. Please share this with anyone who doesn't understand the scale of the transformation.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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There’s a Term for What Trump and Musk Are Doing
How regime change happens in America
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/02/doge-civil-servant-purge/681671/?gift=hVZeG3M9DnxL4CekrWGK38OD13Rx0lhyd5fWjR1YAEk&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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Filippo Valsorda
about 1 year ago
This one was very tricky. One one hand, the affected third-party libraries and applications are misusing the API, so we COULD have said "not our problem." On the other hand, authorization bypass in some of these services is scary, and pushing a day-zero mitigation will hopefully help limit damage.
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Jon Cooper
about 1 year ago
THIS is how it’s done, folks.
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The Dread Duck Pirate Mark Brooks
over 1 year ago
MAGA is going to chase you over here. They'll chase you where ever you go on social media. They can't survive without making you miserable. Why do you think Truth social failed? They need conflict. Don't give it to them and don't engage. Bluesky has amazing block functions. Block them into the void.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
over 1 year ago
Contract and computer abuse laws should not be used to stifle critical speech.
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EFF to Court: Reject X’s Effort to Revive a Speech-Chilling Lawsuit Against a Nonprofit
This post was co-written by EFF legal intern Gowri Nayar.X’s lawsuit against the nonprofit Center for Countering Digital Hate is intended to stifle criticism and punish the organization for its report...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/11/eff-court-reject-xs-effort-revive-speech-chilling-lawsuit-against-nonprofit
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Katie Moussouris (she/her/she-hulk/she-ra)🌻
over 1 year ago
The thing to remember is that we are not at the end of the American story. And we all know that the heroes don’t prevail in the middle of the story. This is the dark hour during which heroes are awoken, mustered, found, & forged. Do not lose hope. Gather strength & keep focused.
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Micah
over 1 year ago
in any other medical context, results like this would qualify as a miracle - you just don't see this level of satisfaction even with completely uncontroversial, common medical treatments there is simply no serious good faith argument that gender-affirming care hurts people - the opposite is true
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
over 1 year ago
EFF joins 23 other organizations calling on ODNI and NSA to reveal an estimate of how many U.S. persons are spied on so we can understand the scope of the problem.
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How Many U.S. Persons Does Section 702 Spy On? The ODNI Needs to Come Clean.
EFF has joined with 23 other organizations including the ACLU, Restore the Fourth, the Brennan Center for Justice, Access Now, and the Freedom of the Press Foundation to demand that the Office of the ...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/eff-and-23-organizations-odni-how-many-us-persons-does-section-702-spy
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The cutest of sounds!
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over 1 year ago
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
over 1 year ago
Tell your representative: Vote NO on KOSA! Visit
eff.org/kosa
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Seeing a Heritage Foundation endorsement of something immediately tells me that it's hateful and harmful to minors.
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over 1 year ago
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Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #226,500!
over 1 year ago
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Miles Klee 🦉
over 1 year ago
"Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter," by
@kateconger.bsky.social
and
@rmac.bsky.social
, is out today. Here are a few choice gems from the book, including a fake private eye, a shocking blowup with Grimes, and a conspiracy theory about "ghost employees" at Twitter:
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11 WTF Moments From ‘Character Limit,’ the Book About How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter
'Character Limit: How Elon Musk Destroyed Twitter,' by reporters Kate Conger and Ryan Mac, tells wild story of billionaire's disastrous takeover
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/how-elon-musk-destroyed-twitter-wtf-character-limit-book-1235099284/
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