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A three-judge panel upheld a civil contempt ruling against Catherine Herridge for refusing to reveal her source for Fox News stories on a FBI-targeted scientist (Ryan Knappenberger/Courthouse News Service)
https://courthousenews.com/dc-circuit-

So what, are the US armed forces a mercenary force working for a billionaire now? Are they literally potus and friends’ private army, navy, air force, coast guard and space force?
@duckworth.senate.gov @durbin.senate.gov @schakowsky.house.gov you rep me. How is this anywhere near legal?

Pentagon accepts anonymous $130M gift for payroll amid shutdown
The Pentagon has confirmed it's accepted an anonymous $130 million gift to help pay members of the military during the government shutdown. The announcement Friday raises ethical questions after President Donald Trump had said a friend offered the gift to defray any shortfalls. While large and unusual, the gift amounts to a small contribution toward the billions needed to cover service member paychecks. The Trump administration told Congress last week that it used $6.5 billion to make payroll. …

It’s unbelievable how quickly the USA is going down the drain, private friends paying the military, absurd and opening the door for corruption …https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/anonymous-donor-military-pay-shutdown

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Department confirmed on Friday.

Fun fact: the military, when they're paid by a third party for their service, are called "mercenaries".
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/anonymous-donor-military-pay-shutdown

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Department confirmed on Friday.

»How to Stay Anonymous on the Internet in 2026 (Practical Guide to Online Privacy)
With the right tools and habits, you can dramatically reduce how much of your data is exposed and browse the internet far more.«
This article is not wrong but in my opinion very superficial. This is certainly a good introduction for people who are starting to move more safely on the Internet.
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How to Stay Anonymous on the Internet in 2026 (Practical Guide to Online Privacy)
With the right tools and habits, you can dramatically reduce how much of your data is exposed and browse the internet far more anonymously.

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/24/politics/anonymous-donor-military-pay-shutdown

Anonymous help:
#OpenSource #FreeSoftware

Kash Patel’s days as FBI director may be numbered. 
MS NOW reported Tuesday that Trump is considering firing the embattled director as his errors pile up.
Three anonymous sources told MS NOW that Patel had drawn Trump’s ire for his presumptuous social media posts during ongoing cases,
using a government jet for a date night with his 27-year-old girlfriend,
and assigning a SWAT team for her security detail. 
Andrew Bailey, the FBI co–deputy director, is reportedly …

Trump Secretly Considering Firing Kash Patel as Blunders Pile Up
Donald Trump seems to have had enough of Kash Patel and his negative headlines. Here’s who could replace him as FBI director.

Panel talking about dark markets on nostr.
Nostr can be quite anonymous and encrypted and connected to payment via bitcoin. Can it therefore do Silk Road? Allow anonymous markets?
Nobody wants to publicly advocate for selling illegal drugs, but yeah, sure, people could do that. There's even protocol types for market places.
Relay owners might get into legal issues if they are forwarding illegal market listings. But this is true in general, there are also illegal images and even illegal text.
Nostr relays and Devs might find themselves in legal trouble anyway, due to the general legal crackdowns on internet requiring age proof and id on websites obstensively to protect kids. These are freedoms we all need to fight for. Perhaps brains will drain to more free jurisdictions? Devs move to where open development is legal? Not the panel at least. They want to say at home.
#nostr #nostrshire #darkMarkets

A look at Phreeli, a privacy-focused phone carrier that lets users sign up with only a ZIP code and uses an encryption system based on "zero-knowledge proofs" (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier…

A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

"AI" screening on job sites has people looking to network their way into jobs via dating apps
https://interviews.slashdot.org/story/25/12/29/2144201/tough-job-market-has-people-using-dating-apps-to-get-interviews …

Tough Job Market Has People Using Dating Apps To Get Interviews - Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: Most people use dating apps to find love. Tiffany Chau used one to hunt for a summer internship. This fall, the 20-year-old junior at California College of the Arts tailored her Hinge profile to connect with people who could offer job referrals or ...

I woke up this Christmas morning to a bunch of people making a bunch of stuff up quoting "anonymous sources" to support or advance their cynical fantasy narratives - despite me working in that area & knowing their claims to be 100% fabricated. So that's fun.
Merry Christmas, social networks.

#Pentagon accepts $130 million donation from #anonymous #billionaire 'friend' of #Drumpf to pay

Pentagon to use $130 million donation from anonymous Trump ‘friend’ to pay military members
The Trump administration plans to funnel a $130 million donation from an anonymous ally of President Donald Trump toward paying military service members during the government shutdown, the Defense Department confirmed on Friday.

I like to play around as an anonymous commenter in online newspaper columns. If you point out the biases of #AI systems, the comment gets deleted because it is considered too polemical.
The comment was addressing an article about AI in public service and the use in refugee applications 🫣

Are there any admins on social.tchncs.de.? Is anonymously spreading lies about over 30 families in Gaza allowed on this instance?
This anonymous coward has been chased off of every server he’s been on and yet he’s still here, still attacking people suffering from genocide and famine.
(And yes, some folks copy posts from others. We’ve asked them not to. But they’re trying to survive genocide, not win social media awards.)
Also (see his second post) we’re not attempting to r…

Linux Is Best (@Linux@social.tchncs.de)
Attached: 2 images 1 of 2 First, let me say: what’s happening in Gaza is absolutely awful. But what’s also awful is that there are dishonest people taking advantage of others during a crisis. In one photo, from Facebook (my job, where I work), we had a woman claiming to be a 36-year-old mother of two children, ages 4 and 7. She spaced out the URL in her post, hoping it wouldn’t get flagged by spam filters (it did). The very next day, someone on the Fediverse posted the exact same messa…

Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order.
Now he wants to sell you phone service
—without knowing almost anything about you.
https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-wit…

A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almost anything about you.

Anonymous leadership and stochastic resonance in collectives of self-propelled robots
Manuel Dizenhaus, Franco De Simone, German A. Patterson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12580 ht…

Anonymous leadership and stochastic resonance in collectives of self-propelled robots
We investigate the influence of an anonymous leader on a collective of self-propelled robots using Kilobot experiments and numerical simulations. A single leader alternated deterministically between clockwise and counterclockwise motion, while the other robots followed a stochastic majority rule. Although the leader does not change global order, it induces correlations with the collective response that peak at intermediate perturbation levels, resembling stochastic resonance. Simulations confir…

Anonymous Quantum Tokens with Classical Verification
Dmytro Gavinsky, Dar Gilboa, Siddhartha Jain, Dmitri Maslov, Jarrod R. McClean
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.06212 https://

Anonymous Quantum Tokens with Classical Verification
The no-cloning theorem can be used as a basis for quantum money constructions which guarantee unconditionally unforgeable currency. Existing schemes, however, either (i) require long-term quantum memory and quantum communication between the user and the bank in order to verify the validity of a bill or (ii) fail to protect user privacy due to the uniqueness of each bill issued by the bank, which can allow its usage to be tracked. We introduce a construction of single-use quantum money that give…

I like to check the Register comments for something that usually boils down to "I did this thing on my own without a problem, so why can't a massive organisation do something I consider to be analogous?"
A new classic of the genre:

A Brief Note on Cryptographic Pseudonyms for Anonymous Credentials
Ren\'e Mayrhofer, Anja Lehmann, abhi shelat
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05419 https://

A Brief Note on Cryptographic Pseudonyms for Anonymous Credentials
This paper describes pseudonyms for the upcoming European Identity Wallet (EUDIW) architecture from both a cryptographic and an implementation perspective. Its main goal is to provide technical insights into the achievable properties and cryptographic realizations. In particular, we (1) outline the security and privacy requirements of EUDI pseudonyms as the basis for building consensus on the cross-country decision maker level; (2) sketch an abstract cryptographic protocol that fulfills these r…

love my fuckin Tons

Remember, remember! The 5th of November. #anonymous #VforVendetta #3Dprinting

Anonymous Raiders Blow Whistle on Franchise Dysfunction in New Leak https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/tom-brady-mark-davis-athletic-rumors/?adt_ei=[email]

Fascinating story from a software dev Fedi friend, shared with permission to keep it anonymous:
❝A couple of days ago, I had an experience at work that made me understand one of the reasons why the chasm of opinion about LLMs is so deep and wide.
My department mostly does fiddly lowlevel work, [close to hardware]. A few of us don't use LLMs at all, a few use them sparingly, and one member is absolutely all-in. So during one of our morning meetings he suddenly started going off on a deeply disturbing diatribe about how we need to treat the LLMs “like slaves”.❞
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sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

#OTD 1967 this was the number one record in the country by the Strawberry Alarm Clock 🍓 ⏰:
"Incense & Peppermints"
One founding member of that largely anonymous combo would eventually go on to join #LynyrdSkynyrd in 1972, contributing to its formative stages originally playing bass before mov…

By an anonymous donour:
#deeplearningjokes

This young producer is a friend of mine, and has finally been persuaded to release his very good materials. :) [albeit in as low-key, anonymous as possible a way, it seems. 😄]
I find it really hallucinogenic and special - in a super fragmented, "implied music"-but-still-groove-based kind of way.
https://www.youtube.…

No shit?
'End-To-End Encrypted' Smart Toilet Camera Is Not Actually End-To-End Encrypted - Slashdot https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/12/04/0436234/end-to-end-encrypted-smart-toilet-camera-is-not-actually-en…

Awesome!!
https://flipboard.com/@pinknews/trans-rights-m8eo3sb5z/-/a-OWmNb9kWSbaAuo7PlFbFxw:a:2382343751-/0

Girlguiding leaders refuse to enforce ‘horrific’ trans ban
A Girlguiding volunteer leader has said they refuse to enforce a new policy banning trans girls from groups. An anonymous volunteer, who currently …

What’s amazing to me is that *anyone* still visits the US as a tourist.
“Hey, I know, let’s go to Fascistland… maybe we’ll get deported to fuck-knows-where and it’ll be a real adventure!” https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/115696148277070484

Mastodon Migration (@mastodonmigration@mastodon.online)
Attached: 1 image Simply remarkable fall off in tourism to the United States. "The US is down at least $30 billion in tourism for 2025. International boycotts and a loss in appeal to visit due to Donald Trump has resulted in millions of trips canceled." source: Anonymous on Bluesky

[M]any consumers might not realize the privacy risks just by glancing at the flyer sent to them, according to Florian Schaub, associate professor at the University of Michigan School of Information.
"The privacy policy is very specific that we're going to track everything, including what you do in Incognito Windows. Previously anonymous data may now be identifiable. All those risks are not disclosed here," Schaub said, after reviewing a copy of the flyer.

"Fuentes’ recent surge in popularity did not come from organic grassroots support, but a coordinated campaign among his followers, foreign engagement farms, anonymous bot networks, and targeted “raid” tactics aimed at gaming the algorithms on X."
**Nick Fuentes Seems Popular—Until You See Where His Clicks Come From**
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/jeff-charles/2025/12/09/inside-the-social-media-operation-behind-nick-fuentes-and-the-groyper-movement-n2667546

Ireland investigates TikTok and LinkedIn over concerns that their illegal content reporting tools are hard to access and don't allow anonymous CSAM reporting (Padraic Halpin/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/litigation/i

Hmmm, well my migration script seems to be working, but it's showing all public replies in the view.
Not sure if that's due to the destination server not having the full conversation, a change between default and Glitch, or a bug in my script, but I guess it works?...
My concept; query the source server (via a public / anonymous connection) to retrieve all posts for a target user, then on the destination server perform a search of each post URL so it's available in th…

»Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days:
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028.«
The @… halving the validity of the keys makes the web more secure (not more anonymous).
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Decreasing Certificate Lifetimes to 45 Days
Let’s Encrypt will be reducing the validity period of the certificates we issue. We currently issue certificates valid for 90 days, which will be cut in half to 45 days by 2028. This change is being made along with the rest of the industry, as required by the CA/Browser Forum Baseline Requirements, which set the technical requirements that we must follow. All publicly-trusted Certificate Authorities like Let’s Encrypt will be making similar changes. Reducing how long certificates are valid …

A look at Middle East 24, a new project from right-wing X news aggregator Visegršd 24 that posts articles from anonymous authors and relies on crowdfunding (Ivan L. Nagy/Columbia Journalism Review)
https://www.cjr.org/analysis/gaza-rage-machine-po…

A new Gaza rage machine—with Polish origins.
A site called Visegrád 24 rode the waves of military conflicts and social media angst to become a household name on X. Its new project, Middle East 24, is aiming to do the same.

VeilAudit: Breaking the Deadlock Between Privacy and Accountability Across Blockchains
Minhao Qiao, Iqbal Gondal, Hai Dong
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12153 https://

VeilAudit: Breaking the Deadlock Between Privacy and Accountability Across Blockchains
Cross chain interoperability in blockchain systems exposes a fundamental tension between user privacy and regulatory accountability. Existing solutions enforce an all or nothing choice between full anonymity and mandatory identity disclosure, which limits adoption in regulated financial settings. We present VeilAudit, a cross chain auditing framework that introduces Auditor Only Linkability, which allows auditors to link transaction behaviors that originate from the same anonymous entity withou…

Three members of a Chicago white nationalist group have been identified thanks to the work of anonymous antifascist infiltrators.
Using license plates from their vehicles and personal details shared in a private vetting chat,
an activist who gained access to their inner circle identified the men behind the group as James Hammans (37), Džiugas Dirzys (22), and Arkadiusz Kowalczyk (38).
Unraveled has verified the information collected and confirmed the identities of the three …

Exposed: White nationalist group responsible for hate spree across Chicagoland
Members of the Windy City Active Club include a USPS worker, a recent finance grad from DePaul, and a Polish American tied to other hate groups.

DH-EAC: Design of a Dynamic, Hierarchical Entanglement Access Control Protocol
Akihisa Takahashi, Yoshito Tobe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02895 https://arx…

DH-EAC: Design of a Dynamic, Hierarchical Entanglement Access Control Protocol
We propose Dynamic, Hierarchical Entanglement Access Control (DH-EAC), a pure-quantum protocol for fair and anonymous allocation of scarce entanglement across wide-area quantum networks composed of many quantum LANs (QLANs). Prior Dicke-state-based pure-quantum MACs resolve contention by local measurements without classical signaling, but they mainly target a single QLAN under static conditions; extending them to wide-area, dynamic settings while avoiding post-selection reconciliation remains o…

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

Is the USA now employing Little Green Men tactics to start exerting military force on Mexican soil??
#TheAmericanFascist #usa #mexico #hybridwar #russia
Seen and video posted originally from the @… account on BSky.
Comment from Anonymous:
“US Trump regime lackeys in civilian outfits illegally snuck into Mexico to install restricted area, department of defense, signs on Mexican territory. Locals caught them red handed and the USians fled by boat covering their faces.”

Crosslisted article(s) found for cond-mat.other. https://arxiv.org/list/cond-mat.other/new
[1/1]:
- Anonymous leadership and stochastic resonance in collectives of self-propelled robots
Manuel Dizenhaus, Franco De Simone, German A. Patterson

“Many questions remain about the fund-raising for this project,
including the amount of each contribution,
the agreement reached with each contributor,
what promises may have been or may yet be made in exchange for what presumably will be substantial contributions,
and why the White House chose to allow donors to remain anonymous,”
Mr. Blumenthal, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations, wrote in letters to several donors

Donors to Trump’s Ballroom Are Asked Why They Chose to Remain Incognito
Senator Richard Blumenthal is requesting information from business interests whose donations were not disclosed by the White House.

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…

sp_infectious: Art exhibit dynamic contacts (2011)
This dataset contains the daily dynamic contact networks collected during the Infectious SocioPatterns event that took place at the Science Gallery in Dublin, Ireland, during the artscience exhibition INFECTIOUS: STAY AWAY. Each file in the downloadable package contains a tab-separated list representing the active contacts during 20-second intervals of one day of data collection. Each line has the form “t i j“, where i and j are the a…