@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itFrance: "we're going to ban short-haul flights where alternative train routes exist, in order to curb carbon emissions"
Rest of EU: "we'll start a commission to create a panel which will lead to a discussion on.."
US (via #AccidentallyTheEcoPresident): "what if we started a war so disastrous and stupid that it kneecapped ALL sh…
@anildash@me.dm"Mozilla's PR team told me they want to be both the best browser for people who hate AI and the safest browser for people who love AI. " In an article where the plan to win over users is: build a better browser. Well! https://www.pcmag.com/news/firefox-ajit-varma-m…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialTurns out that Microsoft's BitLocker security for the data stored on your hard drive is just a placebo.
Might as well give your password to everyone:
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/23/microsoft-gave-fbi-a-s…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI've just visited the website of #Ubuntu (https://www.ubuntu.com), only to be surprised at how enshittified it became. I mean, that's not a distribution website anymore. Forget "human beings", it's enterprise that matters.
@aral@mastodon.ar.al
@cdarwin@c.imAnother Ukrainian innovation: interceptor drones are being mounted on small transport aircraft like An-28s to take down Russian attack drones.
This great video shows how it works, from takeoff to interception with P1-SUN drones.
I expect allies to be very interested in this.
https://bsky.app/pr…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialShenzhen-based Pudu Robotics, which makes commercial service robots, raised ~$150M, bringing its total funding to $300M , and says its valuation exceeds $1.5B (The Robot Report)
https://www.therobotreport.com/pudu-robotics-raises-nearly-150m-t…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itLook at those collaborator cops, making sure that no one interferes with an ICE kidnapping. #ACAB
EDIT: to be clear, this is not part of today's ICE airport expansion. Source here, where in a second video you can see the ring of cops that are protecting ICE/CBP:
@anildash@me.dmOkay, so I've been talking about the ways that Big AI directly harms kids. But what can we *do* about it? Here are some things you can do, at work and and your kid's school, to take action today, complete with scripts to follow: https://www.anildash.com/2026/02/23/taking-action…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itAmerica never really dealt with its infestation of #Bretbugs https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:2rrp7amblhg3xoly5n5huiqv/p…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems @aral@mastodon.ar.al🥳 New Kitten Release
• Fixed: Kitten no longer crashes when a server error occurs after a response has ended. (#320)¹
Full change log: https://codeberg.org/kitten/app/src/branch/main/CHANGELOG.md#2026-04-23
Enjoy!
:kitten:💕
¹
@cdarwin@c.imRFK Jr: "A Democratic senator claimed it's mathematically impossible to have a drug drop by 600%.
I said, 'Well, if the drug was $100 and it raises to $600, that would be a 600% rise. If it drops from $600 to $100, that's a 600% savings.'"
Trump: "Right"
https://bsky…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIntel reports Q1 revenue up 7% YoY to $13.58B, vs. $12.42B est., and forecasts Q2 revenue and adjusted EPS above estimates; INTC jumps 15% after hours (Katie Tarasov/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/23/intel-intc-q1-2026-earnings-report.html
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itomg that mushroom from the tv show Common Side Effects, it's real https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260121-the-mysterious-mushroom-that-makes-you-see-tiny-people
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itlol nvme-cli, why are you showing me _kelvins_??
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems @aral@mastodon.ar.alWait, the for-profit not-for-profit privacy champion funded by half-a-billion dollars a year from Google is doing this? Do you think their then-head of public policy was actually telling the truth when she told me “we’re just another Silicon Valley tech company?” No, couldn’t possibly be. I’m sure there are some benefits of the doubt we could still dust off and send their way.
#Mozilla
@javi
Firefox updated their Terms of Use? Let's see!
As you type a search query within Firefox, Firefox offers search suggestions to provide you with faster and more direct access to what you’re looking for. Some of the search suggestions come from your search provider (“Search Suggestions”). Others come …
@cdarwin@c.imWildfire “red flag” warnings are in effect for a huge swath of the central U.S., covering an area stretching all the way from northern and western Texas to the Canadian borders of North Dakota and Minnesota.
Altogether, areas of Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Kansas, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Nebraska and Oklahoma have red flag warnings in place.
These warnings are issued by the National Weather Service when there are ripe conditions for increased risk of wildfires—such co…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMusic publishers including UMG, Warner Music, and Sony drop a copyright suit against Verizon following a SCOTUS decision limiting ISP liability in Cox's suit (Kyle Jahner/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/tech-and
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itpennywise on loop until this code is fixed
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itMy neighbor took this picture of our shared backyard last night.
#NYC #snowmaggedon2026 #Queens
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systems#Python is just doing great. We're not having impossible constraints, as some projects need old #setuptools for pkg_resources, and other projects are starting to require newer setuptools for some fancy new features. And ofc after promising to release pkg_resources standalone over a month ago, setuptools upstream didn't deliver.
#Gentoo
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWant to help people in Gaza suffering through a genocide perpetrated by Israel and supported by many of our own governments?
Here’s a list of everyone we’ve verified using video calls with links to their fundraisers, ranked by how much they managed to raise in the last week:
https://gaza-verified.org/donate
@cdarwin@c.imKangxi, the great 17th-century emperor of China,
owed his throne to smallpox.
His father had died of the disease at just 22 years old in 1661.
Kangxi, only 7 years old, had been chosen over his older brother
because Kangxi had already survived smallpox
—an epidemic that was cutting a scythe through the ruling elite.
Kangxi’s dynasty, the Qing, were Manchu, a steppe people who had conquered China in 1644.
They had no concept of germ theory,but they cou…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialXbox CEO Asha Sharma and Chief Content Officer Matt Booty detail their "return of Xbox" strategy, including daily active players as its "new north star" (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/917689/microsoft-xbo…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itHow is this even a vineland-3 question??
[edit: I'M WALK'N HERE! I'M WALK'N HERE!]
![Asking a behavioral question, "[person] Obeys traffic lights and walk/don't walk signs when crossing streets or roads." I've selected "Sometimes", and in the Comments section put "We live in NYC."](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/116/117/058/824/884/106/original/457958bb78c5e092.png)
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI'm still thinking about a longer blog post about LLMs, and one of the things I keep thinking about them is how they not only cause direct harm to the community, but also make people more suspicious of one another. And then I've been pointed out this text:
"I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me."
"""
I am a writer. A writer who also happens to be Kenyan. And I have come to this thesis statement: I don't write like ChatGPT. ChatGPT, in its strange, disembodied, globally-sourced way, writes like me. Or, more accurately, it writes like the millions of us who were pushed through a very particular educational and societal pipeline, a pipeline deliberately designed to sandpaper away ambiguity, and forge our thoughts into a very specific, very formal, and very impressive shape.
"""
#AI #LLM
@aral@mastodon.ar.alIf you’re looking for an ngrok alternative for tunnelling that is affordable and just works (e.g., with Kitten¹), I can highly recommend LocalXpose (https://localxpose.io/).
(Not affiliated with them in any way; just use their tunnels for testing with Kitten on a daily basis.)
PS. If you have a static IPv4 …
@cdarwin@c.imThe Most AI-Exposed Counties in America Are Not Where You Think
https://jakeprokopets.substack.com/p/why-the-most-ai-exposed-counties
Here is a county-level AI displacement model across all 3,204 US counties.
The Top 5 most exposed counties are a…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialInstagram launched Instants, an app for sharing disappearing photos, in Italy this week, after rolling out an Instants feature in its main app in some regions (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/instagram-roll-out-snapc…
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsThe discussion around "age verification" in systemd/XDG has been largely focused against the California law. But honestly, there's a much deeper problem there.
Firstly, the data collected. The question initially asked is "are you at least 18 years old?" However, that's not the data collected. In fact, the data collected is not even the age — it's the full birth date. It's a perfect example of collecting more data than you need, and a sensitive information too, and sharing it with any application that asks.
Secondly, the extended goal of "parental controls" used as a justification to collect more data. When you think about it, you realize how bad this is: it isn't the case of asking the user about their birth date (with the assumption that a kid will enter a fake date to workaround the limitations). It is effectively a tool for *parents* to impose restrictions on their children, which means that they are more likely to enter the real date to ensure that these restrictions work. And given how popular sharenting is today, do you really think they'd come up with a fake birth date that happens to roughly match their child's age?
This is simply irresponsible.
https://github.com/flatpak/xdg-desktop-portal/pull/1922
@aral@mastodon.ar.alOn this Monday morning, please spare a thought for those who are starting the week off in cold, damp tents surrounded by the rubble of their previous lives, trapped within the clutches of an ongoing genocide that is the collective failure of humanity.
If you want to help, here’s a list of verified Mastodon accounts of Gazans and links to their fundraisers, ranked by how little support they got last week to feed their families and cover the basic necessities of life:
@cdarwin@c.imLast year was supposed to have been India’s turn to host a Quadrilateral Security Dialogue summit.
But 2025 came and went without such a meeting
—and now, New Delhi is trying to pick up the pieces by hosting the Quad’s foreign ministers instead,
possibly when U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio visits India in May.
Comprising Australia, India, Japan, and the United States,
the Quad is a minilateral coordination group of like-minded democratic powers
that …
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnthropic says it has fixed three causes of recent Claude Code quality issues: reduced default reasoning, a caching bug, and a system prompt to reduce verbosity (Anthropic)
https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/april-23-postmortem
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsThere are three kinds of weather:
1. Too cold for sandals.
2. Too wet for sandals (comes in snowy, rainy, mixed and dewy variants).
3. Finally you can wear sandals.
(The second kind permits wearing sandals conditionally, in dry places.)
@aral@mastodon.ar.al🥳 New Kitten¹ release
• Added `initialise()` hook to `kitten.Component` instances.
This gets called at the end of the constructor and is handy if you don’t want to override the constructor and have to handle the `data` parameter and remember to call `super(data)`. You can still access passed data from `this.data`.
Note that the component is not part of the view hierarchy on the client at this point. If you have tasks you need to perform only once per page – for example, ins…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Heritage Foundation,
author of the Project 2025 roadmap guiding the second Trump administration’s legislative agenda,
has a new policy platform chock-full of ideas that could steer mothers out of the paid workforce.
In January, the right-wing organization released a 168-page report called
“Saving America by Saving the Family: A Foundation for the Next 250 Years,”
which suggests that U.S. women have gotten a raw deal thanks in large part to contemporary femin…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it @mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsI don't know what a L-cone is, but I seem to really want to use #git with it.
@aral@mastodon.ar.alWorld peace? Universal food, water, shelter, and healthcare? No, capitalism knows what it is you really need: Lego Crocs.
Because fuck you, that’s why.
https://www.lego.com/en-us/aboutus/news/2026/january/th…
@cdarwin@c.imSenate Republicans voted in the early hours of Thursday morning to
reject an amendment offered by
Sen. Bernie Sanders that aimed to
cut US prescription drug prices in half
by mandating that Americans pay no more for medications than people in Canada and other wealthy nations.
Just two Republicans,
Sens. Josh Hawley of Missouri and Dan Sullivan of Alaska,
voted with every present Democrat in support of Sanders’ (I-Vt.) proposed amendment to the GOP’s …
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsSometimes I feel that I could have my introduction much better. So I'll leave another piece here, and maybe one day I'll be able to find it again and use somewhere…
I'm a radical. I believe that every human has a right to dignity in life. Yes, even these people who allegedly "are too lazy to work".
I believe that everyone deserves safety, that nobody should be cold or starve, that everybody should be able to use a toilet or wash themselves, have access to healthcare and public transportation.
I think that restricting access to drinking water and toilets is a crime against humanity. The latter is also plain stupid, because it only leads to people using other places as toilets.
I'm so tired of the postsoviet labor cult (a kind of Polish thing). Seeing labor as a value in itself. Everyone must work, and it doesn't matter whether the work is actually beneficial, or outright harmful.
And last of all, I can't tolerate smokers. There is no excuse to harm yourself and everyone around you, just to satisfy your stupid addiction. And I'm also talking of all the random people who breathe all the toxins because smokers think they deserve to smoke everywhere, all the time.
@cdarwin@c.imHow does an almost 85-year-old Bob Dylan navigate his days?
He does what he has always done:
He plays.
He hits the road.
He does not fill massive arenas like the Rolling Stones or Bruce Springsteen.
He has no Eagles-style residency at Las Vegas’s Sphere.
You will not see him in the Super Bowl halftime show.
Dylan plays in Dothan, Alabama;
in Tyler, Texas;
in Shakopee, Minnesota.
He plays the towns that make up the America he has been …
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itFloofyWolf for DPL! #Debian Project Leader)
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsWhy did Deutsche Bahn number the two connecting cars 628 and 928? Is it because they connect as 69?
@cdarwin@c.imThe unflattering secrets revealed so far in Elon Musk’s latest legal feud
Hundreds of court filings have revealed cringey texts, emails or private diary entries of Musk, Altman, other OpenAI founders and other public figures.
They include Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg privately offering to use his social platforms to help Musk’s interests,
Musk insulting Amazon Executive Chairman Jeff Bezos (twice)
and a journal in which a big MAGA donor muses about becoming a billiona…
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it @andres4ny@social.ridetrans.ithttps://mastodon.org.uk/@mkwadee/116272417618419415
Calvin is Trump. The rose bushes are the global (fossil-based) energy supply. You can probably guess the rest.
@cdarwin@c.imThe Justice Department has identified 384 foreign-born Americans whose citizenship it wants to revoke,
as part of a push to increase the pace of #denaturalizations by assigning the cases to prosecutors in dozens of U.S. attorney’s offices across the country.
Senior Justice Department officials in Washington told colleagues during a meeting last week that civil litigators in 39 regiona…
@cdarwin@c.imICE is attempting to build new detention centers across the country.
We must stop these modern day concentration camps.
https://gtfoice.org/
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itH H forgot the most important point to managing stress, "Try guillotining the Epstein class."
@cdarwin@c.imPerhaps because it's not immediately visible in the US unless you are in DC,
where practically everybody is—at maximum—one degree of separation away from someone who got DOGEd
https://bsky.app/profile/volts.wtf/post/3mk6k3xzf5s25
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itlol! Good thing no one has ever famously used AI in place of actual lawyers and got completely screwed...
https://www.404media.co/startups-brag-they-spend-more-money-on-ai-than-human-employees/
![“Our goal is $10M ARR [annual recurring revenue] with a sub-10 person org. We don’t have SDRs [sales development representatives], and our paid marketing budget is zero,” he wrote. “But we do spend a sh*t ton on tokens. That $113K bill? A part of it IS our go-to-market team. our engineering, support, legal.. you get the point.”](https://mastodon-usw-cache.b-cdn.net/media_attachments/files/116/449/425/305/256/709/original/c606e8ad3a922029.png)
@cdarwin@c.im @andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itMy kids have had the last week off of school and it's looking like they'll have a snow day on Monday, too.
Just slowly losing my mind over here.. (also way behind on work)
@cdarwin@c.im“Expanding the Supreme Court is no different than redistricting in California and Virginia.
It is a proportionate response to Republican attempts to degrade liberal democracy and move America toward a post-liberal order.”
https://open.…
@cdarwin@c.im87 homes had been destroyed as of Thursday by wildfires sweeping across parts of Georgia.
The two largest wildfires in southern Georgia have burned tens of thousands of acres combined.
https://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/georgi…
@cdarwin@c.imNicholas Enrich's new memoir,
"Into the Wood Chipper: A Whistleblower’s Account of How the Trump Administration Shredded USAID",
is named after one of Elon Musk’s social media posts from that period,
when the South African billionaire wrote,
“We spent the weekend feeding USAID into the wood chipper.”
Since its establishment in 1961,
USAID has saved the lives of tens of millions around the world by treating and preventing serious health issue…
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imWeird how threats to the national security get ignored when the right people are making money
https://abcnews.com/US/doj-arrests-soldier-made-400000-betting-maduros-removal/story?id=132325426
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.imA US special forces soldier involved in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolšs Maduro
was arrested and charged for allegedly betting on that operation,
netting him $400,000 in profits.
The outsized trade involved with Operation Absolute Resolve caught the attention of law enforcement almost immediately.
According to an indictment unsealed Thursday,
Master Sergeant Gannon Ken Van Dyke
opened an account in late December on Polymarket, one of the best-kn…
@cdarwin@c.imFor weeks, reporting from The Atlantic and others has suggested that Trump has been quietly insulating himself from the political fallout of a potential Iran disaster.
The strategy, as described by multiple analysts, hinges on delegation
— letting others take the lead publicly, while the White House maintains distance if things go south.
Trump has long framed his Iran posture as a signature issue
— a test of strength, leverage, and deal-making prowess.
Yet when t…
@cdarwin@c.imAbout the size of a bowling ball,
a plutonium pit is an essential part of a nuclear warhead.
The implosion of these plutonium filled balls in a nuclear weapon triggers the massive explosion and unleashes the weapon’s destructive potential.
Until 1992, American manufactured 1,000 plutonium pits a year.
Now it makes fewer than 30.
Trump wants to change that and he’s willing to throw money at the problem to make it happen.
Trump’s proposed 2027 budget wou…
@cdarwin@c.im @cdarwin@c.im“A lot of what we think of as privacy protection isn’t so much like something that’s written in the law,”
says Karen Levy, a professor of information science at Cornell University.
“It just has to do with how hard or how expensive it is to learn stuff about people.”
When mobile phones became widespread, gathering data about people got much cheaper,
-- but making use of that data remained difficult.
Powerful LLMs could change that.
Worries over how LLMs …
@cdarwin@c.imWe often analyze Trump in the context of either his mental deterioration, or his profoundly evil acts which display deeply sinister motives.
Have we considered all of this is because he has the mind of a 13-year-old boy,
-- the kind who thinks battleships are cool and leading an army rules?
https://bsk…
@cdarwin@c.imI’m not sure constantly comparing this war to Vietnam is the great political strategy Trump thinks it is
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mk6sxjvulf2n
@cdarwin@c.imAnatoly's mother had her eyes lowered, beneath the table.
"Why are you looking at your phone? The roast is getting cold!"
She put the phone down with a quick, seemingly involuntary gesture.
"I haven't heard from my son in two days.
It happens, sometimes:
at the front they have no signal,
and until the mission is over, no one gets in touch.
But this time... I don't know."
We looked at each other for a second …
@cdarwin@c.imOn July 4, 2025, protesters gathered outside the Prairieland Detention Facility in a
“noise demonstration,” using drums, speakers and chanting to disrupt operations and draw attention to conditions inside the facility.
Participants “could not go on business as usual as our government forced hundreds into sleeping on floors in overcrowded conditions with no access to adequate medical care.”
What followed has since become known as the Prairieland case.
According to orga…
@cdarwin@c.imAaron Beggs was on target for a personal best
but took the decision to stop and help Ajay instead.
As many other runners kept going, he and another athlete, Robson De Oliveira, stepped in to lift the stricken competitor and carry him over the finish line.
Despite stopping to help, Aaron managed to complete the marathon in two hours and 44 minutes
@cdarwin@c.imI remember receiving the email to apply for the All Bodies on Bikes gravel team,
the way my heart jumped up and said yes.
This was a contradiction to the facts my logical mind knew.
I had never ridden on gravel.
I didn’t have a lot of free time to train.
This desire to be on the gravel team had come out of nowhere.
I’d never planned to do a gravel race.
If I were going to apply to be on a team, shouldn’t it be for something I had thought of doing…
@cdarwin@c.imA new study links genetic regions that predate the divergence of modern humans and Neanderthals to language
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/genetic-origins-of-language-may-predate-mo…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Unitary Executive!
-- with special guest president , Stephen Miller
https://bsky.app/profile/atrupar.com/post/3mk6talqwoe2t
@cdarwin@c.imIn one of the most extreme anti-speech policies ever imposed at a public university, Texas Tech issued a ban on LGBQT topics
The policy bars professors from discussing LGBTQ topics in core and lower-level courses
and eliminates entire fields of study across the five-university system.
It even requires that if an industry-standard textbook includes content on sexual orientation or gender identity, instructors must skip over it and avoid discussion around it.
Most …
@cdarwin@c.imDespite its rise as an economic superpower,
China remains reliant on a global financial system anchored by the dollar.
Turning the renminbi into a globally accepted currency would let Beijing conduct more trade on its own terms and blunt a longstanding source of American leverage.
That push has gained momentum from the wars in Ukraine and Iran,
as sanctions drive American adversaries toward the renminbi to bypass the Western financial system.
In effect, China’…
@cdarwin@c.imClearing Strait of Hormuz of mines could take 6 months, Pentagon tells Congress
The Pentagon assessment, shared in a classified briefing for lawmakers, suggests gasoline and oil prices could remain elevated through the midterm elections
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-se
@cdarwin@c.imAI Tools Are Helping Mediocre North Korean Hackers Steal Millions
One group of hackers used AI for everything from vibe coding their malware to creating fake company websites
—and stole as much as $12 million in three months
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-tools-are…
@cdarwin@c.imMore than half of the world’s governments have access to commercial spyware that can break into computers and phones to steal sensitive information, according to U.K. intelligence.
The U.K. National Cyber Security Centre plans to reveal its findings Wednesday, according to Politico.
The report suggests that the barrier to access this type of surveillance technology has fallen,
potentially making it easier for foreign governments and hackers to target U.K. citizens, compani…
@cdarwin@c.imIranian media speculates that hidden firmware or backdoors allowed the U.S. or Israel to conduct remote sabotage -- possibly triggered by satellite or at a pre-set time.
Iranian state media has alleged that equipment from Cisco, Juniper, Fortinet, and MikroTik failed during U.S. and Israeli military operations against Iran.
The report, which claims that “American ‘black boxes’ failed at zero hour of the attack on Isfahan,”
concerns devices that Iran claims either rebooted …
@cdarwin@c.imA group of unauthorized users has reportedly gained access to #Mythos, the cybersecurity tool recently announced by #Anthropic.
Much has been made of Mythos and its purported power — an AI product designed for enterprise security that,
in the wrong hands, could become a potent hacking tool, according to the …
@cdarwin@c.imThe California marine heat wave is already having an impact on the Pacific Ocean’s food web.
Tammy Russell, a marine ornithologist at Scripps,
said that seabirds in particular are being impacted,
which is a warning sign about more serious impacts to come for other species as well.
Russell studies seabirds closely, and how they interact with the broader marine ecosystem.
“We have been seeing an increase in the number of seabirds coming into rehabilitation facil…
@cdarwin@c.imGerman airline Lufthansa will cut 20,000 European short-haul flights over the summer,
saying soaring fuel prices have made many journeys "unprofitable" for the firm.
Jet fuel has doubled in price since the start of the US-Israel war with Iran as the conflict has slowed its production and transportation across the Middle East.
Several airlines, including KLM-France and Delta, have also temporarily cut some flights
while others have raised ticket prices as the…
@cdarwin@c.imF.B.I. Said to Have Investigated Times Reporter After Article on Kash Patel’s Girlfriend
The bureau said it is not pursuing a case,
but the scrutiny is an example of the Trump administration weighing whether to criminalize routine news gathering
https://www.nytimes.c…
@cdarwin@c.imImmigration and Customs Enforcement bureaucrats are reportedly planning to use specialty facial recognition glasses to collect data on Americans in real time,
independent journalist Ken Klippenstein revealed.
Financial statements viewed by Klippenstein point to the development of a facial recognition platform modeled after commercially available AI smart glasses,
like Meta’s widely-panned“pervert glasses.” ICE’s in-house model, it seems,
will allow agents to monitor vi…
@cdarwin@c.imApple fixes bug that cops used to extract deleted chat messages from iPhones
Apple released a software update on Wednesday for iPhones and iPads fixing a bug that allowed law enforcement to extract messages that had been deleted or disappeared automatically from messaging apps.
This was because notifications that displayed the messages’ content were also cached on the device for up to a month.
In a security notice on its website, Apple said that the bug meant “notification…
@cdarwin@c.imThe Senate late Wednesday moved toward adopting a Republican budget blueprint
that would pave the way for a $70 billion increase for immigration enforcement
and the eventual reopening of the Department of Homeland Security.
But first, senators waded through an overnight marathon of rapid-fire votes, known as a vote-a-rama,
that put the two parties’ dueling political messages on vivid display six months before the midterm elections.
Republicans, who are using the…
@cdarwin@c.imVirginia Democrats have vowed to fight the order.
“My office will immediately file an appeal in the Court of Appeals,”
state Attorney General Jay Jones said in a statement.
“As I said last night, Virginia voters have spoken,
and an activist judge should not have veto power over the People’s vote,”
Jones added.
“We look forward to defending the outcome of last night’s election in court.”
@cdarwin@c.imThe road to preserving liberal democracy does not involve unilateral disarmament or faking normality in the hopes of making the world normal again.
It involves meeting force with force while crafting a national remedy for nonpartisan redistricting,
which would force everyone to behave according to standards of good government.
It’s classical deterrence theory.
As some Roman general once said,
“If you seek peace, prepare for war.”
This should be the mode…
@cdarwin@c.imSenate Republicans held a budget reconciliation “vote-a-rama”
in the wee hours of the night
to kickstart their Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol funding process.
The controversial move,
which wrapped up just after 3:30 a.m. on Thursday,
resulted in a 50-48 vote in their favor,
with zero Democrats supporting
and Senators Rand Paul and Lisa Murkowski breaking rank.
The measure still has to pass through the House,
but if …
@cdarwin@c.imTrump wants to shutter FEMA.
Will Markwayne Mullin get it done?
The new Homeland Security chief has pledged to move on from the Kristi Noem era.
But as hurricane season looms, the disaster agency is still in disarray
https://grist.org/extreme-weather/mark
@cdarwin@c.imJust decades from now, millions of people all over the world will be forced to move because of climate change.
In his new book,
"Shelter from the Storm: How Climate Change Is Creating a New Era of Migration",
acclaimed journalist and migration researcher Julian Hattem reports from the front lines of the environmental apocalypse,
taking readers on a journey from the South Pacific to the Indian subcontinent,
to the Mediterranean.
TRNN Editor-in-C…
@cdarwin@c.imDemocrats on the House Judiciary Committee
have sent a letter addressed to FBI Director Kash Patel
demanding answers regarding a recent article in The Atlantic
that alleges he regularly engages in excessive partying, drinking, and travel
at the expense of taxpayers.
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@cdarwin@c.imThe S.P.L.C. defines a hate group as an organization that
“has beliefs or practices that attack or malign an entire class of people, typically for their immutable characteristics,” according to its website.
The indictment appears to fit within the Trump administration’s pattern of using the Justice Department to punish its political adversaries.
The S.P.L.C. has certainly been adversarial toward the president:
In an article last year, Margaret Huang, who was then the…
