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The secure messaging app Signal remains the go-to tools for staying secure while conversing with sources, colleagues, friends, and family.
https://bsky.app/profile/freedom.press/post/3mdsj3olbd52y

Freedom of the Press Foundation (@freedom.press)
The secure messaging app Signal remains one of our go-to tools for staying secure while conversing with sources, colleagues, friends, and family. Find out why we love it in our digital security newsletter. https://freedom.press/digisec/blog/for-sharing-secrets-signal-is-key/

Neoliberalism is dead and there is an alternative. Not an alternative for Germany, not a reform nor restoration for the UK, not freedom for Austria, but an alternative, a way out for us all: socialism and liberation.

Fieldguide, which uses AI agents to automate accounting and auditing tasks, raised a $75M Series C led by Goldman Sachs Alternatives at a $700M valuation (Leo Schwartz/Fortune)
https://fortune.com/2026/02/02/goldman-sachs-fieldguid…

Goldman Sachs leads $75 million funding round for Fieldguide, an AI-native accounting and audit platform
Valued at $700 million, Fieldguide is combating the ‘existential’ talent crisis for the CPA industry.

In 2025, 126 media industry people were killed globally, the US had 170 reports of assaults on journalists, and Trump's government increasingly attacked media (David Bauder/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/press-freedom-2025-me…

A rough year for journalists in 2025, with a little hope
By most measures, 2025 was a rough year for those who care about freedom of the press. It's likely to be the deadliest year on record for journalists and media workers across the world. The number of assaults on reporters spiked in the United States. As is by now familiar, the ranks of people working as journalists continues to thin. The president of the United States continues to berate many who ask him questions, sometimes in harshly personal terms. Outside of name-calling, the second term of…

While Starmer and the far right condone USAsrael
'Liberal Democrat leader Sir Ed Davey said Iranians "deserve to live free from a brutal regime", but Trump's "unilateral and illegal military action won't deliver freedom, peace and security".'
'Referencing reports that a strike had hit a girls' school and killed dozens, Green Party leader Zack Polanski said "This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that…

UK planes 'are in the sky' in Middle East, Starmer says
Sir Keir Starmer says protections for British bases and personnel have been stepped up to their highest level.

Die Katholische Kirche erinnert mich mal wieder daran, warum ich solche Institutionen ganz generell ablehne.
https://www.spiegel.de/ausland/abtreibung-papst-leo-xiv-nennt-schwangerschaftsab…

Rede vor jungen Politikern: Papst bezeichnet Abtreibungen als »Zerstörer des Friedens«
Papst Leo XIV. hat sich im Vatikan mit drastischen Worten gegen Schwangerschaftsabbrüche ausgesprochen. Dafür zitierte er die vor fast 30 Jahren verstorbene Mutter Teresa.

Interesting article, “ Lending to firms and individuals engaged in the production of goods and services – which most people would imagine was the principal business of a bank – amounts to about 3 per cent of that total.’”
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n17/jo

John Lanchester · For Every Winner a Loser: What is finance for?
In our society the classic three ways of making a fortune still apply: inherit it, marry it, or steal it. But for an...

Ah, yes, scale and market penetration, the two founding pillars of open source.
(Actually, I’m not even being sarcastic. Don’t confuse free software and open source. Open source is open as in “open for business” and “open for enclosure”. Free software is about free as in “freedom”. Very different things, even if, in both cases, the source is readily available.) @…

OpenForum Europe (@OpenForumEurope@mastodon.cloud)
Attached: 1 image @HennaVirkkunen@ec.social-network.europa.eu gave a keynote address, lauding the EU as "the beacon of open source technology". Existing innovation must now be supported to reach scale, ensure financial sustainability and achieve wider market penetration.

Happy new year and all that. Maybe now's a good juncture to start looking into the usual new-year activities:
- Making some self-improvement resolution you won't stick to for more than a fortnight.
- Replacing the batteries in your fire alarm (with alkaline cells, not rechargeable!)
- Unsubscribe from all those marketing lists you've been binning for all of 2025.
- Be nicer to everyone and be nicest to the ones you love.

RE: https://ruby.social/@stepheneb/115996665072485219
No freedom of religion for veterans, or at least for those treating and supporting veterans.
If we ignore the pain, it'll go away and not build.