@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn a letter to senators in January, Apple said it notified X that Grok could be removed from the App Store over Grok's ability to generate sexualized deepfakes (David Ingram/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/app
@cdarwin@c.imAn election clerk in a far-right Michigan county has been purging voter rolls without authorization
According to the report, the Michigan Bureau of Elections "sent a letter to Antrim County Clerk Victoria Bishop on Tuesday saying it had received information suggesting she had made voter registration changes 'that fall outside the scope of your statutory authority and fail to comply with the law.'"
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot"The code points represent every letter of the US alphabet when fed to computers, but their output is completely invisible to humans. People reviewing code or using static analysis tools see only whitespace or blank lines. To a #JavaScript interpreter, the code points translate into executable code."
Sigh.
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDirectors from some of the UK's top shows sign a letter calling on streaming platforms to agree to a deal on establishing a royalty or residual scheme (K.J. Yossman/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/global/directors-uk-streamers-royalties-1236722155/
@brian_gettler@mas.toFollowing federal cuts to history-focused organizations, the president of the Canadian Historical Association, Colin Coates, sent this letter to Marc Miller, the Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture.
One thing might not be obvious: Coates's reference to Carney's recent Quebec City speech suggests Canadians' need for historical context right now. He doesn't agree with Carney's claims. In fact, most Canadian historians would dispute them.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialThe US Energy Information Administration plans to implement a mandatory nationwide survey of data centers focused on their energy use (Molly Taft/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-government-to-ask-data-centers-how-much-power-they-use/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comTrump's top general urges lawmakers to reup FISA 702 (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/live-updates/2026/04/13/congress/caine-letter-fisa-702-reauthorization-00870208
http://www.memeorandum.com/260414/p75#a260414p75
@cjust@infosec.exchangeThis was from a veterinarians office, but
♫ to be fair ♪
this coulda been my old place of employment
#Shitpost #Shitposting
@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. State Department has ordered certain public libraries nationwide
to cease processing passport applications,
-- disrupting a long-standing service that librarians say their communities have come to rely on
and that has run smoothly for years.
The agency, which regulates U.S. passports, began issuing cease and desist orders to not-for-profit libraries in late fall,
informing them they were no longer authorized to participate in the Passport Acceptance Fac…
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialShuffalo, 4m 55s
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@markhburton@mstdn.socialGovernment proposes yet another revision to the NPPF (Planning Framework) for England and Wales.
Here's what we said about the last one.
Open Letter about NPPF to GM Labour MPs | Steady State Manchester https://steadystatemanchester.net/2025/01/1…
@aardrian@toot.cafePost updates (a bit behind):
• https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html#Update03 linking to Donnie D’Amato and Den Odell.
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@servelan@newsie.socialTrump to present WSJ with award for Epstein letter - National Zero
https://nationalzero.com/2026/04/13/trump-to-present-wsj-with-award-for-epstein-letter/
@brian_gettler@mas.toI like to think that when someone receives a letter from me in an official capacity, they imagine me composing it bathed in diffused light from antique reading lamps while sitting in a cocoon of leather, brass, and aged hardwood. It's a better picture than reality: me balanced in a wonky chair at a crumbling second-hand desk in a poorly climate controlled, institutionally painted cinder block office while squinting under the harsh fluorescent ceiling lights my university actually provide…
@bici@mastodon.social @Mediagazer@mstdn.socialDisney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming it infringed on Disney's works to train its Seedance 2.0 video generation model without pay (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/13/disney-bytedance-seedance
@mcdanlj@social.makerforums.infoAvBrief has what looks like the real scoop on the AOPA board firing Darren Pleasance. By all accounts, he was actually effective as a CEO, turning the organization around significantly during his short tenure. Maybe some board members were threatened by having someone more competent than themselves, or maybe just more honest, in the CEO seat.
#aviation
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io“You should be ashamed of where you work. Not just Grammarly or Superhuman or whatever comically dumb name you come up with next. Almost everyone running tech firms, most people in positions of responsibility, pretty much every C-suite type — congrats, you’re all making the world a worse place. People used to be excited about tech, now they dread what data you're going to steal next, they dread what violation of privacy or the environment will turn up next.”
https://www.moryan.com/an-open-letter-to-grammarly-and-other-plagiarists-thieves-and-slop-merchants/
@chiraag@mastodon.online
@kcase@mastodon.socialIn early 1985, Henry Nussbacher sent a letter to all Bitnet contacts calling for admins to hunt down and destroy every chat server because a dozen users actively chatting could bring file transfers to a halt—file transfers being the primary purpose of the network.
Jeff Kell realized that the problem wasn't chatting itself, but redundant traffic from independent connections. So he built the first Relay chat system. I got involved in August, setting up the 10th relay server and contr…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialDisney sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, claiming it infringed on Disney's works to train its Seedance 2.0 video generation model without pay (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/02/13/disney-bytedance-seedance
@cdarwin@c.imThis week, ProPublica published a story I wrote
based in part on interviews with parents and children being held at the nation’s only operating detention center for immigrant families in Dilley, Texas.
I had asked some of the parents to see if their children would be willing to write to me about their experiences inside.
-- More than three dozen did.
One of those letters came from 9-year-old Maria Antonia Guerra Montoya from Colombia.
Her letter was written on…
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialHehe
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/02/14
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ngSome _very_ early algorithm concept/pre-viz sketches/explorations for the Tron Legacy (2010) intro sequence. They informed another concept/approach in which we applied a similar algorithm to progressively trace out edges of an initially invisible and super detailed 3D city mesh. This required a lot of effort to retopologize the (huge) geometry supplied and creating a multi-res navigation graph to prioritize long/major edges over shorter ones, filter out undesired edges/directions, thereby cr…
@aardrian@toot.cafeLong weekend coming and want to avoid it? I’ve got recent posts!
New this month:
• https://adrianroselli.com/2026/02/you-know-what-just-dont-split-words-into-letters.html
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@ruari@velocipederider.comLOL, at some point I had an Amazon Prime membership (because I wanted to watch certain shows and they were only on Prime Video).
I just got a physical letter from Amazon telling me that the US government decided that I was missold Prime as I only used certain benefits and that the FTC requires them to pay me compensation.
How much? $14.99. The letter came with a cheque. There is no possible way to cash that in Norway. Oh and they spelt my name wrong anyway because they cannot do …
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialAm Anfang kurz vertippt, tsss
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https://www.newyorker.com/puzzles-and-games-dept/shuffalo/2026/01/28
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialFollowing Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/par
@ingmar@norden.social#Pixelfed Account gelöscht. Siehe https://dansup-open-letter.github.io/
War ja anscheinend schon lange überfällig.
Danke @…
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Thievery Corporation feat. Racquel Jones:
🎵 Letter To The Editor
#NowPlaying #ThieveryCorporation #RacquelJones
https://thieverycorporation.bandcamp.com/track/letter-to-the-editor-ft-racquel-jones
https://open.spotify.com/track/7kw3rUFrQVSUKawR23fa6m
@Techmeme@techhub.socialFollowing Disney, Paramount sent a cease-and-desist letter to ByteDance, alleging its AI-generated Seedance videos and Seedream images infringed Paramount's IP (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/film/news/par
@gwire@mastodon.socialI don’t know what it’s like in the US, but I’ve used U.K. Apple News for a few years and it massively preferences the Times and Telegraph its curation - very conservative outlets.
https://www.macrumors.com/2026/02/12/tim-cook-faces-ftc-warning-apple-news/
@brichapman@mastodon.socialhope is a four-letter word — https://www.brichapman.com/p/hope-is-a-four-letter-word?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn
@Dragofix@veganism.socialAction Needed! Sign Open Letter Calling for a Crackdown on Animal Experiments for Chemicals #AnimalRights
@metacurity@infosec.exchangeTech workers urge DOD, Congress to withdraw Anthropic label as a supply chain risk
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/02/tech-workers-urge-dod-congress-to-withdraw-anthropic-label-as-a-supply-chain-risk/
@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe War Trump Doesn't Want to Talk About (Susan B. Glasser/New Yorker)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/the-war-trump-doesnt-want-to-talk-about
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p145#a260312p145
@StephenRees@mas.tohttps://leadnow.ca/campaigns/pipelinestargetett/?source=direct_link&
I wrote a letter for the Leadnow letter campaign: Demand your MP: Homes, Not Pipelines.
As the government contemplates handing over billions of our public money to pad Big Oil’s…
@servelan@newsie.socialModerna Says FDA Refusal to Review mRNA Flu Vaccine Contradicts Federal Rules, Prior Guidance - MedCity News
https://medcitynews.com/2026/02/moderna-vaccine-fda-refuse-to-file-letter-flu-influenza-prasad-ceber-mrna/
@ErikJonker@mastodon.socialThis is quite fundamental, a judge saying "ruling that the department can no longer be presumed to be acting in good faith"
https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/federal-judge-rules-doj-can-no-longer-be-trust…
@qbi@freie-re.de
@kctipton@mas.toCan Donald Trump Win a War with Iran If He Can’t Explain Why He Started It? | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-trumps-washington/can-donald-trump-win-a-war-with-iran-if-he-cant-explain-w…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialParamount responds to Hollywood creatives' letter against its WBD acquisition, reiterating its commitment for 30 theatrical feature films annually, and more (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/04/paramount-warner-bros-merger-creatives-…
@kexpmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Neal Francis:
🎵 Strawberry Letter 23
#NealFrancis
https://nealfrancis.bandcamp.com/track/strawberry-letter-23
https://open.spotify.com/track/6zgEZWcdMXB1PKpnuHdom4
Please 🔁 BOOST to share what you like
- your followers don't see if you ⭐ favourite a post
@tiotasram@kolektiva.socialIn the interests of starting a more productive dialogue than yesterday's main character was interested in, let's make a #brainstorm thread about design changes to ActivityPub and/or client UI that could actually help address drive-by (often racist) harassment on the fediverse.
Feel free to discuss pros/cons but don't feel an idea needs to be perfect to suggest it. Also since this is a brainstorm don't worry about complexity/implementation cost. If you have a great-but-hard-to-implement idea someone else may think of a way to simplify it.
Note that the underlying problem *is* a social one, do there won't be a technological fix! But tech changes can make social remedies easier/harder.
I've got some to start:
1. Have a "protected mode" that users can voluntarily turn on. Some servers might turn it on by default. In protected mode, users whose accounts are less than D days old and/or who have fewer than F followers can't reply to or DM you. F and D could have different values for same-sever vs. different-server accounts, and could be customized by each user. Obviously a dedicated harasser can get around this, but it ups the activation energy for block evasion and pile-ons a bit. Would be interesting to review moderation records to estimate how helpful this might or might not be. Could also have a setting to require "follows-from-my-server" although that might be too limiting on private servers. Restriction would be turned off for people you mention within that thread and could be set to unlimit anyone you've ever mentioned. Would this lock new users out of engagement entirely? If everyone had it on via a default, you'd have you post your own stuff until someone followed you (assuming F=1). One could add "R non-moderated replies" and/or "F favorites" options to soften things; those experiencing more harassment could set higher limits. When muting/blocking/reporting someone who replied to your post, protected mode could be suggested with settings that would have filtered the post you're reporting.
2. Enable some form of public moderation info to be displayed when both moderator and local server opt-in. Obviously each server would be able to ignore federated public tags. I'm imagining "banned from X server for R reason (optional link to evidence)" appearing on someone's profile & an icon on their PFP in each post viewed by someone on server Y *if* the mods of server X decide it's appropriate *and* server Y opts in to displaying such tags from server X specifically. Alliances of servers with similar moderation preferences could then have moderation action on one server result in clear warning propagation to others without the other mods needing to decide whether to also take action immediately. In some cases different moderation preferences would mean you wouldn't take action yourself but would keep the notice up for your users to consider. Obviously the "Scarlet Letter" vibe ain't great, but in some cases it's deserved, and when there's disagreement between servers about that, mods on server Y could either disable a specific tag or disable federation of mod tags from that server in general. Even better shared moderation tools are of course possible.
3. Different people/groups have different norms around boosting. Currently we only have a locked/public binary. Without any big protocol changes, adding a "prefers boosts/doesn't" setting which would warn in the UI before a viewer chooses to boost if the preference is "doesn't" could help. This could be set per-post, but could also have defaults and could have different values for same-server or not, or for particular servers. For example, I could say "default to prefer boosts from users on my server but not from users on other servers" or "default to prefer boosting on all servers except mastodon.social." Last option might be harder to implement I guess.
#ActivityPub #Meta #Harassment
@AccordionBruce@Mastodon.socialLouis Braille’s Earlier Ideas, Ranked:
7. Musical Reading
Braille got Parisian street performers to “play” books by assigning each letter a note on the 🪗
The ensuing cacophony was unlistenable. However, it paved the way for experimental, atonal music which people now claim they enjoy to sound sophisticated
https://…
@malik@Mastodon.SocialIf you’re not subscribed to our newsletter yet — be quick. Next letter is coming out soon.
https://darkk.band/news
@ubuntourist@mastodon.socialIn the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it. The report shows how this phenomenon affects both consumers and society at large, but that it is possible to turn the tide. Together with more than 70 consumer groups and other actors in Europe and the US, we are sending letter to policymakers in the EU/EEA, UK and the US.
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialEPA moves to designate microplastics and pharmaceuticals as contaminants in drinking water
But, as #MAHA folks noted: "Maha leaders, farmers and organizations told Zeldin in a letter on Tuesday to tackle the health impacts of pesticides, plastics and Pfas chemicals."
Still, 2 out of 4 is a start (I hope)
@paulwermer@sfba.socialEPA moves to designate microplastics and pharmaceuticals as contaminants in drinking water
But, as #MAHA folks noted: "Maha leaders, farmers and organizations told Zeldin in a letter on Tuesday to tackle the health impacts of pesticides, plastics and Pfas chemicals."
Still, 2 out of 4 is a start (I hope)
@cdarwin@c.imThe annual meeting of the nation’s governors that has long served as a rare bipartisan gathering is unraveling
after Donald Trump excluded Democratic governors from White House events.
The National Governors Association said it will no longer hold a formal meeting with Trump when governors are scheduled to convene in Washington later this month,
after the White House planned to invite only Republican governors.
On Tuesday, 18 Democratic governors also announced they …
@gray17@mastodon.socialapril fool's product "AI pet for your AI companion" has a video that shows various options for the pet: corgi, kitten, snake, toaster, Punch-Kun (the macaque with a plush orangutan), and "Lynx the Blue Fox" shown here
@roelgrif@mstdn.social
@drgeraint@glasgow.socialA lesson in growth for the Chancellor from people who understand long term investment.
"Development corporations — public bodies that drive new housebuilding and regeneration — should be able to “borrow outside the fiscal rules” in line with other European countries, said the letter, which was seen by the Financial Times."
FT:
@scott@carfree.cityAchievement unlocked: Got the SF Chronicle to publish an argument for social housing!
(it's the second in this batch of letters to the editor)
https://www.sfchronicle.com/opinion/letterstotheeditor/article/licence-p…
@aral@mastodon.ar.alDear (neo)liberals,
I’m not here to make you feel better about yourselves and gloss over your hypocrisies that are at the heart of the mess that we find ourselves in. I’m not here to pat you on the back when you write a strongly-worded letter to a fascist asking him to please limit his persecution to the Other. I’m here to remind you that your willingness to perpetuate an unjust system as long as it benefits you personally IS the reason the problem exists in the first place.
@johl@mastodon.xyz„For […] Koreans watching [NASA‘s Artemis II mission] in real time on the KBS TV YouTube channel, the phrase took on an entirely different meaning. The AI-generated subtitles failed to grasp the aerospace context, misinterpreting “pitch” as an English expletive beginning with the letter B and then rendering its Korean equivalent.“
https://
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialShuffalo, 13m 59s
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@Techmeme@techhub.socialOriginality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter supporting the Archive (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-to…
@aardrian@toot.cafeThis is a shitty outcome for a valid criticism of an #overlay product:
• https://www.lalutineduweb.fr/en/help-lawyer-fees-faciliti-lawsuit/#20260306
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@servelan@newsie.social120 Dems signed on to a letter asking 'AI? WTF?'
Hegseth's 'maximum lethality' strategy under fire after elementary school massacre - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/hegseth-s-maximum-lethality-strategy-under-fire-after-elementary-school-massacre/
@radioeinsmusicbot@mastodonapp.uk🇺🇦 Auf #radioeins läuft...
Thievery Corporation feat. Racquel Jones:
🎵 Letter To The Editor
#NowPlaying #ThieveryCorporation #RacquelJones
https://thieverycorporation.bandcamp.com/track/letter-to-the-editor-ft-racquel-jones
https://open.spotify.com/track/3D2v0rx9B0q3CaQuANAFFR
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialShuffalo, 6m 06s
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@cdarwin@c.imThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is
refusing to consider Moderna’s application for a new flu vaccine
made with Nobel Prize-winning mRNA technology.
The news is the latest sign of the FDA’s heightened scrutiny of vaccines under Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.,
particularly those using mRNA technology,
which he has criticized before and after becoming the nation’s top health official.
Moderna received what’s called a “refusal-to-file” letter from…
@brichapman@mastodon.socialhope is a four-letter word — https://www.brichapman.com/p/hope-is-a-four-letter-word?utm_source=bri-mastodon&utm_medium=social&src=mstdn
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialOriginality AI: 23 major news websites and Reddit currently block the Internet Archive's crawler; journalists and advocacy groups sign a letter backing the IA (Kate Knibbs/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-internets-most-powerful-archiving-…
@kctipton@mas.toPam Bondi’s Letter to Minnesota Could Unravel Entire ICE Crackdown | The New Republic #bondi
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social @gwire@mastodon.socialMy joke last week, at the suggestion Anthropic relocate to the UK, was that it would be contingent on its objection to mass-surveillance not being extended to UK citizens. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/czx7915nn8qo
@cdarwin@c.imConnecticut Jewish leaders and synagogues have signed on to a national letter denouncing new prohibitions on recipients of a federal security grant,
which would ban nonprofits — including faith-based organizations — from conducting equity or “DEI” programming, staging some boycotts or helping undocumented immigrants.
The new language would also require such institutions to cooperate with immigration enforcement.
The letter was signed by Temple Beth El in Stamford, the Men…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLetter: the EU launched a new probe into Google for potentially "artificially increasing the clearing price" of ad auctions "to the detriment of advertisers" (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@memeorandum@universeodon.comDOJ's Ed Martin faces ethics charges from disciplinary office over threatening letter to Georgetown University (Sarah N. Lynch/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/doj-ed-martin-ethics-charges-disciplinary-office-georgetown-university/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260310/p48#a260310p48
@Techmeme@techhub.socialOpenAI sends a letter to the California and Delaware AGs, urging them to investigate "anti-competitive behavior" by Elon Musk, ahead of a trial in April (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/06/openai-asks-california-ag-to-prob…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLetter: the EU launched a new probe into Google for potentially "artificially increasing the clearing price" of ad auctions "to the detriment of advertisers" (Samuel Stolton/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@brian_gettler@mas.toLet's get a new hashtag going - #ArchivalCoffeeRings.
These are from a letter written in January 1831, though I suspect a clerk in the receiving office - the Canadian Indian Department - left the stains. Also, I am probably undercutting the hashtag as I create it - these are more likely tea than coffee rings.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIn his annual letter, Andy Jassy says Amazon's space-internet service Leo will "launch in mid-2026", after delays; Amazon has FCC approval for 3,236 satellites (Thomas Ricker/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/909122/amazons-starlink-c…
@sauer_lauwarm@mastodon.socialShuffalo, 7m 28s
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialLetter: 200 Thomson Reuters staff ask the company not to renew its ICE contract when it expires in May; Thomson Reuters' Westlaw service is Minneapolis-based (Kashmir Hill/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/11/technology/thomson-reuters-ice-…
@cdarwin@c.imMore than 215,000 people have now signed a letter which calls
not just for the closure of Dilley
but for an end to the detention of children and families nationwide
— and the return of those already detained to the communities from which they were taken.
The campaign, organized under the "National Coalition to End Child and Family Detention", is not a celebrity vanity project.
Alongside the artists is a medical corps
— pediatricians, OBGYNs, pulm…
@servelan@newsie.social"The letter to the attorneys general of Delaware and California asks for an investigation into Musk."
In Letter, OpenAI Reportedly Says Elon Musk and Meta Are Coordinating 'Attacks' Against It
https://gizmodo.com/in-letter-openai-reportedly-says-elon-musk-and-meta-are-coordinating-attacks-against-it-2000743228
@brian_gettler@mas.toAllow me to doubt the federal government's claim that "the planned reductions" at the Canadian Museum of History are really "intended to improve efficiency and provide greater long-term flexibility in fulfilling its mandate."
Response from Marc Miller, Minister of Canadian Identity and Culture and Minister responsible for Official Languages to Colin Coates, President of the Canadian Historical Association.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialAnnual letter: Andy Jassy says AWS's AI revenue has reached a $15B annual run rate as of Q1, and Amazon plans to spend ~$200B in capital expenditures in 2026 (Todd Bishop/GeekWire)
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/not-on-a-hunch-andy-jassy-defend…
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@cdarwin@c.imGovernor Pritzker urges Secretary of State Marco Rubio to help stranded Americans in the Middle East
https://chicago.suntimes.com/illinois-governor/2026/03/04/…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialMore than 200 journalists at Law360 and its sister publications sign a letter demanding that parent company RELX drop its contract with DHS due to ICE's actions (Angela Fu/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/business-work/2026/law360-reuters-newsr…
@cdarwin@c.imWe are calling on ICE to immediately release journalist Estefany Rodriguez, who has covered immigration, including ICE actions, for the local Spanish-language news site Nashville Noticias.
Read the letter we signed with 40 other press freedom groups:
https://www.…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLetter: ICE officials confirm they are using Graphite spyware to intercept encrypted messages, saying it is primarily used to target fentanyl traffickers (Jude Joffe-Block/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2026/04/07/nx-s1-5776799/ice-spyware-privacy
@cdarwin@c.imICE taking steps to close detention center at Fort Bliss, document shows
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is taking steps to close Camp East Montana,
a massive immigrant detention camp near the Mexican border that opened less than eight months ago,
according to an internal ICE document reviewed by The Washington Post.
The document, distributed to agency staff this week,
indicated that ICE is drafting a letter to terminate the facility’s contract,
…
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@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialTo avert layoffs, WaPo's White House correspondents, not considered at risk, write a letter to Jeff Bezos highlighting collaborations among the paper's sections (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/01/29/2026
@cdarwin@c.imNow is a good time for doing crime
Eons ago, in 2012, I had a weird experience.
My iPhone suddenly shut down.
When I restarted it, I found it was totally reset—clean, like a new device.
This was the early days of iOS, so I wasn’t too concerned until I went to connect it to my computer to restore it from a backup.
But when I flipped open the lid of my laptop, it too was mid-restart.
And then, suddenly, the screen went gray. It was being remotely wiped.
@Techmeme@techhub.socialLetter: 100 Google DeepMind and other AI employees urge Jeff Dean to block US military deals that use Gemini for mass surveillance or autonomous weapons (Tripp Mickle/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/tech…
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@cdarwin@c.imIn a prime-time address to the nation on Wednesday evening, Trump is expected to describe the U.S.-Israeli war against Iran as a major success that could end in a few weeks.
In what was perhaps a pre-emptive pitch before Mr. Trump’s speech, the president of Iran posted an open letter to the American public,warning of the costs of a prolonged war.
“Continuing along the path of confrontation is more costly and futile than ever before,” President Masoud Pezeshkian said in the lette…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialIn a letter, Tim Davie explains why the BBC failed to edit out the N-word in its BAFTA stream: it was said twice, but the team did not hear it the first time (Max Goldbart/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2026/03/bbc-sets-out-n-word-debacle-bafta-film-awa…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndonesia lifts its ban on Grok after receiving a letter from X "outlining concrete steps" to prevent misuse; Indonesia was the first country to ban Grok (Jin Yu Young/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/01/world/asia/indonesia-lift-grok-ban.h…
@cdarwin@c.imA woman adopted as a toddler by an American war veteran,
who he found in the 1970s in an Iranian orphanage and raised as a Christian,
is being threatened with deportation to Iran, a country notoriously dangerous for Christians and now on the brink of war with the United States.
She is one of thousands adopted from abroad who were never granted citizenship because of a fracture at the intersection of adoption and immigration law.
The woman, who The Associated Pres…
@cdarwin@c.imSix senators accused Deputy Attorney General #Todd #Blanche this week of having a "glaring" conflict of interest
when he shut down investigations into crypto companies, dealers and exchanges
and eliminated an enforcement team dedicated to looking for crypto-related fraud and money-laundering schemes.
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