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In the first successful US prosecution of a spyware operator in 10 years, pcTattletale founder pleads guilty to promoting surveillance apps for unlawful uses (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/06/foun

The far-right influencer and
US Senate candidate Jake Lang
has been arrested after recording himself damaging an
anti-ICE-sculpture at Minnesota’s capitol
amid the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency’s crackdown there.
On 5 February, Lang,
who received a presidential pardon from Donald Trump over his role in the 6 January 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
posted a video on X of himself kicking down the sculpture,
which was made from ice

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internet_as: Internet AS graph (2006)
A symmetrized snapshot of the structure of the Internet at the level of Autonomous Systems (ASs), reconstructed from BGP tables posted by the University of Oregon Route Views Project. This snapshot was created on 22 July 2006.
This network has 22963 nodes and 48436 edges.
Tags: Technological, Communication, Unweighted

Hahaha, of course I did a server restart after I posted this that is taking forever to finish… 🤪

How to Play Accordion: Beginner Step-by-Step Guide:
Someone posted a link to an introduction to playing the accordion on mastodon last night
The article seems to be either really poorly translated, or very badly mangled and unfiltered AI slop
Or probably both: a bad translation run through AI?
Or AI fed on bad translations?
Anyways. The internet will soon be entirely useless. This is all we’ll see:
(1/?)

Too late, he's doubled down: “That staffer should be fired immediately, and the President should publicly condemn this action,” Burns continued. “This kind of insensitive and racist communication does not reflect the heart, values, or leadership of the President of the United States, nor does it represent the America we are striving to build.”
Trump-allied pastor: Staffer who posted Obamas video 'should be fired immediately'
https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/5727010-racist-video-prompts-outrage/

The video clip posted last week on social media by Rogelio Martinez,
a mayoral candidate for the city of Long Beach, was short and to the point:
"I need to see 55 gang leaders here this coming Monday,
we need to take back our city,
enough is enough,
ICE needs to get out of Long Beach
and this is the only way that I know how to get them out;
peacefully, but with strong force, but peacefully."
The video quickly went viral and landed Mar…

“If a fascist is merely someone who opposes democracy, then let me be clear: I oppose democracy — and have always opposed democracy,” Jason Lee Van Dyke wrote.
That was a part of a lengthy response I received after I’d emailed the North Texas lawyer to ask a few questions
because on Nov. 11, he filed paperwork to become a Republican candidate for the open Justice of the Peace, Precinct 1 seat in Wise County. 
I wrote about Van Dyke for The Barbed Wireback in August, breaking …