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I Audited the #Privacy of Popular #FreeDev #Tools — The Results Are Terrifying

"Just following orders" is not a defense for war crimes (Judd Legum/Popular Information)
https://popular.info/p/just-following-orders-is-not-a-defense
http://www.memeorandum.com/260408/p40#a260408p40

Facts didn’t build this collective delusion, and facts won’t puncture it.
So yeah, I’m trying to stay diligent about facts where facts matter. I’m trying to stay clear in my own head about what we •know• with high confidence as distinct from what merely seems •likely•.
And I’m also studying — with careful attention, as a serious matter — what popular imagination is doing to the “100% vibes” foundation of Trumpism. Popular imagination. Not the facts. The vibes.
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Beamish and Crawford brewery was established in Cork in 1792
and brewed the stout until 2009.
Now the stout is owned by Heineken but is still brewed in Cork city. 
“The taste is much more appealing to me than Guinness,” he said.
“Beamish is creamier and fuller.”
“The natural trend is to start with Guinness,
move to Murphy’s
and then Beamish.”

Is Beamish having a moment? 'It boils my p*ss when I see 'cool kids' with a pint of Beamish'
The 230-year-old cork drink has a pretty large fan base in the UK and in Ireland.

Silicon Valley investors say annual recurring revenue, a popular metric with AI startups, is unreliable because it lacks SEC definitions and can be inflated (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-04-07/…

Vets revolt after 'the most anti-veteran president in history' kills popular program - Alternet.org
https://www.alternet.org/trump-veterans-2676673222/

The UK says Russia-linked hacking group APT28 is hijacking popular internet routers from MikroTik, TP-Link, and others to steal credentials and redirect traffic (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

…if we’re watching for a mass turn in popular sentiment against a would-be authoritarian, then it’s the vibes that matter. The guts lead and the facts follow later, if at all.
It’s significant that a mainstream (if salacious) news outlet is running this story at all. It’s significant that it’s making the rounds in my fairly fact-focused TL. I’m interested in who’s repeating this, who’s joking about it, whether it becomes an acceptable SNL gag, whether centrist pundits feel the need to start refuting it.
Vibes.
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To Boost Military Budget, Trump Targets Popular Programs at Home (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/us/politics/trump-budget-cuts.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260407/p117#a260407p117

That kind of coverage achieves something even individual posts on social media cannot: it was not just the people with lots of followers, not just the people favored by the recommender algorithm or the tides of popularity, but instead a broad cross section of whoever was out there.
I don’t know who’s offering coverage like that in Iran like that right now. It may not exist. But even the BBC article at the top — filtered, edited, formatted, and tidied to sound like a BBC article, but still individual voices of people who are living through it — even that is welcome.
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