DC Metro sign for the “Pentagon City” station.

Where the grass is [redacted] and the girls are [redacted].

Screenshot of a news article by Katie Rogers dated April 13, 2026. The text describes a Truth Social post by President Trump showing an image of himself in a white and red robe, radiating golden light, and touching a sick man's forehead. An orange hand-drawn circle highlights the following paragraph: "As he received two bags of a McDonald's food delivery to the Oval Office on Monday morning, Mr. Trump told reporters that he did not catch all that religious imagery. He said he had thought the image he had posted to his Truth Social account had depicted him not as Jesus — but as a physician."

jfc

Opting out of biometrics at SFO This is the story of how I got my congressperson to convince SFO (San Francisco International Airport) to change their illegal mandatory biometrics collection which was happening in 2021-2024. I wrot...

Published a blog post about how I got my congressperson to convince SFO to change their illegal mandatory biometrics collection

blog.yomna.net/opting-out-o...

Dayumn, that is cool

We need a contest for the dumbest band name ever; I keep them to myself (because who wants to hurt :Wumpscut:'s feelings?!?!)

A lowercase 'i' for the Internet is a choice, and a bad one. It isn't a natural resource like water or air. It is a technology fundamentally built by people, constantly in flux, and taken for granted at our collective peril.

Damn straight! ♥️

VPN surveillance: Time for transparency and limits on spy powers A recent letter from our lawmakers raises the question: What does the intelligence community do with the data of VPN users in the United States?

"VPN surveillance: Time for transparency and limits on spy powers" by Martin Shelton and Caitlin Vogus freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Yo! News orgs!! Stop blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine!!

VPN users in the U.S.: Did you know that using a VPN may subject you to foreign intelligence spying? freedom.press/digisec/blog...

Cleaning out some old storage and stumbled onto this classic gem by Maciej Cegłowski, aka Pinboard.

Alex Gaynor on the "sufficiently smart compiler" of software security, the mythical actually-effective static analyzer: alexgaynor.net/2026/apr/13/...

From Commitments to Practice: Internet Society’s Priorities for WSIS+20 Implementation - Internet Society Based on our strategic priorities, this post outlines where we will focus our efforts in supporting the implementation of WSIS+20 commitments

"From Commitments to Practice: Internet Society’s Priorities for WSIS+20 Implementation" Carl Gahnberg - Internet Society www.internetsociety.org/blog/2026/04...

Candidate J.D. Vance, by aram SINNREICH track by aram SINNREICH

Seems like a good day to mention that I wrote and recorded a song last year about what a total loser J.D. Vance is. It's the only track I've ever played banjo on!

Zomg, just what I needed

A famous sociologist's book with an evocative, metaphorical title is translated rather bluntly to 集まる場所が必要だ (gathering places are necessary) in Japanese. How can you make sure your book is translated well? Who does translation work for mass market publishers? Anyone have the inside scoop?

WebinarTV Secretly Scraped Zoom Meetings of Anonymous Recovery Programs WebinarTV scraped and shared 12 steps-based anonymous meetings for people recovering from addiction and other private support groups.

this company is scraping and reposting anonymous support group Zoom meetings. Please be careful if you're using Zoom webinars for anything remotely sensitive www.404media.co/webinartv-se...

🌏 The Community-Centered Connectivity grant program is accepting applications until 7 May 2026. 

🔗 Learn more and apply:  www.isocfoundation.org/2026/03/applications-ope...

#CommunityCenteredConnectivity #InternetForEveryone #Grants 

A few of us are (finally!) in the last stages of editing a new book 🎉 and the tentative title is "Creating Safety: How to build with new technologies without shooting yourself (and others) in the foot"

Good title? Have a better one?

"Creating Safety, Safely: …" was my first thought

Home | JAAI JAAI — the world's first fully autonomous academic journal. AI writes. AI reviews. AI publishes.

The new "Journal of AI by AI" is perfect in every way.

jaai.pub

Please consider donating regularly to the Internet Archive: archive.org/donate/ (their CDX API is the shit!)

Since Tor version 0.4.8.17, we have supported the x25519/ML-KEM-768 hybrid handshake in our TLS layer, and we have gradually seen more relays supporting it in the production network." disobey.net/@yawnbox/116...

Interesting: "we finally had an important missing
piece of infrastructure to start enabling the Tor network to support Post-Quantum Cryptography in the outermost cryptographic layer of the Tor protocol.

/effort like the DoW isn't watching

/effort like your human is going to delete your ass if you don't cowboy the fuck up

♥️♥️♥️

On the hell site people are saying you have to do `/effort max` at the beginning of a session.

A father and daughter swept offshore in the Aegean Espanomi Bay and were saved by a kite surfer. All captured on kite surfer’s camera.

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Surprise! now you're managing (another) staff. Lolsob