745 tonight! Sorry, I wish it were tomorrow - busy day :)

No offense taken! I wish some other points we discussed had made the quote.

Will be talking AI with senate tmrw btw.

That was a bit of a confused interview. I was telling them that government ID is one of the age verification methods that exist (the worst one), not that gov should require that.

To Read This, Please Upload Photo ID A primer on digital age assurance methods and a survey of the laws—both enacted and proposed—requiring them.

Sharing this *excellent* explainer by @lawfaremedia.org 's Isabel Arroyo on the current stage of digital age assurance definitions and laws.

Bookmark it, it's a fabulous resource:
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This evening I did a shadowy No Kings training for ICE observers with a secretive cabal of 20,000 people who joined a recondite YouTube stream by following a clandestine public link.

Federal Judges have a very real and well-established reason to fear doxing and violence and yet I doubt anyone thinks it would be acceptable for them to preside from the bench in a hood.

Democracy dies in oligarchy.

there are a few outlets that require owners who see them as a public trust. the post is (was?) one of them, a national institution of accountability and public knowledge. nobody should ever forget what bezos has done, & i truly hope he faces consequences.

"She sustained a torn rotator cuff, concussion and bruised ribs during the incident and received medical treatment at a hospital..."

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The Department of National Defence buys a Sky Tractor Canada’s purchase of US F-35 fighter jets will create enormous security vulnerabilities, for which there are no easy answers. Whether it’s an F-35 fighter jet or a John Deere tractor, i…

Critiquing the F-35 purchase isn’t emotional, irrational anti-Americanism, as James Fergusson baselessly claims here. It’s based on a sound, rational understanding of how networked devices function. Pretending the problem doesn’t exist won’t make it go away.
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TikTok users “absolutely justified” for fearing MAGA makeover, experts say TikTok’s tech issues abound as censorship fears drive users to delete app.

Wherein I marvel at the symmetry of TikTok users being told, without proof, that China-owned TikTok was feeding them Chinese propaganda, and now here they are lacking confidence EllisonKushner-owned TikTok is not feeding them US propaganda. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Tell Hootsuite: No Tech for ICE! Hootsuite.com promised to cut ties with ICE in 2020. Now they’re seeking billion-dollar contracts to help ICE monitor social media. 🚩 As a B Corp, they should protect rights—not build surveillance too...

TAKE ACTION: No tech for ICE!

Today we're launching an action aimed at 🇨🇦 company Hootsuite 🦉, a registered B corp required to respect human rights... and somehow a company actively seeking a billion dollar "social listening" contract with ICE.

Speak up here!

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Microsoft gave FBI a set of BitLocker encryption keys to unlock suspects' laptops: reports | TechCrunch The FBI served Microsoft a warrant requesting encryption recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of people involved in an alleged fraud case in Guam.

NEW: Microsoft handed the FBI the recovery keys to decrypt the hard drives of three laptops encrypted with BitLocker.

BitLocker is enabled by default in modern Windows laptops, but Microsoft also prompts users to upload the recovery keys to the company's cloud, which opens up this possibility.

With whatever mildly ideological * they care to add, this should be the worldview of every Canadian leader.

This speech is empirically correct, clear-eyed, and should define how we think of ourselves well above the daily political scrum.

on the evening of 9/11 i worked in the operations center at the state department helping field incoming calls & cables. ally after ally promised support under the north atlantic charter. trump is shredding the bonds that make that kind of support natural.

Trump posts an image depicting Canada and Greenland as part of the United States

Christ, I hadn’t seen the details here but it really is trying to set up a Temu UN with Donald Trump as Secretary General for life (and his hand chosen successor as Secretary General for life after that).

Canada cannot stand by while Donald Trump uses tariffs and intimidation to pressure allies who are doing the right thing.

Trump’s threats toward Greenland should terrify people and send a chill through every democracy.

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Today we're leaving X. If you're still there, we think you should consider leaving too.

A word on why it is so difficult to leave collapsing platforms, why we're making this decision today, and where else you can find us: openmedia.org/article/item...

President Trump is keeping proceeds from the first sale of Venezuelan oil in an offshore bank account based in Qatar, according to reporting from Semafor.

The sale was worth $500 million. trib.al/ylz4Msu

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Not solving the problem, monetizing it.

To be sure. But a tier system with voting (quite possibly defined in ethnic terms) citizens and a wider body of second class inhabitants who are ruled without rights is one model that seems to be desired by some in Trump’s movement.

Thinking the absorption of Greenland would be followed by extension of democratic rights to its citizens (who would immediately vote to leave) is a comical but dangerous failure of imagination.

Not the Trump plan for Greenland.
Not the Trump plan for Canada.

Iran using 'military-grade' jamming to take down Musk's Starlink Human rights groups estimate more than 500 people have been killed and more than 10,600 arrested in the ongoing protests.

I was interviewed on the protests in Iran by Brianna Morris-Grant for @abcnewsbot.bsky.social in this new report: 'Fears of unseen violence against protesters as Iran's internet blackout enters a fifth day' www.abc.net.au/news/2026-01...

‘Shoot to Kill’: Accounts of Brutal Crackdown Emerge From Iran

Horrified by reports of thousands of people killed during the protests in Iran. These are people murdered by a tyrannical regime willing to sacrifice every last person in the country to stay in power.

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Privacy advocates: ICE using private data to intimidate observers and activists MPR News has looked into reports that federal agents have accessed private data to track and intimidate anti-ICE activists since the immigration crackdown surged in Minnesota in December. Privacy advo...

These peaceful observers I spoke to had ICE show up at their homes in what they see as attempts at intimidation. ICE has somehow been accessing Minnesotans' private data in likely violation of state law, according to privacy advocates.

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