A Journalist Security Checklist: Preparing Devices for Travel Through a US Border We wrote this checklist to help journalists prepare for transit through a U.S. port of entry while preserving the confidentiality of your most sensitive information, such as unpublished reporting mate...

For people who are concerned about having their devices seized at US airports starting Monday when ICE "assists" the TSA, EFF has this guide: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Setting up my openclaw agent so I can finally escape samsara

the Merlin app should tell me when the "bird" I think I'm hearing is actually a squirrel. like level with me! I know it knows

the pictures of davos during WEF are funny; it looks a lot like sundance

Screenshot of a Bluesky post from user "Endless Screaming" showing two activity labels: "No break greater than 1 hr yesterday" and "Posts a lot: more than 50 times yesterday." The post content reads "AAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH" in all caps.

If you are a resident of California, the state now has a portal where you can demand deletion of your personal data from 500+ registered data brokers with a single request form, for free.

consumer.drop.privacy.ca.gov

Archaeologist Howard Carter in King Tutankhamen's tomb in November 1922. (Public Domain / Photo by Harry Burton for the New York Times.)

For the past 10 weeks, I have been at the center of the Kryptos K4 auction imbroglio. But why did Jarett Kobek and myself turn down money for our silence and refuse to sign NDAs?

I explain it all in a new STAGE WRITE essay titled "Not So Wonderful Things."

stage-write.ghost.io/not-so-wonde...

This whole story is absolutely bananas and a triumph of library science. There's a gift article in the thread. Then, once you've read it, check out the follow-up interview with Jarett Kobek and Richard Byrne in Zona Motel open.substack.com/pub/zonamote...

📣 Germany's close to reversing its opposition to mass surveillance & private message scanning, & backing the Chat Control bill. This could end private comms-& Signal-in the EU.

Time's short and they're counting on obscurity: please let German politicians know how horrifying their reversal would be.

ICE to Buy Tool that Tracks Locations of Hundreds of Millions of Phones Every Day Documents show that ICE has gone back on its decision to not use location data remotely harvested from peoples' phones. The database is updated every day with billions of pieces of location data.

ICE is buying a location tracking tool that harvests data from hundreds of millions of phones a day. Protect your location data by updating a few settings on your phone 🧵 (1/4): www.404media.co/ice-to-buy-...

Marching out into the deep woods and telling the first fae I see my whole and true name, I'm fuckin done here time to go

settings > content & media > autoplay video & gifs = off

New blog post from me: LLMs for the Old and Infirm www.oblomovka.com/wp/2025/08/29/llms-for-t...

late reply but I'm using Sendgrid for my little guy clients. there is a free tier and they're reliable. Mailgun doesn't have a free tier but the cheapest level wasn't so bad, around $30/mo. Never tried to use support on either but if you need support cheap might be better than free.... (also hi! 💖)

Of course open source software has been used in war before, but seeing ArduPilot Mission Planner being used to blow up Russian strategic bombers is still wild.

The Signal Clone the Trump Admin Uses Was Hacked TeleMessage, a company that makes a modified version of Signal that archives messages for government agencies, was hacked.

TeleMessage, the Israeli company that makes the modified Signal app used by Trump officials, was hacked. “I would say the whole process took about 15-20 minutes,” the hacker said micahflee.com/the-signal-c...

Breaking into the tech industry is easy. Simply install Linux on your family computer as a teenager in 1997.

i felt it but dismissed it as my cat grooming too vigorously next to me

Litigation Tracker: Legal Challenges to Trump Administration Actions A public resource tracking the legal challenges to the Trump administration's executive orders and actions.

this is my favorite web page right now www.justsecurity.org/107087/track...

incredible things are happening on the federal employee subreddit

it’s mad to me how big tech and AI companies dumps their trash into the world and it is up to everyone else (academics, civil society, educators, regulators, etc) to deal with it…. to assess the merit/usefulness, clean up their mess, and come up with alternatives

i've been listening to videos with titles like "40Hz Gamma Focus & Attention Isochronic Tones, Intense Mental Boost" and "Deep Smoothed Brown Noise + High Focus Isochronic Tones" because i forgot i can just listen to Autechre

Donate to Dee's Fire Recovery: 50 Years of Home Gone, organized by Erica Lawless My mom, Dee Lawless, has lost her Altadena home of 50 years to the Eaton Fire… Erica Lawless needs your support for Dee's Fire Recovery: 50 Years of Home Gone

my dear friend Erica lost her childhood Altadena home in the Eaton fire. Her late dad helped build it. They lost family mementos and her dad's handcrafted furniture and artwork. Erica's mom Dee + two cats Roscoe and Gracie need help recovering - please consider donating🙏❤️‍🩹 gofund.me/62a457fe

I like Feedly :)

Eaton & Palisades fire damage inspection data trickling out at recovery.lacounty.gov. Look at maps / look up an address to find out if a structure has been damaged or destroyed. The county is updating as they complete inspections, there are still a lot of addresses without info posted yet.

on my walk thru los feliz today i saw a little yellow goldfinch hopping near the sidewalk. before i had fully registered the goldfinch, a cooper's hawk dove in and snatched it, leaving behind a small swirl of feathers

A pixel art image from what appears to be a Garfield computer game. Garfield is perched on a red tree branch in the rain, looking characteristically grumpy. A speech bubble above him reads 'THINGS COULD BE WORSE' against the blue rainy background.

ty! since the first set of likes pre-update were cleanly unliked without becoming ghostly, i wondered if Cyd's new fast 'send command' style of unliking might have made them ghosts

a gem from old twitter DM archaeology courtesy @cyd.social

Legal Internship Opportunities Applications are now open for the Summer 2025 Intern Class, with a deadline of February 15. See below for instructions and a link to the application.EFF’s legal internships provide law students with a...

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