3D printing has been an engine for grassroots innovation—from life-saving medical devices to everyday repairs. New mandates threaten the open commons that made it all possible. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Wow this looks really nice!
happy trans day of visibility to all of the incredible trans people in my life. the world is better with you in it and I'm never going to stop fighting for you, because your fight is my fight. we're in this together.
New York’s public hospitals dropped Palantir this week.
Is it time the NHS did the same?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/n...
We've just launched our State of Protest 2025 report!
You can find it online here: netpol.org/SOP25
People always doom about the internet being Bad now, and yes, it is worse - but the Good things still exist and you can still use them! People are making more Good things!
The writing is on the wall. The UK is going to attempt to ban hormones for trans adults. This is just one of the steps they're taking to limit access slowly.
www.thepinknews.com/2026/03/17/n...
A BBC headline saying "Reeves vows to stop UK tech from 'drifting abroad'"
Rachel, you're trying to make it illegal for a decent percentage of your tech talent to go to for a piss, and threatening to report the families of another decent percentage
Technical diagram of a "Dual Screw USB Type-C Locking Plug", which looks like a VGA connector but with USB C.
Just found this in the USB specs
I'm deadly serious with this. A huge reason we're in the mess we're in is because the media treats evidenced policy like housing the homeless and decriminalising drugs as absurd, outrageous nonsense, and "you can't even say blackboard any more because of woke" as serious and meaningful.
We are excited to announce our second annual State of Protest 2025 report: How Repression Became Routine.
The report launches with a free livestream on Wed 25 Mar 2026 7:00-8:30 pm GMT.
Link in bio to book OR www.tickettailor.com/events/netpo...
Today I asked ministers to deny* that the number of jury acquittals in protest cases was a factor in the Government’s dangerous attack on jury trials.
*They did not do this
Graph from NetBlocks showing network connectivity in Iran from 24 February 2026 to 10 March 2026. The y-axis represents normalized connectivity, ranging from 0% to 100%, and the x-axis represents the dates. The green line representing Iran's connectivity is high through the initial time period, with a sharp drop on the morning of 28 February. The continued drop in connectivity aligns with a nation-scale internet blackout imposed by authorities after joint military strikes by the US and Israel. The minimum and current connectivity levels are indicated as 1% and 1%, respectively. The chart has a dark background with a red horizontal arrow labeled 'SHUTDOWN' indicating the disruption period, and the NetBlocks logo in the lower left corner with the Mapping Internet Freedom slogan.
⚠️ Update: At 240 hours, #Iran's internet blackout is now among the most severe government-imposed nationwide internet shutdowns on record globally, and the second longest registered in Iran after the January protests, with the country having spent a third of 2026 offline.
It was suuuuch a good show!
Telling that this article is written by a BBC social affairs editor and not their health editor.
The BBC thinks being trans is a social contagion problem QED
People should be REALLY scared by this, it's normalising refusing healthcare to a section of the community for entirely ideological reasons with absolutely no medical reason
The reason I fight so hard for trans kids is because I was a trans kid myself. I knew who I was in the year 2000, 12 years old, behind my computer, using the name Erin. I wanted puberty blockers so badly. My body shifted and changed in horrifying ways that I suffered for 15 years over.
Tomorrow Wes Streeting will remove trans minors ability to access, and doctors to prescribe, cross-sex hormones.
Try as it might Labour will never eradicate trans people. They cannot, and should not, change who they are. All Labour will do is make trans lives harder - with more harm and more death.
why atproto?
this is why
You can get whites that are temperature adjustable too I think?
Confused me too, but it's a smart bulb so it's showing the temperature range it can do.
Oops. Turns out Persona, Discord’s age-verification service, was secretly screening selfies against government watchlists AND accessible by the feds. It's backed by Peter Thiel.
“The state wants to see everything. The corporations want to see everything. And they've learned to work together.”
Yeah first thing I did when I found out about Solid was look up whether anyone had compared it to atproto and found that, it was a cool discussion
Sir Tim Berners-Lee was trying to do this with Solid, doesn't seem like it's been going very far though?
windows pcs are generally for casual users who mostly use it for web browsing and maybe a little gaming. linux is nearly identical except there's no keyboard. macs are for hardcore experts and professionals who take on the toughest tasks, such as drawing three-dimensional rectangles and squares
String of pearls so good but it grows so slowly 😔
Discord did not have to “comply in advance” by requiring age verification for all users, whether or not they live in a jurisdiction that mandates it. Discord should reconsider whether expanding identity checks is worth the harm to its communities. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
This definitely, seems like it would solve the majority of Matrix's weird interop problems?
Man fuuuuuuck Discord
