Watching an organizer use Lovable to build the website she needed for her local group of activists, with events and a links hub and a clever members map/graph, has me convinced that we need an open source equivalent based on atproto to un-silo such sites.
Dunno what’s closest, maybe @webstudio.is 🧵
Hacking internet-connected civilian security cameras for recon has become a standard operating procedure of modern warfare. First for Russia and Ukraine, now for Israel and Iran.
Your insecure internet-of-things surveillance system is now their targeting system.
www.wired.com/story/from-u...
Stellar.
Eighteen Californians, ages 10 to 19, are asking an appeals court to OK their claims that the EPA discriminates against children by ignoring the long-term health benefits of climate regulations. @blancabegert.bsky.social
www.latimes.com/environment/...
if the invention of emails was to make us efficient and effective, how come i can do emails till the cows come home yet feel unproductive, inefficient, and irritable
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Tweet Claude Code wiped our production database with a Terraform command. It took down the DataTalksClub course platform and 2.5 years of submissions: homework, projects, and leaderboards. Automated snapshots were gone too. In the newsletter, I wrote the full timeline + what I changed so this doesn't happen again. If you use Terraform (or let agents touch infra), this is a good story for you to read.
Back in my day you needed a senior engineer for this sort of thing
AI is central to this illegal war.
New from me -
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We're a nonprofit that backs several for-profits, actually, all of which are rooted in our Manifesto values. On AI, we have community members who have asked for features and others that loathe them (like me!) - so we provide options like this: blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/a...
There's so much more about where I came from that doesn't fit your stereotype, but I see the stereotype gives you comfort. Have fun!
Hi from Mozilla Foundation! Gotta say I've never been told I look like a tech exec 👀
I would suggest keeping an eye on Mozilla—they are working to position Thunderbird as a true alternative to Google’s suite:
www.tb.pro/en-US/thunde...
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What does this imply for those of us who are not Christian, and who labor under the assumption that we're protected by the First Amendment?
this is making me laugh so hard
Over the years I've had complaints about @wired.com and some of its focus/editors. But it's doing its best work in *ages* over the last few years. The idea that a Palantir bro needs to buy it because sometimes it calls out fascism, is ridiculous.
I still have no idea what the @npmx.dev team is planning tomorrow and I'm excited to find out what's happening while we're streaming at 9:30am Pacific. watch live here:
WHAT
Thanks to @knightcolumbia.org for giving me the opportunity to write about this as part of their larger project on reconstructing free expression - it’s such an important effort and I can’t wait to see what comes out of it.
Over at the newsletter I wrote about the Paramount/Warner deal, how it's best viewed as a well-funded attack on informed consensus, and how we still have collective agency to determine whether or not it actually succeeds.
I have come away from my last conference cautiously optimistic about how useful AI can be in reversing malware and extremely scared about all of the new attack surface being created in the use and deployment of AI tools.
The NSA has a long history of word games, and it woukd be best to understand them before taking reassurances at face value. From 2013. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...
I have a term for this that is not meant to be charitable: we have for generations molded fellow Americans into "Beings of Leisure", totally untethered from alarm for anything save the loss of convenience
I'm finally ready to show off the thing I've been working on: atBB (pre-alpha)!
It's a forum platform built on top of atproto.
I wrote up some thoughts about why I am interested in building forums: pckt.blog/b/mal-s-musi...
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