Re: Proton Mail. "Foreign jurisdiction is not a replacement for opsec." – Kathryn Tewson
[scroll up her thread for the how's and why's]
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Re: Proton Mail. "Foreign jurisdiction is not a replacement for opsec." – Kathryn Tewson
[scroll up her thread for the how's and why's]
Multilingual datasets are not technical artefacts alone; they are repositories of community knowledge. If they are used to build profitable systems, then communities are not just beneficiaries of access – they are co-creators of value thewire.in/tech/ai-sove...
Chickens, roost please.
"The prospect of Ms. Halligan losing her license could serve as a check on administration lawyers who have been accused by judges of pushing the boundaries of the law or intentionally misleading the courts, which has happened frequently in recent months."
We're so, so many years deep into failing to prevent the most obvious, predictable, stupid things from happening. It is a very thin comfort that our justice systems are getting faster at punishing them once deployed at scale.
“Never before has a spyware manufacturer invested such extensive resources or retained so many external advisers — lobbyists, lawyers, publicists, former diplomats and senior officials — to influence US democratic decision-making,” writes Tech Policy Press fellow Vas Panagiotopoulos.
"AI" and predictive markets like to present statistical possibilities as certainties, to the detriment of peoples' ability to understand and grapple with uncertainty.
Good thing that the world's, uhm, uncertain.
Today @ghost.org crossed $10M ARR, as a bootstrapped non-profit foundation building open source software.
Indie publisher revenue earned with Ghost now ~$130M, and accelerating.
Several older artists have donated the houses they bought decades ago to community land trusts, legal entities that can break the cycle of displacement by ensuring properties are handed down from one artist to another at affordable prices www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/a...
The White House has helped MAGA influencers escape the Middle East on a private jet while more than a million ordinary Americans are still trapped with no way out.
So, in launching a huge bombing campaign on Iran they apparently didn't plan for:
- Who takes over;
- Interceptor shortages from sustained drone retaliation;
- How to defend US bases in the region;
- Threats to ships in the Strait of Hormuz; and
- How to evacuate Americans with airspace closed.
Looking at the 2024 crime figures, it's absolutely insane how Trump, tech billionaires, and centrist pundits fooled everyone into thinking Biden had turned the U.S. into some Hobbesian hellscape.
50-year lows for violent crime, armed robbery, property crime. Second-lowest homicide rate.
All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post — including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East — based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.
Data. Making everything "data" did this.
AI just makes it easier to abstract everything that data. There is always a speaker, AI just makes you look for it.
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[Excellent - and true of other #globaldev orgs] The World Bank doesn’t need to generate more knowledge. It needs to want it www.cgdev.org/blog/world-b...
I, for one, am terrified.
The Republicans seem to be prepping an argument that any domestic terror attacks in the aftermath of their Iran attacks will be the fault of Democrats for shutting down DHS funding, so I'd like to remind everyone of this appointment:
This thread on Alito's outrageously misrepresentation of the facts in the NY voting rights case is so damning. Alito's account was misleading to the point of falsity. And there's nothing anybody can do about it. He gets to toss around bogus claims without any consequence.
Teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork % of U.S. teens ages 13 to 17 who say they do all or most of their schoolwork with the help of AI chatbots U.S. teens — 10 Household income <$30,000 — 20 $30K–$74,999 — 15 $75,000+ — 7 Note: Those who did not answer or gave other responses are not shown. Source: Survey conducted Sept. 25–Oct. 9, 2025. “How Teens Use and View AI” PEW RESEARCH CENTER
According to PEW, teens in households making under $75K are more likely to use chatbots for help with all or most schoolwork. I read a comment on another platform that said this is amazing news because we are "finally going to close the achievement gap." That is not how I would interpret this data.
FWIW, this is also what his "leadership" feels like at home. Just taking out whole social sectors and support infrastructures until he realizes why they exist - and then forcing its value through his cult of personality until it's dead or useless.
New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary apps—video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...
They are literally running with “we have always been at war with Eurasia.” Unreal.
This is a good example of the alternate civic sphere they have built. Their own institutions credentialing almost entirely for signal instead of skill. It’s not strange historically. Think being a member of a faith to become a professor at religious institutions.
i strongly believe this should be illegal.
NB: this is NOT an invitation to explain the law to me thank you for your best behavior
AP Announces It’s Teaming Up With Prediction Market Site Kalshi Ahead of the Midterms
Citing reporting by @propublica.org and others, nearly 4,000 doctors, nurses and health professionals sent a letter to DHS Sec Kristi Noem calling for the immediate release of all children currently in immigration detention. Full letter: tinyurl.com/yz2amueb 1/
Guttingly, Armando Ianucci appears to have given us too much credit.
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just a fun reminder that Kalshi is CNN's official "prediction market partner"
news.kalshi.com/p/kalshi-cnn...