Dan Gillmor

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116178635828161083

This is why blocking ads and trackers is not just a suggestion. It should be a baseline of your online existence.

A GitHub Issue Title Compromised 4,000 Developer Machines A prompt injection in a GitHub issue triggered a chain reaction that ended with 4,000 developers getting OpenClaw installed without consent. The attack composes well-understood vulnerabilities into something new: one AI tool bootstrapping another.

We are doomed: https://grith.ai/blog/clinejection-when-your-ai-tool-installs-another

I'm not a fan of Apple, due to its greed, extreme control-freakery and hypocrisy about privacy, among other things.

But it's clear to me that Apple is going to sell huge, huge numbers of its new low-cost Mac laptops. The crap low-end Windows machines from companies like HP are toast.

The U.K. accelerates toward police state status, by requiring the equivalent of a license to read and speak online. Worse, it drastically undermines your personal security.

The US is moving this way, too. Wake up, people, because it's almost too late […]

Bottom line on the DHS "changes":

Noem, Mullin, and their boss all belong in prison.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116053742685475452

Deadline for comments on a million SpaceX "AI data centers" and a company that wants to deliver "sunlight as a service." If you have time and energy, please write a comment! Instructions below.

(I heard a rumour that Reflect Orbital […]

The Iran War Is Unfathomably Depraved Our media’s sanitized coverage obscures the human toll. Are we able to confront the full sickening evil of what the U.S. is doing?

"We are all complicit. If you are an American, you paid your government to murder those little girls..."

https://www.currentaffairs.org/news/the-iran-war-is-unfathomably-depraved

Democrats Wear White Flag Pins To SOTU To Indicate Surrender The post Democrats Wear White Flag Pins To SOTU To Indicate Surrender appeared first on The Onion.

https://theonion.com/democrats-wear-white-flag-pins-to-sotu-to-indicate-surrender/

The next few days are going to be extremely hard for personal reasons (on top of everything else happening).

I'm sending good commiserating vibes out to everyone else who's using all your coping strategies and still feeling like you're drowning in all the shit that's happening. I hope you get a […]

Palantir Sues Swiss Magazine For Accurately Reporting That The Swiss Government Didn’t Want Palantir
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/27/palantir-sues-swiss-magazine-for-accurately-reporting-that-the-swiss-government-didnt-want-palantir/

Please note that Palantir would rather that you didn't […]

As oil prices soar due to the US attack on Iran, Iran's response, and the widening conflict -- that is a gift to Saudi Arabia, other Middle East petrostates, Putin, and US oil barons.

Not to mention distracting attention from the Epstein coverup […]

Rewriting other people's original reporting and clickbait-wrapping the "new" story is not new. But a scumbag operation called "The Daily News Today" is doing it at AI-juiced scale.

Alexios Mantzarlis, one of journalism's expert observers of this stuff, explains here […]

CBS "News" = Fox "News"

Texas public school teachers are now required to post the Ten Commandments in their classroom. Here’s how one teacher is handling it.

A White House Staffer Appears to Run Massive Pro-Trump X Account A popular right-wing account that called a video depicting Barack and Michelle Obama as apes "a masterpiece" appears to be run by a White House staffer, according to records reviewed by WIRED.

A reminder that the Trump regime and its supporters are racist to the core. https://www.wired.com/story/a-white-house-staffer-appears-to-run-massive-pro-trump-meme-page/

Explosions rock Bahrain, Dubai, Jordan and Kuwait as war spreads across Middle East War launched by US and Israel on Iran has quickly escalated prompting anxiety and concern in whole region

The Epstein files coverup could be the cause of a new -- and final -- world war.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/28/dubais-famous-fairmont-hotel-in-flames-after-iranian-air-strike

Trump Has No Plan for the Iranian People The mere act of bombing Iran will not by itself create a stable regime.

The American bombardment of Iran has been launched without explanation, without Congress, without public support. Above all it has been launched without a coherent strategy for the Iranian people, and without a plan to let them build a legitimate Iranian state.
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

"We’re doing everything we can to support publishers that produce real journalism — original, fact-based and quality reporting — just as we have for the past 15 years," wrote our managing editor @csullivan in his latest blogpost. Learn more about our work to support indie and worker-owned […]

A reminder that Molly White (https://mastodon.social/@molly0xfff@hachyderm.io) is, by far, doing the best job of covering the endlessly corrupt cryptocurrency "industry" -- her latest newsletter post, replete with Epstein Class dot-connecting, should make you furious […]

I'm going to post a comprehensive list of the news sources I rely on. Working on it now.

A new space race could turn our atmosphere into a ‘crematorium for satellites’ Planned ‘megaconstellations’ of satellites could cause unforeseen harm to the ozone layer and climate systems. Global regulation is needed before it’s too late.

New article out about what a million satellites could do to our atmosphere. It's bad. https://theconversation.com/a-new-space-race-could-turn-our-atmosphere-into-a-crematorium-for-satellites-276366

Sigh, the New York Times gives a massive amount of op-ed space to an AI founder who (surprise!) loves-loves-loves the technology.

h/t https://mastodon.social/@rdviii@rdviii@famichiki.jp

So it looks like Larry Ellison's going to be pulling the puppet strings at CNN, not just CBS "News" -- another domino falling in the right-wing extremists' war on honest journalism.

Neither of those outlets has been remotely perfect in the past. But they're heading toward Fox Lite status now.

Turns Out There Was Voter Fraud in Georgia—by Elon Musk The state board of elections found Musk’s PAC sent prefilled ballot applications.

The story that Elon Musk committed voter fraud has gotten next to no coverage -- one of those things you can't make come up on a Google search.

But I think it's time for Dems to go on offensive abt right wing coddling of this immigrant interfering in our elections.

newrepublic.com/post/206857/...

"A.I. Isn't People"

Another brilliant newsletter post by Rusty Foster:

https://www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-people?last_resource_guid=Post%3A150442c6-0f09-4af2-9abe-c3860a644c1d

"I don’t need to know what mechanism underlies human intelligence to rule out the possibility that it’s the same […]

@tuckerm Post is much cheaper now. They're almost giving it away after so many people left.

Yes, I could use archive.today (and its clones), but its behavior is WAY to sketchy at this point. See https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/02/wikipedia-bans-archive-today-after-site-executed-ddos-and-altered-web-captures/

It's a shame that the Verge has disappeared completely behind a paywall. Price is almost reasonable, however.

@Geoffberner GMAB -- Democrats were wrong on Gaza but they weren't trying to elect Trump. I blame voters who elected America's monstrous government.