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2026-05-29 09:21:43 GMT

Phishing campaigns are targeting different groups of journalists and dissidents or activists with this. Signal will never ask for your backup recovery key.
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/hackers-are-trying-to-steal-signal-users-backups-in-new-wave-of-phishing-attacks/

2026-05-09 22:09:09 GMT

Greater Israel: How a fringe settler fantasy went mainstream
Israel’s settler movement has moved from the fringes to having influence over key Israeli institutions, including the media, where a constellation of voices is pushing for Israel to conquer new territory. — Al Jazeera’s The Listening Post https://youtu.be/5VgErk37hcI?si=2sR_h3V-YCOTe2VL&t=830

2026-04-03 09:32:00 GMT

AI can take all the serious jobs and do whatever with them if we can just have these kinds of opportunities in exchange. https://andrewfordlyons.net/uploads/2026/indeed-job.png

2026-04-02 22:50:55 GMT

Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/04/02/wild-geese-by-mary-oliver.html

2026-03-30 09:37:29 GMT

"It strikes me that increasingly in the world it is becoming harder – that there are more people who are not really critically aware of the forces that are shaping them. That’s what most people are feeling today – and that’s the goal. That’s what authoritarian regimes do. — Raoul Peck, director of Orwell: 2+2=5" https://bylinetimes.com/2026/03/27/orwell-knew-the-moment-you-discover-that-the-other-is-also-you-a-whole-range-of-bullshit-just-drops/

2026-03-29 14:27:10 GMT

"The Analytical Engine has no pretensions whatever to originate any thing. It can do whatever we know how to order it to perform. It [cannot] anticipat[e] any analytical relations or truths. Its province is to assist us in making available what we are already acquainted with. — Ada Lovelace, on AI in 1843"

2026-03-27 11:41:32 GMT

"If every editorial decision about how to present third-party content is now a 'design choice' subject to product liability, Section 230 protects effectively nothing."
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/26/everyone-cheering-the-social-media-addiction-verdicts-against-meta-should-understand-what-theyre-actually-cheering-for/

2026-03-22 18:21:18 GMT

More notes on sovereignty https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/03/22/more-notes-on-sovereignty.html

2026-03-15 12:39:38 GMT

"Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state secrets."
Big scoop from Charlie Young and Carole Cadwalladr
https://www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-technologies-uk-mod-sources-government-data-insights-security-state-secrets

2026-03-14 09:57:12 GMT

Get ready for it.
https://bylinetimes.com/2026/03/13/trump-when-you-think-of-it-we-shouldnt-even-have-an-election/

2026-03-07 15:40:26 GMT

"After strikes killed senior Iranian officials, Iran cut off internet access. Journalists are relying on satellite links, encrypted apps, and smuggled footage to report from inside the country."
https://www.wired.com/story/how-journalists-are-reporting-from-iran-with-no-internet/

2026-03-04 00:45:21 GMT

On sovereignty and freedom and the internet https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/03/04/on-sovereignty-and-freedom-and.html

2026-03-01 11:08:05 GMT

If we had AGI it would look like this. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/9c30540ce39316de6dfeb284121de1dbdd915dd4d9a574e75a210af9f27c8d59.webp

2026-02-21 23:38:37 GMT

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"US policy in the Middle East is being driven by fundamentalist nutters." — Historian William Dalrymple

2026-02-21 23:33:01 GMT

The U.S. ambassador to Israel saying it has a "biblical right" to territory — regardless of where or how much — is freakishly weird and only something you should expect from a theocratic regime.
https://www.newsweek.com/middle-east-leaders-react-to-huckabee-comment-on-israel-taking-over-region-11561685

2026-02-21 10:53:20 GMT

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The article...
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/feb/19/us-builds-website-that-will-allow-europeans-to-view-blocked-content

2026-02-21 10:48:24 GMT

Andor was peak Star Wars, and the story needed for our times.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-features/andor-creator-tony-gilroy-gives-the-interview-1236510166/

2026-02-20 08:02:30 GMT

Talked to the Guardian about the Trump administration's government portal to circumvent EU’s Digital Services Act and the UK’s Online Safety Act for American content they might block (hate speech, CSAM, violent incitement and suchlike). It's like a VPN but all your data travels through DHS servers.

2026-02-19 18:49:03 GMT

The cuts “make it easier to build a ‘digital iron curtain’. It makes it easier for the Kremlin to put Russians in a digital information bubble that reinforces specific narratives about people outside of Russia. This makes it easier for China to do this. For Iran to do this."
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/19/us-funding-for-global-internet-freedom-effectively-gutted

2026-02-19 18:46:11 GMT

2026-02-15 14:23:28 GMT

Hey Claude, I want to run a coup.
https://www.wsj.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-used-anthropics-claude-in-maduro-venezuela-raid-583aff17 https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/32e300f538fd5498d664390d43d36169317b5d8ecd3a440fdc3565ee4fda825d.webp

2026-02-15 13:09:24 GMT

This sounds like hell. #note1k99…l0k8

2026-02-15 12:58:12 GMT

https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/f3f36166294fffa41205f0d0bdb445ad2cbd34b29dcb0461987b22c13a4a52b4.webp

2026-02-14 09:38:27 GMT

I have no idea how this event relates to a 3rd-century Roman saint, but it's nice we all remember it by giving each other chocolates. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/7e0722200d2e98db3055c469bad7509005c1c5a6e6f41b0eacfa2bd5bbf961de.webp

2026-02-13 14:59:58 GMT

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Keir Starmer's genocide enablement team will be appealing the ruling on the 20th. Palestine Action remains proscribed at least until then. But it currently exists under a high court decion that it's illegal.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c8x90q9nyzyt

2026-02-13 13:51:53 GMT

High court just declared this Labour government's proscription of Palestine Action is illegal. Now hold everyone behind it accountable.
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/feb/13/uk-ban-palestine-action-unlawful-high-court-judges-rule https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/82f004fdf7659acc1c753f3c0eee939315a9b2e09eef0c312a371728e1e96052.webp

2026-02-13 09:13:57 GMT

"Four Iranian journalists in exile share the challenge of reporting on their homeland amidst the longest blackout their nation has ever experienced"
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/how-cover-country-cut-out-internet-battle-report-iran-exile

2026-02-07 17:23:57 GMT

What happens when Iran turns the internet off?
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2026-02-06 21:26:05 GMT

"The Guardian has constructed a timeline for the terrible events of one night of protests in Rasht, based on first-hand accounts, video and photographs"
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/ng-interactive/2026/feb/06/rasht-massacre-protests-iran-timeline

2026-02-06 08:47:50 GMT

Disinformation spreads for free while more and more news gets locked behind paywalls and other obstacles. It's not hard to envision how that ends.
https://theconversation.com/news-sites-are-locking-out-the-internet-archive-to-stop-ai-crawling-is-the-open-web-closing-274968

2026-02-05 06:52:34 GMT

'Manufacturing Consent' guy advising Jeff Epstein on how to cope with "the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/03/epstein-files-noam-chomsky

2026-02-03 22:47:16 GMT

No idea who made it. Maybe a machine. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/a30836a1280eb910ed6c2314c5abf7273803d36b220bfbb42bfbd823aa1533af.webp

2026-02-03 18:34:21 GMT

"The longest blackout in Iran's history. Thousands dead. Documentation of war crimes dependent on Starlink. A regime that uses AI's ubiquity to undermine the credibility of evidence."
https://www.theverge.com/policy/871848/iran-blackout-internet-mahsa-alimardani?view_token=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJpZCI6IldkSld2M3cyazIiLCJwIjoiL3BvbGljeS84NzE4NDgvaXJhbi1ibGFja291dC1pbnRlcm5ldC1tYWhzYS1hbGltYXJkYW5pIiwiZXhwIjoxNzcwNDAyNzgyLCJpYXQiOjE3Njk5NzA3ODN9.b_c0D_6SrjARYMCXFGA8YusqM8RkHIzFsNJMIYMtA_g&utm_medium=gift-link

2026-02-03 17:07:04 GMT

The filter.watch report on the moving parts, people and companies behind Iran's internet shutdown and control network. (English and Persian)
https://filter.watch/english/2026/02/03/investigative-report-february-2026-exposing-the-architects-of-irans-digital-repression/

2026-02-02 13:17:10 GMT

"The distance between what is said and what is known to be true has become an abyss." — Senator Mon Mothma https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/0b590dc8a6bca115e8c29853cd709bc255ef9e87cc0dec9442901d6322d243a7.webp

2026-01-31 20:56:58 GMT

"If your compassion switches off when the victims don't fit your narrative, then you're not defending justice. You're defending power, just with different slogans."
Well worth a whole listen through...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DTeE3aeCNKX/?igsh=MTh2bm5zdWFldTFjZw==

2026-01-31 19:40:56 GMT

This won't end through a court.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/31/federal-judge-denies-bid-to-end-ice-operation-metro-surge-in-minnesota.html

2026-01-29 19:36:36 GMT

In which TikTok removes and bans an Emmy Award-winning Palestinian journalist from the platform at Israel's request as soon as it becomes a U.S. company because shit like that was always the goal of forcing it to be sold.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/1/29/palestinian-journalist-bisan-owda-with-1-4m-followers-reports-tiktok-ban

2026-01-29 19:34:07 GMT

Section 230 protects you, and everybody, on internet platforms. Democrats siding with maga-heads on attacking it are helping the Trump regime take control of the web.
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/some-democrats-are-helping-the-trump-admins-anti-lgbtq-tech-agenda

2026-01-28 17:33:02 GMT

2026-01-26 19:06:22 GMT

10 tips to use #Signal more securely and effectively. It was posted just before the start of 2025, before we got to where we are now, with the hunch that we'd be where we are now.
https://cryptpad.fr/pad/#/2/pad/view/kRkT5mGqxNd3yMtxG8y1+KbxrzvX11hmzrDWpxw1uJU/embed/

2026-01-22 16:45:31 GMT

"Courage without coordination cannot scale. The regime’s ability to shut down the internet, disrupt satellite communications, and sever links between cities and regions remains one of its most powerful tools."
An excellent piece by Siamak Namazi, a former political prisoner in Iran.
https://mei.edu/commentary/irans-coming-reckoning-regime-collapse-is-likely-democracy-is-not/

2026-01-22 09:32:49 GMT

This U.S. invented "Board of Peace is an attempt to displace the UN and make the White House the owner of a new kind of Security Council. It's dumb and transparent, but interesting to see who's signing on.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/20/trumps-board-of-peace-is-an-imperial-court-completely-unlike-what-was-proposed

2026-01-21 08:59:32 GMT

Liberalism isn't what collapsed. It's still here and recognizable. It's conservatives, who haven't really been that for some time, that have mutated into far-right and fascist movements.
https://www.liberalcurrents.com/liberalism-did-not-fail-conservatism-did/

2026-01-20 18:11:17 GMT

In a multipolar world, everything is up for grabs
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/03/trump-national-security-greenland-spheres-of-interest/685673/?gift=qPeHkna1arF6cgmjeO1eEIjPFmOCkwOtgS7X1T49Ivs

2026-01-19 23:51:24 GMT

Deep substrate foliated Kvanefjeld and Tanbreez!
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/15/greenland-new-shipping-routes-hidden-minerals-and-a-frontline-between-the-us-and-russia https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/e9b5d458c5ea0c110a4fe73c8b0698036ab859999f5dddf7ee5d6f9035074fd3.webp https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/256ae3f7f0a9bfca04fa03a51585e942ac6db3b08b6c9056848148153e9581a7.webp

2026-01-17 21:02:17 GMT

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Big fan of the UI aesthetic.

2026-01-17 12:52:14 GMT

"This is a simple story: People are risking their life to resist tyranny, engaging in a human struggle for basic rights. Its resonance, particularly for those on the left, should be self-evident."
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/2026/01/the-iranians-who-feel-betrayed-by-the-left/685644/?gift=zOlqwqJNRAGWtWIVaYuBvWXW2g-vrIwgUPXzAv3NEZs

2026-01-14 14:18:48 GMT

Iran is experiencing its longest, and most total, internet blackout
https://as.ft.com/r/e09150a5-a1a7-4a2b-aa06-766d797ffafe

2026-01-13 14:00:18 GMT

“Prompt thieves in the AI art community” is the new "no honor among thieves."
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-prompt-plagiarism-art

2026-01-12 23:24:51 GMT

So much in common! https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/d7fefb0fa640f4850eb3380601d0928b51f5f2adaeb3150304a97b1e29bb01f5.webp

2026-01-12 16:36:29 GMT

"Everyone wants a village, but no one wants to be a villager." https://kasperbenjamin.substack.com/p/everyone-wants-a-village-but-no-one

2026-01-10 23:41:58 GMT

“As national outlets have capitulated to recent government demands that they cover the current administration in a particular way, that contributes to a sense that certain media outlets aren’t actually acting as the representative of the people.” — Jeremy Caplan
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/09/independent-journalism-resistance-trump

2026-01-10 13:17:15 GMT

Just sharing this one again for no reasons having to do with events in the world, just popped in my head somehow...
https://youtu.be/wQd4JdFP0d0?si=UL2zm9uGKubv_6o9

2026-01-10 11:33:17 GMT

The world needs to make the US learn what 'no' means. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/10/greenlanders-dont-want-to-be-americans-say-political-leaders-amid-trump-threats

2026-01-09 12:21:48 GMT

The increasingly in-vogue concepts of internet sovereignty are a sign of the times we are in, and there are some good elements in some. They're a very poor substitute for the drive for internet freedom, though. In many ways it's an abandonment if not a retreat.
https://www.techpolicy.press/trump-ends-americas-leadership-on-internet-freedom/

2026-01-09 09:25:34 GMT

“We know what the federal government says happened here. There was a time when we could take them at their word. That time is long past.”
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/portland-federal-agents-shooting

2026-01-08 13:20:20 GMT

Trump regime just ordered the the U.S. to withdraw from international agreements or work that “are contrary to the Interests of the United States.” Let’s look at what these include:
climate / environment
human rights / conflict prevention
internet freedom / cyber security
anti-corruption / legal https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2026/01/withdrawing-the-united-states-from-international-organizations-conventions-and-treaties-that-are-contrary-to-the-interests-of-the-united-states/

2026-01-08 12:28:18 GMT

"At least four videos show what really happened when ICE shot a woman in Minneapolis on Wednesday. DHS has established itself as an agency that cannot be trusted to live in or present reality."
https://www.404media.co/dhs-is-lying-to-you-about-ice-shooting-a-woman/

2026-01-06 19:57:25 GMT

Katie from an email address at events.com wants me to update my Ledger firmware by clicking the link in the email. That's so completely normal and expected.

2026-01-06 10:12:36 GMT

Working as a journalist in Venezuela remains perilous.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/06/venezuela-detains-journalists-after-nicolas-maduros-captured

2026-01-06 09:23:48 GMT

Nvidea announced it's autonomous car platform Alpamayo will make an AI drive as well as humans, which sounds like a huge step backwards. I've seen humans drive.

2026-01-04 14:29:48 GMT

A party that calls itself Republican while being entirely antithetical to the core tenets of republicanism is quite something to behold.

2026-01-03 21:57:24 GMT

Insurrection is still a value-neutral term https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/01/03/insurrection-is-still-a-valueneutral.html

2026-01-02 16:45:43 GMT

"When I look at Mamdani, I don’t see some radical departure. I see him as an heir to the Yiddish socialism that helped build New York." — Molly Crabapple
Always a fan of Molly's art, words, and her encyclopedia worth of historical knowledge.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/01/zohran-mamdani-new-york-mayor-antisemitism

2025-12-31 21:12:20 GMT

"You do not bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight" —Sarah Jeong, on how far things have slipped over a year
(It's mostly far more nuanced, I just gravitate to the meatier bits)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/849609/charlie-kirk-shooting-ideology-literacy-politics

2025-12-31 11:28:22 GMT

Some Ursula K. Le Guin for your new Year's eve and your new year ahead
"All of us have to learn how to invent our lives, make them up, imagine them. We need to be taught these skills; we need guides to show us how. If we don't, our lives get made up for us by other people."
https://blossom.primal.net/60a6ce9301b9af8b922b4a39660dbee2f59a38309fea93923d657b63fbe51a95.jpg

2025-12-30 22:11:47 GMT

Secure file sharing back on the new blog with OnionShare https://andrewfordlyons.net/2025/12/30/secure-file-sharing-back-on.html

2025-12-28 11:12:20 GMT

On the people who saw it coming...
https://newrepublic.com/article/204254/survey-2024-election-cassandras-trump-2025

2025-12-24 11:35:49 GMT

This White House is taking McCarthyism global.
https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20251224-us-bars-five-europeans-over-alleged-pressure-on-tech-firms-to-censor-speech

2025-12-24 11:35:15 GMT

This White House is taking McCarthyism global.
https://www.france24.com/en/technology/20251224-us-bars-five-europeans-over-alleged-pressure-on-tech-firms-to-censor-speech

2025-12-23 22:54:04 GMT

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Lol, what are you even playin' at?
https://blossom.primal.net/0bf865b8e4c06e76d3a83e26dbe0dbb7ca484d20743902adfbbdccfa81cfb28a.png

2025-12-23 21:39:17 GMT

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"Can’t stop the signal, Bari."
https://archive.org/details/60mins-cecot

2025-12-23 19:01:14 GMT

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Boo!
https://blossom.primal.net/b106a9c06ff8262c3463247cfaa20110f0d5358376ac846bb7b2cf0d1fa500e7.png

2025-12-23 18:53:41 GMT

You can, for now, see that '60 Minutes' segment that Bari Weiss de facto colluded with the White House to spike because CBS Canada didn't get the memo on time. Our only hope is their incompetence.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F81WnOyDXD4&t=7s https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/9d928c3863f1ce557c0f3d82525463d48c3eb012d6c1898d6d73f7d9ae00920b.webp

2025-12-22 15:19:05 GMT

Soon "60 Minutes" will be down to 5.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g-s1-103282/cbs-chief-bari-weiss-pulls-60-minutes-story https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/92691587920cd28f5c8c34fe0033af731814d30d25c60d20ded3641b15cf248b.webp

2025-12-22 15:16:27 GMT

Soon "60 Minutes" will be down to 5.
https://www.npr.org/2025/12/22/g-s1-103282/cbs-chief-bari-weiss-pulls-60-minutes-story https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/64a97780b04c27f67a723c456f7b6267f5ef46633943f6df1e5845dfe2829203.webp

2025-12-22 00:00:43 GMT

"In the United States of America," Vance said, "you don't have to apologize for being white anymore.”
This is just a fascist rally. There's no disagreement over the direction of maga by its attendees. There's only the start of a race over who gets to lead next.
https://edition.cnn.com/2025/12/21/politics/jd-vance-turning-point-usa

2025-12-20 23:44:57 GMT

AP reports that files are going missing from the DOJ Epstein Files archive, and now I see on social platforms multiple accounts promising to have zip files of the ‘complete’ archive you can download (no, there are no previews) and, well, this is a super great way to get malware. Don’t do that. https://apnews.com/article/release-epstein-files-justice-department-trump-9290fcaad1cb6fcb1cbc1befabc01994 https://www.justice.gov/epstein

2025-12-14 03:22:48 GMT

'The strawberry is dead.' https://andrewfordlyons.net/2025/12/14/the-strawberry-is-dead.html

2025-12-13 13:25:16 GMT

There is no ceasefire, just a rate limit. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/b5c6aae90bf2941654195d03951549b9ab535b6720c22979a390ee563adefbcb.webp

2025-12-06 09:53:52 GMT

There is no ceasefire, just a rate limit. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/5c4ebd0c85fcf8a1d704c1033865f830d04b2ff6803f3a22f1d5b4b7860428cc.webp

2025-12-06 01:48:31 GMT

"“U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has embarked on a spending spree, signing contracts worth up to $25 million for a smorgasbord of spy technology: social media monitoring systems, cellphone location tracking, facial recognition, remote hacking tools, and more.”
…."
"“What’s new is that the federal government now openly says it will use its supercharged spy capabilities to target people who oppose ICE’s actions.”"
— The Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law https://andrewfordlyons.net/uploads/2025/dceb778266.jpg https://andrewfordlyons.net/uploads/2025/3bcff25ae9.jpg https://www.brennancenter.org/our-work/research-reports/ice-wants-go-after-dissenters-well-immigrants

2025-12-04 17:31:53 GMT

Phreeli launched today. It's an anonymous phone carrier founded by privacy advocate Nicholas Merrill. Minimal legal information in the US to purchase an account is just a zip code, everything your carrier asks for in addition to that is for tracking purposes. https://www.wired.com/story/new-anonymous-phone-carrier-sign-up-with-nothing-but-a-zip-code/

2025-12-02 13:20:10 GMT

"India's telecoms ministry has privately asked smartphone makers to preload all new devices with a state-owned cyber security app that cannot be deleted..."
"No, no, no, and no" needs to be the answer.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/india-orders-mobile-phones-preloaded-with-government-app-ensure-cyber-safety-2025-12-01/

2025-11-30 12:43:23 GMT

Lol, this lecture came on the radio now. Decided to look up Rutger Bregman. This is the top result. BBC left the part where he warns about declining trust in media, but censored the part where he warns about “the most openly corrupt president in American history.”
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2025/nov/27/bbc-donald-trump-corruption-line-removed-from-rutger-bregman-reith-lecture

2025-11-30 10:39:21 GMT

I jump between Python IDEs, but nice to see Python stick with DEI, and tell the US to stick it for trying to use funding to wage its culture wars.
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/python-rejects-15m-grant-from-us-govt-fearing-ethical-compromise/

2025-11-28 16:17:10 GMT

If you are doing online campaigning in the year of our lord 2025 and your instant/easy share buttons are still just 'post to Facebook' & 'post to Twitter' then you are not paying attention.

2025-11-28 13:16:43 GMT

Notes on the Palestine Action proscription appeal https://andrewfordlyons.net/2025/11/28/notes-on-the-palestine-action.html

2025-11-16 00:18:26 GMT

The best doom reports from 2025 https://andrewfordlyons.net/2025/11/16/the-best-doom-reports-from.html

2025-11-15 14:03:12 GMT

Life goals.
(Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simona_Kossak) https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/e1a31572062042a4bf4b681d9e4a9ad9f361b33d15ddb28a460b3f4fa01dc4cb.webp

2025-11-12 09:33:42 GMT

Anthropomorphic designed AI is a waste. Erik Brynjolfsson agrees with me. We don't need to create more human machines, we already know how to make humans.
https://www.ft.com/content/1e5ecce9-d402-41ab-8575-f186f5474349

2025-11-10 19:01:41 GMT

Happy anniversary to those who celebrate https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/1cfc9805d0b6ecd7dff6a3fb8e909bcab4be6c08752619d866afd6e9697290e6.webp

2025-11-10 12:59:01 GMT

Too many people really thought this was just a story about stuff happening in a galaxy far, far away. https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/121928c08977c77c1cc496c3caa8c4f7648647d8038761c9a9dc659f0b0aae0e.webp

2025-11-07 13:31:08 GMT

Nearly 60,000 civilians who've fled Al Fashir to escape the large-scale atrocities that the world knew would happen — as it had been clearly predicted by human rights monitors — are missing. https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/the-killing-fields-of-al-fashir/

2025-11-07 13:12:34 GMT

The biggest winners in the AI sector, from early next year, will likely be who can best short the market. We need a dead pool for which bots go quiet first.
https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/28/forrester_ai_spending/

2025-11-06 00:26:25 GMT

American sanctions are being used to memory hole Israeli war crimes: we need new platform stacks asap https://andrewfordlyons.net/2025/11/06/american-sanctions-are-being-used.html

2025-11-03 20:32:52 GMT

"LLMs deceive us, not by intent but by the frame assigned to them by people who develop and sell them."
https://mail.cyberneticforests.com/thoughts-on-hinton/

2025-11-03 19:10:25 GMT

Naïve art with a wink at Dadaism. https://andrewfordlyons.net/uploads/2025/e3b3977208.png

2025-11-02 12:02:11 GMT

Via https://todon.eu/@autonomysolidarity/114354671084809111 https://cdn.nostrcheck.me/6703e93bab06f5b50c2e67ae065bd04968d439d1a0d5ec68d4da3107bb29cb46/591c89ca9f3cf7be05a8d3c7cb53b7df4bbed763eb67ef79c120089ac4b6631a.webp