Yours Truly
yourstruly@zaps.lol
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Took the cannoli.
There is no ceasefire, just a rate limit. 
There is no ceasefire, just a rate limit. 
"“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 
Brennan Center for Justice
ICE Wants to Go After Dissenters as well as Immigrants
The Trump administration is being open about its plans to violate Americans’ First and Fourth Amendment rights.
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. 
WIRED
A New Anonymous Phone Carrier Lets You Sign Up With Nothing but a Zip Code
Privacy stalwart Nicholas Merrill spent a decade fighting an FBI surveillance order. Now he wants to sell you phone service—without knowing almos...
"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/
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.”
the Guardian
BBC tells staff they cannot quote Trump line removed from Reith lecture
Journalists not allowed to repeat Rutger Bregman’s corruption claims against US president in coverage of edit
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.
BleepingComputer
Python rejects $1.5M grant from U.S. govt. fearing ethical compromise
The Python Software Foundation (PSF) has withdrawn its $1.5 million grant proposal to the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) due to funding ter...
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.
Notes on the Palestine Action proscription appeal 
Notes on the Palestine Action proscription appeal
Amnesty UK and Liberty joined the judicial review challenging Keir Starmer’s Labour Government’s nonsense proscription of Palestine Act...
Life goals.
(Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simona_Kossak) 
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
Happy anniversary to those who celebrate 
Too many people really thought this was just a story about stuff happening in a galaxy far, far away. 
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. 
Lighthouse Reports
The Killing Fields of Al Fashir
As the Sudanese military’s top brass secured their own safe passage out of a besieged city they left tens of thousands of civilians in the hands ...
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.
AI bubble to deflate as firms delay spend, warns Forrester
ai-pocalypse: Gap between vendor promises and business results set to trigger market correction, research firm predicts
American sanctions are being used to memory hole Israeli war crimes: we need new platform stacks asap 
American sanctions are being used to memory hole Israeli war crimes: we need new platform stacks asap
YouTube wiped over 700 videos from its platform documenting Israeli human rights abuses from accounts run by the Al Mezan Center for Human Rights, ...
"LLMs deceive us, not by intent but by the frame assigned to them by people who develop and sell them."
Cybernetic Forests
Thoughts on Hinton
On Consciousness in Programs
Geoffrey Hinton recently won a Nobel Prize for his work on backpropagation, a foundational piece of research that con...
Naïve art with a wink at Dadaism. 