yourstruly 1 month ago

"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."

404 Media

DHS Is Lying To You About ICE Shooting a Woman

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 cann...

yourstruly 1 month ago

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.

yourstruly 1 month ago

Working as a journalist in Venezuela remains perilous.

the Guardian

Venezuela detains journalists and seizes communication devices after Maduro’s removal

Thirteen of those detained were released according to the country’s National Union of Press Workers

yourstruly 1 month ago

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.

yourstruly 1 month ago

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

yourstruly 1 month ago

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

yourstruly 1 month ago

Insurrection is still a value-neutral term

Insurrection is still a value-neutral term

Insurrection is not a pejorative word. It’s inherently value-neutral. Our opposition or support of one is based on two things: the system it oppo...

yourstruly 1 month ago

"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.

the Guardian

They tried to smear him as an antisemite – but Mayor Zohran Mamdani walks in a rich Jewish tradition | Molly Crabapple

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

yourstruly 1 month ago

"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)

The Verge

The year politics became brainrot

You don’t bring a persuasive argument to a gunfight.

yourstruly 1 month ago

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."

yourstruly 1 month ago

Secure file sharing back on the new blog with OnionShare

Secure file sharing back on the new blog with OnionShare

As one of my Twixmas projects I’ve decided to reboot my OnionShare site. It’s a secure and anonymous way for someone in the world to se...

yourstruly 1 month ago

On the people who saw it coming...

The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned | The New Republic

yourstruly 1 month ago

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

yourstruly 1 month ago

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

yourstruly 1 month ago

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.

yourstruly 1 month ago

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

yourstruly 1 month ago

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

yourstruly 1 month ago

"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

yourstruly 2 months ago

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.

AP News

At least 16 files have disappeared from the DOJ webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein

The Justice Department’s webpage for documents related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein is missing at least 16 of its files a day after they were ...

 

yourstruly 2 months ago

'The strawberry is dead.'

'The strawberry is dead.'

Some things on the regular doom scroll can still give me pause. Not because they’re particularly horrible, or somehow hastening my own desens...