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I like civil liberties, programming, cybersecurity, and Oxford commas. He/Him/His

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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 30/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: “Do geese see God” is a palindrome
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Ars Technica @arstechnica.com · 29/09/2026
In a letter sent to the company this week, US Rep. Jamie Raskin accused Apple of “working with the government to violate its customers’ First Amendment rights to record and report on the activities of their own government." arstechnica.visitlink.me/zit76N
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Apple pressured to explain Trump role in ICE-tracking app removals
Lawmaker rejects Apple excuse for banning ICE-tracking apps as unconstitutional.
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
It’s never just “they lied when confronted,” it’s always “they lied and it’s worse”
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Eight USS Lincoln personnel have attempted suicide, US navy confirms
Hung Cao, acting US navy secretary, answered questions from US senator Kirsten Gillibrand in a letter
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Flock is very serious surveillance technology that cops take very seriously: 404media.co/cops-search-...
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Cops Search Thousands of Flock Cameras for Reasons of ‘LMAO,’ ‘IDK,’ ‘Hehe,’ and ‘asdfg’
The EFF found cops writing “idiot,” “WEIRD KID,” "blah," "leave me alone," and button mashing in Flock's 'reason' box.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
It's very easy to wear a suit and tie in any major city, even if the aesthetic has mostly disappeared from daily life, because there are people outside wearing pink tutus with Army boots. As usual, your liberation is connected to other people's liberation.
Bobby Mars on Twitter writes: "If you wear a collared shirt and nice shoes out to the bar in the rust belt, multiple people will ask you if you just came from a wedding. Aesthetic standards for men’s attire are horrendously low"
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
The president ordering USPS to illegally throw out millions of ballots is at least on par with what he tried to do for 2020, and in big ways it's worse. It's another attempted self-coup, trying to create a fake Congress. That he's even attempting it is already a deadly serious constitutional crisis.
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Kevin Collier @kevincollier.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
I'm looking forward to this doc, but this kind of conspiracy framing is still bad when criticizing a prominent person on the right. We know Musk spent the most any human being has ever spent getting Trump elected; don't insinuate without evidence he changed votes with satellites or whatever.
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Pwnallthethings @pwnallthethings.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There are about as many trees in Canada as stars in the milky way
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Now in Gunmetal Grey!
A person in the background carrying a bag over their shoulder. In the foreground, a large gray cat sits beside a cardboard box labeled "CATS FOR MEN." The text above reads "Introducing CATS FOR MEN™," and below the box, it says "The first feline designed for real, masculine men."
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 04/09/2026
NEW: The federal prosecutor who charged ICE agent Christian Castro for lying about shooting Sosa-Celia has now been FIRED. He objected to the DoJ stopping him from charging a civil rights violation. And now he’s fired. www.cbsnews.com/news/ice-min...
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Federal prosecutor fired after investigating ICE officer for civil rights offenses in Minnesota shooting, sources say
A federal prosecutor in Minnesota who was investigating an ICE officer for possible civil rights crimes has been fired, four sources familiar with the matter told CBS News.
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 02/09/2026
AWOOOOOOO FUCK ICE
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Justin Ling @justinling.ca · 27/08/2026
Today's @xkcd.com
It's a stickman holding a hammer, lifting up his leg, and saying:

"Listen up, leg. I've been sending you rich, oxygenated blood for years, while you send me worthless used-up blood with no oxygen. Time to teach you a lesson about not ripping me off!"

It is captioned: tariffs
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
So being pro-labor, pro-education for the poorest, pro-vaccine, and pro-LGBTQIA is a “neutral” position🤔
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 25/08/2026
Dolly Parton was universally loved because she was a rich person who knew what it was like to be poor, stayed down to earth, and spent her life giving back to others who were less fortunate. The oligarchs who don’t understand why everyone hates them probably won’t learn from this. But they should
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Elizabeth Warren @warren.senate.gov · 24/08/2026
If Jensen Huang has time to attend a $1 million-a-head dinner at Mar-a-Lago and fly across the world to meet with President Xi Jinping, he can find time to testify in front of Congress about reports that NVIDIA technology is powering Russia’s war machine.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Whether it's a trade war with Canada or an actual war with Iran, the pattern is the same: Americans are paying the price for the President's choices.
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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 22/08/2026
one major difference is you don't have to worry about thread safety much. if you have &mut then thread safety is moot, otherwise the type system takes care of it
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👻👹 boo-rit 👹👻 @britculpsapp.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
i remember a few years ago when this premiered & being both taken aback but unsurprised how many people only first learned about the Black wall street massacre (then learning rosewood, lake lanier, etc) are real things that happened in this country within the last century
hbo watchmen series poster
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Max Woolf @minimaxir.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
actual lol
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 21/08/2026
New in PN: “Travel with Natalie” "The questions now swirling around Trump’s personal assistant Natalie Harp — especially the way Jon Ossoff unleashed a firestorm by invoking her name — offer a long overdue lesson for Dems on how to successfully bait Trump and his MAGA cohorts for maximum effect."
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“Travel with Natalie”
How three words from Jon Ossoff prompted an epic MAGA crashout.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
This obviously sucks for these two families, but Alex still owes $1.4 billion to 17 other families in Connecticut. This should expedite their path to collect, our ability to take over the domain name and studio, and the dispersal of merch money.
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Steve Klabnik @steveklabnik.com · 20/08/2026
vaguely annoyed to see the "I called it" posts in response to blog.rust-lang.org/2026/08/20/s... we knew this was possible when we built crates.io. everybody knows that it was possible. you are downloading and executing code off the internet.
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Supply chain attack on arrayref | Rust Blog
Empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software.
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𝕊𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕒𝕖 𝔾𝕦𝕣𝕝 @sundaedivine.lol · 19/08/2026
Jon Ossoff found the one button in Washington labeled DO NOT PRESS and immediately leaned on it with both elbows.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/08/2026
Ossoff says he does not want his young daughters "to grow up in a world defined by the values of Donald J. Trump"
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
New from 404 Media: here is the manual for ICE's electric shock gloves. ICE plans to spend tens of millions on gloves that give electric shocks to incapacitate people. But I found the user manual online, and it says the gloves can contribute to "sudden death" www.404media.co/heres-the-ma...
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Here's the Manual for ICE's Electric Shock Gloves
ICE plans to spends tens of millions of dollars on the gloves, which are supposed to incapacitate people. A manual 404 Media found says the gloves may even contribute to “sudden death.”
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Bruce Little @brucedlittle.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
SCOTUS ruled that police conduct a 4th Amendment search when they obtain a person’s location data — even from a private company. They warned against surveillance that lets police reconstruct a person’s movements after the fact, enabling “tireless & absolute surveillance” of anyone, anywhere.
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The Supreme Court has a message for Kentucky on surveillance: Get a warrant • Kentucky Lantern
The Supreme Court has a message for Kentucky on Flock cameras: Get a warrant.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026
Peggy Flanagan: "We need to rip ICE apart and stop from them from terrorizing our communities"
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Prof. Catherine Flick @liedra.net · 09/08/2026
Good. If tech companies won't do the right thing, the only thing we have left is social shaming. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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‘I’ve definitely lost followers’: influencers face backlash over Meta ‘pervert glasses’ content
Using ‘spy glasses’ made by Facebook owner leads to floods of negative comments, say content creators
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Ana Marie Cox @anamariecox.com · 01/08/2026
Are you saying the DOJ withdrew that pool vandalism indictment… upon reflection?
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rain 🌦️ @sunshowers.io · 28/07/2026
btw iddqd is mythos approved 👍 it found one DoS pattern where while deserializing from serde, we would preallocate based on an untrusted size_hint
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kat cosgrove @kat.lol · 28/07/2026
A cool thing about being an expert in a piece of technology is every once in a while, it'll fuck up in a way so bizarre you wonder if you ever knew anything at all. I think it does this to keep us humble
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
ACLU of Massachusetts has put out a toolkit for lawyers to help them find out when digital surveillance has been used to build the case against their clients. Love to see it. www.aclum.org/news/digital...
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Defendants should know when digital surveillance technology has been used to build the case against them. This toolkit will help their lawyers find out. - ACLU of Massachusetts
Police increasingly use surveillance tech to build cases, and defendants have no way to know. We've built a toolkit to help defense attorneys find out.
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NPR @npr.org · 18/07/2026
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts. n.pr/4f9OdMn
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ICE shared Medicaid data it wasn't supposed to have with Palantir
The revelations came out in a federal court case brought by Democratic states challenging ICE's access to Medicaid data to aid in deportation efforts.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Why the fuck is the Department of Homeland Security allowed anywhere near our election records? DHS was created specifically to protect against "terrorist acts." Even if the lies about China were true and they were meddling in our elections, the thugs of DHS and ICE have no role investigating it.
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I’ve lived in Beijing too. They don’t have elections.
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Katie Drummond @katie-drummond.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Our two investigations into Madison Square Garden are now unpaywalled and free for anyone to read.
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 17/07/2026
Preventing explosive diarrhea was apparently too DEI for the DOGE crew
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WIRED @wired.com · 17/07/2026
A statement from WIRED leadership.
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Andy Craig @andycraig.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
When a politician dies, they weren't your friend, you aren't close to their family, they are not owed your polite fictions or any obligation to not speak ill of them. They were public figures who wielded immense power and their death is as good an occasion as any to say what you think of them.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 13/07/2026
BREAKING: A federal judge just nullified Trump’s $1.776 billion IRS “settlement,” ruling it had “no viable basis in law or fact,” finding there was never a real legal dispute, and referring Trump’s attorney to The Florida Bar for possible discipline.
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Forbes @forbes.com · 13/07/2026
The settlement was an “attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President,” the judge wrote.
forbes.com
Judge Smacks Down Trump’s IRS Settlement And Orders Sanctions
The settlement was an “attempt to use the Court to provide some legitimacy to an agreement to confer immunity to people and entities affiliated with the President,” the judge wrote.
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Bytemask @bytemask.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
He briefly grew a spine and dear leader had to rub it in after his death. Countless people sold (or are currently selling) their souls for temporary favoritism only to find the loyalty was always unidirectional. I’m continually amazed that nobody on that side seems to realize it.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was murdered by ICE. His three sons called him “El mundo entero” — the whole world. They watched as their whole world died in a video posted on Facebook. Lorenzo was our neighbor and fellow Texan. He deserves justice.
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Zack Whittaker @zackwhittaker.com · 13/07/2026
New: Core to its complaint against OpenAI, Apple accused a former employee of allegedly exploiting a security bug to steal reams of confidential files from Apple's network over several weeks. “LOL, I found out I can access the [network storage], so funny.” (Adblocker bypass: archive.is/rmPlh)
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Apple says former employee exploited 'rare' bug to download confidential files after leaving for OpenAI | TechCrunch
Apple would not comment on the "security breach," which allegedly allowed a former employee to download sensitive files from Apple's network long after he departed the company for rival OpenAI.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/07/2026
This is total insanity. Words fail to explain how anyone let alone a plurality of voters thought giving an obviously demented person control of the most powerful government in the world was a good idea. We will be lucky to come out the other side of this alive.
1000 Missiles are Locked and Loaded and aimed at the Islamic Republic of Iran, with thousands of more to immediately follow, should the Iranian Government act on its threat, pronounced in many corners of the Globe, to assassinate, or attempt to assassinate, the sitting President of the United States of America, in this case, ME! Orders have already been given, and the U.S. Military is ready, willing, and able, for a one year period of time, subject to extension, to completely decimate and destroy all areas of Iran - PRAISE BE TO ALLAH! President DONALD J. TRUMP
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 11/07/2026
Bringing free speech back by... issuing bullshit subpoenas for journalists who report on stuff you wanted kept secret.
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InfoWars @realinfowars.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Look closely. Do you see it? This is not the same man.
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Jonathan Cohn @jonathancohn.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
ICE lied because they always do. newrepublic.com/post/212915/...
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New Footage of Fatal ICE Shooting in Texas Sparks Fresh Outrage
ICE agents are claiming Lorenzo Salgado Araujo attacked them. That’s not what the latest video footage shows.
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Felicia Day @felicia.day · 10/07/2026
Hi, are you following The Guild reunion movie on Kickstarter yet? We just learned we are the #1 followed movie in the platform's history?! I'd love for you guys to join in :) www.kickstarter.com/projects/fel...
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Coming soon: The Guild: Reunion Movie
Help us celebrate The Guild's upcoming 20th anniversary by making an epic piece of entertainment!
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Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 08/07/2026
Donald Trump is suffering from dementia. Someone needs to step in before it's too late.
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