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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

Hot take: I know the edgy techno-left position on copyright is "intellectual property is property" but it's pretty lame for the techno-left to accept the narrative of capitalists abolishing the only type of property that can be produced by something everyone inherently owns, and no other property.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 19/03/2025

"Signal would exit the French market before it would comply with this law as written" Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social, President of Signal @signal.org

Screenshot of X post: https://x.com/mer__edith/status/1902383162065400296, part 1

BAT SIGNAL: A law in France that would mandate a backdoor in end to end encrypted communications is set for a vote within the next day, after some start-stop skirmishes.

The French Narcotraffic law would require encrypted communications providers—like Signal—create a backdoor by giving the government the ability to add themselves to any group or chat they like. In the name of (checks notes) fighting drug trafficking.

While those hyping this bad law have rushed to assure French politicians that the proposal isn’t’ ‘breaking encryption’ their arguments are as tedious as they are stale as they are laughable. For those catching up, let’s review the basics: end to end encryption must only have two ‘ends’—sender and recipient(s). Otherwise, it is backdoored. Whatever method is devised to add a ‘third end’ —from a perverted PRNG in a cryptographic protocol, to vendor-provided government software grafted onto the side of secure communications that allow said government to add themselves to your chats—it rips a hole in the hull of private communications and is a backdoor.

Indeed, the ghost participant proposal was roundly rebuked (humiliated, even) when it was first proposed in 2019 in the UK. The technical community was united, and it was never implemented in law or otherwise.

Screenshot of X Post, Meredith Whittaker, President of Signal https://x.com/mer__edith/status/1902383162065400296

We cannot accept any backdoor, however it’s dressed up. Communications don’t stay within jurisdictional boundaries. Which means a hole created in France becomes a vector for anyone wanting to undermine Signal’s robust privacy guarantees, anywhere. Instead of contending with unbreakable math, they only have to compromise a French government employee, or the vendor-provided software used to sideload government operatives into your private chats.

This is why, as always, Signal would exit the French market before it would comply with this law as written. At this moment especially, there is simply too much riding on Signal, on our being able to forge a future in which private communication persists, to allow such pernicious undermining.

We hope—WE HOPE—that this callow, dishonest attack will fail, and will be the last. We would love to get back to the work of maintaining and improving our core technologies, instead of fighting legislation which is distinguished in nothing as much as its refusal to listen to decades of expert consensus in its drive to imperil global cybersecurity and the human right of privacy.

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Ryan Grim @ryangrim.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

Yet somehow this obvious fact escapes the gaze of the American press

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 15/03/2025

The Rich benefit way more from: - the infrastructure - stability - military - the existence of a country than the average citizen. Why should they pay the tax at the same % as the average citizen? 95% tax on highest earners.

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Another leftist political take proven right over the liberal political take.

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Claude: I fixed your code! Also Claude: *strategically omits 2,000 lines where all your actual problems are*

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Officials at the FAA have directed staff to identify tens of millions of dollars to fund a Starlink deal for upgrading air traffic control communications. Staff has been instructed to find the funds while minimizing documentation and avoiding a paper trail.

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

Here's how some politicians spent their weekends in the backdrop of fascism: ✊ Jill Stein organized "Fight The Rich" conference together with Workers Strike Back 💪 Bernie Sanders launched nationwide anti-oligarchy tour ✨ Kamala Harris signed up for Hollywood talent agency

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

I might switch from Claude back to OpenAI tooling. Claude served me well but Anthropic is falling behind. - April 2024 cutoff date on info - Great at coding, but reasoning models caught up at this point - Too limited token count in Sonnet - And minor stuff like lacking image/TTS/video gen etc

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

I had Influenza A for the past 10 days and it absolutely wrecked havoc in my household. 41°C fever, coughing blood, migraines, vomiting - we had it all. Is this year's flu strain on some sort of steroids or are our immunities completely f*cked since COVID?

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 20/02/2025

Crypto grifters: Pivot to AI grifting.

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Matt Binder @mattbinder.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

new from me: Elon Musk's X appears to be blocking links to directly contact users on Signal Signal, the encrypted messaging app, has recently become a major tool for government workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE

disruptionist.com

Elon Musk’s X blocks links to Signal, the encrypted messaging service

Signal has been a primary method of communication for federal workers looking to blow the whistle on DOGE.

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 13/02/2025

Breaking News | An Israeli sniper has shot and killed a 15-year old child in central Gaza's Al-Buraij Camp. The boy was reportedly trying to inspect his family home in an area from which the Israeli military recently withdrew.

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I love how every conservative argument at any point someone moved the Overton Window further right in the last 40 years is: "No matter what you think of the [insane policy or person], you should all agree that [an even insaner policy or person] is normal"

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

As pathetic as Elon is, and as depressing as this sounds for the US, this isn't unprecedented. The tide will turn. Sooner than you think. Tesla sales, Trump's dumbass crypto tokens' prices should give you an idea how popular they are. But more importantly, history tells us conservatism never works.

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

ADL, probably: "He didn't actually mean that"

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

The few million Elon will save from government's science & weather administrations will be nicely compensated by the $1b aid to Israel. Congrats, you've been duped again.

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Micah @rincewind.run · 01/02/2025

I think countries around the world should levy tariffs specifically on Tesla in response to US tariffs, as well as banning Twitter as a national security threat driving a wedge between our co-dictators may be the most effective thing they can do

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

Claude is down. Yesterday DeepSeek was down. Last week it was OpenAI.

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

DeepSeek finally reached early 20s thoughts when you text with a crush

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Thumbs Up @thumbsup.me · 25/01/2025

Love to see UNESCO talking about “UBS” now. While I’ve never used that term, I’ve long disagreed with the idea of UBI on the grounds that the market will just adjust prices to retain the same kinds of barriers to access we see now. This is a foil to that. en.unesco.org/inclusivepol...

en.unesco.org

Move the debate from Universal Basic Income to Universal Basic

Many arguments have been made for Universal Basic Income (UBI) in the debate of revovery from the pandemic. This think piece by Ian Gough makes the alternative case for Universal Basic Services (UBS)

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

Leftists have been incredibly skeptical of AI, and one thing they quoted often was how a day of 20 ChatGPT queries were equivalent to 30 mins of AC usage. I wonder if DeepSeek being 33x more efficient would change their mind.

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

I'm so happy I found some people on Bluesky that actually understands where this is going.

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ChaoticHuman @chaotichuman.x0f.nl · 24/01/2025

Dear anti-AI movement, you want to actually effectively fight large corps like "Open"AI, etc. and burst their centralized AI-bubble? Stop being copyrightoids (as that just helps these large corps) and start supporting locally running open source LLMs like Deepseek R1.

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

This is a big announcement. There will be a TON of gov't subsidies. OpenAI had no moat because open source models like DeepSeek R1 are beating OpenAI's expensive o1 (and doing it faster too). Now with an unprecedented government subsidy, OpenAI will finally have a moat: compute power. Thing is,

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Leftists already know this but libs are not ready for the massive political price they're about to pay after crushing the left organization over the last 5 years (especially students in the last 2 years) Things will go to shit incredibly fast, and all the fight energy is vacuumed out.

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onion person @junlper.beer · 21/01/2025

nominally “liberal” mainstream media is now running cover for an out and about fascist. these are dark times we are living in and we truly cannot rely on these fascist sympathizers anymore

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

this is the neworktimesiest headline that has ever headlined

Screenshot of a NYT article headline: "Elon Musk Ignites Online Speculation Over the Meaning of a Hand Gesture"

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 20/01/2025

The ADL is a right-wing extremist org.

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Leftists warned ADL's fascist tendencies almost a decade ago. And they were proven right once again.

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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 21/01/2025

Have the mass resignations started at the ADL?

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

A Chinese firm released an o1 equivalent reasoning model at a 3% price of o1. And we're talking about the nerdlarping nazi.

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Fwiw, this is what they call a "narrative violation".

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

"The Nazi salute I did while funding the neo-Nazi party in Germany & agreeing with Nazi accounts on Twitter was actually an art performance on how woke the left has become"

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John @silent-john.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

As a Leftist, I've championed and fought for crypto for years. It's a way to democratize access to financial tools that the exploitative banking and finance industry gatekeeps from you. However, watching oligarchs and institutions co-op crypto has me wanting to sell and never look back.

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Scientists are shocked to find levels of gifting previously thought impossible.

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

I know tech leaders embracing the incel groomer racist persona is the hot trend, but I've never expected it from Vitalik

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Another Musk-boosted misinformation spreads to 4M duped viewers, meanwhile...

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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 15/01/2025

Libs deserve all the humiliation from left & right, down & up, from all discovered & undiscovered dimensions. They were wrong every step of the way. - They appealed to right (they lost) - They said left & Muslim vote wouldn't matter (it did) - They said Trump would destroy Gaza more (he didn't)

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