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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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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Feature, not a bug
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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 · 17/03/2025
Dems can't address this. They have to disband the entire leadership, their whole corporate infrastructure. Only the left can address this.
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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
coward.
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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 · 09/03/2025
He has affinity for everyone who placates. Just a low confidence white guy. What y'all claimed was some sort of evidenced double-agent thing which was wrong and is still wrong.
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Claude as GPS: Turn right at the next corner... then '...rest of the journey...' and you've arrived at your destination!
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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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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
Pick a new semantic troll attempt bud.
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 04/03/2025
This is how every free market ends. Thanks for playing.
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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 · 02/03/2025
He supports Israel & bans Palestinian protests. He's a coward.
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
Stock market cannot analyze one day's sales. It's a lagged indicator. Very weird correlation idea
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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Gaza: Five Palestinian infants die from extreme cold amid Israeli siege - www.middleeasteye.net/news/five-pal…
middleeasteye.net
Gaza: Five Palestinian infants die from extreme cold amid Israeli siege
Israel continues to delay enter of shelter aid as stipulated in the ceasefire agreement, worsening the humanitarian crisis
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Lmao liberal delusion in one post 👏👏👏
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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
Ok stormtrooper
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Yea very Star Wars to ally himself with Zionist Israel and not with rebelling Palestine.
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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
Thanks so much. I'll be taking precautions much more diligently going forward, although not sure how much I can prevent kindergarten superspreaders :)
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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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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
X: Nazi app Tesla: Nazi car
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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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Middle East Eye (Unofficial) @middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
US TikTok ban linked to pro-Palestine content rather than China threat, insiders reveal - www.middleeasteye.net/news/us-tikto…
middleeasteye.net
US TikTok ban linked to pro-Palestine content rather than China threat, insiders reveal
US officials and lobbyists say the push to ban the Chinese-owned application gain momentum during the war on Gaza
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
Bluesky officially made it today.
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 14/02/2025
Skewed question. Becoming more liberal is becoming more moderate. Should've asked "more leftist"
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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 · 12/02/2025
LLMs recycle data source
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Left-aligned institutions work fundamentally different from neolib institutions
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
It's not leftists though. "Liberals" definition has changed, publicly by everyone, including leftists and neolibs themselves. The group that separate itself and called itself liberal created neolib institutions that yes we leftists want to destroy.
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
They all backed Hillary because they thought it was all locked and there was no way Trump would win, while we were begging them to look at 1-1 matchup polls between Bernie-Trump and Hillary-Trump
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
His cost based analyses (#1 and #2) are both supported by data. Meanwhile #3 (investment and return being super-exponential) feels like it got squeezed in there as a pitch to investors.
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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
I hope this was an attempt at another onion article.
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Economically: If USA fails economically because of what's happening, it may sound like a loss but it's not. It will "trickle up" to those who follow more sustainable policies. It will also encourage US to follow more sustainable policies.
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Socially: Especially for trans people and immigrants - things suck right now but progress cannot be stopped. These regressions will not hold. That doesn't mean we should be complacent. We should fight, knowing we will absolutely win.
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Thatcher caused 15% unemployment in the UK. Tons of riots, strikes - her popularity was at negative % and Tories lost several elections after Thatcher. To this day, Thatcher's the most hated person in the UK and her legacy is why UK is in shambles economically.
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Pinochet's reforms led to Chile's GDP drop by 20% + unemployment at 40%. They had to reverse most of those reforms within a decade.
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Yeltsin's capitalistic shock therapy dropped Russia's GDP by 50%. Since then, Russia completely turned away from the West.
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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 · 08/02/2025
Pls Google which people the term blue MAGA refers to 😂
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I feel deeply sad for those affected by Trump but maybe you save your energy for those who were power and used their power to shun leftists who had no power. We aren't flinching. If you need my vote, convince the freaks you voted for to compromise with me. We compromised since Occupy.
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
I'm glad I contributed to Dems loss then. Maybe next time y'all stop being genocidal freaks so we can support you 😘
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Chainleft @chainleft.bsky.social · 08/02/2025
Keep coping. Your guys brought this
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