404 Media has published the full user guide for ELITE, the tool Palantir made for ICE to bring up addresses for deportation targets. @evystadium.bsky.social has more.
Scoop here by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/here-is-the-...
New: Police have released info about millions of surveillance targets nationwide from thousands of different police departments because of a public records redaction error in Flock data. Reveals active police investigations, border patrol & ICE targets, lots more:
www.404media.co/police-unmas...
From license-plate readers to drones and cell-site simulators, ICE relies on a growing web of surveillance.
Here’s how hackers are shining a light on it—and why that matters. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
Windows native Claude Code was quietly released a few hours ago and hasn't been announced yet. 🤖
github.com/anthropics/c...
Take your online security and privacy to the next level with this Surveillance Self-Defense playlist.
Four days after Musk stripped Grok’s “woke filters” the bot praised Hitler as the solution for “vile anti-white hate.”
The salient question: QA slip or further evidence of architectural bias used to turn an LLM into a platform-native propaganda engine?
www.wired.com/story/grok-a...
The neo-reactionary blogger Curtis Yarvin wants to destroy American democracy. With the Trumpian right embracing strongman rule, his ideas have found mainstream purchase.
I cannot emphasize enough how true & real this is.
In almost anywhere on the political spectrum you ID with or major issue, there’s probably a bot/troll operation to encourage your rage and vitriol.
And how/where that rage gets directed, esp understandable rage, is what they are out to influence.
A quote from Samuel Adams projected across the façade of Boston's Faneuil Hall: “If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men possess the highest seats in Government, our country will need its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
Happy Independence Day from the birthplace of the American republic.
Liberty endures only when power honors the equal unalienable rights of every person, authority submits to law, and government draws power from consent.
Forsaking these principles betrays our founding ideals.
I wrote a bit more about the UK’s recent move to allegedly demand backdoors in Apple encryption. blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/02/12/u...
The courts have once again ignored the demands of millions of Americans by thwarting sensible federal net neutrality regulations. That means Congress and the states must step in to preserve a free and open internet, EFF’s Corynne McSherry wrote in The Well News.
1/ Updates from the last couple of weeks in the Ethereum ecosystem, a thread by sassal0x.
There’s so much happening in the Ethereum ecosystem that keeping up with it all can feel overwhelming, but allow me to give you the highlights.
Let’s get into it 🧵👇
I signed up for BlueSky at launch and tuned out due to the initial quiet - it's a pleasant surprise to come back and find all the people that used to make Twitter interesting.
The rare social media platform that seems to actually be improving instead of getting worse!
Thanks for the reminder on the hell site to check in over here!
In context, Allie is referring to her struggle with the traditional banking system in this quote which impacted her ability to use crypto exchanges to cash out to USD.
pawnbrokers meme captioned 'best i can do is an NSA spy node full of brands'
people: hey can i chat with my friends and see cats and stuff?
threads:
NEW: We dug into thousands of internal documents showing how a small group of conservative doctors promoted far right views rejected by the medical establishment to shape policies on abortion and trans rights https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/06/15/abortion-transgender-christian-doctors/
Greater Boston old guy group texts exploding with activity right now.
Voluntary consumption of natto is the first objectionable content I've seen on this platform.
Does this mean there's an imminent extraterrestrial invasion? I haven't checked the news headlines today...
Funneling most users towards a more secure experience while allowing power users to do whatever they choose with their device is the best approach. I've been thinking about this in the context of what UX and security approaches we will see emerge with AA wallets.
I think your plan is solid. I've only played BoTW, but I've heard that, as amazing as ToTK is, it's largely set in the same world and you'll only get the wow factor once. Both are massive games that you can poke around in for hundreds of hours if you don't want to rush through.
An experiment: can we get all the Ethereum and Ethereum-adjacent people in a single thread? Say hi below!
Is your new tattoo an homage to 3AC? 🤔🦪
Bluesky FAQ published! https://blueskyweb.xyz/faq
• What is Bluesky?
We're building a protocol that can make social networks work more like email, blogs, or phone numbers. The AT Protocol is close to completion, and the Bluesky app is a microblogging client built on it to showcase its features.
Here's the latest update on progress made by the researchers collaborating on the crypto asset thefts brought to everyone's attention by Taylor Monahan last week.
https://mirror.xyz/blockmage-labs.eth/Kpb0z8WruhXOtNEal3AAjROzLlleGiu5JprgkHp2QgE
This perspective resonates with me in the abstract, but in practice it seems like a completely unmoderated social media protocol or platform would just burden users with a constant need to filter out seriously nasty content. Eye bleach sales would go through the roof.
Akkkkkkshually, you're wrong. Time for a 🧵! (1/n)
With BlueSky invites serving as a hurdle to joining for the time being, the site is not yet saturated with toxic reply guys and the vibe here is really refreshing. Maybe small community size is ideal for social media, sort of how a lot of Reddit discussion migrated to more focused Discords.
