Notes
Short thoughts, updates, and quick posts. (1592 total)
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No outside power, either Russian, Chinese, or otherwise, could dream of doing as much damage to the West as what’s being allowed/enabled from within, whether through short-sighted politicians, disconnected elites, or voters making choices without understanding the full weight of the consequences.
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“The real conspiracy theory around Trump and Epstein is that multiple apparently unconnected women lied, and continue to lie, about Trump’s behavior. This with nothing to gain, and much to lose, by speaking out about his misdeeds.”
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Excellent recap on The Epstein File Fiasco. This isn’t some wild conspiracy — it’s a damning showcase of institutional failure and a blatant cover-up masquerading as justice."
by LegalEagle
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When your Middle East policy is basically a horoscope with nukes. “We don’t really know, but trust us.”
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Fascinating early internet stories
I’m not an Apple fan boy but, in the midst of reading Apple in China, reading the story of this video and watching it is really something.
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Ça bouge bien côté Bluesky pour faire vivre le AT Protocol en dehors du contrôle de Bluesky !
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Project 2025 isn’t a blueprint, it’s already 40% enacted or completed.
Surviving Trump: With Democracy On Life Support: EPISODE 29: Project 2025 Overview — Dismantling Democracy and Women’s Rights
Episode webpage: survivingtrump.buzzsprout.com
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#Telegram, the #FSB, and the Man in the Middle #Investigation
The technical infrastructure that underpins Telegram is controlled by a man whose companies have collaborated with Russian intelligence services.
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On the Media: Ensh*ttification, Live! Micah and Cory Doctorow in Conversation
Episode webpage: www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/…
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An NBC News and Get Real Security [analysis](www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech… /internet-thinks-video-gaza-ai-s-proved-isnt-rcna209617) found no evidence of AI generation or manipulation in the video of people waiting for food in Rafah. #Gaza
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Found an odd bug on the Android app for microblog @manton
If when editing a new post I manually add a Summary, this summary becomes the summary of future posts as well… And even replace the opengraph description of the links from the future posts I share…
apparently, deleting this summary is hard
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Absolutely not surprised by Musk exit from US government role.
The Tax bill is just an excuse
Musk is just groking how foolish, naive and ignorant his whole approach was and cannot phantom the idea that he failed, so he’s using the Tax bill to exit.
More interesting take from @emptywheel.bsky.social
This may be an attempt to preserve the damage Elon did to government, up to and including the data consolidation that DOGE carried out.
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Tldr: You can’t automate trust.
Read “We Used ChatGPT to Write Tests. The QA Team Revolted.“ by Codepinion on Medium
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Well well well… The Windows Subsystem for #Linux is now open source
youtu.be
open.substack.com
fediversereport.com
occrp.org
micro.blog
emptywheel.bsky.social
emptywheel.net