@wseltzer.bsky.social
On a quest to explore other socials. Also @wseltzer@infosec.exchange
"Research shows that features like Face ID and fingerprints enable violent, forced phone access by police and authorities" the-decenter.ghost.io/the-body-as-... by Afsaneh Rigot
06.11.2025 16:53 — 👍 54 🔁 39 💬 1 📌 7turns out warrant canaries go both ways
29.10.2025 16:10 — 👍 15 🔁 9 💬 1 📌 1
One year from now, Chrome will enable "Always Use Secure Connections" and warn users before plaintext HTTP by default.
28.10.2025 17:27 — 👍 16 🔁 9 💬 0 📌 1
The amount is meaningless — less than one day of salary. But the principle is important: once the armed services are paid by the oligarchs, they become a private militia, and we no longer have a country.
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...
If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: sfilen.org/resources/sf...
23.10.2025 04:57 — 👍 276 🔁 183 💬 3 📌 7
Poster with a gradient blue background. Large text reads “the web we’ve built.” Smaller text says “Celebrating 1 trillion web pages archived.” Pixelated 3D icons of a floppy disk, magnifying glass, cursor arrow, computer window, and others radiate outward from a bright starburst in the center. On the right, text lists event details: “Wednesday, October 22, 5–10PM PT. Live stream: 7–8PM PT. 300 Funston Avenue, San Francisco.” The Internet Archive logo appears in the bottom right corner.
Daytime photo of the front of the Internet Archive headquarters in San Francisco, California.
#SanFrancisco! Join us in person TONIGHT! 🌐 Celebrate 1 trillion pages saved to the #WaybackMachine at The Web We’ve Built at @InternetArchive. Experience digital history live! 🎉
📅 Oct 22
🕔–🕙 5 PM–10PM PT
📍 300 Funston Ave, SF
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1626438133...
ONLINE ⬇️🧵
#Wayback1T
Every quote in this story from the founder of Ring, Jamie Siminoff has been designed in a lab to illustrate the single most wrongheaded approach to technology, surveillance, privacy, and crime: www.theverge.com/tech/804052/...
22.10.2025 16:48 — 👍 92 🔁 26 💬 3 📌 2My signal is annabower.24 if any other United States Attorneys want to text me!
21.10.2025 04:34 — 👍 3306 🔁 539 💬 101 📌 20
Looking down Market Street toward the Ferry Building, a sea of people with signs.
No Kings SF was sunny and crowded!
18.10.2025 23:24 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
this rocks. when indiana edu killed the student newspaper, Purdue stepped up, printed the forbidden issue, drove it to Bloomington and stocked the boxes.
18.10.2025 18:27 — 👍 15636 🔁 4512 💬 15 📌 2
White words on a black background read: 50+ Immigration agents have the authority to detain whom they reasonably suspect are in the country illegally. We found more than 50 Americans who were held after agents questioned their citizenship. They were almost all Latino. ~130 Agents also can arrest citizens who allegedly interfered with or assaulted officers. We compiled cases of about 130 Americans, including a dozen elected officials, accused of assaulting or impeding officers. ~20 Among the citizens detained are nearly 20 children, including two with cancer.
Hi, I'm the ProPublica reporter who's been tracking an unusual stat: U.S. citizens grabbed by immigration agents.
I did it because the government isn’t.
This is what I found.
Great day to show what you believe in. Speak your truth. Show you are prepared to fight against authoritarian rule. If you’re marching, having a teach-in,organizing, or resting for future battles, do it with the conviction that we will not give in, that we stand on the side of justice.And stay safe.
18.10.2025 15:02 — 👍 3770 🔁 855 💬 62 📌 21Here are the details and our methodology. Judge for yourself: www.propublica.org/article/immi...
18.10.2025 01:42 — 👍 1682 🔁 508 💬 83 📌 20It’s painfully clear. By refusing to swear in Adelita Grijalva, Speaker Johnson’s covering up Jeffrey Epstein’s global sex-trafficking ring.
Hey GOP: Bring back the House, cancel your health care cuts, reopen the government and release the files.
Post from WH about Chicago "in chaos," showing scene from another state.
A terrific AFP fact check uses reverse image searches to expose how a White House video took scenes from Florida, Texas, South Carolina and Nebraska and lied that they showed "Chicago is in chaos."
factcheck.afp.com/doc.afp.com....
The Harvard Crimson joined 43 other college newspapers on an amicus brief filed Wednesday in support of a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s targeting of noncitizens for political speech.
Samuel A. Church & Cam N. Srivastava report.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...
New copyright scenario: lawyers threaten researchers over cryptographic solution found in Smithsonian archive
16.10.2025 13:01 — 👍 8 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 2
MIT's response to the Trump admin's proposed "compact" is excellent and should be a model for other universities. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...
10.10.2025 14:14 — 👍 597 🔁 228 💬 10 📌 16Very good piece by @vermontgmg.bsky.social
07.10.2025 19:12 — 👍 100 🔁 25 💬 2 📌 2
I cannot post the entire alt text but it begins: On October 1, the White House proposed to nine leading American universities that they agree to a list of demands in exchange for receiving preferential access to research funding. The “Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education” undermines the long-standing independence of American academia. It works against the best interests of colleges and universities and of every one of us who has benefited from the knowledge they produce. We call for its immediate rejection by all institutions of higher education.
this statement by the American Council of Learned Societies, one of the key orgs in higher ed, is exactly right.
reject the 'compact'. no ifs, no studies.
read and share and, for your opeds, steal.
Congratulations Cory, you got the NYT to say "enshittification," if grudgingly. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/05/b...
05.10.2025 13:25 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 1The apartments acted alone, pulling the adults and children out of them without anyone’s else’s participation
04.10.2025 19:46 — 👍 2144 🔁 467 💬 50 📌 16
Oh, that’s a good one.
02.10.2025 18:00 — 👍 17708 🔁 5495 💬 316 📌 196Day 2 of the Republican shutdown. Your regular reminders:
1. GOP controls government. They control what bills get voted on and the vote thresholds for each bill. Senate GOP can pass their bad funding bill today if they felt like it.
2. Dems are fighting to lower costs and save healthcare.
It’s midnight, which means Trump’s government just ran out of money.
Our entire government is shut down because Republicans in power refuse to lower health care costs.
the entire administration has Hitler strategic goals but youth pastor tactics and charisma
30.09.2025 20:56 — 👍 1023 🔁 172 💬 25 📌 6You can't fight authoritarianism with more authoritarianism.
You can't fight authoritarianism with more authoritarianism.
You can't fight authoritarianism with more authoritarianism.
You can't fight authoritarianism with more authoritarianism.
Unity against censorship and surveillance NOW.
It’s really all we should be talking about today.
21.09.2025 12:20 — 👍 10352 🔁 2609 💬 174 📌 49OMG - the judge in Florida just sua sponte struck the complaint in the Trump v NYT case for -wait for it - violating Rule 8.
Lawyers, tell the folks at home how hard it is to get the complaint struck outright for something like that in fed eral court.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
