GreatFaker

I think the gutting of USAID is probably the worst American-caused tragedy since the invasion of Iraq. Obviously the death toll will be much higher. I just can’t get over it. They were celebrating the gutting of one of the most efficient life-saving organizations like they had won the Super Bowl.

“We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns,” according to the document from Meta’s Reality Labs, which works on hardware including smart glasses.

At least one Meta employee thinks it's a good time to add facial recognition technology to glasses because we're too distracted by fascism to effectively protest www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Simply evil. And also an effective way to radicize a generation to hate the United States. White nationalists are manufacturing the problems they claim to solve

ive seen a sentiment quite a few times recently that we're in a cyberpunk dystopia without any of the cool shit. well, the thing about that is the "punk" part. the cool shit is up to you. learn to solder. raid a data center and take their ram. if you wanna be a hacker just be a hacker

Cory Doctorow, The Epstein Class and Collapse Porn

This list might help

YouTube video by TFotF Ian McKellen performs speech about immigrants by Shakespeare from Thomas More (23/4/2016)

This is great. Turns out Shakespeare wrote some material in collaboration with another playwright for "Thomas Moore" and here's a speech Billy S wrote, performed by Ian "Gandalf" Mckellen, who's in fact a great Shakespearean actor - and it's Shakespeare taking down anti-immigrant lunacy. Brilliant!

I'd like to add that like in all industries, when we stop understanding how our tools work, we become entirely dependent on the corporate entities that own the mold. We are trading the ability to build and repair for the convenience of being permanent tenants in someone else's infrastructure/subs.

I wanna personally congratulate Hunter Biden for not only being nowhere near the Epstein files but for having rock-solid reviews from sex workers for respectfulness and tipping

Boyfriend sics ICE on undocumented partner amid dispute over $4 million Tribeca condo Exclusive: ‘There has to be something better than this,’ Irish deportee Patrick Moore told The Independent. ‘It's not the United States that I know.’

This is… something else. And the boyfriend he got deported was apparently paying for everything?
www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

Federal attorney on ICE cases: ‘The system sucks’ A federal judge in Minnesota demanded to know why ICE is not complying with court orders and failing to immediately release immigrants who are being wrongfully detained as part of Operation Metro Surg...

www.fox9.com/news/federal...

"the third reich reheated our nachos" 🤣

Unfriendly reminder, AI is being used to destroy trust. Do not normalize the use of AI. AI can not reliably enhance videos or low-quality images.

This is the quiet replacement of reality. Do not let this be normalized.

I think everyone should know how to do this and have the information #frayayoupage

"The best summary of Trump’s trade 'philosophy' comes from Trashfuture’s November Kelly, who said that Trump is flipping over the table in a poker game that’s rigged in his favor because he resents having to pretend to play the game at all." -- Cory Doctorow

TikTok Data Center Outage Triggers Trust Crisis for New US Owners The technical failure coincided with TikTok’s ownership transition, leading users to question whether videos criticizing ICE raids in Minnesota were being intentionally censored.

The technical failure coincided with TikTok’s ownership transition, leading users to question whether videos criticizing ICE raids in Minnesota were being intentionally censored. www.wired.com/story/tiktok...

Message from "Signal Support" Dear User, this is Signal Security Support ChatBot. Our system has detected a recent login attempt to your account from an unrecognized device or location. As a security measure, we have blocked this attempt and sent a verification code via SMS to your registered phone number. If this was NOT you: To secure your account and block this unauthorized access, please reply to this message with the verification code you just received. If this WAS you: You can safely ignore this message. The login attempt will be automatically approved shortly. Thank you for helping us keep your account secure.

Signal will never message you like this.

If you get a message like this, SOMEONE IS TRYING TO HACK YOUR SIGNAL.

DO NOT GIVE THEM THAT CODE.

Street painting of a female figure in the form of the Statue of Liberty. She has been shot in the face and sits as though she has collapsed against the pillar she is painted on. Her torch lies beside her, extinguished

Seattle street art by topsy_paints

OBEX, the new movie from director Albert Birney (Strawberry Mansion), is an audacious, uncanny, and delightfully skewed lo-fi fantasy. See it Feb. 1 at @siffnews.bsky.social Film Center presented by us!

grandillusioncinema.org/film/obex/

Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all users’ ages—often through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious

Though age verification mandates claim to protect children, in practice they create harmful censorship and surveillance regimes that put everyone—adults and young people alike—at risk. Don’t believe it? Learn more here: EFF.org/Age

This is quite a post

www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

Trying to protect everything from everyone all the time is a good way to drive yourself crazy. This is why we threat model. Here is EFF's Surveillance Self Defense guide to putting together your security plan, also known as threat modeling: ssd.eff.org/module/your-...

'The Matrix' Was Inspired by William Gibson’s 'Neuromancer' and a Deluxe Edition Is on the Way (Exclusive) William Gibson's 1984 novel 'Neuromancer' is getting a new look. PEOPLE can exclusively reveal a new deluxe edition of the cyberpunk classic that inspired hit films like 'The Matrix.'

people.com/william-gibs...

me again

Blade Runner 2026

Instead, maybe simply require ice agents display their name and a unique badge number, and forbid the use of the word "police" on their uniforms.

Encouraging people to ping a government database with their phones while they are in physical proximity to an ice operation will do more harm than good. The data will be used against the public.

If you’re a government employee or tech worker and you want to talk about what you’re seeing or you have a tip, you can find me on Signal

The Trump administration *WANTS* a dead ICE agent or three so they can wave the bloody shirt and pass the closest thing they can get to an Enabling Act under US law.