Rachel 🦁

Cryptographers Held an Election. They Can’t Decrypt the Results.

Keys are hard. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/21/w...

The saga continues.

"Meta begins mass censorship of teenagers' speech at the behest of the Australian Government under social media ban law" Fixed your headline.

This is one of the changes in the UK media landscape that should be more remarked on: the fact that being a very open, proud, outright racist is no longer a bar to being a pundit on some TV stations (in this case GBN and Talk TV).

Status update: fiber cut between data centers - trucks are rolling. Services are slow but functional, except for the Wayback Machine, which is still offline.

I see you've completely glossed over the many issues with online age verification.

www.pcmag.com/explainers/g...

"Just because children can access bad things on the internet doesn’t mean they should be able to do so everywhere, freely and easily"

Bad things like fire appliances?

bsky.app/profile/rach...

"Meta begins mass censorship of teenagers' speech at the behest of the Australian Government under social media ban law" Fixed your headline.

Grim dehumanisation of asylum seekers from the Express.

Massive Leak Shows Erotic Chatbot Users Turned Women’s Yearbook Pictures Into AI Porn Chatbot roleplay and image generator platform SecretDesires.ai left cloud storage containers of nearly two million of images and videos exposed, including photos and full names of women from social me...

This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines

www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

The Hostile Environment 2.0 Patch Update Labour’s asylum policy proves they fear the far-right more than they trust their own values.

I've seen many comments stating that jewellery will be taken off refugees as soon as they arrive in the UK to fund their stay as part of the policies. This is not true.

The policies are punitive/bad/misguided enough on their own and should be judged on what's confirmed without misinformation.

cloudflare's on-duty IT staff bangs on the doors which I have padlocked from the inside as I calmly break open lava lamp after lava lamp and drink the contents

Cloudflare coughs, half the internet catches a cold Breaking: Outage leaves users staring at error pages while recovery crawls along

here's a working link www.theregister.com/2025/11/18/c...

happy cloudflare outage day to all who celebrate

The judge really lets rip here, at length - the courts have clearly had enough of the Burkes.

He also ruled that criminal contempt proceedings should be taken against Mr Burke as well as his brother Isaac, sister Ammi and mother, Martina for their conduct in court hearings.

And my English is also *having* an outage 😑

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues Cloudflare's Status Page - Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues.

Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Follow our updates here: www.cloudflarestatus.com/incidents/8g...

A LinkedIn ad showing Jensen Huang shaking hands with some vague fashion executive: L'OREAL 6,204,444 followers Promoted We're thrilled to announce a collaboration with NVIDIA to supercharge beauty with next-gen Al. WELCOME TO NVIDIA L'ORÉAL GROUPE

I don’t want to seem out of touch but I don’t actually understand the economy anymore.

The internet, otherwise known as AS13335 Cloudflare.

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4596...

Cloudflare Global Network experiencing issues Investigating - Cloudflare is aware of, and investigating an issue which potentially impacts multiple customers. Further detail will be provided as more information becomes available. Nov 18, 2025 - 11:48 UTC

www.cloudflarestatus.com

I see it’s Cloudflare’s turn to an outage this week. 🙃

Labour Peer Who Fled The Nazis Condemns His Party's Immigration Crackdown Lord Dubs said he was "lost for words".

Labour peer Lord Dubs: "To use children as a weapon, as the home secretary is doing, is I think a shabby thing. I’m lost for words, frankly."

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/labour...

Shabana Mahmood puts the signs up: Britain is full. No blacks, no dogs, no Irish We had always given sanctuary to those who needed it, she said, only now we would kick them out as soon as possible

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Latest @theguardian.com cartoon

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

YouTube video by Hank Green Wikipedia and the Destruction of Trust

Ok @hankgreen.bsky.social is my anger translator regarding stupid controversies about Jimmy Wales and @wikipedia.org. I was going to say something, but Hank says everything I would have said here.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zi0...

Just use @signal.org. It has all the security features X Chat is missing.

Trump targets longtime MAGA ally Marjorie Taylor Greene

Sweet. Baby. Jesus.

We have officially reached the point where Marjorie Taylor Greene is coming out as the sane one on a conversation.

I’m not sure I can cope with this level of dystopia.

Surrey plod's deployment of facial recognition in Redhill on the 13th resulted in 5 "positive alerts" and 2 arrests (one later de-arrested). No details on how many people's rights were infringed to get the arrests. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...