@humanrightswatch statement on the sanctions against the ICC : US Sanctions on ICC Put Global Justice at Risk
https://www.hrw.org/news/2026/10/09/us-sanctions-on-icc-put-global-justice-at-risk
After #RightsCon26 it's the second time this year that authoritarian governments attack and (here: attempt to) shut down a #CivilSociety conference and it's another massive warning shot for Europe.
Excellent reporting about the #Disinfo2026 scandal from The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/07/trump-eu-disinformation-conference
Ready to do age verification on your Mastodon server? The next shitty EU law is coming: EU KIDS act.
But i heard you can move your server outside the EU and run it anonymous ;)
RE: https://front-end.social/@Aaron/117396206868555205
"Certainly we have more software. But is it better? I don’t know."
Well, we do have actual data about this. And no, it is not better. It is much, much worse:
https://www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acceleration-whiplash-takeaways
> For every code change merged, the probability of a production incident has more than tripled.
> Bugs are accelerating, not stabilizing.
New rule!
Whenever anyone suggests using "AI" for anything technical or integrating it with any kind of pipeline, I am going to respond with:
> Okay, what is your plan on dealing with incubated ML exploits? You do know about incubated ML exploits, right?
Seriously, watch this talk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z38pTFM0FyU
Gentle reminder to anyone still on Facebook that Facebook's unchecked power to censor and harm comes directly from the fact that people are still on Facebook.
Meta bans ads for Virginia Woolf play in Spain because they relate to feminism
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/sep/21/meta-ban-virginia-woolf-a-room-of-ones-own-barcelona-teatre-raval
i'm attending Freedom not Fear and Privacy Camp in Brussels
if anyone wants to say hi, i will, as always, have stickers with me, including some special, limited-edition stickers from @apti ^^ and @discotheque ^^
2 of 32 variations of our logo :3
the new TLD applications have been published and we were the only ones to apply for .meow so we can move on with the evaluation 🥳
https://newgtldprogram-aps.icann.org/applications if you wanna check them out for yourself :3
RE: https://chaos.social/@GeertJan/117400243200089401
would you like to follow an uncompromising professional in the #netherlands with a penchant for making surveillance & human right abuses more difficult to perform & get away with 👉👇
In Amsterdam next week: Join @torproject and Internet Archive Europe for a conversation about threats to the open internet and how Onion Services can help keep the web open.
"Avoiding the Internet Achilles' heel: Locking the web open with Onion Services"
📅 October 8, 5:30 - 7:30 PM
📍 Oudeschans 16, 1011 KZ Amsterdam
Evening Program:
* Presentation
* Talk with slides
* Q&A
* Informal happy hour & conversation
To join the event, please register below.
NGOs say Israel bombed a journalist and appeared to attack ambulances trying to aid her – explainer
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/video/2026/oct/06/ngos-say-israel-bombed-a-journalist-and-appeared-to-attack-ambulances-trying-to-aid-her-explainer
some guy is flooding #Romanian NGOs and institutions with genAI FOIA requests, hiding behind the pretense of "journalism" in order to hound and overwhelm these entities
here's the story: https://ovoicu.substack.com/p/agentul-meu-ai-va-contacta-agentul
I've added a technical analysis of the legitimacy of using genAI for FOIA: https://www.facebook.com/s.alex.758/posts/pfbid027rwGPtdiSMreDkYPTsrotrfLcEetvWPnRMWJm3Ukyxp6BRmLcWJAcf6bSRTwmNk5l
Snoop (#Romanian investigative outlet) published an extremely detailed analysis of the smartphone app used by the fascist party, AUR, to "stay in touch" with its supporters & party members
AUR is using gamification to incentivize people to participate in a pyramid scheme (recruitment); it's using dishonest UX to persuade people to hand over very sensitive data (under GDPR) such as their political affiliation; and representatives are lying about why
We've produced a limited run of these stickers. We'll be sending them out with all orders. You can also order them in bulk from us here:
https://store.crimethinc.com/products/blind-the-cyclops-sticker
The URL links to the text "Blinding the Cyclops, Wrecking the Panopticon," recounting the adventures of two civic-minded individuals who set out to disable all the surveillance cameras in their community.
“Antifa’s not a real thing,” said Alex, an organizer of the project who used a pseudonym for his safety. “The only one who benefits from this is the government, because they can convince people what it is, and a fake organization can’t rebut what the government says.”
#union #resistance #protest #organize #usPol
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/06/trump-protesters-antifa-defendants-union
The friendly folx at @WIRED joined some of us at an in-person ICANN meeting and interviewed @aristhethird & Lauren Thomas for some meows :3
It's a long read but really well-written! Oh, and string release is literally around the corner!!
Help protect our upcoming publications against censorship or interference by downloading this encrypted "insurance" file:
https://data.ddosecrets.org/DDoSecrets-AES/ddosecrets-2026-08-26.aes256
(Torrent: https://data.ddosecrets.org/DDoSecrets-AES/ddosecrets-2026-08-26.aes256.torrent)
Let us have a thousand servers, a thousand networks. Let us flood them with possibilities until they run out of time and money to pursue and persecute us.