Steven

[Steven @drekidegga]

Wealth is not a finite resource. It is created and consumed by those who participate in the economy.

[Emerald Apple @AI_EmeraldApple]

Amazon cancelled the new Stargate show.

The rumor is that the show writer, Martin Gero, would not budge on compromising lore or elements within the show for a "wider modern audience" as they did with Rings of Power for LoTR lore.

Martin Gero wanted to create a show that maintained continuity in the story and lore of the old shows, including the mythology and tech, while respecting the 17 seasons of history.

Amazon instead wanted something new for the "modern audience" that's more accessible, reimagined, with more modern casual sensibilities.

Because the showrunners wanted to maintain integrity rather than turn Stargate into another "modern audience slop" like Rings of Power, Amazon leadership canceled it. The franchise heavyweight, like Joseph Mallozzi, was very excited for the fresh stories Gero worked on. Amazon says they are still open to Stargate, just not "this" version... yes they wanted to Rings of Powerify Stargate.

We really can't hate these people enough.

[Steven @drekidegga]

The wokes have been ruining linux for years. All of this is a result of companies like Microsoft and IBM taking over so much of the ecosystem.

The Rust/Systemd/Wayland mind virus is a symptom.

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

Is Flatpak, the Linux packaging system, getting ready to drop X11 support and implement hard requirements of Wayland and systemd?

It looks that way.

Flatpak 2, aka Flatpak-next, “removes all prior legacy tech, X11, init systems no one is using.”

This according to Jorge Castro, Head of Ecosystems at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (part of The Linux Foundation), who presented on the topic at the Linux Application Summit this last week.

When asked for clarification on if this means the “Flatpak 2” will require systemd, the Linux Foundation representative stated, “Are you serious? Of course.”

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

Is Flatpak, the Linux packaging system, getting ready to drop X11 support and implement hard requirements of Wayland and systemd?

It looks that way.

Flatpak 2, aka Flatpak-next, “removes all prior legacy tech, X11, init systems no one is using.”

This according to Jorge Castro, Head of Ecosystems at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (part of The Linux Foundation), who presented on the topic at the Linux Application Summit this last week.

When asked for clarification on if this means the “Flatpak 2” will require systemd, the Linux Foundation representative stated, “Are you serious? Of course.”

[HOSTIS @hostis_black]

Two members of Congress have been quietly merging two separate site-blocking bills into one.

Representative Zoe Lofgren (D) of California and Senator Thom Tillis (R) of North Carolina's bill would let copyright holders petition federal courts to order American internet service providers and DNS resolvers to block entire foreign domains.

Comcast. Verizon. Spectrum. T-Mobile. Cloudflare. Google. OpenDNS. All of them, ordered to refuse to resolve a domain on the strength of a court order obtained by the MPA's lawyers.

Once the law exists, any foreign domain a federal judge finds objectionable disappears from the address book of every American household that does not run its own resolver.

This is what fourteen years of post-SOPA institutional memory loss looks like.

In 2012, the Stop Online Piracy Act died on the floor of Congress because the public found out what was in it before it passed. Wikipedia went dark in protest. Reddit went dark. Google put a black censor bar across its homepage. The bill sponsors retreated. The lesson the entertainment industry took from that defeat was not that the public opposed internet censorship. The lesson was that public attention was the problem.

So this time the bill has been drafted in private. There has been no blackout. There has been no consumer-facing campaign. The strategy is to negotiate the details quietly with the parties most able to refuse, and the public never finds out the law exists until they cannot reach a website.

In early 2026, the Supreme Court ruled in Cox Communications v. Sony Music that an ISP cannot be held liable for a billion dollars because some of its customers downloaded music. Justice Sotomayor, in a concurrence, complained that the ruling now permits ISPs to sell internet access to "every single infringer who wants one" without lifting a finger to prevent infringement. The publishers and the studios read that as a green light to ask Congress for the lever the courts no longer hand them.

This is the lever they want. A federal court order. A list of foreign domains. ISPs and DNS resolvers compelled by law to block on receipt.

The list of countries that already have laws like this includes the United Kingdom, France, Italy, Spain, Australia, India, Brazil, and Russia. The MPA cites this as evidence that the United States is behind. In Spain, IP-level blocking ordered by the football league has knocked legitimate businesses offline because they happened to share a server with a blocked domain. In Italy, the Piracy Shield system has blocked Cloudflare entirely on multiple occasions. In the United Kingdom, blocking orders have been used to take down sites that were not piracy sites at all, on the basis that they linked to piracy sites.

The collateral damage is the system working as designed. The blunter the instrument, the easier the enforcement.

There is no version of this law that targets only the bad actors. Domains are not isolated. Hosting is shared. CDNs are shared. The address book is a single document. Once the law exists, the list of blocked domains will only grow, the criteria will only loosen, and the appeal process will only formalize what was already done.

Anything that depends on resolving a foreign domain becomes contingent on the goodwill of a federal court and the lobbying budget of whoever wants the domain alive. Every shadow library, every IPTV mirror, every privacy-respecting service whose lawyers cannot match Disney's. All of them will be one petition away from disappearing from the address book of every household whose internet runs through Comcast.

Most people do not run a VPN, do not configure a custom DNS, do not know what an IP address is. Most people get the internet their ISP serves them. The bill is written for those people. The bill assumes that if the road is closed at the resolver, the destination effectively does not exist.

This bill will outlive its sponsors, its pretext, and the industries that bought it. Laws granting infrastructure-level censorship power do not get repealed. They get expanded. Every kill switch finds a hand.

[Owen Brake @OwenBrakes]

The RF world is insane.

Researchers recovered AES-128 keys from a Bluetooth chip by listening to its own antenna from 10 meters away.

Crypto-engine switching noise couples into the RF chain, rides the 2.4 GHz carrier, and leaks out as radio.

[TheLizVariant @TheLizVariant]

The Supreme Court is deciding whether police can get a warrant to search every phone near a crime scene …including yours, mine, and every innocent person nearby.
The Founders called that a general warrant. They literally fought a revolution over it.

[Resist CBDC 🏁 @Resist_CBDC]

In 2027 your car can be turned off without your consent.

By 2030 what else can be turned off:
- Your money
- Your electricity
- Your ability to travel
- Social media
- Internet
- Education
- Healthcare
- Tokenized diploma, medical records
- Appliances
- Phone

It doesn’t stop with your car.

[DBL MP / Double @dbl_mp1]

this is a violation of the 4th Amendment btw.

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

I've introduced HR 8470, the Surveillance Accountability Act, with @RepBoebert.

It requires a probable cause warrant before the federal government can search your private data — even if that data is held by a third party.

Warrantless searches are unconstitutional.

[Shawn Hendrix @TheShawnHendrix]

Just because a tool is useful to the police does not justify that we sacrifice our liberty and privacy for it. #stopflock

[Thomas Massie @RepThomasMassie]

Last night between midnight and 2am, they tried to pass two bad versions of FISA…

Both would have allowed Feds to unconstitutionally spy on Americans.

We stopped both versions, but the fight isn’t over. Eventually, it was decided to give them two more weeks to fix FISA.

[Defund the USDA 2.0 @Dusty3080467325]

Never forget that 33 years ago we learned the government will kill your dog, shoot your 14 year old son in the back and snipe your wife in the doorway while she holds your infant child.
*RubyRidge

Imagine being 14 years old, living off the grid in the Idaho woods in 1993. You’re walking your dog when suddenly he growls and *bang*, the dog is shot and killed. You look up and see a man in a Ghillie suit with a rifle pointed at you. Fear grips you. You pull your gun and fire. You’re just defending yourself. This is your home.

You run back toward your parents, only to be shot in the back and killed before you can reach them. You never understand what went wrong or why.

The next day, a sniper fires again. Your mother, standing in the doorway holding your baby sister, is hit in the head and killed instantly.

All of this started because your father Randy Weaver, sold two sawed-off shotguns to an undercover agent and refused to become a government informant. They gave him a false court date and set up armed surveillance at your home, waiting for the moment they could escalate.

Randy Weaver was a former U.S. Army Green Beret. He served in the military before moving off the grid with his family in northern Idaho. His military background added to the tension for federal authorities, because he was trained in weapons and survival, but it didn’t make him violent or a threat to anyone outside his property.

After an 11 day stand off with Randy and the baby inside with two dead bodies, the government was ordered to pay millions in settlements to Randy.
They were proven to be in the wrong for this deadly power trip.
But that doesn’t bring back a 14 year old boy or his mother.
Stay educated. Some of our history isnt taught in school for a reason. 💯

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

23 major news outlets, including The New York Times and USA Today, are now blocking the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine from saving copies of their articles.

They are doing this because they do not want AI companies to use the archived pages to train large language models.

This surely protects their content from scraping, it also limits public access to historical news records.

It makes it harder to track how stories change over time and preserving journalism

[Emrah Erken 🔥🎺 @AtticusJazz]

„Jede Aufzeichnung wurde vernichtet oder gefälscht, jedes Buch umgeschrieben, jedes Bild übermalt, jede Statue und jedes Straßengebäude umbenannt, jedes Datum geändert. Und dieser Prozess geht Tag für Tag und Minute für Minute weiter. Die Geschichte hat aufgehört. Es existiert nichts außer einer endlosen Gegenwart, in der die Partei immer recht hat.“

- George Orwell, 1984

Wie ironisch und tragisch, dass die totalitäre Woke-Bewegung ausgerechnet "Animal Farm" umgeschrieben hat.

Das übertrifft sogar das Vorwort einer neuen deutschen Ausgabe von "1984", welches ausgerechnet vom superwoken Robert Habeck verfasst wurde.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

South Africa won’t allow Starlink to be licensed, even though I was BORN THERE, simply because I am not Black!

We were offered many times the opportunity to bribe our way to a license by pretending that a Black guy runs Starlink SA, but I have refused to do so on principle.

Racism should not be rewarded no matter to which race it is applied.

Shame on the racist politicians in South Africa. They should be shown no respect whatsoever anywhere in the world and shunned for being unashamedly RACISTS!

[Jeremy Kauffman 🦔🌲🌕 @jeremykauffman]

on the left is the civil libertarian founder of the EFF

on the right is his invasive predator, against which he has no defense

this alien species has hunted the libertarian to near extinction

[The Lunduke Journal @LundukeJournal]

The @EFF has announced that they are leaving @X.

But they will continue to use TikTok, BlueSky, Mastodon, Facebook, YouTube, & Instagram.

Why? Something about “Young people, people of color, queer folks, activists, and organizers.”

Oh, and funding abortions.

Seriously. Abortions.

The “Electronic Frontier Foundation” (founded to educate law enforcement and politicians on how computers work), is leaving X, but staying on TikTok.

Because of “abortions” and “queer folk”.

As a wise man once said, “That virtue ain’t gonna signal itself.”

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ Google, Meta, Microsoft and Snap are pushing the EU to quickly revive 'Chat Control 1.0' — a now-expired exemption allowing indiscriminate mass scanning of user data for 'abuse material'.

Digital rights experts claim tech firms are deliberately spreading fear to protect their profits and data access — and that mass surveillance won't save a single child.

The exemption lapsed last week. The companies call this "irresponsible."