Manticlops

Sometimes it's not the size, but the ferocity that counts.

[Manticlops @manticlops]

@BigMouthsfood @stackhodler What's protected is the capability to exploit the vulnerability, not the underlying asset.

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

Two years of lying about bombing hospitals in Gaza – supposedly to target "Hamas control and command centres" underneath – has really paid off.

Now Israel bombs Lebanon's hospitals and doesn't even need to pretend there's a military rationale.

[Web3Privacy Now @web3privacy]

Some questions are difficult to ask out loud.

Around the world, people use privacy tools to search, learn, connect, and find community safely online.

The @torproject ecosystem supports open source protecting the freedom to explore identity, communicate privately, and stay connected without fear of surveillance.

Support the projects protecting digital freedom from @OpenObservatory to @SecureDrop: https://t.co/m7330rrgwz

[Manticlops @manticlops]

@BogartWoodsdale Not so embarrassing, in the age of LLMs, to base a whole book on a misunderstanding I guess.

[Privacy International @privacyint]

MEPs are urging the European Commission to hold some of Europol's budget after it was revealed they were running a "shadow IT system" for phone records, identity documents, financial and geolocation information - even of people not suspected of a crime.
https://t.co/gB5ElkoV14

[Daniel Batten @DSBatten]

The data is unequivocal: Bitcoin mining is the way to make renewable projects that would otherwise need subsidies viable.

A new paper recently found that pairing large-scale solar PV with Bitcoin mining
* transforms a standalone solar project with a10-year payback, ~5% IRR into a highly profitable venture with 2–5 year payback and 33% IRR
* reduces ~10,457 tons of CO₂ avoided emissions per annum

The study was done on a 10 MW Solar Farm and supports the earlier findings of Hakimi et al that Bitcoin mining reduces the ROI from 8.1yrs to 3.5yrs while reducing CO2 emissions by 50,000 tonnes/year on a 50MW solar farm (source: https://t.co/RGsIe6z75Z)

The recent paper "Techno-economic Assessments of Large-Scale Solar PV and Bitcoin Mining" (Keshavarzfard & Zinati Yazdi 2025) was published in Solar Energy.

Source: https://t.co/MqAgiWv6CB

The journal has an impact factor of 6.6 (top 6% of academic journals)

[Lee Healey @HealeyCartoons]

“Sometimes, carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.” - Albert Camus

‘Carry on Camping’ released this day in 1969.

Signed prints available here: https://t.co/kBOI05edyK

[Alec Muffett @AlecMuffett]

HOW ABOUT SIMPLY NOT HANDING YOUR CHILD A SMARTPHONE, JESS?

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

🆔A social media ban = “digital ID checkpoints for the whole population,” @silkiecarlo warns on @Channel4

We must avoid anything like a digital ID system for the internet that would both eradicate privacy online & fail to keep children safe.

The fight isn't over yet - stay updated⤵️
https://t.co/5nUjbIWa0H

[Lyudmyla Kozlovska 🇪🇺🇺🇦 @LyudaKozlovska]

Age verification for the internet is the end of human rights and freedom of speech for generations to come.

We are watching the freedom values of Western civilization collapse — adopting the same digital cage that others are already trapped in.

Human rights are taken away every single day — all because too many of us are still not ready to defend them, mistakenly believing these rights are simply given.

Generations fought for these freedoms, high standards of values, and paid with their lives so that we could enjoy and live in a free Western society.

Ask yourself: what have you done, and what are you doing every day, to protect this heritage?

[Manticlops @manticlops]

@waincarver @mdcass68 @Zeshankenzo You've been put up for adoption

[Lawrence Lepard, "fix the money, fix the world" @LawrenceLepard]

An important message from my good friend. If you are not angry about what is happening you are not paying attention.

[Manticlops @manticlops]

@Web3summit @gavofyork It's a shitcoin scammer convention?

[Manticlops @manticlops]

@jonothescot @BBCSportScot Ball went to this guy who is onside :(

[Rekt News @RektHQ]

Is Age Verification a Trap? The bills invoke children. The systems get breached. No jurisdiction that builds it ever repeals it. The ratchet only turns one direction. And no one asked if you wanted it built.

https://t.co/NWkiaafUM9

[Manticlops @manticlops]

@antibloom Extremely dangerous imho https://t.co/QQJ87nCGa6

[Manticlops @manticlops]

Govt. spyware "on every phone and device in the country" would be extremely damaging.

The end of slavery, suffrage, the fall of the Berlin Wall, even democracy itself - each secured in the teeth of vehement govt. opposition.

Social progress *ends* with universal surveillance.

[Manticlops @manticlops]

Govt. spyware "on every phone and device in the country" would be extremely damaging.

The end of slavery, suffrage, the fall of the Berlin Wall, even democracy itself - each secured in the teeth of vehement govt. opposition.

Social progress *ends* with universal surveillance.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 BREAKING: Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips has resigned from Keir Starmer's Government

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

Google's new reCAPTCHA requires Play Services running on your Android phone to prove you're human. If you're on s de-Googled setup, you may automatically fail. They built this dependency quietly for at least seven months. iPhones pass the same check without installing a thing.

Google is punishing people who opted out of its surveillance.

https://t.co/pdYyQVCsrN

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️🚨 ALARMING: Google now treats privacy as suspicious behavior by default. Users of GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/OS, and other deGoogled Android phones are being locked out of millions of websites unless they install the exact Google Play Services software they deliberately removed.

GrapheneOS is recommended by the EFF and used by journalists, lawyers, and activists in high-risk environments. The audience most likely to read Google's data practices and refuse its terms is now flagged as fraudulent for that exact decision.

What happened?:
▪️ Google announced "Cloud Fraud Defense" at Cloud Next on April 22-23, 2026, branding it "the next evolution of reCAPTCHA." Existing reCAPTCHA customers were auto-migrated.
▪️ When the system flags traffic as suspicious, the old click-the-bus puzzle is gone. Users get a QR code instead.
▪️ Scanning the QR code requires Google Play Services running on the device. Internet Archive snapshots show this requirement has been live since at least October 2025, silently rolled out for 7 months before anyone noticed.
▪️ No Play Services = no QR scan = locked out.

The bigger picture:
▪️ Google already tried this in 2023. It was called Web Environment Integrity (WEI), and it would have let Google decide which devices were "real enough" to access the web. Standards bodies and the public pushed back hard, and Google killed it. Three years later, the same idea is back, just hidden behind a QR code instead of a browser feature.
▪️ reCAPTCHA runs on millions of websites. Every developer who keeps using it is now, by default, telling deGoogled Android users they're not welcome...

[tender @tenderizzation]

a fascinating phenomenon is that the further away a computer is from earth, the less memory it uses

this is why datacenters in space are a big deal