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[Count Binface @CountBinface]

Any Clacton residents who want to nominate your friendly neighbourhood intergalactic space warrior, ping me a line!

[Peter Todd @peterktodd]

Remember: Chat Control requires your apps to not only detect and block suspected "illegal" content. When the closed-source AI detector trips, your data is secretly forwarded, unencrypted, to the government.

Obviously this is an _enormous_ and _easily_ exploited security hole.

[Gillian Branstetter @GBBranstetter]

After reporting he was raped while in ICE detention at Delaney Hall, a gay asylum seeker from Colombia (who is married to a US citizen) was transferred from the Delaney to a different facility in Mississippi with no explanation. Staff are also denying him his HIV medication.

[C Schmitz @chrisschmitz]

Für Laien möchte ich kurz, aber vollständig, erklären, warum der EU Child Sexual Abuse Regulation Act nur umsetzbar ist, wenn die EU umfassende Massenüberwachung für alle Bürger ausrollt:

Das Briefgeheimnis ist eines unserer ältesten Grundrechte: Niemand darf deine Post öffnen und lesen. Ohne richterlichen Beschluss nicht einmal die Polizei.

Im Digitalen heißt der Briefumschlag „Ende-zu-Ende-Verschlüsselung". Sie sorgt dafür, dass nur du und dein Gegenüber eine Nachricht lesen können – nicht der Anbieter, nicht Kriminelle, nicht der Staat.

Die EU weiß: Diesen Umschlag kann sie nicht verbieten. Also setzt die geplante „Chatkontrolle" (CSA-Verordnung) einen Schritt früher an. Nicht der verschlossene Brief soll geöffnet werden – dein eigenes Handy soll jede Nachricht und jedes Foto automatisch durchleuchten, BEVOR sie verschlüsselt werden.

Auf dem Papier bleibt das Briefgeheimnis unangetastet. Übersetzt heißt es aber: „Wir öffnen keine Briefe. Wir lesen nur alles mit, was du schreibst und fotografierst – bevor du es ins Kuvert steckst."

Und zwar anlasslos. Nicht bei Verdächtigen, per Richterbeschluss – sondern bei allen. Immer. Bei rund 450 Millionen Menschen.

Zur Einordnung: Selbst die Stasi musste Briefe einzeln über Wasserdampf öffnen. Eine Maschine, die automatisch jede private Zeile aller Bürger mitliest, noch bevor sie überhaupt abgeschickt ist – diese Möglichkeit hatte kein Überwachungsstaat der Geschichte, vielleicht aktuell nicht mal China.

Kinder zu schützen ist richtig und wichtig. Aber wer dafür die private Kommunikation aller Menschen unter Generalverdacht stellt, schafft keinen Schutz, sondern eine Überwachungsinfrastruktur – die jede spätere Regierung für beliebige Zwecke umnutzen kann.
Auch eine Regierung der SED oder AFD, liebe Union.

Erst Missbrauch, dann Terror, dann die falsche Meinung?
Zudem: wer sagt, dass man der EU diese Macht anvertrauen darf?
Der beste Beleg, dass man ihr nicht vertrauen darf, sind die aktuellen Pläne der Massenüberwachung.

Ein Briefgeheimnis mit eingebautem Mitleser ist keins.

[Not cool enough to be Zero Cool @osheame]

@ashwingop Are you not bullish on combining AI experiment design and analysis with virtual wet labs like https://t.co/bQrZKtuj8D?

[Samantha Power @SamanthaJPower]

Starting in early 2025, Elon Musk and the Trump administration began terminating USAID's programs and firing its staff — with Musk himself boasting about "feeding it into the woodchipper." One year ago today, USAID was officially dissolved, its remaining programs haphazardly folded into the State Department. Amid all the lies and misinformation that have followed, some facts about what has actually been lost:

• USAID saved more than 3 million lives a year at a cost of less than $10/month per American. That is what was destroyed. On purpose.
• According to Boston University's Global Impact Counter — which tracked deaths attributable to the cuts until it stopped operations in February 2026 — an estimated 781,000 people died preventable deaths in the first year, including 518,000 children.
• Global child mortality (the number of children who die before their fifth birthday) rose in 2025 for the first time in 35+ years — by 200,000 additional deaths.
• USAID's 50-country disease surveillance network — the system that cut outbreak response times from 2 weeks to 48 hours — is gone. We are now watching an unprecedented Ebola outbreak unfold in real time — with the highest first-month caseload and death rate in modern history.
• Programs reaching 93 million women and children were cut 92%. TB programs cut 56%. Water and sanitation cut 86%. Over 2,000 health facilities permanently closed.
• 25 million fewer people received humanitarian assistance in 2025. The overall humanitarian budget was slashed 74% — from $14.1 billion to $3.7 billion.
• 363 million people face acute hunger in 2026. The famine early-warning system that would have seen it coming went dark for five months.
• $1.7 billion in democracy and governance funding (election monitoring, anti-corruption work, support for independent media and civil society) was terminated.
• 360+ independent media outlets lost funding. Hundreds of legal clinics closed.
• Far from saving money, the Trump administration itself has already said the dismantlement will cost taxpayers at least $19.2 billion in cancellation fees, severance, and penalties. That's more than half of USAID's annual budget — spent on destruction and closeout, not support for vulnerable people.
• American farmers, universities, and businesses are among the casualties too. USAID partnered with more than 3,500 U.S. companies and maintained 17 university-based research labs. Its work with U.S.-based contractors and the private sector generated hundreds of thousands of American jobs and multiplied the return on every dollar spent. Those markets and partnerships are gone.

[SCOTUS Wire @scotus_wire]

🚨 The Supreme Court ruled that police conduct a Fourth Amendment search when they obtain data through a geofence warrant, holding that people have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their cell phone location data.

[Not cool enough to be Zero Cool @osheame]

@MSG_Rocking Gotta get to game 7 $$$

[Antonio Reynoso @BKBPReynoso]

If you're filing noise complaints against Brooklyn's oldest lesbian bar during Pride, you might be in the wrong neighborhood.

This has been a home for queer Brooklynites for 26 years. Ginger's deserves better.

[Not cool enough to be Zero Cool @osheame]

The Green Party clearly has an antisemitism problem

[Ben Phillips @benphillips76]

Sharing, without comment, British newspapers’ depictions of the only Jewish person currently leading a UK political party .

Times. Mail. Telegraph. Sun.

[adri ♡ @socialistadri]

TOM STEYER FINALLY SAID IT

[CAGE International @CAGEintl]

“I don't blame the jury for their decision as the truth was withheld from them..”

Jordan and Zoe of the Filton24 speak with conviction outside of Woolwich Crown Court after four of the first filton6 to start trial are convicted on charges of criminal damage.

It is a travesty of justice that Sam, Lottie, Ellie and Fatema Zainab were remanded today by a system which is complicit in genocide itself. Even the prosecution didn’t seek to remand them, but an arbitrary decision made by the judge.

The Filton24 acted to save lives with courage and compassion. And they should be celebrated.

Free the Filton 24

[Fahad Ansari 🇵🇸 (Stop the Gaza genocide) @fahadansari]

Rajiv Menon KC has been dragged before the court for contempt for

(1) Highlighting a case from 1670 which established beyond question the independence of the jury

(2) Reading out the inscription of a plaque at the Old Bailey commemorating the case, which states that it “established the right of juries to give their verdict according to their convictions”.

Every lawyer in the country should go on strike to protest this latest attempt to protect Israel by now sanctioning lawyers for doing their job.

[Democracy Docket @DemocracyDocket]

NEW: Following in Louisiana’s footsteps, Alabama tries to suspend its May congressional primaries to pass a new gerrymander before the midterms.

Both states’ response come after SCOTUS ruled to make it far more difficult for minority voters to prove in court that a map is racially discriminatory. https://t.co/8ogKQyx8Xv

[Marc E. Elias @marceelias]

How is this being treated as normal?

A Republican governor is declaring a state of emergency to cancel an ongoing election for Congress. If you think this is ends with redistricting, you are not paying attention.

[Not cool enough to be Zero Cool @osheame]

Enshittification x monopoly = SOL. There is no antitrust... only trust.

[Rio @RioStaysTrue]

I am currently being scammed for $3,300 while using @StubHub @TeamStubHub for tickets.

I bought my father (life-long Flyers fan) tickets to a SUITE for $3,300 for his birthday for Game Four this Saturday (tomorrow). The tickets were purchased Wednesday (prior to Game Three) and then subsequently transferred into my StubHub account, added to my apple wallet and available in Ticketmaster app (I have screen recordings of everything).

After the Flyers won game 3, tickets for Saturday in the same suite as mine skyrocketed to $2,000 a piece (I bought ours for $1,000 each). I immediately knew what was going to happen next. I got a notification Thursday afternoon saying my tickets had been added to a new apple wallet. The seller had transferred the tickets out of my possession to presumably re-sell them for more. I have now lost access to my tickets via StubHub, TicketMaster AND apple wallet.

In calling customer support, they confirmed the seller had transferred the tickets back and told me they have given the seller 24 hours to return the tickets. The problem? The game is in 26 hours. I’m supposed to wait 24 hours to see if the person who scams me gives me my tickets back? I was told this is a “protocol” and they cannot break the protocol. They also added that we would get comparable tickets or a refund within 24-48 hours if the tickets were never transferred back. The seller is on the west coast, which puts this time frame AFTER the game starts. Again, this was described as a protocol that cannot be broken. I asked if we could just fast track the comparable ticket protocol and get new seats now instead of waiting to see if the person who scammed us gives our tickets back in 24 hours, in which again I was told isn’t possible because of the protocol. The most likely outcome of resolution based off StubHubs’ protocol is going to be waiting 24 hours to see if the person who scammed me for $3,300 gives me the tickets back (which probably won’t happen as the tickets most likely have been already re-sold) and then given their protocol timeframe, we will only be able to get a refund as the game will have already started, so we cannot get comparable tickets.

I tried reaching out via DMs and replies in which they HID my reply under their post (see screenshot). I am beyond disappointed in the way this situation is being handled. I hope this can be resolved and my parents can enjoy a @NHLFlyers playoff game.

[Nick Offerman @Nick_Offerman]

•The U.S. Senate may hold a floor vote TODAY which would overturn a 20-year moratorium on sulfide-ore copper mining on 225,000 acres of Superior National Forest land in the watershed of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area (BWCA) Wilderness in northern Minnesota. The Boundary Waters is the most visited Wilderness in the United States. 

🛶 Enjoying the Minnesotan/Canadian wilderness by canoe or other lesser watercraft is one of our nations greatest available pastimes, and one I have personally enjoyed my entire life. We must protect these public lands from the rapacious capitalists threatening to turn them into a poisoned wasteland.

•This vote in Congress would open the door to copper mining at the headwaters of this entire ecosystem. This kind of mining produces toxic pollution, including acid runoff and heavy metals, that can contaminate nearby waters.

•The Boundary Waters supports a major outdoor economy that sustains thousands of jobs and generates over a billion dollars a year - built on clean water and intact public lands. But this vote would clear the way for toxic mining that puts all of that at risk. It would also set a dangerous precedent, making it easier to roll back protections for public lands across the country, including wilderness areas, national monuments, and national parks. 

•This is a defining moment. If you care about clean water, public lands, and protecting places we can’t replace, now is the time to speak up.
•Protect the Boundary Waters, and vote NO on House Joint Resolution 140. Let’s save this treasured place for all of us—forever. https://t.co/JhNAR6Za2O

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Today is Trans Day of Visibility.

Trans, non-binary, and gender-nonconforming people have always been here — from the hijra of India to the Diné nádleehi to the leaders who built the modern LGBTQIA+ movement here in New York.

Your existence is not up for debate. Your lives are not a political issue.

We’re fighting for a city where every trans New Yorker can live openly, safely, and with joy.

[Not cool enough to be Zero Cool @osheame]

All cops

[Jeff Charles, Asker of Questions🏴 @jeffcharlesjr]

Bruce McNeil went to a Buffalo Police Department precinct in 2019 to lodge a complaint against two officers who stopped him for no reason.

They handcuffed him and put him in the back of their patrol car. After searching his vehicle, they let him go.

Shortly after, McNeil went to lodge the complaint and was told he'd be arrested if he continued. The officers claimed they found crack cocaine in the back of their patrol car where they stashed McNeil during the search.

McNeil had no crack cocaine. The officers had planted it.

The prosecution tried to scare McNeil into accepting a plea deal – but he refused.

The prosecutors dropped the case because they didn't want to place the two officers under oath.

But it didn't stop there.

One of the officers pulled McNeil two more times and handcuffed him. "I heard you didn't accept the plea deal," he allegeldy told McNeil.

Now, the city is going to pay McNeil a $700,000 settlement.

But the officers involved are still employed even though they have had other complaints lodged against them for excessive force.

[Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project @OCCRP]

NEW INVESTIGATION: Europe’s largest refinery of alumina — the main raw material used to make aluminum — has been sending the majority of its exports to Russian smelters that feed into the supply chain of EU-sanctioned arms manufacturers.

Our new investigation with @istories_eng, KibOrg, @tijd, @IrishTimes, @guardian, @DelfiEE: https://t.co/90HEXUFApH