Dan Gillmor

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2026-10-29 04:48:46 UTC

Another grand jury says no to another Trumpist prosecutor's abuse of the legal system. https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/grand-jury-declines-indict-former-trump-aide-cassidy-hutchinson-jan-6-rcna603233
It's essential that the public -- potential jurors and grand jurors -- be educated that they can say no to corrupt prosecutors, and serve justice.

2026-10-29 00:05:00 UTC

Dave was one of the greats, as an innovator, teacher, connector, etc. Most of all he was a great human being.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/521/265/786/614/817/original/7c7330bf95193d20.jpg

2026-10-27 05:42:16 UTC

Trump world has systematically gerrymandered, cheated, and more to rig the mid-term elections for the Republicans. Some of their gambits have been blocked. Some -- maybe a lot -- are working as planned.
Journos: We need a comprehensive explainer of how much they've done, and what impact it's had.

2026-10-27 02:34:14 UTC

The profit-seeking scumbags who attack hospital IT systems are guilty of at least attempted murder, among other things. https://www.kob.com/news/top-news/apparent-computer-hacking-attack-hits-unm-hospital/

2026-10-24 16:28:11 UTC

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 67,595: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/us/politics/in-us-gas-talks-with-kremlin-hidden-financing-for-alaska-project-emerges.html?unlocked_article_code=1.LFE.Mrou.Zkk3LRCYlnHi&smid=url-share
A tale of oil & gas, Trump family/crony ties to Putin, and more.

2026-10-23 04:43:07 UTC

Remember when Google gave a damn about the environment (or at least pretended to)? No pretenses anymore, it seems: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2026/oct/22/finland-google-felling-trees-datacentre

2026-10-23 04:00:36 UTC

Trump regime's ICE thugs killed two people in Minnesota and is stonewalling the state's investigators who want vital information about what the ICE "officers" behaved. https://apnews.com/article/renee-good-alex-pretti-evidence-immigration-d18378b40675bb107f9c2d519c2b9853

2026-10-23 02:46:18 UTC

The Roberts Court, an arm of Trump and the Republican Party, just did its best to tip New Hampshire's Senate election to the Republicans. Flagrant abuse of power, which is the norm at this point for this corrupt court. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/10/22/us/politics/supreme-court-new-hampshire-election-student-id.html

2026-10-22 17:15:44 UTC

The right-wing owners of Scientific American, once the pillar of science writing, have ruined the publication's content and reputation. An incredibly sad situation: https://www.thenation.com/article/society/scientific-american-springer-nature-trump/

2026-10-20 18:32:41 UTC

Using Firefox? Update immediately: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2026/10/20/protecting-firefox-users-following-the-compromise-of-emudhra-intermediate-certificates/

2026-10-20 16:57:21 UTC

In new web UI here, how do I find the posts that are getting high shares (I forget what that was called in the older UI)?

2026-10-20 15:41:11 UTC

Just realized Google was recording my phone calls on my older Pixel phone. I'm 99% certain that I didn't set it to record calls, so this likely happened during an update of the calling app. Even if the recordings were local only (which I can't determine so far), I'm not happy about this.

2026-10-19 20:43:43 UTC

Is anyone ever going to make a good 7-8" android tablet again? (Rhetorical question...)

2026-10-19 18:54:31 UTC

Marc Andressen portrayal in Bloomberg's Business Week magazine shows him to be not just a nasty character but also a dishonest one. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-10-15/how-ai-crypto-and-dei-drove-marc-andreessen-to-maga?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc5MjQzNTg1MiwiZXhwIjoxNzkzMDQwNjUyLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUTVhZRElWVFRDWlAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBQjUxRjdCOUYxODk0NjBCOEE2RDU3NUM5QUQzOUUzQyJ9.gu59CBo0KsJrx_HiVBpLojho5OoOzWbDNq8934JPxk8
Excellent reporting...

2026-10-17 23:13:28 UTC

I try to suppress my contempt for the "news" organizations that fell for Musk's "flying car" con. But I fail. Almost everything that is wrong with journalism is embedded in that coverage of nothing real.

2026-10-17 21:40:16 UTC

Trifecta: Meta screwed with the accounts of the non-fascist Brazilian presidential candidate: https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/meta-employees-said-lulas-accounts-were-hindered-during-brazil-election-folha-2026-10-16/
The American tech oligarchs are completely beyond control at this point. They need to be stepped on, hard and soon.

2026-10-17 21:14:53 UTC

Meanwhile, Larry Ellison and his pals have locked out of TikTok the account promoting the new, scathing documentary about Elon Musk.
Big (Tech) Media is on a censorship rampage aimed to shut down the critics of the escalating right-wing extremism.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politics-news/musk-movie-tiktok-banned-theaters-showtimes-1236734308/

2026-10-16 20:54:42 UTC

All corruption in Trump world crypto connections, Exhibit 65,020: https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-111/
Latest newsletter from Molly White, who covers this stuff better than anyone else.

2026-10-16 20:31:35 UTC

News stories about the weird and corrupt Kimberly Guilfoyle all seem to mention that she was Trump Jr.'s fiance but don't mention that she was married to Gavin Newsom.
Both are relevant or neither is relevant. (Both are.)

2026-10-15 17:46:42 UTC

When a CEO is spreading ridiculous-sounding claims that he refuses to back up with, you know, evidence -- here's a prime example -- there is a journalistic responsibility not to play along. Spoiler: Journalists almost ALWAYS play along, because lol clicks.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/446/174/444/785/515/original/1722c6823bb0b235.png

2026-10-12 20:53:50 UTC

I don't stop respecting people because they decide they have to return to X/Twitter because "that's where the people are" -- but I do respect them a bit less.

2026-10-10 01:46:30 UTC

Ordered a new laptop battery from IFixIt. It was below spec out of the box and after calibration. I told them and provided backing data. They said, Sorry! We're sending you a replacement! No need to return the one we sent; just dispose of it carefully.
Now you know why I trust IFixIt.

2026-10-03 03:00:12 UTC

The pro-crypto legislation didn't pass after all, and some of the credit for this surely must go to Molly White (@nprofile…9g8s). She is without question doing the best, most relentless coverage of that irredeemably slimy and corrupt industry -- joined at the hip with the irredeemably corrupt Trump world. And there's ample evidence that her work informs the debate in a significant way.

2026-10-02 05:30:41 UTC

A carpenter friend in California told me today that the price of copper has gone through the roof -- e.g. $100 for a short section of pipe. He said the data centers are hoovering up raw materials in such a frenzy that the cost of essentially all construction materials is insane. I haven't seen any coverage of this angle (apart from IT hardware) in the media, but I guarantee that regular folks have noticed. More Trump-caused damage, and the worst is ahead of us, not behind.

2026-09-30 01:07:46 UTC

Filled out an online form, and to get a copy of my answers I am required to sign into Microsoft. Hell, no. One more reason I despise the greedy control freaks who run Big Tech at this point.

2026-09-28 06:17:47 UTC

More and more it looks like the big "AI" companies are ripping off their customers. It's the American way, of course, but this stuff looks egregious -- and it's going to push people with common sense toward the open-source local models. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/27/science/anthropic-biology-enzyme-mestre.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EVE.e8Mn._lRdB19pQprE

2026-09-27 23:29:01 UTC

The past tells you a lot about the future: Larry Ellison and his nepo-mogul son have a long record of making promises they don't keep. https://www.levernews.com/the-ellisons-have-made-this-movie-before/?ref=lever-weekly-newsletter

2026-09-26 02:23:06 UTC

The tech oligarchs are rallying around Elon Musk to block a filmmaker from advertising a deeply reported documentary that lays bare what a slimy -- and dangerous -- person Musk is. https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/digital/elon-musk-documentary-trailer-rejected-tiktok-youtube-1236710259/
(Meanwhile, Corporate Journalism continues to support him. Of course.)

2026-09-26 01:19:18 UTC

All corruption, all the time in Trump world: U.S. taxpayers are footing the bill for Trump-praising advertisements running on right-wing media. It's a transfer of our money to media scumbags that are effectively part of the regime. https://abcnews.com/Politics/trump-administrations-campaign-style-ad-fox-news-taxpayer/story?id=136723829&utm_source=www.status.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=paramount-s-closing-path

2026-09-23 23:56:12 UTC

Susan Collins isn't just a pretend-moderate Republican who's supported almost every catastrophic Trump policy and nominee (including all the current radical-right Supreme Court "justices"). She's also corrupt as hell. https://www.propublica.org/article/fbi-susan-collins-navatek-campaign-donations-investigation?ref=levernews.com
Fine reporting, as usual, from ProPublica.

2026-09-23 00:55:33 UTC

Today's "AI" uh-oh: I was inquiring with two chatbots (Claude and Gemini) about best techniques -- to the extent possible -- for removing data from an SSD I plan to sell. Both of them suggested command line (Linux) scripts that would have erased my main laptop drive.
Oh sure I trust this stuff...

2026-09-23 00:01:24 UTC

Ridiculous spam of the day warns me that "Every month you live with tinnitus [ringing in the ears], roughly 3% of your brain cells die off."
If so, I've been making do with roughly zero brain cells for at least 30 years. A miracle!

2026-09-21 02:05:16 UTC

Serial liars like Trump and his apparatchiks have a huge advantage over people who tell the truth, because they can count on journalists to parrot the lies in their coverage, thereby giving equal weight to reality and bullshit. Example: Trump spokesperson quote in this story: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/alan-ritchson-jack-reacher-novel-die-trying-1236870453/

2026-09-21 01:21:00 UTC

This is a worthy essay about the "This isn't who we are" trope, involving a white Texas businessman who suddenly awoke -- when it affected him and his fiance -- to our fascist reality. (The piece is somewhat repetitive, but I recommend it anyway.) https://www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter#/share

2026-09-21 00:31:42 UTC

If you use Fastmail for your email, you can now select to have your data reside in the EU rather than the US. If a nation state is out to spy on you, this won't fix much. But it does add a layer of surveillance protection in some ways. https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/16796454162063-Choosing-your-data-residency#howtoswitch

2026-09-11 04:43:28 UTC

Con man Musk is one of our age's most monumental sleazes, and his hugely deceptive -- and dangerous to your privacy-- "votesafe" website is just one more egregious example. https://popular.info/p/the-hidden-dangers-of-musks-votesafeorg

2026-09-07 01:04:38 UTC

If you support "age verification" online, you are supporting a system that GUARANTEES privacy meltdowns -- endangering all of us -- because the giant databases of scanned IDs are perpetually hacked by criminals who sell private data. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/

2026-09-06 06:20:29 UTC

Google has become an enemy of the open web, and it's increasingly locking down Android to dominate (with Apple) mobile computing. https://keepandroidopen.org/ A once-principled company gets more and more control-freakish, for money and power.
Nothing Google does now is surprising, just predictable.

2026-09-04 00:18:44 UTC

The Trump regime routinely ignores and/or breaks laws it doesn't care for. Republicans in Congress routinely approve of the lawbreaking. Judges often say no, but don't enforce their rulings. And the press says "So interesting how they break the law..." https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/03/us/politics/trump-triumphal-arch-plans-approval.html

2026-08-30 11:35:18 UTC

https://newrepublic.com/post/214832/texas-suspended-1-million-voters-ahead-senate-race This is how the Republicans will win in Texas: prevent Democrats from voting. Criminals at work.

2026-08-28 06:54:40 UTC

Trump regime's despotism grows and grows. Banning a secure email service is just the latest step. https://reason.com/2026/08/27/rubio-uses-terrorism-law-to-ban-secure-email-service/

2026-08-28 06:50:24 UTC

If you trust your data to a company like Microsoft, you are gambling with your future, as a slew of nonprofits discovered to their horror.
https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html

2026-08-28 05:46:34 UTC

Brian Krebs does an awesome job covering security issues, and his latest post is an example. Brilliant reporting.
#nevent1q…ujek

2026-08-27 05:33:56 UTC

Governments want nothing more than to control what people say and read and hear online, and corporate monopolists are their natural allies. So the "kid safety settlement" by Facebook and states is going to be disastrous for everyone who cares about free speech. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/26/meta-just-paid-nearly-17-billion-to-make-sure-it-gets-to-write-the-kid-safety-rules-for-every-other-social-media-platform/

2026-08-25 02:07:48 UTC

Some of Lenovo's Motorola phones will come with security-minded GrapheneOS pre-installed. This is something of a breakthrough. https://www.androidpolice.com/privacy-focused-grapheneos-to-launch-on-motorola-flagship-phones-in-2027/

2026-08-24 00:39:17 UTC

Top House Democrat perfectly demonstrates his party's strategy: Surrender in advance.
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/117/147/694/351/340/488/original/2aa3fccc6244a72e.png

2026-08-24 00:28:07 UTC

This so-called "expert" witness in a liability trial used AI to create a supposed report on behalf of his corporate client. If there's any justice in the world, he's discredited himself forever as an expert -- and the company's lawyers (who lost the case) should be punished. https://www.404media.co/show-how-3m-is-0-at-fault-expert-witness-used-chatgpt-to-write-report-defending-company-in-deadly-explosion-lawsuit/?ref=weekly-roundup-newsletter

2026-08-21 00:26:54 UTC

The Fairphone 6+ looks like exactly what I want to buy for my next smartphone, except that I won't be able to use GrapheneOS on it. The combination of those two would be awesome, though it's not likely to happen, unfortunately.

2026-08-20 02:27:01 UTC

NY Times columnist Tom Edsall gets into some details about Trump's massive corruption. But the headline downplays it to "conflict of interest" -- albeit a huge one. And the piece bends over backwards to be "fair" to the most corrupt administration in history.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/opinion/trump-family-crypto-conflict-of-interest.html?unlocked_article_code=1.6lA.t5r3.263N3KwtxA7U&smid=url-share

2026-08-20 02:16:31 UTC

Major new taxes on billionaires should be a bipartisan political campaign stance. But only a portion of one of the two major parties comes even close to this position. And the other party wants to help the ultra-rich loot the rest of us even more. https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/confiscate-their-money

2026-08-19 05:47:40 UTC

ICE and Customs/Border Patrol are criminal organizations, top to bottom. Department of Homeland Security leadership invites and supports that criminal culture. https://www.forever-wars.com/the-sex-criminals-and-child-abusers-of-ice-and-cbp/

2026-08-18 09:51:09 UTC

Israel's ethic cleansing continues, West Bank edition: https://us18.campaign-archive.com/?e=2ecec3dd0d&u=d3bceadb340d6af4daf1de00d&id=c30ea68299

2026-08-18 03:49:25 UTC

Another day, another Trump public attack on a female journalist.
Also another day when the rest of the White House press corps -- not just the right-wing propagandists but also the "reputable" journos -- pretends it didn't happen. What a bunch of cowards these people are.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/17/white-house-personal-attack-cnn-reporter-trump

2026-08-18 02:34:32 UTC

Scientists cave in to the Trump regime's war on a human-livable climate: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/climate/national-academies-climate-chapter-judges.html
The continuing cowardice of major institutions in our society is a key reason we're in so much trouble.

2026-08-15 04:53:16 UTC

Just one more reason why you should at all costs avoid doing business with Elon Musk's companies. https://www.hamiltonnolan.com/p/corporate-power-approaches-escape

2026-08-15 00:09:08 UTC

Some public-spirited vandals sprayed foam on Flock cameras. The police asked for help in IDing who did it, but "North Carolina commenters are not lining up to snitch" -- keep in mind that his is happening in a very right-wing area. https://thenerdstash.com/north-carolina-mocks-hunt-for-flock-camera-vandals-after-lenses-are-blasted-with-expanding-foam-like-anyone-will-help-on-this/

2026-08-14 05:10:16 UTC

I think I need to replace Bitwarden as my password manager. It's been getting worse and the last update introduced a super-annoying bug.
Recommendations? (Not 1Password, please.)

2026-08-14 02:55:24 UTC

Of all the corrupt things Trump has done, this is in the top 3 most disgusting and crooked -- wiping out law enforcement's ability to track the money launderers who are helping the worst criminals (Trump and his friends included, no doubt) hide their ill-gotten wealth. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/trumps-gift-to-the-money-launderers-database-treasury?utm_campaign=email-post&r=48bbnm&utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email

2026-08-11 23:56:35 UTC

A reminder that the journalists whom Trump served up as assassination decoys are the same ones who invited him to their fancy dinner and applauded him after a speech in which he taunted them.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/11/trump-air-force-one-deception-democrats

2026-08-11 02:55:34 UTC

The Trump regime is rolling loaded dice -- loaded against the rest of us -- in its handling of bird flu. This could end up killing millions of people, and at this point you have to ask whether it's their intention. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/rfk-jr-wants-to-let-bird-flu-spread-on-poultry-farms-why-experts-are/

2026-08-07 07:01:44 UTC

Capital One has never been what I'd call an admirable financial institution, but when it all but calls Trump a mega money launderer, you'd think that would be a bigger deal deserving more than a few no-big-deal-right stories (like this): https://abcnews.com/US/capital-closed-hundreds-trumps-bank-accounts-2021-anti/story?id=135273257

2026-08-07 00:01:38 UTC

"When Thiel, Musk, Zuckerberg and Andreessen mine science fiction for blueprints, they are not finding the only possible futures. They are selecting the futures that justify their power."
https://aeon.co/essays/silicon-valley-has-a-science-fiction-problem?ref=life-in-the-21st-century.ghost.io

2026-08-06 07:49:33 UTC

The AI companies are basically bragging -- "Oops, whoops!" -- about their LLMs hacking and damaging other companies' IT infrastructure. These are federal felonies when committed by humans. LLMs are created and programmed by humans. Why no prosecutions? Because the AI guys own Trump?

2026-08-04 04:41:36 UTC

Politico has become right-wing mouthpiece, and nowhere is that clearer than its crusade to make much more of New Jersey's voter registration goof's than it remotely deserves. Pathetic, but that's Politico under right-wing ownership. https://www.democracydocket.com/analysis/legacy-medias-embarrassing-feeding-frenzy-on-new-jersey-voter-registration-error/?utm_campaign=13200977-Free%20Newsletter%20Emails&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=430946188&utm_content=430946188&utm_source=hs_email

2026-08-02 05:32:33 UTC

Ed Zitron has been on this for a long time, but good to see that the NY Times finally is digging into Silicon Valley OG Larry Ellison's sleazeball ways -- and his prop-up-Oracle-stock-until-it-crashes bets on AI.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/magazine/larry-ellison-ai-oracle.html

2026-08-02 03:10:28 UTC

Journalism's latest evergreen story: "Trump says deal is close to end Iran war" -- and headlines like these run routinely, and almost never do news outlets bother to mention that he's said this again and again and it's never been true. At least not yet.
Big Journalism genuinely doesn't get it.

2026-07-31 09:18:24 UTC

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 67,444: Trump Jr is investor in right-wing high-school dropout's company that was invited to bid on -- and needless to say won -- State Department contract. https://finance.yahoo.com/economy/policy/articles/high-school-dropout-hiring-diplomats-115826555.html

2026-07-30 00:02:07 UTC

"Worse on Purpose" is great. It focuses on consumer products, and their relentless decline in quality as brands get absorbed by enshittification-happy financial manipulators.
But the site also tells you who's NOT wrecking things -- who you can still trust. https://www.worseonpurpose.com/
(I'm a donor.)

2026-07-29 05:34:40 UTC

I never, ever use apps if there is a web mobile version...Apps give corporations control over you.
#nevent1q…j0j4

2026-07-29 02:19:32 UTC

Meta/Facebook/Instagram/etc makes a deal with Newsmax to use the latter's right-wing spewings as AI training data, thereby ensuring that anyone looking for even remotely accurate output from the Ai is on a fool's errand: https://ir.newsmax.com/news/news-details/2026/Newsmax-and-Meta-Enter-AI-Content-Partnership-/default.aspx?utm_source=www.status.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=bari-s-new-60-slate

2026-07-27 04:42:07 UTC

A hero for our authoritarian times: https://www.cltampa.com/news/a-77-year-old-republican-man-is-staging-a-solo-protest-against-st-petes-flock-cameras/

2026-07-27 01:24:11 UTC

Status is my media newsletter of choice. I pay for it. (Not cheap but it goes on sale periodically.) This piece, which you can read if you give them an email address, helps explain why I pay. It calls the White House correspondents' dinner with Trump what it was: a disgrace. https://www.status.news/p/the-white-house-correspondents-disgrace?utm_source=www.status.news&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=the-white-house-correspondents-disgrace

2026-07-25 07:19:07 UTC

Musk's Tesla modified contracts with customers -- without the customers' permission -- long after they were signed. How does this differ from outright fraud? https://electrek.co/2026/06/03/tesla-retroactively-modified-fsd-contracts-supervised/

2026-07-24 01:59:39 UTC

From the reliably excellent @nprofile…9g8s:
Crypto barons spent >$200 billion since 2024 to buy a friendly Congress. They got "a bill too corrupt for Democrats to pass, a Republican majority too cowardly to rein in the president, and a president who won’t sign anything that meaningfully threatens his $1.4 billion-a-year grift."
https://www.citationneeded.news/issue-107/

2026-07-23 02:46:11 UTC

R.I.P. John Dvorak, one of the most influential tech journalists and commentators. I'll miss his amiable crankiness.

2026-07-23 00:30:11 UTC

Example of a graphic that is almost indecipherable.
#nevent1q…ejz8

2026-07-22 09:24:00 UTC

It's essential that people understand the flagrant contempt for law that Elon Musk demonstrates on an ongoing basis. A current example: dozens of fossil fuel generating turbines with no permits and poisonously placed near black communities. https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/pollution-musks-unpermitted-xai-power-project-hits-hardest-black-communities-2026-07-14/
#pitchforks

2026-07-22 05:06:18 UTC

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, exhibit 64,003: https://www.levernews.com/the-winklevoss-twins-gave-trump-10-million-after-regulatory-win/

2026-07-21 04:47:25 UTC

The New York Times has (somewhat belatedly) discovered that Google is an enemy of the open Internet. This is an important piece, because the Times still is an agenda-setter in journalism.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/20/technology/google-ai-open-web.html
(Google spokes-parrot denies it all, of course.)

2026-07-18 00:07:09 UTC

AI companies and Amazon are inviting bogus "authors" to publish bogus books about real people.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/16/technology/ai-slop-books-biography-amazon.html

2026-07-16 23:05:00 UTC

More details from the excellent @nprofile…0jjs on how police use, and often abuse, the odious Flock surveillance cameras in ways that I guarantee most people are not aware of.
https://www.404media.co/how-cops-use-flock-to-track-people-not-cars/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

2026-07-16 02:23:01 UTC

Right-to-repair people are celebrating what they claim is a pathbreaking agreement by John Deere, the rapacious and unethical tractor maker, to stop monopolizing repairs. Matt Stoller says it all may be yet another scam on farmers (and the rest of us): https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/youll-own-nothing-and-be-happy-why

2026-07-14 09:57:15 UTC

Just hit 60,000 followers here, and I want to express my appreciation to the ones who are real people!

2026-07-12 05:08:06 UTC

Surveillance monger Flock doesn't just mislead people when it's pushing communities to install its invasive cameras and software. In many cases, the ACLU explains, it lies through its corporate teeth even to city governments. https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/tracking-alpr-cameras/flock-safety-credibility-lost-as-it-repeatedly-lies-to-city-councils-police-departments-and-public-across-the-country
Tell your local government not to use Flock.

2026-07-11 13:02:32 UTC

You'd think that by now the bosses at the New York Times would have recognized that Trump is at war with them, and journalism. But it's clear that they do not, because they mostly continue to normalize and give both-sides treatment to this malevolent regime. It's sickening. https://apnews.com/article/trump-nyt-air-force-one-qatari-jet-e2c798a95a1e41077d2cae969774df91

2026-07-11 08:06:45 UTC

The Trump regime's all-out war on fair elections -- spanning myriad tactic and agencies, often blatantly illegally -- should be a front-and-center preoccupation of every American journalism organization. At best we're getting episodic coverage. ProPublica gets it. https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-midterm-elections-takeover-takeaways

2026-07-10 05:03:17 UTC

Every federal prosecutor who's involved in cases like this -- blatant abuse of the legal system to punish people who've done nothing wrong except annoy the regime -- should end up disbarred. Losing these bogus cases isn't nearly enough to punish such flagrant misconduct.
https://newrepublic.com/post/212886/doj-pirro-loses-first-ask-reflecting-pool-vandalism-case-david-hearn?utm_campaign=SF_TNR&utm_medium=social&utm_source=Threads

2026-07-10 01:06:04 UTC

Huge amount of "long-form" posts on LinkedIn and exTwitter is AI spam. We are being drowned in slop, and the big platforms are fine with that.
https://www.404media.co/linkedin-and-x-are-flooded-with-ai-spam-browsing-data-suggests/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

2026-07-10 00:22:06 UTC

In Japan, Amazon and other online retailers are recommending fraudulent Chinese thumb drives to customers. https://asia.nikkei.com/business/electronics/teardown-of-cheap-usb-drives-shows-storage-capacity-faked-via-microsd-card?utm_campaign=GL_JP_update&utm_source=NA_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=article_link&del_type=4&pub_date=202607100700000900&seq_num=16&si=11938

2026-07-09 07:27:49 UTC

In all circumstances like these, is is VITAL to assume that the Trump regime and its thugs are lying. https://www.thebulwark.com/p/he-lived-here-for-35-years-put-three-kids-in-college-ice-killed-jim-lorenzo-salgado-araujo
At this point, the burden should be on the regime -- which has systematically shredded all credibility -- to prove it's telling the truth.

2026-07-08 04:36:55 UTC

The International Olympic Committee has been in a perpetual contest with FIFA, the football governing body, for Most Corrupt status. The IOC is making a bid to outpace FIFA here.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/jul/07/ioc-lifts-suspension-russia-compete-la-2028-olympics

2026-07-08 04:33:37 UTC

Trump family corruption is matter-of-fact -- essentially, they brag about it. The countless suckers holding the bag? They should have known what they were getting into, of course, and they are prime candidates for being fleeced again, if they have an money left.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/04/us/politics/trump-coin-crypto-investors-loss.html?unlocked_article_code=1.wFA.bg11.PUmm9XbkZhMm&smid=url-share

2026-07-08 00:53:53 UTC

New Jersey judge needs remedial education to understand the First Amendment. He should be removed from the bench for this total abuse of power.
https://pressfreedomtracker.us/all-incidents/new-jersey-newspaper-ordered-to-unpublish-video-put-under-gag-order/

2026-07-06 05:09:04 UTC

FIFA was already one of the most corrupt major sports organizations on the planet. Given that, doing Trump's bidding by revoking the US player's red card is not exactly surprising...

2026-07-04 03:02:06 UTC

All corruption, all the time in Trump world, Exhibit 56,440: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/03/us/politics/trump-pardon-clean-air-act.html?unlocked_article_code=1.vFA.cfa8.vKWDkWI5UCIm&smid=url-share
Journalists cover (some) of the individual cases, but never even attempt to put them in context: namely, that this is by orders of magnitude the most corrupt administration in U.S. history. All trees, no forest.

2026-07-03 01:01:21 UTC

Journalists: Your "tip lines" for whistleblowers need absolutely relentless attention to security. The Intercept's apparent failure here is horrifying -- and dangerous. https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/intercept-signal-tip-line-breach-hack

2026-07-01 23:56:55 UTC

To say that Trump world corruption is unprecedented is to vastly understate what is going on. This family, administration, and co-conspirators are the very definition of kleptocratic sleaze. Who's losing? His greedy, misinformed supporters. https://www.citationneeded.news/trumps-crypto-disclosure/

2026-06-30 08:30:06 UTC

Ireland is a wholly owned lapdog of Big Tech -- taking advantage of a cynical system that enriches one tiny nation at the expense of everyone else, especially in the US and the EU. It's pure corruption. Why do the many, many losers in this arrangement let it go on? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/30/ireland-big-tech-lapdog-eu-presidency-digital-sovereignty

2026-06-28 07:17:52 UTC

Increasingly clear that Reddit -- a site that can be useful but is also riddled with BS -- is one of the major sources, by its own choice, for the "AI" sites. Moreover, as people have learned to game the system by deliberately adding BS to Reddit, everything is getting worse. Not good.

2026-06-27 12:36:00 UTC

Larry Ellison, OG right-wing Silicon Valley billionaire jerk, and a few of his pals now control Tik Tok in the U.S. One guess how they're handling political videos. Yep.
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/the-weekender/tiktok-doesnt-want-us-to-talk-about-the-news