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It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. Since big media’s journalism wing is flailing and failing in its core duty to democracy, this is also a collection of alternative reporting on the eternal battle between autocracy and democracy. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can’t be free without safety and privacy.<\/p>\n
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FYI, my opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros. And fascists. Fuck ’em.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Next week I will be on holiday so there won’t be an issue. I will probably boost some things on the Fediverse<\/a> though.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DevCollaborative writes:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Trump administration and its supporters are attacking dissenting views on a terrifying scale. With so much of online communications compromised and censored, independent websites are a critical piece of social movement infrastructure that we need to promote and defend.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n If your nonprofit has a website, you are part of this essential communications work.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n There are looming threats of financially independent nonprofits being censored under the guise of fighting \u201cterrorism\u201d or \u201csedition.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Protecting Nonprofit Websites from a Hostile Government<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n We start and end with good news to make the middle bearable.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Time has a profile:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n How Signal President Meredith Whittaker Took on Signal-Gate<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Register reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Proton bashes Apple and joins antitrust suit that seeks to throw the App Store wide open<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Huawei can’t wriggle out of Iran sanctions trial, judge rules<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Wikidata: Attempting to bridge FOSS ideals and direct democracy<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tara Tarakiyee explores:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Digital Sovereignty in Practice: Web Browsers as a Reality Check<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TechPolicy reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n EU Disinformation Code Takes Effect Amid Censorship Claims and Trade Tensions<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TechCrunch reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n EU says it will continue rolling out AI legislation on schedule<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Politico reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The first American \u2018scientific refugees\u2019 arrive in France<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n BleepingComputer reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Hikvision Canada ordered to cease operations over security risks<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Germany asks Google, Apple to remove DeepSeek AI from app stores<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Raconteur has:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u2018You need to be a little bit crazy\u2019: Nextcloud CEO on confronting the hyperscalers<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Nextclound reports on:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why organizations migrate from Microsoft 365 in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TechCrunch reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ICEBlock, an app for anonymously reporting ICE sightings, goes viral overnight after Bondi criticism<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ars Technica reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meta, TikTok can\u2019t toss wrongful death suit from mom of \u201csubway surfing\u201d teen<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ted Cruz plan to punish states that regulate AI shot down in 99-1 vote<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Markup has more:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n State AI regulations safe after Senate strips moratorium from \u2018big, beautiful bill\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n MIT Technology Review reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cloudflare will now, by default, block AI bots from crawling its clients\u2019 websites<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Cloudfare has the details:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Control content use for AI training with Cloudflare\u2019s managed robots.txt and blocking for monetized content<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The crawl before the fall\u2026 of referrals: understanding AI\u2019s impact on content providers<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n CNBC reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The AI-boom\u2019s multi-billion dollar blind spot: Reasoning models hitting a wall<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dries Buyaert (of Drupal fame) writes:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The web’s broken deal with AI companies<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dries, you say you may be naive. You are if you think anything other than politics (regulation or huge boycotts) are going to fix the problem.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Guardian opines:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Peter Thiel\u2019s Palantir poses a grave threat to Americans<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TechDirt reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Supreme Court Cripples FCC Further, Making Robocall Enforcement Likely Impossible<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Supreme C^nts strike again.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Guardian reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Trump officials create searchable national citizenship database<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TechPolicy reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Countering the Politics of Deservingness in the Fight for Digital Equity<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n How US Firms Are Weakening the EU AI Code of Practice<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TechCrunch reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n US government takes down major North Korean \u2018remote IT workers\u2019 operation<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n DarkReading reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Scope, Scale of Spurious North Korean IT Workers Emerges<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Silver Fox Suspected in Taiwanese Campaign Using DeepSeek Lure<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Russian APT ‘Gamaredon’ Hits Ukraine With Fierce Phishing<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Kyiv Independent reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n US sanctions Russian IT company Aeza Group over ransomware operations<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The PressGazette reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n How SFGATE is making local news pay and filling California\u2019s news gaps<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ars Technica reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NYT to start searching deleted ChatGPT logs after beating OpenAI in court<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Torment Nexus reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Why Substack shouldn’t be the future of online publishing<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n CNN reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n After settling with Trump, CBS News staffers fear what comes next<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n There are cowards, and then there are cowardly c^nts.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TechPolicy reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tech Oligarchs and the Rise of Silicon Valley Pronatalism<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Guardian reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fears AI factcheckers on X could increase promotion of conspiracy theories<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ars Technica reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Everything that could go wrong with X\u2019s new AI-written community notes<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google\u2019s Veo 3<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Android Authority reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n You’re not alone: This email from Google’s Gemini team was concerning (Updated: Google statement)<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Open Web Advocacy reports on:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Google’s Hotseat Hypocrisy<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Tuta asks:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n “Sovereign cloud” or “sovereign washing”? A Trojan Horse at Europe’s digital gates.<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Electronic Frontier Foundation reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Flock Safety\u2019s Feature Updates Cannot Make Automated License Plate Readers Safe<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Register reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren’t AI at all<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n AI models just don’t understand what they’re talking about<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Verge reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Facebook is starting to feed its AI with private, unpublished photos<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TechCrunch reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meta users say paying for Verified support has been useless in the face of mass bans<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TechCrunch reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Meta has found another way to keep you engaged: Chatbots that message you first<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I guess if you are amoral enough to use Meta products and you are a moron who talks to AI, this is what you deserve.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n PC Gamer reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ‘AI is no longer optional’: Microsoft is allegedly pressuring employees to use AI tools through manager evaluations<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Verge asks:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n How vulnerable is critical infrastructure to cyberattack in the US?<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bleeping Computer reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n FBI: Cybercriminals steal health data posing as fraud investigators<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n BleepingComputer reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Spain arrests hackers who targeted politicians and journalists<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Connected Places has:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Fediverse Report \u2013 #123<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mastodon has:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mastodon 4.4 for Developers<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Dead Superher looks at:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Mitigating the “7 Deadly Fediverse UX Sins”<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Jaz-Michael King shares:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Digital Belonging: Why Language and Locality Matter<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Viger has:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Flipboard Surf<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TechCrunch reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Automattic puts Tumblr migration to WordPress on hold<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Ghost has:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The Longformers: Ghost, WordPress, Flipboard, Fediverse<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n NodeBB asks:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n What drew you to ActivityPub?<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Longform content has the best chance to grow the Fediverse, IMHO.<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n IT Notes shares:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n FediMeteo: How a Tiny \u20ac4 FreeBSD VPS Became a Global Weather Service for Thousands<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Forgejo has its:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Forgejo monthly report – June 2025<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n ActivityPub for WordPress announces:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n HTTP Signature Upgrades Coming Soon<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n TechCrunch reports:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Not everyone is thrilled with Threads\u2019 DMs<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Preslav Rachev shares:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n From Outbound to Inbound and Back Again: The Hidden Power of RSS Feeds<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Great stuff. RSS is still my main curation source. So, get an RSS feed on your blog, handle, etc.<\/strong> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Connected Places has:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Bluesky Report \u2013 #123<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p><\/ul>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Keep fighting!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Welcome to this week’s \u201cDestroying Autocracy\u201d. It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. 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\n\nThe response to Russia\u2019s War Crimes, Techno Feudalism, and other douchebaggery<\/h2>\n
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\n\nThe Evil Empire (AKA Autocracy) Strikes Back<\/h2>\n
Pariah States<\/h3>\n
Big Media<\/h3>\n
Big Tech<\/h3>\n
\n\nCybersecurity\/Privacy<\/h2>\n
\n\nFediverse<\/h2>\n
RSS<\/h3>\n
Slightly Federated Social Media<\/h3>\n
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