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Decentralization and privacy dev. He/Him Works @ Tor Project on Tor Browser Board @ Open Privacy Research Society Developer on Cwtch.im https://danballard.com @[email protected] cwtch:67ckzss7drn64k4z4lpcnyn2ivvmkeuho2yucqcgglw3ozcrmez2k3yd
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I am proud to announce ICE's new "Masks For Cowardly Lil' Babies" www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNNt...

submitted 5 days ago • 13 comments

I’m all for Canada getting closer to Europe, but if this is about diversifying trade, Canada needs to get serious about working more with Latin American and Asian countries, and that includes China.

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

A friend with a Pixel 9 (Android 15) cannot figure out how to turn off Google’s AI suggestion features, which are even colonizing Signal. They’ve tried every switch they can find. Any ideas?

submitted 17 days ago • 14 comments

My new oped: I moved to the U.S. in 2000 from Egypt and I've spent the past 25yrs watching the U.S. turn into Egypt. But no one is under any illusion that Egypt's dictator was freely and fairly elected. 77 million people freely and fairly elected Trump. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 23 days ago • 7 comments

Pierre Poilievre's Personal Assistant Reads His Concession Speech youtu.be/X-OU8eW2Dl0

submitted 20 days ago • 35 comments

General reaction to last night's results is relief it wasn't the bad outcome but not huge amount of celebration at what we did get. Which is where I'm at. Politics here has shifted right, is broken, and trouble. You can't keep having elections on a cliff's edge without eventually falling off

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

Watched my Canadian Election coverage on Twitch thanks to: @steveboots.bsky.social @mapletakes.bsky.social @rachelgilmore.bsky.social @theserfstv.bsky.social @clareblackwood.bsky.social @onetopic.bsky.social @parismarx.com @youcaughtscott.com

submitted 20 days ago • 1 comment

You can't create a bluesky starter pack that doesn't include the creator? So when I want to make a Start Pack for the Candian politics streamers who got together last night to cover the election, I'd have to be in that pack? incredible spectacular nonsense WTH

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

@onetopic.bsky.social hey it was great to see you on the election coverage stream tonight! was delighted you joined!

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

Both 🇦🇺 and 🇨🇦 are headed to the polls this week. Here's hoping for a positive outcome, for the sake of our planet and the people who live on it.

submitted 21 days ago • 9 comments

Don't guess any Canadians reading this have a Well Meaning Boomer parent that it would make sense to forward this CBC article to www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

submitted 29 days ago • 4 comments

@warframe.com I heard from the dev short you're looking for Party Of Your Lifetime covers, I saw this one a few weeks ago: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll7N...

submitted 33 days ago • 0 comments

This morning starting at talking about just the most incompetent work situation that i've heard about recently and ended up meandering into topics that have been sitting in the back of my head for a while and "coincidentally" were themes of my most recent reading www.danballard.com/2025/04/12/c...

submitted 36 days ago • 0 comments

So proud of Belgium! "Under a new law, sex workers will be entitled to official employment contracts, health insurance, pensions, maternity leave and sick days. Essentially, it will be treated like any other job" “It’s an opportunity for us to exist as people" www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 44 days ago • 11 comments

We need to talk about @rachelgilmore.bsky.social Our democracy is not going to make it without strong journalists. Let me begin by stating the obvious: these thoughts are mine alone. They do not speak for my employers. They are personal and, at this moment, angry. #cdnmedia tinyurl.com/mwtpfbze

submitted 46 days ago • 13 comments

Really incredible to have CTV, an entire broadcast news outlet, say they 'don't have the bandwidth' to deal with the type of harassment that Rachel Gilmore deals with as an individual journalist all the time.

submitted 47 days ago • 33 comments

I’m devastated, but I’m also angry. I’m angry because this is an attack on press freedom. If opportunities can be stripped from journalists simply because enough people repeat the same bad-faith narrative, how can anyone withstand the career impact of doing work that matters?

submitted 47 days ago • 242 comments

Look, if you're embarrassingly a Canadian like me then you know what we did, here's a chance to pay up and make some amends. Also Avery (and Freyja) are delightful, funny and a blessing on your timeline. So cough up and then enjoy ethically 😁

submitted 50 days ago • 1 comment

Been waiting to announce this. Now it's time Extremely proud to announce I'm joining Vice's Waypoint as a reporter! That's right, returning to my roots, writing about video games daily And yes, I plan to cover the 18+ & indie side of games, not just AAA More to share soon. Excited to be back <3

submitted 51 days ago • 33 comments

Got my first "you look like the matrix" of the year this weekend! 🤣 Got invited to a specifically "whitehat" daytime social which is a bit of a new venue for me I suppose and walked in directly to that comment, kinda reinforcing my supossing. lol. will try and attend again.

submitted 55 days ago • 1 comment

Are Canadians running around TAKING OUT Americans?? No, we're not. But I shit you not, a Trump adviser just went on national television and claimed we are. Let's talk about it: youtu.be/-WEfN4lpdKk

submitted 68 days ago • 44 comments

Trump trying to conquer Canada and referring to Canada’s defense as “abusive” in the same sentence is such a clear example of how DARVO (deny, attack, reverse victim and offender) works in geopolitics

submitted 68 days ago • 12 comments

I enjoyed the section of this podcast that discussed how prophetic the character of Shodan as a self aggrandizing narcissist in constant need of adoration, who continually negs the player to get it, who is actually powerless and useless without the player, was for modern tech elite like Elon Musk

submitted 68 days ago • 0 comments

I swear the media used to have this reasoned out? Non consequentially created sexually explicit material should not be shared? The amount of people seeming happy that is getting disregarded in the name of "news worthiness" is not exactly comforting.

submitted 81 days ago • 1 comment