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Well, fuck. Here we go.

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Palantir are directly supplying the technology to locate and deport Americans. They’ve given their staff an FAQ for talking to their family, with talking points for questions like “Can it be right to support a customer [ICE] who you think is wrong?” […]

submitted 1 day ago • 8 comments

It's always funny to me when people say things like "Even th Financial Times is saying... *something progressive* The FT isn't Mother Jones for sure, but it's not right wing. It is, or at least was, I haven't looked in a while, quite a bit more pragmatically progressive than pubs like the […]

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, 2023. Extra credit pixels at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/52977939495/ #photography

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

It is very sweet how many people are giving me security advice right now. None of them have sent me my own writing yet, but it's getting close.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Still nothing prepared me for how stupid the authoritarians would be.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I just re-discovered this exchange in some old writing: “I don’t believe journalists should use the cloud.” — me “I agree with you, but if you have, this subpoena applies to anything you have in the cloud.” — Federal prosecutor who was subpoenaing me. Anyway, my fellow journalists or […]

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

This aged... https://www.emptywheel.net/2017/09/14/software-is-a-long-con/ ...not at all.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

Trump's official denouncement of former CISA director Chris Krebs (in the form of a "Presidential Memorandum") is chilling in substance and utterly Stalinesque in tone. By threatening anyone who hires him, it aims to render Krebs effectively unemployable. I said it then, and I will repeat it […]

submitted 7 days ago • 12 comments

This is an intense look at deportation & denaturalization under the current SCOTUS v POTUS regimes. It's complicated and dangerous, and we all need to be keeping an eye on the way the Trumpies can and probably will get away with major, at scale human rights abuses […]

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Fun fact: I can no longer update my iphone because Signal has eaten all of my storage.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

The good news is that with some adjustments and yes, some time and pain, the world can simply move on from America and adjust to a new financial and trade system. It not only can be done, it has to be. So the sooner the better. Possibly even for Americans.

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments

Well, if the SAVE act passes, that's elections gone for a huge swath of people. There's not many institutions proving able to stand up for democracy and rule of law, and it's still the first 100 days.

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

Once again I must remind you that elections are not physics, democracy is not ordained by God. All of these whole "Rights" and "Rule of law" things can fall apart with the speed and range of a grenade hitting the floor.

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

I've written a starter guide to protesting in America for no particular reason. https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/04/10/when-we-take-the-streets/

submitted 8 days ago • 2 comments

Morning everyone, I can't get out of bed because cat gravity. How are today's horrors going?

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

This study -- showing how companies ignore do-not-track requests -- is just the latest evidence that you should always use ad/tracker blockers in your browser. This means, among other things, that Chrome is no longer an option now that Google has blocked some blockers […]

submitted 9 days ago • 6 comments

Morning everyone. What new horrors took place while I was alseep?

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

We're pretty close to the end of the American experiment, now that the corrupt Roberts court has basically rubber-stamped Trump regime's kidnap-and-send-to-El-Salvador policy. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/07/us/politics/supreme-court-trump-venezuelan-deportations.html

submitted 11 days ago • 14 comments

Today's "history is boring" lesson: The Declaration of Independence lists "For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences" as one of the reasons Independence was important.

submitted 11 days ago • 8 comments

Unpopular opinion: you shouldn't be investing in the stock market if you either don't know, or don't care, what a P/E ratio is. The actual way you were supposed to make money in the stock market back in the day was dividends because you were a part owner in the company, not endless number go up […]

submitted 12 days ago • 1 comment

we’ve officially passed through bear market territory into a cocaine bear market 🐻 🧐

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

IDK man, if my dream candidate got caught embezzling from the EU, I'd be really, lividly, mad at them, not at the people who caught my candidate doing crimes. Am I the weirdo?

submitted 13 days ago • 4 comments

I'm taking the work I started 10 years ago with Tuhaf Gelecek to the next level. Say hello to Tuhaf Studio, my independent futures and foresight studio. https://ahmetasabanci.com/tuhaf-studio-is-here/

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

"Madam President, I yield the floor. "

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment