Ten Thousand Things

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Meta’s view that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/seven-billion-reasons-facebook-abandon-its-face-recognition-plans
Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans

Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
This is their whole M.O. right here.
I saw yet another “CSS is a massively bloated mess” whine and I’m like. My dude. My brother in Chromium. It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and layout design and typography and animation and digital interactivity and a few other things in a human-readable text format. It’s not bloated, it’s fantastically ambitious. Its reach is greater than most of us can hope to grasp. Put some *respect* on its *name*.

Meta thinks now is a great time to launch facial recognition surveillance tech in their creepy glasses because EFF will be too distracted by fascism to notice.

We noticed.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/seven-billion-reasons-facebook-abandon-its-face-recognition-plans

Seven Billion Reasons for Facebook to Abandon its Face Recognition Plans

Meta’s analysis that it can avoid scrutiny by releasing a privacy invasive product during a time of political crisis is craven and morally bankrupt. It is also dead wrong.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Here's another #emacs design. I used the Computer Modern Serif font so you know it's legit.

20% of profits go to the Free Software Foundation

https://www.etsy.com/shop/10kthings/?etsrc=sdt&search_query=emacs

#emacs #fsf #emacs #gnuemacs

I really drank the Kool-Aid at the Church of Emacs, and now I've finally gotten around to making a couple of simple but instantly classic designs.

20% of profits go to the Free Software Foundation.

https://www.etsy.com/shop/10kthings/?etsrc=sdt&search_query=emacs

I think this one is my favorite.

#emacs #gnu #fsf #gnuemacs

I realized that 10KThings didn't have a regular Debian shirt. So, now there is one.

20% of profits go to the Debian Project!

https://www.etsy.com/listing/4314697453/debian-logo-unisex-softstyle-t-shirt

#debian #linux #10kthings #colonelpanic

This will be a short-lived career.
As the saying goes, those who don't remember our history are doomed to repeat it. That's what inspired Martin Mycielski to compile what came to be known as the Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide for unsuspecting Americans at the onset of Trump's first term. And now, months into Trump 2.0, perhaps it's time—or past time—to dust it off once again. https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/trump-2025-authoritarian-regime-survival
Time To Dust Off The Authoritarian Regime Survival Guide

In 2017, Polish activist Martin Mycielski offered advice on Twitter—hashtagged #LearnFromEurope—that eventually became a guide for dealing with fascism.

The Big Picture