Mastodawn

man, what an update to the Ilya Remeslo story. Less than 48 hours after the pro-Kremlin activist suddenly denounced Putin, he's reportedly been admitted to a psychiatric hospital known for treating patients showing "psychotic symptoms." In recent interviews, Remeslo has appeared perfectly healthy. https://t.me/bazabazon/44792

Baza

Известный блогер-юрист Илья Ремесло госпитализирован в психиатрическую больницу — на следующий день после публичной смены своей политической позиции. Как выяснила "База", общественный деятель сейчас находится в стационаре петербургской городской психиатрической больницы им. Скворцова — Степанова, в 16-м отделении. Оно специализируется на лечении мужчин с впервые проявившимися симптомами психотического расстройства. Среди пациентов в отделении — люди с бредом, нарушениями мышления и несвязной речью. Илья Ремесло был известен своей патриотичной позицией. Накануне он внезапно и радикально изменил свой политический курс и выступил в сети с резкой критикой власти. Если у вас плохо прогружаются файлы, все новости BAZA также доступны в нашем канале в MAX: https://max.ru/baza

My own personal Life Mar 17

nixCraft 🐧Mar 17

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech. Reddit researcher exposes Meta’s $2B campaign to force Apple and Google into building surveillance systems while exempting its own platforms
https://www.gadgetreview.com/reddit-user-uncovers-who-is-behind-metas-2b-lobbying-for-invasive-age-verification-tech

Meta is pure evil who is pushing age verification laws to benefits from surveillance tech.

Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta’s $2B Lobbying for Invasive Age Verification Tech

Meta funneled $2B through nonprofit shells to push age verification laws targeting Apple and Google while exempting its own platforms from surveillance requirements.

Gadget Review

My own personal Life Mar 15

Kate Nyhan Mar 15

RE: https://mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/116233508481864379

LEXISNEXIS RISK SOLUTIONS INC $22,132,743.00

LEXISNEXIS SPECIAL SERVICES INC $6,381,187.65

THOMSON REUTERS SPECIAL SERVICES LLC $27,237,471.89

Payments from ICE, since the beginning of the second Trump admin, to companies that are also major library vendors (and major collectors of data about what library users search for and read)

No idea what the "direct action tools" to be unveiled on March 17 will be, but I will come back to https://unplugice.org/ to find out

#medlibs #libraries

My own personal Life Feb 20

Peter Gleick Feb 19

Trump banner at the Justice Department.
Mussolini banner at Fascist headquarters, Italy.
Hitler banner at Danzig.

What's the difference?

My own personal Life Feb 12

Bruce Mirken Feb 12

#ICE is abducting legal observers in #Minneapolis. https://theintercept.com/2026/02/09/ice-minneapolis-legal-observers-abduction/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=The%20Intercept%20Newsletter

“Uptick in Abductions”: ICE Ramps Up Targeting of Minneapolis Legal Observers

In one 30-minute stretch, three Minneapolis legal observers were arrested as ICE ramped up its targeting of community volunteers.

The Intercept

My own personal Life Feb 12

Marisa Feb 11

Thank you Wired magazine for not paywalling this(!) it's the only reason i even found out that ICE plans to lease an office in Tukwila, WA.

Wired has a *ton* of info here that tells you where ICE plans to expand across various U.S. cities - and *quickly* .

Read here: https://www.wired.com/story/ice-expansion-across-us-at-heres-where-its-going-next/

#uspol #ice #pnw #seattle

My own personal Life Feb 12

Steve Herman Feb 11

Gallup announces, after 88 years, it will no longer track public approval of presidents. Trump’s second-term approval rating fell to 36% in December, among the lowest ever recorded by the company. The president repeatedly has threatened to sue media and polling firms that portray him negatively.

My own personal Life Feb 5

Bitwarden Feb 5

🔐 By community request, you can now unlock your vault with a passkey,

Available now in the web app and with Chromium-based browser extensions (rolling out this week).

https://community.bitwarden.com/t/unlock-with-fido2-passkeys/13224

Why passkeys?

✅ Faster than typing your master password

✅ Phishing-proof: only work on originating website

Requires a compatible PRF-capable setup

https://bitwarden.com/help/login-with-passkeys/#set-up-encryption-for-unlock

My own personal Life Feb 1

So a letter titled "Who's Dignity Matters" relating to #ice signed by 98 active and 56 retired bishops of the #Episcopal Church was released yesterday. I did a little LLM assisted analysis and the most absent names are from the southern states.

Detail: The US has 8 main provinces of the Episcopal Church in the US. It seems of active bishops there were 19 that did not sign the letter - 13 of those are in the Southern province. Those that did sign the letter were two in Atlanta, three (of four) in the Carolinas, and one (of two) in Tennessee. Absent completely were Alabama, Florida, Kentucky, Mississippi.

Letter: https://indydio.org/2026/01/a-joint-letter-from-154-bishops-of-the-episcopal-church-whos-dignity-matters/

A Joint Letter from 154 Bishops of The Episcopal Church: Who’s Dignity Matters? - The Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis

Scroll down to read in Spanish. / Desplázate hacia abajo para leer en español. A letter to our fellow Americans. We, the undersigned bishops of The Episcopal Church, write today …

The Episcopal Diocese of Indianapolis

My own personal Life Jan 27

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Jonathan Jan 24

@481632 @Tekchip I’m in the US and order from Aliexpress. The tariff costs are included in the price (they take care of it on their end) and delivery is essentially the same. The main difference is the prices which of course now are higher. Still generally lower than Amazon since whoever resells it on there still has to cover the import tariffs on their end.