Mastodawn

Anonymously threatening a security researcher seems like a shooting-yourself-in-the-dick level bad decision. Kudos to Allison Nixon for not taking any shit.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/02/16/1132526/allison-nixon-hackers-security-researcher

Hackers made death threats against this security researcher. Big mistake.

Allison Nixon had helped arrest dozens of members of The Com — a loose affiliation of online groups responsible for violence and hacking campaigns. Then she became a target.

MIT Technology Review

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Aby 2d ago

Reminder that The Andrew Formerly Known as Prince being arrested for suspicion of misconduct has nothing to do with him being a pedophile and everything to do with him telling powerful men's secrets to other powerful men.

This isn't justice for those girls.

#UK #RoyalFamily #FuckTheRoyals
#AndrewMountbattenWindsor #Epstein #NoJusticeNoPeace

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evacide 1d ago

How do you organize safely and effectively in the golden age of surveillance? I have some thoughts and Wired does too: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-organize-safely-in-the-age-of-surveillance/

How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance

From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

WIRED

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Jo - pièce de résistance 1d ago

@agreeable_landfall
They could be doing THIS.

And we should push governments to operate a public bank, be the guarantor for cooperative properties. A partner. If they can bail out for profit banks, they can bail out non-profit housing for people. It’s a way lower risk too. This is about keeping property values artificially inflated for landlord class. If regular banks aren’t interested. Fuck them. Co-op & Union banks should be doing it.

https://social.coop/@GEO_Collective/116098679366506476

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Incredible what happens when you let *adults* run the government:

"King says 'law must take its course'"

King says. The King. Who has the power to make that all go away. But he *doesn't*, because law. Law must take its course. Law MUST take its course.

Nonplussed.

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"Cleanse and democratize all your data for diverse advanced downstream analytics and visualization use cases."

For the love of Dog, who writes a sentence like that?

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The New York Times 3d ago

Republicans, Braced for Losses, Push More Voting Restrictions in Congress
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/17/us/politics/republicans-vote-fraud-id-midterms.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into Home Page @home-page-newyorktimes

Republicans, Braced for Losses, Push More Voting Restrictions in Congress

Legislation that would require proof of citizenship to register to vote was only the beginning as the G.O.P. presses to sharply limit voting in line with President Trump’s false claims of widespread fraud.

The New York Times

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Michael W Lucas

2d ago

FDA political leaders backed down on Moderna's flu vax.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/18/health/fda-moderna-mrna-flu-vaccine-reversal

MRNA vaccines have the potential to be more revolutionary than antibiotics. (Vaccinations against broad categories of cancer, anyone?) Get out of here with that anti-science bullshit.

FDA reverses course and will review Moderna’s mRNA flu shot, company says

The US Food and Drug Administration has reversed course and will review a new mRNA flu vaccine from Moderna, the pharmaceutical company said Wednesday,

CNN

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evacide 3d ago

If you're a journalist who covers law enforcement, don't let their claims about slick and effective technology go unchallenged.

https://www.eff.org/document/selling-safety-journalists-guide-covering-police-technology