Mastodawn

- How’s the war going?

- Well we’ve replaced the Supreme Leader who was negotiating with us with a Supreme Leader whose entire family we’ve just killed, we’ve won hearts and minds by killing a LOT of kids, we keep calling our allies cowards and alienating them, we’re publicly shitting our pants over oil prices, and we’ve just threatened to escalate the war which has resulted in our enemy saying they’ll destroy all the oil fields in the Middle East.

- So overall, pretty good? #iranwar

Andrew 🄵 Lyons 5h ago

7amleh 5h ago

At a time when wars are expanding, disinformation is intensifying, and digital platforms are becoming battlegrounds over truth and memory, this year’s Palestine Digital Activism Forum is held under the theme: “The Battle Over the Palestinian Digital Narrative in the Information Age.” It comes as a space for collective action in the face of digital repression, the silencing of voices, and the distortion of narratives.
🚀 Registration is free - secure your spot now: https://events.ringcentral.com/events/pdaf-2026

Andrew 🄵 Lyons 8h ago

Andrew 🄵 Lyons 21h ago

Ingrid Glomp 22h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116274161758622263

"The scientific process is slow and careful and it often takes months or years to publish a peer-reviewed result. Companies like SpaceX have stated repeatedly that their method is to “move fast and break things.” They are now close to breaking the atmosphere, the night sky and anything on the ground or in space that their satellites and rockets fall on or crash into."

Andrew 🄵 Lyons 22h ago

More notes on sovereignty: https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/03/22/more-notes-on-sovereignty.html

More notes on sovereignty

Consider this post to be the afterbirth of the last one. …

Andrew 🄵 Lyons 1d ago

"Work doesn’t pay, housing is out of reach, and life has been enshittified — why should young people keep propping up a system rigged against them?"
https://graceblakeley.substack.com/p/generation-despair

Generation Despair

Work doesn’t pay, housing is out of reach, and life has been enshittified — why should young people keep propping up a system rigged against them?

Grace Blakeley

Andrew 🄵 Lyons 1d ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116246008152568277

Fuck the fuckweasels is an appropriate response.
https://uk.pcmag.com/ai/163854/spacex-to-start-small-with-1-million-satellite-plan-pushes-back-on-critics

Andrew 🄵 Lyons 1d ago

"He read the law, took it at face value, and started writing code. The word for what that is sits somewhere past malice, something more insidious: an engineer who treats compliance as engineering, who sees a legal requirement the way he sees a technical specification, and will implement whatever the spec says regardless of who wrote the spec or why."

https://www.sambent.com/the-engineer-who-tried-to-put-age-verification-into-linux-5/

The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux

Dylan, useful idiot with commit access, pushed age verification PRs to systemd, Ubuntu & Arch, got 2 Microslop employees to merge it, called it 'hilariously pointless' in the PR itself, then watched Lennart personally block the revert. Unpaid compliance simp.

Sam Bent

Andrew 🄵 Lyons 3d ago

The Tennessee Holler 3d ago

BERNIE: “They want $200 BILLION ON TOP OF $1.6 TRILLION… people can’t afford housing & health care, gas prices are soaring… 20,000 more 💣 to 🇮🇱, which committed genocide— why would anyone want to keep funding Netanyahu?… Trump is a liar, authoritarian. We must end Trumpism.”

Andrew 🄵 Lyons 3d ago

joncamfield 3d ago

Oh hey, I wrote a thing! It mainly tells you to go read a thing that @aiefel wrote (https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/03/04/on-sovereignty-and-freedom-and.html) , on how internet sovereignty is a dangerous replacement for Internet Freedom: https://www.joncamfield.com/blog/2026.03/internet-freedom-sovereignty.html

On sovereignty and freedom and the internet

I was getting ready to hit “publish” on this post at the …

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