Daily Stoic 🗿Life is a song–sing it. Life is a game–play it. Life is a challenge–meet it. Life is a dream–realize it. Life is a sacrifice–offer it. Life is love–enjoy it.
— Sarojini Naidu
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I’m the Dood. Or His Doodness or Doodr or El Dooderino if you’re not into the whole brevity thing.
Electronic Frontier FoundationOur privacy should be a collaborative effort between the government and companies–but we cannot rely solely on their goodwill. That’s why we need strict legislative and democratic controls to contain the surveillance state and private industry. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/anthropic-dod-conflict-privacy-protections-shouldnt-depend-decisions-few-powerful
The Anthropic-DOD Conflict: Privacy Protections Shouldn’t Depend On the Decisions of a Few Powerful People
The U.S. military has officially ended its $200 million contract with AI company Anthropic and has ordered all other military contractors to cease use of their products. Why? Because of a dispute over what the government could and could not use Anthropic’s technology to do. Anthropic had made it...
Online behavioral advertising isn’t just creepy–it’s dangerous. https://eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/targeted-advertising-gives-your-location-government-just-ask-cbp
Flipboard News DeskColossal Biosciences Inc. plans to resurrect extinct species like the woolly mammoth, Tasmanian tiger, and dodo bird. Proponents of the idea say the tools could help save species on the brink of extinction. Critics question whether the plans are ethical or safe, even if the company’s dubious claims are plausible. Read more from @npr
Just shipped a macOS app! 🔦
CursorIlluminator: three-finger click/tap on your MacBook trackpad to spotlight your cursor — great for presentations and screen sharing (or just figuring out where your cursor is). Free, open source, Apple Silicon native.
Forked from the excellent MiddleClick by @artginzburg.
https://github.com/bigdoodr/CursorIlluminator
#macOS #Swift #OpenSource #IndieApp #AppleSilicon #Productivity
https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/892452/
RSVP and put it on your calendar:
Eyes on Ice: Document and Record
Thursday, February 5th, 2026 at 8:00 pm ET
Eyes on ICE: Document and Record · Indivisible
On 1/24/26, federal agents horrifically shot and killed 37-year-old Alex Pretti, an ICU nurse who cared for veterans, in the Eat Street neighborhood of south Minneapolis after brutally beating him in front of witnesses. Enough is enough. Exercising our Constitutional right to document and record ICE and other federal agents is more important than ever. This call will give you the tools to exercise your rights in a moment when federal agents are terrorizing our communities and using excessive force. Join our call, Eyes on Ice: Document and Record on Thursday, February 5th, 2026 at 8:00 pm ET. RSVP for Link. We will cover the latest updates on ICE and CBP's out-of-control and dangerous operations. We will talk through rights when documenting and recording law enforcement encounters, and how you can continue to take action. RSVP NOW. Indivisible is managing registration, data, and communications with participants for this event, and will be sharing data collected via this form with our NO KINGS event co-hosts and partner organizations. By registering for this event, you agree to receive info from Indivisible about this event, and to receive communications via e-mail or SMS message from us and other NO KINGS partner organizations that Indivisible may share your data with. Indivisible will treat your data according to our organization’s applicable privacy policy: https://indivisible.org/privacy-policy
Earlier this week, a friend and I presented at WKU’s Professional Development Day on “Stop Tracking Me! Tips for enhancing digital privacy”
It was an absolute blast! And lots of the attendees learned ways to improve their online security.
Linked below is a collection of everything we talked about, along with the things we had to cut for time.
Local elections matter. Here's NBC Philadelphia's story about the newly elected sheriff of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, Democrat Danny Ceisler, who has terminated the partnership between his office and ICE. The deal allowed deputies to enforce immigration authority and share information with ICE, and was signed by his predecessor, Republican Fred Harran, a few months before. Ceisler anchored his November campaign around his argument against the ICE partnership and won the election by around 11 percentage points.
#USNews #USPolitics #USElections #Pennsylvania #Philadelphia #ICE #Immigration
Made a free bodyweight workout randomizer app! 💪
Generates custom routines based on your target areas and difficulty. Every workout is different. Includes video demos, audio cues, and works offline.
No gym, no equipment - just calisthenics you can do at home or anywhere.
In TestFlight beta now: https://testflight.apple.com/join/FfJyugX3
Generates custom routines based on your target areas and difficulty. Every workout is different. Includes video demos, audio cues, and works offline.
No gym, no equipment - just calisthenics you can do at home or anywhere.
In TestFlight beta now: https://testflight.apple.com/join/FfJyugX3
My ExpandableExerciseTimer app is now available in the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/expandableexercisetimer/id6756544631
