Recently, a colleague (who would prefer to stay anonymous) told me that they got management to sign off on basically half a year of refactoring, tidying up code, and documentation.

How?

They said it was required work to make the codebase "AI ready".

It's fucking genius. If you can't stop the hype, just take advantage of it.

https://www.404media.co/fcc-wants-to-kill-burner-phones-by-forcing-telecoms-to-get-all-customers-ids/

The FCC wants to make it impossible to buy "burner" phones, such as pre-paid phones not linked to your identity. They plan to do this by forcing all companies to store a ton of data about ALL phone users, including Copy of ID, and Verified address and a ton more info for both new & existing phone users, regardless of company or phone.

#FCC #Privacy #Security

Scanning tech would turn every phone into a surveillance device ⚠️

UK Ministers may claim this is to stop children sharing intimate images.

But it means forcing every adult through a digital ID checkpoint and scanning all private images by default.

Once the infrastructure exists, it will be expanded.

It would award every future government and every tyranny across the globe a mechanism to pre-censor everything anyone does with their phone.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jun/08/starmer-tech-firms-ultimatum-block-explicit-images-children-phones

#ukpolitics #ukpol #privacy

They used to call economics the "dismal science" but for all the wrong reasons.

The real reasons are that economics are A) not a science, and 2) its directives have been consistently, painfully, costly, and dismally wrong.