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Andrew Faden 15h ago

Thanks to @quephird for noticing this on the NASA feed: https://tech.lgbt/@quephird/116353383035378497

Danie🏒🏒e is officially a PWHL fan (@[email protected])

OMFG… I just heard Mission Control tell Artemis II literally, “Everything but email is go” LOLSOBBING MY ASS OFF NOW

LGBTQIA+ and Tech

Andrew Faden 15h ago

Famous quotes from NASA mission comms:
- Apollo 11: "The Eagle has landed"
- Apollo 13: "Houston, we have a problem"
- Artemis 2: "We are still updating Outlook so everything but email is go"

Andrew Faden 1d ago

Simon Willison 2d ago

Warning to open source maintainers: the Axios supply chain attack started with some
very sophisticated social engineering targeted at one of their developers https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/3/supply-chain-social-engineering/

The Axios supply chain attack used individually targeted social engineering

The Axios team have published a full postmortem on the supply chain attack which resulted in a malware dependency going out in a release the other day, and it involved …

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Andrew Faden Mar 28

Anil Dash Mar 28

You must picture Sam Altman holding a knife to Tim Berner-Lee's throat. We are in a truly existential level of danger when it comes to the survival of the open web, across every front. This year is when it all comes to a head. https://anildash.com/2026/03/27/endgame-open-web/

Endgame for the Open Web

A blog about making culture. Since 1999.

Anil Dash

Andrew Faden Mar 20

Electronic Frontier Foundation Mar 19

Imagine a newspaper publisher refusing to let libraries keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s starting online, as big publishers block the Internet Archive from preserving news sites. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record

Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Andrew Faden Mar 8

Taggart Mar 7

Oh look, the exact thing everyone but Google said would happen has happened.

https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/google-ai-overviews-media

Evidence Grows That Google’s AI Overviews Have Eviscerated the Media Industry

Google's AI overviews have eviscerated the media landscape, with some top publications losing up to 97 percent of their web traffic.

Futurism

Andrew Faden Feb 26

Curmudgeon Feb 26

Nurul Amin Shah Alam was a Rohingya refugee from Burma.
He had been granted refugee status by the US government.
Blind and speaking no English, in February 2025 he accidentally wandered into a neighbor's yard.
She called the police, who tasered him, beat him up, and arrested him.
After being held in jail for over a year, he was finally released on bail after agreeing to plead guilty to trespassing and possessing a weapon (a curtain rod he used as a walking stick).

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Andrew Faden Feb 7

kottke.org Feb 5

Must-watch: A powerful performance of a pro-immigrant Shakespeare speech by Sir Ian McKellen on Colbert's show; it resonates powerfully today. "This is the strangers' case; And this your mountainish inhumanity." https://kottke.org/26/02/the-strangers-case

The Strangers’ Case

I don’t normally say this, but if you watch one thing on kottke.org today, this week, this month, make it this speech written by Shakespeare and performed by

kottke.org

Andrew Faden Feb 5

ProPublica Feb 4

Documents Reveal Real Reason for Raid on Chicago Apartment Building
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The DHS arrest records make no mention of the Tren de Aragua gang even though officials repeatedly cited its presence in the building as motivation for the raid, in which agents descended from a Blackhawk helicopter and zip-tied U.S. citizens.
https://www.propublica.org/article/chicago-venezuela-immigration-ice-raid-landlord-tren-de-aragua?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post

#News #ICE #Chicago #Immigration #Venezuela #Immigrants #DHS #USPolitics

The Real Story Behind the Midnight Immigration Raid on a Chicago Apartment Building

The Trump administration has claimed the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had taken over the building. But new documents make no mention of the gang and reveal federal agents had information about “illegal aliens unlawfully occupying apartments.”

ProPublica

Andrew Faden Feb 5

David Sacerdote Jan 31

The scale of concentration camps that Trump and buddies are planning to build is really quite enormous.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2026-01-29/us-spends-hundreds-of-millions-on-warehouses-for-ice-detention-centers?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2OTcyNjIzNiwiZXhwIjoxNzcwMzMxMDM2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUOU41VDVLSVVQVFAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJBODQ4MjA2QkI5RkE0NzNBODQxMTQ0NkU0NzJENjc0OCJ9.gHOR5-HcAz9v8bX1AtIt49zQLJ3_f2o9S8QoKDjxo2M

#USPolitics #GiftArticle #GiftLink