Jack Aponte

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AfroBoricua genderqueer butch, anti-fascist communist anarchist Beethoven-lover, writer, gadfly, movement technologist focusing on organizational digital security. They/them/elle
Websitehttps://jackaponte.com

Oh, THAT's what you call generations of mass abduction and enslavement: domicile. Wow.

"Sauer began by noting that the citizenship clause “was adopted just after the Civil War to grant citizenship to the newly freed slaves and their children, whose allegiance to the United States had been established by generations of domicile here.”"

https://www.newsweek.com/justice-john-roberts-confronts-trump-dojs-quirky-supreme-court-argument-11769402

#SCOTUS

Justice John Roberts Confronts Trump DOJ’s ‘Quirky’ Supreme Court Argument

The conservative chief justice appeared skeptical of the DOJ's arguments as Trump made history by attending the hearing.

Newsweek

I'm frequently unsure that I can handle witnessing the trauma of the violence inflicted by the US both within and outside of its borders. I don't know how we all push through it. My work still feels important and luckily aligned with or outright fighting this, but it's not enough.

It's traumatizing me and I'm not even directly targeted any of it (well besides the violence directed towards trans people I guess.) It's impossible for me to fully understand the trauma that directly targeted people are living through.

(This post inspired by watching https://www.ktvu.com/news/ice-agents-arrest-crying-woman-sfo -- I don't even know what a content warning would be. Violence? Injustice? Inhumanity)

ICE agents arrest woman at SFO, bystanders capture on video

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conducted an enforcement operation inside San Francisco International Airport Sunday night, arresting a woman in the secure area of Terminal 3, airport officials said.

KTVU FOX 2 San Francisco
@mikemccaffrey Are they gonna say they bombed a school full of children and teachers because of an AI hallucination? 🤬
I'm planning to check out Confer (https://confer.to/) and Lumo (https://lumo.proton.me/) instead. (Though I know that avoiding #AI altogether is more consistent with my political beliefs.)
Confer

Confer - Private AI

Sam Altman had me at "Department of War." #ChatGPT subscription canceled.
@gaba 100% agreed!
@jackaponte the work that Horizontal is doing with https://shira.app/ is so important, and I think it should be something orgs should do on a regular basis to improve their understanding of how phishing is evolving.
Shira

Shira builds your team's ability to identify and defeat phishing attacks.

Journalists and activists have recently experienced #phishing attempts via #Signal. But it's not a technical flaw in Signal; it's plain old social engineering, just via a new channel.

https://netzpolitik.org/2026/phishing-attack-numerous-journalists-targeted-in-attack-via-signal-messenger/

Phishing attack: Numerous journalists targeted in attack via Signal Messenger

In a phishing attack, unknown actors are apparently attempting to gain access to accounts of journalists and activists on the Signal messaging service. We explain how the attack works and how you can protect yourself against it.

netzpolitik.org
So #Trump has made one presidential statement today, #MLKDay... about college football.
The concept is fine, but the word somewhat unreasonably annoys the... shit out of me.