I've known EFF executive director Cindy Cohn for 27 years. I met her when I needed cyberlaw advice for a startup I'd helped found. We got along so well that I ended up quitting the startup and going to work at EFF. Now, Cindy's memoir, *Privacy's Defender*, is on the shelves:

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262051248/privacys-defender/

--

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/04/09/bernstein/#win-some-lose-some

1/

I am@partial to a bit of pedantry as some have noticed in the past, but this is world class by Mr Brisbane. From Pedantry Corner, Private Eye
🎩

#pedantry #PrivateEye #cartoon #rome #architecture

Important XScreenSaver policy update.

25: No contributions built with, or assisted by, LLMs or any kind of "generative AI" tools will be considered. If you didn't bother writing it, I'm not going to bother reading it. XScreenSaver is art by humans for humans.

https://jwz.org/b/yk56

Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez wins the internet this week with this striking characterisation of the wannabe dictator:

"The Government of Spain will not applaud those who set the world on fire, just because they show up with a bucket of water."

(Thanks to @Paul_stilgar for this find.)