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We're happy to announce a long-term partnership with Motorola. We're collaborating on future devices meeting our privacy and security standards with official GrapheneOS support.

https://motorolanews.com/motorola-three-new-b2b-solutions-at-mwc-2026/

Motorola News | Motorola's new partnership with GrapheneOS

Motorola announces three new B2B solutions at MWC 2026, including GrapheneOS partnership, Moto Analytics and more.

Global Blog

I don't even have the words for this.

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/23/15-year-old-girl-misogyny-social-media-online-abuse

I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day

Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see

The Guardian
Want to know how to track Homeland security spending by looking through government databases? EFF's Dave Maass has put together a handy how-to: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/homeland-security-spending-trail-how-follow-money-through-us-government-databases
The Homeland Security Spending Trail: How to Follow the Money Through U.S. Government Databases

The U.S. government publishes volumes of detailed data on the money it spends, but searching through it and finding information can be challenging. This guide covers the key databases that store information on federal spending and contracts, government solicitations for products and services, and the government's "online shopping superstore," plus a few other deep-in-the-weeds datasets buried in the online bureaucracy.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

It's the whole sky!
Central Alberta

#Aurora

I have been a Graphene user for a while now. It does come with some compromises, but nothing you can't live with
https://hachyderm.io/@evacide/115465969859859194
evacide (@[email protected])

GrapheneOS is great and I recommend it all the time for Android users who are concerned about spying by governments and law enforcement. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/leaker-reveals-which-pixels-are-vulnerable-to-cellebrite-phone-hacking/

Hachyderm.io

"ICE officials have told us that an apparent biometric match by Mobile Fortify is a ā€˜definitive’ determination of a person’s status and that an ICE officer may ignore evidence of American citizenship—including a birth certificate—if the app says the person is an alien."

Every person involved in this decision needs to be hit over the head with a copy of Kashmir Hill's "Your Face Belongs to Us" until they come to their senses.

https://www.404media.co/ice-and-cbp-agents-are-scanning-peoples-faces-on-the-street-to-verify-citizenship/

ICE and CBP Agents Are Scanning Peoples’ Faces on the Street To Verify Citizenship

Videos on social media show officers from ICE and CBP using facial recognition technology on people in the field. One expert described the practice as ā€œpure dystopian creep.ā€

404 Media
If you live in San Francisco, today is a good day to familiarize yourself with the San Francisco Rapid Response Network, which has a 24-hour hotline for reporting ICE raids, actually verifies those raid reports, and does attorney activation: https://sfilen.org/resources/sf-rapid-response-network/
SFILEN

San Francisco Immigrant Legal & Education Network

SFILEN

Something to keep in mind if your threat model includes the possibility that your phone will be seized by ICE.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/18/ice-unit-signs-new-3-million-contract-for-phone-hacking-tech/

ICE unit signs new $3M contract for phone-hacking tech | TechCrunch

Homeland Security Investigations, the law enforcement arm of ICE, adds phone-unlocking tech made by Magnet Forensics to its arsenal of technology used to power the Trump administration’s deportation crackdown.

TechCrunch
We built these seedling boxes and planted about 230 seeds in them few weeks ago #kotocoop #gardening
ā€œI don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it…Grab ā€˜em by the pussy. You can do anything.ā€