An anti-ICE app that installs from a web page and can't be removed from any app store because it's not on an app store.

Now with EFF legal support, a warrant canary, a backup domain in Iceland, and more!

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/3/26/2374832/-Update-ICE-Tracking-App-AntiFreeze-Is-Becoming-Harder-to-Censor-Here-s-How?utm_campaign=trending

https://antifreeze.app
https://antifreeze.is

#NoIce #NoKings #ProtectOurCommunities #ProtectImmigrants

The targeting for Operation Epic Fury ran on a system called Maven.

Nobody was arguing about Maven.

Eight years ago, Maven was the most contested project in Silicon Valley.

In 2018, more than 4,000 Google employees signed a letter opposing the company’s contract to build artificial intelligence for the Pentagon’s targeting systems.

Workers organised a walk out.
Engineers quit.
And Google ultimately abandoned the contract.

Palantir Technologies,
a data analytics company and defence contractor co-founded by Peter Thiel,
took it over
and spent the next six years building Maven into a targeting infrastructure that pulls together satellite imagery, signals intelligence and sensor data
to identify targets and carry them through every step from first detection to the order to strike....

The building in Minab had been classified as a military facility in a Defense Intelligence Agency database that,
according to CNN,
had not been updated to reflect that the building had been separated from the adjacent Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps compound
and converted into a school
-- a change that satellite imagery shows had occurred by 2016 at the latest.

A chatbot did not kill those children.

People failed to update a database, and other people built a system fast enough to make that failure lethal.

By the start of the Iran war, Maven
– the system that had enabled that speed
– had sunk into the plumbing

It had become part of the military’s infrastructure,
-- and the argument was all about Claude.

This obsession with Claude is a kind of AI psychosis,
though not of the kind we normally talk about,
and it afflicts critics and opponents of the technology as fiercely as it does its boosters.

You do not have to use a language model to have it organise your attention or distort your thinking.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/mar/26/ai-got-the-blame-for-the-iran-school-bombing-the-truth-is-far-more-worrying?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

The things about being an AI “skeptic” is that…well…shouldn’t everyone be a skeptic? The entire AI pitch is “here’s a magic black box that will solve all your problems and don’t worry if it loses money and wastes resources today because any second now it will make you immortal.”

Yeah, that sounds like something you *should* be skeptical about.

https://www.wheresyoured.at/why-are-we-still-doing-this/

On my flight back to the U.S. this week, I wrote some words about why age verification laws threaten the security and privacy of everyone on the internet. By requiring people to upload their IDs, governments are sleepwalking the world into an inevitable data disaster.

For my newsletter and blog ~ this week in security ~

Read online: https://this.weekinsecurity.com/papers-please-age-verification-laws-threaten-everyones-online-security-and-privacy/

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Have a Fucking Website

https://www.otherstrangeness.com/2026/03/14/have-a-fucking-website/

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If you’re a hair salon, or a tattoo artist, or a restaurant, or whatever, please just have a fucking website where I can go and see your rates and hours. Not all of your potential clients are on these platforms, and I suspect that even many of the ones who are appreciate a simple, unadorned site that tells them what they need to know at a glance.
»

Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks his AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat” while increasing the power of working-class men.
“This technology disrupts humanities-trained—largely Democratic—voters, and makes their economic power less. And increases the economic power of vocationally trained, working-class, often male, working-class voters,” Karp said in a CNBC interview Thursday.
“And so these disruptions are gonna disrupt every aspect of our society. And to make this work, we have to come to an agreement of what it is we’re going to do with the technology; how are we gonna explain to people who are likely gonna have less good, and less interesting jobs.”

This sounds like a direct, long-term pitch to the GOP from a CEO whose tech firm already has numerous government contracts and is deeply embedded in the Pentagon.
Karp’s message is loud and clear:
My technology will take political capital away from one of your greatest enemies—liberal women with degrees—and give one of your favorite demographics to patronize—working-class men—more political power to transfer to you.
He’s aligning his technology with both GOP political strategy and the larger male-centered culture war that the right has been waging for the better part of a decade now.
And how exactly would his technology only hurt Democrat women?
Karp also made a Patriot Act–era argument, justifying his admittedly “dangerous” technology by claiming that Palantir will allow us to “be American” in the future.
“These technologies are dangerous societally,” Karp continued.
“The only justification you could possibly have would be that if we don’t do it, our adversaries will do it. And we will be subject to their rule of law.…
Why is it that we’re absorbing the risk of disrupting the very fabric of our society, including the most powerful parts of our society, if it’s not because it’s about maintaining our ability to be American in the near term and long term?”
https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

'Serious threat to the First Amendment' as Trump admin wins first Antifa terror charge

#DissentCriminalization #TrumpAdminOverreach #PoliticalPersecution #FirstAmendmentThreat #CriminalizingProtests

https://www.rawstory.com/serious-threat-to-the-first-amendment-as-trump-admin-wins-first-antifa-terror-charge/