Major alarm bells over this. Bessent wants US banks to require customers send in copies of their passports etc. to prove citizenship, which would be far beyond the know-your-customer checks that they're required to do already. Implies this could result in closing bank accounts over non-compliance.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/banks-citizenship-data-collection-customer-accounts.html

Can someone explain @filippo's post to me like I'm a 5-year-old?

https://words.filippo.io/128-bits/

Can confirm this for Arc, Brave, Edge, Chromium, and Vivaldi on my machine:

#Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop
https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware/

DDos (Distributed Denial of Service) attack against BlueSky a few days ago: The whole network goes down.

DDoS against mastodon.social today: Lots of users on that instance impacted, the rest of the Fediverse keeps on running, my instance doesn't really notice, messages will be queued up until mastodon.social is reachable again.

Both networks claim to be decentralised and federated. You decide :)

🍊 Glowing Persephone — By Bacon in Houston, Texas 🇺🇸 #4 Made You Love Art (10 Photos): https://streetartutopia.com/2026/04/20/new-street-art-and-mural-designs/

💡 Myth Fact: The pomegranate is the dangerous little detail in Persephone’s story. In the ancient myth, after Persephone eats pomegranate seed in the underworld, she cannot fully return to the world above and must spend part of each year with Hades, a story often tied to the cycle of the seasons.

Elephants are born weighing 250 Ibs. They are the biggest babies on earth except for Motorists when one bike lane is added in their city.

#urbanism #bikes #bikecommuting #fuckcars #motonormativity #cars #transportation #trucks #highways #roads #bikelane #bikelanes