I just had to update my numbers for a lecture, so here's your periodic reminder: Starlink is now 55% of ALL active satellites in orbit.
And given the recent news about that awful billionaire unilaterally deciding to cut of Starlink internet access to parts of the world whenever he wants to, this is extra important to share. Why did our governments effectively gift Low Earth Orbit to one awful dude? This is so bad.
After a Decade of Tracking Politicians’ Deleted Tweets, Politwoops Is No More
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Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, it has disabled the function we used to track the deleted Tweets of elected officials and political candidates — and the new method that Twitter says should identify deleted tweets appears to be broken.
Regardless of one's feelings about Twitter, this is a loss for transparency.
Thanks to @derekwillis for coming back to write this obit.
https://www.propublica.org/article/politwoops-deleted-tweets-twitter-politicians-musk
Whether officials were deleting an embarrassing post or just correcting a typo, Politwoops tracked them all. But service changes made after Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter have rendered it impossible for us to continue tracking these tweets.
My wife told me to take the spider out instead of killing him.
Went out. Had a few drinks. Nice guy. He's a web designer.
Specialises in debugging.
I keep saying journalists should leave Twitter and use Mastodon, which is better for them in every way. At TechDirt I've posted a somewhat lengthy why-and-how: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/01/04/journalists-and-others-should-leave-twitter-heres-how-they-can-get-started/
Have you heard the news yet? Yesterday, Judge Amit Mehta dismissed @[email protected]’s defamation lawsuit against our co-founders Sunita Viswanath, Raju Rajagopal, and 3 other US activists who speak out against the political ideology of Hindu nationalism.
In other words: WE WON!🎉
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Hindus4HR/status/1605686067973087232
“Have you heard the news yet? Yesterday, Judge Amit Mehta dismissed @HinduAmerican’s defamation lawsuit against our co-founders Sunita Viswanath, Raju Rajagopal, and 3 other US activists who speak out against the political ideology of Hindu nationalism. In other words: WE WON!🎉”
Good to be back after being locked out from my own account for several days because @[email protected] "cannot send a text message to this phone number, because its operator is not supported". In this case it is @[email protected] !!
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/nowisforever/status/1604919024533442560
We are deeply disturbed, but not surprised to see a lawmaker from India's ruling party argue that same-sex marriages violate "Hindu dharma" and are "unacceptable" in India.
Our Hindu faith inspires us to stand up for LGBTQ+ inclusion and dignity.
#LGBTQ
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Hindus4HR/status/1604939405461839872
Former @torproject core member Jacob Appelbaum's latest book
Communication in a World of Pervasive Surveillance
Sources and methods:
Counter-strategies against pervasive surveillance architecture
https://pure.tue.nl/ws/portalfiles/portal/197416841/20220325_Appelbaum_hf.pdf
"The two most prevalent surveillance adversaries are state and corporate actors, though in some situations there is no meaningful distinction between these."
Appelbaum discusses:
- network architecture
- cryptographic assurances
- 2 new protocols that offer new strategies
Prof. Sam Lawler
ProPublica
David Penfold 
The Last of her Name
Dan Gillmor
SunjayJK
another traveller
Daniel Heppner 
Sovereign Stack