The Fury 🐧💻❗️🔥
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UNIX admin with a BS in Cybersecurity (or just full of BS on Cybersecurity?). SEC+ & former infosec guy. Not really former though. You can take the guy out of the security but you can't take the security outta the guy, guy.
Cory DoctorowThe most important part of any law, rule or policy isn't what it permits or prohibits - it's whether you can *enforce* the law at all.
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https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/25/fact-intensive#market-definition
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hackadayUS FCC Prohibits Approval of New Foreign-Made Consumer Routers
https://hackaday.com/2026/03/24/us-fcc-prohibits-approval-of-new-foreign-made-consumer-routers/
The most selectively believed-in verse in the conservative catechism is the idea that "incentives matter."
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Enshittification takes place when companies can move value around. Digital tools make this easier than ever to do, for example, by changing prices on a per-user, per-session basis, using surveillance data to predict the highest price or lowest wage a user will accept:
https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/19/twiddler/
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https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/23/nobodys-home/#squeeze-that-hog
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Electronic Frontier FoundationWhen lawmakers and advocacy groups frame queer existence itself as a threat to young people, age-verification laws become ideological enforcement instead of regulatory policy. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control
Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control
What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.
Elisabeth AlbaCaturday activated!!! Watch out!! 😼✨
Mini prints and stickers of these curious cats at http://albaillustration.etsy.com
#cats #caturday #magic #witch #illustration #art #fediart #mastoart
Prof. Sam LawlerSpaceX's highly paid lawyers responded to the hundreds of comments and oppositions submitted to the FCC in one letter, that basically shows they didn't actually read our petitions to deny. And now we astronomers and dark sky advocates who are volunteering our time have to do a shitload more work to respond to their non-response. By Friday.
Fuck you, SpaceX.
Fedilab Apps#PawFed is a project close to my heart. It's a collaborative map for animal welfare that bridges the #Fediverse and #OpenStreetMap.
The idea: mention @PawFed from your Mastodon account with hashtags and a location, and your report appears on the map. No signup, no app, just your existing Fediverse account.
It's not perfect yet, but the foundation is there. I will publish the source code soon under AGPL.
William Gibson is one of history's most quotable sf writers: "The future is here, it's not evenly distributed"; "Don't let the little fuckers generation-gap you"; "Cyberspace is everting"; and the immortal: "The street finds its own uses for things":
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Gibson
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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/2026/03/17/technopolitics/#original-sin
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