Mastodawn

Instagram user fights DHS for the right to post ICE sightings anonymously
DHS is weirdly using import/export rules to expand its authority to identify online critics.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/01/instagram-user-fights-dhs-for-the-right-to-post-ice-sightings-anonymously/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Jason Untulis Jan 14

Clive Thompson Jan 13

What's it like applying for a job for ICE?

Over at Slate, a writer -- who's both a US veteran and has a long record of being very vocally anti-ICE online -- went to an ICE recruitment expo

Link if you subscribe to Slate: https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2026/01/ice-recruitment-minneapolis-shooting.html

Free link, if you don't: https://archive.is/791rH

the tl;dr is ...

... they offered her a job, in a process that seemed so haphazard and sloppy that she concludes they're not doing serious background checks

as she puts it ...

Jason Untulis Jun 20, 2025

Tim Bray Jun 20, 2025

https://petapixel.com/2025/06/20/once-in-a-lifetime-photo-of-iss-crossing-the-sun-as-solar-flare-erupts/

‘Once in a Lifetime’ Photo of ISS Crossing the Sun as Solar Flare Erupts

Solar flares simply cannot be planned for.

PetaPixel

Jason Untulis Jun 20, 2025

Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch)

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Jun 20, 2025

Me and the gang about to do gang shit (nap all day)

Jason Untulis Jun 11, 2025

The best kind of Terms of Use…

Jason Untulis Mar 25, 2025

Kevin Beaumont Mar 24, 2025

Tip: in case you lose your phone and so all your Signal chat histories, add a reporter or hostile nation state to your group chats for free backup and recovery.

Jason Untulis Mar 25, 2025

Matt Blaze Mar 24, 2025

Signal provides:

- Excellent protection against third party interception of communications (wiretapping).

- Limited protection against compromised (hacked) or lost devices

- No protection against certain common usage mistakes (accidentally including a reporter in your large group war planning chat).

Jason Untulis Feb 23, 2025

Adrianna Tan Feb 21, 2025

i don't know how anyone working at meta can post gleefully that meta is hiring a ton and you should consider working there

Jason Untulis Feb 23, 2025

Lesley Carhart

Feb 22, 2025

Firing America’s senior military leadership overnight and replacing them with party loyalists is definitely dictatorship stuff, if anyone is under a rock right now.

Jason Untulis Jan 5, 2025

🎉 I just finished Day 27 of the #100DaysOfSwiftUI at https://www.hackingwithswift.com/100/swiftui/27 via @twostraws

Day 27 – 100 Days of SwiftUI

Follow the 100 Days of SwiftUI and learn to build apps for free.

Hacking with Swift