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(with as little math as possible)

This week, 404 Media speaks to Harlo Holmes from Freedom of the Press Foundation about how to fight back against privacy nihilism, digital security practices everyone can use, and the arrests of journalists in the U.S.

Watch/subscribe here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chcNrDPhfo0

Large ongoing tor network Sybil attack with over 8400 relays started 2026-02-04 04:49.

Currently over 900 relays are still on the tor network.

https://metrics.torproject.org/rs.html#search/contact:[email protected]%20running:true%20

https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/w/contact/32cb0861adc94fe7853fb21328e94596.html
https://nusenu.github.io/OrNetStats/w/contact/7bc6e288b32929b0bce0857f5e80481f.html

"Of all the tools that I use to maintain my equilibrium in these dark days, none is so important as remembering the distinction between happiness, optimism and hope."

An important reminder from the brilliant @pluralistic:

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/15/how-the-light-gets-in/#theories-of-change

Just discovered @pluralistic was on The Daily Show a few weeks ago.

**Highlights**:

> "The real culprits are the policy makers... [who guarantee] that people who do the worst things in the worst way will make the most money."

> "Google hasn't made a successful product this millennium."

> "Get rid of the parasitic billionaires who sit in the middle and ruin everything."

Great interview w/ Ronnie Chieng. (16 min)
Watch it on that most enshittified video platform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5nE

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115848576290992814

Really love this elegant and pointed description of #SoftwareEngineering from @pluralistic which immediately enters my personal hall of fame:

“Writing code is about making code that runs well. Software engineering is about making code that fails well.”

This pairs really well with Douglas Adams who once talked about the same topic (more or less) in his own, very funny way:

“The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.”

Practically every tangentially related to work external meeting I have had with other Canadians in the last year has included a segue where all parties discussed taking steps to diversify away from US infra/software/orgs.

It's the kind of activity where nothing seems to be happening, until it happens all at once.

e.g. We began researching, negotiations, and planning early in 2025 and only actually started migrating systems in December. We will begin cancelling contracts later this month.

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115826517559900842

this question reminded me of why i need y’all to listen to Cory’s speech at #39c3 : Cory is a master at turning upside-down fascist techbro lingo & framing.
https://archive.org/details/doctorow-39c3

it’s not FEES, it’s privatized taxes. it’s not DRM, it’s racketeering protection.

more importantly: he shows how USA used the threat of tariffs to protect the oligarchy’s rackets. Trump’s #tariffs unilaterally break those agreements.

Trump is gifting the world with the codes to blowup the USA oligarchy. use them.

CORRECTION!
Turns out the Reddit post I shared isn’t credible so I’m retracting screenshots.
These things only distract from the real issues, which are serious enough on their own.

I do believe the exploitation & manipulation concerns are legitimate though.
The Human Rights Watch’s report does lay out thoroughly, how platforms exploit workers, underpay them, & avoid responsibility -all while framing it as progress.

Worth a read even if the whistleblower post was fake

https://www.hrw.org/report/2025/05/12/the-gig-trap/algorithmic-wage-and-labor-exploitation-in-platform-work-in-the-us