I'm pretty sure this came to my attention from someone here on fedi, because I have people for whom this is catnip: "Refusal As Instruction," Hannah Cyrus, Information Technology and Libraries, March 2026.

https://ital.corejournals.org/index.php/ital/article/view/17653/11960

Six pages of an excellent sermon about how public libraries especially need to think about privacy more, and possibly put some friction between a user and their goal, if the frictionless option goes to privacy-intrusive companies.

(Now, if IT would just *listen*...)

Kind and cherished FOSS and computing freedom advocate @sleepyowl (Joyce Ng) has gone missing and there is reason to fear she may have been apprehended by authorities, possibly likely even for being framed. Nobody has been able to reach her and many of us are worried for her safety.

Joyce does work on verifiable open source hardware. She also has been an activist pushing against the rise of far-right Christian nationalism globally but especially in Singapore. Because of this and her identity, she has people who would like to see bad things happen to her.

Probably for this reason, she may have been misidentified by Five Eyes as being a threat actor. Joyce wrote about this concern in November, posting a threatening screenshot where she was tipped off. https://bitowl.online/about

Please spread this wide. Hopefully this is a false alarm but Joyce is a kind-hearted person who fights for human rights and computing freedom; many of us are worried for her safety.

RE: https://newsie.social/@TheNeedling/116245945657584246

Today former Washington Congressional candidate Joe Kent stepped down from his Trump-appointed counter-terrorism director position to oppose the president’s war on brown people in Iran, saying it’s high time that the U.S. instead invest in wars against brown people at home.