The "marketplace of ideas" was always a flawed metaphor. Ideas don't compete on merit; they compete on memetic fitness—how easily they spread, how good they make believers feel, and how effectively they suppress competing ideas.
So, send an email or DM that even passes through a Windows machine with Recall turned on and it's screenshotted, swept into OCR, processed by Copilot and stashed away in perpetuity. Recall reminds me a lot of the backdoor the FBI wanted Apple to build. The FBI said it would be safe because only the FBI would have access to it. Apple rightly pointed out that no, something that powerful would inevitably get hacked and abused in ways no one could control. Now, Microsoft is trying to say that the guardrails it has put on Recall will curb any unintended consequences and we're supposed to take that at face value?
I've just been told that John Young of Cryptome.org passed away last week.
#Cryptome was foundational, and a predecessor to organizations like @ddosecrets and #Wikileaks.
RIP, John.
concept: a show like ramsay's kitchen nightmares, but about software instead
"i'm at spunkchute, a SaaS company that owes $2 million to AWS and is on the brink of closure”
"oh my [bleep] god. the main database server is running Ubuntu 8.04 and has two backdoors and a coin miner. SHUT. IT. DOWN.”
Sam Altman’s Studio Ghibli memes are another distraction from OpenAI’s money troubles
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/27/sam-altmans-studio-ghibli-memes-are-another-distraction-from-openais-money-troubles/ -text
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38T84uF771U - video
European colonisers going around the world deciding who's a godless heathen while also praying to and wearing little scale models of the device their ancestors used to execute God.
The Pentagon has buried names of all prominent military and public figures at Arlington National Cemetary who are black, Hispanic, or female, so as not to be seen as doing '#DEI' work by listing them. It's just white men now. That's #MAGA in a nutshell.
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/15/nx-s1-5328802/arlington-national-cemetery-stops-highlighting-some-historical-figures-on-its-website
Let it be known that I too will accept $2 billion in funding on the promise that I will not release anything until I have created God.
Sure, it's totally normal for the US to cover up indefensible and ongoing atrocities by Russia.
"The Trump administration cut funding to Yale University’s Humanitarian Research Lab, which was compiling a database of alleged Russian war crimes, including the abduction of an estimated 35,000 children from occupied areas of Ukraine, last month."
"Using satellite imagery and other surveillance systems provided through the US government, the Yale researchers were monitoring 116 sites in Russia."
"A Yale source said the US state department deleted the evidence which would have been used as part of rescue efforts to get the children home to Ukraine. It would also have been used to prosecute those behind their abductions – including Russian president Vladimir Putin."
More reporting from USAToday:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2025/03/19/trump-abducted-ukrainian-kids/82541604007/