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  Google knows me.

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  Psst. The chatbot is not the problem. I mean, it totally is, but whoo boy this is a just a round robin of catastrophe and stupid. https://www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/politics/us-military-ai-false-intelligence-china-ship

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  If AI agents are given adequate latitude to execute cyber attacks, prosecute the people running the companies where this is happening.

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  I hear flavors of this argument a lot: "It is the output that counts, not how it is made" This is the foie gras argument. cc @neil@mastodon.neilzone.co.uk

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  For your consideration: this bunny.

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  This story is bad on its own. https://www.chicagotribune.com/2026/07/07/waymo-car-reports-drinking-teens/ Now, think of how much worse it will be with cameras pointed at drivers faces in every new car, legally required in 2027. If you think those cameras won't be transformed into surveillance tools in the name of "safety" you are beyond help.

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  If you work in a school district and want to get a sense of how the tech used in your district works, reach out! I'm working with some folks on answering some foundational questions around privacy and security implications of commonly used edtech. Details on the program here: https://a4l.org/introducing-the-data-observations-do-program-technical-testing-built-by-the-community/ And the core of what we use is here: https://codeberg.org/funnymonkey/hopscotch

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  If politicians were serious about keeping people safe online (and yes - kids deserve safety, and non-kids do as well) they would address the business models that incentivize harm -- ie. data brokers, adtech, etc. And they don't do that, because they want the surveillance. Want to make the internet safer? Address Facebook, Insta, TikTok, etc -

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  You mean there is no honor among thieves? :shocked face dot gif:

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  Imagine being required to take a polygraph because your boss is a drunk. This toot is about working in the FBI.

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  Systems rolling out age assurance are creating an invaluable dataset of verifiable identities of people who are susceptible to scams. When the breaches happen, the criminals will thank everyone for participating.

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  As always, @PogoWasRight has a good rundown of the data breach -- in this case, the Instructure breach. Edit: forgot to add the link! https://databreaches.net/2026/05/03/instructure-discloses-second-data-breach-in-less-than-a-year/

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  This is a rip of a post. https://www.stvn.sh/writing/programming-still-sucks-fqffhyp

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  This is the internet on Age Verification. This was on a search page; my search string was related to a technical issue (an error message on a shell script).

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  Instructure data breach looks very not good. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-canvas-instructure-breach-275m-users/

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  Keeping communities safe by creeping on kids. While this story is about Flock, it is equally true for all of the other "we watch you always because we care" tech that is sold as "safety" but is better understood as state sanctioned creeping. And remember: for every story like this that breaks, there are hundreds to thousands of adults who see cameras creeping on kids and think it's fine. https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-...

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  Most immediately, I wish the best for Christian Hergert and his family. And this seems like a monumental fuckup by Red Hat. https://www.newinlinux.com/christian-hergert-a-core-gnome-maintainer-has-stepped-down/

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  I hope all these newly unemployed people who were supporting fascism get a chance to talk to AI Zuckerberg as their exit interview: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/23/technology/meta-layoffs.html Seriously -- if you are working at Facebook (or X, etc, etc) in 2026 -- why? What's your rationale?

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  I have been working really hard not to write a piece on how the edtech industry has created fertile ground for resentment -- which has in turn made a great climate for grifters. tl;dr the edtech industry has set the stage for this backlash, and kids and teachers will pay the price. And to be clear: the reasons behind the backlash are well earned and spot on.

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  This is fine. https://www.ft.com/content/43bc927b-683d-417e-aa13-a9b4a933418b

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  We need to stop talking about companies like Palantir *enabling* abuses. That's incomplete and inaccurate. Companies like Palantir don't just enable able abuse. They make more aggressive abuse possible. They make it so the abusers have an endless supply of targets. Companies like Palantir make bad situations exponentially worse. https://www.wired.com/story/palantir-employees-are-starting-to-wonder-if-theyre-the-bad-guys/

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  I have been seeing more claims of people/orgs doing "forensic analysis" that are neither forensic or analysis. It really makes it more difficult to do good work.

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  If your solution to bad age verification is "better" age verification, you are part of the problem. Reject surveillance. Age verification is a tool and a goal of fascists.

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  Sure. Forcing people to prove their age definitely keeps people safe. Except, you know, when it doesn't. https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-brussels-launched-age-checking-app-hackers-say-took-them-2-minutes-break-it/

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  Age assurance does the heavy lifting of making sure adtech/surveillance companies can identify people after cookies go away. They "care" about privacy by setting in place a system that violates our privacy more absolutely -- and via regulatory requirement.

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  Apple, hard at work bending the knee to Trump and union busting. https://www.thebanner.com/economy/growth-development/towson-town-center-apple-store-closing-AZ2PAMPQLZBTFBQVMP724REUTE/

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  You can't have bixonomania without AI. Literally. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01100-y

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  The fact that both Trump and Putin support Orbán is not remotely surprising.

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  Well done, Hungary. Really hoping the current projections hold and the incoming government gets a supermajority.

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  Chicken under a brick, and veggie skewers.