RE: @magdelenehall@mastodon.social
You're always building for what the next team gets to use. Consider what people with the opposite morality, ethics or vision that you have would do with it.
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Andrew 🄵 Lyons
@aiefel@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Technologist for the humans and misanthrope for the machines. Works on digital safety and information security for media and good orgs. Opinions are my own and subject to drift.
NOTE: Toots are on a 7-day auto-delete. My content is here for a good time, not a long time.
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Each year on April 5th is a resurrection day for this platform.
https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive
AI can take all the serious jobs and do whatever with them if we can just have these kinds of opportunities in exchange.
"Now, with the authorities increasingly on the hunt for Starlink terminals, Sahand and his network are advising users to use VPNs with the satellite technology in order to remain incognito. But many people cannot afford it, particularly at a time of economic crisis."
People really need better satellite access safety advice in Farsi. The VPN will just hide your ip from the destination, not how you got on the internet.
For All Mankind is the new West Wing. A distracting alternate timeline of escapism from the current one.
An important thread on what the future of Iran's internet is looking like...
The White House is engaging in market manipulation and insider trading but since it de facto runs Congress and the SEC what would be the levers to do anything about that?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge0grppe3po
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"Access Now, the group that organizes RightsCon, says Zambian officials asked it to exclude Taiwanese participants if it wanted the event to proceed as planned."
https://www.wired.com/story/the-chinese-government-pressured-zambia-to-cancel-the-worlds-largest-digital-rights-conference/
No, the chatbot didn't cure that dog's cancer: https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/04/05/no-the-chatbot-didnt-cure.html
C'mon, we've all ended up at a Waffle House without remembering how we got there at one time or another.
'Maxxing' anything sounds exhausting.
"“So much of our past has been shaped by this petty proceduralism. You could draw a straight line between an amendment in Brussels and a mass grave in Kazakhstan.” — Molly Crabapple, ‘Here Where We Live is Our Country’"
A lot of banging great lines in this book!
"Trump and Hegseth have been on a clear mission to politicize the U.S. military, and to turn it into an armed extension of the MAGA movement. Hegseth regularly proselytizes, both for Trump and for his right-wing evangelical beliefs, from the Pentagon podium."
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/hegseths-war-on-americas-military/686676/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweOjqTICKuzNh9QyRxzLxl1I&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver: https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/04/02/wild-geese-by-mary-oliver.html
Cloudflare released a Wordpress competitor.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/
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@xgranade so glad my teen turned 18 last month before this kind of stuff really landed, but it's awful for parents and kids and everyone else.
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Middle collapse is so annoying. It's like that person at Christmas who's just so gentle with removing the wrapping paper.
It's amazing that there are still organisations that think they need to buy up ever permutation of their name in domains as a way of thwarting imitators. It's a really expensive and fruitless thing to do and throwing away cash that could really be doing better work elsewhere.
Sometimes not knowing the context of something is nice. I can just scroll by whatever it is, happily out of the loop.
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RightsCon would have started today but China used its authority in Zambia to block it. Currently in an event that switched to online, but the reality that the world is shrinking for pro-democracy and rights-based civil society collaboration is just fact. https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/05/01/something-broke-in-lusaka.html
I'm just an R2 unit with a bad motivator today.
I think about this scene from Deep Space 9 a lot.
https://youtu.be/-D2SHNqkjbY?is=HXtrf-p8DOpYA6rR
It's an exciting time to be alive for system complexity theory people.
The teen has sent me this TikTok.
@salvadorlerma@www.tiktok.com