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December 3, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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DAIR launched four years ago today, on the one year anniversary of my firing from Google.
We couldn't have done it without all of your support. That company could have destroyed my life but you didn't let it ❤️
Check out therojects we're working on at www.dair-institute.org/projects/. 🧵
We couldn't have done it without all of your support. That company could have destroyed my life but you didn't let it ❤️
Check out therojects we're working on at www.dair-institute.org/projects/. 🧵
Projects
An overview of projects at DAIR.
www.dair-institute.org
December 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
DAIR launched four years ago today, on the one year anniversary of my firing from Google.
We couldn't have done it without all of your support. That company could have destroyed my life but you didn't let it ❤️
Check out therojects we're working on at www.dair-institute.org/projects/. 🧵
We couldn't have done it without all of your support. That company could have destroyed my life but you didn't let it ❤️
Check out therojects we're working on at www.dair-institute.org/projects/. 🧵
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Wrote my first leaflet! This is about the threat-model of PLC & the current work we're doing to address that including making the directory more auditable
PLC Threat-modeling & Auditability
dholms.leaflet.pub
December 2, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Wrote my first leaflet! This is about the threat-model of PLC & the current work we're doing to address that including making the directory more auditable
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Missed Signal’s President @meredithmeredith.bsky.social on #Buitenhof?
About #Signal, the power of Big Tech, and why privacy matters.
Watch it back here🍿: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTD5...
Not using Signal yet? Try it out for free: signal.org/install
#signalapp #signalmessenger #privacy #whatsapp
About #Signal, the power of Big Tech, and why privacy matters.
Watch it back here🍿: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTD5...
Not using Signal yet? Try it out for free: signal.org/install
#signalapp #signalmessenger #privacy #whatsapp
About the power of Big Tech and the importance of privacy | Meredith Whittaker | Buitenhof
YouTube video by Buitenhof
www.youtube.com
December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Missed Signal’s President @meredithmeredith.bsky.social on #Buitenhof?
About #Signal, the power of Big Tech, and why privacy matters.
Watch it back here🍿: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTD5...
Not using Signal yet? Try it out for free: signal.org/install
#signalapp #signalmessenger #privacy #whatsapp
About #Signal, the power of Big Tech, and why privacy matters.
Watch it back here🍿: www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTD5...
Not using Signal yet? Try it out for free: signal.org/install
#signalapp #signalmessenger #privacy #whatsapp
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It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
November 27, 2025 at 4:39 PM
It happened! The @nytimes.com profiled Paulina!
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
The Writer Who Dared Criticize Silicon Valley
Paulina Borsook’s “Cyberselfish,” which offered dire predictions about the tech world’s love for libertarianism, is finding fans. It only took 25 years.
Gift Link:
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/27/t...
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We seem to be getting stupider when we could really use our wits. The antidote? Reading more. Also a good antidote against the evils of social media, from distraction to misinformation. And did I mention the pleasure of it? Don't miss out on the pleasure... #books
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
Is the decline of reading making politics dumber?
As people read less they think less clearly, scholars fear
www.economist.com
November 29, 2025 at 5:30 PM
We seem to be getting stupider when we could really use our wits. The antidote? Reading more. Also a good antidote against the evils of social media, from distraction to misinformation. And did I mention the pleasure of it? Don't miss out on the pleasure... #books
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
www.economist.com/culture/2025...
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In today’s ‘Vaccines Work, You Idiots’ news.
Incredible and enviable and with alt-text
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 AM
In today’s ‘Vaccines Work, You Idiots’ news.
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This once-overlooked invention from the 1800s was crucial in getting astronauts to the Moon 🌕
Follow us behind the scenes in the Ri Archives as @katysduncan.bsky.social uncovers the history of the Grove voltaic cell.
Follow us behind the scenes in the Ri Archives as @katysduncan.bsky.social uncovers the history of the Grove voltaic cell.
November 22, 2025 at 1:13 PM
This once-overlooked invention from the 1800s was crucial in getting astronauts to the Moon 🌕
Follow us behind the scenes in the Ri Archives as @katysduncan.bsky.social uncovers the history of the Grove voltaic cell.
Follow us behind the scenes in the Ri Archives as @katysduncan.bsky.social uncovers the history of the Grove voltaic cell.
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In August I delivered my traditional Go Cryptography State of the Union talk at @gophercon.com in New York.
It goes into everything at the intersection of Go and cryptography from the last year. (Also, bragging t-shirts!)
Watch the video or read the transcript of my performance review!
It goes into everything at the intersection of Go and cryptography from the last year. (Also, bragging t-shirts!)
Watch the video or read the transcript of my performance review!
The 2025 Go Cryptography State of the Union
I delivered my traditional Go Cryptography State of the Union talk at GopherCon US 2025 in New York. It goes into everything that happened at the intersection of Go and cryptography over the last…
words.filippo.io
November 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
In August I delivered my traditional Go Cryptography State of the Union talk at @gophercon.com in New York.
It goes into everything at the intersection of Go and cryptography from the last year. (Also, bragging t-shirts!)
Watch the video or read the transcript of my performance review!
It goes into everything at the intersection of Go and cryptography from the last year. (Also, bragging t-shirts!)
Watch the video or read the transcript of my performance review!
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📰 "#Privacy reforms face opposition from center and left groups but is welcomed by the right."
Read the full article, including various reactions to the "#DigitalOmnibus" proposal, here: 👉 www.politico.eu/article/ursu...
Read the full article, including various reactions to the "#DigitalOmnibus" proposal, here: 👉 www.politico.eu/article/ursu...
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
📰 "#Privacy reforms face opposition from center and left groups but is welcomed by the right."
Read the full article, including various reactions to the "#DigitalOmnibus" proposal, here: 👉 www.politico.eu/article/ursu...
Read the full article, including various reactions to the "#DigitalOmnibus" proposal, here: 👉 www.politico.eu/article/ursu...
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Among other topics, we discuss the sale of children in care.
They're worth roughly £100k each. The profit you can extract by sending them across the country to the cheapest housing in derelict places, cutting them off from all hope and contact, is off the scale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...
They're worth roughly £100k each. The profit you can extract by sending them across the country to the cheapest housing in derelict places, cutting them off from all hope and contact, is off the scale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...
How To Platform Socialist Ideas Through Billionaire Owned Channels | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski
YouTube video by Bold Politics with Zack Polanski
www.youtube.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Among other topics, we discuss the sale of children in care.
They're worth roughly £100k each. The profit you can extract by sending them across the country to the cheapest housing in derelict places, cutting them off from all hope and contact, is off the scale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...
They're worth roughly £100k each. The profit you can extract by sending them across the country to the cheapest housing in derelict places, cutting them off from all hope and contact, is off the scale. www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xx6...
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I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
How Labour Negate Progressive Ideas Through ‘Divide and Rule’ | George Monbiot | Zack Polanski
Podcast Episode · Bold Politics with Zack Polanski · 19/11/2025 · 40m
podcasts.apple.com
November 19, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I had a great conversation with the wonderful @zackpolanski.bsky.social on his podcast. Do please listen in. I don't think you'll have heard anything quite like it. And there's a LOT more here than the title suggests. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...
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❗🇪🇺 The ‘Digital Omnibus’ has now been officially presented by the European #Commission.👀��� Read all about what this means for the #GDPR on our website 👉 noyb.eu/en/digital-o...
Digital Omnibus: EU Commission wants to wreck core GDPR principles
The EU Commission has published its proposal for the "Digital Omnibus". The planned changes to the GDPR would lower protections for Europeans
noyb.eu
November 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
❗🇪🇺 The ‘Digital Omnibus’ has now been officially presented by the European #Commission.👀��� Read all about what this means for the #GDPR on our website 👉 noyb.eu/en/digital-o...
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📰 "With the 'Digital Omnibus', the #Commission claims to reduce burdens and simplify regulation for businesses. However, this premise rests on a misleading assumption: that Europe’s #innovation is being held back by excessive regulation."
Read more 👉 epicenter.works/en/content/d...
Read more 👉 epicenter.works/en/content/d...
Digital Omnibus: When “Simplification” Becomes a Security Risk
Under the banner of “simplification,” the European Commission plans to revise core pieces of digital protection: from data protection to cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. What sounds like cutting red tape could, in reality, erode Europe’s digital safeguards. Instead of clarity and strategic direction, fundamental rights, security, and trust risk being sacrificed to a misguided deregulatory logic.
epicenter.works
November 19, 2025 at 10:43 AM
📰 "With the 'Digital Omnibus', the #Commission claims to reduce burdens and simplify regulation for businesses. However, this premise rests on a misleading assumption: that Europe’s #innovation is being held back by excessive regulation."
Read more 👉 epicenter.works/en/content/d...
Read more 👉 epicenter.works/en/content/d...
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November 19, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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Obituary: George Smoot (1945-2025) Charismatic cosmologist who revealed ripples in the Big Bang’s afterglow
go.nature.com/4pzpLqj
go.nature.com/4pzpLqj
George Smoot obituary: Charismatic cosmologist who revealed ripples in the Big Bang’s afterglow
Nobel laureate who mapped temperature variations in the cosmic microwave background.
go.nature.com
November 17, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Obituary: George Smoot (1945-2025) Charismatic cosmologist who revealed ripples in the Big Bang’s afterglow
go.nature.com/4pzpLqj
go.nature.com/4pzpLqj
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Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
November 17, 2025 at 10:35 AM
Drumrolls, please! I’m thrilled to share the cover for my forthcoming #book from @doubledaybooks.bsky.social
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
(Penguin Random House), #PROPHECY. This is the best book I’ve written: the boldest, the most innovative, the most personal. I have poured my soul into it like never before. 1/
Dear @veilid.com devs. Love your work and energy, but I'm a bit confused why you decided to slag @signal.org in your docs:
From docs, "Why Veilid":
```
Consider popular communication applications:
* Signal (Collects metadata)
```
Of all the "competitors" Signal really tries to minimize metadata!
From docs, "Why Veilid":
```
Consider popular communication applications:
* Signal (Collects metadata)
```
Of all the "competitors" Signal really tries to minimize metadata!
November 14, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Dear @veilid.com devs. Love your work and energy, but I'm a bit confused why you decided to slag @signal.org in your docs:
From docs, "Why Veilid":
```
Consider popular communication applications:
* Signal (Collects metadata)
```
Of all the "competitors" Signal really tries to minimize metadata!
From docs, "Why Veilid":
```
Consider popular communication applications:
* Signal (Collects metadata)
```
Of all the "competitors" Signal really tries to minimize metadata!
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Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
November 12, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Understanding and Accelerating Collective Climate Action
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
Important new report from @fdabl.bsky.social, @jksteinberger.bsky.social, @swaziadam.bsky.social, @berglundoscar.bsky.social and other leading thinkers in the climate movement
A must read for all climate activists
zenodo.org/records/1758...
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✍️🇪🇺 noyb has signed an open letter alongside 126 other civil society organisations, trade unions and defenders of the public interest, urging the EU Commission to rethink its plans regarding the Digital Omnibus proposal.
👀 Read the full document here: noyb.eu/sites/defaul...
👀 Read the full document here: noyb.eu/sites/defaul...
November 13, 2025 at 8:07 AM
✍️🇪🇺 noyb has signed an open letter alongside 126 other civil society organisations, trade unions and defenders of the public interest, urging the EU Commission to rethink its plans regarding the Digital Omnibus proposal.
👀 Read the full document here: noyb.eu/sites/defaul...
👀 Read the full document here: noyb.eu/sites/defaul...
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🚨✉️ noyb has joined forces with EDRi
and @iccl.bsky.social to send an open letter to the EU Commission concerning the Digital Omnibus.
⚖️ We are seriously concerned about the potential threat that the internal draft poses to Europeans' fundamental rights.
More info 👇
noyb.eu/en/open-lett...
and @iccl.bsky.social to send an open letter to the EU Commission concerning the Digital Omnibus.
⚖️ We are seriously concerned about the potential threat that the internal draft poses to Europeans' fundamental rights.
More info 👇
noyb.eu/en/open-lett...
Open letter: Digital omnibus brings deregulation, not simplification
EDRi, the ICCL and noyb send a letter to the Commission expressing their concerns regarding the suggested Omnibus reform.
noyb.eu
November 11, 2025 at 12:49 PM
🚨✉️ noyb has joined forces with EDRi
and @iccl.bsky.social to send an open letter to the EU Commission concerning the Digital Omnibus.
⚖️ We are seriously concerned about the potential threat that the internal draft poses to Europeans' fundamental rights.
More info 👇
noyb.eu/en/open-lett...
and @iccl.bsky.social to send an open letter to the EU Commission concerning the Digital Omnibus.
⚖️ We are seriously concerned about the potential threat that the internal draft poses to Europeans' fundamental rights.
More info 👇
noyb.eu/en/open-lett...
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Self-hosting is a fun way to cut big tech platforms out of your life, but if the cops come knocking you need to know how to defend the privacy of you and your users. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
How Cops Can Get Your Private Online Data
Can the cops get your online data? In short, yes. There are a variety of US federal and state laws which give law enforcement powers to obtain information that you provided to online services. But,
www.eff.org
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Self-hosting is a fun way to cut big tech platforms out of your life, but if the cops come knocking you need to know how to defend the privacy of you and your users. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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⚖️📚 The #EUCommission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the #GDPR. If internal drafts become reality, this would have significant impact on people's fundamental right to #privacy and data protection.
👀 Read more here 👉 noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
👀 Read more here 👉 noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
EU Commission about to wreck core principles of the GDPR
The EU Commission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the GDPR. noybs first overview of the proposed changes.
noyb.eu
November 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
⚖️📚 The #EUCommission has secretly set in motion a potentially massive reform of the #GDPR. If internal drafts become reality, this would have significant impact on people's fundamental right to #privacy and data protection.
👀 Read more here 👉 noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...
👀 Read more here 👉 noyb.eu/en/eu-commis...