Old Fucking Punk @lwriemen@librem.one

"...Mahmood is effectively telling the British public that they are prisoners and that the government quite literally plans to become Big Brother using AI. Yet there is barely a word about it in the media (with the notable exceptions of The Telegraph and The National). This, of course, is also a feature, not a bug."

https://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2026/01/uk-home-secretarys-surprisingly-candid-admission-about-real-reason-for-ai-surveillance-state.html

So tell me, how do you feel about TikTok in the US now opening ways for systems like Palantir and others that "assist" ICE to access the user data? Allowing the US to do what they accused China to do, surveillance, when avoiding that was the original reason for the whole fight?

(Gift article) https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/22/technology/tiktok-deal-oracle-bytedance-china-us.html?unlocked_article_code=1.GlA.Ch28.MfmfMNfXD4Hr&smid=url-share

Ben Jennings (Guardian) on the Tangerine Tyrants' (so-called) Board of Peace.

#politics #Trump

It doesn’t matter if you’re Republican or Dem… if after seeing the carnage in Minnesota you vote to give ICE more money… you’ve betrayed your constituents.

You’ve betrayed the country.

People have been disabled, killed or disappeared.

The only answer is to abolish ICE.

You can’t detain a 5 year old child.

If a masked man grabs a kid off the street and puts him in an unmarked car… that’s kidnapping.

If that child is then sent to another state? That’s trafficking.

Language matters here.

What happened to Liam Ramos should outrage us all.

#uspol
#liamramos #minnesota #abolishice

"Minneapolis needs your help, your money, your supplies, absolutely right now. But so does the community you live in. We are all we have..."

Essential reading from Dan SInker.

https://dansinker.com/posts/2026-01-21-all-we-have/

LISTEN: EFF’s @evacide gave a crash course on cybersecurity threat modeling on the latest episode of KQED’s Close All Tabs podcast. https://www.kqed.org/news/12070531/your-digital-footprint-reveals-more-than-you-think

The supposed ceasefire has not stopped Israel's massacre of journalists in Gaza.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2026/01/21/israel-strike-journalists-gaza-cbs-news

“A young, 20-something guy will never have sight again in one of his eyes because of the actions of LAPD. His crime? Taking a photograph?” FPF's Adam Rose tells Kate Cagle on Spectrum News 1.

“The reality is that these munitions cause life-altering injuries.”

What's going on in Trump's messed-up hand? Preview of the new comic, up now on Patreon. https://patreon.com/brianmcfadden

BREAKING: The Trump admin apparently tried to bring charges against journalist Don Lemon for covering a protest inside a church, but a magistrate judge immediately rejected them.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/22/politics/don-lemon-justice-department-minnesota

A free press can’t exist in a surveillance state.

Geofence warrants allow the government to collect location data on everyone, including journalists and whistleblowers.

A Supreme Court case could make it worse. Here’s how.

https://freedom.press/issues/supreme-court-could-greenlight-geofence-warrants/

Best Poison Idea release?? (I can’t add more options)

🔵 This week's Tom the Dancing Bug!
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Percival Dunwoody, Idiot Time-Traveler from 1909, and his urgent mission to save the timeline from a crazed dictator!
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@mkwadee

The Guardian's "Today in Focus" podcast had an episode about this a couple days ago. Rare earth mineral rights for a crony appears to be the answer.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/jan/20/why-donald-trump-really-wants-greenland-podcast

Is there a way to approximate traceroute between two machines neither of which I have access to? Internet searches found nothing. (I know it might be a strange question, but the security and privacy aware will have a hunch what this is about.) Feel free to DM me if you need more info.

#dns #routing #CyberSecurity #privacy

Excellent scifi author @naomikritzer, who's also quite active in political convos, has written about sensible stuff folks outside of MN can do right now (which includes a link to her other post for folks in MN, if that's where you are).

https://naomikritzer.com/2026/01/21/how-to-help-if-you-are-outside-minnesota/

#USPol #ICE #Minnesota

Two Major Studies, 125,000 Kids: The Social Media Panic Doesn’t Hold Up - https://www.techdirt.com/2026/01/21/two-major-studies-125000-kids-the-social-media-panic-doesnt-hold-up/ "Australia’s ban may be taking kids who would have been moderate users with good outcomes and forcing them into the “no use” category that the study associates with worse well-being. "

The Post-American Era has started. Time to get to work. Humility, this time, would be a good stating point.

> This fiction was useful, and American hegemony, in particular, helped provide public goods, open sea lanes, a stable financial system, collective security and support for frameworks for resolving disputes. So we placed the sign in the window. We participated in the rituals, and we largely avoided calling out the gaps between rhetoric and reality.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/21/mark-carney-davos-canadian-prime-minister-donald-trump-new-world-order

My partner was listening to an Instagram clip where Donald Trump said that someone called him "daddy", and I immediately stopped her and said "Ah, that's probably AI generated, that and the Iceland gaffe sounds like something that was made up, even though I do hate him"

It uh, was apparently real, and what the FUCK is going on? Just absolutely unbelievable