Ambrose Andrews @znalo@librem.one

You honestly want me to believe that “Hamas” was in every single one of those houses? Every building on every street? As far as the eye can see?
https://bird.makeup/users/clashreport/statuses/1974575887791358275

Someone found Discord's honey pot of user data caused by needing to have proof of ID for UK and AU laws..

Yeah, we said this would happen, and it is happening already

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/oct/07/discord-data-breach-proof-of-age-id-leaked

Side point on #ChatControl: When I worked on the law in the European Parliament, in the face of questionably legal, and highly problematic behavior by DG HOME, I prepared a whitepaper on why it was such a terrible Idea.

As it is in the public interest, I have decided to make that white paper public.

https://jmaris.me/chatcontrol_issues.pdf

Open letter to Starmer from prominent Scottish Jews: https://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/25522207.jews-beg-not-let-manchester-attack-weaponised/

🚨 New preprint out🚨 now, why has Antarctica stopped (net) losing mass?
We explore how declining sea ice but mostly increasingly heavy and frequent atmospheric rivers have actually led to a small increase in the mass of #Antarctica, in spite of increased discharge from outlet glaciers.

The increase is unlikely to be sustained, and a small increase in calving or discharge over the grounding line can easily turn it upside down, but nevertheless another long-term prediction about the Antarctic appears to becoming true.

Lots of important subtleties in this one!

In review at Nature communications but I feel it's too important to wait for the review process.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03590

Analysis: Hamas’s Strategic Gamble

Trump’s overarching message in his plan "was that Palestinians must surrender their fight for liberation & submit to subjugation."

The challenge was to craft a response to Trump "that would assert the Palestinian right to self-determination while persuading [him] to force Israel to cease its genocidal war."

This article is a deep & detailed description of the issue:

https://www.dropsitenews.com/p/hamas-response-trump-ceasefire-gaza-israel-netanyahu-dermer-witkoff-kushner

#GazaGenocide #USPol #EuroPol #Racism #BDS #palestine @palestine .

In solidarity with the Global Sumud Flotilla.

Turn off location permissions for as many apps as you can. (3/4)

Here’s the lightning sketch of Paul’s Treatise Against Efficiency that I’ve never written:

1. Efficiency is asymptotically inefficient: as costs approach zero, the cost of further reducing them approaches infinity.
2. Efficiency prioritizes the measurable over the difficult-to-measure.
3. Efficiency prioritizes what those in power see (or imagine) over on-the-ground reality.
4. Following from 2 and 3, efficiency reduces the amount and quality of information flowing into a human system.
5. Efficiency foments institutional inflexibility.
6. By removing slack, efficiency causes small failures to cascade more readily and increases the risk of catastrophic failure.
7. Following rom 4, 5, and 6, efficiency trades small costs for massive risks: from failures, from missed opportunities, and from inability to adjust.
8. Efficiency, when pushed, strangles the emergent phenomena that in the long term create all new things of value.
9. Efficiency, when pushed, strangles joy.

Horrific scenes inside #alShifa as patients flee under Israeli fire

The Israeli army used fire belts, which are incendiary weapons that cause flames to rise across a strip of land, and deployed explosive-laden vehicles around the hospital as military units advanced from the northern and eastern sides of the #hospital.

Medical staff said the bombardments led to the suspension of many procedures as doctors and nurses could not reach the hospital and some were killed in the attacks.

#Gaza
#news

I've investigated the Israeli arms industry for years and this is the first time that I can recall its future is at least a little challenged.
It's why more states need to step up and not buy Israeli weapons or surveillance tech:
https://www.ynetnews.com/business/article/hjdxvt8hee

Nesrine Malik on Harris' book, a bracingly candid assessment

"a politician who is all about the machinery of politics, rather than one with conviction spurred by a sense of duty, or a coherent and specific set of values that differentiate her. The “not a thing that comes to mind” answer she gave when asked during the campaign if there was anything she would have done differently to Biden was not caution, but the truth. There is no sign here that she would have liked to meaningfully diverge on Gaza, for example, other than to introduce more parity in the rhetoric of compassion. Or any indication that she would have liked to grasp the nettle on economic policy"

#usPol #democrats #whatHaveYouGot #theyMayBeJustAsVacuousAsTheySeem

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/sep/29/kamala-harris-memoir-election-campaign-democrats-deluded

💻 Did you know that there are technologies prioritizing life over profits? Our new research documents how autonomous and community providers are already building sustainable technological infrastructures from the bottom up.

📖 Read the report Actions for Environmental Justice through Autonomous and Community Technological Infrastructures: https://mayfirst.coop/es/post/2025/justicia-ambiental-infra/ A collaboration between @sursiendo and @mayfirst

#EnvironmentalJustice #AutonomousTechnologies #DigitalSustainability

Australian Federal Police are using encrypted messaging app Signal (which has auto-delete message capabilities) work purposes, at the same time as it criticises social media companies for embracing the technology.

An AFP spokesperson says it complies with all record-keeping requirements

https://www.crikey.com.au/2025/09/26/australian-police-encrypted-message-app-signal-afp/

theory: 'Deep work' is just what we called normal cognitive function before we broke our brains with notification systems designed by teams of PhDs whose literal job is to make the casino irresistible

The Dynamic Coalition on Community Connectivity anual edition was devoted this year to Self Sustaining Financing solutions for community connectivity. A growing path towards promoting partnerships for finding and developing innovative solutions for community-centred connectivity financing.

Find the edition here https://www.apc.org/en/pubs/self-sustaining-financing-solutions-community-connectivity-official-outcome-un-igf-dynamic

#SustainableConnectivity
#InnovativeFinancing
#CommunityNetworks