Posts by dangillmor@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #BA7iwPBrRmPoMkrvqC by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       Google has become an enemy of the open web, and it's increasingly locking down Android to dominate (with Apple) mobile computing. https://keepandroidopen.org/ A once-principled company gets more and more control-freakish, for money and power. Nothing Google does now is surprising, just predictable.
       
 (DIR) Post #BA8VgBqSByye64kloO by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       The Bulwark (among other sites) is, increasingly a bunch of podcasts. I don't have time to listen to them. I would read transcripts. Yes, I know that chatting with cronies and guests is easier than, you know, reporting and writing. Just not for me....
       
 (DIR) Post #BA9FrokwSRhTr2eq92 by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       @lauren Still better than no transcript.
       
 (DIR) Post #BA9LGWxuEyXtggKDS4 by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       If you support "age verification" online, you are supporting a system that GUARANTEES privacy meltdowns -- endangering all of us -- because the giant databases of scanned IDs are perpetually hacked by criminals who sell private data. https://www.techdirt.com/2026/09/03/hackers-had-a-live-feed-of-every-id-this-verification-company-scanned-for-over-a-year/
       
 (DIR) Post #BAHwqk9bbUtwCVfQIK by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       Con man Musk is one of our age's most monumental sleazes, and his hugely deceptive -- and dangerous to your privacy-- "votesafe" website is just one more egregious example. https://popular.info/p/the-hidden-dangers-of-musks-votesafeorg
       
 (DIR) Post #BAIbq0oWWwd6uLCitE by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       @Mascqueerade Have you contacted the Secretary of State's office to let them know? (or a local journalist)
       
 (DIR) Post #BALvVB7ZatupLqKyUC by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       The Trump regime's war on mail voting has so thoroughly corrupted the Postal Service that it will take years to restore any trust in an institution that has been a bedrock for countless communities around the nation. Today's example: https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/in-ominous-sign-usps-initially-rejected-florida-countys-mail-ballot-over-spacing-issue/?utm_campaign=13200977-Free%20Newsletter%20Emails&utm_medium=email&_hsmi=438680104&utm_content=438680104&utm_source=hs_email
       
 (DIR) Post #BANuVifl8iUBlrwRc0 by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       Updated (see my reply): Constantly, when I read articles on the NY Times website (Firefox in Android), the site pops up annoying "upgrade" offers and demands that I use the app. Is there any way to remove these vandalisms permanently?
       
 (DIR) Post #BAQ5S6psqYYRMk4uDw by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       @stellarsarah The archive sites (not including archive.org) are not trustworthy enough for me. https://www.tomshardware.com/software/search-engines/archive-today-allegedly-leads-bizarre-ddos-campaign-against-security-blogger-wikipedia-considers-removing-all-links-to-the-archive
       
 (DIR) Post #BAQ6AFIWkL9MLsWPiq by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       UPDATE: Looks like Ublock Origin has solved this, at least for now. The Element Picker zaps offending frames/elements. Whether this will be persistent, I'm not sure. But for now it's working.
       
 (DIR) Post #BARz8PNPzXiVfWuFBw by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       Putin-connected Russian oligarch's megabucks gift to Trump Jr. distills Trump world sleaze: flagrant graft and contempt for everyone not connected to by far the most corrupt crew ever in American business/politics. https://www.propublica.org/article/donald-trump-jr-wedding-bankrolled-russian-oligarch-umar-kremlev-putinGreat, great reporting by ProPublica.
       
 (DIR) Post #BAS4TyFk19BZggPski by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       Sheeran's capitulation to right-wing arena owners has so outraged other musicians that they're pulling out -- at great financial cost to themselves -- of his tour. https://www.nbcnews.com/pop-culture/pop-culture-news/finneas-aaron-rowe-exit-ed-sheeran-tour-protest-macklemore-dropped-pal-rcna597948
       
 (DIR) Post #BASUBYJSgUGBe4AvA0 by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/15/arts/music/kennedy-center-trump-name-inscription-judge-ruling.html Once again, Trump regime tells a federal court, "Up yours." And almost certainly, the judge will emit a few stern words and leave it at that. Rule of law? Please.
       
 (DIR) Post #BAWPj1qgT8njZtJSUK by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       The AI panic looks like an orchestrated con: The bosses of these rapacious, sleazy, and infinitely sloppy companies are angling for government permission to be a cartel. This would be followed, as certain as day follows night, by the bailout they all know they'll need when their bubble deflates.
       
 (DIR) Post #BAWQHrIJhYkEynqVns by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       Another fraud-slop empire thrives -- in part because Google lets it thrive (and profits in the meantime): https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/brown-brothers-media-ai-slop-empire
       
 (DIR) Post #BAcJWCysVYI8kNgwmO by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       If you use Fastmail for your email, you can now select to have your data reside in the EU rather than the US. If a nation state is out to spy on you, this won't fix much. But it does add a layer of surveillance protection in some ways. https://www.fastmail.help/hc/en-us/articles/16796454162063-Choosing-your-data-residency#howtoswitch
       
 (DIR) Post #BAcNv03G7ECjhgolDk by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       This is a worthy essay about the "This isn't who we are" trope, involving a white Texas businessman who suddenly awoke -- when it affected him and his fiance -- to our fascist reality. (The piece is somewhat repetitive, but I recommend it anyway.) https://www.the-reframe.com/this-is-us/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter#/share
       
 (DIR) Post #BAcRrpBaSOxix6SF4i by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       Serial liars like Trump and his apparatchiks have a huge advantage over people who tell the truth, because they can count on journalists to parrot the lies in their coverage, thereby giving equal weight to reality and bullshit. Example: Trump spokesperson quote in this story: https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/alan-ritchson-jack-reacher-novel-die-trying-1236870453/
       
 (DIR) Post #BAcWiUiPhENOd2BAlE by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       No one covers the pernicious, pervasive reality of American racism than Nikole Hannah-Jones, and this is a must-read example of her work: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/20/magazine/ny-public-schools-black-students-segregation.html?unlocked_article_code=1.C1E.if0i.qr8eUEpo23fN&smid=url-share
       
 (DIR) Post #BAcfd9NaUiNgb0xryS by dangillmor@mastodon.social
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       @Em0nM4stodon Linux phone? Still waiting for that...