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Lindsay Deibler-Wallace, assistant head of Upper School, took no action to protect them after telling parents that “boys will be boys.” arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

High school defends staying silent while boys made AI nudes of 59 classmatesGaps in laws may help Pennsylvania high school escape AI nudes scandal.arstechnica.com

For the first time in 20-something years, I have run out of checks and must order a new checkbook. Europeans of a certain age will not even understand what this sentence means.

I spend a lot of time explicitly making the connection between interpersonal surveillance/abuse and government surveillance. Sometimes I see people claim that the Internet Freedom set only cares about govt surveillance and I wonder if they either don't know my work or they think I don't count.

"A few weeks ago, a self-driving Waymo-brand taxi in San Mateo, California delivered two children into the hands of the police." A @margaret.bsky.social short story gets the Torment Nexus treatment. margaretkilljoy.substack.com/p/when-they-...

When They Insist Upon the Torment Nexusor: your car should not drive you to jailmargaretkilljoy.substack.com

EFF is based in San Francisco, so we take surveillance here very personally. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Why Are Gay Bars Building Databases of Their Patrons?Recent reports have raised alarm about the use of PatronScan, an ID-checking and face-scanning system, at multiple LGBTQ+ bars in San Francisco’s Castro neighborhood. For venues serving vulnerable com...www.eff.org

Love to see a "no pervert glasses" policy at DEFCON.

Rapists primarily show solidarity with other rapists. www.thehandbasket.co/p/exclusive-...

Exclusive: Political operative behind Graham Platner's rise accused of sexual assaultA spokesperson for Daniel Moraff said: “Any suggestion that he committed a criminal offence is false and without foundation."www.thehandbasket.co

Claude warns users that by hitting the "share button" anyone with the link can view the content, but it is not clear that they are creating a document that can be indexed by Google and will come up in searches. futurism.com/artificial-i...

A Whole Bunch of People's Claude Chats Are Publicly Accessible Online, and There's Some Wildly Private Stuff in ThereA trove of documents generated by Anthropic's Claude were indexed by Google. They included medical records and student information.futurism.com

Started to write a long, snarky post about Pervert Glasses Discourse. Decided to go touch grass. Please clap.

Just pump this directly into my veins. It looks perfect.

The nice lady on Fillmore selling me pants today asked where I lived, and when I told her, she made a concerned face and asked "Is it safe there?" so I replied "I'm the most dangerous thing there," and this is the only answer I will be using from now on.

This matters a lot because people are constantly asking me if they should set up a duress passcode in order to fool law enforcement.

Security Research Labs reports on a wave of extortion attacks hitting women's shelters. The original report is in German, but scroll down for English. srlabs.de/blog/erpress...

Incident Response: Erpressungswelle auf Frauenhäuser - SRLabs ResearchIncident response help for social institutions.srlabs.de

Apple has fixed the bug in Hide My Email that linked Hide My Email addresses to your real one, but leaked email addresses could still be in third-party logs: easyoptouts.com/guides/apple...

How Apple's Hide My Email exploit worked and why you're still at riskThe vulnerability has been fixed as of July 7, 2026, but the exploit was simple, and hidden email addresses may still be in third-party logs.easyoptouts.com

If you live in California and you want to take advantage of the state-run portal that tells all registered data brokers to delete your data instead of having to send an individual request to every single one, here is what you need to know: www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Protect Your Privacy with California's DROP ToolAre you a California resident? Then we've got exciting news for you: there's a tool just for you that lets you take a single, relatively easy step to protect your privacy. It's called a DROP request. ...www.eff.org

The other day I accidentally discovered that I have the 31st most-followed account on Mastodon and this goes a long way toward explaining why my mentions/replies are so weird and terrible. *this is not an invitation for people to tell me Mastodon is bad and I deserve it for being there

Judge rules that the Trump administration can't deport researchers just for working on disinformation. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Judge: Trump can’t deport researchers just for working in content moderationDisinformation researchers praise ruling blocking Trump visa denials and deportations.arstechnica.com

ACLU of Massachusetts has put out a toolkit for lawyers to help them find out when digital surveillance has been used to build the case against their clients. Love to see it. www.aclum.org/news/digital...

Defendants should know when digital surveillance technology has been used to build the case against them. This toolkit will help their lawyers find out. - ACLU of MassachusettsPolice increasingly use surveillance tech to build cases, and defendants have no way to know. We've built a toolkit to help defense attorneys find out.www.aclum.org

Since it turns out that there are many people on the internet who enjoy Halloween-themed ceramics, now is the time to check out the ceramicist who made all of my favorite mugs: rhoneypots.com/lizrmugs

Mugs — R Honey PotsHandmade sgraffito mugs from Tarigrades to Humpback whalesrhoneypots.com

I spend a lot of time trying to be mindful of what I buy and bring into my house, but every year as soon as the Halloween housewares hit the stores, there is a part of my brain that is convinced I need plates with spiders on them or a mug that looks like a pumpkin.