Congrats to "HOW’S THE PLAY GOING?" by Noel David Taylor, an Honorable Mention in the Internet Archive’s 2026 Public Domain Film Remix Contest 🏅
An absurd comedy with the main character lost in time, disjointed in settings & confused by their surroundings, mirroring that strange moment when you realize you haven’t been paying attention to the film at all.
Full film ➡️ https://archive.org/details/hows_the_play
Notepad++ publishes a blog post saying they caught a probably-Chinese state actor hijacking their product in an attack against highly-selective targets that began last June: https://notepad-plus-plus.org/news/hijacked-incident-info-update/
Planning to film ICE? Wired has a guide for that: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-film-ice/
With Encrypt It Already, we’re pushing on tech companies to deliver stronger privacy protections to their users by enabling and expanding the use of end-to-end encryption across their products or services. https://www.encryptitalready.org
#Trump's numbers plummet during his first year in office.
https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/2026/01/29/confidence-in-trump-dips-and-fewer-now-say-they-support-his-policies-and-plans/
🇮🇷 Update: Brief returns of internet access are driving spikes in Snowflake usage. Please help us run more proxies if you can. ❄️ snowflake.torproject.org
The easiest ways to run Snowflake is by using Tor Browser, Orbot, or installing the browser add on in your current browser. Extra capacity helps people in Iran stay connected when the network comes back online.
Canada Computers had credit card skimmer
You prob know this already, but if you duck-search, you can go to a slightly different entry point at https://noai.duckduckgo.com to do web searches without AI slop dumping on you.
I see they've dressed up the landing page there! Now more obviously non-AI. I mean, it's a selling feature, so yeah, go to town guys.
(if you still google things, consider the duck search! it's worked well for me for years, and the non-ai version is a nice step forward).
What happened to Renee Nicole Good is not an anomaly or a rare phenomenon.
The only unusual factor is that she was white.
A Black man named Keith Porter was shot & killed by ICE on New Year’s Eve.
Marimar Martinez was shot five times by an ICE officer in Chicago who went on to brag about leaving seven holes in her body. She survived but has a hole in her arm forever.
Silverio Villegas González was shot dead in Franklin Park Illinois when he panicked and tried to run.
Then there’s the more than 30 people who’ve died in the camps.
No accountability. No punishment.
Keep speaking out. Let’s make sure this officer is held responsible.
#abolishice #ice #uspol #minneapolis #fascism #immigration #reneenicolegood
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I will ask chat GPT
I will boil the last of our drinking water
Salt the soil of the scrub-lands
Tear the pages from books and feed them to my fire
I will ask copilot
I will scramble your library
reanimate and puppet the faces of your dead ancestors
I will bury you in poor copies of your dreams
I will ask grok
I will fall silent and never speak to you
I will talk only to myself lost in a maze of my own fantasies
I will forget all who cannot compliment me
I will decouple my soul from this world.