“A president just disrespected America in the Oval Office. It wasn’t Zelensky.” - absolute mic drop.

Brian Krebs isn’t always right. But when he is…….

Ladies and gentlemen... the weekend. (also: you are important and are not alone 🧡)

Russia is perfectly clear what side Trump is on

The idea that JD Vance—who has never been to Ukaine and chalks up his knowledge to shit he read on the internet—believes he knows more about the situation in Ukraine than the man who has led it for the past 5.5 years is a perfect encapsulation of the havoc this administration is wreaking worldwide

I have covered presidential politics for 40 years. This was the most juvenile display by a President and Vice President I have ever seen. Other presidents treated their enemies with more respect. This is a low point and a dark day for the US. Totally embarrassing.

Trump has basically said fuck you to Ukraine, and Zelenskyy is supposed to say thank you?? This is some dumb shit right here.

Sweden has its own back door proposal in addition to EU’s Chat Control 2.0 and Going Dark. Signal’s president Meredith Whittaker is clear as always: if you mandate back doors (i.e., vulnerabilities): no more Signal for you. www.svt.se/nyheter/inri...

#Signal #E2EE

This is how you know you’re not doing what your constituents want. If you’re afraid of backlash and pushback, something’s very wrong with what you’re doing.

The real story: US to replace highly vetted EB5 visa, which requires foreign investors to do actual business & create jobs in the U.S., with a program that essentially sells green cards to wealthy individuals for $5 million (paid to the govt to skip vetting).

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

This isn’t going to end well

This is your regular reminder that government mandated backdoors for end-to-end encrypted comms are bullshit, make everyone less safe, and should be resisted at maximum volume.

authoritarians will steadily replace real journalists with propagandists anyway, so what's left of the profession might want to demonstrate something vaguely resembling a backbone

Fixing someone else's mess will often take longer than just doing it yourself in the first place.

So much pain could have been avoided if they had just asked what “probationary” actually entails. As Reacher would say, “assumptions kill in an investigation”

I wrote a thing about just how absolutely, positively stupid the "tell me 5 things you did last week" email is.

www.techdirt.com/2025/02/24/m...