Brutkey

Dan Gillmor
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Department of the Unlikely:

If anyone wants to sell a couple of tickets to the World Baseball Classic game on 8 March in Tokyo, I'm interested. DM please.

Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social

Please note that the Trump regime continues to flagrantly, illegally withhold the Epstein documents and plainly has no intention of releasing them (at least until the apparatchiks can destroy/doctor the incriminating stuff).

Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social

Trump regime invades Atlanta elections office. This has nothing to do with investigating voter fraud. It is entirely about the regime's expanding campaign to rig this year's elections. https://www.cnn.com/2026/01/28/politics/fulton-county-election-office-fbi-warrant

Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social

This chemical-wielding thug and his goon squad should be in prison. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/us/minneapolis-man-pepper-sprayed-pinned-video.html

Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social

Mozilla is asking for your opinion about what it's doing, and the survey appears to be aimed at getting you used to the idea that "AI" will become an integral focus area.

I told them that I want Mozilla to focus SOLELY on improving Firefox and Thunderbird, with zero AI in the product.

https://mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/201

Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social

Just got a send-money email from what purports to be an anti-rightwing-extremism organization. There is NO link to any website other than ActBlue (fundraising platform), and not a hint of who's behind it or what they'll do with the money.

I treat things like this as likely scams, and report them.

Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social

US Big Tech is conspiring with European (and American) fascists to wreck the EU's ability to even modestly regulate this rogue industry, which has unparalleled -- and growing -- power over people's lives.

Fascism and tech are an unholy, and maybe unstoppable, alliance.

https://www.brusselstimes.com/belgium/1916422/us-tech-giants-allying-with-european-far-right-to-strip-back-eu-rules

Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social

This suburban Denver cop's bogus accusation -- based on "evidence" from a Flock spy-on-everybody camera -- forced a woman to prove her innocence. The cop didn't care, and wasn't punished in any way.

Rogue cops plus Flock equals a cancer on our communities.

https://www.404media.co/cop-used-flock-to-wrongfully-accuse-a-woman-then-refused-to-look-at-evidence-that-exonerated-her-body-camera-shows/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter

Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social

"Ponzi America is breaking down. It's run out of suckers." -- Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/08/after-the-moneys-gone/

Dan Gillmor
@dangillmor@mastodon.social

Today's example of why buying a "smart" device is stupid: https://lifehacker.com/tech/will-your-smart-vacuum-work-after-being-discontinued