5/ “… ban the government from buying our data and ban tech companies from using surveillance advertising. Until then, [people can] install ad blockers, disable their phone's advertising ID, and enable the Global Privacy Control in their browser, which 12 states now enforce”
4/ “in the 2010s, Apple and Google created Advertising IDs, or AdIDs, that are assigned to each device. These are unique identifiers that, although they don’t contain a person’s phone number or name, still provide a way for the online advertising industry to track devices.”
4/ “In many cases, the app developers themselves are likely unaware they are acting as a conduit for government surveillance because the data collection is not based on any code the app creators have included themselves.”
3/ When ads are “displayed inside an app, a near instantaneous bidding process happens […]. A side effect of this is that surveillance firms, or rogue advertising companies working on their behalf, can observe this process and siphon information about mobile phones, including their location.
2/ “CBP bought data from the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples’ precise movements over time, […] from ordinary apps like video games, dating services, and fitness trackers, according to an internal Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document obtained by 404 Media.”
1/🧵An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar tools.
#WeThePeople are #TheResistance 🗽
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This.
If they told users that using a traditional payment method jeopardized anonymity in the sign up process, they may have not had data to hand over, and their peepees wouldn't have been so hurt by someone reporting on it.
They could've addressed that. But instead we get the "fake news" defense.
1953: Churchill dragged Eisenhower into ousting the democratically elected prime minister of Iran, Mosaddegh. Over oil.
2026: Netanyahu dragged Trump into War on Iran. We still don’t know why.
A compelling piece that asks the question without answering it. Still, it hits the pertinent historical points about Iran, USA,Trump and oil.
Attempting an answer would be interesting. @theatlantic.com
Normalizing “different” is probably more important than anyone imagines. We all have a freak flag to be proud of.
At 7:33 @governor.ca.gov talks about his dyslexia. Thanks @aaronparnas.bsky.social for sharing this.
I’ll be sharing this clip in class next week.
#Making stuff is fun. Now that I’ve figured out the solar panel I’m building voltage dividers to monitor panel and battery output. Why all the work?
1. It’s fun
2. Holiday lights
3. #Meshtastic nodes
4. Drone monitoring
Maybe I’ll identify those flying lights in town. 👽
Good to know. An interesting feature of lockdown mode is it blocks 2G and 3G cell connections bc they have weak encryption. LD mode is restrictive, but good to know if needed.
I may try it to see if it reduces the noise.
Detection devices are cheap and fairly easy to build with minor soldering skills. Check out the work of @colonelpanichacks.bsky.social. They’ve got a shop and a GitHub with the firmware.
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ALPRs sound like good anti-crime tools. But really, they enable fine grained citizen tracking. DHS is very interested in this.
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Kitchen counter littered with electronics soldering equipment.
Looks like the #maker in me is back. Been repurposing a solar panel from a garden lamp to feed an #ALPR detector or a drone monitoring device.
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# Kindness is Subversive
Warn immigrant families to hide.
You are an agitator.
Bear witness to abuse.
You’re a troublemaker.
Feed immigrants trapped at home.
Subversive.
Give refuge to an outcast.
Accessory.
A play date with immigrant children.
Rebellion.
Kindness is insurgency.
It has been reported that Donald Trump's name appears in the Epstein files 38,000 times.
That is a lie.
Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) has said that when he searched for Trump in the unredacted files, Trump’s name came up “more than a million times.”
We should be calling them “The Trump Files.”
How does it feel to be an #immigration lawyer in #Minnesota?
#WeThePeople are #TheResistance 🗽
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Not-quite-a-noob here. I run a server at home, using Nginx to proxy my services (N8N, forgejo, MQTT) over SSL. There’s a lot of settings needed to keep it secure. I use an AI (Lumo) to help me manage it. Otherwise I wouldn’t have the skill-set to configure and manage the system.
Thank’s for making this accessible. I added a Pi Zero to log discoveries while I drive. I’m a Circuit/Micro Python person. I’m thinking of building a data logger with GPS on a second microcontroller to capture Oui-Spy output. Maybe even integrate with OwnTracks. Too many ideas!
colonelpanic.tech
Perhaps the Trump-administration officials had hoped that a few rabble-rousers would get violent, justifying the kind of crackdown he seems to fantasize about. Maybe they had assumed that they would find only a caricature of "the resistance" —people who seethed about Trump online but would be unwilling to do anything to defend themselves against him. Instead, what they discovered in the frozen North was something different: a real resistance, broad and organized and overwhelmingly nonviolent, the kind of movement that emerges only under sustained attacks by an oppressive state. Tens of thousands of volunteers—at the very least—are risking their safety to defend their neighbors and their freedom. They aren't looking for attention or likes on social media. Unless they are killed by federal agents, as Pretti and Renee Good were, other activists do not even necessarily know their names. Many use a handle …
If nothing else, read this.
This is an anthem to #MN and the courage of over 10000 volunteers and their work to keep families safe, warm and fed.
#ThePeople are #TheResitance 🗽
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
This calls for a few drops of toilet bowl water. 😈
The profound hypocrisy of condemning Iran for cracking down on protests while claiming “absolute immunity” for delivering a #trinity of bullets to the face of a mother of three is baffling.
The peaceful #uprising won’t stay peaceful at this rate.
#Minnesota 💪
#WeThePeople are #TheResitance 🗽
10. justifiese extreme behavior as their endgame nears
✅ WW3, Civil War 2.0, bulleting a mother of three, three times in the face.
9. enforces high exit costs
✅ Marjorie Taylor Green has received bomb threats. Peaceful protesters chanted “Hang Mike Pence” as they stormed the capitol, defecated and urinated in it, and beat police.
8. exploits members' labor
✅ Americans are merely labor to be underpaid, worked to the bone and bred.
7. programs an us-versus-them mentality
✅ radical left, Antifa, immigrants
