Notices by Ryan Singel (ryansingel@writing.exchange)

Want to do more than delete your Disney account? Delete the tracking profile they have on you.

By phone (877) 466-6669 or online.

Go ask Disney for copies of the data it has about you.

Then ask how Disney shared it.

And then tell Disney to delete it.

(You can’t do this all in one online request - that’d be too easy).

YMMV depending on where you live, but it doesn’t take much time:

https://privacy.thewaltdisneycompany.com/en/current-privacy-policy/data-subject-rights-portal/

#FireBobIger
#JimmyKimmel

The Trump admin is going to have its gulag and Exec branch vs court showdown over a guy mistakenly deported.

Strategicly stupid and morally depraved.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-administration/president-el-salvador-wont-return-deported-man-kilmar-abrego-garcia-rcna201136

Fuck these fascists, especially Steven Miller, and their ICE goons who are too scared to show their face

It takes a lot to shake me but this abduction of Rumeysa Ozturk, a Ph.D. student and Fulbright scholar at Tufts is bone-chilling.

Plainclothes, masked agents bundle her into an unmarked car.
https://apnews.com/video/turkish-student-at-tufts-university-detained-video-shows-masked-people-handcuffing-her-109ae65a4e734b12b357897376ea443b

It appears her thought crime was co-authoring op-ed in the Tufts newspaper, asking the university to take action in opposition to Israeli war crimes.

https://www.tuftsdaily.com/article/2024/03/4ftk27sm6jkj

She's been whisked off from Massachusetts to Louisiana.

This is the new America.

Citizens are next.

May 17, 2006 2 a.m. - just hours before the EFF and AT&T whistleblower Mark Klein's first hearing on their lawsuit vs AT&T for helping the NSA run a massive internet spying operation

Klein's evidence was under seal. Only a few had seen it. The NYT & LA Times were too scared to publish.

I had gotten a hold of them. Just a freelancer. Wired under EIC Evan Hansen agreed to publish everything.

2 a.m., we published.

Room 641a was public.

AT&T's lawyers death stares were glorious.

RIP Mark Klein

Ebikes are magic, enabling people to expand their travel horizons, replace short automobile trips, and find joy

But cyclists remain who revel in their "acoustic" purity

The latest? Senior Culture Editor for SFGate, Dan Gentile, arguing that ebikes should be banned from bike lanes because they are faster than him and he's more noble for his thigh burning

https://www.sfgate.com/local/article/san-francisco-e-bike-problem-bike-lanes-20036626.php

Repeat after me, fuck you Dan. Also gtf off Twitter

Ebikes are magic ✨✨

#ebike

11 years ago Klint Finley laid out how neo-reactionary thought was taking hold in Silicon Valley

"many professionals, rather than admit to their role in gentrification, wealth disparity and job displacement, are casting themselves as victims. "

It remains an an amazing primer

Better than that horseshit NYT interview of "intellectual" Curtis Yarvin

https://techcrunch.com/2013/11/22/geeks-for-monarchy/

@dpp
@quinn @linuxfiend

Chris Fry did get $10M a year. It was in the S1

@quinn
@linuxfiend

I was so very excited for Mastodon, then found out it was RoR, and it was so very clear why it's doomed.

Ain't nobody gonna economically self-host that bullshit

@quinn
@linuxfiend

Nobody remembers but Twitter hired an engineer and paid him $10m a year to migrate their shit from Ruby

Money well spent

@linuxfiend
@quinn

Run out on Ruby on Rails: The mastodon story

@quinn
Ever get the feeling you are being ripped off?

@quinn
Can you preemptively pardon someone who did a crime when their identity isn't known?

Also all the clemency petitions...

@quinn
The Iroquois did it better

When I first clicked NYT story about Trump picking let-COVID-rip Jay Bhattacharya to head NIH, I got this error.

He advocated widespread infections to create herd immunity (lol on the idea one COVID infection prevents another)

This asshole said at worst 40k Americans would die. 1.2M+ died so far. COVID kills and incapacitates thousands of Americans monthly.

But as w/ fracking, Dems can't dispute this choice since Biden's CDC embraced the idea COVID is over and everything is just fine.

Oops

404 on why the work matters:

“[W]e cannot set the bar for our success at the systemic saving of democracy. Instead, we have found that our work can and does make incremental positive change at the local, state, and federal level, and that, over time, these small improvements become increasingly important.”

https://www.404media.co/why-the-work-still-matters-under-trump/

Support indie media. Preferably those not using tech that platforms Nazis and makes oligarchs richer.

Holy hell. This was inevitable.

Hackers, allegedly Chinese, got into the federally mandated surveillance backdoors of Verizon and AT&T's networks, snooping on everything.

The mandated backdoors were first required on phone systems in 1994 by the CALEA law, then controversially extended to broadband by the FCC in '04.

That's right folks. Broadband is so important that it must have backdoors for cops, but not important enough for the FCC to require consumer protections

https://www.wsj.com/tech/cybersecurity/u-s-wiretap-systems-targeted-in-china-linked-hack-327fc63b?st=YTenau

Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, the ultra rich founders of the VC firm A16Z, threw a hissy fit on Twitter ahead of an SF Standard story following their public embrace of Trump.

Here's the story, which is a completely fair straightforward telling of the change in the Horowitz family's donations and politics
https://sfstandard.com/2024/08/16/felicia-ben-horowitz-party-switch/

Also if you publish on or subscribe to anything on #Substack, you're making these jackasses richer (and likely enriching the Saudi butchers of Jamal Khashoggi too)

@mathewi, one of the smartest chroniclers of online media, announced he's leaving Columbia Journalism Review:

https://www.cjr.org/the_media_today/mathew_ingram_goodbye.php

In his going away post he writes about what he's optimistic about: small, independent sites. Of the 5 he listed, three of them use @ghost and @Outpost (which I co-founded)

@404mediaco, @caseynewton, and @flaminghydra
(Go subscribe!)

Nice validation of a new wave of media w/ indie publishers using indie tech to build sustainable businesses

Turns out Elon Musk is a rude dick even to his ideological allies. This is the right-wing activist attorney general in Missouri reaching out in the DMs. Via a sunshine request.

The moral bankruptcy of A16Z, also known as the primary investors in #Substack.

Choose your publishing tech and subscription dollars accordingly

https://www.theverge.com/2024/7/24/24204706/marc-andreessen-ben-horowitz-a16z-trump-donations