“The eagles are coming!”

Here and here are two texts on the subject which cover some of the same things as that video (albeit not from a first-hand person-from-the-US-traveling-in-Xinjiang perspective like the video does).

i recommend this recent video by Eric Hovagim to learn more about the Uyghur topic (but i guess you’ll probably skip it based on its title?)

It looks like they have an AI generate all of the valid images.

Are you suggesting that the Voight-Kampff test is being administered by robots?

see also the hexbear thread about this

It’s been 20 years since Microsoft cryptographer Niels Ferguson said “Over my dead body” about a BitLocker backdoor. But the very next line of that blog post was “Well, maybe not literally—I’m not ready to be a martyr quite yet—but certainly not in any product I work on” and he doesn’t work there anymore 🤔

(Ferguson was also one of the cryptographers who pointed out the backdoor-enabling design of NIST’s Dual_EC_DRBG in 2007, six years before the Snowden disclosures confirmed that NIST did indeed backdoor it on behalf of the NSA.)

about their MDASH copilot model

that’s satire, right?

Ubique Media Daemon

but why should/would they give up any uranium, especially after the US has just demonstrated that they can’t actually take it from them?

see also https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/05/10/768371/how-iran-uses-nuclear-tech-prevent-metabolic-dosorders-newborns

i generally agree, although for some reCaptcha-using websites there actually aren’t alternatives. eg many governments, healthcare providers, public utilities, etc are using it :(

A Motorola phone soon shipping with GrapheneOS isn’t just a rumor but it doesn’t help with the problem of Google making their very popular robot detection service classify deGoogled Android users as non-human.

OK. Try to imagine yourself in the Cretaceous period…

some more coverage of this:

• https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/news/baftas-gaza-doctors-under-attack-speech-b2973944.html
• https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2026/05/11/768412/‘We-refuse-to-be-silenced’--Gaza-doctors-documentary-team-denounces-BBC-After-BAFTA-win
• excerpt of the acceptance speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq90Tzwmpxo

more info here: https://reclaimthenet.org/google-broke-recaptcha-for-de-googled-android-users

that kernel release (which most distros have still not shipped yet) fixes only one of the two vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-43284); afaik even upstream still doesn’t have a patch for the second one (CVE-2026-43500) at this time.

(for people relying on Linux privilege separation, here are mitigation instructions.)

amazing! it’s great to see that is still being maintained after so many years.

Yep, Fastly the CDN company (doing HTTPS mitm-as-a-service for millions of websites) which Apple also uses (along with CloudFlare) for their similar iCloud Private Relay feature.

Unlike Apple though, Firefox’s new “built-in VPN” does not claim (falsely) to use different providers for ingress and egress.

iiuc Firefox uses Mullvad for original paid VPN service but their new freemium one is through Fastly (?)