I thought it was quiet - 🔗 Sill disappeared. It’s back.
🔗 The Braindump Blog reporting that Twitter (sic) is blocking ‘Signal.me’.
Signal has been especially important over these past few weeks as federal employees have reached out to journalists to blow the whistle on what Elon Musk’s DOGE have been doing with access to data within numerous government agencies.
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An astonishing coincidence I’m sure.
💬 Braindump
First it was Deepseek - and now it’s cars. 🔗 Looks like China are doing it again. … via The Information.
But Stiglitz suggested the only way the president’s policies would positively contribute to that goal was by running the US into the ground. “The inflation from the tariffs is going in the wrong way, and the only thing that is going in the right way for Bessent is his efforts to crater the economy,” he said.
“In supporting Trump’s economic policies, Bessent is helping to get the yield curve down by crashing the US economy – not a good policy, I would say.”
🔗 Trump policies make US ‘scary place to invest’ and risk stagflation, says Stiglitz
🔗📸 Well. Who knew? - and ‘just’ down the road apparently.
David Frum is not wrong …
If someone wants to unlock a stolen phone – or retrieve money from an ATM – and only have five guesses, this data suggests they still have a one-in-eight chance of guessing correctly.
💬 Nathan Yau - Flowing Data
Fresh into the feed today - Doc on the difference between 🔗 Blocking Tracking and Blocking Ads
Its amazing how after all this time they are still conflated (I think mainly because it suits the advertisers dialogue- and ‘ad blockers’ rolls off the tongue better than ‘tracker blockers’)
.. sharing - and understand - not sure I could do it.
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Because sometimes you need to watch things to which you can nod your head up and down - not side to side.