🔗 Decompiled the White House’s New App

Thereallo, after spelunking inside the APK bundle for the Android version:

Has a full GPS tracking pipeline compiled in that polls every 4.5 minutes in the foreground and 9.5 minutes in the background, syncing lat/lng/accuracy/timestamp to OneSignal’s servers.

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Loads JavaScript from a random person’s GitHub Pages site (lonelycpp.github.io) for YouTube embeds. If that account is compromised, arbitrary code runs in the app’s WebView. […]

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Is any of this illegal? Probably not. Is it what you’d expect from an official government app? Probably not either.

🔗 Scripting News: Monday, March 30, 2026

I had to say this to Claude just now. “this is exhausting. you’re driving me around in circles and saying over and over ‘this is it!’ and it never is. us humans have protections built in to avoid that kind of wasted effort.”

You know sometimes I think it’s me - but if it happens to someone like @Dave - I can rest more easily. That said - friggin’ annoying.

🔗 Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds

Create the experience you want, and the platform custodians clearly want to make sure that customization isn’t limited to technical people. Accessibility is openness too.

💬 Ben Werdmuller

🔗 Is the AT Protocol really decentralized? | Vladimir Campos

“Hosted in Europe, governed in Europe,” and their vision starts with “Eurosky exists because Europe needs technological sovereignty and democratic resilience in its digital infrastructure.” As I mentioned in a previous post, I prefer an internationalist world, but based on what they are promoting on their site, why choose a US protocol that many say is not actually decentralized?

AJA writes …🔗 what’s in a name? – The Homebound Symphony

The title of this great dialogue should therefore be not Politeia but rather Eudaimonia.

Behold: 🔗 Eudaimonia - though he hever strikes me as ‘happy’.

🔗 The quieter your brand, the louder it travels – Regionally Famous

I believe this blog’s reader will enjoy this post about - well #stickers.

🔗 Frank Relle’s Photos Revel in Louisiana’s Otherworldly Swampland — Colossal

Spectacular photographs.

🔗 The end of the content shortage

The ennui of infinite content is reversing our spiraling desire for more of it.

💬 Seth Godin

Here’s willing it to be so.

🔗 Brad Enslen

Headlines: ICE is starting to check ID’s in airport security lines. Be warned.