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I had to spend this morning understanding the phrase "furry meme bullet" and I can confirm that this is the worst possible timeline.

Job alert! The City of San Francisco is hiring a director for 311. Would you like to do good? You could do good.

https://careers.sf.gov/role/?id=3743990009346326

Is ICE about to go buck wild using cell site simulators? Good thing EFF has a project to help you detect them:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/meet-rayhunter-new-open-source-tool-eff-detect-cellular-spying

https://www.forbes.com/sites/the-wiretap/2025/09/09/how-ice-is-using-fake-cell-towers-to-spy-on-peoples-phones/

I have spent 18 years working with Cindy Cohn at EFF, defending digital rights. There is no one I would rather fight beside and I cannot imagine this place without her.

https://www.wired.com/story/eff-cindy-cohn-stepping-down/

This is your regular reminder that if you are developing an app that is supposed to help a vulnerable population, you need to do it WITH CONSIDERABLE INPUT FROM THE PEOPLE YOU ARE TRYING TO PROTECT.

https://micahflee.com/unfortunately-the-iceblock-app-is-activism-theater/

I'm not going to get into online arguments about why the Online Safety Act is bad and online age verification laws are bad in general. I'm sure you think you have some kind of novel and convincing argument because you thought about this for five minutes, but I have been thinking about this for the better part of two decades and I'm very tired.