Linklog

2025-03-28

America Is Done Pretending About Meat: Gone is the dream of a cruelty-free world of vegans; apparently Real Men eat raw beef testicles

2025-03-27

The 2025 journalist’s digital security checklist: Some good ideas in here even if you’re not a journalist.

Pixelfed leaks private posts from other Fediverse instances: Fixed but admins would need to update.

Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28: They’re disabling the ā€˜Do Not Send Voice Recordings' setting of your Echo.

Is it safe to travel to the United States with your phone right now?: It’s worth taking precautions, as a minimum.

Days after the Signal leak, the Pentagon warned the app was the target of hackers: Via tricking people into using the linked devices feature to devices they don’t own.

Rachel Reeves accused of balancing books on back of UK’s poorest: Based on this year’s Spring Statement.

How Terrorgram Collective Influencers Groomed a Killer: Juraj Krajčƭk, who shot people outside an LGBTQ+ bar in Bratislava

2025-03-26

Florida debates lifting some child labor laws to fill jobs vacated by undocumented immigrants

As the Trump administration purges web pages, this group is rushing to save them: The incredible work of the folk at the Internet Archive.

2025-03-25

The Trump Administration Accidentally Texted Me Its War Plans: The top US national security brass, VP and all, inadvertently included a journalist in their military ops groupchat.

2025-03-24

ā€˜There was just wave after wave’: Gaza doctors recount horror of the last week: Israel’s airstrikes mark the end of the Gaza-Israel ceasefire arrangement.

Trump administration’s blockchain plan for USAID is a real head-scratcher: insomuch as no one can possibly think of what adding $TRUMP memecoins to the system could possibly do to help the beleaguered.

2025-03-23

What happens when the internet disappears?: For so many links, the internet is not forever.

ā€˜Key lessons of Covid are being forgotten,’ UK scientists warn: There’s little suggestion we’ll really know any better what to do next time.

All UK families ā€˜to be worse off by 2030’ as poor bear the brunt, new data warns: Labour need to correct this asap.

2025-03-22

Trump is abandoning democracy and freedom. That creates an opening for Europe – and Britain

How do Britons feel about Brexit five years on?: Poll shows 55% of us would support a complete undoing of Brexit.

Trump weighs in on report King Charles will offer U.S. commonwealth membership: I did not see this one coming.

Enjoy the Silence: ‘Your life is not a movie, so stop soundtracking it 24/7’

2025-03-21

Massive purge of Pentagon websites includes content on Holocaust remembrance, sexual assault and suicide prevention: I’m sure this will please the rabid Holocaust deniers out there.

After Trump DEI order, Navajo Code Talkers disappear from military websites: Not even being a war hero will save you from deletion if you don’t happen to be a White Man.

GLP-1 Side Effects Only One Factor Driving Patient Discontinuation Rates: Other factors include affordability, availability, doctor medication switches and achieving one’s weight loss goals.

Man Whose Daughter Died From Measles Stands by Failure to Vaccinate Her: “The Vaccination Has Stuff We Don’t Trust”: An unnecessary tragedy.

‘Deplorable’: French scientist denied US entry over text messages criticising Trump: Rapidly approaching the point where it makes sense to take a burner phone if you’re travelling to the US.