1. cars burning fossil fuels
2. cars shredding micro-particles of their tires on roads while driving and flinging them into the air
3. capitalists entrapping people into cars by requiring them drive into work
4. car companies lobbying municipalities to fund car infrastructure over trains
5. federal tax incentives to fund car infrastructure
6. car culture, a "dominant culture", persuading entire populations that owning cars is good and dissuading nay-sayers

this is why we have Alteimers Disease
https://abcnews.com/US/air-pollution-emerges-direct-risk-factor-alzheimers-disease/story?id=130220279

"The $900 million acquisition of Paragon by U.S. private equity firm AE Industrial Partners tells you everything you need to know about who profits from your digital insecurity. Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak reportedly pocketed $10-15 million from the deal, a tidy sum for a politician-turned-surveillance capitalist.

What the LinkedIn photos show is chilling: a Czech phone number labeled “Valentina,” interception logs marked “Completed,” and application-level data categories targeting encrypted services. This isn’t some theoretical cybersecurity threat, it is the real-time dashboard of the modern surveillance capitalism system we endure."
https://ahmedeldin.substack.com/p/the-israeli-spyware-firm-that-accidentally

@alxd maybe send a message to @4thievesvinegar

don't smell the flowers
https://nltimes.nl/2026/02/14/dutch-flower-growers-massively-using-banned-pesticides

# WhatsApp clears fast track to EU court, reshaping how privacy cases are fought

## The bloc’s top judges opened a faster legal route for WhatsApp to challenge EU-level rulings on privacy matters, a tactic other tech giants are likely to follow.

"A clash over how WhatsApp handles personal data reached a new stage in Europe on Tuesday, after judges in Luxembourg said the messaging app can go straight to EU courts to challenge a binding decision by Europe’s data watchdog, rather than waiting for national regulators.

In its ruling, the Court of Justice of the European Union said the watchdog’s decision in a transparency dispute against WhatsApp was not just procedural but a measure that set out binding legal findings with concrete effects. Because those conclusions were fixed at the EU level, judges rejected the idea that WhatsApp had to wait for a final national enforcement decision before seeking judicial review.

The judges did not weigh in on whether WhatsApp broke Europe’s privacy rules. Instead, they redrew the procedural map, sending the dispute back to the EU’s General Court and opening the door for closer scrutiny of the bloc’s data protection board in WhatsApp’s case."

https://www.courthousenews.com/whatsapp-clears-fast-track-to-eu-court-reshaping-how-privacy-cases-are-fought/

very interesting for traveling journalists

# Raspberry Pi Laptop: Great execution, terrible timing

https://youtu.be/Ef70x0izkFU

if you havent yet learned from Maria Ressa, please invest some time to do so

# Nobel Peace Prize Winner on turning back the Doomsday Clock

https://youtu.be/Iw7uCMsVWiY

# Dutch authorities, without a warrant, seized one of our VPN servers to "fully analyze" it. Sadly for them we run everything in RAM so they got nothing.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Windscribe/comments/1qx2v5f/dutch_authorities_without_a_warrant_seized_one_of/

tech funding question, on behalf of @emeraldonion

@nlnet funded @Dasharo and @3mdeb (project: https://nlnet.nl/project/Coreboot-Phoenix/) to port @coreboot and #OpenSIL to the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 motherboard

following a talk at @fosdem "Open source firmware for high assurance confidential infrastructure" (video: https://video.fosdem.org/2026/ud6215/LKWQL7-open_source_firmware_for_high_assurance_confidential_infrastructure.mp4 (mp4 file)), @alexhaydock and I are excited to use this exact hardware and firmware combination to test and publish more about our Stateless Relays project (EO blog post: https://blog.emeraldonion.org/evolving-our-tor-relay-security-architecture) instead of using an older/cheaper/more proprietary system, in partnership with @torproject and @0n_odv.

given that, in 2026, building a brand new AMD Epyc 9005 server system (target 64 cores, 12x 16GB, 32GB, or 64GB sticks of DDR5-6400 RDIMM) will run upwards of $25,000 for a single system, we need financial grants to cover the cost for the long-term betterment of the Tor network and any other privacy infrastructure operations.

who might fund this 100% volunteer, 100% donation-based project?

group metadata = death sentence

#FreePalestine
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20240430-is-whatsapp-putting-palestinians-at-risk-of-being-killed-in-gaza/

Gabriel Ku Wei Bin (https://fsfe.org/about/people/ku/) from @fsfe (is he on fedi?) mentions that #FSFE does free training for teams of developers who need education about licensing, copyright, IP law, and applications of law and regulations

#fosdem #fosdem26

i'm parking myself in the Legal & Policy track room (Room: UB5.230) today ^_^ if anyone would like to say hello

i also have black FFP2 masks and white FFP3 masks available for free

#fosdem #fosdem26

if anyone would like an FFP2 or FFP3 mask, please let me know

#fosdem #fosdem26

I will happily volunteer my camera skill/time if you're speaking in either "Legal & Policy" or "Open Source & EU Policy" tracks at #fosdem #fosdem26

if you're curious, some of my work is listed here https://yawnbox.eu/photojournalism/

i can take a couple thousand shots of your talk and A) give them all to you and relinquish all rights, or B) i can keep them and publish them as CC0 (public domain), your choice ^_^

why am i doing this? you can read a related blog post, Hacker Event Photography https://yawnbox.eu/blog/hacker-event-photography/

"Through a multi-year investigation, we find that the Jordanian security apparatus has deployed forensic extraction products manufactured by Cellebrite against civil society devices. We release these findings alongside reporting from the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project (OCCRP) which includes interviews with a few of the victims."
https://citizenlab.ca/research/from-protest-to-peril-cellebrite-used-against-jordanian-civil-society/

RE: https://flipboard.com/@wired/security-news-f9no9s7gz/-/a-CUe0ufYgRnmJzyCjF18Jnw%3Aa%3A3199480-%2F0

the good money you make building surveillance capitalism is still the terrible thing we privacy activists have been telling you for years. history repeats. monsters in power invade with our data in one hand and their rifle in the other

new vanilla community server ^^ hytale.cyber.cafe #hytale