It’s what Charlie would have wanted, don’t focus on his death, carry on his life of racist hate.

Getting the information in the first place is a targeted search. Unless Apple goes full collaborator they will require a court order. They have already made the decision (for whatever reason) to target you.

It’s still a targeted search, which may be bullshit but isn’t a trawling operation. If they’re targeting you, a demerit for simply having ICEBlock installed is the least of your worries. And if Apple goes full collaboration, then any “improper” app install is going to be a danger regardless of whether it’s pushing.

How is this any better? From the site it appears to also be closed source with no security audit and using push notifications.

“They received an ICE block push” isn’t a meaningful piece of information compared to location. It’s already a targeted search. What do you think the government will do with that information?

I appreciate the link about the potential for push harvesting. That was not something I was aware of.

It doesn’t sound like they’re intercepting though, it sounds like they’re asking the platform to provide it. That should require a warrant unless Apple has gone full collaboration, but that does make it insecure to a targeted search. And paired with fake reports could potentially be used to geolocate someone to a rough area with some work.

Though I think if they have enough to compel cooperation from the platform they could also just get cell tower or direct GPS info. I’m not sure this really opens up a new vulnerability separate from the general risk of using a smartphone when the government can produce a warrant (which with the coopting of the judiciary may not be as high a bar as it once was).

The risk appears to be anxiety, not an active threat to their safety. The black box security analysis did not indicate any direct data leakage. We don’t know the app is safe, but we also don’t have any indication it’s doing anything particularly risky.

So what’s the complaint here, that he’s being rude? The only thing lost if people build an alternate app rather than being allowed to work on his app is him.

It sounds like he’s just a dev who’s in over his head but either doesn’t want anyone to take his baby or doesn’t want people to see his sloppy and possibly insecure code. It’s probably a hack job behind the scenes and he’s not really as sure of its security, so he might be opting for security through obscurity.

But this isn’t really taking up space. Someone else can make a better app. If this guy isn’t the one to really make a useful crowd sourced anti ICE app, that’s not a problem. Let’s get that OS crowd together and work with local groups and make something better. In the meantime, this is a statement.

The first sentence is unfortunately a suggestion, not a statement of an event that happened. Though just funding a central cheap/free shop that provides technical and editing support would also be a good way to boost progressive and/or Democratic messaging.

Taking the judiciary is a long term project though. It’s resistant to short term swings associated with the rise of autocrats. The problem is the Republicans have been moving in this direction for decades.

Literally just set up a grant program that gives funding to creators doing work you want more people to see. Kat is doing great work building the team spirit of progressive Democrats. Instead of trying to straightjacket her because she said the party is fucking up, recognize that being able to acknowledge when the party is fucking up is part of the process of building trust. But her message wasn’t “now we should all vote Green”, it was let’s get more of us in office so we can fix it. You’re not going to turn progressives with eyes and ears into pro-Israel moderates, but that’s not the point. You want them on board with the idea that the Democratic Party is worth fighting for.

Effective influencers aren’t people who repeat the establishment’s spin, they’re creators who hook people in with shared values and then sweep them up into the larger struggle. These people think that they just need a few more clones of Brooklyn Dad Defiant, but on TikTok, and that’ll fix their problem with young progressive voters.

Class reductionists forever failing to grasp that solidarity means not telling your ally their own struggles are unimportant. And always preaching to the left to put aside those struggles rather than seeking out the poor racist and convincing them that their shitty wage is a whole lot higher priority than being racist 24/7.

This is embarrassing mysticism for a journal from a school of science. We may as well be taking about souls and spirits and the aether. In the same way that LLM hype (lately in service of scammy marketing) has generated irrational spiritual believers in coming machine god it has also caused opponents to lose their minds and make absolute statements about how nature must have some ephemeral essence that sets it apart from the artificial.

Experience is in unexpected places, including in all animals, large and small, and perhaps even in brute matter itself. But consciousness is not in digital computers running software, even when they speak in tongues. Ever-more powerful machines will trade in fake consciousness, which will, perhaps, fool most. But precisely because of the looming confrontation between natural, evolved and artificial, engineered intelligence, it is absolutely essential to assert the central role of feeling to a lived life.

I’m shocked that the convenient explanation for increased illness that just happened to be good for the economy turned out to not be well supported. Shocked.

The Republican candidate polls at 40% among conservatives.

Trump deploys National Guard to D.C., takes control of local police in crime crackdown

That’s absolutely not why he’s doing it. The headline writer is either the most gullible person alive or in on the propaganda.

If only Illinois had a billionaire politician with a desire for national prominence and eyes on higher office.

The president added, “Words are very important, and can often lead to unintended consequences…”

The president who rambles incoherently and whose staff have frequently posted Nazi dog whistles in his name says words are important.

Take off your stupid sunglasses you business dweeb. You’re not a techie, you’re just another MBA asshole scamming investors and leeching off the work of the actual smart people.