Bio and disclosures: dangillmor.com/about/ Boosts mean I think you should see this -- usually but not always an endorsement. Bay Area, Nara · dangillmor.com 🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor, follow @ap.brid.gy to interacthttps://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gyhttps://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvlwlb3r6p72Putin-connected Russian oligarch's megabucks gift to Trump Jr. distills Trump world sleaze: flagrant graft and contempt for everyone not connected to by far the most corrupt crew ever in American business/politics […] https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11727799397754797516 Sep 2026 00:56 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvlwlb3r6p72https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvgyhdtc6h32Constantly, when I read articles on the NY Times website (Firefox in Android), the site pops up annoying "upgrade" offers and demands that I use the app. Is there any way to remove these vandalisms permanently?14 Sep 2026 01:45 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvgyhdtc6h32https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mvelextwzhq2The Trump regime's war on mail voting has so thoroughly corrupted the Postal Service that it will take years to restore any trust in an institution that has been a bedrock for countless communities around the nation. Today's example […] https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11726144367831987013 Sep 2026 02:47 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mvelextwzhq2https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mv7qxcbe24g2Con man Musk is one of our age's most monumental sleazes, and his hugely deceptive -- and dangerous to your privacy-- "votesafe" website is just one more egregious example. https://popular.info/p/the-hidden-dangers-of-musks-votesafeorg11 Sep 2026 04:43 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mv7qxcbe24g2https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3muvctzx22zm2If you support "age verification" online, you are supporting a system that GUARANTEES privacy meltdowns -- endangering all of us -- because the giant databases of scanned IDs are perpetually hacked by criminals who sell private data […] https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11722706637491334107 Sep 2026 01:04 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muvctzx22zm2https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3muuckh5cvn72The Bulwark (among other sites) is, increasingly a bunch of podcasts. I don't have time to listen to them. I would read transcripts. Yes, I know that chatting with cronies and guests is easier than, you know, reporting and writing. Just not for me....06 Sep 2026 15:26 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muuckh5cvn72https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mute2aqz3zx2Google has become an enemy of the open web, and it's increasingly locking down Android to dominate (with Apple) mobile computing. https://keepandroidopen.org/ A once-principled company gets more and more control-freakish, for money and power. Nothing Google does now is surprising, just predictable.06 Sep 2026 06:20 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mute2aqz3zx2https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3muqaqvbf72q2The Trump-infected US Postal Service isn't just threatening to wreck mail-in voting. It's under way. So we have to take our ballots to a dropbox or cast them in person. In other words, the regime's election fuckery has worked, while the press ho-hummed as usual […] https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11721565883603547605 Sep 2026 00:43 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muqaqvbf72q2https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mupkiqdqho32The odious surveillance company Flock has been teaching police how to spy on Americans who are exercising their First Amendment rights. https://www.404media.co/r/beaca1b1?m=ea6b4c29-f97b-4025-aaeb-1d01a70b3b30 https://www.404media.co/flock-taught-cops-how-to-surveil-no-kings-protesters/?ref=daily-stories-newsletter&attribution_id=6a9887b3d2f82f0001c54627&attribution_type=post04 Sep 2026 18:05 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mupkiqdqho32https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3muohuiyy6nz2As Cory Doctorow notes, "Big Tech has proved that its only principles are not paying taxes, invading your privacy, and not being broken up by antitrust enforcers." So they've effectively joined the Trump regime, and any nation that dares challenge them risks a a great deal […] https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11721165676443754604 Sep 2026 07:45 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muohuiyy6nz2https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3muoadctt46g2After Trump took office in 2025, a technology industry friend I've known and respected for a long time flagged the naming of former Microsoft exec Doug Burgum as Interior Secretary as a sign that real grownups would be in top posts. Yeah, right. Burgum has turned out to be one of the worst […] https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11721112584178389204 Sep 2026 05:30 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muoadctt46g2https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3munovb2empc2The Trump regime routinely ignores and/or breaks laws it doesn't care for. Republicans in Congress routinely approve of the lawbreaking. Judges often say no, but don't enforce their rulings. And the press says "So interesting how they break the law..." […] https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11720989897609972904 Sep 2026 00:18 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3munovb2empc2https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3munnxbwxu722How deep are tech reporters into Apple's reality-distortion field? When a report compares an actual product to an apparently upcoming Apple product this way -- the existing "Z Fold 8 appears to be quite similar to the rumored iPhone Ultra" -- you know it's really, really deep.04 Sep 2026 00:01 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3munnxbwxu722https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mulvab3iize2Yet another example of the Trump regime and its minions openly defying a court order: https://www.npr.org/2026/09/02/nx-s1-5952211/usps-whistleblower-lawyer-reaction-mail-ballots Also yet another example of a judge doing absolutely nothing about it. The regime is winning its war on the rule of […] https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11720584182388277503 Sep 2026 07:06 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mulvab3iize2https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mujdwict3cy2“People who have no reverence will destroy a mountain to get the coal out of it or destroy a field to get a crop out of it. They’ll make extravagant assumptions about their own competence and intelligence, and they’ll make extravagant mistakes." -- Wendell Berry. Blog post […] https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11720012062725254802 Sep 2026 06:51 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mujdwict3cy2https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3muebzrfufr32California law-to-be purports to support local journalism when its main result will be to reward the looters -- hedge funds and private equity -- who have turned the already difficult problems into a disaster […] https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11718872767500601931 Aug 2026 06:34 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muebzrfufr32https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3muccmzzgju22Google escalates its quisling ways. Contemptible. https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/gnis-lake-ontario-lake-america-name-change https://blog.google/products-and-platforms/products/maps/gnis-lake-ontario-lake-america-name-change/30 Aug 2026 11:40 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muccmzzgju22https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3muccek7b5my2https://newrepublic.com/post/214832/texas-suspended-1-million-voters-ahead-senate-race This is how the Republicans will win in Texas: prevent Democrats from voting. Criminals at work.30 Aug 2026 11:35 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3muccek7b5my2https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mu6oh2ulqou2The Bulwark and New York Times stand accused here of journalistic cowardice in the extreme, and if I was on the jury I'd vote guilty: https://data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-bulwark-killed-an-investigation29 Aug 2026 01:00 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu6oh2ulqou2https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mu6ntikapy32Corporate control freaks against free speech, Exhibit 945,334 -- HBO Max posting BS copyright infringement claims against people who dare to post spoilers. https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/tv/warner-bros-targets-bloggers-over-lanterns-plot-predictions/ar-AA2aSZKR (I wish people would […] https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11717604750832678029 Aug 2026 00:49 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu6ntikapy32https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mu4rqs62rns2Trump regime's despotism grows and grows. Banning a secure email service is just the latest step. https://reason.com/2026/08/27/rubio-uses-terrorism-law-to-ban-secure-email-service/28 Aug 2026 06:54 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu4rqs62rns2https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mu4rjbl55tl2If you trust your data to a company like Microsoft, you are gambling with your future, as a slew of nonprofits discovered to their horror. https://slate.com/technology/2026/08/microsoft-software-nonprofit-data-delete.html28 Aug 2026 06:50 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu4rjbl55tl2https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mu4nwzimkf32RE: https://infosec.exchange/@briankrebs/117167230696207033 Brian Krebs does an awesome job covering security issues, and his latest post is an example. Brilliant reporting. https://infosec.exchange/users/briankrebs/statuses/11716723069620703328 Aug 2026 05:46 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu4nwzimkf32https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mu24rn7pilq2Governments want nothing more than to control what people say and read and hear online, and corporate monopolists are their natural allies. So the "kid safety settlement" by Facebook and states is going to be disastrous for everyone who cares about free speech […] https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11716583990469535527 Aug 2026 05:33 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu24rn7pilq2https://bsky.app/profile/dangillmor.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy/post/3mu24m5qbvvw2Republicans' vicious hypocrisy is the norm for them, but their gutting of support for Dolly Parton's best-of-breed books-for-kids charity is nauseating in the extreme, given their pious praise of this great human being now […] https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/11716582803902199727 Aug 2026 05:30 +0000at://did:plc:6zecxxmxrtjs4m6asklisxpt/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu24m5qbvvw2