NGO boffin. Data packet smuggler. Works on digital safety and information security for media and good orgs. Opinions are my own and subject to drift.
NOTE: My skeets are ephemeral and self destruct after a while.
andrew ⓕ lyons
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Buried deep in the details of the UFC deal with the White House are provisions streaming funds from the UFC straight into the private pockets of the Trump family. And they usually involve crypto, whose very purpose is to disguise or hide illegal payments. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
I feel like this is what's missing from the London hyper-appointment lifestyle.
Hey, they actually just made a swamp!
He's like one of those kids who got taken out early on the chocolate factory tour.
This is actually what I'm thinking of and they just skeeted it.
I tend to think if it's got any good qualities it's that it creates a low-effort threshold to disregard and circumvent a bad law, which accustoms kids in an age of increasing automation and autopilot and that they can be more critical of other areas of overreach and remember they still have agency.
When this monastery was founded in 1051, neither Moscow nor even Russia existed. Putin hates that the fountainhead of Russian history is in Kyiv, not in the trackless wastes his own country.
Please don’t joke about this, every year thousands of school children develop heterodox opinions about urban planning and public transport as a result of accessing Bluesky
Ursula LeGuin wanted writers to “see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine real grounds for hope”, but that vibe has yet to infiltrate work being published.
@prospectmagazine.co.uk
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/culture/7375...
He really is the nation's tragic step dad lol
Some fighters will receive bonuses in ‘stablecoins’ issued by Trump family business World Liberty Financial
Algae has already taken over the reflecting pool that the administration spent millions to “fix.” The darker paint warmed the water, promoting algae growth.
Creepy post-AI scifi novel where nothing is wrong, everyone is happy, money and resources are plentiful, and nobody is worried about this suspicious state of affairs except the reader who knows better. Suddenly, at the end, still nothing happens
“Some of the best time we spend with other people happens not when we’ve planned something special, but when we simply make room for them in the middle of an ordinary day,” Rafaela Jinich writes in The Wonder Reader:
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Banning under-16s from social media is good - partly because kids shouldn't be using social media, but mainly because it's great for our political class to start getting into the habit of aggressively regulating social media and the wider online sphere
🚨 NEW: Keir Starmer will introduce nightly social media curfews for 16 and 17-year-olds as part of the Government's social media ban
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