Mike Kuketz is a privacy researcher and activist who uses GrapheneOS and has written positively about it. He isn't a member of the project and never has been. He hasn't written any code for it. One of our 400k users hosting a Discourse forum has nothing to do with GrapheneOS.

This is the first case of its kind in UK criminal justice history. A Derbyshire officer allegedly used AI to fabricate evidential material across multiple cases not one. The Crown Prosecution Service is now reviewing every conviction those cases touched. Three days ago, the UK government announced PoliceAI. £140 million. a national AI centre for policing. 40 new facial recognition vans. AI tools for every force in England and Wales by 2027. the official goal: "get responsible AI into the hands of officers." Three days later: criminal investigation into an officer for using AI to manufacture evidence. the interim director of PoliceAI put out a statement today. "our work is rooted in transparency." 97% of all criminal investigations in the UK now involve digital evidence. that's this year's figure. AI is already being used to summarise case files, triage evidence, and assist with disclosure. one officer already used it to manufacture evidence across multiple cases. nobody noticed until now.

Call their bluff. Close all local UK operations, so that no employees or corporate officers can be arrested. Refuse to comply, and dare them to geoblock. Without Google and Apple, the UK economy would probably collapse. It isn't so much that those services are crucial (although they are), it's that Britain is already on the fiscal brink and all it would really take is a little push. I'm sure blocking the Internet would go over really well with the British people, too.

We have an epidemic of women who cannot find a 6’8” multi millionaire golden retriever werewolf who respects her independence but will also lead her and give her space but also romance her but only when she wants, will not judge her past and also be religious but not serious.

The key thing to understand about OSS going forward is that problem reports are now more valuable than code submissions. For security-sensitive projects, public PRs now have net negative value: cheap to produce, expensive to review, and risky to accept.

Ohh I do blame politicians.

The dating market is brutal. Elizabeth Bruch, a professor of sociology at the University of Michigan analysed data from online dating. Here are some things she discovered… -Men’s desirability peaks at ages 40-50. But women’s desirability starts highest at age 18 and falls throughout their lifespan. -Both men and women pursue partners who are on average about 25% more desirable than themselves. -Women’s prospects dim as they achieve the highest level of education. -Almost no one messages users less desirable than they are. Everyone’s understanding of their place in the hierarchy is very accurate. -Men experience lower reply rates when they write more positively worded messages.

the UK government just told Apple and Google: scan every phone in the country for nudity. not just kids' phones. every phone. you have 3 months. or we arrest your executives. Apple already said yes earlier this year. 35 million people woke up one day and had to prove they were adults to use a phone they already paid for. Signal put out a statement today. one line: "nudity today. political speech tomorrow." Here's every time a government built one of these systems and what actually happened: 2001 — PATRIOT Act. passed 6 weeks after 9/11. 3 days after it was introduced it was law. sold as: we need to spy on terrorists. what it actually was: a wish list of surveillance powers the FBI had been asking for for years and Congress had already said no to. multiple times. 2005 — the Bush administration was caught running a secret program wiretapping american citizens with no warrant. no judge. no oversight. the "terrorism only" promise lasted exactly 4 years. 2013 — Snowden. the NSA was secretly collecting the phone records of every single american. not suspects. not terrorists. every person who made a phone call. the law said "collect data related to terrorism." they decided that meant everyone. 2015 — same law, Section 215, used to collect financial records, internet browsing history, and location data on ordinary americans. still called a terrorism tool. 2021 — the entire surveillance infrastructure built after 9/11 was used to monitor Black Lives Matter protesters. domestic activists. people marching in the street. not terrorists. 2026 — "Protect the children." All they need a software update. It has happened this way every single time. they name it after the thing nobody wants to defend. then they point it at everything else.

Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all. signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06…

You can’t vibe code users

Prompting is not enough.

A person who always needs to be the victim will eventually make you the villain. Your boundary becomes cruelty, your distance becomes abandonment, your honesty becomes attack. Some people live to escape responsibility.

Some politicians in the UK think it is a good idea to introduce identity verification for using VPN services. It could be that these politicians do not understand what they are proposing. The alternative, that they do understand, would be even worse. Whistleblowers, activists, and journalists depend on anonymous VPN services. Requiring identity verification for VPN services would put them at risk. It would also have a chilling effect on online debate (VPNs can help people post anonymously on social media). In authoritarian countries, VPN services are crucial forcriticizing the government. That is precisely why such governments seek to ban or restrict them. Hopefully, the UK will not join that list.

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Qué importante es este consejo de Jeff Bezos para los equipos de trabajo. “Disagree and commit”. Siempre van a existir diferencias de opinión, desacuerdos sobre qué hacer y cómo hacerlo. Pero en algún momento hay que tomar una decisión. No se puede discutir para siempre. Y es ahí cuando el equipo muestra su madurez: Puedo no estar de acuerdo contigo, pero confío en tu criterio. Si tomamos este camino, voy a estar 100% comprometido. No te voy a sabotear el plan, no te voy a repetir que es un error ni decirte que hay que cambiar el rumbo. Voy a defenderlo como si fuera mi idea. Esto es liderazgo 💪

All these wackadoodle valuations reminded me of a press release we put out in 2009 announcing our $100 BILLION dollar valuation after a recent funding round of $1. Here it is: —— CHICAGO—September 24, 2009—37signals is now a $100 billion dollar company, according to a group of investors who have agreed to purchase 0.000000001% of the company in exchange for $1. Founder Jason Fried informed his employees about the new deal at a recent company-wide meeting. The financing round was led by Yardstick Capital and Institutionalized Venture Partners. In order to increase the value of the company, 37signals has decided to stop generating revenues. “When it comes to valuation, making money is a real obstacle. Our profitability has been a real drag on our valuation,” said Mr. Fried. “Once you have profits, it’s impossible to just make stuff up. That’s why we’re switching to a ‘freeconomics’ model. We’ll give away everything for free and let the market speculate about how much money we could make if we wanted to make money. That way, the sky’s the limit!” A $100 billion value for 37signals is “not outlandish,” says Aanandamayee Bhatnagar, a finance professor and valuation guru at Grenada State’s Schnook School of Business. Bhatnagar points to a leaked, confidential corporate strategy plan that projects 37signals will attract twelve billion users by the end of 2013. How will the company overcome the fact that there are only 6.8 billion people alive today? “Why limit users to people?” said Bhatnagar. In order to determine the valuation of companies, Bhatnagar typically applies the following formula: [(Twitter followers x Facebook fans) (# of employees x 1000)] x (RSS subscribers daily page views) (monthly burn rate x Google’s stock price)2 and then doubles if it they use Ruby on Rails or if the CEO has run a business into the ground before. Bhatnagar admits the math is mostly a guess but points out that “the press eats it up.” To help handle the burdens of an increased valuation, 37signals hired former YouTube exec Craig Mirage as Chief Operating Officer earlier this month. Mirage hopes to replicate YouTube’s valuation success at 37signals. “Of course, the investment comes with great expectations. But you should see the spreadsheet models we’re making up. Really breakthrough stuff,” said Mirage. “37signals will lead the new global movement filled with imaginary assumptions on growth and monetization potential,” he continued. “We’re excited to roll out a list of unconfirmed revenue possibilities that involve crowdsourcing, a robust set of widget creation tools, 3G, augmented reality, social stuff, and an app store. Also, everything we make will include a compass.”

Setting the record straight on the match with Ian Nepomniachtchi. The $100,000 came up last year at the Aeroflot Open and appeared in our promo video as part of the narrative. We should have made clear at the time that it wasn’t the agreed terms for this match, and that’s on us. What isn’t in question is that Ian accepted the actual terms before we played a single move. Prize funds reflect a player’s current rating and standing, and Ian’s are well off his peak, so the figure was fair and he was glad to take it. Calling it “embarrassingly low” only after losing is poor form. I even offered a tiebreak that gave him a real chance to win the match outright. He turned it down. He then asked for half the winner’s bonus for drawing the match, insisted on it, and complained when we said no. That bonus was for winning, nothing else, and we found the demand unreasonable. Great effort went into this event, and I treated it as the occasion it was. Ian didn’t seem to take it as seriously. He wore the exact same shirt and hoodie every single day. What I won’t let pass is his line that I played the final game “with no inaccuracies, like my younger years.” I’d ask Ian to say plainly what he means. Insinuations like that are serious and damaging, and we all remember what they cost me for years. I’d hoped he wouldn’t reach for them. On a better note, revenue from ticket sales went to a local orphanage, with an additional donation from Endgame. That’s all I’ll say. From here, I’ll let the chess speak for itself.

The last thing you should trust an SWE with is estimations

We once had to contend with calls for a "diversity consultant" who was meant to come hunt for racism at 37s. Not because anyone had ever seen or heard of any, but because it could all have been hidden or internalized. Real witch doctor madness era.