Friends, I'm also newly over on the blue butterfly platform, same username. Eventually I'll sunset this rotten platform's account.

Stanford grads walk out as Google CEO Sundar Pichai takes the stage as commencement speaker. No mention of AI, unlike other uni speakers getting booed down this year. Story for @sfgate shortly

Apartheid South Africa and Nazi Germany needed compliant judges to provide a legal veneer to their darkest crimes. Judge Johnson joins their wretched company. He overturned a jury's conviction of four anti-genocide activists for criminal damage and sentenced them as terrorists instead. As one their barristers pointed out, the four defendants were initially arrested by police on suspicion of involvement in an act of terrorism. But the prosecution decided not to charge them with terrorism offences because it knew no jury would ever convict them based on the evidence. Instead the Crown held two trials: a sham one for the jury, and the real one conducted in secret by the judge. That is not justice. It is a show trial worthy of the worst tyrannical regimes.

Someone on Reddit built a game where you ride a dirt bike on top of any company's stock chart.

There was a time, and not all that long ago, when arriving in America meant being greeted by a man with a comically large smile, a flag the size of a small principality, and the words “welcome home, friend,” even if you’d never set foot in the place before. Trillions went into building that brand. And now look. The Senegal national football team, invited guests, arriving for the World Cup, being patted down on the tarmac by a chap in a bucket hat whose vest says Aviation Logistics and whose body language says “spread ’em.” This is not a welcome. It is a stop-and-search before the players have so much as breathed American air. “We love all people,” the Americans used to say. For decades. With feeling. They printed it on t-shirts and stitched it into the lining of their foreign policy. Turns out the small print, only legible under a Trump administration, reads: “terms and conditions apply, please consult the attached list of acceptable nationalities, allow six to eight weeks for processing, void where it makes the President uncomfortable.” The truly bleak thing about the photo isn’t the search. It is that nobody in it looks remotely surprised.

24 Indian crew members were rescued from an oil tanker after it was struck by a US missile off the coast of Oman.

Anyone else getting a load of silent calls from similar 07441 numbers the past few days?

Starmer wants spyware to be installed on every single phone in the country — that’s unlikely to actually protect children but will raise significant risks for your privacy.

I'm appalled but not surprised by the UK government's announcement today. The measures they propose will amount to permanent, automated monitoring of UK citizens' phones without a warrant or any recourse or protection from state overreach. Once implemented, these powers will be hard to unravel but easy to extend. Western democracies used to recoil from the way the USSR and DDR used to surveil their citizens but this is every bit as sinister. Will there be technical ways to subvert it? Probably, but we shouldn't have to. The bigger issue is that UK and European citizens clearly lack sufficient legal protections from the overreach of their own governments and the technocratic class who seem to increasingly regard internet freedom and digital privacy as a problem to be solved. Local elections, jury trials, and now internet privacy are liberties that the government has tried to do away with because they are an administrative inconvenience for technocratic government. I am encouraged by the ideas of @prestonjbyrne and his legislative proposals to improve and secure the basic rights of UK citizens. Give him a follow.

True. The British press has failed today. Few journalists if any seem to grasp what this means. It’s a fundamental reshaping of modern civil liberty and the internet in the UK. Seismic loss of privacy. Millions of adults will have limited web access. In a democracy...? 🤡

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…

"Never again" they said, as they sat back and demanded no one interrupt while it happened again.

Am I reading this right that the UK Government wants to mandate *at the device level* that to take, share, or view nude content you'll have to verify your age? That's wild. bbc.co.uk/news/live/cr5j43zp…

The @FIFAcom #WorldCup visa stories breaking hour by hour are getting absurd. Some journalists from Africa have only been granted U.S. single entry visas for a World Cup being played in 3 countries. If they leave to say cover a game in Mexico, they're not allowed to return.

‼️🚨 Yet another Meta fuck-up: its account recovery function allows unauthenticated access to full account PII, including emails and phone numbers, from just a username. We verified the claim and found social media and wine-app accounts belonging to several public figures. We'll start with footballer Kylian Mbappé, who has a hidden TikTok account.

‼️🚨 BREAKING: Sony PlayStation's age-verification partner Yoti is reporting GrapheneOS users to authorities for using GrapheneOS, due to "past security concerns."

The report seems to imply that Israel was bugging the phones of U.S. troops sent to defend Israel.

The City of Toronto ... was scalping tickets?

It's a bit rich for the @ODEONCinemas ads to say the "rewards go (Ode)on and on and on" when I can't find anything to do with my points in the bloody app.