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Andrew 🄵 Lyons

aiefel@mastodon.social

<p>Technologist for the humans and misanthrope for the machines. Works on digital safety and information security for media and good orgs. Opinions are my own and subject to drift.</p><p>NOTE: Toots are on a 7-day auto-delete. My content is here for a good time, not a long time.</p>

Posts

  • Post #2075631

    RE: https://mastodon.social/@aiefel/116499472077315528 &amp;quot;We believe foreign interference is the reason RightsCon 2026 won’t proceed in Zambia or online&amp;quot; — Access Now (China upset Zambia was hosting an event that gave Taiwanese groups a stage) https://www.rightscon.org/rc26-statement/

  • Post #2075630

    RE: https://fosstodon.org/@Mehrad/116498417524289882 An important thread on what the future of Iran&amp;#39;s internet is looking like...

  • Post #2075629

    The teen has sent me this TikTok. https://www.tiktok.com/@salvadorlerma/video/7634605046608481550?_r=1&amp;amp;_t=ZN-961WbxZzu4M

  • Post #2075628

    For All Mankind is the new West Wing. A distracting alternate timeline of escapism from the current one.

  • Post #2075627

    It&amp;#39;s an exciting time to be alive for system complexity theory people.

  • Post #2075626

    I think about this scene from Deep Space 9 a lot. https://youtu.be/-D2SHNqkjbY?is=HXtrf-p8DOpYA6rR

  • Post #2075625

    &amp;quot;Now, with the authorities increasingly on the hunt for Starlink terminals, Sahand and his network are advising users to use VPNs with the satellite technology in order to remain incognito. But many people cannot afford it, particularly at a time of economic crisis.&amp;quot; People really need better satellite access safety advice in Farsi. The VPN will just hide your ip from the destination, not how you got on the internet. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgzk91leweo

  • Post #2075624

    I&amp;#39;m just an R2 unit with a bad motivator today.

  • Post #2075623

    RightsCon would have started today but China used its authority in Zambia to block it. Currently in an event that switched to online, but the reality that the world is shrinking for pro-democracy and rights-based civil society collaboration is just fact. https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/05/01/something-broke-in-lusaka.html

  • Post #1449816

    Sometimes not knowing the context of something is nice. I can just scroll by whatever it is, happily out of the loop.

  • Post #1449815

    It&amp;#39;s amazing that there are still organisations that think they need to buy up ever permutation of their name in domains as a way of thwarting imitators. It&amp;#39;s a really expensive and fruitless thing to do and throwing away cash that could really be doing better work elsewhere.

  • Post #1449814

    Middle collapse is so annoying. It&amp;#39;s like that person at Christmas who&amp;#39;s just so gentle with removing the wrapping paper.

  • Post #1449813

    The White House is engaging in market manipulation and insider trading but since it de facto runs Congress and the SEC what would be the levers to do anything about that? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cge0grppe3po

  • Post #1213898

    RE: https://mastodon.social/@magdelenehall/116372827462467658 You&amp;#39;re always building for what the next team gets to use. Consider what people with the opposite morality, ethics or vision that you have would do with it.

  • Post #1031868

    Cloudflare released a Wordpress competitor. https://blog.cloudflare.com/emdash-wordpress/

  • Post #1031867

    Wild Geese, by Mary Oliver: https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/04/02/wild-geese-by-mary-oliver.html

  • Post #1031866

    AI can take all the serious jobs and do whatever with them if we can just have these kinds of opportunities in exchange.

  • Post #1031865

    &amp;quot;Trump and Hegseth have been on a clear mission to politicize the U.S. military, and to turn it into an armed extension of the MAGA movement. Hegseth regularly proselytizes, both for Trump and for his right-wing evangelical beliefs, from the Pentagon podium.&amp;quot; https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/2026/04/hegseths-war-on-americas-military/686676/?gift=otEsSHbRYKNfFYMngVFweOjqTICKuzNh9QyRxzLxl1I&amp;amp;utm_source=copy-link&amp;amp;utm_medium=social&amp;amp;utm_campaign=share

  • Post #1031863

    &amp;quot;“So much of our past has been shaped by this petty proceduralism. You could draw a straight line between an amendment in Brussels and a mass grave in Kazakhstan.” — Molly Crabapple, ‘Here Where We Live is Our Country’&amp;quot; A lot of banging great lines in this book!

  • Post #1031862

    &amp;#39;Maxxing&amp;#39; anything sounds exhausting.

  • Post #1031861

    C&amp;#39;mon, we&amp;#39;ve all ended up at a Waffle House without remembering how we got there at one time or another.

  • Post #1031860

    Each year on April 5th is a resurrection day for this platform. https://mashable.com/article/mastodon-wont-survive

  • Post #1031859

    No, the chatbot didn&amp;#39;t cure that dog&amp;#39;s cancer: https://andrewfordlyons.net/2026/04/05/no-the-chatbot-didnt-cure.html