Land & Sea Journal

Monthly Edition

October 1, 2026

Chronicle of the month before October 1, 2026

Law

Jerry Sandusky gets hearing to explore sexual abuse recantation claim (apnews.com)

“I was told — both directly and indirectly — that trauma may have fragmented my memory, and that I could safely affirm details I did not fully recall. I was assured this was common and even expected,” R.R. said in an affidavit filed by Sandusky’s attorneys.

The AG said the recantation was suspect.

“I apologize that I’m unable to admit remorse for this because it’s something that I didn’t do,” Sandusky said during a 2019 court appearance.

Multiple people arrested across Central Florida for illegally harvesting saw palmetto berries (youtube.com)

Because they're valuable, 15-20m pounds of Fla's annual yield was being picked years ago, often by companies that payed $60 per 100 pounds, and not on their own farm land, but on public land, it seems, and there was trespassing on private land (even if the owners didn't care about the berries they didn't want people trespassing on their land). Picking the berries prevents new seedings which degrades the plant's presense. It is one of the foods of bears and tortoises there.

Ie profitable enough that people would just do it until there isn't any more, which we've seen with other species.

The Supreme Court Changed. What Now? (youtube.com)

‘Shadow docket’. US law made without being public. Deporting men to countries they aren't even from. Immigration agents can racially profile people. Allowing states to redraw election lines while an election is underway. Justices don't even have to sign their names to the votes. Alito tried to use the term ‘emergency docket’ instead, ‘but that doesn’t really capture what's happening here, but appealing to the ‘emergency docket’ lets you bypass the lengthy, public, recorded and rationalized merit docket (oral arguments and levels of courts).

There's no real way to know how many cases have been done on the Shadow Docket. 2003-2025 around 27k applications, mostly boring (extending deadlines, capital punishment cases, which are actual emergencies). In 2025 ‘Substantive Shadow Dockets' with all 9 justices vote had 63 cases and 56 on merits docket, the first year it became more common.

Pattern is they are used to 'enable Trump.' Politically motivated votes.

Supreme Court denies Trump’s mail-in voting restrictions (youtube.com)

‘A man was arrested for allegedly pepper-spraying someone who was using their cellphone during a movie screening at a Burbank theater.’ Yet, there is no legal response available to citizens when people just start recording things, despite large opposition in the citizenry to people doing that.

Journalism

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I won four public records appeals against my town’s police department. I still don’t have the records — and no agency in Massachusetts can make them hand them over. ()

Media ban backfires, leaving Trump silenced (youtube.com)

Trump had a ribboncutting. He banned CNN, Politico and MSNOW from the White House, and the other news agencies in solidarity didn't attend. Trump friendly agencies like NewsMax did attend, but some botched their video coverage.

The three banned filed a First Amendment lawsuit. Trump tweeted against the three and the judge (appointed by Trump though).

He raises the point that Trump ‘feeds off being covered.’

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Online news outlets are reported to have lost ~30 of traffic within two years ()

Diplomacy & IR

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Trump posts map with American flag emblazoned over Canada, Greenland, Mexico ()

Civil Rights

People are using expanding foam spray on Flock cameras.

‘What happened to free speech?’

A Vancouver strip club, on its billboard at its door, puts funny and enticing phrases, and they put ‘CANT HANDLE A POOL BUT WANTS OUR LAKE?’, and within 3 minutes of posting a picture, the owner's personal account and the Penthouse (the strip club) account were closed and the content taken down. The club a while ago put ‘FOREVER NEIGHBOURS NEVER NEIGHBORS’ on their sign and the X account was banned for hate speech.

They applied to get their Insta account restored. CityNews reached out to Meta for comment. What do you do when the owner of the SM platform is meeting regularly and donating to the president? Can we say that SM is ‘owned’ by the White House?

Blockading the port of Dover – how a few hundred organised men can achieve great things (youtube.com)

The men all wore a black ‘uniform’, there had been no warning and no social media posts. (They may have used telephones.) There was no problem, no threats, no intimidation. The men behaved in an orderly and efficient way. No hooliganism or disorder. They left after making their point. ‘This was essentially a military operation.’

There is an issue in the UK, where a law on the books says any people assembled wearing ‘a uniform’ and having any political purpose ‘shall be guilty of an offense.’

Is all black a uniform? I would say no, because a uniform involves a standardized symbolism of identificatoin. This is the opposite.

The reception of non-participants in Dover was approving and welcoming, he says. People waved and shouted encouragement.

He pointed out that next time the police will probably attempt to order everyone to remove their masks. But, he notes, to enforce that the police would have to outnumber them. Which raises a question about protests outside metropolitican centers.

While watching this video my internet disconnected and when I rebooted the video was not in my YouTube History.

Anotehr video on the subject from a regular UK vlogger. It seems part of the UK government's anti-protest reaction is to try to frame the participants as negative because they covered their faces, and that will be interesting to see if we've reached the point where that previously-socially-invalidating thing is now supported broadly.As well as the afore-mentioned law to try to say uniforms and political purpose together constitute a crime.

The Patriot Platform issues a stern warning to British authorities. (youtube.com)

'From the hills of Scotland to the fields of Wales to the streets of Northern Island and of course England. We have an opportunity to take back control.

‘And we will be able away from Social Media, away from all these platforms, to come together and resist.’

‘This is not going to be anything that is illegal. We are not asking anyone to commit any crimes.’

‘We will now be putting meetings together. Because I’m from Portsmounth, gonna start with the South Coast.'

236k views in 3 days.

He said they're looking only for serious people, working Christian men and women, not people who just want to drink and take drugs.

These are the speeches we've heard in serious civil conflict nations in Africa/Asia/Latin America over the past few decades.

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Alien Terrorist Removal Court deports legal US resident to Afghanistan in first-ever case ()

Susan Sarandon, others detained at protest over Israel arms (youtube.com)

Raphael Correa stood up agians thte US, UK, and Spain (Assange supported Basque separatists) when they wanted to persecute him harder, and said that asylum was a universally recognized human right and kept asylum-ing Assange in London. The minute Correa was out of office, the new guy let them go in and get Assange.

Information

Hack exposes more than 150 million U.S. and Canadian driver's licenses on dark web (youtube.com)

Any real government would prevent this by closing these databases off, which requires some manual effort to retrieve the records when requested and moved to a connected machine, but is the only way.

Besides the IDs, travel documents, medical cards.

Not only that, but as I've mentioned before, the loose insecure practices of local and especially internatoinal governments with IDs and photographing IDs, the government should issue secondary coded IDs to use in other countries without actual identifying info.

The government hasn't even put out a PSA on ‘What can people even do now?’ Nothing. They also just took down the marketplace where it was being sold, and didn't put up anything where people can search if their ID was in the ‘leak’.

The ‘expert’ on tihs video says to freeze your credit, get an the IRS identity protection PIN, and do 2-step bank login. Ie no help.

Federal Prosecutor Explains What Your Phone Tells The Government (youtube.com)

With a person's phone number. No warrant. Identity, by subpoena-ing the carrier, then cross-ref with financial accounts and SM accounts registered with that profile. Complete ID profile. Cell site location data, from the carrier's logged, timestamps and directions of movement, where the person worked, slept, at the scene. PIN registers to monitor every phone all connections (who you called or called you or messaged) in realtime.

You hand that number out to people every day, in forms, in converstaions.'

Carver v US (2018) caused collecting cell site location to require a warrant.

Think twice before unsubscribing | FOX 5 News (youtube.com)

Junk and spam email. This is about a button inside the email itself, not the Spam denotation in your email service, which is the correct way. If you click this button, and the email was a fake one though the company they're impersonating is one in your area or that you really do subscribe to, the scammers/hackers then know you're a person who responds and interacts with spam. SM engineering/extortion/sending user to a fake website to enter their password to unsub.

Do Japanese IPs just get better, more scientific, more natural SM/YouTube feed items than places like Nicaragua or Colombia or Mexico?

Why the System No Longer Needs to Censor Social Media (youtube.com)

Before 2016-17 SM was mostly real independent people with organic opinions, but now ‘blue nodes’ influencers funded by corps/politicians. So many controlled voices independent voices aren't heard, so platforms feel fine unbanning for free speech reasons genuine dissenters. Instead of limiting speech, they limit/boost reach of speech, often paid to do so. Online figures are selected and highlighted by legacy media organizations, which makes them household names and makes actually independent voices seem illegitimate. Institutions can ‘absorb, fund and neuter critics.’

World

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Someone used the word ‘parasite’. Is the White House parasitic?

A new microstate in Europe? | DW Shorts (youtube.com)

Albania wants to make a little (smaller than Vatican) state. They've been working on the legal part. Tirana. Associated with ‘liberal Islam.’ ‘Small states can benefit from niche norms internationally.’ It would create certain priveleges for the minority there, though, within Albania, where 5% identify with that particular sect.

Why 83% of Japanese Don’t Have Passports (youtube.com)

Did someone just leave the info door open and someone just came in and took all their passports (100k and 300k CCs and 50k CC with CVVs)?

They bring up one of the most ridiculous info security issues I've been talking about for 5 years (and got agressively downvoted and criticized every time I raised the issue, even in privacy forums). Hotels shouldn't be able to scan or photo your ID. In some countries it's illegal to do so, but in some of those they do it anyway, for the same ‘security’ reasons. Even when a hotel scans your passport, they should only need that info for 10 seconds while they check you in and then delete it, but legally they can keep it ‘for as long as then need it.’

This is Australia, one of the stupidest modern countries. Comments were turned off for the video.

I don't think the US allows hotels or anyone to photo/scan IDs. You show your id and the reception writes out the info on their sheet.

The people who's passport photos were stolen are advised not to travel with their passports because it can be dangerous because criminals who steal passport photos can use it for fraudulent ie criminal purposes. How do you prove that wasn't you?

Special ReportIran and Lebanon War
Special ReportRussia–Ukraine War
Special ReportVenezuela

‘North American Blue Energy Partners gets a 100-year consession over 17 oil fields. This includes 65b barrels of reserves that were once controlled by Russia, Chinese, and Maduro entities. US government controls 55% of the deal. The Pentagon gets 35% equity. State Department gets rights to buy 20% of output at cost [for military?].’ Signed by Rubio and Hegseth with Venezuela's interim president.

US refineries are already perfectly set up to deal with Venezuela's heavy crude.

Special ReportCuba
Special ReportKSA/Yemen

Politics

The President Cancelled Their Show (youtube.com)

Kimmel.

Comedians aren't as replaceable as news presenters. Their show is more transparent than news organizations. News organizations are frequently captured, and presenters are coerced or a replacement is easily found, except for the very top people, like Konkite or something, but even they are replaceable. Comedians aren't so common, and comedians who also can handle a talk show less so. And they've undergone a decade or two of honesty training.

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Carney says U.S. wants to wipe out Canadian industries or make them subsidiaries ()

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Energy secretary: ‘I don’t want to have an opinion’ on rising gas prices ()

UN politics. This month, they voted to offically use a map with a slightly larger Africa and smaller other plces like North America ‘to reflect their true sizes’. Headlining hard, including Amnesty, which was once an organization people respected even. When you can't do literally anything that will in any way make anything better for anyone, or improve in any way any civil rights, do something completely meaningless and hope people will be impressed?

Trump talked about boycotting or something Bombardier.

Well, at least the Evil Empire (as it now appears so much like what kids in the street called Bush II's America) is punching on its way down. Not punching its enemies, just punching other people in the community, often enough friends. Or just more pointless theater.

Philippines Leader Gets China's 'Bullying' Note On Stage. What He Did Next (youtube.com)

China sends a message to the guy while he's giving a pseech at some defense conference, just sends a guy to put a piece of paper in front of him while he's talking to the crowd. He'd not a scaredycat though.

‘This is actual coercion, bullying and aggression.’

‘I’ll keep this paper as a memento of how desperate China is, and how ineffective its position is in the face of a free audience. Thank you very much to the person who just gave me this piece of paper. You've just done your country a great service.'

China continues to exert control over Phillipine's territory and economic zone, he said.

NDTV is India.

Vice President JD Vance Holds a Fraud Task Force Press Conference (youtube.com)

What is this? Ala China? Is it to better reach into and leverage against political dissidents from the ruling party? Most Americans consider the current White House more fraudulent (crypto, friends with the biggest companies, family members portfolios outperform the market) more fraudulent than most other politicians, it seems. so how is the White House going to go after fraud?

Mackelmore made some pro-Palestine statements, and then pro-Israel groups started petitions against him (including the Israeli-Amreican Council), then Robert Kraft, owner of Gillette Stadium objected to Mackelmore and a group of stadium owners presented an ultimatum, reportedly, and then Mackemore got cancelled from Ed Sheeran's tour. Sheeran said he wasn't at fault, it was the promoter. Then the other supporting acts dropped out of Sheerans show. Then Irish public figures started distancing themselves from Sheeran (who identifies as culturally Irish, reportedly).

'The United States Was Right': Tammy Bruce Calls Out UN Members Who 'Parroted' Syria In 2011 (youtube.com)

In following days, lots of posts against Sheeran, but then some people stood up for him in other posts. And one headline was ‘Ed Sheeran’s former support act says anger should be directed at Robert Kraft.' and said ‘I'm gonna be honest, I think youse are all focusing on the wrong person here.'

Wait, so random celebrities aren't to be blamed for hyperpolitical decisions taken and acted upon by corporation owners?

Other celebrities started making more purposeful pro-Palestine / anti-Israel statements.

Later, Mackelmore announced a ‘Free Palestine’ tour. Sounds so fun, a tour that's about violent abusive politics.

One of the most significant ways Trump has been negative is making everyone's day (not just in America, but turn on the news in any country) more about politics. He has created so many controversial news stories, with positions that create so much emotion and aggression in people, that everywhere, daily ideas and thoughts in larger part revolve just around politics/US politics. Politics is the worst thing for people to be thinking about/considering, because it is almost totally negative. And the effect on people is obvious and negative. Enraged, politicized people everywhere, so few of the educated/educating people just being their real selves.

Politics/US politics are always on the news, but the seeming importance and pressingness of an increased number of items constantly ...

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Trump’s Crazed U.N. Speech Met With Silence and Walkouts | Delegates began to walk out as Trump threatened other countries in his speech at the United Nations. ()

"The Iranians misread our system." (youtube.com)

Is Rubio starting to resemble Rumsfeld? People have noted how presidents, nomatter their starting point, after time in office all start to become the same thing. Is the entire White House so?

Netanyahu, Mamdani war of words heats up (youtube.com)

For anyone else out there, no matter what Mamdami says or does, doesn't just the way he presents himself and acts, doesn't it make you think he's just making a show for power? What is the substance? What has he actually done, I mean his record of doing things for people that don't just cost the people in the longer term?

Special ReportICE

Economics

YouTube (youtube.com)

My current unsourced hunch is that Bitcoin is currently most tied to distrust in USD and stability. (For the past couple years it was tied to the group of investors who had their money in BigTech et al.)

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‘In reality, the revenue brought in by Trump’s tariffs, under $500 billion, would not cover a $5,000 check for every American, which would cost $1.2 trillion.’

But could we say that it constantly engerders positive feelings toward Trump from the least educated and his already-committed supporters. The statement seems ‘generous’ and ‘for the people’ even though they pay for it and it really doesn't mean what they think.

Prices jump overnight as Canada's U.S. tariffs begin (youtube.com)

Nike was removed from S&P, after a decline steady but volatile, since 2021. Before that it was fairly steady increasse since 2009.

Most Nike shops I've been to, because I buy Nikes, just have those soft cloth things. I have to get leather/fake leather quality, strong and reinforced ones, from Amazon.

Donahoe became CEO in 2020 and alienated partners with TDC instead of stocking Foot Locker's stores. On and other brands have become popular. Chinese brands have become popular in China. Super Woke advertisements. Political endoresement.

Kapernik might have been the turning point, David Sacks theorized. A non-great athlete taking a stand for a non-important issue.

India’s Silicon Valley Is Straining Under Its Own Growth (youtube.com)

Street congestion, lagging public investment and government infrastructure but tons of offices, which makes companies there consider moving elsewhere. Declining demographic growth rates might mean most wealthy regions have less political leverage to direct the funding to their infrastructure needs.

Technology

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This Is Flock's AI Search Tool for Cops | WIRED rebuilt Flock's latest search tool from code the company sends to a police officer's browser. Its AI can keep watch across multiple cameras for anyone fitting a written description ()

216,000,000 Spy TVs | The LG Smart TV Problem (youtube.com)

While LG tvs are off, their mics are recording, and you can get plaintext (non encrypted, ie you just read it) printouts of everything said around the tv. This is part of the smart TV ‘advertising features’.

LG is a SKorean company. Their key product is TVs. They also make other home appliances, which can have spy features. They hold 18% of the US appliance market. They manufacture in US, Mexico, SKorea and China.

Open AI Calls FBI on User, Armed Drones in Public Schools, and more (youtube.com)

Google Play Store is now requiring people who want to upload apps to have 20 people install tester developer app or something (this policy isn't aimed at companies but at individual developers making apps on their own), and be continuously logged into it for 14 days, for each app you want to upload. Gatekeeping which protects the giant app developers? How do indie developers try out any ideas there?

Apple's store doesn't require that, so indie devs are often just ignoring Google Play Store when they make an app.

Nature

Human Interest

Crime

Kosta Diamantis flees US for Greece, skips sentencing (youtube.com)

Ex-budget chief for bribery and extortion. Bribes from contractors for state projects.

Had to give up his US passport, but had a Greek one, but said he'd mailed it to his family in Greece. He went to Fla, took a boat to Bahamas, and flew to London then Greece.

Feds say they'll work with EU to get him.

Culture

Why marketing isn't working anymore (strategy pro explains) (youtube.com)

He says we have had a ‘war on friction’ for years. Anothe blogger this week posted about how optimizing for happiness is not moral but that's what has been done recently, he meant that even unethical happiness or neutral happiness is considered a ‘good’ in the culture/society and is justification or reason to do things or organize things.

Friction held back sludge/slop. Friction is like a moat now.

Even good content that appears on his feed, he says ‘Well it looks like it, but,’ or ‘Well it looks maybe too good’, suspecting AI. Scepticism. Only trust/attachment to a brand will overcome that.

People aren't filtering harder, but instead just retreating to a small set of trusted sources.

It's almost like the 80s, he noted, when you actually had to break into the channels with institutional credibility.

His new marketing/product rule is ‘If it’s not difficult, it won't work.'

This is the list of things he says are still marketable. Being a fantastic speaker, good on camera,attached to some big brand name, having a serious title or qualification, knowing people worth interviewing, having good connections, having a real track record. Clooney's tequila sold, he didn't compete on quality of tequila, when n no other celebs were doing this (the idea scales down with suppliers).

‘What currently occupies the space that we are intending to take?’

how i become a pessimist, nihilist, and antinatalist (and how I'm coping) (youtube.com)

She was happy as a child when she could fill her days with ‘getting lost in her own little world of arts and crafts, storybooks and dolls all day, with no knowledge of what harms exist in the world, what harm other humans do to each other and what you can do to others.’ Lol, you could've just got married.

She was devoted to protestantism.

When she came of age, her idea was to explore the world and have as many experiences as possible. Maximize at this. And support her family. As she knew more and more about the world and how the system worked, she lost optimism and trust in the system, and ‘the more I knew about how things actually worked, my worldview, my personality, my hopes and my dreams have done a 180.’ You can kinda see how if she'd been sheltered as a wife, she might be optimistic and hopeful and happy, and her husband could return each day to such a person.

She's also from a poorer country (economically) so got an education and moved to a richer country and spent a lot of time much more alone than before.

‘And how others’ suffering and death and exploitation is what provides most of our comfort in the first world and our success.'

She also talks about how the 99% allow the 1% to exploit them. Significant focus on rich and not rich. Also that ‘the people who are ruthless and selfish are those who are going to be happiest,’ which is a trope of course. She also referenced that NPC's give advice to focus on yourself and enjoy, and ‘life is what you make it,’ but she says ‘I don’t know if you wanna live in a world like that but I don't.' Are people just waiting for a revolution to join?

She also says she fakes NPCness all the time because she fears being isolated if she didn't. She says none of her faf or her boss would understand her.

She regularly watches other existentialist YouTubers.

Part of her strategy includes ‘stopping trying to overcome anything, stopped trying to heal anything, Stopped trying to frame the negative things as positives. I don't believe in that BS anymore. ... I need to lie to myself... I can't save the world, nor can I be saved by it.'

The GREAT FEMINIZATION: The Real Reason Everything Went Woke (youtube.com)

First instance of hearing ‘feminization’ this way except for my own use.

Oh someone wrote something about the tipping point, which I wrote about around 8 years ago. And, looking at comments, other people have been talking about it for years also, but not publicly becaues that is punished.

The rest of the disparate points she made sounded like they were collected from other speakers from the past few years, using an AI or something.

‘Ways to threaten while sounding like a victim.’

Shift started 1980s and accelerated around 2007, people say.

‘Every response can be absorbed into the presumption of guilt’ (when shift from 'presumption of innocense shifts to presumption of guilt).

Most people, in Western countries and some other countries, have never experienced what it is to be a man or to be treated like one, or to be in a place where there are men.

The DEI tradeoff is worse than you think (youtube.com)

But the ideas are not permeating the edges or corners of mainstream. Here is the National Post.

This seems possibly or likely the time to start public revolution of culture. The society is ready for it. The viciousness of men as it sinks in they have been denied and punished for what they could have had and were prevented, the bitterness, will be irrepressible. The men who have known for 15 or 20 years as it has progressed, some of them fully and some partially, will be extremely bold and confident once these things are publicly vindicated. The other side will probably have to remain silent even in the face of overreach by the masculine rebellion. Calls to doubt will be laughed at, calls to self-restrain will be scoffed.

The start to this phase might have been a couplefew years ago, when Pearl and Hoemath and that psychology YouTuber Orion started taling about and educating on it. (At that time, the widespread example of OF and similar trends were extreme, as well as female dating practices on apps, combined with reversals of DEI trends and the extreme pushing of culture with politically supported Trans and Woke, and less-so public examples of falsely charged or denounced university student males, etc, and before that time no one spoke truthfully or counter-the-narriatve about it publicly who had any followers.) Once the idea caught on, tons of bloggers talked about it, not all intellectual or critical. In recent months, it's on mainstream media, mostly in Opinion pieces, but still isn't really in the mainstream, like most people you talk to, who watch only the 6 O'clcok news and their echo-chamber fakenews on Facebook, won't yet know what you're talking about 8 or 9 out of 10 times. But unlike 5 or even 3 years ago, you will be surprised that randomly someone you're talking to knows what you're talking about and has already watched some things on it and considered the ideas a bit.

Will men even stop shooting up public places?

Контрольные прокаты сборной России по фигурному катанию 2026. День 2 (youtube.com)

Kamila in tears as she couldn't really pull it off. Skating to the Arrival theme, sad effect. Sasha beautiful spins, and spinning all over, to an uptempo marchy synthwavy mashup. Some commenter mentioned about how she takes it seriously. And Tutperitze has a non-teenager skater.

Clavicular has been charged with ‘raping’ a ‘child’ and providing alcohol to a minor (under 21). Ie hooking up with a 17-year-old. All over SM headlines. One month after the start of the martyrdom of Andrew Tate. The young woman, who was at his house last year, says he raped her while she was heavily intoxicated.

Some might see this as successes for the Feminism/woke thing, but it could just as likely be bringing to a head the issues men face and are used against them, and cause activism and steel men to finally stand up. After all, the men they're charging now aren't the ones hiding, they're out there already publicly and have already been speaking honestly, not politically, so they'll be out there already publicly in opposition to what's happening to them, also.

Plastic Models - Japanology Plus (youtube.com)

One guy says that Japan used to be a leader in manufacturing and delivered superior products, exporting everywhere. The leaders of those companies probalby built models when they were kids.

You follow carefully the manual, you cut, file and assemble the components. You have to concentrate.

Seeing a lot of movie ads for real (non super hero non AI cartoon) moives, Paper Tiger, Remain, Cliff Booth,

What Trump and Xi dined on at the White House state dinner | BBC News (youtube.com)

Sesame crusted seabass, White House honey icecream, a wine served during Nixon's trip to China. Yellow squash.

They wait for the State Department to forward dietary restrictions for the four main diners (the two heads of state and their spouses). Local ingredients, seasonal ingredients, any kind of theme? They do a test run with the First Lady. Linen, flowers (overflowing red blossoms).

People

Products

Brave Browser’s New Fingerprinting Defense Changes Online Privacy (youtube.com)

Brave replaced info about your specific computer (always has been available to browsers) with a string of generic text. Everyone using Brave Browser provides the same number now. The new Brave removes descriptors, simply blanking them out.

WebGL is needed by websites so Brave can't just block it or remove it, because websites wouldn't work for you. Instead Brave injects randomization/noise into this extension list (ie tracker sees a scrambled list of trackers, history, etc).

EFF links to Cover Your Tracks, you can visit it to see what info your browser gives up about you.

Pixel 11 Has an MTE Problem | GrapheneOS (youtube.com)

If you're going to install GrapheneOS on it, it might not work, not sure yet.

Because of lack of support for ARM hardwre, mem lag in software. Mem tagging started with Pixel 8 and is for security.

Pixel11 also has less CPU and less RAM than Pixel10, it seems.

I Ditched My Phone's SIM Card for a 5G Hotspot (youtube.com)

Big telecom companies require tons of personal info just to use their cell service, but they have been proven to sell your data, and further, they are not capable of protecting it, proven by large data breaches of their companies. Not only did T-mobile give/get hacked your data if you used their service, but even if you were a ‘prosective customer’ ie they bought your data from someone, they gave the data of those people away/got hacked also. SINs, addresses, full legal names, DOBs, government ID data. AT&T gave up/got hacked for records of call and messaging data for 109m customers.

He's using the Calyx 5G hotspot. They do data minimalization. They don't want your data so don't collect it, so no one can get it from them. $750 for first year and $500 for subsequent years, unlimited data, cheaper than unlimited data for any major US carrier (which is $45 to $65). They require your address to send the device to you, but there are more private ways the vlogger describes. He gave Calyx a name (not legal name), email, mailing address and money order. No actual vulnerable personal data.

Calyx's hotspot runs on Tmobile so they can see the network and towers, but you can minimize the info tying that info to your user. He uses an always on encrypted VPN. So the cell tower can see the hotspot, but cannot see the phone connected to the hotspot.

The device is as big as two phones stacked, and its battery runs 5-12 hours. (5 hours with 5 devices connected.)

No native phone number for calls or messages.

Raspberry Pi locks down RAM upgrades in Firmware (youtube.com)

There were people, apparently, buying cheap 1-2gb boards and soldering in 8gb ram chips and reselling them, alhough the 9gb ram was low quality. But it blocks people from legitimately swappig RAM. Geerling suggested some better things rPi could do about resellers.

I bought a TV with NO 'Smart' Features... (youtube.com)

Smare featuers can only be avoided this way currently, and must be avoided this way. But smart features aren't bad, just the companies are bad, or the laws that allow them or the politicians who benefit from the laws that allow them, are bad.

F-Droid 2.0 - The Biggest Update In Years (youtube.com)

Because Google's phones are going to start being locked down for sideloading/alternative app stores to Play Store. In about 150 days, Google Android will require you to go to dev mode on your Pixel (if your Pixel is even unlocked), then go through a bunch of warning screens and turn on ability to install from other sources, then wait 24 hours before you can actually install any apps (which is the main thing cause if you buy a new phone you will have to wait 24 hours before you can install any apps this way, or you can immediately install using Google's ecosystem). Then load apps with adb, needing a second device, a terminal, a cable, etc.

Google Play Store is the source of much ‘Google approved’ app malware installs. The warnings aren't bad, cause 95% of phone users are irresponsible, but the 24 hours period stops even those who know something about app responsibliity from using their device their way.

Chief Editor's Journal

I feel more and more it's just a matter of watching all countries be destroyed by their governments, one law at a time. One country after another giving the green light to agencies to cancel bank accounts without warrants or without sentencing. One after another forcing ID verification to use devices. One after another passing laws prohibiting vague types of speech, subject to their judgement of whether your speech qualifies. One after another passing laws against protesting in public. One after another taking guns from citizens. It's just a constant stream and no country seems to be moving in the other direction. Is this what preceeded the ‘Age of Revolutions’ in the 1700s? It obviously has a lot further to go before it touches regular people that way, but there is a point at which people just break from the system entirely and want a new one. Maybe it's because no one has presented a new one yet, so people are depressedly resigned to a hopelessness that any effort, any revolution, will just transfer power from one harmful government to another set of people doing the same, and maybe with increased powers and reduced constraints.

Regulatory capture and backroom deals, a possible Democrat issue.

FBI launches task force targeting attacks on Tesla: ‘This is domestic terrorism’ (youtube.com)

Georgiatown is in a bit of a political fight with the government because the government wants it to end all DEI, and DC said it wouldn't consider Georgiatown students for internships, fellowships, whatever, until Georgiatown complies.

Masked arrests of people who aren't gangs? In this case, students at school?

June, we have the president calling in the National Guard to battle protesters in Cali, against Newsom. He's tapping Palantir for Data Collection

Big Beautiful Data Consolidation | Donald Trump Taps Palantir (youtube.com)

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(Centralization and Legal Reform. Henry I expanded royal justice and taxation. But this meant local courts lost power, and royal agents (like Basset) could act with brutality and impunity.)

prototype of the royal bureaucrat: not a noble or warrior, but a manager of justice, law, and money.

Henry was building a more centralized, top-down state—and justice was a weapon of that state.

The word guild here probably refers not to trade guilds, but more broadly to arbitrary legal associations or enforcement gangs. It may mean groups that enforced fines, tributes, or private justice violently—possibly semi-official or corrupt extensions of royal power.

How much clout did Trump lose with his base/voters when he fell out with Musk?

This month some very unpopular things. The giant, inclusive tax bill that not only raises government spending but also includes so many things it will be a decade before anyone even understands what is in it. No one can read it it's so long. Basically everyone is against this bill and even his supporters say he should have pushed harder. Assumed or presumed complicity in Israel-Iran attacks. Fallout with Elon, unfriendly words with Tucker.

Sacks doing basically propaganda on the All-in, showing charts that people ‘favor’ his bill, his actions against California protests, which I think he would have pointed out the flaws if he was still just a regular host of the pod.

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