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eny.socialJul 15, 2026

Why does protecting your privacy require a computer science degree?

From vintage Instagram filters to owning your digital footprint. Reclaiming your social media shouldn't be an engineering challenge.

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brennan.dayJul 12, 2026

A Full Guide to Properly Delete Corporate Social Media Accounts

Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, X, Reddit, Discord. Eight platforms, eight different deletion policies. A full technical walkthrough of what 'delete' actually means on each one, the prep work nobody tells you to do first, and the human-side work the documentation doesn't mention.

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brennan.dayJul 12, 2026

A Full Guide to Properly Delete Corporate Social Media Accounts

Facebook, Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads, X, Reddit, Discord. Eight platforms, eight different deletion policies. A full technical walkthrough of what 'delete' actually means on each one, the prep work nobody tells you to do first, and the human-side work the settings menu never mentions.

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brennan.dayJul 10, 2026

REVIEW: Missing 'Missing Richard Simmons'

Nearly a decade after Dan Taberski's Missing Richard Simmons first asked the world where its brightest fitness star had gone, a review of the podcast that helped invent true-crime infotainment—and of the public's complicity in turning a man's right to disappear into a cultural obsession. On parasocial friendship, the ethics of documentary mystery, and why the legacy of Richard Simmons has been swallowed by the very mystery he refused to solve.

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Brennan Kenneth Brown ♾️Jul 10, 2026

REVIEW: Missing 'Missing Richard Simmons'

Nearly a decade after Dan Taberski's Missing Richard Simmons first asked the world where its brightest fitness star had gone, a review of the podcast that helped invent true-crime infotainment—and of the public's complicity in turning a man's right to disappear into a cultural obsession. On parasocial friendship, the ethics of documentary mystery, and why the legacy of Richard Simmons has been swallowed by the very mystery he refused to solve.

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Fighting Bad Internet Bills

Fighting Bad Internet BillsJul 5, 2026

N things you can do today to fight bad internet bills across the world

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Fighting Bad Internet Bills

Fighting Bad Internet BillsJul 5, 2026

N things you can do today to fight bad internet bills in the US

Take action! And, help get the word out

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Get FISA Right

Get FISA RightJun 27, 2026

Get FISA Right turns 18

Thanks to everybody who's been involved over the years!

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Cory DransfeldtJun 27, 2026

Strangers and Intimates

The fascinating story of how private life was won, and how it might just as easily be lost... Private life is in mortal danger, following decades in which it has been relinquished and ransacked. It is threatened by a three-headed state and corporate surveillance, a confessional, 'tell-all' culture that makes people complicit in the invasion of their own privacy, and the intense politicization of private life. Tiffany Jenkins's groundbreaking book traces the emergence of private sanctuaries from authority and public opinion to show that private life is a very recent – and hard-won – achievement. It also warns that, if we're not careful, it will be a temporary one. Strangers and Intimates is animated by dramatic human from the political struggles in the seventeenth century that led to Edmund Coke's rallying cry that 'an Englishman's home is his castle'; to the first modern privacy panic in 1844, when the British government opened private letters sent to the exiled Italian republican Giuseppe Mazzini; and from the embrace by the public of reality TV to the Chinese government's social credit system. A private life is a precious, sustaining resource that is of profound intrinsic value, and it must be defended. We won't know what we have lost until it has gone...

Esse est percipiJun 25, 2026

CookieCrumble im App Store

Berlin, Juni 2026 CookieCrumble für Safari – die erste App für iOS, die Cookies gezielt löscht Für den Mac gibt es seit Jahren leistungsfähige Tools zur Verwaltung von Cookies. Auf dem iPhone sieht…

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Esse est percipiJun 23, 2026

CookieCrumble Testflight jetzt auch für macOS

Eigentlich war ich mit Cookie.app bisher ganz zufrieden. Bis ich vor Kurzem festgestellt habe, dass die App den Großteil der Safari-Cookies weder anzeigt noch löschen kann. Von den 254 Domains, die…

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Get FISA Right

Get FISA RightJun 23, 2026

What next on FISA Section 702? Good question!

Once things do pick up, they're likely to start moving quickly. So ... stay tuned!

sol pbc blogJun 23, 2026

on your side, all the way down

you'll never see most of what we do to keep your solstone life journal yours. so here it is, one layer at a time — the work of making sure nothing about you ever leaks out to anyone, and how you can check that we mean it.

brennan.dayJun 18, 2026

Choosing Friction and Clear Skies: I’m No Longer Using Cloudflare

I'm pausing my folk.zone project to completely replace Cloudflare in my stack with more ethical choices after a conversation with Adam Newbold of omg.lol, the site that inspired the project in the first place. For in practice, there is no such thing as neutrality, and convenience is not a virtue.

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We Can Just Do Things

We Can Just Do ThingsJun 18, 2026

W Social is TruthSocial with a European accent.

Different politics, identical structure: wealthy insiders, community infrastructure they didn't build, and openness performed just long enough to matter. The establishment always wants its own internet.

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Tom CampbellJun 16, 2026

Why We Need Devices for Children

All-out social media bans are harmful for kids and adults, but there's a more effective, privacy-respecting option...

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Nathan Nelson

Nathan NelsonJun 5, 2026

Make your Gmail more private

Proton, the Swiss encrypted and privacy-aware email service, now lets you read and reply to your Gmail emails from within Proton. If you're looking to wean yourself off Gmail, or just curious about trying an alternative, this could be a good place to start: anyone you reply to will still receive your messages as Gmail,...

Fresh From Cache [Unofficial]Jun 5, 2026

Your photos know where you live

Fresh From Cache [Unofficial]Jun 3, 2026

How a stranger on the bus found her secret Instagram

Fresh From Cache [Unofficial]Jun 1, 2026

You can’t say bomb on an airplane

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Geoffrey RichardMay 22, 2026

Owning My Corner of the Internet: Self-Hosting Decentralized Social Media

Will ScottMay 22, 2026

When do we get a Privacy-Preserving CDN?

The surveillance-capitalism business model that defines the Internet today is only going to get more imposing. The vast majority of our online requests today are serviced and logged by centralized infrastructure - even more centralized than what we probably expect. While our collective hivemind takes rightful pride in the successful pushes that have improved this...

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ewan's devlogApr 26, 2026

Social Sync v0.5.0 — Identity & Consent

Rebranding to Social Sync, implementing a granular consent system, and moving to AT Protocol OAuth.

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brennan.dayApr 3, 2026

The Internet's Landlord Problem

A quarter of the entire Internet uses Cloudflare. This is an existential threat to the Internet's ideals. I realized I need DDoS protection, but I could not use Cloudflare in good conscience. And so, I'm beyond excited to announce that I'm now using Deflect.ca for my website.

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