Hard Pass

Built a small encrypted messenger that runs over any MQTT broker you host. The broker is just a dumb relay — it only sees ciphertext, never plaintext. Setup is dead simple: spin up an MQTT broker (EMQX, Mosquitto, whatever), share a room name and encryption key with someone, done. ChaCha20-Poly1305 + Argon2id, fresh salt and nonce per message. Rust backend (Tauri), React frontend, single portable exe around 5MB. There's also a clipboard encryption mode — type plaintext, it encrypts to clipboard, paste into any app. Useful if you don't want to run a dedicated chat client. Originally designed for people in censored regions, but it works as a minimal self-hosted secure chat for anyone who wants it. Limitations: no forward secrecy, no traffic obfuscation, Windows only for now. Tauri should make cross-compilation straightforward if anyone wants to build for Linux/macOS. Unlicense, public domain. I'm not maintaining it — fork and do what you want.

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• While 16 F-35 fighters remain contractually committed for delivery starting this year, the full 88-jet procurement is stalled amidst trade friction with the Trump administration.

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And now this individual, with this journalist, is writing some book about being a dissident in the age of fear, and this question of, are they going to talk about Gaza at all? I kind of doubt it. Maybe they will. And I think of other people who resigned alongside me, who I feel extremely fortunate to be at the Quincy Institute, to have had an academic background, and to have had some of these other connections, whereas, for those for whom resigning was to really burn every professional bridge they'd ever built.

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It was six months between October 7 and when I resigned. And during that time, I submitted a dissent cable. I signed on other dissent cables. I was involved in some internal efforts to try to advocate for a different policy. And this gets a little bit to kind of what Samantha Power said in her statement about when the President and those around him have made a decision, you can't impact it, and you just have to kind of do what you can within that.

But then it's like, okay, well, if that's the case, then you step away; you don't go along with it. I think another super important thing as progressives, or as people are thinking about where we go from here, is that I worry a lot about the fact that so many of these figures inside the Biden administration really haven't paid any kind of a reputational price. They've landed these cushy gigs at Harvard, nice consulting firms, or lucrative law positions. They're all fine, and there hasn't really been this grappling with enabling genocide. And also the pigheadedness of the Biden administration and then, subsequently, the Harris campaign to double down on unconditional and illegal support for Israel was a crucial factor in why the Democrats lost the election.

Interview with writer of article by Majority Report

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?__goaway_challenge=js-refresh&__goaway_id=f1d8f29bc6379ecb5b9d612d484accb7&__goaway_referer=https%3A%2F%2Finv.nadeko.net%2F&v=kdBJmNuMqHM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdBJmNuMqHM

The full related tweet:

If the Radical Left Democrats don’t immediately sign an agreement to let our Country, in particular, our Airports, be FREE and SAFE again, I will move our brilliant and patriotic ICE Agents to the Airports where they will do Security like no one has ever seen before, including the immediate arrest of all Illegal Immigrants who have come into our Country, with heavy emphasis on those from Somalia, who have totally destroyed, with the approval of a corrupt Governor, Attorney General, and Congresswoman, Ilhan Omar, the once Great State of Minnesota. I look forward to seeing ICE in action at our Airports. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN! President DONALD J. TRUMP

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PUT THE SUITCASE DOWN! I SAID DROP IT! bang bang

The account is an example of how artificial intelligence is being used to push political agendas in wartime

MAGA has been swooning over photos of a blonde U.S. Army soldier, walking defiantly alongside President Donald Trump to carry out the America First agenda. But there’s just one problem — she’s AI.

Images most likely generated by artificial intelligence depicted Jessica Foster wearing heels on a U.S. warship in the Strait of Hormuz, posing for selfies with Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin, and giving a speech at the president’s “Board of Peace” event earlier this year.

The account, which has since been taken down, gained more than one million followers since its mysterious creator started posting on it four months ago, The Washington Post reports.

Everybody laughed, except this one guy, of course

I myself am from the USA but I really can't think of anything. I do know of some right-wingers from my old high school who liked leftist stuff but I can't think of what they are off the top of my head. Maybe Star Trek, does that count?

The Philippines and Canada must work together to develop “democratic” supply chains for critical minerals and reduce its dependence on China.

This was according to experts and diplomats who spoke during a high-level conference organized by the Stratbase Institute and the Asia-Pacific Foundation of Canada (APF Canada) last Friday, which sought to discuss how Ottawa and Manila could strengthen their bilateral ties and cooperate to improve their economic security.

Vina Nadjibulla, APF Canada vice president for research, specifically identified critical minerals – which underpin high-tech industries and advanced defense systems – as a cornerstone of the two nations’ deepening partnership and said the two countries must leverage their complementary strengths to build a more resilient economic future in the region.

“This is the moment to deploy our critical minerals, both for our digital needs and our sustainability goals, as well as obviously defense industrial actions,” Nadjibulla said.

She also underscored the strategic necessity of “building supply chains that are democratic, that are not just dependent on China,” to be able to navigate an increasingly “divided and dangerous” global landscape.

Stratbase Institute president Victor Andres Manhit reinforced this perspective, asserting that “economic security is national security” and that the Philippines is moving toward a new tax regime on mining and a “future mining fiscal framework for critical markets” to facilitate these strategic investments.

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Philippines Trade Undersecretary Ceferino Rodolfo said Manila is eyeing to hammer out a critical minerals deal with Ottawa ... “We hope that with Canada, we can also have a critical minerals agreement given the prominence that we’re putting on critical minerals,” Rodolfo said, adding that the deal was brought up during the 2026 Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada Convention in Toronto early this month.

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Intelligence and cybersecurity experts are warning the Liberal government about national security risks posed by allowing Chinese electric vehicles onto Canadian military bases.

Critics and some experts are even calling on Ottawa to ban the cars from Canadian Armed Forces bases and other sensitive sites due to onboard sensors they say could collect and transmit sensitive information to the Chinese government.

Their warning comes after Poland and Israel instituted similar bans on EVs built by Chinese companies like BYD Auto over the past year — and as Conservative politicians in Canada raise the alarm over the threat of so-called “spy cars.”

Dennis Molinaro, a counter-intelligence expert at Ontario Tech University and a former national security analyst, said the federal government should follow the example of Poland and Israel.

“Absolutely, Canada should be doing the same,” he told The Canadian Press. He said a national security law in China that appears to compel private companies to funnel intelligence back to Beijing could make the cars a security risk.

David Shipley, CEO of Beauceron Security, said the risks are high enough that Parliament should at least haul military brass and senior bureaucrats in front of a committee to testify about National Defence’s plans for managing those risks.

“The Chinese sometimes send us a good signal about what the risks are,” Shipley said. “They banned Teslas from their major political events and military bases for the same reason Israel is banning their BYDs.”

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