Micah Lee

Hello darkness my old friend

Some cities it's just not worth fucking with

RIP PHP

German Nazi leak

How did you find out the young man’s identity, @wsj.com? hmm?

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

We just released OnionShare 2.7! This version includes some new features, a security fix, and several other small changes lockdown.systems/onionshare-2...

The Roads Have Eyes! 👁️ Turn on the Surveillance Layer in Map Options to see known license plate readers from Flock Safety, Motorola Solutions (Vigilant), Genetec, Axis Communications, Axon, Leonardo (ELSAG), Neology, Rekor, PlateSmart, Ubicquia, Verkada, and other outdoor surveillance cameras.

No joke. I think this is the most important video I have ever seen about mobile games. This guy breaks down how this game psychologically profiles you, and makes the game harder or easier in order to show you ads

that’s right

An Open Letter To The People Writing Lengthy Posts About 'Why I'm Going Back to Twitter' dansinker.com/posts/2026-1...

I think it’s important for anyone who (completely understandably) checked out on AI the second the crypto/nft/metaverse/snake oil chuds started pushing it to realize that, in at least the domain of software development, we are very much living in a scenario where the snake oil actually works

I’m ok. Make no mistake: this is an attempt to target political enemies and weaponize federal law enforcement. For ten years, Trump has targeted me with baseless lies and smear campaigns. This is just the latest escalation in his campaign of political intimidation. I will not be silenced.

I just wrote about how good open weight models like GLM-5.3 are these days, and how you really don't need ChatGPT or Claude at all anymore, even for complex agentic stuff micahflee.com/just-say-no-...

Shouldn't it be "Bullets Strike ICE Agent in Civilian-Involved Shooting"

The government *still* isn’t tracking how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. We are. 500+ Americans have been handcuffed, held at gunpoint or held against their will in Trump’s second term. Our tally is almost certainly an undercount. THREAD (content warning: violence) ⬇️

The thing about the AI race with China is that if the US “loses” all we’re left with is incredibly powerful open weights models from China that we can run privately on our own hardware www.theverge.com/tech/1003929...

no they weren't very close to 0% of the SS were hanged the vast, vast seriously vast majority of people who carried out the Holocaust weren't ever punished.

Flock Safety says they did a 2026 pen test. Flock customers can download the pen test report. Do you work for a city that uses Flock? Can you please, uh, download the report and send it to me? www.flocksafety.com/blog/flock-s...

According to a leaked internal email, Flock is offering buyouts to employees so they can quit since customers are fleeing and everyone fucking hates them www.wired.com/story/flock-...

bro

Lol xdaforums.com/t/3-18-71-pe...

Amazing research by Micah! Give this a read!

Good 🧵 from Micah here!

Flock cameras are riddled with security vulnerabilities and hard-coded credentials. Here's my analysis of today's @ddosecrets.org Flock leak micahflee.com/flock-camera...

The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:

Today is the day! A journey that Astra and I started as an essay in The Guardian is now officially out in the world. End Times Fascism – And the Fight for the Living World is in bookstores now. If you are inclined, please buy one from an indie bookseller or borrow it from your local library.

1/ Exile as "Safe haven" has become an illusion for women & queer activists. Crossing borders is no longer a guarantee of safety when repressive states use digital technology & weaponize intersectional identities to silence them & sabotage lives & rights in exile. Yet, they face such threats alone🧵

Watching this Apple event tout how iPhones will soon be able to record ambient audio/conversations and transcribe "high level notes" for you. It's billed as private and end-to-end encrypted, but I think the bigger harm is the normalization of always-listening devices. It's creepy and not normal.

“Make Germany Great Again” — what years do you think he’s nostalgic for?

A/I just announced they’re shutting down. “The possibility that our work may cause legal and financial consequences to those who are close to us - or even only have something to do with us - leaves us no choice.” keepitfree.ai/announcement...

Fetterman was gonna write a pro-Israel op-ed based on talking points from an Israeli ambassador. But his staff didn't tell him when the embassy sent the talking points because it risked violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act www.wsj.com/politics/pol...

"elon argues with social media professional, loses badly" will never not be funny

"1Password employees don’t seem impressed by its leaders’ comments based on dozens of emoji reactions we saw in their internal Slack conversations." www.theverge.com/tech/988536/...

Rough Draft vs Final Draft

Very much worth a read

Shopify, Stripe, Dell Technologies, Block, Cloudflare, Dropbox, Coinbase, OpenClaw, and TapTap. All companies that have given millions of dollars to a project run by a far-right white nationalist. Why are we okay with this? brennan.day/normalized-f...

I just made a little OpenCode plugin to measure the tokens/sec of various models. Useful for measuring how fast local open weights models are running github.com/micahflee/op...