Ariel Millennium Thornton @arielmt@computerfairi.es

We knew this was coming, but now the clock is running. From Privacy International:

"Yesterday the Trump Administration announced a proposed change in policy for travellers to the U.S. It applies to the powers of data collection by the Customs and Border Police (CBP)."

"If the proposed changes are adopted after the 60-day consultation, then millions of travellers to the U.S. will be forced to use a U.S. government mobile phone app, submit their social media from the last five years and email addresses used in the last ten years, including of family members. They’re also proposing the collection of DNA."

PI linked to and summarized a Federal Register entry describing the proposed requirements:

-All visitors must submit ‘their social media from the last 5 years’

-ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization) applications will include ‘high value data fields’, ‘when feasible’
‘telephone numbers used in the last five years’
-‘email addresses used in the last ten years’
-‘family number telephone numbers (sic) used in the last five years’
-biometrics – face, fingerprint, DNA, and iris
-business telephone numbers used in the last five years
-business email addresses used in the last ten years.

https://www.privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/5713/trump-administration-wants-your-dna-and-social-media

The Federal Register entry says comments are encouraged and
must be submitted (no later than
February 9, 2026) to be assured of
consideration

Federal Register entry: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-12-10/pdf/2025-22461.pdf

Just had lunch with @yarkot and at one point mentioned the difficulties I was having trying to write an interesting blog post about my holiday Rust+ed(1) adventure. He then said "maybe that's because you're not writing it with ed(1)."

(stunned silence).

🤔

So, not only did I recently code a whole-ass programming language using nothing more than Rust and ed(1), I just submitted a proposal (unrelated) to RustConf 2026 a full month before the deadline using no AI.

queer friend groups are like

It's so fascinating to see the changes in one company's logo over the years.

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/2026/01/20/ai-boom-could-falter-without-wider-adoption-microsoft-chief-satya-nadella-warns/

Oh dear me are people not "adopting" lying autocomplete widely enough to keep the line going up? Oh noes. Nobody could have foreseen this! 🤯

I cannot wait for the official announcement of a new #Microslop programme, Adopt-an-AI. 🤣

What an absolute tool. "The bubble might burst if you all don't help pump it!" 🤡

#AI #Hype #SatyaNadella #Microsoft

When we say that All Cops Are Bastards, we don't just mean #ICE, even if those murdering bastard coward nazis are particularly deserving of scorn.

We mean _all_ cops. Even the National Guard. Even the nice cops that stop and help you change a tire. Even John McClane.

The cop in your head is a bastard, too. The one that tells you not to do what makes you happy. The one that ruins your free time, and spits on your best effort when you're at your worst.

ALL Cops Are Bastards.

I remember the times when I was into Dilbert. Even liked that cartoon adaptation they did.

With Scott Adams' fall from grace and his death today, Dilbert will get cast off into the land of comic strip obscurity, to be something people remember existing and that's it

It's never gonna be remembered fondly like a Calvin & Hobbes, it's never gonna get reran like a Peanuts, it's not even gonna get a modern reboot like Nancy.

It'll be a Jeopardy clue nobody gets right in 5 years.

In Australia, SEGA is pronounced SEE-GAH but in some other countries I'm led to believe it's pronounced SAY-GAR.

After intensive research I have found that SEGA is a shortened version of "SErvice GAmes of Japan", which sold slot machines to US military bases after WW2.

So SEGA is most fairly pronounced SER-GAY.

There you go, now nobody is happy

#sega #retrogaming

ah, the two genders

you can make a website about anything

I hope 2026 treats you the way you treat trans women

An Act of Resistance

#webcomic #krita #miniFantasyTheater