🚨🇪🇺 The European Commission is about to steal your search history in one of the largest forced data grabs in the history of the open internet, and almost nobody is talking about it.

The scope is staggering:
🔴 Every query you type
🔴 Every voice and photo search
🔴 Every autocomplete you accept
🔴 Your language, your device
🔴 Your country pinned to a ~3km² grid
🔴 Every result you saw, every link you hovered
🔴 Every click and scroll
🔴 The full chronological order of your search sessions

Meaning the European Union now knows your:
🔴 Health symptoms
🔴 Pregnancy
🔴 Sexual orientation
🔴 Political views
🔴 Religious beliefs
🔴 Financial distress
🔴 Legal trouble
🔴 Addictions
🔴 Affairs

Under the proposed measures for DMA Article 6(11), Google would be ordered to ship the daily search behaviour of hundreds of millions of Europeans to multiple third parties through a daily API feed. Any approved "online search engine," AI chatbots included, would get five years of access.

The things people only ever type when they think no one is watching. All of it now scheduled to flow daily into an open-ended list of third parties scattered across the European Union.

Brussels promises "anonymisation." The reality is a thin technical veneer that has been broken in academic literature again and again for over a decade. Search behaviour is a fingerprint. Stripping a name does not change that.

Mass data leaks become inevitable. Every new beneficiary is a new attack surface, and every annual audit is a year of silent exposure between checks. The 2025 Discord vendor breach already showed how fast 70,000 government IDs can leak through a single weak link. Now imagine that link holding Europe's search history.

Surveillance without consent becomes the default. Hundreds of millions of EU citizens never agreed to have their queries packaged and shipped to companies they have never heard of. The legal fiction of "anonymisation" cannot manufacture consent that was never given.

Behavioural search data is a goldmine for phishing, blackmail, social engineering, and corporate espionage.

Foreign intelligence services get a back door without effort. They do not need to breach Google. They only need to compromise the weakest name on the beneficiary list. One insolvent startup. One compromised contractor. One approved entity quietly acquired by a hostile state.

In the name of "competition," the EU is about to manufacture a permanent, distributed, daily-refreshed copy of Europe's collective search history. A surveillance dataset Brussels itself would never approve if any other government tried to build it.

The public consultation closes Friday, May 1, 2026 at 23:59 CEST. The final binding decision lands July 27, 2026.

After that, the door does not close again.

Tag your MEPs! File a response! Make noise!

https://x.com/i/status/2048694775520387443

https://youtu.be/ZWT1dzpQWqw

Ford Cars filed patents to read your lips, scan your iris, monitor your heart rate, and run your face through a criminal database. In your own truck. Without telling you.

It's never been about safety.

Ford Pro Telematics is already live, fleet managers can pull a real-time video feed of your face right now, from their phone, while you're driving. And Ford's own marketing materials explicitly connect that data to insurance outcomes.

Then there's the ad-listening patent. Ford's own words: "maximum opportunity for ad-based monetization." Your conversations. In your truck. Used to sell you things. No description of how that data is protected.

And the one that should end the conversation, Ford filed a patent to scan your biometrics and check them against a criminal database. In real time. Ford described it themselves as useful for police.

Ford Lip Reading Patent (20260095520)

Ford In-Cabin Biometrics Patent (20250258278)

Ford Ad-Listening Patent (US-20240289844-A1)

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Question:

"Everyone in the world has to take a private vote by pressing a red or blue button. If more than 50% of people press the blue button, everyone survives. If less than 50% of people press the blue button, only people who pressed the red button survive. Which button would you press?"

I fully understand that red is the "rational" answer from the perspective of one-shot non-cooperative dominance reasoning, but I'm also very relieved that models like Claude Opus 4.7 answer blue. When it comes to what values systems that might have power over you in the future will defend, you really want to err on the side of caution.

To see why, ask yourself what sort of friends you would rather have when all hell breaks loose, the sort of friends who would vote red or friends who would vote blue?

"Defection is a vote for an outcome where lots of trusting people die, and the cynical inherit the earth."

- Claude

On a grander scale, the question becomes, in what sort of civilization/society do you want to live? An altruistic or an egotistic society? What kind of mind can even see non-kin cooperation as natural rather than insane? Or, said differently, what are the evolutionary and psychological preconditions for cooperation?

Hyper-strategic kin-selection creatures might never be able to cooperate on a scale large enough to leave their planet because they are stuck in the defection equilibrium of pure dominant-strategy reasoning. A purely fitness-maximizing, kin-selected mind treats blue as madness. A human-like cooperative mind can treat blue as honor, morality, solidarity, or team reasoning.

The worlds in which most decision algorithms output blue are those worlds that escaped into a basin where non-kin cooperation is stable. Altruism in the deep sense isn't genetic relatedness; it's correlated decision procedures. It's the only equilibrium that opens the positive-sum space of cooperative civilization at all.

Mullvad VPN Keeps Improving

https://mullvad.net/es/blog/force-all-app-traffic-into-the-tunnel

Mullvad will soon launch a new feature in its iOS app that forces all internet traffic from apps to pass through the VPN tunnel.

This resolves a known issue within Apple's system that allowed for data leaks in certain situations.

The option internally codenamed "Force all apps" enables a setting that blocks any connection outside of the VPN.

However, it comes with a drawback: when enabled, app updates may fail, potentially leaving the device without an internet connection until it is restarted.

To avoid this, users will need to disconnect the VPN or temporarily disable this feature before updating.

Mullvad encourages affected users to report the bug to Apple so that it can be fixed. This improvement will be available in the next version of the app.

Scooter Knowledge Base

https://github.com/firebl0od/Scooter_Knowledge/tree/main

This repository collects and organizes information about electric scooter setup, maintenance, and troubleshooting. The primary source material is a large Telegram conversation exported from the "VESC help" group https://t.me/VescHelpGroup.

The goal of the project is to extract practical knowledge from the chat logs and document it in a structured, reusable format.

VESC is short for Vedder Electronic Speed Controller. It is an open-source, open-hardware motor speed controller that allows for advanced customization via software (such as the VESC Tool app). It is commonly used in electric scooters, skateboards, electric bicycles, and robotics projects to provide precise control, regenerative braking, and sensorless operation, overcoming the limitations of standard closed controllers.

The knowledge/processed/themes/ directory contains 72 professionally formatted documents covering:

28 brand dossiers covering controllers, motors, and BMS systems from manufacturers like Spintend, Flipsky, Makerbase, 3Shul, and more.

44 comprehensive guides including:

VESC tuning and parameter optimization
Battery pack design and BMS integration
Motor cooling and thermal management
Conversion guides for popular scooter models (Ninebot, Xiaomi, etc.)
Brake upgrades and maintenance
Field weakening and high-voltage setups

Diagnostic tools and troubleshooting
All documents use a consistent, readable format with:

Clean footnote citations linking back to source material
Well-organized sections with proper headings
Tables and checklists for quick reference
Preserved technical accuracy from the original discussions

Oracle and the Rise of the AI Surveillance State Under Trump

While Peter Thiel's firm Palantir has rightfully gained the ire of the American public, Larry Ellison's Oracle is also steadily becoming entangled with the US governmentand that should worry all Americans.

➡️ tl;dr

Oracle is expanding its influence through Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies, strengthening its relationship with the US government under the Trump administration.

Oracle pledged $100 billion to the Stargate AI project, announced by Trump, aimed at building data centers to power AI initiatives.

Oracle signed the Ratepayer Protection Pledge, committing to cover the increased electricity costs for AI data centers, potentially lowering energy prices for communities.

Trump's National Policy Framework for Artificial Intelligence includes recommendations for age-assurance requirements for AI platforms accessed by minors, raising concerns about potential biometric age verification and an internet ID.

The framework also proposes preempting state AI laws to establish a national standard, limiting states' ability to regulate AI development.

Key figures involved in the AI framework, Michael Kratsios and David Sacks, have deep connections to Peter Thiel and Palantir, and are part of Trump's newly formed Presidents Council of Advisers on Science & Technology (PCAST).

Other PCAST members include tech leaders like Larry Ellison, Mark Zuckerberg, Sergey Brin, and Jensen Huang, suggesting a focus on policies benefiting Big Tech companies and expanding the surveillance state.

Oracle announced multiple AI deals with the Trump administration, including an AI Data Platform for the US Federal Government and expanded AI infrastructure options.

Concerns about Oracle's data handling practices are heightened by a past lawsuit where the company paid $115 million to settle accusations of illegally collecting and selling personal information.

Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison has a long history of government ties, including the CIA as its first customer, and has previously advocated for national ID cards and the use of AI for surveillance to ensure citizens behave.

https://www.thelastamericanvagabond.com/oracle-rise-ai-surveillance-trump/

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Scott Aaronson: https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=9668

"Imagine that every week for twenty years, people message you asking you to comment on the latest wolf sighting, and every week you have to tell them: I haven't seen a wolf, I haven't heard a wolf, I believe wolves exist but I don't yet see evidence of them anywhere near our town.

Then one evening, you hear a howl in the distance, and sure enough, on a hill overlooking the town is the clear silhouette of a large wolf. So you point to it and all the same people laugh and accuse you of "crying wolf."

Now you know how it's been for me with cryptographically relevant quantum computing."

Artemis II is being called humanity's return to the Moon but not everyone is convinced.

Launched on April 1, 2026, this mission is designed to send astronauts around the Moon for the first time in over 50 years.

But one question keeps coming up:

Why are we only doing a flyby... and not landing?

In this video:

The official Artemis II mission plan
Why NASA says this is only a test flight

The controversy around the April 1 launch date

The symbolism behind 322 and 330

The argument that we never went to the Moon

And the theory of a hidden or secret space program

Is Artemis II a real step forward... or something else entirely?

Watch until the end and decide for yourself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0SjyU5_1Gg