Robert Stribley

I’m excited to say that my book Design for Privacy is now officially out there in the world! It’s available directly from Rosenfeld Media and via other popular online booksellers, too. rosenfeldmedia.com/books/design...

That buainess about God delivering himself in human form so that he could feel the actual suffering of his every creation and then using that suffering to redeem all? That lofty bit eluded these sadists in its entirety. Whatsoever they do to the least of other people, hey, they were asking for it.

@gabrielzucman.bsky.social: So let met get that straight: paying a wealth tax is impossible (“billionaires have no liquidity”, “it would be taxing unrealized gains”, “their wealth is virtual”) but one man paying half a billion to influence elections is possible. Did I understand well?

AI really is coming for every job

"OnlyFans Creators Are Pissed That Meta Lets Muse Talk Dirty. Adult performers are questioning why Meta allows its AI agent to sext while restricting their social media accounts." www.wired.com/story/onlyfa...

I need it! Literally. Have had multiple skin cancers removed already.

This is now the official Presidential portrait for Donald J. Trump. Sorry, I don’t make the rules.

Wait, somebody beat them to this already, right?

Delivery robots scan faces and collect customer biometric data, lawsuit alleges - mashable.com/tech/deliver... if they don't, they soon will #privacy #surveillance

Yes, please, and thank you! “Why We Need Federal Privacy Laws Opt-outs aren't enough. We need federal privacy laws that protect everyone.” content.cybercollective.org/blog/why-we-...

Tell me you’re old without telling me you’re old, using a single screenshot from your phone’s notifications.

Someone should create a website like Iraq Body Count that keeps a running total of the estimated deaths Elon Musk is responsible for through different actions on his part. 

Not sad I left Spotify after using since the day it dropped in the U.S. Haven’t missed it since. Plus, I believe, the default sound quality is better on Apple Music anyway. And you can import your Spotify playlists pretty easily.

It continues to be sad to see CBS turning into a non-news network and more of a propaganda outlet like Fox “News.”

By “God” they mean “fundamentalism”

New York should immediately change its name to New America. We are not Britain, we are the United States of America!

Right-wing billionaires now own the Washington Post, the LA Times, CNN, CBS News, virtually every local TV station, virtually every news radio station, most local newspapers, X, Facebook, Threads, and TikTok. (Did I miss any?) They own almost the entire information environment.

I’m guessing we all knew this was a thing. Saw something almost certainly like this unfold at a place we lived previously. gothamist.com/news/nyc-sue...

Stephanie Zacharek finally broke the 100% spell for You Can See Everything on Rotten Tomatoes. I don't think she's right about Nathan Fielder's POV tho, especially when you consider that he had to decide to include some of the specific things he did in the final section. time.com/article/2026...

I disavow Creed, Kings of Leon, and Nickelback.

A lot of patterns do get repeated in movie posters, so this is probably just a coincidence, right?

ICE continues to kill people.

Even ICE knows the raid of Ilhan Omar’s home was politically motivated. theintercept.com/2026/10/15/i...

As the One Big Beautiful Bill goes into effect, some 281,000 legal immigrants may be denied Affordable Care Act (ACA) and Medicare coverage in October. These immigrants include Afghan allies and global refugees from war, sex trafficking and persecution. kffhealthnews.org/medicaid/imm...

ICE recently confirmed reporting that they have been rearresting immigrants who judges have *just* been granted habeas petitions *before they even leave the building* and that they've been doing it since May www.mprnews.org/story/2026/1...

Sadly this story doesn’t even rate that highly among the constant cavalcade of horrifying stories related to this administration, but it’s another example of how he cares not a whit about consent and has the mentality of a rapist. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/18/u...

You’re telling me not to kneecap myself on purpose and I already did. What’s your solution? Why do you insist on being the bag guy?

Nobody hates free speech more than the fascist tech oligarchs who claimed to care about it more than anyone. What an absolute joke. P.S. they also hate democracy. As we hand them control of the country. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

Feels like fall has hit Brooklyn and it’s a great morning for strong coffee and Lankum.

The scope of the harm this administration is doing to this country is so broad and so staggering beyond belief that we’ve long moved beyond any one person’s ability to truly track and comprehend it.

Update: the unit of time “a Scaramucci” is now “a Zacharia” and denotes an even shorter period of time.