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The tragedy of right-wing privacy phones in the USA
Sep 8, 2026 · original
In theory there should be a huge market for Android-based privacy phones in the U.S., but so far the companies catering to that market have had very little success so far. There are a constellation of companies offering good privacy phones in Europe, including Murena , Volla , SHIFT , Bittium and iodé , but U.S.-based companies have not done nearly as well. Unlike in Europe, where privacy phones are marketed to customers of all political stripes, companies have arisen in the U.S. that market privacy phones exclusively to right-wing partisans. Not only has this fragmented the market, but the failures of these privacy phones with right-wing marketing have led some people to believe that privacy phones are “scams,” which has harmed the perception of these phones in general. Nonetheless, there are millions of right-wing partisans in the U.S., who spend generously to support their political b
Why I reluctantly bought a Google Pixel in my struggle against surveillance capitalism and planned obsolescence
Aug 25, 2026 · original
Many people who believe in software freedom and digital rights install Linux or another operating system such as BSD that is free/open source software (FOSS) on their personal computers (PCs). Far fewer people unlock the bootloader on their mobile phones and tablets to install a FOSS operating system. Even though mobile phones are a bit more complex than computers due to their cellular modem and sensors, it should be possible for people to install custom operating systems on them just like on PCs. It is arguably even more important that people control the software on their mobile phones than on their personal computers. Although Android is built on the code of the Android Open Source Project (AOSP), which uses an Apache 2.0 license, Google started moving core APIs and functionality out of the FOSS layer and into its proprietary Google Mobile Services in Android 4.4 KitKat, released in Oc
Mi presentación de “El Niño Godzilla en Bolivia: ¿Estamos Preparados? Riesgos, impactos y acciones para fortalecer la resiliencia climática”
Jun 19, 2026 · original
Ayer tuvimos un conversatorio virtual , organizado por nuestro grupo ambiental Reaccíon Climática . Quiero agradecerles a mis amigos Carmen Capriles y Johan Yugar por organizar el evento y a la Diputada Cecilia Requena por dar la clausura del conversatorio. Se puede ver el video del evento en Facebook. Acá están mi presentación, si alguien quiere verla: ElNino-ImpactosBolivia_2025-06-18 Download Los archivos tiene una licencia libre de CC BY 4.0 , y se puede reutilizar mi presentación y los datos sin mi permiso. Acá están los archivos originales de LibreOffice para descargar: ElNino-ImpactosBolivia_2025-06-18.odp ElNino-ImpactosBolivia_2025-06-18.pdf BoliviaEmisiones2025v2.ods
Traffic fatalities by state show that automobiles are the overwhelming threat to public safety, not e-bikes
Apr 28, 2026 · original
Last month, I wrote a 35 page report about why New Jersey’s 2026 e-bike law makes little sense on the grounds of public safety. Sadly, a number of other American states are also contemplating similarly wrongheaded crackdowns on e-bikes, which simply aren’t justified if the goal is to minimize traffic fatalities. My report argues that there isn’t empirical evidence to show that normal e-bikes pose more of a threat to public safety than manual bicycles. What is needed is a crackdown on overpowered e-motos , while not burdening people riding street-legal e-bikes with additional regulation, which is the approach taken by California’s excellent SB 1176 bill . The overwhelming threat to public safety is automobiles. This article provides a bit more data from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to buttress that point. See my report for the arguments why additional re
How Aptera ranks among EV brands on social media
Apr 20, 2026 · original
The rise of social media over the last 2 decades has dramatically transformed how people learn about and interact with the products that they buy. Traditionally, people were largely passive recipients of commercial advertising, but social media has dramatically changed that relationship. People could turn down the TV or radio or switch the channel, but people didn’t have much ability to chose what their eyes would see, and their ears would hear. Social media has totally changed that dynamic with people becoming active participants in selecting what content they consume. People are able to indicate their preferences, based on how many times they click, how much they watch and whether they decide to subscribe to a channel. While people can be influenced to click more and watch more, and bots can be used to juice the numbers, the usage of social media does indicate some level of people’s in
Why the Aptera solar car represents a paradigm shift for the auto industry
Apr 9, 2026 · original
The two-seat Aptera solar car is arguably the most important automobile currently under development, despite the fact that some don’t consider the three-wheeled autocycle to be a “ real car ” at all. The Aptera represents a paradigm shift in the auto industry, not just because it will be the first production solar car on the market, but because it has design goals which fundamentally challenge the dominant paradigm governing the auto industry. For the last 4 decades, the auto industry has used its gains in technological advancement to produce bigger, taller and more powerful vehicles. The Aptera, however, is designed with the goals of being as energy efficient as possible and minimizing the capital costs of its production , and those two design criteria lead to a fundamentally different kind of vehicle, which promises to revolutionize the auto industry. The three-wheeled, two-seat Aptera
The response of 120 New Jersey legislators to my 35 page report on their new e-bike law
Apr 1, 2026 · original
On January 19, 2026, New Jersey’s governor Phil Murphy used his last day in office to sign into law the controversial bill S4834 / A6235 that will give New Jersey the most restrictive regulation of e-bikes in the nation. This new law is shocking bad, not only in its regulation, but simply in terms of its drafting and the contradictions in its language. I don’t have any idea how law enforcement and the judiciary system will be able to interpret this law, when it has so many loopholes and contradictions. After reading the new law, I was so outraged that I sat down and spent three weeks researching the problems with the law and wrote a 35 page report, entitled “ New Jersey’s strict regulation of e-bikes is poorly conceived and not justified by the data ,” to explain why and how the law should be changed. This is not my job and nobody is paying me to spend my time researching e-bikes and the
Should we be worried about companies like Wired and Magician that overcharge on shipping and skirt e-bike laws?
Mar 28, 2026 · original
Wired charges $250 extra to ship its 60 volt models to the 48 contiguous states in the U.S., plus $75 in shipping insurance, so buyers end up paying $325 for shipping. Other bike sellers take responsibility for fixing any problems if a bike is damaged in transit, but Wired holds its customers responsible, so they are out of luck if they don’t pay the $75 insurance fee. Wired’s new 72 volt models have increased the shipping by $25, which adds a total of $350 to the sticker price. Wired used to allow its customers to avoid these high shipping fees by picking up their bikes from its warehouse in Mundelein, Illinois, but Wired stopped offering local pickup after some of its bikes were stolen. Magician is just as bad, charging $350 extra for shipping, although it does offer local pickup at its warehouses in Ontario, California and Las Vegas, Nevada. For people living in the Southwest, it may
Updated my report critiquing of New Jersey’s strict regulation of e-bikes
Mar 5, 2026 · original
After publishing my 35 page report that critiques New Jersey’s 2026 law that regulates e-bikes, I received the following comment by Mysana on Reddit: I do think some of the comparisons to cars weakened your argument, especially in the conclusion. Specifically the line, “ However, there have been no cases of e-bikes killing the passengers of motor vehicles, and motor vehicles killed 6000 times more pedestrians than e-bikes between 2017 and 2023 in the U.S., so there is little justification for requiring e-bike riders to have liability insurance when there is such a low probability that they will harm others.” That felt weak to me since cars do require insurance. If they didn’t, I’d consider it a fair point. The car commentary felt like it came from an anti-car angle, rather than actually being particularly relevant to the specific ebike law. I would’ve liked to see more comparisons on the
New Jersey’s strict regulation of e-bikes is poorly conceived and not justified by the data
Feb 20, 2026 · original
On January 19, 2026, New Jersey’s governor Phil Murphy used his last day in office to sign into law the controversial bill S4834 / A6235 that will give New Jersey the most restrictive regulation of e-bikes in the nation. The new law is based on a number of faulty assumptions about e-bikes, which the empirical evidence does not support. The studies of injuries and fatalities associated with e-bikes in the U.S. do not demonstrate that e-bikes are more dangerous than manual bicycles. E-bikes represent very little threat to pedestrians and almost none to passengers of automobiles, so treating them like motorcycles that require licensing, registration and liability insurance is unjustified. This 35 page critique of the new law details the problems with the text of the law and summarizes the empirical studies about e-bikes. The report uses the annual sales numbers to estimate injury and fatali

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