Tumble (n): to suffer a sudden downfall, overthrow, or defeat

Merriam Webster, def. 1(b)

Privacy Principles became a W3C Statement today! Here’s the announcement. I played a minuscule role in getting it out the door; the other task force participants deserve all the credit.

As US CVE Database Fumbles, EU ‘Replacement’ Goes Live, by Richi Jennings, via Christine Hall. See the EUVD itself for more.

Emacs, by Matt Gemmell, via Eryn.

Jiggly egg toast, 池袋（Ikebukuro）、豊島区 (Toshima-ku)、東京都 (Tōkyō-to)、日本 (Japan)

Sharing, helping, connecting, by Manu Moreale.

Pour être rebelle de nos jours, il suffit d’être humain.

— Serge Bouchard, via David Larlet, via Mark Fortier

Jeff Tiedrich asks the question on all of our minds: what kind of shithole country allows its president to accept ginormous bribes? Unfortunately, the answer is clearly “this one.” (You could substitute so many other questions here and the result would be just as awful, sadly.)

NASA celebrated this employee's story of resilience, then tried to scrub it from the internet. Then fired her, by Josh Dinner, via sundogplanets@mastodon.social.

We’re Experts in Fascism. We’re Leaving the U.S., by Marci Shore, Timothy Snyder, and Jason Stanley.

‘Andor’ Is the Sharpest Indictment of American Fascism on Television, by Nic Anstett.

How Will We Know When We Have Lost Our Democracy?, by Steven Levitsky, Lucan Way, and Daniel Ziblatt, via Heather Cox Richardson.

It's Interesting How the Past Can Make You Think About the Present, by Hamilton Nolan, via Kottke.

The End of Rule of Law in America, by J. Michael Luttig, also via Kottke.

Episcopal Church refuses to resettle white Afrikaners, ends partnership with US government, by Jack Jenkins, via heidilifeldman@mastodon.social.

A paragraph I didn’t expect to read today:

“Well, I posted it, and I wouldn’t have posted it if I didn’t kind of believe it,” said Mr. Prevost, who added that he would “probably tone it down” now that his brother was the Vicar of Jesus Christ.

— Louis Prevost, brother of Pope Leo ⅩⅣ, as quoted in the New York Times

Here Is Everything That Has Changed Since Congestion Pricing Started in New York, by Emily Badger, Stefanos Chen, Asmaa Elkeurti, Winnie Hu, Francesca Paris, and Ethan Singer, via Kottke. The tl;dr of it is that literally everything is getting better and other cities should adopt congestion pricing too.