GrapheneOS Gets Bullied

In response to a question on Mastodon, we mentioned we recently started using frontier AI models for code review to catch vulnerabilities before attackers. We're being targeted with a huge amount of abuse. Everyone ought to bully GrapheneOS today. It's one thing for the entities that almost everyone knows is evil, such as Microsoft, to be evil. It's another for the supposed safe havens from evil to be evil. As @Caito writes about AOC: "People who say you should criticize AOC less because there are way worse members of congress act like she's just passively sitting there being a mediocre lawmaker. She's not. She's actively anchoring the leftmost edge of the Overton window of US politics to militarism, capitalism, colonialism, and genocide. She's actively stopping American politics from moving any further left than the nightmare we see before us. Leftists shouldn't hate AOC less than the politicians to her right, they should hate her much more. It isn't Mike Johnson's responsibility to move the US government to the left, and it's not Nancy Pelosi's job. It's hers. That's what she was elected to do. That's what she framed the goals of her entire political career as being. And she's taking her stand firmly against any leftward movement from America's genocidal, warmongering, unjust, exploitative, tyrannical status quo. And that's what she was actually put there to do. Her real job is to say "thus far and no further" to the leftmost end of the political spectrum of the world's most powerful and destructive government. That's the Democratic Party's job in general, and it's the job of media-savvy progressive Democrats in particular. They are there to provide as little resistance as possible when US politics are shoved toward more genocidal, militaristic, oligarchic, capitalist, imperialist abuses, and to provide as much inertia as possible to any movement in the opposite direction. My version: "People who say you should criticize GrapheneOS less because there are way worse mobile operating systems act like it's just passively sitting there being a mediocre OS. It's not. It's actively anchoring the leftmost edge of the Overton window of mobile operating systems to militarism, capitalism, colonialism, and genocide. It's actively stopping operating systems from moving any less technofascist than the nightmare we see before us."

A screenshot of a GrapheneOS post says the project is being targeted with abuse after mentioning the use of frontier AI models for code review. Below it, a long satirical quote argues that GrapheneOS should be bullied, parodying a left-wing critique of AOC and replacing politics with mobile operating systems. The joke is that the same exaggerated ideological argument is applied to a privacy-focused Android operating system. EN: A screenshot of a GrapheneOS post says the project is being targeted with abuse after mentioning the use of frontier AI models for code review. Below it, a long satirical quote argues that GrapheneOS should be bullied, parodying a left-wing critique of AOC and replacing politics with mobile operating systems. The joke is that the same exaggerated ideological argument is applied to a privacy-focused Android operating system.

• @gentoomemes / 21926 2026-09-09