The Programmer's Fulcrum: 29 November, 2025
Here we feature the latest Symfony Station Communiqué and Battalion "Destroying Autocracy" Post along with their featured articles.
Original 'The Fulcrum' content updates will start in January when I sunset Symfony Station and Battalion.
Symfony Station Communiqué - Stardate: ✦ 28 November 2025 ✦
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The Drop Times writes:
DevBranch, a Drupal-focused agency based in Lutsk, Ukraine, hasn’t attended a DrupalCon since 2019—first due to the pandemic, and then the full-scale Russian invasion. But in the face of war, disruption, and distance, the team continues to gather at their office to watch the Driesnote together, staying closely tied to the Drupal community they’ve long called home.
According to co-founder Bohdan Artemchuk, the team at DevBranch hasn’t lost touch despite their absence from in-person events. They remain deeply invested in the Drupal ecosystem, carving out time to discuss keynotes and analyze the project’s direction.
DevBranch’s Remote Driesnote Watch Parties Reflect Wartime Resilience and Drupal Loyalty
Destroying Autocracy – November 27, 2025
Welcome to this week's "Destroying Autocracy". It’s your source for curated news affecting democracy in the cyber arena with a focus on protecting it.
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The Atlantic writes:
Over the weekend, Elon Musk’s X rolled out a feature that had the immediate result of sowing maximum chaos. The update, called “About This Account,” allows people to click on the profile of an X user and see such information as: which country the account was created in, where its user is currently based, and how many times the username has been changed.
Nikita Bier, X’s head of product, said the feature was “an important first step to securing the integrity of the global town square.” Roughly four hours later, with the update in the wild, Bier sent another post: “I need a drink.”
Almost immediately, “About This Account” stated that many prominent and prolific pro-MAGA accounts, which signaled that they were run by “patriotic” Americans, were based in countries such as Nigeria, Russia, India, and Thailand.
@MAGANationX, an account with almost 400,000 followers and whose bio says it is a “Patriot Voice for We The People,” is based in “Eastern Europe (Non-EU),” according to the feature, and has changed its username five times since the account was made, last year.
On X and Bluesky, users dredged up countless examples of fake or misleading rage-baiting accounts posting aggressive culture-war takes to large audiences. An account called “Maga Nadine” claims to be living in and posting from the United States but is, according to X, based in Morocco. An “America First” account with 67,000 followers is apparently based in Bangladesh. Poetically, the X handle @American is based in Pakistan, according to the feature.
Elon Musk’s Worthless, Poisoned Hall of Mirrors
Just FYI, December 25th will be the day I stop exploring the stupidity of our current timeline and the last Destroying Autocracy post. Again, see the notes above about The Fulcrum.
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