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Aura @aurahack.ca · 11h

whole thing is a really good read; i screamed out loud when i read this part

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Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 2d

To be frank, this kind of research—straightforward with profound global privacy and surveillance implications—is rare. There is usually some caveat that makes it niche or insubstantial. This one is not that.

Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 2d

NEW: A stunning new study finds that satellite transmissions—from calls and texts on T-Mobile to US and Mexico military communications—were sent unencrypted for any snoop to grab. @agreenberg.bsky.social and @mattburgess1.bsky.social have the scoop: www.wired.com/story/satell...

Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

With just $800 in basic equipment, researchers found a stunning variety of data—including thousands of T-Mobile users’ calls and texts and even US military communications—sent by satellites unencrypte...

www.wired.com

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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 3d

Spanfeller bought the site

🏰meg⚔️ @Birthright Audiobook! @impavid.us · 6d

In honor of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand

I'll go first: Six page commercial lease.

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Justin Moore @justinm.one · 3d

@kagi.com URL rewriting rules are wildly undersold.
This is perhaps the most useful feature from this search engine for privacy-conscious folks.
I can cut out centralized social media simply by rewriting search result URLs.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 4d

words have definitions!!!!!!

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 4d

people who act like antifa is a single group and not just a shortened form of “anti fascist” sound exactly as goofy as people equating “feminist” with ”man hater”.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 12d

Taylor Swift’s new album is proof she was NEVER a real Tumblr girlie. smut so vanilla I thought it was wattpad

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 12d

i feel so seen

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 12d

*Jack Iker

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 12d

Bad headline but growing up in the Fort Worth Diocese under Bob Iker this is GREAT news.

Sky News @news.sky.com · 12d

Woman named as new Archbishop of Canterbury in historic first

Bishop of London Dame Sarah Mullally, a former nurse, has been named as the next Archbishop of Canterbury - the first time a woman has been appointed to the role in the Church of England's history.

news.sky.com

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alexis @steppinlazer.bsky.social · 14d

my review of death on the nile: if poirot be bald, you may be enthralled; if poirot has hair, player beware

Eurogamer @eurogamer.bsky.social · 14d

Agatha Christie's Death on the Nile review - it's just fine

www.eurogamer.net/agatha-chris...

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 22d

wrote about the landscape of broadcast TV at the beginning of the year for wired—but it’s kind of wild we allowed two deeply political (and notably conservative) companies to buy up the vast majority of all broadcast stations in the US.

Scott Nover @scottnover.bsky.social · 22d

Nexstar joins Sinclair in preempting Jimmy Kimmel Live! when ABC brings it back to air.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 28d

if thats what you call rolling a smoke than yes

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 28d

can’t stop thinking about this horoscope I got today. like?????? excuse you?????!!!!

A horoscope that says in bold letters TOUCH YOURSELF

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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 28d

I spent five years pointing out how the TikTok stuff was never about privacy and national security, it was always about wealthy U.S. authoritarians wanting to control information flow, and integrate the country's most popular short form video app into their growing propaganda operations

Trump’s Buddies At Andreessen Horowitz Want To Help Buy TikTok, Turn It Into A Right Wing Safe Space

We’ve noted more times than I can’t count that the push to ban TikTok was never really about protecting American privacy. If that were true, we would pass a real privacy law and craft s…

www.techdirt.com

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · 28d

i type it out like a good denizen of the internet who one talks to other people online

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Matthew Cortland (they) @matthewcort.land · Sep 10

Please, please listen to me:

MAGA world has a lot of money to pay "researchers" to trawl niche social media sites like this one, and take posts that will provoke enormous outrage and plaster them across multiple platforms.

Please think about what you're posting before you hit "Post"

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · Sep 9

she did not! she was a university librarian!

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · Sep 9

every week my mom insists she had a cellphone in the 70s and every week I have to go full ron swanson on her as i explain how absolutely not possible that is

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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · Sep 8

I’ve had my complaints about the NYT but today was the first time I’ve called it “this bitch” and that’s because “now this bitch is trying to say I’m not a Leo???” was the only way I could express my outrage

Your Zodiac Sign Is 2,000 Years Out of Date

Over millennia, our view of the stars has shifted, because of Earth’s wobble. It may be time to rethink your sign.

www.nytimes.com

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · Sep 6

sweet I’m going to finally make some money from my book

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Sep 5

NEW YORK (AP) — Anthropic agrees to pay authors $3,000 per book in landmark settlement over pirated chatbot training material.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · Sep 4

a lot of people really hate on Emerald Fennell when she really seems to be doing a Ken Russell in how purposefully provocative her films are. it rules

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · Aug 31

A friend the other night just shouting at increasingly higher and more concerned volume “name a belly song cranz. NAME ONE”

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · Aug 30

Man told on himself a lot in this thing. I loved his wife calling him an absolute dumb ass.

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Alex Cranz @cranz.bsky.social · Aug 30

The Cowboys doc on Netflix is terrific because a lot of it is Troy Aikman and Dale Hansen talking about how Jerry Jones is a terrible manager and ruined the Cowboys and then randomly Rupert Murdoch? and George Bush!! appear to say Jerry is good at business.

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