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Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
November 11, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Really wish I had gotten a better shot of this but holding a phone that says “who else was just ‘following orders’?” up to a riot cop is hard as hell
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those of us Of A Certain Age have fond memories of typing their password into an irc chat instead of a login prompt
And a very happy International Type-Your-Password-Into-The-Search-Bar-And-So-Now-You-Get-To-Change-It Day to all who observe. May your upper case, numbers, and special characters bring you happiness and joy.
October 20, 2025 at 4:16 AM
those of us Of A Certain Age have fond memories of typing their password into an irc chat instead of a login prompt
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This article is worth your time.
"To be a Republican in 2025 represents a clear public confession that you either don't know the difference between good and evil and you're so morally empty that you can't be bothered to begin to try, or that you do know the difference, and you prefer evil." Great essay from @juliusgoat.bsky.social
The Crime of Human Virtue
Sometimes it really is as simple as good vs. evil. This is one of those times. Human virtue is our great crime against the fascist project; it's also our great weapon against it.
www.the-reframe.com
October 13, 2025 at 4:05 AM
This article is worth your time.
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You signed up for this when you tolerated cloud computing
October 12, 2025 at 7:04 PM
You signed up for this when you tolerated cloud computing
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Huh, ID checks not such a great idea
BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.
🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...
The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare
A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...
www.404media.co
October 9, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Huh, ID checks not such a great idea
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Of course you would download a car, dipshits! Information isn't economically scarce!
October 8, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Of course you would download a car, dipshits! Information isn't economically scarce!
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Countries around the world and the UN Human Rights Council all need to consider what it means that a single totalitarian government now controls Google and Apple’s app store content.
apnews.com/article/appl...
apnews.com/article/appl...
Apple and Google block apps that crowdsource ICE sightings. Some warn of chilling effects
Apple and Google blocked downloads of phone apps that flag sightings of U.S. immigration agents, just hours after the Trump administration demanded that one particularly popular iPhone app be taken do...
apnews.com
October 7, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Countries around the world and the UN Human Rights Council all need to consider what it means that a single totalitarian government now controls Google and Apple’s app store content.
apnews.com/article/appl...
apnews.com/article/appl...
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Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor.
Who could have predicted?
Oh, right.
Who could have predicted?
Oh, right.
Discord users suffer the first high-profile age-verification hack – and it's unlikely to be the last
Critics of age verification laws warned this was inevitable
www.tomsguide.com
October 6, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Discord confirms that government IDs used for age-verification were compromised in a hack with a vendor.
Who could have predicted?
Oh, right.
Who could have predicted?
Oh, right.
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"You must dox yourself to use the internet" is dystopia shit, and everybody's just going along with it.
October 4, 2025 at 6:03 PM
"You must dox yourself to use the internet" is dystopia shit, and everybody's just going along with it.
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For-profit age-verification providers are now pushing for "continuous biometric monitoring" — AI scans of your face, your voice, your behavior — while you're online to protect children.
Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.
Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.
Why biometric AI holds the key for the UK’s Online Safety Act | The AI Journal
The next phase of the UK’s Online Safety Act, which prescribes how content platforms can serve children, has finally come into force following years of
aijourn.com
September 24, 2025 at 4:28 PM
For-profit age-verification providers are now pushing for "continuous biometric monitoring" — AI scans of your face, your voice, your behavior — while you're online to protect children.
Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.
Every session. Every website. Every keystroke. Monitored and recorded.
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ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
September 29, 2025 at 1:07 AM
ICE Nazis in Chicago tried to kidnap a food delivery worker but my man was too fast for those slow bastards
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Tip for Civil Society: Never Negotiate. Always make them do the bad thing. Don’t help them do it, but make their choice either: do something really bad, or nothing at all
https://alecmuffett.com/article/115274
https://alecmuffett.com/article/115274
Tip for Civil Society: Never Negotiate. Always make them do the bad thing. Don’t help them do it, but make their choice either: do something really bad, or nothing at all
I started messing with Unix in my 2nd year at university in 1986, I got into cryptography in 1990, open source/free software in 1991, and then pretty much constant battles with regulators & aut…
alecmuffett.com
September 29, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Tip for Civil Society: Never Negotiate. Always make them do the bad thing. Don’t help them do it, but make their choice either: do something really bad, or nothing at all
https://alecmuffett.com/article/115274
https://alecmuffett.com/article/115274
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ah, the American version of Soviet-era transition programming. "we're experiencing technical difficulties with democracy, please enjoy this selection of recycled health scares while we figure things out"
September 2, 2025 at 3:48 AM
ah, the American version of Soviet-era transition programming. "we're experiencing technical difficulties with democracy, please enjoy this selection of recycled health scares while we figure things out"
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IF ONLY SOMEONE COULD HAVE POSSIBLY PREDICTED THIS OUTCOME THAT ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE WITH ANY SENSE PREDICTED
New: I looked at 90 porn sites to test the new age-verification law rewriting the web. The ones following the rules, and scanning visitors' faces, are crumbling, while the lawbreakers are doubling or tripling their traffic. One of many unintended consequences for an experimental tech wapo.st/47QuttW
‘Scan your face’ laws for the web are having unexpected consequences
The new age-verification laws in the United States and United Kingdom have brought some surprising downsides, including soaring traffic to seedy parts of the web.
wapo.st
August 31, 2025 at 2:37 PM
IF ONLY SOMEONE COULD HAVE POSSIBLY PREDICTED THIS OUTCOME THAT ABSOLUTELY EVERYONE WITH ANY SENSE PREDICTED
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🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
August 30, 2025 at 8:10 PM
🧵 Authoritarianism, Democratization, and Coalition Politics.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
The consensus around here is, more or less, that the United States is currently a consolidating authoritarian regime controlled by a mix of reactionary populists and fascists.
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I like that they fully committed and redid the whole underpass while they were at it
August 31, 2025 at 9:04 AM
I like that they fully committed and redid the whole underpass while they were at it
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Privacy‑Preserving Age Verification Falls Apart On Contact With Reality
Here we go again. Whenever policy makers insist that there’s some “nerd harder” solution to tricky societal problems, actual experts have to spend a ridiculous amount of time explaining basic realities to them. Sometimes those…
Here we go again. Whenever policy makers insist that there’s some “nerd harder” solution to tricky societal problems, actual experts have to spend a ridiculous amount of time explaining basic realities to them. Sometimes those…
Privacy‑Preserving Age Verification Falls Apart On Contact With Reality
Here we go again. Whenever policy makers insist that there’s some “nerd harder” solution to tricky societal problems, actual experts have to spend a ridiculous amount of time explaining basic realities to them. Sometimes those are realities about the technology. And sometimes it’s realities about the technology. This time it’s age verification’s turn. Steve Bellovin—one of the most respected security researchers out there, and instrumental in showing why “safe” crypto backdoors can’t exist—just published a short paper arguing that so‑called privacy‑protecting (“zero‑knowledge”) age verification can exist in theory, but…
www.techdirt.com
August 19, 2025 at 5:52 PM
Privacy‑Preserving Age Verification Falls Apart On Contact With Reality
Here we go again. Whenever policy makers insist that there’s some “nerd harder” solution to tricky societal problems, actual experts have to spend a ridiculous amount of time explaining basic realities to them. Sometimes those…
Here we go again. Whenever policy makers insist that there’s some “nerd harder” solution to tricky societal problems, actual experts have to spend a ridiculous amount of time explaining basic realities to them. Sometimes those…
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not trolling I think unfiltered internet access should be a fundamental human right and countries that violate that should be charged
August 20, 2025 at 5:03 AM
not trolling I think unfiltered internet access should be a fundamental human right and countries that violate that should be charged
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White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
August 21, 2025 at 4:59 AM
White woman puts Mexican flag on her truck to waste ICE’s time.
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Surely, that will work.
UK government asks everybody to stop using VPNs.
"everybody who's out there thinking of using VPNs...verifying your age keeps a child safe...So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age."
- UK government
"everybody who's out there thinking of using VPNs...verifying your age keeps a child safe...So let's just not try and find a way around. Just prove your age."
- UK government
August 21, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Surely, that will work.
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RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.
Bluesky silenced trans voices over J.K. Rowling, here’s why
Outcry grows after multiple trans users were targeted for mild criticisms of the anti-trans billionaire.
bit.ly
August 21, 2025 at 1:43 PM
RT if you also wish ill upon JK Rowling.
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there is no legitimate reason to monitor every single politically subversive or morally impure or sexually degenerate piece of information that everyone accesses
age verification is a lie designed to monitor, restrict, and intimidate you into being a sexless grey cube with no dangerous thoughts
age verification is a lie designed to monitor, restrict, and intimidate you into being a sexless grey cube with no dangerous thoughts
The age/identity verification system should be an independently run industry co-op that disburses frequently rotates anonymous tokens and publishes statistics on government warrants to connect them to real names. Nothing else shared.
It worked for payments infra, would work for identity too
It worked for payments infra, would work for identity too
August 15, 2025 at 3:57 PM
there is no legitimate reason to monitor every single politically subversive or morally impure or sexually degenerate piece of information that everyone accesses
age verification is a lie designed to monitor, restrict, and intimidate you into being a sexless grey cube with no dangerous thoughts
age verification is a lie designed to monitor, restrict, and intimidate you into being a sexless grey cube with no dangerous thoughts
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No I don't want "humane" deportations, for the same reason I don't want "friendly" cops in schools or "understanding" genital inspectors at sporting events.
The problem is the fascism, not that the fascism is rude.
The problem is the fascism, not that the fascism is rude.
July 29, 2025 at 2:29 PM
No I don't want "humane" deportations, for the same reason I don't want "friendly" cops in schools or "understanding" genital inspectors at sporting events.
The problem is the fascism, not that the fascism is rude.
The problem is the fascism, not that the fascism is rude.
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t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.
July 28, 2025 at 8:44 PM
t's amazing how this is from more than 20 years ago but very well could have been from today.