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just an english enby living through the end times.
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OF COURSE climate change deniers would rather pretend nefarious human agency like a "weather control machine" is responsible for specific natural disasters affecting people they care about because otherwise it would be their own fucking fault for being climate change deniers.
There's usually a basic ass reason why conservatives say and do what they do, and it's usually because they're stupid and cruel and trying to square the circle of their cruelty and stupidity in a way that makes it someone else's fault.
Or it's just about money.
A lot of what's gone wrong in human history is because somebody decided something absurd like "left-handed people are evil" and then had to retroactively justify this absurdity to other people so as not to look like a complete tool. And unfortunately, stupid, hateful people are predisposed to accept the lies of other stupid, hateful people.
The rest of us have the misfortune of having to live with the effects of someone else's shell game they're playing with their own cognitive dissonance.
"But do they really believe that?" is a silly question both because they choose to act as if they do even when they know it's nonsense and because it doesn't matter; the consequences are real either way.
@gwynnion My general experience has been, yes they really believe that. But then again, I've known some really stupid hateful people.
@timberwraith Yeah. Which seems hard to believe from the outside! "How could anyone be that stupid?" But that's why they surround themselves with other stupid, hateful people who won't call them on it.
@timberwraith The curse of having a sociological imagination is understanding that people are willfully dumb for frequently bizarre or pathetic personal reasons such as to maintain in-group membership in a group they don't even like all that much.
@gwynnion I hear you. There is a strong argument to be made for people being so fearful of straying from the herd that they limit what they allow themselves to think and how they think. After years of doing that, you're effectively a massive nitwit. Acculturated stupidity through fear and conformity but regardless of raw intelligence potential or not, it functions as garden variety stupidity in nearly every way.
@timberwraith And you can tell most of them deep down hate themselves and each other for the stupid shit they pretend to believe in.
And the ones who don't are psychopaths like Kristi Noem who only care about self-promotion.
@gwynnion How can a person not hate themselves under those conditions? Regardless of who they are, they're going to have to hide away and slice off bits and pieces of themselves to fit the conformist norm and they'll often think they're broken in the first place and this is just what they have to do. Quiet self hatred, projected outward upon what ever targets seem like a good thing to land fist blows upon.
@timberwraith Exactly. If they were good people -- if they even just had a spine -- they wouldn't be in that situation. Which is why so many refuse to believe that other people have sincere beliefs either. Because that could be them! And it's not.
@gwynnion And don't forget, they are making the mess too. Corporate Lapdogs all...
(Corporate Lapdogs = Someone who gets nothing but supports a corporation... EX... Use google search)
@gwynnion Even more than that. If a natural disaster hits a blue state, it's God's retribution. If a natural disaster hits a red state, it's the liberals using a weather controlling machine. If their heads were any further up their asses, they could count their own teeth.
@gwynnion
If there was a weather machine tech bros would be selling a subscription service to big agriculture.
Robert Braxman has published another video spreading blatant misinformation about GrapheneOS in order to promote his highly insecure products and services. In addition to many false technical claims and fabrications about our team, he's falsely claiming the project is dying.
@GrapheneOS Robert Braxman presents himself as a privacy expert but routinely spreads misinformation and technical half-truths. His statements often lack depth and accuracy, suggesting he prioritizes narrative over substance.
We have a thread already debunking this recent line of attack on GrapheneOS at https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/114721666000552094. GrapheneOS quickly provided the June security patches, was ported to Android 16 and is working with a major Android OEM. It's not dying and we haven't said or implied it is.
Braxman presents himself as a privacy and security expert but isn't one. He's a shady businessman selling unsafe snake oil products and services. His content is filled with outright fabrications and is heavily aimed at promoting his products. It misinforms rather than educating.
More privacy and security experts should address Braxman's inaccurate content along with the products and services he sells.
https://social.tchncs.de/@kuketzblog/114824455120563945
Braxman has repeatedly sold people fake end-to-end encryption messaging, etc. The companies working with him are scammers too.
GrapheneOS has only ever posted about Braxman in response to his misinformation about us. In his latest video attacking us, he engages in clear libel towards our team. He pushes fabrications from a libel/stalking site and accuses us of doing what he's openly doing in the video...
Our lead developer was forcibly conscripted into a war and we've been asking for help regularly since then and expressing that the situation was dire. Android 16 making our life harder than expected made it worse. The Android 16 changes weren't really the important part...
Following this, we hired 2 more full time developers and have tried to hire more people. Multiple people stepped up to do part time volunteer work helping with the port to Android 16 and other things. People stepped up to help in other ways. GrapheneOS was not and is not dying.
We shipped the June Android Security Bulletin patches for AOSP on June 2. Pixel and AOSP release was June 10 based on Android 16. We began porting to 16, realized it would be far harder than expected and requested urgent help. We backported Android 16 firmware/drivers to 15 QPR2.
Our initial official production release of Android 16 was made on June 30th after an experimental release the day before which had major issues:
https://grapheneos.org/releases#2025063000
Most users already considered that fully functional and very stable. Most early testers were happy with it.
@GrapheneOS initial GrapheneOS builds in under a month and being pressed on the longevity of the project... Now should we look at any number of OEMs software versions for the multitude of devices that they supposedly support with greater user bases than GrapheneOS?!
There were no Pixel Update Bulletin security patches for July 2025 so we took an extra day to polish things up further and GrapheneOS based on Android 16 reached our Stable channel today.
Due to requesting and receiving help, we're much better off than we were before Android 16.
We've never considered AOSP providing device trees as a hardware requirement. The crisis was a combination of the conscription, other developers being less available to work, more than ever to port (2FA unlock in particular), remaking device support and ongoing attacks like this.
Useful information on Braxman's products and services from a security researcher (founder of DivestOS):
https://forum.f-droid.org/t/brax2-alternatives/22469/6
Highly insecure, ancient hardware running a closed source fork of the end-of-life Android 10 which did NOT receive basic security patches and updates.
@GrapheneOS Just saw, that my Pixel 8a ist now on Android 16. Thanks a lot, you did a really great job.
@GrapheneOS Not sure if this is the right place to ask but how will you handle the battery update for the 6a?
Did you push the one for 4a?
> Not sure if this is the right place to ask but how will you handle the battery update for the 6a?
We'll ship it and perhaps figure out how to display a notification to users about it with the option to disable the safety feature. People should get the battery replaced though.
> Did you push the one for 4a?
No, since it was end-of-life for ages already and they didn't properly release it. We highly discourage people using end-of-life devices.
@GrapheneOS I assume that includes a check if the device is affected?
I tried my IMEI but it seems that I am not eligible for free repair. Not sure if that means I am safe or screwed over.
@tinyocean They used multiple battery suppliers and only the batteries from one of the suppliers have a serious issue. The changes are only relevant to that subset of users and they're the only ones getting a choice of a free battery replacement, $150 credit for a new phone or $100 cash via Payoneer. If there's a nearby repair partner then the battery can be replaced with a quick in-person trip instead of sending in a device so that's a good option if someone wants to keep using it.
@GrapheneOS Thanks, I guess that means I am safe and I can keep using it till EOL in 2027?
Sorry that I ask again but will the battery only be limited for the affected users or for everyone? Will you just include a warning for everyone and you need to manually confirm if you can disable the safety feature at your own risk? Or does the update from google contain a list of affected devices / detects the battery origin and unaffected users don't need to do anything
> Thanks, I guess that means I am safe and I can keep using it till EOL in 2027?
We aren't fully sure, but when we add the planned feature you'll only get a warning if you have a problematic battery. Their code only activates the change when the battery is from the problematic supplier so we can do the same with a warning. We could also tell people their battery is NOT one of the problematic ones. We haven't fully decided what to do about this yet and don't have resources to spare.
@GrapheneOS Look I'm happy using GOS and happy that the A16 port worked out but it's a simply a lie that you didn't originally paint it as doomsday when the device repos stopped updating.
@eskuero No, it is yourself and others misrepresenting what we said in this series of posts who are lying. We did not say we were going to stop working on GrapheneOS. We said it was going to be impossible to continue in the way it was going before where we could port to new major releases in 24 hours and add support for new devices in 24 hours. You're also lying about the reason for why we posted this which was far more to do with our lead developer being conscripted into an army...
@GrapheneOS "Otherwise, be prepared for the final release of GrapheneOS to be today. It's up to the people who have this access to decide if they want the project to go on after today."
is very clear language not open for interpretations
@eskuero No, that's a lie, and you're very clearly misrepresenting what we said. Even in this cropped screenshot, it says directly afterwards that we can continue the project with substantial effort. The following messages explain that we plan to do that but it will be very difficult. Why show this single message with many subsequent messages explaining the situation and what we planned to do removed? You're cherry picking wording expressing how dire things were/are with the rest cropped out.
@eskuero Cropping out a single message out of dozens explaining the situation and cherry picking wording from 1 sentence while ignoring the rest of what was said in that paragraph is not being honest about what we actually said to people. Why were the rest of the messages and edits we made to the wording omitted? You're claiming we're lying while doing an extraordinarily dishonest misrepresentation of what we said. Nope, it's you who is lying and you who will no longer be part of our community.
@eskuero Show the whole conversation including the edits we quickly made to the initial messages. Why are you using a cropped screenshot and twisting the wording we used in a way which contradicts us very clearly explaining it would take far more work than expected? We also did receive additional support compared to what we expected to have. Our call for help was at least partially answered.
It's now a month later after we successfully ported to Android 16 a couple weeks earlier...
@eskuero It's nothing short of an outrageous lie to use this cropped screenshot omitting subsequent messages, edits and twisting the wording which was used initially to present it as if GrapheneOS is dying weeks after we ported to Android 16 successfully. A major part of why it went better than expected is because the developer who was forcibly conscripted was diverted away from combat and is currently in limbo where they were able to use free time and cellular connection to help us out.
@GrapheneOS This is the only second message I got which still said you would not be able to do it without help from a partner access.
The rest you deleted already since I just scroll all way back to june 10th and it's all gone.
Do not take this as an attack because it's far from my intention but the message on day one was worrying, what happened later was great and I'm happy about it
@eskuero You falsely accused us of lying in your initial post. We're responding to a video which was just recently posted after our Android 16 port was completed weeks ago. Our initial concern about how hard it was going to be and lack of our usual development team is not the present. These messages also made it incredibly clear we were going to work very hard on porting to Android 16, overcoming the fact that our lead developer was forcibly conscripted and ongoing escalating attacks hurting it.
@eskuero Your post at https://grapheneos.social/@eskuero@mstdn.io/114824540330983883 is an extreme misrepresentation of this situation. It's a dishonest attack. Braxman didn't post his video minutes after we posted that message before further clarification. He just posted it now, after our port to Android 16 was completed and after numerous threads providing clear information on our plan and how things were going. Even following the message you posted out of context, we clearly communicated we were continuing the project.
@eskuero Porting to Android 16 did go far worse than ports over the past many years. It took us 2 weeks and then additional time to get it to Stable instead of it taking the typical 48 hours or so to Alpha and then Stable in under a week. We care a lot about shipping updates quickly and consider what happened to be awful.
@GrapheneOS I didn't falsely accuse you of anything. You said on day one that the project would not be able to continue without help. I doubt I was the only one that thought the project was close to death.
I don't care about Braxman I don't know him and I haven't watched his video, don't relate me to him.
> I didn't falsely accuse you of anything.
You falsely accused us of lying in our thread.
> You said on day one that the project would not be able to continue without help.
We received more help than we had at the time.
> I doubt I was the only one that thought the project was close to death.
That is what happens when a state forcibly conscripts our lead developer when we already lack the resources we need, and then a port we were worried about is made much harder than expected.
@eskuero We never said GrapheneOS was being discontinued and or that we were going to stop working on it.
Do you realize how hard it is to have the person who did 95% of code review and 90% of the ports conscripted into a military and sent to basic training with nearly 0 contact with us for 45 days?
We desperately needed help and made that clear before Android 16 was released. We were not yet receiving enough help at that time.
Following the posts we made, we received more help and funding.
@eskuero It is not June 10. It is July 3. Our first production build based on Android 16 was made on June 30. Prior to that, we publicly explained how things were going in several long threads.
We made it clear we were going to be able to complete the port very shortly after June 10 after we received additional help and support.
Why is a dire situation on June 10 where we said we need help to continue being misrepresented as GrapheneOS being discontinued or struggling now, after we got help?
@GrapheneOS @eskuero I fully support you. And I would like to ask only one thing, is this developer safe now. He and you are also counting on the fact that he will return to work on the project as soon as possible or at least someday. Does he have the opportunity to leave, because he is such an important person for the development of the project? I know that in practice he can pay for leaving this country or get a deferment from the army.
@userj @eskuero He isn't being sent to combat and he'll hopefully be discharged and able to work on GrapheneOS again soon. We're in active communication with him via a cellular connection. He's currently in limbo and not really tasked with any actual assignment so he has some time to help.
Corruption is very widespread in the country but that doesn't mean he can get out of it with money. There's widespread knowledge of his situation and that he's a talented security researcher and developer.
@userj @eskuero We need to wait until he's moved to an actual assignment related to his skill set and then we can talk to the leadership there. They would be better off simply deploying GrapheneOS as a way to defend their devices and discharging him so he can continue to work on it. They may decide he's valuable to them working on something else and then he won't be able to work full time on GrapheneOS anymore. We have little control over it. We know he won't be sent to combat anymore though.
@userj @eskuero He was initially on track to being sent to do trench warfare and even after our initial interventions aimed at getting him help, it was still going that way. However, going public about it got higher level awareness of it and he got diverted away from that. He should be physically safe now. Does not mean he can work full time on GrapheneOS because they're giving him all kinds of menial tasks to do right now and he'll be transferred to a real tech related role soon.
@GrapheneOS @eskuero I am very glad that things are at least so, but of course I would like more freedom for him. Thank you for answering so openly. And yes, graphene would be very useful for the military, but the main thing is that it is not forced to make exploits in the system. To spy on the military inside the army or for other purposes in general. But I think you'll check it out. There would be an opportunity to learn from his experience to help you guys, but no one will teach me, only mysf
@eskuero We were calling for help and expressing how dire the situation was before knowing Android 16 wouldn't include device repositories anymore due to our lead developer being forcibly conscripted. That was the dire situation for us. We brought on a new full time developer and paid someone else to come back and temporarily work 80 hour weeks temporarily for this port. Cropping out one of our messages in a long series of messages to misrepresent is what's dishonest behavior.
@eskuero If you want to keep following us and participating in our community, then we expect you to remove the false accusation and extreme misrepresentation you made at https://mstdn.io/@eskuero/114824540277758406. Is that really the hill you want to die on with us? We have no issue forgiving it if you retract it. We did not lie in our thread. Posting about how dire things were prior to June 10 and on June 10 including that we needed significantly more help to continue in no way contradicts anything we said...
@eskuero We were in a dire situation where the project needed more development resources to continue, so we asked our large community for help and received help. What is the issue with us being honest about how things are going and asking for help when we need it? We have a large community willing to support us. Many people stepped up to help, including some developers who helped do part time volunteer work to aid with the port. We also hired 2 people, one who worked 80+ hours weeks on this.
@GrapheneOS interesting. I am not on the level of you or Mike or all the other privacy experts. I just recently discovered Braxman and wondered what you smart security guys would say. thanks for telling me.
@GrapheneOS are there any ideas to go to YouTube and counter this guy? I am convinced he has lots of followers and answering here may not help…
@GrapheneOS OK, I watched a few of the videos of this guy, but find it hard to follow. The “best” I saw is his execuses why the BraX3 is delayed. It’s a list of bullshit bingo. I could make a dart board with usually excuses and throw blindly my darts I could create a similar video with AI.
But I have to admit, that he is good presenting and selling his ideas. Like a lot of populists there are a few things correct but then mixed with lies or misinformation or populism. So I can sort of understand that people fall for him and his lies.
I am not as smart or well educated in IT Security matters, but I read a lot. I try a lot. I think I am usually very well informed. But I have never heard of BraX3 or 2 or anything like this. No one buys his phones, so he has to act… :-(((
@GrapheneOS Guys, don't waste so much time and energy on these inanities. Braxman or whatever his name is can't be taken seriously. His so-called secure smartphone is a low budget China device. Let him talk
I love snac. I love the philosophy behind it. I love the high character limit. I love the fact that it works in Links2. I love the minimalism. I love the way the public view of profiles appears like a basic blog. I love that it is endorsed by prahou (the creator of unix_surrealism, who actually gave me this account; massive thanks, btw).
However, there are a few issues, one of which I cannot ignore. Self-moderation on this platform is not possible, meaning that my recent post promoting my article on mobile web browsers had to be deleted and re-posted after a certain incredibly racist bot account replied to it and I was unable to do anything.
I have also found that I have barely read or posted on the fediverse since I switched over.
There is also the matter of client compatibility is also an issue, but this does not impact the following decision much.
As a result of everything, I have decided to move back to my Mastodon account, @470m@mstdn.social, effectiv immediately.
Thanks for the last month or so. Other than what I've mentioned, it has been excellent, and who knows? Maybe I'll be back in the future.
- TRANSMISSION ENDS -
https://hellfirehost.uk.eu.org/blog/20250626-there-is-no-perfect-browser.html
A restaurant's homepage exclusively on Facebook?
I will not open an account with Meta to see it.
Your loss.
Republican and russian disinformation warfare or active measures.
Disinformation, psychological warfare "PsyOp" will continue to increase for the next six months to influence the #2024election.
It's literally impossible to contend with all the stupid. These propagandists won't stop. It's about volume. Every second of every day it will be some new conspiracy theory.. Their goal is to shred the judiciary and elevate the unitary executive. They're fascists. Vote for democrats.
We know their game. Please boost.
#psyop #disinformation #propaganda #TheBigLie #RussiaIsATerroristState #vote
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The Firehose of Falsehood: the Russian style of propaganda for an age of information abundance. eHigh volume and multi-channel approach
Shameless in its willingness to broadcast lies
No commitment to, or requirement for consistency
Rapid, continuous and repetitive messaging
Point is not to persuade but to confuse and overwhelm
Assumes a low trust environment and lowers it further
Number of arguments matters more than their quality
Drown out competing messages through sheer volume
Neil Cotton, a lollipop man in Howden, Yorkshire, has been ordered by the council to stop high-fiving schoolchildren. The 57-year-old was told that his friendly greetings delayed motorists and stopped young people from focusing on the road. Although, as local driver Tony Brooke told the BBC: “He’s going to hold the traffic up to let the kids across, so I wouldn’t have thought it would add any more time to people’s journeys.”
More than half of the "what's new" in the latest MSVC update is just AI shit. I opened the IDE to write code myself. I've written a large game (including making the sprites, sound effects, and music) by myself. I feel like I'm going insane just by wanting to use my creativity to make things.
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A "what's new" screenshot for MSVC showing a bunch of AI-related stuff.
As trump is shutting down the LGBT+ youth suicide lifeline on July 17th know that the Trevor project can be reach at 1-866-488-7386
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As trump is shutting down the LGBT+ youth suicide lifeline on July 17th know that the Trevor project can be reach at 1-866-488-7386
@arstechnica@mastodon.social Even though the CDC claims all is well -- Get your COVID Vaccine Booster, when you're able. (Booster is once a year, last I knew - When we could still trust the CDC).
If your friends and relatives ask
what we must do
now that the marches are over,
tell them what we must do
is take care of one another,
and if your friends and relatives ask
must we do this
until the next march?
during the next march?
after the next march?
simply reply: yes.
Capitalism has delivered us live streamed mass murder, college debt, and shitty car centric infrastructure that kills tens of thousands of people every year.
Fuck that shit, and if you think we deserve that rubbish you are not worth my time
Never believe that anti-Semites are completely unaware of the absurdity of their replies. They know that their remarks are frivolous, open to challenge. But they are amusing themselves, for it is their adversary who is obliged to use words responsibly, since he believes in words. The anti-Semites have the right to play. They even like to play with discourse for, by giving ridiculous reasons, they discredit the seriousness of their interlocutors. They delight in acting in bad faith, since they seek not to persuade by sound argument but to intimidate and disconcert. If you press them too closely, they will abruptly fall silent, loftily indicating by some phrase that the time for argument is past.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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John Ekdahl
@JohnEkdahl
Does this "No Kings" messaging make a lick of sense to anyone outside the far left?
Heath Mayo
@HeathMayo
The 56 signers of the Declaration of Independence, for starters.
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mydogisarhino * Jan 17, 2013, 12:55 AM
Whenever church-goers come to my door, my brother and I
do a number of random things. Here's my favorite:
Some people from the local church came by and knocked on
our door and I answered. They asked me if "I had found
Jesus". I stared at them blankly for about 5 seconds then
said "Oh. My. God." followed by quickly turning into the
house and shouting "JESUS! RUN! THEY'RE ONTO YOU!"
My brother then starts running down the hall and into the
kitchen saying "fuckfuckfuck go GO! RUN!" and slamming
the back door. I turned back to them and said "No...." as I
slowly closed the door.
This is the funniest fucking thing I’ve ever seen
goodnight
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After 23 years of service, I was fired from my position as a Professor of Medicine at the University of California, San Francisco, for being critical of Israel’s violence in Gaza and speaking out against the racism that leads to genocide.
My friend, the doctor,
says right now
everyone is getting sick.
My friend, the teacher,
says right now
everyone is using AI.
My friend, the activist,
says right now
everyone is giving up.
My friends, oh my friends,
right now
we must not be everyone.
Not really a candle person but this would be an instant buy
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A candle that is an image of the villain in Raiders of the Lost Ark who melted after the Ark was opened
Meta Social Media Giant Rolls Out Ads on WhatsApp https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn5y07yqg5do
Use Signal and other apps, but the problem is WhatsApp's popularity among users in Asia and and Europe. The battle between Google and Apple resulted in WhatsApp's popularity as a cross-platform tool.
funnily enough, i made the preceding USB versioning shitpost even though i was pretty sure they'd sorted it out now with USB4.
but i've just learned that USB 4 v2 exists. it's not new, it's been around for a while, but i was blissfully unaware. so.
if ANYBODY reading this works at the USB IF... please don't let them make a USB 4 v2x2. please. and please tell them to start using colours again. "blue USB stick is faster when you put it in the blue USB port" was such a good idea.
i don't know why but i enjoy reading about specific annoyances that people in other countries have. like how in the UK, coke is very slightly more expensive than other soft drinks due to a sugar levy, meaning that swapping from a sprite to a coke at maccas adds something like £0.18 to the cost.
after weeks of reconnaissance of the arr slash germany subreddit, i have struck gold: i've learned that many german companies and especially government bodies send almost everything via physical mail. people talk about having their neighbours check their mail for them when they go on a one (1) week holiday because so much time sensitive communication is only sent in writing.
deutsche post offers a service where they'll open and scan all your letters and email them to you as PDFs. most companies use a similar service, be it the deutsche post one or a commercial equivalent.
the following is therefore a common occurrence in germany:
i cannot write a witty statement or even a cheap stereotype joke that would make the described series of events funnier.
@dysfun my Google maps review of this very Starbucks
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Yes I know it's a little overpriced, but if
we Americans don't have anywhere to
get somewhat overpriced sugary
coffee, we start to get ideas about
bringing democracy to the region.
Ok, here’s a question:
Do you own a cowbell? And are you in the US?
(Also how do all these random neighborhood people have cowbells?)
| US, own cowbell: | 10 |
| US, do not: | 62 |
| Not US, own cowbell: | 1 |
| Not US, do not.: | 38 |
This kid should not have needed to make a sign like this. These protests shouldn't need to happen... but here we are. America, we're at a crossroads. I want a future where this kid doesn't need to make a sign like this.
URGENT - Comments close tomorrow to oppose ruling to remove requirement for #disability access to new public buildings. USA
https://www.regulations.gov/document/DOE-HQ-2025-0015-0001
The final rule is effective July 15, 2025, unless significant adverse comments are received by June 16, 2025. Significant adverse comments are ones which oppose the rule and raise, alone or in combination, a serious enough issue related to each of the independent grounds for the rule that a substantive response is required.
As the dim glow of the slate fades, I reach for the bottle I know to be empty, its contents having quenched a past fury.
Adjusting to the pale blackness, visions of the past dance on the walls; good and bad, my friends and my foes, backlit only by a cold and lonely streetlight.
Lightyears apart, yet closer than ever; inches away, but the distance is growing.
A car crawls slowly past the window, saturating the room in shadows as the icy beams unveil scars old and new, real and unreal.
To jump is to fall, and to sleep is to die; but I will do neither, for I am ready to kill, but too low to try.
(Originally published on 13th June 2025)
So is like half the internet down for everyone or just me? Downdetector suggests something bad is happening...
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DownDetector showing a ton of sites showing outages that just happened...
The Meta AI app is a privacy disaster https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/12/the-meta-ai-app-is-a-privacy-disaster/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon
Meta (Facebook) keeps track of your:
* Full name.
* Previous name if you change your name
* E-mail (past, current, future)
* Date of birth and age.
* Address (past, current, future)
* Living state (do you own, lease, or rent)
* Phone number (past, current, future)
* Cellular device model (past, current, future)
* Cellular device IMEI number (serial too, if provided)
* Friends
* Family relationship
* Relationship status
* Marital status
* Personal associations status
* Sexual preferences
* Gender identity
* Education (past, current, future)
* Employment status (past, current, future)
* Income
* Travel status (GPS)
* Shopping
* Political affliction
* Government affiliation.
* Browser history
If you had to verify your account and submitted documentation, we additionally keep track of:
* Residence status
* Driving status (if you have a license or not)
* Whether if you have passport or not. - But the system will assume you do, if they notice your travel status (GPS) moves internationally.
* Oculus devices are used to map your house and improve facial recognition software of anyone in your home.
* All Meta apps, when installed, run silently in the background. We do listen and we do read your text. Put your phone on the table, talk about DYI Projects, and I promise you will see ads for DYI Projects.
All of that, we are sharing with the government of the United States of America.
Especially, if you said you dislike Donald Trump, JD Vance, Mike Johnson, and anyone on Trump's cabinet, or previously expressed dislike for Elon Musk, Mark Zuckerberg, Jeff Bezos, Andy Jassy, DOGE, ICE, and participated in any protest, spoke out in support of protest, or indicated you could join a protest.
#Meta #Facebook #Threads #WhatsApp #Instagram #Messenger #Privacy
When I was about 4 years old I made up a fictional planet called "Nootube," pronounced "New Tube." Later, some video-sharing startup infringed on my trademark. The owners of the video sharing site in question have yet to pay me for the name.
The thing is..
It does not really matter that much if #Mastodon does not grow as hard as Bluesky for example
Simply because Mastodon is a part of the #Fediverse and that will grow faster over time
The last few years there has been a major adoption in the use of ActivityPub by other platforms and a dozen new ones!
It's just a matter of time before ActivityPub and therefore the Fediverse is everywhere
I dont see Bluesky do that
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Trump Admin To Put More Mercury, Other Toxins In Our Air
#HealthRisks #ToxicAir #EnergyPolicy #NickelPollution #EPAReform
https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/trump-admin-put-more-mercury-other-toxins
Woaa.. I knew #Meta sucks but it's getting worse by the day:
"The web pixel talks to the Facebook/Instagram app using WebRTC"
“The Meta Pixel script sends the _fbp cookie to the native Instagram or Facebook app via WebRTC (STUN) using SDP modification (SDP Munging).”
https://www.zeropartydata.es/p/localhost-tracking-explained-it-could
Am I glad we blocked Threads! 💪
Article via @Gargron
Oooh look, those food delivery robots are the eyes and ears of the LAPD!
"Food Delivery Robots Are Feeding Camera Footage to the LAPD, Internal Emails Show"
(9/28/2023)
Samoa, an archipelagic country composed of nine islands in the South Pacific Ocean, is on the frontline of climate change.
Rising sea levels, ocean warming & acidification all pose significant threats to the country’s coastal communities.
To help protect its future, the Samoan government announced June 3 that it has enacted a law establishing a marine spatial plan to sustainably manage 100% of its ocean by 2030.
by Claire Turrell
https://news.mongabay.com/2025/06/samoas-new-marine-spatial-plan-protects-30-of-the-countrys-ocean/
i've found that when i don't make room for my mental health, it forces me to make room for it
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Admiral is balancing two big objects, one labeled "work" and the other "life."
Admiral: Oof! I've almost got 'em balanced!
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The Bad Thoughts Monster throws a HUGE boulder labeled "MENTAL HEALTH" at Admiral
BTM: Catch!
Regarding the below:
“Sixteen people were killed by rubber or plastic bullets during the Troubles [in the North of Ireland]. A 17th person was killed by a fall, possibly after being hit by one of the bullets.
Some were involved in street disorder. Others were bystanders.
Eight of the dead were children.
Others suffered serious injuries, including brain damage and blinding.”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-64939678
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