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FlashMobOfOne

@ FlashMobOfOne @lemmy.world

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Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.

I'm single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.

ACAB, Anti-War, and I hate Democrats, Republicans, and billionaires. (Yes, even your favorite billionaire: the pop star, the philanthropost, the legendary athlete, or the soft-spoken investment guru who cosplays as middle class.) With each passing day I get a little closer to hating everyone.

Also, I refuse to use Donald's last name out of hatred for the man and his brand, FYI.

  • This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby - 404media

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  • EDIT: For all of you downvoting, this isn't conspiracy or speculation. Just a few days ago the FBI publicized footage in the Guthrie case that was acquired illegally.

    True, but understand, every wireless-connected smart device you wear or interact with in any way is doing the same.

    Meta's nonsense isn't unique, and should be regulated into nonexistence, but unless you're keeping your phone in a Faraday bag you too are being constantly filmed, tracked, and snooped upon.

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  • Not actually what they said, though.

  • Something about work / life balance

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  • Yeah, also I've had nightmares about the time they chopped him up and dumped him in front of the station and he still wasn't dead.

  • Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts

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  • No idea. :D

  • Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts

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  • This reminded me a whole lot of OnlyFans deciding to ban porn.

    Just... stupid.

  • IP stealing machine gets its IP stolen by IP stealing machine. Cries foul play.

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  • lololololololol

    I'm sorry. The sheer ingenuity and creativity here is astonishing.

  • Dublin City Council suspends use of X as State agencies leave amid Grok controversy

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  • Could be, but regulation will come more readily if the bottom line of Big Tech is affected by international divestment. They don't give a shit about customers, but they do give a shit if they lose a few billion as countries opt to go in-house.

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  • You're not wrong, but disentangling a whole government system from a web provider isn't exactly a simple thing. Also I'd wager that, like Apple does with their tech re: right to repair, they've all taken steps to make it artificially more difficult to offboard because they can.

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  • It's hard to overstate the importance of world governments realizing, and speaking publicly, on the danger of housing their confidential data solely with unregulated American providers.

    As an American myself, I love to see it. If this outrage translates to changes in fundamental business practices, it could mean Americans getting better regulation of Big Tech by sheer necessity.

  • Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone

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  • Exactly what I'm saying to the kids who argue that they can't function without it. My generation did, and it's easier for them having text and email, which I didn't have until I was in my mid-teens.

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  • Unfortunately, in some communities, that's still impossible to do fully.

    Hopefully that'll change with time. I'd love to see another mass migration to federated platforms.

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  • TBH, I don't trust them any further than I can throw them. If it comes to that, I'll use an old ID with invalid info, but thankfully I don't use Meta but maybe once a week to check work-related DM's.

    This is a lesser of two evils thing.

  • Phoebe Gates wants her $185 million AI startup to succeed with 'no ties to my privilege or my last name': 'I have a chip on my shoulder' | Fortune

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  • Is this the same entitled bitch who got a $1,000,000 ranch as a present?

    Maybe pay some fucking taxes, Phoebe.

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  • Sure, thank you for not being a prick in your approach like everyone else.

    A few reasons:

    First, your private info is already out there. Either it's hanging out on Spokeo (and you should go there, look yourself up, and request that they delete it.) or one of Google/Meta/Whatever's servers. Thanks to the video disclosure in the Guthrie case, we know definitively that all of those cameras you have in your home and around your neighborhood are recording you and feeding the information to the government without a warrant for permanent storage. Further, providing ID is something we do for a lot of things that are appropriately age-gated already.

    Secondly, and I think this is the bigger point, is the mounting evidence of detrimental effects social media is having on kids' cognitive abilities. It affects adults too, but to a lesser extent, likely because our brains have already matured. I know schoolteachers who can't get their kids to answer a question correctly when the answer is literally written on the dry erase board in front of them, to give one example. The other problem here is the effects on self esteem and mental health, as algorithmically-elevated content is designed to isolate, anger, and cause mental health problems, and the rise in suicide rates is evidence of that. Happy people aren't buying every piece of shit they're fed in their feed's ads.

    I would prefer to see the companies themselves held accountable and these algorithms made illegal, but I don't think that will realistically happen, so age-gating via ID is, to me, the best that can be done right now, and I think it's essential.

  • What would you like to say to the Aliens if/when President Donald Trump invites them up onto the stage during a press conference?

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  • "Please just put our planet out of its misery."

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  • Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone

    Don't come over here threatening me with a good time.

  • Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich

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  • People get pissed at me but, as a short-term solution, I'm okay with giving up my ID in order to lock kids out. I personally think it is the lesser of two exceedingly great evils.

    Ideally, there'd be federal regulation of these platforms in every country banning algorithmically-elevated content, ads, privacy violations, and holding the operators of these platforms accountable for CSAM, but I think that will take decades.

  • Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich

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  • And they've convinced you that it's a-okay for your kids to be using these products, in full knowledge of the harm they cause.

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    Whats a legit way to earn money from home?

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  • No worries.

    I have them too. I take those quick-dissolve Claritin tabs and, for me, they thankfully work really well.