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breakfastmtn

@ breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca

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3 yr. ago

He/Him
Sneaking all around the fediverse.
Also at breakfastmtm@fedia.social breakfastmtn@pixelfed.social

6mo ago

Conspiracy Theories Only Flourish With More Epstein Evidence
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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 6mo ago

The case of the posthumous video games:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/epstein-fortnite/
The official @FortniteStatus X account, responding to another user, posted (archived) on Feb. 6 that a user changed their name to littlestjeff1 after the name surfaced in the Epstein files, saying in part, "Hey Official Fortnite here - this was a ruse by a Fortnite player. A few days ago, an existing Fortnite account owner changed their username from something totally unrelated to littlestjeff1, following the revelation of littlestjeff1 as a name on YouTube."
The post also said none of Epstein's email addresses listed in the public-facing case files exist in the game's account system.
The case of the day-before-email:
https://www.snopes.com/news/2026/02/10/epstein-press-release-aug-10/
From a DOJ spokesperson:
Official statements regarding the death of Jeffrey Epstein were edited and circulated over several email chains within the Southern District of New York beginning August 10, 2019. While initial drafts of the statement list the previous date, this was merely an unfortunate typo that was later updated to reflect the correct date before being publicized. Any suggestion that the Department drafted a statement in advance of Jeffrey Epstein's death is false.
Also:
Searches for the Aug. 10 news release revealed correspondence between FBI staff on Aug. 10 about what appeared to be the finished news release that Biase sent. Searches of the DOJ's database did not reveal records of DOJ, U.S. attorney's office or FBI staff discussing the versions of the news release dated Aug. 9, suggesting it wasn't circulated internally or externally in the DOJ before Epstein's death.

6mo ago

Trump Says His Unpredictable Style Gives Him Leverage. But It Has a Cost.

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 6mo ago

BOOOOOOORRRRRING

7mo ago

Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

Totally. It is a fun fact!

7mo ago

Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

He's currently Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs.

And in case anyone reading takes her professional credentials to be "wife" instead of just taking it as a fun fact, she's a renowned journalist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and one of the world's most important experts on modern authoritarianism. wiki

7mo ago

Little repost bot

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

Yeah, I agree. I said you wouldn't be spamming.

It sounds like you're grabbing posts about topics you're interested in, knowledgeable about, and that you want to talk about. It's almost like having a deck of cards with conversation topics on them and just drawing a random one every few days or something.

7mo ago

Little repost bot

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

You should probably get consent from communities you want to include. I appreciate that you have good intentions and wouldn't be spamming communities, but this is the kind of thing that people can get pretty angry about.

7mo ago

Trump accepts Nobel medal from Venezuelan opposition leader Machado

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

haha oh man what a loser

7mo ago

New Social Web Working Group at W3C

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

One Community Group document that will be moving into the Working Group is LOLA, the live data portability spec that originated in the CG’s Data Portability Task Force. LOLA lets users move from one ActivityPub server to another while retaining all their social connections, their content, and their reactions. It’s a great improvement for data portability on the social web.

Exciting stuff!

7mo ago

Explosive Epstein Witness Testimony Implicates Trump, Clarence Thomas, and More in Horrific Abuse - NOTICE News

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

tl;dr It seems sketchy.

The founder of notice news (and author of this story), Andrew Springer, is a real dude. He seems to have mostly worked at news organizations running their social media. He claims to be an "emmy and peabody award-winning journalist," but he was not working as a journalist when either of those awards were won. In 2012, Good Morning America won an emmy. He was a "social media producer." In 2013, ABC News won a Peabody for Hurricane Sandy coverage. Again, he was a social media producer. His bio/CV is here.

Looking at his author page on that site, they claim that he's published nearly 20 stories in the last 48 hours. Seems unrealistic. Plagiarism? AI? Both seem more likely to me. They don't have an entry with any bias monitoring organization that I can find.

As for Voldeng, I can't find much on her but she seems like a bit of a grifter. This is her bio on her brand page:

I create what others often call impossible. I stand for my brand. I build to protect. And I protect what I know in my own knowing way, is right for me to protect.

My work spans every sweep of civilization, and beyond.

From advertising, aerospace, defense, education, energy, environment, finance, governance, law, media, science, and technology, to realms of sheer starlit wonder.

She does it all!

She sells access to different tiers (prices not listed) of "The Knight League", which is described like this:

The League of the Almighty, on Earth.

It is a fellowship and a calling. Where warrior knights are trained in courage, discipline, and joy. Where oaths matter, crests are borne with honour, and training is effortless lived practice. Where knights rise — noble, ferocious, joyful, Jedi-esque — to stand for something higher. The Most High.

What the fuck is the Knight League? No idea. All her descriptions are master classes in assembling words to say next to nothing. The link that @loppy@fedia.io posted is another great example. I have no idea what it is but I know it wants your money.

I'd be very skeptical of either of those people in terms of vetting sources or doing serious journalism.

7mo ago

X claims it has stopped Grok from undressing people, but of course it hasn’t

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

Twitter ghouls.

7mo ago

California investigates Grok over AI deepfakes

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

Yeah, it's really making CSAM production a subscription service. Vile.

7mo ago

we need more users

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

No doubt, if the goal was to be some rich, worthless scumfuck I'd be doing different things. I'd probably have to spend my days trying to suck Trump Coins out of some grifter's dick. Or maybe I'd build a time machine to go back and make sure I popped out of a lady with a connection to an emerald mine. But... we all have our paths to walk. Mine is to toil endlessly in pursuit of purpose...

This conversation is actually a great example of complexity not mattering. You're on an Australian server, I'm on a Canadian server. We're replying to a post from a user on a third server to a community on a fourth server that people mistakenly think is American but is actually hosted in Germany. None of that matters because it just works. It's indistinguishable from posts and comments -- including you trying blame the whole thing on me -- at the same place. You can make it seem very complicated but all anyone has to do is type words in the little box and press the button to post it.

The way too many people think about the Fediverse right now is like thinking that you need to know every minor detail about how a call could make it from a cell phone in Australia to a cell phone in Canada. You don't need to know that to make a call. You don't need to know all the minutia about ActivityPub or federation to use the fediverse.

7mo ago

we need more users

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

I think it's really overstated how tech savvy you have to be. I don't do anything highly technical here. I signed up to a server, searched for things I was interested in, and subscribed to communities with the stuff I liked. I vote, comment, and post. There are great apps on the mainstream app stores. Yes, more than one thing is inherently a bit more complicated than one thing. But, lest we forget, one is also the loneliest number.

We should really be telling people how easy this shit is.

7mo ago

we need more users

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 7mo ago

People over-react because it's new to them, but it's not really that complicated. It's not like email never caught on because it's federated.

11mo ago

Trump’s Texts to CNN Host Renew Health Speculation

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 11mo ago

https://archive.is/xpFIQ

1y ago

Trump tariffs: Stocks soar as US president announces tariff pause

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breakfastmtn @lemmy.ca 1y ago

https://www.nytimes.com/live/2025/04/08/business/trump-tariffs-stock-market/028fcb2c-debc-5537-9e9c-5e53d80ada9b

Highlighting the erratic trading conditions, a raft of stocks listed on the Nasdaq hit market speed bumps today and were halted after lurching higher — a common practice to prevent rapid changes in a stock or stock index’s price from getting out of control.