We need to push much harder against
Age Verification laws and law proposals.

Contact your local representatives NOW to tell them you firmly oppose these privacy-destroying laws that will harm democracy and civil liberties in unprecedented ways.

#AgeVerification #Privacy #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

Well well well would you look at that:

“The low point in violent crime has arrived even though large police departments employed 6 percent fewer officers going into 2025 than they did at the beginning of 2020, according to a survey by the Police Executive Research Forum. Though they were mostly not in fact defunded, police forces were rocked by retirements and departures. New Orleans lost nearly a quarter of its officers in the years after the pandemic—and then recorded its lowest homicide rate since the 1970s in 2025. Philadelphia had its lowest per-capita police staffing since 1985—and just clocked its lowest murder rate since 1966.”

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/great-crime-decline/685695/?gift=1SbYZC9ibNUWbkW55Dp60vEhEml04LWtQPZJDK2f5XQ&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

my kids now: I need more roblox time!

me as a kid: omg omg omg here comes a big block of files

Beware any industry that claims you need more of what it is selling to offset negative externalities generated by its unbridled use. This seems to be the pitch of the AI cheerleaders: If your systems are doing a poor job screening automated activity from AI, the real problem is you're not using enough AI, dumbass.

This is from the socials of Branden Spikes, a former DOGE guy and longtime Musk employee/lieutenant, in re an article on AI cheating in academia.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/03/who-is-the-doge-and-x-technician-branden-spikes/

https://www.techspot.com/news/107502-ubisoft-argues-players-dont-own-their-games-wake.html

... why would anybody give ubisoft money after this?