Terra V.

@Terrapin
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Just a guy up in the PNW. I came to Mastodon in 2018 wondering if I would find myself more inclined to socialize than I did on the birdsite but I didn't end up establishing an active presence then. I still post infrequently, I am mainly inclined to lurk and listen. But hello.

#SecondLife resident, #CriticalRole fan, other nerdy things

Sen. Ossoff doesn't tolerate any of Tulsi Gabbard’s B.S.

Lol. I have nothing against Tinder, but I also hope that this completely destroys it

https://www.404media.co/tinder-plans-to-let-ai-scan-your-camera-roll/

Tinder Plans to Let AI Scan Your Camera Roll

In a feature the dating app says is set to roll out in the U.S. later this spring, Tinder plans to access users' camera rolls to pick photos and determine what they're into.

404 Media

Reddit seems to have deleted a post with 7400 upvotes and the title:

"I traced $2B in grants and 45 states' lobbying behind age‑verification bills"

.... US Corpos do not want us to see this but luckily we still have this github repo.

Here the relevant reddit post that was removed:

https://old.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/1rshc1f/i_traced_2_billion_in_nonprofit_grants_and_45/?sort=new

And here the github repo

https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

#reddit #ageVerification #corpos #cencorship

Ageless Linux: Software for humans of indeterminate age. We don't know how old you are. We don't want to know. We are legally required to ask. We won't.

https://agelesslinux.org/

Ageless Linux — Software for Humans of Indeterminate Age

Not shocking if you've listened to Karp speak for more than 5 minutes.

Absolute real-life movie villains.

The New Republic: Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power
https://newrepublic.com/post/207693/palantir-ceo-karp-disrupting-democratic-power

Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power

They’re saying the quiet part out loud now.

The New Republic
In defending free speech, privacy, and the right of young people to access truthful information about themselves, Rep. Leigh Finke was not radical—she was right. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/rep-finke-was-right-age-gating-isnt-about-kids-its-about-control
Rep. Finke Was Right: Age-Gating Isn’t About Kids, It’s About Control

What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

Electronic Frontier Foundation
It doesn’t look like total surrender is going to happen. More like $5 gas and bigly inflation on everything else, too.
Georgia House passes bill to let pharmacists dispense birth control without prescriptions

Women could get birth control drugs directly from pharmacies without needing a doctor’s prescription, according to a bill that cleared the Georgia House on Wednesday.

WABE

Also, this is what eventually happens if you keep voting conservatives into power.

Conservatives become fascist, liberals appease them, and only leftists oppose. The US does not have a healthy left, so there were no brakes on the train when the country started going fascist.

Age verification risks tying users’ “most sensitive and immutable data” — names, faces, birthdays, home addresses — to their online activity, EFF’s Molly Buckley told CNBC. “Age verification strikes at the foundation of the free and open internet.” https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/social-media-child-safety-internet-ai-surveillance.html