Hello, #Mastodon!

I’m Katie Livingstone, an American journalist based in #Ukraine who has been covering the war since 2022. My work has appeared in Rolling Stone, Business Insider, USA Today, Newsweek, ForeignPolicy, Military.com, and several other outlets.

Harry Potter fans tend to argue for the seperation of art from the artist.

That's a maybe.

But unlike, say, Lovecraft, your money is going to an alive person that is trying to eradicate my people *using* that money.

I wouldn't be able to look myself in the mirror if I did that to any minority.

I'm completely at a loss for words to express how disgusting it is that the grifter D.J. Trump has forced Ukraine to sign this extortionate "deal".

I can't think of a single other example of a country giving financial and military aid to an ally at war, and then suddenly deciding that their aid was actually loans and demanding them back - while the war is still going on.

Ridiculous, petty villainy on a grand strategic scale. What a time we live in. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/30/us-ukraine-minerals-deal-russia

Among other things, Meta is now making it mandatory to store voice recordings from their Rayban "smart" glasses in the Meta cloud, and making Meta AI's ability to train and see through your lenses "always on" unless you disable it each time manually.

Gonna be honest, any time someone with Raybans talks to me, I'm going to ask them to remove the glasses.

https://www.theverge.com/news/658602/meta-ray-ban-privacy-policy-ai-training-voice-recordings

#privacy #cybersecurity