Scott

@scottmc
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Tech dad. My kids are probably looking over my shoulder.
From#pittsburgh
Work#cybersecurity
Hobbies#gardening #gaming #tech #memes
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Viral claims about family influencers fleeing the state of California are completely false. TikToks and YouTube videos have amassed millions of views pushing this conspiracy.

My article debunking it only has.... 2 shares. Journalism feels so fruitless sometimes. https://www.usermag.co/p/no-family-vloggers-are-not-fleeing-california-over-a-child-labor-law-viral-tiktok-false

No, family vloggers are not fleeing California over a child labor law

A viral TikTok conspiracy theory claims that family influencers are moving because of a new law that claims to protect child influencers. It's not true.

User Mag

J.K. Rowling has shown herself to be a garbage human being.

That's it. That's the toot.

#JKRowling #ImaneKhelif #ytrans #intersex #Russia #Olympics #transphobia

https://www.them.us/story/jk-rowling-imane-khelif-paris-olympics-boxing

J.K. Rowling Knows Olympic Boxer Imane Khelif Isn’t Trans. She Doesn’t Care

The facts don’t matter to the right-wing voices clamoring about fairness in women’s sports.

Them.
Google is neutering (among other things) the most effective web spyware blocker. That tells you so much about the motives of a company that once promised to not be evil. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/google-chrome-warns-ublock-origin-may-soon-be-disabled/
Google Chrome warns uBlock Origin may soon be disabled

Google Chrome is now encouraging uBlock Origin users who have updated to the latest version to switch to other ad blockers before Manifest v2 extensions are disabled

BleepingComputer

Fast response from the Kamala Harris campaign team.

Burn! 🔥

Sidewalks used to be wider. It’s a fact that rarely gets acknowledged in discussions about road diets. Usually the road diet debate is framed as taking space AWAY from cars. Really it’s about giving it BACK to pedestrians. Here’s a good article about it https://tinyurl.com/2s4bzxw3
The New York of 2016 Needs the Wide, Generous Sidewalks of 1906 - Streetsblog New York City

The Times ran a feature on the pedestrian crush in New York City today, and as good as the photos are, they don’t do the situation justice. To get a sense of just how inadequate the sidewalks are in Midtown, you need to go there — or failing that, watch this Streetfilm from 2009 with narration by Streetsblog publisher Mark […]

This shirt is cracking me up.

Feel free to add your own funny shirt!

Remember everyone, when a job is so low paid the government has to top it up via benefits, it's a direct subsidy from taxpayers to shareholders, and from the poor to the rich.

Once again: Moms for Liberty exists entirely so that white supremacists can violently follow them into community space, then pretend that their violence is "protection" of white women.

This right here is about deceiving people into believing the threat is real, racialized, and comes from Black men.

Both Threads and Mastodon surfaced the news of Apple dropping X, and the Sam Altman news within minutes of it being live.

X is no longer the prime place for breaking news, these other platforms have grown to be equal - or actually better at that. And that was X/Twitter's main feature.