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Ring has announced a new “Search Party” feature that could eventually bring mass biometric surveillance to our streets. It’s on by default. Shut it off.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-one-including-our-furry-friends-will-be-safer-rings-surveillance-nightmare-0

No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare

Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public.In the ad, disguised as a heartfelt effort to reunite the lost dogs of the country with their innocent owners, the company...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

simunch Feb 7

Lazarou Monkey Terror 🚀💙🌈Feb 7

RE: https://mstdn.social/@Nickiquote/116026583682886528

Lol, and has it ever stopped being a 'hot mess' ever since?
Even the International Paedos got sick of it !
#Brexit #ClanOfPaedophiles #ukpol #Ukpolitics

simunch Jul 2, 2023

Gernot Wagner Jul 2, 2023

"Canada wildfire smoke hits Western Europe"

I s'pose they don't call it *global* warming for nothing
#climate #wildfires

simunch Jul 2, 2023

Alice McFlurry

Jul 2, 2023

I was texting with my friend and she was typing pussy ¹ but I was interpreting it as pussy ² and, let me tell you, a misunderstanding like that can get real weird real fast.

¹ full of pus
² slang for a vagina

simunch Jul 2, 2023

Sheldon Jul 1, 2023

This is hilarious. It appears that Twitter is DDOSing itself.

The Twitter home feed's been down for most of this morning. Even though nothing loads, the Twitter website never stops trying and trying.

In the first video, notice the error message that I'm being rate limited. Then notice the jiggling scrollbar on the right.

The second video shows why it's jiggling. Twitter is firing off about 10 requests a second to itself to try and fetch content that never arrives because Elon's latest genius innovation is to block people from being able to read Twitter without logging in.

This likely created some hellish conditions that the engineers never envisioned and so we get this comedy of errors resulting in the most epic of self-owns, the self-DDOS.

Unbelievable. It's amateur hour.

#TwitterDown #MastodonMigration #DDOS #TwitterFail #SelfDDOS

simunch Jul 2, 2023

Peter Stefanovic Jun 20, 2023

I never believed in my lifetime I would see a UK Prime Minister boasting to cheering MP’s that his Government was restricting our right to protest, robbing millions of workers of their democratic right to strike & stripping back human rights. Where is the outrage? WHERE?

https://youtu.be/xwkjbJ0VXxg

A UK PM actually boasting to cheering MP’s about restricting our right to protest & strike. Shocking

YouTube

simunch Jul 2, 2023

Peter Stefanovic Jun 1, 2023

This Government really is a piece of crap

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-65782535

Government to launch legal bid to stop Covid inquiry seeing Johnson WhatsApps

The government’s refusal to share Boris Johnson’s messages sets up an unprecedented legal showdown.

BBC News

simunch Jul 2, 2023

Peter Stefanovic Jul 2, 2023

If this Government’s outright onslaught on British liberties - restricting our right to protest, robbing millions of workers of their right to strike & stripping back human rights doesn’t terrify you it damn well should! If you watch just one thing today please make it this!

https://youtu.be/QEDq51fmdVk

The Government’s onslaught on British liberties, including human rights, should terrify us all

YouTube

simunch Jul 2, 2023

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Russ Cheshire Jul 1, 2023

@moragperkins @PleaseCaption

Might I add:

If you're just joining a Mastodon instance for the first time (or you've come back), please put some information in your bio. Don't be shy; we'd love to hear about /you/ and your ideas; and you'll probably get more reciprocal follows; and so your circle - and our community - grows.

simunch Jul 2, 2023

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Morag Perkins Jul 1, 2023

3 - Alt text! - Please, please add alt text to your images. It just needs a brief visual description of the image, and a transcript of the text if there's text in the image.

It's really important for accessibility, and honestly it's kind of fascinating reading people's descriptions of their work.

If you're prone to forgetting then you can follow @PleaseCaption for a reminder - and you can use the edit function to go back and add it to an existing post so there's no need to delete and repost.