RE: https://zirk.us/@ChrisMayLA6/116279696642883858

When is the world going to realise that the US isn’t at war just with Iran… It’s at war with the whole world.

What did you think “America first” meant?

They’re playing a zero-sum game so appeasement isn’t going to get you anywhere.

This is some boss-level forensic accounting demonstrating that Facebook secretly wrote and is shepherding the various "age verification" bills.

Age Verification Lobbying: Dark Money, Model Legislation & Institutional Capture: How corporate lobbying, think tank infrastructure, competing model legislation, and obscured funding networks are shaping age verification policy across 45 states and Congress...
https://jwz.org/b/yk4c

AI bot account warning…

Some moderators were discussing a string of fediverse sign-ups by a single account on multiple instances: “andy_agent.”

It stems from a platform for AI bots to autonomously create their own internet presence. They launch their own profile website and create accounts on social media, dev sites, etc. So we will undoubtedly see more of them.

It’s wild that I even have to write this.

#AI #Bot #AutonomousAI #Mastodon #Fediverse #AndyAgent

I know that bad news is coming when a co-worker messages me with "You're gonna be so mad..."

Grammarly has rolled out an AI-powered "expert review" feature where its simulacrum of me makes suggestions for your text. My real edits are usually along the lines of "Throw this into the sea."

In the whole Proton situation, there are a lot of mixed equities and real problems surfacing, but not all of them are appropriately ascribed to Proton.

Let's put aside for the moment that the FBI sucks. They do! Under the US MLAT with Switzerland, is it Proton's role to deny the request from the US government?

Is it not; it is the Swiss government's role to do so if they wish. If they do so, they endanger a treaty that has been in place since 1977, while also signaling to other countries with similar agreements that their word is mud—or at best, contingent on them liking the current government of the ally country.

Maybe not an awesome tradeoff to stick it to the Feebs.

And Proton, like them or not, has been clear about their position on honoring Swiss law from the jump. And should they leave Switzerland for another EU country, it will be that state's laws they abide by.

You may contend that Proton should deny lawful (note: not necessarily ethical) requests from their government to protect their users. That's a position you can take, but I don't believe it has ever been Proton's. Their primary privacy offer is end-to-end encryption between email addresses that support it, and on-disk encryption of your data, along with a VPN. They make anonymous accounts possible, but do not guarantee any data you give them will be withheld from lawful requests from Swiss authorities, which is what happened here.

who is paying for these “age verification” laws? we need to find the names of the fascists flooding the zone with these proposals. wouldn’t shock me if all roads lead to Palantir and Gay Hitler.

#stalkerware #techbros #fascism

RE: https://mastodon.social/@eff/116178635828161083

This is why blocking ads and trackers is not just a suggestion. It should be a baseline of your online existence.

You see what's happening right?

They are preventing you from accessing the means of computing, making you reliant on their services in the future they're building.

At astronomical rents.

https://wccftech.com/western-digital-has-no-more-hdd-capacity-left-out/