fort_burp
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- Comment on Would the United States actually risk a Tiananmen Square incident? 21 hours ago:
You guys are gonna blame leftists and/or Putin all the way to prison, aren’t you? What’s happening now is purely American, baby, and non-whites have been subjected to it for hundreds of years.
Sarcasm aside, you really don’t need to look much further than American literacy rates and money in politics to see how we got here. Bonus points if you look into FPTP and gerrymandering. Of course it’s much easier to be intellectually lazy and just say “this is all Putin’s fault. Just wait till the miderms”.
- Comment on Bunch of lads 22 hours ago:
Newly released files have revealed that Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor spent considerable time with Chinese Communist Party leader Xi Jinping, according to emails from convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
That’s not what “being in the Epstein files” means.
- Comment on Microsoft’s $440 billion wipeout, and investors angry about OpenAI’s debt, explained 1 day ago:
owing to a slight miss on revenue
Nope, try again.
spending surged 66% to $37.5 billion in the latest quarter … approximately 45% of the company’s $625 billion in remaining performance obligations (RPO)—a key measure of future cloud contracts—is tied directly to OpenAI
Ding ding ding! That’s right, OpenAI, the company where being profitable is a physical and mathematical impossibility!
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- Comment on Finland's Ministry of Justice is considering halting its plans to start using US-hosted cloud services 1 day ago:
All your data are belong to us.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 4 days ago:
Good question. NLRB would be nice to have, too.
- Comment on YSK that a general strike is one of the most effective ways to push for change. There is a general strike in the works across the US for this Friday. 5 days ago:
It’s great!
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 5 days ago:
An Australian app so you can say “Epstein” on this one but still not “stop the genocide and colonisation of Palestine”.
- Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires 1 week ago:
- Comment on London PR firm rewrites Wikipedia for governments and billionaires 1 week ago:
This topic has come up a lot (not least from Cory Doctorow). The fact that the rich are both so fragile and so un-creative is why they love AI, especially the sycophantic variants. They can’t handle someone saying no to them or, apparently, an accurate description of the past that isn’t completely flattering to them. Let them work in food services, lol.
- Comment on How the regime in Iran jams Starlink and what people could do 1 week ago:
This is an argument for community run fiber, not for Musk.
- Comment on Ring Cameras Join Flock and Amazon to Now Create Direct Data Access for ICE 1 week ago:
Are people going to start listening to their “paranoid” nephews yet?
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 2 weeks ago:
Maybe, but a local credit union could create the money as a loan and it gets spent into the economy for a socially necessary purpose, which, counter-intuitively, does much more good than volunteers (setting aside the idea that paid workers are more reliable than volunteers). Technical solutions for all our problems already exist, finding them is not the issue, the issue is the political will to enact these ideas, which is just not there as a result of class war (which imo has also created the conditions that you can’t find enough people with the time & money to volunteer for this size task). My 2c.
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on The consequences of not building enough housing 2 weeks ago:
Plus getting them all up to code is huge job creation, so it’s win-win.
- Comment on Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking 2 weeks ago:
To each their own, no doubt. Personally I’m just in awe at how modern tech actually makes people tech-illiterate, and seemingly at a faster clip each year. Throw in an additional attack surface and that just makes it, for me, net minus. There are social and political implications to being tech-illiterate and tech-dependent (especially dependent on foreign and/or rogue states), which is another minus in my book.
- Comment on Tips 2 weeks ago:
Americans have already done the math
- Comment on Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking 2 weeks ago:
GOOGLE DESIGNED THE wireless protocol known as Fast Pair to optimize for ultra-convenient connections: It lets users connect their Bluetooth gadgets with Android and ChromeOS devices in a single tap.
Bluetooth pairing is not a difficult process, imagine creating a whole new attack vector for that. And of course security was an afterthought. Capitalism is amazing for wasting resources and getting bad results for it.
- Comment on Hundreds of Millions of Audio Devices Need a Patch to Prevent Wireless Hacking and Tracking 2 weeks ago:
6.3 mm
and huge muscles from lugging that thing around
- Comment on Judge orders Anna’s Archive to delete scraped data; no one thinks it will comply 2 weeks ago:
Yea, the defendants are
Anna’s Archive, f/k/a
Pirate Library Mirror, et al.,
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 2 weeks ago:
They just don’t realise why.
Yup. Just how Sauron was able to see via the Palantiri, the Swiss army have concluded that they can’t rule out US intelligence accessing data through Palantir systems, despite reassurances.
- Comment on ‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid 2 weeks ago:
The overwhelming majority of Somalis who live in the Minneapolis and St. Paul area are U.S. citizens, PBS reported.
And going after Somalis while Israel is trying to get a foothold in Somalia is sus af
- Comment on Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the rundown. I’m starting to trust (and want) updates less and less so I might consider doing this.
- Comment on At this point, what should we do about the ICE raids? If an ICE agent breaks in without a warrant or holds you at gunpoint, what do you do? 2 weeks ago:
Any and all kind of organizing are good. Don’t reinvent the wheel- find people who are already somewhat organized and go there and LISTEN. They will be less privileged than you but if you go in there humbly and say you’re a dumb shit and should have listened to them way way earlier then maybe things will work out. The elephant in the room is that you never cared about their lives and you obviously need help now, but you’ll be surprised how compassionate people can be. This is also a pretty good list.
- Comment on At this point, should we form an alternative government of the United States as a micronation? 2 weeks ago:
Yes. Power’s biggest fear is irrelevance. That’s why power in distress is so violent- it’s forcing it’s relevance into a place where it doesn’t provide anything and is not needed or wanted. At this point all the institutions in the US are a hindrance to the people and the people can manage much better without them.
- Comment on Android 11 is the "Windows 7" of Android 2 weeks ago:
android 11
Is this “insecure” or something? Like why are we at android 16 and is it mandatory?
- Comment on UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning of Digital Communications 2 weeks ago:
The government’s new Online Safety Act 2023 (Priority Offenses) (Amendment) Regulations 2025, which came into force on January 8, 2026, designates “cyberflashing” and “encouraging or assisting serious self-harm” as priority offenses, categories that trigger the strictest compliance duties under the OSA.
How are they going to prosecute Grok and ChatGPT? Just above in my feed is an article where ChatGPT suggested drug combinations that led a young man to accidentally kill himself with drugs.
- Comment on UK Expands Online Safety Act to Mandate Preemptive Scanning of Digital Communications 2 weeks ago:
Agree, and it’s a way for governments to look like they’re doing something while continuing to not do anything. Wanna stop non-consensual sex with minors? Release the Epstein files and prosecute the offenders to the full extent of the law. Don’t wanna stop non-consensual sex with minors? Do this. All the privacy and free speech violations are just “collateral damage” and “externalities” inflicted on people who don’t really matter… the 99%.
- Comment on no training award 3 weeks ago:
The explosive Daily Mail report found that the administration’s $50,000 signing bonus attracted droves of unqualified recruits — high school grads who can “barely read or write,” overweight candidates with doctor’s notes saying they’re unfit, and even applicants with pending criminal charges.
The report exposed how Immigration and Customs Enforcement took a blowtorch to hiring standards, with one Department of Homeland Security official blasting: “We have people failing open-book tests and we have folks that can barely read or write English.”
- Comment on Self-hosting in 2025 isn't about privacy anymore - it's about building resistance infrastructure 3 weeks ago:
Are you serious? I had no idea Tailscale was a “trust me bro” kind of operation. I’ve always heard “serious” people boosting it.
