this is an expectation problem entirely created by proprietary social media though.

IRC logs were commonly reposted online, it was never assumed to be private.

The fact that people think they have privacy here is a result of vendor lock-in and closed wall social media. It’s a bad illusion.

It Turns Out Waymos Are Being Controlled by Workers in the Philippines During a Congressional hearing, Waymo's chief safety officer, Mauricio Peña, was grilled over the company's reliance on overseas workers.

Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”

top 10 activities to do at the club, nr 1: explaining nix

A screenshot of a map showing that most Bluesky accounts are hosted in the US, but not all of them. There are a number in Canada and Europe as well.

Launching their new social network, W, the EU posted a map of where other social networks are hosted. It showed nothing in Europe.

But their map is wrong.

Here's what Bluesky and the broader Atmosphere actually look like

arewedecentralizedyet.online/map/?source=at

*fully restores your HP as you scroll past*

This change is because the new owners are operating in a jurisdiction that requires them to disclose it, not because of any change to the app behavior. This change is simply describing what they've been doing all along!

TikTok Is Now Collecting Even More Data About Its Users. Here Are the 3 Biggest Changes According to its new privacy policy, TikTok now collects more data on its users, including their precise location, after majority ownership officially switched to a group based in the US.

Turns out all the fear mongering about China spying on your every move through TikTok was projection

bitlocker got destroyed so thoroughly at 39c3 that even microsoft gave up

Death toll in Afghanistan when NATO answered the US’s call:
- 453 Britons
- 158 Canadians
- 89 French
- 59 Germans
- 53 Italians
- 44 Danes
- 17 Spaniards
“Stayed a little back, off the front lines “!
No one in the media will call him out over this lie or any of the others he spouts.

Delicious to me

HAM Radio Operators in Belarus Arrested, Face the Death Penalty "My local community is being systematically liquidated in what I can only describe as a targeted intellectual genocide."

Belarus has arrested several HAM radio hobbyists and is threatening them with the death penalty, extremely wild situation: www.404media.co/ham-radio-op...

Live view of the Air Force One pilot.

If we all start going "That isn't Donald Trump, that's clearly a body double" I bet we can make everyone in the White House lose their minds within a week. But we have to _commit_ to it.

i thought the president would do something that would distract people from the virality of Bus Thread but somehow he managed to do the exact opposite

“nobody is insider trading off his death so it almost certainly didn’t happen” really sums up the state of the world in 2026 huh

Back-scratching bovine leads scientists to reassess intelligence of cows Brown Swiss in Austria has been discovered using tools in multiple ways – something only ever seen in humans and chimpanzees

COW TOOLS COW TOOLS COW TOOLS

No Kings is projected on to a mountainside above the town’s lights

Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum.

finally
truly a "oh no! anyway" moment

The Prime Minister of Belgium speaks:

EU-Kommission: EU-Abgeordnete fordern nach Grok-Skandal eigenes europäisches Netzwerk Mehr als 50 EU-Abgeordnete haben sich in einem offenen Brief an die EU-Kommission gewandt. Sie solle in europäische Alternativen zu US-Netzwerken wie X investieren.

Europeans deserve safer digital spaces and real alternatives to US-based platforms.

We urge the Commission to:
- Invest in European tech initiatives.
- Support the development of user-focused, European-owned networks.
- Guarantee robust data portability rights for all users.

An orange sun just begins to spill over the horizon, sending deep orange light over the purple snow. In the foreground, there are ripples and valleys where the drifts have caught on rocks and grass.

Another lovely sunset over the lake. This time it’s -30°C, but the wind has finally calmed down leaving snow drifts in its wake.

A source confirms to me that this disturbing letter from Trump to the Norwegian PM is real.

seeing european leaders condemn the new tariffs in posts on the csam website owned be a nazi tech billionaire & ran on USA servers in incredibly ironic

"The seal in the image has 12 smudges which correspond to stars on the seal, placed at roughly equal distances, not unlike the 12 numbers on an analog clock. The real FBI seal has 13 stars spaced roughly evenly apart. "

hey guys check this out

the bsky experience 🔥

This is quite a post

www.planetearthandbeyond.co/p/reality-is...

TIL they're called that :o

In April 2024, Spotify implemented a new scheme: songs with less than 1k streams per year would no longer receive royalties.

The data for 2025 was just released via Luminate, and 88% of songs have been demonetized.

Read it again: 88% of songs on Spotify have been demonetized.