If I were an entrepreneurial type I'd be starting up an AI-powered service for teenagers to locate and request takedowns of the childhood personal photos and data which their parents and grandparents posted online about them without their consent, as they can per GDPR.
next time I see you I have to tell you the story of the niche 1980s text adventure thriller which required posting a letter to the game publisher once you'd solved it - but then they went out of business - resulting in a small group of weirdos who have been solving it ourselves since then.
Last week I was walking along in a similarly good mood, a good song came up on a playlist, I remembered the artist was in town that day and tickets had sold out in minutes, but I checked, and got a last minute resale ticket. When magic happens you just have to deal with it.
lmfao
The clauses in question in the debate are like one of those fiendishly clever final essays which a good professor sets as the assignment. Compare the draft clauses on and off the table, spot the differences, spot the problems.
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I know you're all enjoying the popcorn drama in the Commons, but you probably should be watching the proposed UK online age gate being debated in the Lords, right now, in ping pong for the Children's Wellbeing and Schools Bill. Keep your focus, people.
your agency!
was that a soft launch?
If you’ve read the thread posted by palantir on X and are shocked, please read this piece that @tlecaque.bsky.social and I wrote 9 months ago. Palantir has not been shy about its fascist agenda, and neither has Karp, who has been rambling about Western Supremacy in text & video form for a while now
PSA: do whatever you have to do to see a screening of the documentary “Everybody To Kenmure Street”, the story of how some Glaswegians looked out their window and instantly knew what to do next. We do things differently here.
youtu.be/JOY5T03hHbk?...
Hence this test run at the Southport Inquiry
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I am shocked, shocked that Farage is pals with this 27 year old American Christofascist who is trying to dictate UK and EU policy not so much with his fists but with his snotty little nose.
A federal judge in Illinois today ruled that the Trump administration improperly coerced Facebook and Apple to remove ICE-tracking apps in violation of the First Amendment. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Oops. Correct link here.
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This is what happens when I post on a fast moving treadmill without my reading glasses, which is a thing I absolutely do
What a total coincidence that he would mention this the day after the age verification $oftware £obby’s annual policy strategy conference
DICK MOVE: Some Persian speakers on social media are reveling in Keir Starmer's name being very similar to S, pronounced as "kir," a rather naughty term for a penis. The Telegraph reports this has been picking up traction online among those not best pleased with Starmer.
@jillian.bsky.social
Four European tech firms have assembled a “fully sovereign disaster recovery pack” for companies that are worried about Trump flipping the kill switch
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Oh YOU feel old 😵💫
This is basically like my last run of Suzerain @torporgames.com
There did come a point where even mental health specialists felt that the duty to warn overruled the Goldwater Rule, and it was nine years ago.
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My university student kid just finished Twitter and Tear Gas, so I've been sending her your series as the follow up.
Thanks for linking to the academic paper, that one went straight to the top of The Pile
Somehow it gets worse: the same week Trump proposed a budget sans Teen Pregnancy Prevention, conservatives lost their collective minds over the fact that the teen birth rate is going down. Seriously. On Friday, Fox News analyst Dr. Marc Siegel called it a "problem" that teens are having less babies: "The problem is teens and young adults from ages 15 to 19, the fertility rate is down 7 percent, and it's down 70 percent over the last two decades, meaning we're telling people that are young not to have babies, to wait until they're in a more stable life situation, until they're more financially secure. Maybe they haven't found the right partner." Just a reminder that most teens are impregnated by adult men. Then there's Katie Miller, wannabe podcast host and wife of nightmare racist Stephen Miller. She also complained about the declining teen birth rate in a tweet last week, writing that hormonal birth control is "poison" that's "killing population growth." And then she wrote this: "Our biological destiny is to have babies-not slave behind desks chasing careers while our civilization dies."| If that sounds familiar it's because it's a literal Serena Joy quote. (Seriously, Season 2, Episode 6.) They're not even bothering to hide it anymore.
When I am done with my MPhil project I am going to go sit on a tropical island and stare at a palm tree. 🤮
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"It explains why Vance thinks he doesn’t need the actual Pope to defend Western civilization, but just a mythological caricature of a pure society erected on the premise of superiority, to justify both inhumane immigration policies and the destruction of Iran."
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As a woman, I offer my sympathies to the Pope who is now being told hourly by very many random men what he actually means
I’d love to know how my MAGA but also Opus Dei old ex boyfriend is handling this one. He’s probably exploded.
