Erica "digifox" Kovac

I was about to say exactly this. The shape of the UK Overton window is terrifying. To the extent that horrible things are happening in the US government, most of them are happening because people simply don't know/believe what is happening. This is borne out by polling.

The Online Safety Act: legislation so proportionate & effective that it requires paid propaganda to launder its reputation Influencers hired to promote new porn age verification laws … Ofcom’s ads represent an effort to win over young social media users. However, on Ms Bentley’s post, one follower responded: “It’s a we…

The Online Safety Act: legislation so proportionate & effective that it requires paid propaganda to launder its reputation
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114061
#AgeVerification #OliviaBentley #OnlineSafety #OnlineSafetyAct #censorship #surveillance

Behind the Curtain: AI is shouldering the American economy The biggest companies in history are spending a stunning amount of money to fuel the AI revolution.

The biggest companies in history are spending a stunning amount of money to fuel the AI revolution.

This dynamic is basically powerful enough to cover for an economy that otherwise looks like it's weakening by the day.

Feel like its a bad sign about the health of the republic that Pritzker has to talk about TX Dems like they’re the Polish government-in-exile in London

If they wanna play the “unfair representation to cement their control of the legislature game” you have no choice but to actually play it. And, boy, I don’t think the GOP is gonna like what happens if the Dems actually start to play their game.

i am not going to vote for a primary candidate who does not have an answer to "what will you do when Trump's thugs try to kill or arrest you," because that will happen

Headline from Harvard Crimson: "Harvard President Garber Tells Faculty He Is Not Considering a $500 Million Deal With Trump."

Text of story: Harvard prez Garber says report of a deal "was apparently leaked to the press by White House officials." NYT ran with it as a story.

Important details from this story:

1) Yet another news-break by student journalists (this time @theharvardcrimson.bsky.social) www.thecrimson.com/article/2025...

2) Harvard saying "see you in court," not "let's make a deal."

3) Per Garber, WH/MAGA leaked news of a "deal." NYT then ran with it.

The fact that large swathes of the Republican Party are openly Nazis now is a self-censoring fact.

Further, demanding that games with no online component be capable of outliving the online storefront they are sold from is just basic consumer rights and the fact this is even a debate is mind-blowing.

Disagree. Demanding that preservation not be made harder is not treatlerism.

Hello, Linux Developer. My name is Jigsaw. In this "Saw Trap" (as I've taken to calling them), there is a wheel in front of you. Your challenge is to leave the room without reinventing it. It works fine. It is a perfectly good wheel. The door is unlocked.

being trans would be an absolute breeze if not for the meddling of all these transphobes.

"I don't mean 50%. I want to make it emphatically clear beyond a shadow of a doubt that I am an idiot."

The Mothership Vortex: An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine How a single consulting firm extracted $282 million from a network of spam PACs while delivering just $11 million to actual campaigns.

losing my mind at this. apoplectic. want to punch a wall, or a human being

data4democracy.substack.com/p/the-mother...

People on here will just tweet anything. “The global economy in 2025 is way worse than the 2008 financial crisis, people had disposable income then”. no they didn’t, that isn’t true

Saw a post this morning lamenting that Texas Democrats would not do this because they were useless cowards despite the fact that they have done this before.

i think the most important thing is destroying their financial base. there are only a few industries and literally like a dozen people that need to be financially and when applicable criminally ruined.

sure, that's a factor as well.

When the cryptocurrency entrepreneur Eric Schiermeyer heard that President Trump was holding small group dinners with major donors, he saw opportunity. Mr. Schiermeyer reached out to a lobbyist with connections in Mr. Trump’s orbit, who arranged for him to attend a dinner with the president at his private Mar-a-Lago club on March 1 in exchange for donations to a pro-Trump PAC called MAGA Inc. totaling $1 million. The personal and corporate donations were among dozens of seven- and eight-figure contributions to MAGA Inc. from crypto and other interests revealed in a campaign finance filing on Thursday night that hinted at the access Mr. Trump accords those willing to pay. At the dinner, Mr. Schiermeyer, who had never given a federal political donation before, presented an idea for a cryptocurrency called “U.S.A. Token” that would be distributed to every citizen, according to interviews and a flier he distributed to attendees that sets out details of the proposal. He hoped it could be su

Cryptocurrency interests, which have benefited from the Trump administration’s dismantling of a yearslong government crackdown and from the Trump family’s financial interest in the industry, appear to have been the most generous industry, accounting for nearly $45 million in donations to MAGA Inc.An affiliate of the exchange Crypto.com gave $10 million, while the crypto services company Blockchain.com donated $5 million. The venture capitalists Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, who are heavily invested in crypto, gave $3 million each. Ondo Finance, which has a partnership with the Trump family’s crypto company, donated $2.1 million to MAGA Inc., on top of $1 million to Mr. Trump’s inauguration.

The scale of Trump's pay-for-access scheme outlined by the @nytimes.com is mindblowing. Crypto contributions resulting in business deals with the Trump family crypto businesses, oil companies buying influence and later reaping benefits from friendly policies, and a $1 million pardon.

I think my fave was someone I know who replaced their Tesla badge with a BYD badge, which works because in the US no one has seen a BYD.

I think a lot of that is because a) products do a lot more, b) we have much higher standards and c) we know there's always an alternative out there so we're more prone to being dissatisfied

you have to do phd levels of research just to figure out if a product fits your needs now

Also, the creators being Estonian, it’s weird when folks who have never lived under communism read into it a kind of pro-communism that is possible only if you haven’t lived under it

Anything that gets American wealth out of homes and into index funds without being excessively noticeable is a great idea

meta’s dating assistant just messaged me someone else’s PII that wasn’t in their dating bio and i am absolutely livid

idk how to anonymize appropriately to report but i wanna get the word out so ppl who know this shit can help fix the fuckup

have screenshots as receipts i can share 1:1 if relevant

yeah I'm definitely not surprised when people say they didn't click with it

Milennial couple explaining it to some boomers, who are initially for it, but quickly flipped when they pointed out how wide ranging "adult" is under the OFA and how creepy the photo verification is.

Anecdata of how widespread the CC processor/age verification censorship outrage is: overhearing normies talking about it at the coffee shop.

If your jurisdiction is having your right to Internet freedom or digital privacy challenged, consider doing the following: • Where possible, do not readily supply official documents for age verification. • Invest in a reputable VPN with a "No Logs" policy. • Use strong passwords, and turn on 2FA on your accounts. • Make your voices heard. Express your concerns to your local members of parliament or representatives by calling them, emailing them, or by starting/signing a petition. For more information and resources about digital privacy, visit eff.org.

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“Can you believe Dems blew it so hard that they lost to Trump???” Was totally fair analysis in like, December 2016 but since then we’ve gotten a lot of good data to suggest he does almost magically with the low trust silent majority who don’t answer polls or interact with mainstream media