Jake Albano

When paired with AML reporting, such suspicious analysis can quickly lead to the unjust termination of bank accounts. And that seems to be exactly what Persona was built to do.

Persona also appears to come with the the potential to flag you to the financial system and get you debanked.

VHOLUME on Steam VHOLUME is a melancholic first-person parkour adventure set in a dystopian brutalist city where bureaucracy turns a simple task into an odyssey.

You've got to check out VHOLUME. If you like brutalist architecture and Mirror's Edge style parkour, you need to play the demo. It's fantastic, feels and looks amazing. I'm not sure what if anything I would have wanted done differently. store.steampowered.com/app/4131730/...

phil spencer collecting his final xbox paycheck

Whoa this looks sick

Today's Supreme Court tariff decision absolutely CANNOT become another $175 billion giveaway to corporations.

They hiked prices due to Trump's illegal tariffs, and WE paid the price.

Any tariff refunds belong to consumers & small businesses – not corporations w record profits.

so we paid the tariffs and now the corporations that passed the costs on to me and you are the ones that are going to be reimbursed, do i have that correct

I too enjoy imagining extremely specific dimensions

poly market on twitter: Polymarket 🤝 Substack We are excited to announce our exclusive partnership with Substack. Starting today Substack authors can natively integrate data from the world's largest prediction market. Journalism is better when it’s backed by live markets.

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So I guess it didnt matter when Australia forced the age verification a few months back.

I already verified then and now I have to do it again just so Palantir can have my information?

Get outta here

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

I uploaded a thing. See you tomorrow.

How much wainscotting you want? All of it.

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The brain-rewiring effect of playing Dishonored is unmatched

Alright what is the "discover" feed even based on because it doesn't seem to matter how many times I hit the "show me less like this", I've been seeing the same thirsttrap dudes and samey nature photography ever since I joined

Discord lied.

they’re now sending scanned IDs to persona, a third party company.

“facial scans will never leave your device” -discord lmao.

More people should listen to @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

When people say AI is inevitable, let them know the future isn’t settled.

highly doubt any of this is true for the record. they said the same thing about UK and Australian age verification and i know people in their forties who discord couldn't infer were of age. don't buy it

Bondi says "AI is causing great problems online" but then catches herself and adds "AI is an incredible tool"

Distressingly prescient
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Discord is terrible.

Discord

So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now? EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are already in effect, and every day many

EFF is against age verification mandates, including Discord's new policy requiring face scans or IDs for full access to the platform. Here are some things to consider if you're planning to continue using Discord next month. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

ID, please A few weeks ago, we talked about what it’s like to be young and online at the moment, in light of the introduction of age-verification laws in the UK and...

time to reup this as discord moves to age verification. no, it’s not just about the kids.

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Discord's proposed age verification is just one more step closer to an internet, if not society, that none of us are going to want to live in
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Cancelled my discord nitro

Discord leadership only people on planet who think adding age verification to Discord a good idea:

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Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month Age verification for all.

I've used @discord.com every day for over ten years and have been a paid Nitro subscriber for eight. The worldwide rollout of mandatory age verification may finally be the thing that pushes me off the platform.
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Abandoning self-hosted php forums continue to be a mistake

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