Hel Eline

trend showing "mutilation" being replaced by "sex rejection"

Interesting to compare it to other keywords across time. Truly vile, but instructive. I would argue that the point of the term was to seem like a sanitized middle ground compared to the one they actually wanted to replace "gender-affirming care" in the public lexicon.

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Even if Discord supposedly decided against taking their "experiment" with Persona further, they're still implementing global age verification. Which, for a number of reasons, is bad.

If you and your friends use discord here are some alternatives you could switch to.

Age verification vendor Persona left frontend exposed, researchers say Behind a basic age check, researchers say Persona’s system runs extensive identity, watchlist, and adverse-media screening.

Researchers discovered a publicly exposed frontend on a government-authorized server, containing 2,456 accessible files from the age verification vendor used by Discord.

The fascists are fascisting.

Hvis vi ikke slutter å bruke energi, vann og andres harde arbeid til å pøse ut generativ KI slaps, er vi uansett ferdig her på vår stakkars, torturerte klode...

Jeg er medeier i Oljefondet. Det er du også. Ingen av oss ønsker denne mannen til å styre over pensjonsfondet vårt. Hva gjør vi?

whew, those other two make my skin crawl a bit, and I didn't even have to be in the room with them.

Yes

Have you tried any of these?

Really you shouldn't even be staying on there at all. Nobody should. Age verification itself is maybe not a big step, but the trend it is part of is really Orwellian, and discord is willing participant now.

Here are some other options. Some of them built on better technology than discord is, too..

With New Momentum, Republican States Push Broader Limits for Trans Americans In states that once focused mainly on health care and sports for transgender minors, debates now revolve around the validity of transgender identity.

The subheadline on this NYT piece is going to turn me into the Joker.

Like... this... is exactly what trans people have been saying was going to happen for years.

New AI Data Leaks—More Than 1 Billion IDs And Photos Exposed Databases containing the personal information of individuals, including email IDs and photos, have been exposed in data leaks linked to two AI-powered services.

The best part is that at the very top is an update that this happened again:

“Updated February 19 with details of a second AI-related data leak, this one adding 2 million photos and videos to the 1 billion IDs, email and phone numbers already exposed by an AI-powered identity verification service.”

Extinction Rebellion-aktivister må punge ut etter Oslo-aksjoner 67 personer får forelegg etter demonstrasjoner med Greta Thunberg.

Norke myndigheter vil knuse miljøaktivister økonomisk: Med skyhøye bøter, saksomkostninger og fjerning av støtte til organisasjoner. www.vg.no/nyheter/i/j0...

Make your social circles and networks more resilient by connecting with them on multiple platforms.

This lowers the bar for ditching a platform that goes stinky.

If they know users can and will leave, it also becomes less appealing for service-providers to do something stinky in the first place.

Enda gøyere: noen får KI til å legge ut artikler og poster om hvorfor forskere og eksperter mener kreps kommer til å tredoble i pris fordi den kinesiske befolkningen har gjennopplivet tradisjonen hvor man spiser kreps for å få god karma.

Så ender oljefondet på feil side av noen sin pump-n-dump

So, what is it like living in a "comparatively normal country"?

It is very terrifying. Because if we rip ourselves away from algorithmically curated information environments, we can see where this is going.

And, it is SO fucking frustrating. Because, we can't arrest your criminals.

9/9

Sure, we're investigating some Epstein connections.

But our elites and top politicians currently in power are STILL giving up our digital, economic, and technological sovereignty to Epstein's richest friends - after only 58% of the still partially redacted files have been released.

8/9

Now that everyone can clearly see where it got the USA, you'd expect them to stop, but they don't.

They've already invested enormous sums of our money in your technofascist billionaires' means of production. And our infrastructure runs increasingly on Microsoft, Amazon, Palantir and the likes.

7/9

BUT

My entire life I have watched, among other elites, our largest political party enamored with and inspired by a singular political, cultural and technological influence.

The USA.

Importing and replicating more hyper-capitalist culture and right-wing bullshit. Gradually, slowly.

6/9 Nice.

In a "comparatively normal country" the assumption is that most elites do remember, and work with our modern systems of enforcing social contracts to protect them from those who do not remember. And our politics aren't 1-dimensionl.

According to our press, it *seems* to work relatively well.

5/9

Very powerful individuals do not need these systems in the same way as the rest, and will happily tear them down to protect and enrich themselves and each other. Nidinger as it seems they so often are.

Unless they know that it will result in the people falling back on "old ways".

4/9

The justice system, law enforcement, and government, are all supposed to belong to and work for the people. The reason for their existence is to benefit and protect the people, and ensure that the people does not ever need to fall back on the "old ways" of enforcing social contracts.

3/9

I live in Norway.
I'm not going to lie, had I been born in certain other countries, circumstances I live with mean I might have been dead or homeless by now So, I'm very privileged to live in my "comparatively normal country".

You don't fool me, I know you can already smell the 'but' coming.

2/9

YouTube video by The Humanist Report Envious Americans React to Other Countries Arresting Elites For Crimes Trump Got Away With

Great video, as usual.

But in it, an interesting question is asked.

So, this thread I'll try to give my personal answer to that question. It'll be entirely subjective, and possibly a bit long.

Might want to be more careful what you ask for @humanistreport.bsky.social.
Hope you enjoy.

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dag davidallengreen.bsky.social NEW How Palantir captured the Ministry of Defence How a close read of public domain documents show how MoD was commercially colonised by Palantir. My me, at FT. https://www.ft.com/content/5207928a-13e8-4832-8c6f-2e78740c16c9 (pictures from article I can't make out very well, sorry) 5:40 PM · Feb 20, 2026 Some people can reply 522 reposts 859 likes 75 saves dag‬ ‪@davidallengreen.bsky.social‬ · 6h I have no particular knowledge nor interest in Palantir, but as a public procurement lawyer looking closely at the public domain documents about the MoD-Palantir contracts, there is something concerning going on. Two successive high value tenders without advertisements or competition? Really? 6:11 PM · Feb 20, 2026 112 reposts 286 likes 5 saves

@davidallengreen.bsky.social says "... there is something concerning going on." (bsky.app/profile/davi...)

Tetia receives words of encouragement from an older lady, telling her, "The people that restrict your learning only seek to control you."

Witch Hat Atelier has good politics.

It would still be in everyone's best interest to leave discord rather than keep using them when they take an active role in degrading people's rights, as they have announced.

The process of creating a tribal control-society that this age verification it is part of is gradual. Like boiling frogs.
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