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US health officials are trying to delay a regional World Health Organization meeting that would confirm the loss of its measles elimination status until after the midterm elections in November.

This is a reckless, accountability-dodging move that puts politics over public health.

the new #elite ship is insane 😍

Today, @bsky.app + @atprotocol.dev devs can plug into XMTP to give users what they've been asking for: quantum-encrypted, secure group chats that scale to millions.

With our XMTPID identity model, it's finally here.

1/5

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

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG

Im so tired of everything

Any time a company has to "make a statement", it means they're sweating. Cook them

Tl;dr: The vast majority of adults will never have to interact with our age assurance systems and their experience won't change, because we know Discord and how people use it, so we're designing to respect privacy and deliver a safer experience while minimizing friction for adults. Hey folks – I’ve been on Discord since very early 2016 and actually joined the company in 2017. Safety is one of my areas, so today’s announcement on our blog is something I’ve been pretty involved with. I’ve always cared about Discord's approach to privacy (E2EE for A/V was another of my projects here), so I figured I’d add some more context to today's news. I can say confidently that the vast majority of people will never see age verification. I say this because we launched age assurance in the UK and Australia in 2025, and we have some pretty good data on this now. The idea here is that we can pre-identify most adults based on what we already know (not including your messages!), and that looks to get us pretty far here. No face scans, no IDs, for the vast majority of adults.

And if you are one of the smaller subset of folks that we can't definitively pre-identify, then still, you only have to do it if you're accessing age-restricted servers or channels, or changing certain settings. That's really not most users. (Altho... might be more Redditors, tbh.) Last, I know that there is concern about privacy and data leaks. That's a real concern. The selfie system is built purely client-side, it never leaves your device, and we did that intentionally. That'll work for a bunch of users who aren't pre-identified as adults. But if you do end up in the ID bucket, then yeah, you're right that has some risk. We're doing what we can to minimize this by working with our range of partners (who are different partners than the data leak you read about), and if it's any help, we learned a lot internally from the last issue. But I get if that doesn't necessarily inspire more confidence. Anyway, we’ll be sharing more next month as we get closer to the global roll out about the system, including the technology behind it in March. I honestly wouldn't be happy if we didn't build something good and I am excited about what we’re launching, but please let us know what you think when we share more details. And I really appreciate everybody's feedback here today. We’re definitely reading it!

Discord is already starting to walk things back a little, so people should keep doing what they're doing (cancel Nitro, leave feedback/criticism, direct contact through support tickets/phone/email/etc)

Screenshot from official Teamspeak website about their new Teamspeak App top be "secure global messaging"

Can someone audit the new #Teamspeak to check if that's true?

holy that looks good 🤤

Test

update to #discord
it seems so many are cancelling their nitro right now that processing errors happen 🤣🤣 heard it from friends too already! server getting roasted

it drives you insane how much erosion of freedom is justified by concern for kids when the people who actually hurt them will never face consequences

FUCK DISCORD

Twitter (X)'s offices in France have been raided as part of an investigation into spreading child pornography and deepfakes

Elon Musk has also been summoned for questioning

(via AP News)

Error: entity released

...horrifying message without context, thank you

Iron Lung, the low-budget horror film written and directed by YouTuber Markiplier launched big at the global box office this weekend, earning $21.5 million globally. https://bit.ly/4a5aWFx

Indigenous land rights and fuck ICE?

Hell yeah

“No one is illegal on stolen land,” Billie Eilish said while accepting the award for the song from her 2024 album “Hit Me Hard and Soft.” bit.ly/4ruKqg8

Stardew Valley's creator has assured fans that he is "not going to abandon Haunted Chocolatier," saying: "it's taking a while to finish the game," and "that's okay." https://t.co/dQiEughklT

I miss the days you were obsessed with me.

“Screenshot of a promoted Reddit post by u/AYAGDOS. The post reads: ‘Navigating gender dysphoria? Join our confidential, cross-country study of 18–25 year olds to tell your story, challenge preconceptions, and have YOUR experience reflected in the science.’ Below is a banner graphic with the Northwestern University logo and the text ‘TRANS OR GENDERQUEER? SHARE YOUR STORY.’ The image shows a close-up of a hand with light pink nail polish, partially painted blue, held up against a blurred background. A link to ayagdos.org and a ‘Learn More’ button appear at the bottom, along with Reddit vote and share icons.”

If you see this, don't participate. It's a rigged study by Lisa Littman and unethical researcher J. Michael Bailey meant to undermine access to care. Spread the word.

linux client when?

Ariana Grande endorses a nationwide ICE protest involving not working, attending school or shopping tomorrow, January 30th.

Just wait until people find out that menstrual cycle data is considered medical data in some countries and the site owner could get sued to heaven.

sailor mars melting ice that reads “fuck ice”

sometimes magical, always anti-fascist.

#fuckice #abolishice

No more 15000 requests per tick if a dlc is installed?

Happy to hear that france wants to move away from Teams and Zoom and use open source. The pathway to linux