Revontulet (they/them)

Spaghetti-O's. Straight from the can.

Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.

Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning.

www.therage.co/persona-age-...

We COULD stop AI firms making kiddie porn, fake news, psyche-fracturing bots and IP theft on a scale not seen outside a Chinese flea market...

OR we could make the public hand over their IDs to companies who abuse private info.

Which path will Evan Solomon, renowned secondhand art enjoyer, choose!

Lots of talk on here about how people are confusing the Internet Archive (mostly great!) with Archive Today (bad in many ways), and I don’t get it. Just because they both have “Archive” in the name? Is this one of those fucked up American reading pedagogy things?

The arrested state senate staffer is the chair of the Anchorage Young Republicans—or was until the news broke yesterday. alaskabeacon.com/briefs/alask...

Staring to think there is something wrong with the ontologically evil people in the death cult 🤔

The tradition of the Fourth Estate is rooted in the idea that journalism serves as a check-and-balance on power in a democracy

We need to move away from the idea of "The Journalist" as an impartial observer eternally bearing witness without ever taking a position on anything they actually witness

Deer My Friends

I was over at the Home Depoh and somebuddy told me there neybors make 250 thousend dollers a yeer and there kids are getteen OSAP grants to learn how to knit mittuns and they spend the grants on cahlone and watches and I think kids need to pay to learn how to make roads.

Premair

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.

We don’t talk enough about how mandatory control and surveillance based interactions

Don’t believe they have any fidelity towards being good

Once you are someone to control , they don’t think you deserve rights

Figure skating would be infinitely better if the athletes could skate to bass music. I'd choose this one, personally:

youtu.be/-ydQ-qPD324?...

Black-and-white portrait of Jackie Shane seated against a padded wall with vertical ridged panels behind. She wears a short, light-colored hairstyle, dramatic winged eyeliner, and a satin dress with long sleeves. A large, layered beaded necklace covers her upper chest. Her body faces forward, one arm bent at the elbow, and she looks directly at the camera with a neutral expression.

On this day in 2019, Jackie Shane died.
Born in 1940, she was a pioneering transgender performer who helped develop R&B in Toronto in the 1960s. Her 1967 live album Jackie Shane Live was reissued in 2015 and was shortlisted for the Polaris Music Prize.

Just my usual idle level-grinding in Diablo 4, poking monsters with pointy sticks till they drop better pointy sticks. 😎

Jesus christ they forged a signature on an Ethics Board review in order to run a *single blind Hepatitis B vaccine trial on infants* in Western Africa

This is pure evil

Puberty blockers have been used safely for the best part of 40 years. One of the authors of No One Talks About This Stuff writes about being prescribed them for precocious puberty. Pausing this trial and/or raising the age past the onset seems like a clear attempt to block all transition.

The Portland AG wouldn't meet with union members that were indiscriminately gassed.

Wowza.

Ford doesn’t deserve Ontario’s baskets

A Fatal ICE Shooting Occurred in Texas Months Before Renee Good’s Killing

This case is insane:

ICE shot and killed a citizen last March then *hid it for a year.*

The young man they killed had no criminal history.

All we know about shooting is from internal ICE docs.

We don't know officers' names.

We don't have footage.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/20/u...

This is the only responsible way to report on this: not repeating the administration’s unverified claims in the headline.

Ottawa will fund first Inuit-led university as part of major announcement for Inuit communities Funding also includes $115M for Inuit Child First Initiative, $27M for tuberculosis eradication Ottawa will provide $50 million to help build the first Inuit-led university in Canada and more than $1...

Odd that Ottawa suddenly seems to give a shit about Inuit now that it is so obsessed with Arctic sovereignty.

Wikipedia having to rip out hundreds of thousands of archive links bc the archive was run by a completely unhinged person is such an old-school internet story tbh, we generally do unhinged at a much larger scale, now.

This is unfortunately far too common an occurrence . Where in noble work is built on what sounds great , but is often held up by people who always were or become harmful and we don’t have plans because we don’t let that be an oogikn

If you’re not gonna wear a mask anywhere else, wear a mask when you fly. You’ll protect yourself and prevent the spread of shit like this.

This week's job hunt has been one kick in the crotch after another.

Getting really tired of this.

CUPE Alberta calls for an election, says Smith’s referendum is a dangerous distraction from government’s mismanagement of public services CUPE Alberta is condemning Premier Danielle Smith’s announcement of an anti-immigrant referendum that seeks permission for her government to make it harder for Albertans to vote.

We don’t need to copy the worst parts of U.S. politics. Manufactured culture wars, anti-immigrant fearmongering, and violent oppression tear communities apart, just as we see south of the border. Our members and our communities deserve better. cupe.ca/cupe-alberta...

This Ontario family said an unauthorized obit exploited their grief. Inside the rise of ‘obituary pirates’ Third-party websites are reposting reworded obituaries online to profit from flowers and gift sales, experts say. Here’s why it’s becoming more common.

"Anyone who paid to light a virtual candle — priced from $7.99 to keep it lit for a month to $24.99 to keep it burning for “eternity” — was refunded, the spokesperson said." www.thestar.com/news/canada/...

Metrolinx is one of the BIGGEST parts of the bust out, because the Ford government can give billions to organized crime, foreign and domestic, for years and years and years. And years.

FCC calls on broadcasters to air ‘pro-America content’ for the country’s 250th anniversary Carr wants broadcasters to run patriotic specials and PSAs.

I’m glad people spent so much time arguing over the dictionary definition of fascism.

Literally no one expects projects to finish now, let alone finish on time or on budget.

It has been normalized in Ontario that we give billions to organized crime, and they pretend to build transit projects for decades.

It's why the Ford bros wanted "subways, subways, subways."

LOL

The projects never finish, because if they did the money would stop flowing to the mobsters.

Can't have that.