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The British political class, going to the mattresses for some Israeli football hooligans, against the police.

Stark, raving mad.

Good advice: I've been restricting replies lately to people who follow me and it has reduced the bot/ spams asshole/ chode/ blue MAGA turd responses by 99%,

Allow?

I find that ignoring the worst of them brings peace. I block anything/anyone remotely "iffy".

Cluff cartoon of shark fins circling a buoy sign-posted "Freeport".

This week's Private Eye.

Russian flag ...

Trump now controls the networks with a reign of terror and intimidation.

We have it as a contract point that translations of my work have to be performed by actual humans, I think actual human readers deserve to have actual humans translating and making the works as excellent as they can be regardless of language

Yeah. It’s Fascism. Earmuffs, JD.

"When one law firm, one college, one media company rolls over for Trump, it compels others to do the same. Meanwhile, with every new capitulation, Trump grows bolder." At the end of the day, resisting is *easier* than caving. www.thebulwark.com/p/yeah-its-f...

She’s modelling hats to protect against facial recognition systems. Wear these to all your protests. Except far-right ones, as the police don’t bother with facial recognition there.

So those Samsung fridges with ads will end up not letting you get the milk without watching an ad…

Prinsley has been censored, though, for failing to declare (by the deadline) his last freebie trip to Israel. Perhaps the Israeli govt thought he didn't deserve another visit so soon.

I remember when it was said that Classic Dom stole the database of one of the Downing Street petitions, and as a result a lot of people who had never been members of the Conservative Party received e-mail demands for donations.

I have been concerned about how the fascists would use the data in UK government petitions for a long time. There is no doubt that the 6 million people that signed the petition for a 2nd referendum will be viewed as the enemy by Farage.

#Krasnov is in contempt of an English court. He owes money to a former Crown servant.

@paulbernal.bsky.social Only a matter of time before - due to #Krasnov's US CLOUD Act 2018 - personal data starts showing up in AI generated stuff.

Trump suddenly keeling over would be a black swan event. America's descent into autocracy is dominated by his personality while the GOP coalition and its support is held up by him. There's no evidence that Vance or any other potential successor has the same sort of popularity.

"Leftover rice poses a potential threat due to the presence of Bacillus cereus, a bacterium that can thrive in cooked rice.
... if the rice is left at room temperature for extended periods. Refrigerate leftover rice promptly ... and reheat it thoroughly to an internal temperature of 165°F (74°C)."

It's amazing how this just keeps happening with Trump and Russia.

2. The worst behaviors of their parents made them feel that their life was best served in moderation. There are good things about this and I am not venerating actually negative behavior, but combined with not having freedom, the outcome is a population that is used to ceding control for safety.

Most infuriating one was where he shared a chat with Gemini: it praised him for "taking charge of his health care journey" by refusing a state-requested mental health evaluation, and also said he is right to question the psychologists' background - it agrees with the "concerning things" he's found

“Please don’t leave the noose out…Let’s make this the first place they actually see you”

Burn this company to the fucking ground! Magnetize the servers, wash them in salt water, throw them in a volcano- destroy ChatGPT utterly.

"The world can tell the difference now between a war being waged for the survival of the Jewish state and a war being waged for the political survival of its prime minister."

A famine that was caused by…

If there’s a risk we are headed for Trump Lite here, we have a handful of years to do all we can to build institutional resilience.

The thing is, the last time they murdered journalists there was a bit of handwringing around the world, but nothing more. Of course they do it again.

‘Definite evidence’ of starvation killing children in Gaza says human rights lawyer We spoke to Dr Victoria Rose, a consultant plastic surgeon who has volunteered repeatedly in Gaza hospitals and spoken graphically about what she's called a man-made famine there.

I spoke on evidence gathering of starvation in Gaza alongside Dr. Victoria Rose.

@channel4news.bsky.social

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Dozens more Afghan relocation data breaches uncovered by BBC The MoD admits 49 data breaches at the unit handling applications from Afghans seeking safety in the UK.

Remember, kids, this is the government who want more and more information about you.

Dozens more UK Afghan data breaches uncovered www.bbc.com/news/article...

Navigating VPN providers can be a minefield Using a trustworthy Virtual Private Network (VPN) service is a good strategy to improve your privacy online. That being said, evaluating trustworthiness is critical here. Using a VPN is only a transfer of trust, from your Internet Service Provider (ISP) to your VPN provider. Your VPN provider will still know your true IP address and location, and could technically see all your online activity while using the service, if they decided to look. Different VPN services are not equal, unfortunately, snake oil products and traps are everywhere in this market. As with anything, do not assume that whoever screams the loudest is the most trustworthy. Loudness here only means more investment in advertising. For example, take the interesting case of Kape Technologies, a billionaire-run company formerly known as Crossrider. This corporation has now acquired four different VPN services: ExpressVPN, CyberGhost, Private Internet Access, and Zenmate. This isn't that suspicious in itself, but Kape Technologies has also acquired a number of VPN review websites, suspiciously always ranking its own VPN services at the top. This is a blatant conflict of interest, to say the least. Sadly, on the VPN market — estimated at $41.33 billion USD in 2022 — what is called a "review" is often just advertising. Moreover, many free VPN providers break their privacy promises regarding users' data. In 2013, Facebook bought the free VPN provider Onavo, and included it in a Facebook feature deceptively labeled "Protect". As is now standard behavior for Facebook, the social media juggernaut actually collected and analyzed the data from Onavo users. This allowed Facebook to monitor the online habits of its users even when they weren't using the Facebook app. This is very much the opposite of data privacy, and of any implied promises to "Protect".

Use VPNs, but vet them relentlessly. The industry is rife with "privacy washing," where companies profit from the very data you're trying to protect.

www.privacyguides.org/articles/202...