Jon Kruithof

Discord cuts ties with Peter Thiel-backed verification software after its code was found tied to US surveillance efforts | Fortune Discord cut ties with its age-verification partner after exposed code fueled federal-reporting concerns, months after a breach hit 70,000 users.

AM I SUPPOSED TO BE SUPRISED? IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WITH HALF A FUNCTIONING BRAINCELL AND A PULSE THAT'S SUPRISED??
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Henceforth, I will be describing the way that U.S. men’s hockey spectacularly squandered good will, brand recognition, and fan loyalty as “pulled a Target.”

They pulled a Target.

WD and Seagate confirm: Hard drives for 2026 sold out Hyperscalers are tearing hard drives out of the hands of manufacturers. Prices are therefore also rising for SSDs.

I saw a conspiracy theory yesterday that the goal is to eliminate all local data storage and push everything into the corporate cloud where it will be scraped to train A.I. (and exploit us)

And I'm having a difficult time dismissing it

Ring: we promise to never ever use this technology on brown people. Pinky swear.

How TrumpRx drug prices compare to generic alternatives Patients could save more buying non-branded copycat drugs, even if they don't have insurance.

More than half the drugs on the TrumpRx site have a cheaper generic version on the market.

Pristiq, an antidepressant, is available with a TrumpRx coupon for ~$200 for a 30-day supply.

A generic version is on GoodRx for less than $30 and Mark Cuban's CostPlusDrugs for $16.65.

my newsletter is on Buttondown. it is VERY easy to move to and use and the customer support is personal and great. if you started a substack without knowing about the nazis, it’s time to shift.

New York Is the Latest State to Consider a Data Center Pause Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices.

Red and blue states alike have introduced legislation in recent weeks that would halt data center development, citing concerns from climate to high energy prices. www.wired.com/story/new-yo...

Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

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Mountain of nose candy.

Not a huge deal (hopefully), but an important lesson to not automatically trust a website because it aligns with your ideology.

I had the same thoughts. In-office is so much less efficient.

If only there had been some way to predict that this exact thing would happen.

‘Stop sending butt plugs to Bahrain’: Toronto sex store receives letters from U.S. Department of War Not one, but two letters were sent from the Pentagon to a Toronto-based sex toy store, found inside the boxes of returned adult items that had somehow made their way to a U.S naval base in Bahrain.

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You should leave Substack in 2026, because they platform fascists regularly, but even before that I am *begging* you to stop referring to your writing as "my Substack" because why give them that agency. It's your writing, your posts, your words, on their platform.

Dear Jon Stewart c/o @weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.

No matter the era of Ben Weasel, he always comes across as a sanctimonious asshole.

Sigh. Once again, if you are warning us about fascism while posting on Substack you’re asking us to do work YOU 👏 ARE 👏 NOT 👏 WILLING 👏 TO 👏 DO.

ChatGPT will now let you pick how nice it is OpenAI is making it easier to edit emails with ChatGPT, too.

Where do you set the dial so it doesn’t encourage self-harm or promote stalking.

Doxers Posing as Cops Are Tricking Big Tech Firms Into Sharing People's Private Data A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.

A spoofed email address and an easily faked document is all it takes for major tech companies to hand over your most personal information.

He Blames ChatGPT for the Murder-Suicide That Shattered His Family The estate of victim Suzanne Eberson Adams is suing OpenAI for wrongful death, and her grandson is speaking out for the first time.

“In August, the 56-year-old Soelberg killed his mother and then took his own life in the Old Greenwich, Conn., home where they had been living. It appears to be the first documented killing involving a troubled person who was engaging extensively with an AI chatbot.”

OpenAI Staffer Quits, Alleging Company’s Economic Research Is Drifting Into AI Advocacy Four sources close to the situation claim OpenAI has become hesitant to publish research on the negative impact of AI. The company says it has only expanded the economic research team’s scope.

I just can’t believe this company would behave in such an unethical fashion.

Border Patrol Agent Recorded Raid with Meta’s Ray-Ban Smart Glasses New videos and photos shared with 404 Media show a Border Patrol agent wearing Meta Ray-Bans glasses with the recording light clearly on. This is despite a DHS ban on officers recording with personal ...

Of course.

gen ai as a project exists to ingest the other and reconfigure it as white supremacist fantasy

Microsoft Teams Starts Telling Your Boss Where You Are—Now Just 8 Weeks Away Microsoft confirms start date for new Teams update — no more hiding places.

microsoft promised to "empower every user" and google to "revolutionise knowledge and technological innovation" but in reality what they have given us is an invasive surveillance dystopian nightmare hard to escape

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A *huge* vaccine victory. I've been writing on this for years; Australia has seen remarkable progress in cervical cancer prevention with the HPV vaccine. I love seeing science triumph like this.