Matthew Lane

I don't think LLMs have any way to determine what is within any token.

I'm just going to stand here and hold my breath while waiting for the administration to apply the same logic to the benefit of the horny game developers getting deplatformed by Mastercard and Visa.

Engagement scares me, and negative engagement the most. So either way this is the place for me.

A rival Tea app for men is leaking its users' personal data and driver's licenses | TechCrunch The newly launched app, now trending on Apple's App Store, contains at least one major security flaw that exposes the private information of its users, including their uploaded selfies and government-...

It turns out that the kind of people who write and launch an app in less than two weeks are not the kind of people who feel the need to implement secure coding practices and strong privacy protections for the sensitive user data they ask you to upload.

techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/a...

Senators are trying to force ISPs to block all foreign pirate sites How to ban the next The Pirate Bay.

Senators are trying to force ISPs to block all foreign pirate sites

If only the FTC spent its time fixing Do Not Call instead of going after trans kids and DEI.

This is nothing new, but is accelerating with the state of the art of scamming. It's also why my earlier career in antitrust turned me anti-capitalism.

Get Aesop Rock on here

Do you ever wonder if the answer is just lead? Like maybe the social rift is just down to lead poisoning?

We've acquired the historic game magazine Computer Entertainer.

As in, we got the rights. We own the magazine. And we're putting it into the Creative Commons for anyone to use for free.

Learn more: gamehistory.org/computerente...

Help, I'm getting into puzzles. But not normal puzzles, Cracking the Cryptic puzzles.

Yep. This. More people need to realize that AI angst is actually going to break the web.

Sometimes my dog lets out a sniffle sigh and I'm like what weight is on your shoulders little one?

I can't wait to attend this.

Blocking Access to Harmful Content Will Not Protect Children Online, No Matter How Many Times UK Politicians Say So The UK is having a moment. In late July, new rules took effect that require all online services available in the UK to assess whether they host content considered harmful to children, and if so, these...

The UK’s Online Safety Act is being sold as a way to protect children. But instead, UK politicians are pushing sweeping censorship and forcing platforms to implement invasive age checks. This is not safety–it's surveillance.

Look, there are a lot of things you can say about this, and, if I'm honest, there are a lot of things that I'm resisting the urge to say about this.

But I'll say this much: software companies broke ownership. The longer we go without fixing that, the more we're going to regret it.

Anyone displaying an unshakable faith in their own moral authority is either a dangerous idiot or a conman.

Trump's FTC is spreading lies about trans people. This bill would let it wipe them off the internet The FTC’s recent anti-trans “workshop” proves the agency can’t be trusted to “protect kids” with online censorship powers.

While the UK is still grappling with the Online Safety Act, the US is preparing a much more extensive censorship regime— the Kids Online Safety Act.

KOSA would give the anti-LGBTQ Trumpian FTC power to investigate, punish and possibly seize sites that provide "harmful" information to minors.

UK Users Need to Post Selfie or Photo ID to View Reddit's r/IsraelCrimes, r/UkraineWarFootage “If visibility of r/IsraelCrimes is being restricted under the Online Safety Act, it’s only because the state fears accountability,” moderators say.

Age Verification now required to view r/IsraelCrimes and r/UkraineWarFootage to comply with the UK Online Safety Act.

Remember, this isn't about keeping kids away. It's about reducing the overall visibility of things the govt doesn't want you to see.

www.404media.co/uk-users-nee...

Newgrounds' approach to verifying age is interesting and transparent.

One of the most challenging things in policy (which necessarily involves politics) is that sometimes people that suck are right about things. And if you want good things to happen you gotta roll with that.

The threat of having to submit your ID to speak online is chilling, especially as we’re watching ideological capture and capitulation play out across traditional media and institutions. And it’s particularly gutting that sex workers and digital rights activists have been sounding alarms for years

Does the Pirate case have anything relevant to say in this?

OK but do they have a Copyright problem? I thought the law was a bit unclear here in terms of whether sovereign immunity applies and what remedies can be obtained?

Asking @mrose.ink etc.

Politico Pro newsletter subject "Insider trading is Johnson's next Epstein"

I'm going to become the Joker.

LGBT Tech Files US Supreme Court Brief in Support of Free Speech Earlier this week, LGBT Tech submitted an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court in Netchoice v. Fitch, urging the Court to vacate the Fifth Circuit’s decision upholding a Mississippi law requiring ag...

NEW: @fightforthefuture.org joined @lgbttech.bsky.social and other LGBTQ+ and human rights groups in filing an amicus in the Netchoice v. Fitch supreme court case on government mandated online age verification (aka online ID checks) www.lgbttech.org/post/lgbt-te...

Lol.... lmao even

The Password Game

YouTube video by South Park Studios The PSA contains synthetic media

South Park is already about to test how Take It Down Act applies to political speech.

youtu.be/Afetnw70S04?...