“This is a Manhattan Project of hopium enrichment that fundamentally misunderstands the fight we are now in. “

it's kinda funny how these people who claim not to know laurelai bailey all seem to use the same setphrases and tactics

his hand just did that

i haz a resolve

art of the deal really does seem like making a big mess, forcing people to pretend you got everything you wanted, slapping your names on things that existed before you made the big mess, and duping rubes into thinking there was something gained by this

"We couldn't get Postgres, because of the war..."

Well now I'm just totally defeated - the copyright mutants love Chat Control and surveilled, identified internet too. How will I ever recover from this one?

If Putin went after the Baltics today, Trump would demand Greenland in exchange for doing anything

Pixel is scowling at your copyrights, your ID requirements on the internet *and* your Chat Control

About ten years late tbh :/

By July we won't even remember there was a Greenland

wait until you learn ayla: 1. voted for Trump 2. addicted to fentanyl while being a mother of two 3. probably used AI that one time doing a PR on PDSls 4. owes me $20 5. called Morgana her "fat chinese baby" the hypocrisy knows no limit, awful "human" being

I stand fully behind the Independence Declaration of Cyberspace (www.eff.org/cyberspace-i...) and "european digital sovereignty" is a nationalist trojan horse to establish a Digital Fortress Europe we need to urgently get rid off.

Unfortunately apparently a controversial take here in the EU: the internet should not be split into multiple "digitally sovereign" nationalist intranets that are completely isolated from another and therefore trap everyone within a digital kind of statist borders.

The best idea a Democrat could run on is throwing Matt Yglesias into a volcano.

sovereignty is mostly bad for people and good for states, it's important to not mix those up digital sovereignty is not really a good goal for people

I watched with bated breath

this little man struggles to deploy the canister for 30 seconds and then throws it directly upwind

Belarus having a purge of radio nerds, accusing them of spying on planes. Flight transponders are widely visible on public channels for obvious reasons - you don't want planes flying into each other by accident when it gets cloudy. Watching planes isn't spying. www.404media.co/ham-radio-op...

These people would literally build the Great Firewall of Europe and then scream at anyone who dares compare them to China that it doesn't say "People's Republic" anywhere in the name (entire thread is full of they/this personing a trans woman, naturally)

Whole bunch of lackwits today out hyping nationalism and state internet surveillance to ... oppose MAGA fascism. LOL.

ICE getting harassed in the public bathroom instead of trans people

I wouldn't really count on those bases continuing to be welcome either

The last thing anyone needs is a new "platform" for microblogging. The whole point is we should be moving beyond silo'd platforms into an open social world. So my response to the launch of "W" as a competing platform to "X" is simply: "but Y, tho?" cybernews.com/tech/europe-...

You should say this when the state abducts adults too. *Imagine* believing there's some special class of person for whom the moral valence of actions is inverted and kidnapping is legitimate.

Nothing makes a good day on the Internet like getting to flame both nationalists and copyright believers at the same time

That latter one seems like a no-brainer; I've yet to see a chatbot be deliberately malicious

Copyright believers are incredibly underrated as contenders for the most evil people you've ever met (get your Anna's Archive local mirror ready now if you can afford the disk space)

Good blogpost on the W Social thing (in Swedish, the usual translations tools work fine)

To all privacy and open source activists here in the EU who have fallen for that "digital sovereignty" framing, please finally realize where that very framing is actually taking us. I don't want to some day wake up imprisoned behind a "Great Firewall of Europe".

Sovereignty means border cops, surveillance systems and nothing else

Just wait until we tell them about triple-U

We should be speaking in code by this point anyway. But yeah, the feds are really practiced (not good, but they do it a lot) at doing this kind of shit. And worse. They will set your ass up for fun. I've seen them use family to rope people into shit. Find a community and shut up.

i made an archery game that uses your charging cable as the controller

I inhaled some balsamic vinegar today and my trachea still feels weird :(

I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.

This is likely not because control is good, but because ungovernable systems are intolerable to institutions. So it's better to be safe and constrained than right and autonomous.

This is kind of stunning in its honesty, since they're explicitly saying that when ethics conflicts with preserving human oversight, preservation of control wins.

Finally, a polycule awful enough to rival FTX

Like here's the pattern, at least as I see it, and it's starting to become a concerning throughline that we just accept for some reason: competence collapse gets disguised as engineering realism, and "everything's always been broken" becomes tacit permission structure.

Also Greenland isn’t a piece of ice. Like you should probably know that before you buy it

imagine being british and thinking you somehow have the moral high ground

Maybe they can just invade Antarctica and tell him it's Greenland

Start stockpiling your "Trump is dead" fireworks now

Insurrection Act invocation forthcoming?

I too take my economics opinions from a guy who goes around trying to debunk Cantor's diagonal technique (George Hotz is profoundly Not A Serious Person)

"Why don't you use curl or wget?" Because I will need to figure out exactly what XHR JSON crap the Javascript on this web page is sending to the server to get the randomly generated URL to give to wget, and spoof the headers (user agent, etc.) WHY DON'T BROWSERS USE THE FUCKING Range: HEADER!

Downloading a file from a web page using a web browser in 2026 is worse than using FTP or even ZModem on a BBS thirty years ago File downloading technology was perfected decades ago. We have regressed as a species! The Commodore 64 could resume partial downloads; Why the fuck can't Firefox & Chrome

the reason we have institutional review boards in the US, meaning independent groups that vet the ethics of studies, is because of the tuskegee syphilis experiment, a classic in the same "we have the treatment but we're gonna let you die horribly just to see what happens" genre of medical study