I would learn German and get my German citizenship solely to be able to vote for a politician who would pledge to get these fucking vehicles out of our bike lanes and off of our sidewalks. Fuck Amazon, obviously, but also fuck every other company doing this shit.

I'm gonna get on my high horse. Civil society folks with huge followings – lawyers, academics, think tank staff – follow & share random, anon accounts that *solely* steal video and text. ICE car crash. Date? Location? Source? None of it? It's decontextualized. Making it 10x harder to follow-up!

Travis is raising an aspect of what I'll call "news rot"– pseudo news dressing itself up as journalism. Is text/video stolen? (Lifted and de facto claiming authorship.) Screenshots are too often altered. People pester y'all to post sources and links not to be cops but to make content checkable.

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We need a labeler for every account on here that has ever posted BREAKING on a tweet screenshot.

Just saw a reskeet of some Substacker asshole I’ve never heard of (Timothy McBride) posting “BREAKING” on top of a screenshot of a tweet from yesterday by some podcaster I’ve never heard of posting something “BREAKING” about Iran with no clear source. What the fuck is this? How did we get here?

This is why I prefer Bluesky, your home for artisanal clout farming engagement bait screenshotted from Twitter by real humans

I just identified this “Dux Vul” guy and guess what, he’s a name in the European tech startup scene and has had C-suite jobs at companies you’ve heard of.

We need a big comprehensive compilation of people praising / defending Platner. I’ve hated every second I’ve had to spend learning about this guy but at least he could give us a list of people nobody ever needs to listen to again.

Not really the point but social media post screenshot culture is such a fucking plague. If someone did this on one of my repos I would block them on the spot.

This is the most frustrating thing about German immigration as well. Will your residence permit get extended for one, two, three, or zero years? Will the officer immediately switch to English or yell at you for your shitty German? It’s all 100% a lottery based on how their morning is going.

These are two extremely annoying men who sometimes individually make something beautiful more or less by accident. They shouldn’t be allowed to talk to each other and they definitely shouldn’t be allowed to use AI.

Finally got a response from @github.com on my impersonation report. Unfortunately it’s useless garbage that says that GitHub Trust and Safety doesn’t care if someone uses my email address and name and avatar to promote their AI project.

Massie is a Nazi weirdo who happens to be right about a couple of things and it’s cool actually that he lost to the stupidest motherfucker Trump was able to buy.

As usual I did an extremely bad job at this and as usual that didn’t matter.

Today is that day that happens every couple years when I have to pretend to know German.

“The Post could not independently determine who is behind XFreeze.” Hmmm in three minutes I found a SoundCloud account with a different alias that uses the same email address as this guy, and in another five minutes I had a personal Facebook, phone number, and birthday.

I especially like how “Flex Platform” makes this sound like a feature instead of a symptom of the collision of two flavors of capitalism that are almost equally stupid.

Google Maps in Japan: go to platform X and use train car Y for fastest access to exit Z at your destination Google Maps in Germany: Flex Platform

Sitting in the airport in Tokyo and wondering what it would have been like here. It’s hard to imagine cheering but surely there would be some kind of celebration.

Tokyo is funny because you go to some random place and have the best ramen or tonkatsu you’ve ever eaten, which makes sense, but then you go to another random place and have the best canelé, the best brisket, the best lobster roll, etc.

If anyone has a couple minutes to waste, you could report this GitHub account and the X account downthread for impersonation. I’m not too worried about either, but I am curious about whether the platforms will do anything.

I got my first AI impersonator, and AFAICT it’s just complete nonsense. They copied a repo where I publish X Community Notes data, rebranded it as “angelic cognition”, and pushed new (unsigned) commits with my email address on them.

I have no idea who the fuck “Joe Walsh” is but one of his posts just showed up in my feed and this is incredible levels of Bluesky: ✅ Screenshot of tweet ✅ No alt text ✅ Date cropped off ✅ Attribution also cropped off ✅ Substack in bio

Flunkyball is such a weird part of German culture. I have no problem with teenagers getting drunk in the park at 9:30 on a Monday morning, but there’s always broken glass and they never clean up after themselves.

I grew up in a place without many trees, and as a child my strongest political belief was that anyone who cuts down a tree deserves the death penalty. My priorities have changed, but I don’t think I was entirely wrong.

I pulled Google Maps activity for all of these Proud Boys donors, and almost half (947) are contributors. 398 are Level 3+ Local Guides! Nobody’s made it past Level 7, though.

What a nice little surprise to wake up to on a Saturday morning

Correction: I misspelled “MeidasTouch” here. Posting this so that it comes up in search if people are looking for examples of Filipkowski and co. sharing misinformation.

I missed that this X screenshot had also been posted (even more virally) by Ron Filipkowski, the fucking MidasTouch guy. He has 774k followers on here. I hate this place so much.

Every time I open Bluesky I end up spending like 15 minutes just getting angry about US liberals posting misinformation and/or Nazi shit. I’m not going back to X obviously but at least there the assholes working to make the world a shittier place aren’t ostensibly on my side.

I don’t care that this Betty Bowers account is satire. If you’re posting shit like this on a website full of credulous hashtag resistance dipshits you are a part of the disinformation machine. We don’t need this trash.

This “Iran News” account is not “Iranian news”, because of course it fucking isn’t. It used to be a backup for “Nadira Ali”, an account that has claimed to be operated from Pakistan and that quotes a neo-Nazi in its header image.

You know the Barron bought oil story is the good stuff because it came from an X account that used to have the display name “AndrewTateTristanTate” and was popularized by a Facebook page by a content-farm guy who also publishes stories about Chinese dick sucking machines.

Every morning I wake up and read about fucked up shit happening in the US, but I can’t remember the last time the shit was this shockingly fucked up.

Claude is better than Stack Overflow for getting answers to programming questions in every way, except that it’s worse for the environment, worse for developer communication skills, worse for the long-term health of open source projects, benefits worse people, etc.

You will never make me care about US soldiers more than I care about the life of any other human being on earth. Never.

Seeing people casually use “degenerate” on here feels a little like reading “Lebensraum” on an interpretive panel describing a kind of bird in a German park. Like I know this isn’t actually Nazi shit but surely you could find another word?

Just saw speculation that US gas prices could go up to $5.50 / gallon and even that is so fucking cheap. It’s no wonder cars have turned almost every place in that country into a miserable shithole.

We need to be keeping track of everything every one of these hateful little shits is posting now because one day there will be consequences again for this kind of violent extremism. For the rest of their lives every potential employer, partner, etc. needs to know that this is who they are.

this is what conservative students on university campuses really want: the freedom to say Nazi slogans, the n-word and call for violently killing Black people and more, without consequences of any kind. No protest from fellow students, faculty or admin. Utter impunity to be hateful little prats

When I first moved to Berlin I was impressed by how well-trained all the dogs I met were, but now I have my own dog here, and she’s better behaved than her German friends, so I think the takeaway is just that Americans tend to be really bad at stuff.

In a coffee shop where an American tech bro has been loudly taking video calls and then left without bussing his table and like JFC man, it’s not the week for that

Just ID’d a Nazi (the literal 14 words kind) who lives in Stockholm and works for Swedbank (he’s been there for years and actively represents them on LinkedIn). He’s just going on the pile for now, but if any local folks want to take a shot at getting him fired, let me know.

Somehow I missed that this motherfucker posted “I agree with the teachings of Jesus” last Tuesday? I think we may be down to double digits for the “Christ is King” counter.

Was just reminded that “TizzyEnt” exists and noticed that his most recent post on here is misinformation about Enrique Tarrio being a member of ICE. Which is not surprising, but it’s nice to have a solid reason to block him after years of just finding him annoying and grifty.

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?

Something to think about the next time you click a Substack link here: X recently suspended a community that claimed (accurately, AFAICT) to be “the largest National Socialist community on Twitter”, and the organizer’s response was “we’re going to focus on TG and Substack”.

This is why you shouldn’t publish speculative identifications, even if you hedge appropriately, and if even if everyone involved is a terrible person. Every time it gets repeated a layer of your hedging is stripped off, and pretty soon people who should know better are doing this shit.