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Can we just admit we no longer need metaphors?
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The Tennessee Holler
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TW â ď¸ The stabilized version is brutal.
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
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This year, EFF... Launched tools to detect surveillance đď¸âđ¨ď¸ Challenged unconstitutional censorship đŁď¸ Pushed back against attacks on encryption đŹ You can help us do even more in 2026 with a year-end donation! Time is running outâsupport EFF today!
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Stand Together to Protect Democracy
Donate in 2025 and youâll help EFF receive bonus grants. Support digital privacy and free speech!
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4 years, 10 months and 27 days later.
@polymega.com
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
about 2 months ago
Feeling overwhelmed by the onslaught of invasive age-verification mandates? Youâre not alone. We built a resource hub to break down how these laws work, who they harm, whatâs at stake, and how to protect yourself. Join the fight at
EFF.org/Age
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Age Verification and Age Gating: Resource Hub
Age verification (or age-gating) laws generally require online services to check, estimate, or verify all usersâ agesâoften through invasive tools like ID checks, biometric scans, or other dubious
https://www.eff.org/issues/age-verification
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
about 2 months ago
The "online age verification is just like showing ID" talking point falls apart under the slightest scrutiny. Our new post breaks down why:
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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Why Isnât Online Age Verification Just Like Showing Your ID In Person?
This blog also appears in our Age Verification Resource Hub: our one-stop shop for users seeking to understand what age-gating laws actually do, whatâs at stake, how to protect yourself, and why EFF
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/why-isnt-online-age-verification-just-showing-your-id-person
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Surprise, surprise. Police find professional victim Nancy Mace was at fault for her own airport meltdown.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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Police investigation faults Nancy Mace for profanity-laced airport tirade
A report found Rep. Nancy Mace (R-South Carolina) turned a âminor miscommunicationâ by police into a âspectacleâ during a recent encounter at Charleston International Airport.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/12/08/nancy-mace-tsa-tirade-charleston
about 2 months ago
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
2 months ago
EFF obtained datasets representing more than 12 million searches logged by more than 3,900 agencies between 2024 and 2025. The data shows that agencies logged hundreds of searches related to the 50501, Hands Off, and No Kings protests, among other protests in between.
www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...
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How Cops Are Using Flock Safety's ALPR Network to Surveil Protesters
Through an analysis of 10 months of nationwide searches on Flock Safety's servers, we discovered that more than 50 federal, state, and local agencies ran hundreds of searches through Flock's national
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/11/how-cops-are-using-flock-safetys-alpr-network-surveil-protesters-and-activists
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
2 months ago
Hey you! Yes, you, the one reading this post! You can defend democracy and rights for everyone by supporting EFF's work today:
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Electronic Frontier Foundation
2 months ago
Algorithmic face scans are âdangerous, whether used to estimate our age, our name, or other demographics,â EFFâs Adam Schwartz told
@PCMag.com
. EFF favors âa ban on government use of this technology, and strict regulation⌠for corporate use.â
www.pcmag.com/explainers/...
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Give Us Your Face or Lose Your Account: AI Age Verification Is Here, and Experts Are Worried
From Spotify to YouTube, platforms now demand biometric proof of age. Experts warn that you could lose accessâand your privacyâif the algorithms get it wrong.
https://www.pcmag.com/explainers/give-us-your-face-or-lose-your-account-ai-age-verification-is-here-and
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Satya Nadella's apparent disinterest in understanding the gaming industry is ruining the entire
@xbox.com
brand. It won't matter how much profit they squeeze out of each customer if they drive them all away.
#xbox
#microsoft
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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Microsoft Pushes Xbox Division to Hit Higher Profit Margins
Managementâs goal of 30% profit margins for gaming has led to job losses, canceled projects
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-23/microsoft-pushes-xbox-studios-to-hit-higher-profit-margins?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTc2MTIxNzIzNiwiZXhwIjoxNzYxODIyMDM2LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJUNEtaV0FHUTdMMTAwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.bf1wS0et59C0q96ZZnfBqLTX_eTIqjZTmQbk_j6Pwok&leadSource=uverify%20wall
3 months ago
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Can we just admit we no longer need metaphors?
3 months ago
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Leather Panel Popehat
4 months ago
âWHOAH! Be careful not to step in that pile of shit there!â exclaimed the man pulling his pants back up.
add a skeleton here at some point
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@square-enix-games.com
Just to be clear - releasing a game as a Game-Key Card instead of a cartridge that holds the full game simply guarantees I will not buy ANY version of that game.
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Why is Windows Update haranguing me to restart and install updates after downloading them over a metered connection when I have it set to never download over a metered connection? Windows is actively ignoring my settings and preferences because YOU somehow know better?
@microsoft.com
9 months ago
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If someone buys a show digitally, they should never have shitty ads appended to the beginning or end of the files they download. THEY ALREADY PAID.
@fxnetworks.com
9 months ago
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I'm convinced companies make their customer service processes unfathomably obtuse just to make people give up and go away.
9 months ago
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Because the first Fox News dipshit has worked out so well.
9 months ago
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Since
@amberruffin.bsky.social
doesn't get to do the Correspondents' Dinner,
@latenightseth.bsky.social
should just give her time to say what she was going to say.
10 months ago
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Adam Kinzinger
10 months ago
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@shoutstudios.bsky.social
Just an FYI, the back of MST3K Vol V says it's Vol Three
10 months ago
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The Onion
11 months ago
âAnyone who likes or replies to the photos will be treated as a terrorist sympathizer. If you possess these images, delete them now. Elon Musk is a patriot with a great American hairline.â
theonion.com/doj-des...
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DOJ Designates Posting Photos Of Balding Elon Musk As Domestic TerrorismÂ
WASHINGTONâWarning that the charge carried a five-year mandatory minimum sentence, the U.S. Department of Justice declared Friday that the distribution of images featuring a balding Elon Musk constituted an act of domestic terrorism. âFor the benefit of all Americans, anyone who posts or reposts photos from Mr. Muskâs PayPal days will be prosecuted for terrorism,â [âŚ]
https://theonion.com/doj-designates-posting-photos-of-balding-elon-musk-as-domestic-terrorism/
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Jon Walmsley
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You know who should've won an Oscar last night? The person who designed the little 'Gravity on / off' buttons in Alien Romulus.
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@kaine.senate.gov
@markwarner.bsky.social
@beyer.house.gov
www.washingtonpost.com/business/202...
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Muskâs DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data, raising alarm at IRS
Muskâs DOGE seeks access to personal taxpayer data at IRS
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2025/02/16/doge-irs-access-taxpayer-data/
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@xbox.com
adds an animated Indiana Jones background to their systems, but you'll never see the animated part because of their cluttered UI.
about 1 year ago
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