politics
Monday, July 21, 2025
here's an english version of the Mexico story
Privacy is mostly the same it's been for the last 15 years, and it's trivially easy to accomplish whatever you want in life without there being a long-tail connecting everything together
It's not even that much more onerous than it was before
Time to invest in some fake contacts and some clay
Friday, July 25, 2025
https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/viewer?mid=1A_cWEVwlxIWiK8ktwUhqzPGKPAsEmZ4&ll=46.20025177678407%2C-118.73935&z=4 someone made a map of every leaked Tea app user
https://archive.ph/U5Tah -- removed paywall from a 404media.co article about what happened
It's karma
What you get for uploading your ID to post anywhere
Saturday, July 26, 2025
oh no fire
we will miss you
Sunday, July 27, 2025
me when my chat gpt girlfriend tells me to kill the president
It just tells you to kill Jews I thought
Monday, July 28, 2025
global warming has actually done it
multiple states are now uninhabitable
Keeps hitting 40 here
this is a pretty bad heat wave year
tbf, I do feel bad for road crews specifically, regardless of the time of year
being outside 8+ hours/day working on a road will never not suck
that's my carve out, other labour jobs are much less shitty
it's from the national weather service Leg
their "Wet Bulb Globe Temperature map"
Tuesday, July 29, 2025
It is like 90 here in Ohio today where did these numbers come from lol, the people making these maps are on an agenda
Yeah I am above ohio and we are low 30s if not almost 40 most days
Wednesday, July 30, 2025
https://x.com/Dexerto/status/1950517649923883221 this is totally political
I wish it would tell you your AI assumed age
I want to know how old I am watch habit wise
I wonder what the attrition would be if they made it 100% of accounts need ID.
It's not even that I think the "average person" cares about privacy that much
But given that most people use YouTube without an account, having to create one and upload an ID and do live photo verification or w/e seems like a big hurdle
I also don't think this is the way everything is going to go for the record,
I actually feel like the tech industry is frustrated by all the "Think of the Children" laws being passed and actions like this will probably have the desired effect of getting them to stop
tech companies having to do zero is the easiest
beeing forced to do stuff that is not needed probably does annoy them
It's actually a MAJOR expense, because it's a scam
There are 3-4 ID verification companies that are blessed, and you're not *required* to use them, but if you don't you'll end up like the TEA app and all your verification data will leak
They charge crazy fees, in the ballpark of $1 per verification+2% revenue
Apparently spotify requires age verification for the british now to use
which is hilarious
do NOT let spooky access the Google age database
Max is prob sub 12 with her brainrot videos