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thisismissem, 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago) to Instagram

Okay, does someone wanna explain to me what fresh hell this is from #instagram?

Please check the replies before replying, looks like this may be related to airplay or something, not that I'd ever want that.

lauren, 3 months ago to random

I've always wondered about the seemingly enormous amounts of money that come from somewhere to advertise candidates for school board seats.

asymco, 3 months ago to random

Between 2021 and 2022, oil use in conventional cars, excluding SUVs, remained roughly the same, but the oil consumption of SUVs globally increased by 500 000 barrels per day, accounting for one-third of the total growth in oil demand.

lauren, 3 months ago to random

I would like to see the details of this, since I have not heard of real time video deep fakes being this sophisticated anywhere else. - Finance worker pays out $25 million after video call with deepfake 'chief financial officer' -https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2024/02/04/asia/deepfake-cfo-scam-hong-kong-intl-hnk/index.html

briankrebs, 3 months ago to random

Finally sitting down to compose some thoughts on what we can and probably should do about the swatting problem in the US. I'm finding I have quite a bit to say, and a lot of it involves mythbusting around this issue (e.g. that most of these swatting calls come through 911).

Another example: recent legislation to make swatting specifically a federal offense w/ real jail time for those convicted (introduced by a GOP lawmaker who was swatted). That might feel like a solution, but I doubt it's much of a deterrence for the sim-swatters.

Make it explicitly a federal offense with federal consequences, okay sure. But the feds have prosecuted these cases just fine using existing laws. The problem is, until the feds are aware of swatting incident, it remains effectively a local issue, which means the cops are less likely to investigate because these crimes are generally inter-state crimes They are usually by definition federal crimes for that reason, but they are still mostly dealt with by local authorities and local laws. One way a federal anti-swatting law could help is to require state and local law enforcement to report these crimes as violent crimes to some entity responsible for tracking them as such. Right now, there is no specific designation for swatting, and reporting is only required for federal law enforcement agencies. Reporting also serves an important accountability check on law enforcement responding to these incidents.

mekkaokereke, 3 months ago to random

My hot take on the Vision Pro is the same as my hot take on every AR/VR/Mixed Reality headset produced in the past checks notes 20 years: "If most women can't use your product for 4 hours straight without throwing up, don't try to tell me that it's the future of anything." I said what I said.

Women can use a smartphone indefinitely without nausea. They can use a laptop indefinitely. A gaming console and TV indefinitely. But XR headsets cause motion sickness in most women in under an hour. 🤷🏿‍♂️

dangillmor, 3 months ago to random

A big no to ads on Amazon Prime Video -- we're canceling prime when the annual subscription ends.

lauren, 3 months ago to random

Is everyone else convinced that if backed into a corner, Putin and his gang would never, ever use any of that massive stockpile of tactical nukes they have built up for years? Remember, I'm talking about tactical battlefield nukes, not strategic ICBM ones. Personally, I am not so convinced.

lauren, 3 months ago to twitter

I will note that obviously, if the #Twitter/X new moderation team actually works as apparently claimed and isn't hobbled by Elon, this is a good thing, even though it's obvious that this is only happening because governments on both sides of the Atlantic were going to come down on them like a ton of bricks given the status quo, and advertisers generally hate having their ads show up next to CSAM.

lauren, 4 months ago to random

Florida GOP lawmakers want to use taxpayer funds to pay Trump's legal bills. DeSantis says he'd veto it.

lauren, 4 months ago to random

Today's exciting hi-tech web research: Replacement toilet flappers. Definitely need Generative AI for this one.

mekkaokereke, 4 months ago to random

Periodic reminder: nazis are louder, but there are way more good people than bad people. We win in the end.

https://mstdn.social/@bazkie/111801891186531871

lauren, 4 months ago to random

BREAKING: In 5-4 vote, Supreme Court grants emergency request by feds to cut
Texas' border razor wire that's been keeping them from border.

lauren, 4 months ago to random

BREAKING: DeSantis suspends 2024 presidential campaign.

lauren, 4 months ago to random

I really don't like to put it this way, and I don't mean it as a 100% sort of statement. But I've been dealing with AT&T since I was a teenager. I even faced them with a couple of friends in a hearing at the California Public Utilities Commission when they tried (unsuccessfully, because I caught them in what was essentially a lie) to shut down our world famous free telephone entertainment service, "ZZZZZZ".

They have lied to municipalities about promised fiber deployments, they have -- since their 1984 court-ordered divestiture -- tried to do everything possible to escape from the public service and universal service requirements of which they were once so publicly proud as "The Bell System".

They only install fiber where they think it will make them the most money, despite those previous deployment promises. That can mean people on one side of the street have it, and the other side can't get it -- both in AT&T service areas. Just like ordinary landlines, any data and even VoIP has to come over copper (e.g. U-verse). That's all there is.

That they want to essentially withdraw from conventional wired services and especially landlines in California is not a surprise, because over the years they have become, if not deeply evil, deeply untrustworthy.

The bottom line: Do not assume that anything they say is necessarily accurate, especially in the current cases before the CPUC here in California.

lauren, 4 months ago to random

We need a new word to describe the degradation of technology (and the aspects of society so affected).

The word being tossed around in tech circles that includes a vulgar synonym for excrement is useless outside the echo chamber of entitled tech bros.

I refuse to use it even in these tech venues. If your goal is to turn people off from your arguments, yeah, go ahead and use those words, arguing that people shouldn't be offended by them. Good luck with that.

If you actually want to try to convince people to come over to your cause and, you know, like WIN on important issues, then not offending a large chunk of people who are the very ones you need to convince is a great starting point.

I can't even use that word if I wanted to on my national network radio segments or other broadcast venues. It is unacceptable to most broadcast standards.

So let's grow up and stop playing baby tech bros, and find words to describe these crucial situations that are useful everywhere for everyone. Sound like a plan? I think so.

lauren, 4 months ago to random

So apparently according to Trump's legal team, he could only be prosecuted for crimes committed while president if he's impeached by the House, convicted by the Senate, and if he then recites the three words correctly while holding the Necronomicon. Every little syllable. (Yes, we all know the words, no need to reply with them.)

mekkaokereke, 1 year ago (edited 3 months ago) to random

Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !

I'm still not onto Black history. I'm still on white US history.

Q: Why were Black folk so happy when OJ was acquitted? To be honest, it feels disgusting. Why does it seem like you're happy he got away with murder?

A: Racism. Black folk did not like OJ that much. In fact, many Black people think he did it. Black folk didn't "celebrate OJ." Black folk celebrated the hope that a brutally unjust, evil, and racist system, could be defeated at all.

#BlackMastodon