Olives @olives@qoto.org
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
I have like every base covered...
"they have a sexual interest in children" I'm noticing a strange emphasis on this in a couple of articles. It's really strange to specifically make...
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"they have a sexual interest in children" I'm noticing a strange emphasis on this in a couple of articles.
It's really strange to specifically make a point out of it, especially when it overshadows what crime it is someone is actually carrying out.
Is this some new Q dog-whistle...?
From a psychological standpoint, it is also not that which is the problem per say... And I think it just makes people paranoid...
It's also just plain distracting...
"A grand jury in Mississippi determined that there was no criminal conduct on behalf of the officer who shot and wounded an 11-year-old boy in his home who had called authorities for help."
OW
“Okay, who am I?” “Dracula!” “Nope.” “Batman?” “That’d be too on the nose, no?” “Fine then, I give up.” “Michael Jackson, you idiot.”
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“Where do you think you’re going?”
“I can’t do this anymore, I quit.”
“But-“
“Later, losers.”
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decades-long manhunt ends, finally bringing closure to grandson of trampling victim
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“Okay, who am I?”
“Dracula!”
“Nope.”
“Batman?”
“That’d be too on the nose, no?”
“Fine then, I give up.”
“Michael Jackson, you idiot.”
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There must be another Gerald Nathan Yves Ulysses Thomas Gary Frederick Edward Zachary Ronald Xavier Charles Bartholomew Nicholas Kevin Octavius Kendall Jonathan Henry Ezekiel Carter Timothy Vladimir David Brian Yakov Finley Underwood.
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I think there are questions about privacy when it comes to the "metaverse" (although, Facebook's relevance here seems to be barely existent), really VR.
I also have large concerns about possible incursions on freedom of expression, particularly sexual expression.
"Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers."
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3/ If you haven't done so already, we recommend looking into some of the following applications and making it your New Year's resolution to switch. Instead of using Yahoo or Google Mail, consider using Skiff, Proton, or Tuta. Rather than using WhatsApp, try Signal (which is just as easy to use without the need to pay with your metadata, which can be more dangerous than you might think).
@kkarhan @nixCraft https://www.wired.com/2011/05/dropbox-ftc/ Dropbox also lied about using end-to-end encryption in the past (more recently, they are well known for practicing chat control).
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Huh, I had no idea that @wikimediafoundation set up an official Wikimedia #Fediverse instance back in July!
Wonderful.
https://wikimedia.social/explore
@oblomov Worth mentioning that it is actually run by an American cryptobro who just so happens to have an office in Tokyo. Also, not noticing that content, could be more obscured though.
Anyway, that is important to remember, because otherwise you have a good chance of regurgitating outright racism.
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"A bipartisan effort to reform or shutter the federal government's massive warrantless spying regime ended, for now, in failure on Thursday morning as Congress approved a temporary renewal of the program as part of a military funding package."
"A group of Republicans led efforts in both chambers to remove a temporary reauthorization of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which allows federal intelligence agencies to collect communications between Americans and foreigners. Congressional authorization for Section 702 was set to expire at the end of the year, but will now continue until April."
""Extending Section 702 robs Congress of the ability to make reforms now, and likely robs Congress of the opportunity to make reforms any time in the next year," Sen. Rand Paul (R–Ky.) argued on the Senate floor. "That means, once again, the intelligence agencies that ignore the constraints on their power will go unaddressed and unpunished. And the warrantless surveillance of Americans, in violation of the Bill of Rights, will continue."
A bipartisan group of 34 senators supported Paul's motion to strip the Section 702 reauthorization from the final version of the NDAA."
Software Engineer. Psy / Tech / Sex Science Enthusiast. Controversial?
Free Expression. Human rights / Civil Liberties. Anime. Liberal.
Joined May 2023
