Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://reason.com/2023/07/03/people-think-morality-is-declining-surveys-suggest-theyre-wrong/ The morality paper has been reported on in Reason now.

*per se

I suppose this is probably relevant to #onlinesafetybill.

https://qz.com/646467/how-one-programmer-broke-the-internet-by-deleting-a-tiny-piece-of-code Node.js in a nutshell lol

https://www.security.nl/posting/801335/Kabinet%2Bweigert%2Baangenomen%2Bmotie%2Bover%2Bclient-side%2Bscanning%2Buit%2Bte%2Bvoeren Dutch Government fighting with itself over whether to spy on encrypted messages with Chat Stasi.

RIP Twitter Embeds

Watching the fediverse expand is like reading one of those books where the supernatural is suddenly revived.

Mythical creatures appear, people awaken supernatural powers, and the planets grows (presumably, so that when powerful people have country destroying battles, it's only one tiny part of the planet being destroyed) with new mountains popping out of thin air.

I don't know how a planet the size of the Sun maintains the same surface gravity as the Earth, however, I'm not going to dwell too much on that.

Though, the god was a red herring in the end.

Takano has gone from being an evil colonel to being an all-powerful god to being a scientist. Lol. #anime

https://apnews.com/article/legacy-admissions-affirmative-action-colleges-4a4e1191274e91e695e0631ff5156875 What do you think of legacy admissions?

https://reason.com/2023/07/03/katie-sorensen-jail-sentence-kidnapping-momfluencer/ It turns out that making Q-like reports of false kidnappings is actually illegal.

@freemo Is it the exodus from Elon's rate limit shenanigans?

I don't know what is going on but it feels the server is under heavy load?

https://reason.com/2023/07/03/brickbat-inmate-injury/

"Warren, Michigan, police officer Matthew James Rodriguez has been charged with assault/assault and battery and public officer-willful neglect of duty, both misdemeanors. Rodriguez punched a man being booked into the jail, slammed the man's head against the floor, and shoved him into a cell. The assault was captured on video. Rodriguez was placed on leave and the department has begun the process to fire him."

"Dwyer said a 19-year-old Detroit man was being booked on suspected felony carjacking and weapons charges when the incident occurred."

Experts Exchange had a funny URL.

It was easy to read expertsexchange as "expert sex change" until they added a hyphen to better demarcate the word boundaries.

For an idea of what happens to a site which restricts access like Twitter, you only need to look at Experts Exchange (closed) which lost to StackOverflow (open).

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jul/02/orkney-could-leave-uk-for-norway-as-it-explores-alternative-governance Orkney islands looking to leave United Kingdom and to join Norway.