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Signal threatens to pull out of UK over Starmer's new "mass surveillance" phone screening plans
Clip - @business @mer__edith
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RT @Indian_Bronson: Btw even China and Iran don’t do this.
Only North Korea does this.
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Jun 15
Just a heads up, If I am required by UK law to submit an ID to use twitter or any social media, I will not do so and therefore will leave social media. I urge everyone in the UK to do the same. We can only protest by not submitting our ID, voting doesn't change anything anymore
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Sean Strickland is an absolute legend. 🇺🇸🫡
Jun 14
We got photos of Sean Strickland getting escorted out be Security/Secret Service 😭
#FREESEANSTRICKLAND
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Jun 15
no state should ever have control over what you can or can't access. my childhood would've been drastically different (for the worse) if i hadn't been able to stay online when i was 13. luckily my parents were smart enough to teach me discernment over censorship, that's never the better alternative. i hope every parent is now having a conversation with their kids telling them how fucked up this is
Jun 15
We are banning social media access for under 16s.
These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life.
I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back.
Community note
The UK Government's 'careful review' of the research found a small correlation between children's use of social media and wellbeing, but no evidence of a causal effect:
gov.uk/government/pub…
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0b46…
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6 Aug 2025
The idea of the internet as a third space for co-identities, "avatars", "pseudonyms", doesn't really exist for normies and foids. They love selfies and IDs - the net is purely a marketing platform for their face, just like the mall. They love facebook. They love facefagging. They love using milady for clout. And they'll love ID Identification because anonymity has no value to them. They cannot even spell cypherpunk, much less comprehend cypherpunk values.
Even when the goldenlight shines upon them, they still remain in the darkness.
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Jun 13
Study the encryption fight from the 1990s — and how the Cypherpunks won.
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Jun 11
Ads don’t come attached to websites, they are loaded from a different server. So there’s a way to stop them from ever loading onto your network.
Using a raspberry pi and some free software, you can stop ads from getting into your home. It’s called a pi hole and it acts as a catch between your home internet and the servers that place ads on websites.
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パランティアの人間からバルファキスが聞いた話。本当なら今すぐ地獄の業火に灼かれるべき。
ガザの住民密集地を🇮🇱が爆撃する時のスマホを持って逃げ惑うガザの人々の動き「パニックインプリント」をAIに食わせて訓練し「パニック防止AI」として英国NHSに14億ドルで売った
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Anthropic puts a non-compete in the terms of service? 😅
Jun 11
By the way, public service announcement: if you're one of the numerous people posting about Anthropic's dystopian ways and you're thinking about getting Claude to help you write that post... don't!
Another one of their terms is that you may not use Claude to do anything that "exposes [Anthropic to] reputational harms" 👇
And, if you do, under the - extremely unusual - clause 13 of their terms (anthropic.com/legal/consumer…), you have PRE-AGREED, by using Anthropic (and accepted their terms), that the harm you've done is irreparable, that you won't oppose Anthropic injunction, and they don't need to prove actual damage.
They can simply go to a judge in a friendly jurisdiction (and of course, their terms precise that any dispute "will be resolved exclusively in the state or federal courts located in San Francisco, California") and:
a) file an injunction that shuts you down
b) make you pay for everything since under section 11 of their terms you agree to indemnify Anthropic for "any and all liabilities, claims, damages, expenses (including reasonable attorneys' fees and costs), and other losses arising out of or related to your breach or alleged breach of these Terms."
In other words, if you use Claude to help you talk shit about Anthropic publicly, their terms say you pay their lawyers to go after you and you've already pre-agreed you've lost the case.
Oh, and cherry on the cake: in the odd case the judge were like "are you crazy, this is insanely abusive, you Anthropic are the ones at fault here," according to their terms Anthropic's maximum liability is... $100.
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Jun 11
Looks like the options thing is happening already!
See also: various people thinking through and building different versions of the idea in the thread: ethresear.ch/t/building-inde…
Though I do strongly urge that if any of these get on mainnet quickly, we formally verify it first. I hope @vyperlang and/or github.com/lfglabs-dev/verit… folks ( @Fricoben) can help!
(Also, now is a good time to be thinking about robustness-optimized oracles)
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Redstone[.]finance is collecting so much PII that they actually justify it in writing in the cookie modal. Not just "we need this to function" but a wall of legal text explaining why they're allowed to hoard it.
Immediately when you load the page they have already collected your browser fingerprint (canvas/WebGL), IP address, cookies, localStorage, installed fonts, extensions, and open tab state (they likely poll the page visibility/tab APIs). None of this requires a wallet connection.
Completely uneccessary and dangerous data exposure for private or institutional crypto holders who visit the site.
Specifically in the crypto industry we should try to do better to protect our users' data by not collecting and not selling it.
I'm picking on Redsone here because I work at a competing oracle, but EVERYONE does this now! It's so depressing!
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