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F-Droid, the open-source Android app store calls Google's developer verification deadline (Sept 2026) an "existential threat" to alternative app distribution.
The EFF warns it creates a pathway to censorship.
That's just the beginning.
keepandroidopen.org #KeepAndroidOpen
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Yes, the Far Side of the #Moon, like all sides, gets sunlight!
Every spot (except in some deep craters) has a sunrise and sunset for every #MoonDay
Here's an animation to lock it in.
#TidalLock 👇🏼
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See @PamBondi kneel 🧎🏼♀️➡️🤴🏼
See @AGPamBondi lick 👢
See #PamBo run 🏃🏼♀️ 🚌Ξ
See #PamBo get Trooomped 🚌💨
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Mar 10
One of the best things that midstage Info Tech made possible (~2010-'20) w high speed access, large bwidth and "free" YT content,
is the availability of uninterrupted replays of live coverage during Black Swan events.
cc: @Mr_Derivatives Fascinating eh?
youtu.be/ja3CK3XDV5I
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Mar 10
For some context:
Oct 24, 2008, while fairly ugly for US, was a global panic day. One of the worst sync'd equity crashes ever and the crisis went full global.
Trader's POV:
cross-asset corr. ~1.0
Vol →💥
liquidity →💨
funding →📈
forced deleveraging,
microstructure crisis.😬
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Lit cosplay Kristi up. Felt like he was about to jump outta his seat and rightly so. Noem is a disgrace and makes a mockery of this nation.
Mar 5
I recognize these hearings are often viewed through a partisan lens.
But the wholesale fraud & corruption occurring at DHS under Secretary Noem should offend every American, irrespective of one’s political affiliation.
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Dear @Meta @finkd,
Please stop. Pls?
You've already succeeded beyond imagination, created unfathomable "forever wealth", and got the data.
You (& friends) have methodically dismantled every human's right to basic privacy, permanently. Congrats.
Please🙏🏻, flip the switch now?
Mar 4
Everyone’s missing the real story here.
Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses need human data annotators to train the AI. When you say “Hey Meta” and ask the glasses to analyze something, that video gets sent to Meta’s servers, then routed to Sama, a subcontractor in Nairobi, Kenya. Workers there manually label objects in your footage. They see everything you recorded, intentionally or not.
7 million pairs sold in 2025 alone. Every single pair generates training data that flows through human eyes in Kenya. Workers told Swedish journalists they see people undressing, using bathrooms, having sex, and accidentally filming bank card details. One worker said “we see everything, from living rooms to naked bodies.”
Meta’s automatic face anonymization is supposed to protect people in the footage. Workers say it fails in certain lighting. Faces that should be blurred are sometimes fully visible. The person you recorded without knowing? A stranger in Nairobi can identify them.
Buried in Meta’s terms of service is one sentence doing enormous legal work: the company reserves the right to conduct “manual (human) review” of your AI interactions. That’s the legal cover for routing intimate footage from Western homes to a $2/hour labor force operating under NDAs, office surveillance cameras, and a strict no-questions policy. Workers say if you raise concerns about what you’re seeing, you’re fired.
This is the same company, Sama, that TIME exposed in 2023 for paying Kenyan workers $2/hour to label graphic content for OpenAI while being billed at $12.50/hour per worker. Workers described the experience as torture. Sama ended that contract, then pivoted to labeling Meta’s glasses footage. Same workforce. Same rates.
Meta markets these glasses as “designed with your privacy in mind.” The privacy design is a tiny LED light on the frame that most people don’t notice. The data pipeline behind it routes your bedroom footage to a contractor with a documented history of worker exploitation, failed anonymization, and union-busting lawsuits.
And the next generation of these glasses? Meta is planning to add facial recognition. The same system that can’t reliably blur faces in training data wants to start identifying them on purpose.
The LED light on the frame is doing about as much for your privacy as the terms of service nobody reads.
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So hopelessly sick of @Meta's relentless mission to grind what's left of privacy's carcass to dust.
Zuckerberg's already wealthy beyond comprehension. Why does this millennial keep doing everything possible to expand the surveillance of Americans?
childhood trauma?
Pure evil?
Meta says age verification is about protecting kids. It’s not. It’s about building the next layer of surveillance infrastructure, and Zuckerberg just told lawmakers exactly how to construct it under oath.
His “fix” is to have Apple and Google verify the identity of every smartphone user at the OS level for every app. “Doing it at the level of the phone is just a lot cleaner,” he said. In plain terms he deflects Meta’s legal liability while two companies already under antitrust scrutiny get deputized as identity gatekeepers for the internet. But there is a second motive that went unexamined in that hearing. OS level identity verification solves the identity graph problem that has plagued targeted advertising since cookie deprecation. Zuckerberg is not proposing a solution to surveillance capitalism. He is proposing its next infrastructure upgrade and he is asking Congress to mandate it.
Once that infrastructure exists, it does not stay limited to social media. It applies to every app, every browser, every message sent from that device. This is not age verification. It is a national digital ID layer baked into iOS and Android, and it is a goldmine. Every data broker, every advertiser, every platform that currently operates on probabilistic identity matching gets handed a verified identity graph courtesy of federal law.
Notice what the word “addiction” is doing in this debate. Lawmakers and advocates, including those testifying alongside Zuckerberg, have increasingly framed social media as a drug. Social media classified as a drug becomes a public health emergency. A public health emergency unlocks emergency powers. Emergency powers applied to the internet mean mandatory access controls. Mandatory access controls mean the end of anonymous and pseudonymous speech for everyone permanently. Whistleblowers. Abuse survivors. Political dissidents. Journalists protecting sources. All gone.
The regulatory scaffolding is already going up. California’s SB 976 mandates age verification by 2027 with no constitutional answer yet provided. KOSA at the federal level would direct agencies to build exactly the OS level verification Zuckerberg endorsed from the stand. New York’s SAFE For Kids Act already accepts facial analysis as a substitute for government ID. Biometric data collected to scroll a feed.
Then consider what happens to these databases. The Discord breach last year exposed around 70,000 government IDs submitted through their age verification system. Unlike a password, you cannot reset your face after a breach. We are conditioning an entire generation to treat their biometrics as a disposable entry fee.
And the government will not need to steal that data. Under existing third party doctrine it can simply ask for it, or compel it with a National Security Letter with no warrant required. Carpenter v. United States constrained some location data collection, but it did not close the doctrine, and Congress has not acted. The surveillance infrastructure Zuckerberg is proposing does not need to be built by the NSA. It just needs to exist, and the legal tools to access it without judicial oversight are already in place.
The alternative is not to outsource childhood to a corporate or government gatekeeper. It is to empower parents with real tools. Privacy by design defaults built into platforms. Parental controls that do not require uploading a driver’s license. Transparent algorithmic audits that let families understand what they are consenting to. The responsibility for a child’s upbringing cannot be subcontracted to Apple, Google, or a federal agency.
What starts as verifying age for safety becomes verifying identity for accountability. We are not watching child protection policy. We are watching the construction of a permanent, monetizable, government accessible checkpoint at the gate of the internet.
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Son of gun, here I am reading some dystrumpian twitter thread and look what pops up!
JB's un-catchiest catchy investing acronym is catching on after all!
(no attribution tho 😑)
@michaelbatnick @awealthofcs
#HALO
Why is my name in quotes? You may be a bot but I'm not. Lol. Here, go learn something about investing: HALO Stocks are the Must-Own Stocks of 2026 youtu.be/ESosRQxP0nk?si=Dxiv…
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g̤̈l̤̈ö̤ä̤m̤̈ë̤r̤̈🫐 retweeted
Feb 28
gm to absolutely everyone except the United States of America.
Fumbling the greatest technology this country has probably ever produced.
Massive respect to Anthropic for refusing to cave to these threats and staying true to their values.
Can’t really say the same about OpenAI lol.
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Feb 22
Hello @tradingview 📈📉
A few updates ago on #TradingView
Android OS, the pill buttons are not responsive in the Overview screen after tapping "Symbol Details".
See attached screen recording for illustration. Confirmed on 2 mobiles (Pixel & Samsung)
Please fix
Thank you 🤗
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Jan 27
"Secretary Noem is focused on restoring law and order and executing the [...] agenda for mass deportations-not publicity."
Oh really?? 🤔
I beg to differ 'Cosplay @KristiNoem '
Give this fcking national disgrace the last publicity costume she'll ever wear. 👇🏼
@Sec_Noem RESIGN!
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g̤̈l̤̈ö̤ä̤m̤̈ë̤r̤̈🫐 retweeted
Jan 27
A veteran whom Alex Pretti cared for in the ICU earlier this month: "It was heartbreaking to see the video. It was heartbreaking to know when I found out it was him. What was worse was listening to Kristi Noem talk about him the way she did."
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Jan 26
These agents, despicable cowards, must be arrested and brought up on charges.
Justice must be served or it never existed.
There is nothing vague, no question why #AlexPretti is dead:
DHS/ICE agents executed him, needlessly, in cold blood.
What are you gonna do @HouseGOP ?
I do not usually comment on political posts, and this is not intended to be political. As we all know a tragic event happened in America. I am speaking strictly from a professional training and use of force perspective.
Before coming to train Ukrainians, I spent years training various law enforcement organizations through my company on use of force and high risk encounters. That background includes departmental policy, police training standards, threat assessment, de escalation, and the legal thresholds for justified and unjustified shootings.
Several facts matter here.
The individual involved was a licensed concealed carry holder from the state. He was legally permitted to carry a firearm, including in a public setting such as a protest. There was no violation of law simply by his possession of the weapon.
At no point did this individual draw, point, or openly brandish the firearm. The weapon was physically removed from him by law enforcement officers prior to the shooting. Once that occurred, the immediate deadly threat no longer existed.
When a weapon is secured and officers have physical control of a subject, the legal and training based justification for deadly force disappears. At that stage, the situation transitions to control, restraint, and de escalation. Deadly force is reserved for an active, imminent threat, not a past or hypothetical one.
Any use of deadly force also carries an absolute responsibility to consider public safety. Officers are trained to identify their backstop and ensure that rounds fired do not endanger civilians or fellow officers. In this case, there were multiple officers and civilians directly within the potential line of fire. The risk of catastrophic injury, friendly fire, or unintended civilian casualties was extremely high.
Equally important, this incident does not align with established de escalation principles. Rather than slowing the encounter, increasing distance, and reducing risk, the situation was escalated rapidly to lethal force after control had already been achieved. That is the opposite of what modern policing doctrine teaches.
Based on the available video footage, camera angles, and observable officer behavior, this incident reflects failures in threat assessment, use of force decision making, backstop awareness, and de escalation. From a professional standpoint, it represents a breakdown across multiple training and policy standards.
This is a tragic outcome. It deserves a serious, objective review grounded in established law enforcement practices, not emotion or politics.
This definatley deserves a full independent investigation and review.
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Jan 26
What are you gonna do Congress?
Continue to do nothing, cowards yourselves, under the boot of POTUS and his thugs?
Complacent while federal agents murder AMERICANS in the street bc you fear political impact?
DO SOMETHING.
@SenateDems @SenateGOP
@HouseGOP @HouseDemocrats
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Jan 25
Hey magats 2A'ers,
FBI Director on your 2nd Amendment Rights:
"No one who wants to be peaceful shows up at a protest with a [loaded] firearm.
You cannot bring a firearm to any sort of protest that you want. It's that simple."
- Kash "Surprized Eyez" Patel
#Minneapolis #2ndA
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g̤̈l̤̈ö̤ä̤m̤̈ë̤r̤̈🫐 retweeted
Jan 25
BREAKING: The family of Alex Pretti releases a powerful statement about his senseless murder at the hands of Trump's masked fascist goons.
Please share this far and wide...
"We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital," the family said in a statement provided to CNN.
"Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the hero term lightly. However his last thought and act was to protect a woman."
"The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He has his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down all while being pepper sprayed."
"Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you."
It is our responsibility as Americans to get the truth out there. Petti was not attempting to harm anyone. He was swarmed, beaten, and disarmed by vicious federal agents who were looking for someone to hurt. Once they had removed his gun — which he had a legal permit to carry — they executed him in cold blood by firing numerous bullets into him. Then, the Trump administration proceeded to immediately falsely smear him as a "terrorist" who wanted to carry out a mass shooting against law enforcement. They're utterly shameless.
“He cared about people deeply and he was very upset with what was happening in Minneapolis and throughout the United States with ICE, as millions of other people are upset,” said Pretti's father Alex. “He thought it was terrible, you know, kidnapping children, just grabbing people off the street. He cared about those people, and he knew it was wrong, so he did participate in protests.”
Rest in power Alex. The rest of us will carry on the fight.
Please like and share.
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Jan 25
Despicable lying piece of shit.
They pinned him, pistol whipped him, secured his legal, un-drawn firearm,
*AND THEN* EXECUTED HIM.
AN AMERICAN.
ON HIS KNEES.
IN COLD BLOOD.
ON THE STREET.
M-urdering
A-mericans,
G-overnment
A-ssisted.
🖕🏼🤬 #Minneapolis #ICETerrorists
Jan 24
A would-be assassin tried to murder federal law enforcement and the official Democrat account sides with the terrorists.
Community note
Videos of the encounter shows that the gun was never drawn. The weapon remains in the victim's holster until one agent removes it. After the victim is disarmed, a second agent shoots him repeatedly.
Videos of full encounter:
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Victim disarmed prior to shots being fired:
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g̤̈l̤̈ö̤ä̤m̤̈ë̤r̤̈🫐 retweeted
Jan 5
Donald Trump announced that his Secretary of War will “run” Venezuela until the United States can carry out what he calls a “safe, proper and judicious transition.” This is not happening.
As of right now, Venezuela’s militias, specifically the Bolivarian Militia and the urban paramilitary networks known as colectivos, have not backed down. Far from allowing America’s Secretary of War and a US-appointed “group” to run the country, they have become the primary agents of what is rapidly evolving into a chaotic and dangerous resistance.
Since the abduction of Nicolás Maduro and his wife, Caracas has effectively become a ghost town. Citizens are skipping work, businesses are shuttered, and people are staying indoors because of the colectivos.
The leftist paramilitaries are now the most visible armed presence in the capital.
While Delta Force and US air assets achieved overwhelming tactical dominance during the brief raid that removed Maduro, they have not established persistent control over residential neighbourhoods. That vacuum has been filled locally, block by block.
The colectivos have also reframed the conflict. What might once have been portrayed as a struggle to defend Maduro has now been recast as a “decolonial war” against US occupation.
This narrative shift matters. It transforms the struggle from regime defence into national resistance, and it makes the colectivos the main obstacle to the “security” Washington claims it intends to provide.
Despite US assertions that Venezuela’s military was “incapacitated,” Defence Minister Vladimir Padrino López appeared on national television alongside Vice President Delcy Rodríguez to declare that the armed forces and militias remain loyal to the Bolivarian Revolution.
Whether or not this reflects unified command is beside the point; it signals continuity, defiance, and an intent to resist.
America’s Secretary of War has insisted that “President Trump sets the terms.” In practice, those terms are already being rewritten by asymmetric warfare. This is not a promising start.
According to the Robert Lansing Institute, if the United States limits itself to air power and special operations while leaving Venezuelans to manage the transition, insurgency is likely to emerge not as classic guerrilla warfare against US troops, but as urban unrest, terrorism, and targeted attacks on perceived collaborators.
Conversely, Lansing warns that a large and prolonged US troop presence would almost certainly catalyse a broader, more organised armed resistance.
Either path is bleak. Trump has initiated a process he cannot easily reverse, and there is no clean off-ramp for him or his war secretary.
Over the next six to twelve months, the most probable pattern is episodic violence: bombings, armed clashes in pro-Chavista strongholds, targeted assassinations, and cartel-linked criminal activity exploiting the breakdown in authority.
The so-called “Iraq model” becomes increasingly likely the longer the US maintains a visible, large-scale military presence on Venezuelan soil. If Washington truly intends to “run” Venezuela until a transition can be engineered, it will require, and likely lose, a significant number of soldiers.
The contradiction is clearest around oil. While US officials talk openly about rebuilding Venezuela’s oil infrastructure, militias and loyalist military units are expected to target those facilities to prevent the foreign plunder.
This dynamic is already visible in the Orinoco Belt, which accounts for roughly two-thirds of Venezuela’s oil production. The United States may control ports and terminals, but militias control pipelines and territory. Production is in freefall.
Trump has promised to sell “large amounts of oil.” For now, that promise is being blocked by asymmetric warfare, the very phenomenon US officials publicly acknowledge while underestimating its consequences.
In short, the United States may “run” oil terminals and fortified government buildings, but Venezuela’s militias run the streets and much of the rural heartland.
What Trump and his handlers face a law-enforcement nightmare in which every urban block risks becoming a bloody battle zone. And by every available indicator, that nightmare has already begun.
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