More than a dozen Epstein survivors signed onto a joint letter on Thursday responding to First Lady Melania Trump’s remarks calling on Congress to let them testify.

“Survivors of Jeffrey Epstein have already shown extraordinary courage by coming forward, filing reports, and giving testimony. Asking more of them now is a deflection of responsibility, not justice,” the letter says.

It continued, accusing the first lady of “shifting the burden onto survivors under politicized conditions that protect those with power: the Department of Justice, law enforcement, prosecutors, and the Trump Administration, which has still not fully complied with the Epstein Files Transparency Act.”

“It also diverts attention from Pam Bondi, who must answer for withheld files and the exposure of survivors’ identities. Those failures continue to put lives at risk while shielding enablers,” the letter continues. “Survivors have done their part. Now it’s time for those in power to do theirs.”

Now the “President of the Free World” is sharing gore to distract from his absolute failure of an illegal unjustifiable war of aggression in support of a genocidal state (which is ethnically cleansing Lebanon as we speak) and the Epstein files.

If you had this shit on your bingo card, you’re a time traveller, please take me out of this timeline

We probably shouldn’t encourage people to comply in advance with fascism, even jokingly

The CPC’s policy towards Taiwan has been for peaceful voluntary integration since the '70s. They don’t want to go to war and kill their own people. The whole thing has always been western projection. They see the world as territory to conquer, so surely China is the same way

Oh, sorry, you’re right. I can’t remember where I read about Ec25519 vulnerabilities now, but I do remember that I switched to using Ed25519 instead which was not vulnerable. I think it was something to do with random number generation, you might be able to turn something up on your preferred search engine - sorry for not being more helpful, I’m replying from my phone away from my computer.

Now that Linux is cool I’m bored with it. They should swap to either GNU/Hurd or NetBSD. _/s

There’s a pretty good blog post about potential backdoors in RSA on the Cloudflare blog but honestly I remember reading rumors about it on obscure internet forums and mailing lists going back a long time.

For Ec25519, there’s some stuff about it in the History section of the wikipedia article.

Never mind, sorry, I figured out what you meant lmao, sorry for being dense, I am autistic. I already upvoted your comment, I don’t like killing people because it’s generally unproductive but I am totally with you in spirit, the NSA and Palantir should be abolished and those who worked with it should be put on trial for crimes against humanity… and then maybe executed. Or just forbidden from ever being in a position of authority or power. I’m open to discuss!

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There is definitely a shift in how the US is acting. Donald Trump is persuing imperialist ambitions in a brazen, vulgar way, which has exposed those ambitions far more undeniably than ever. It has been a real wake up call for many people around the world.

In the past, US leaders have acted with a veneer of plausible deniability, but that is now completely out of the window. The propaganda machine of the US empire is now on full display for everyone to see, and with the surge of independent media coinciding with all of this, suddenly, all of the cards are revealed.

If the US government and mainstream media are so clearly and obviously lying now, people are more willing to seriously consider that they may have lied in the past. All it takes is for people like myself to point it out to them, and they don’t even argue much anymore.

It’s over. You can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube. The US empire’s collapse is now inevitable. Sit back, and enjoy the show.

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Taking wealth through force is not necessarily an act of imperialism, and that is not how the term is commonly understood - the term for such an act is pillage.

Pillage is often a part of imperialist endeavors, but not necessarily so. Imperialism can take place without a single act of pillage.

I’m not “giving into” anything. I have been calling out and arguing against US imperialism for decades. Everyone else is catching up to me, finally, and thankfully.

If you want to continue to deny it, that is very much your prerogative, but again, I think you’ll find yourself on the losing side of that argument more and more as time goes on.

There are theories that NSA has long since broken RSA and intentionally put vulnerabilities into Ec25519. I don’t know how much credence to give those rumors, but I avoid both algorithms to be safe.

They probably have backdoors at the bare metal level anyways. There is no real chance of us defending ourselves against determined attackers from such agencies. Palantir probably doesn’t come close.

Probably more likely to go for SUSE, since it’s European but still Enterprisey.

C’est l’année de l’ordinateur Linux!

To send you a push notification, an app requires a special token specific to that app and your device, kinda like an API key, which can only be generated for a device using Google Play Services. Without that token, a push notification cannot be sent. These tokens expire, so if you used Google Play Services and just turned it off, push notifications will still get sent into the ether - but never delivered - until the token expires, at which point notifications can’t be sent anymore. Badly developed apps might still try to send push notifications with expired tokens, I have no idea what Google servers would do with that, but I’d guess they would just discard it immediately.

Why is it that pro-genocidal people always have “coexist” stuff on their car or bio? Is it like some kind of white supremacist dog whistle or something? Genuinely curious!

Edit: Sorry, I think I misunderstood your question. If you don’t have Google Play Services enabled but your friend does and messages you, no, a push notification won’t be sent, but if you message them, one will be sent to them.

I thought you were asking if you just disabled notifications on your phone if that would prevent push notifications from being sent. I’ll leave my original answer in case someone else has that question.

It depends on what exactly you mean, but usually not. If you mean in your phone’s notifications management settings, that does not affect the push notifications being sent to Google/Apple servers, that’s just a local setting to decide how your phone handles it.

Some apps, though rarely, allow you to disable push notifications from being sent. If it exists, this is inside a settings screen in the app itself or on the app provider’s website somewhere. Generally, only privacy-conscious apps provide such settings.

Sectarian genocide is a thing.

Of course it is. It just didn’t happen in these cases, as outlined in quite extensive detail in my comment.

Ending this now I don’t talk to fascists and genocide deniers

Haha, good one. I had an extremely nuanced take that acknowledged heinous war crimes took place and openly denounced that, but I also pointed out the far more extreme war crimes and genocides conducted by poor lil Israel and the US, so that means I’m a fascist. Good shit, 10/10. Keep at it, buddy.

As I wrote elsewhere:

It depends on the app. Some apps do (or can be configured to) indeed send “empty”/blank notifications which just notify you that you’ve received a new message from an app, but not from whom, or what the message contains.

However most apps by default will contain more data, such as who the message is from, and some/all of the sent message body.

If you get a push notification on your phone, everything you see in that notification must by definition pass through the push notification service.

I’d disagree with “most messengers” doing that, in my experience, most don’t do it by default. Signal is a pretty rare exception to do so by default.