Once I got pulled aside before even getting through the security line, then the people rummaging through my bags and patting me down started gambling real money with each other about what my age was before I told them -_-

Mozilla uses “they’re” to refer to Kit, but other than that there’s no explicit statement at all.

Kit is a companion, not a commentator. They’re not here to deliver punchlines. Kit shows up as a small signal that Firefox is working for you, then steps back so you can keep moving.

It does have its flaws though. For example, if you use uBlock Origin, your browser’s requests to the ad networks’ servers never make it.

If you use AdNauseam, the requests do make it. This means the ad networks will get your IP address, what page you were on, browser fingerprints, etc.

Essentially, you spam click ads, but at the cost of… giving them all the data they’d normally get if you didn’t have an ad blocker and spam clicked ads.

Most of these networks can filter out obvious bot behavior like just clicking every single ad repeatedly, so at the end of the day it’s unlikely to do much harm to them, but it sure as hell will give them a lot of trackable data about your browsing history.

I do believe it’s more effective when the extension is set to only click ads somewhat occasionally though. Enough to drain extra money, while still just looking like a person that tends to click ads more frequently than others, instead of clicking every single one.

Hence why this article is about them leaving the openly Nazi billionaire’s platform while remaining on other platforms that are mainstream and still provide a lot of reach :)

I think Reuters had a much more clear headline as to the actual impact of this.

DHS says US could stop processing international travelers at some airports in ‘sanctuary cities’

If you’re a tourist, go home. If you leave, you can’t get back in.

No international flights would likely be able to land, since no international travelers would be able to enter, U.S. citizen or not.

Sorry to everyone who thought this was real, but this is fake.

This is “truthsocialapp.com” with the fake post (and no interactions at all), and this is Trump’s actual Truth Social account on the real domain, truthsocial.com, where you’ll notice the post doesn’t exist.

WHOIS records for the fake domain show it was registered with an entirely separate registrar, and uses different nameservers than the real Truth Social domain.

What are we even doing, man…

Exactly. AI slop is just that. Slop.

If it’s just an AI doing something useful, we don’t call it slop, we just call it AI.

When Google’s AlphaFold predicted the folding of over 200 million protein structures, and won a nobel prize for it, I don’t think anyone would call all the research using it to make cures to diseases slop.

Good.

As they mentioned, “The threat to encryption is relevant today with store-now-decrypt-later attacks”.

We already know governments regularly hoover up all the data they can through taps into internet backbones, service provider takeovers, ISP snooping, etc. Why the hell would we let them keep collecting data they’ll just decrypt later when it’s feasible to?

I totally recommend just clicking through random pages on there for a good 10 minutes or so. You’ll be surprised at how many random, cool, interesting things you find that you’d probably never see otherwise in a million years. (also an AMAZING place to find small blogs to add to your RSS reader of choice)

They feed a lot of this into their main search index if you pay for Kagi search too, so a lot of these sites will appear higher than they would on Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc, if their content is relevant. Especially fediverse sources.

I think it would be ideal if everyone could be afforded the flexibility they need in their own lives for whatever they might wish to do, but I don’t think this take is a very good one.

The reason parents are often given these benefits is because there is an understanding that there is a literal human being’s life on the line, and that this person cares incredibly strongly about that child.

I might care a lot about an event I want to go to, but when it comes down to it, any boss would probably pick making sure a parent can pick their kid up from school over me being able to go a concert or something.

If everyone had a kid tomorrow, you’d probably see a lot of these benefits not be offered as freely, considering how businesses would simply just be understaffed to handle that much demand for flexibility, skipping certain hours, schedule changes, etc.

All that said though, there is still room for benefits and additional flexibility to be afforded to workers… if corporations are willing to spend extra money on more staff, better accommodations like not requiring in-office work when the work only requires being on a computer all day, stuff like that.

As someone else already pointed out, the “with intent to render such […] unfit to be reissued” part is key here.

The Stamp Stampede has a good resource on this.

Essentially, the argument just boils down to the fact that you’re… not making the bill unusable. As long as the denomination is still visible and not altered to another number, and it’s possible to see anti-fraud measures like the green seal well enough, you’re not rendering it unfit for circulation.

There is the problem of ATMs sometimes rejecting stamped bills (or accepting them but having the bank send them back to the Fed to be replaced with new, clean ones) but afaik it’s rare and not too likely as long as you don’t cover the denomination.

Most businesses don’t reject stamped bills as they have no reason to expect additional markings would mean a bill is actually NOT real, and most people won’t decide to just never spend it again because it has a stamp.

As long as you don’t promote/advertise a business, or change the actual denomination of the bill, you’re fine.

The email dump has an email in it that’s ALL in Papyrus 😭

(File 2010-03-16 03-04-26 Sugar.eml)

Only when:

• The art isn’t significantly tied to the artist’s views/publicly spouted opinions/decisions/etc (e.g. if the artist is a Nazi, you can’t really separate an artwork they made with a swastika from the artist. If they painted a nice flower field 10 years ago, it’s hard to say that it is likely to carry any Nazi-adjacent themes, and is probably pretty distinct from whatever they’d make if they made art now)
• Consuming the art doesn’t financially support the artist (so in the case of J.K Rowling, you could pirate the books, or read a copy you already have, but you can’t buy new ones (or get them on loan from somewhere that could compensate her, like a library), pay to stream the movies, go to a theme park based on the work, or buy any licensed merchandise, assuming you want to not give her money and thus separate her from the work)
• Your consumption of the art won’t indirectly cause someone else to benefit the artist (e.g. you wear a shirt you already own with Harry Potter on it, and it reminds someone else of the series and they buy the books)

Could work. A lot of the time these current systems have… dubious liveness checks.

Over time they’re definitely going to get better, though, and I have a feeling that with AI watermarking being baked into a lot of the actually good models, it’s not going to be super reliable or repeatable.

Hence why I said most.

Regardless though, you know they’re gonna up the ante as they go. The more normalized it becomes to share more data, the easier it is for them to ask everyone for it too.

This leak was from 2025.

Regardless, it’s published on the (new, not taken-down domain of) DDoSecrets

You can torrent it, too.

Most age verification providers also require video with the person’s face doing specific movements, which is then matched with the ID, so stealing an ID probably wouldn’t be enough.

Not that it’ll stop kids from trying, and sending their parent’s ID to some random sketchy company without their knowledge anyways.

Meant to be a commentary on people who will say that politically, we shouldn’t be “rash” or do anything that’s “against the rules”, because it would just allow the bad people to do the same thing!.. as those bad people are already doing that thing. (such as Democrats saying that if you do any form of violent protest, that will only justify Trump sending ICE to your community… as he already does that to people who HAVEN’T done anything even remotely violent)