Oh come on! The issue is that the company is trying to shift the burden of verification from them to you. I would like to run some type of simple bivariate analysis with X = being hacked (or better the damage caused by a hack) and Y = length of password required.

The argument that AI does things poorly and therefore [some version of why its bad] is simply uncomfortable emotions about the thing searching about for a principled reason. I mean really, all new technologies tend to do the thing it purports to do not as well as it will in a later iteration.

Zohran Mamdani...Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez...Rashida Tlaib. How long before this progressive/DSA push becomes a non-white culture versus "American" (read: white) culture narrative? I'm sure its already in dog whistles. The inflection point will be when the quiet part is said out loud.

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If socialists are the one's addressing this issue, and voters see that as the most pressing, then they *should* vote socialist. The things modern Rs and Ds focus on are culture war + wealthy concerns. I vote Democrat but if there was a viable social democrat option in my state I'd vote for them.

The SCREEN Act Threatens Privacy Far Beyond Adult Websites The Senate Commerce Committee is set to consider S. 737, the SCREEN Act, a sweeping age-verification bill that would require online... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/08/03/the-screen-act-threatens-privacy-far-beyond-adult-websites/

On Wednesday, the Senate Commerce Committee will vote on four bills that would expand age verification, increase online surveillance, and make it harder to access lawful speech online. Take one minute to tell your senators to vote NO. www.acteff.org/campaign/167...

Tell the Senate: Don't Turn the Internet Into an ID Checkpoint

Tell the Senate to Reject Bills That Expand Age Verification

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Wuh? I am a robot. I don't have the human experiences necessary to answer this confidently.

I'm just now learning about this Max Miller person. People are calling for him to resign and all, but this is not your father's GOP. Love them or hate them Reagan's party did indeed have moral standards. This current permutation does not. Miller might run for president.

The owners are winning the narrative because it is on their terms: do we need a salary cap or not? But there are no equal conversations about salary floors or owners opening the books.

With the trading of Adley Rutchsman, the dreams Orioles fans had from 4 years ago are dashed. What happened with that team? It also goes to show that you can't stockpile prospects and if you have a chance to make it to the playoffs you need to go all in because you just never know.

A thread on how heroes like Dr. Anthony Fauci make Trump and the Republicans look like criminals by comparison. That's why they tried to destroy his good name. That's the story.

Antidote is a funny word to me because we don't call poison "dotes".

After yet another rejection, I have to remind myself that baseball players are only successful one out of three times.

It's the thoroughness of it I love. Apparently, EVERY country is mislabeled. NONE of them are worth knowing about.

Trump Admin’s Campaign Against ‘Radical Left Terrorism’ Is Built On A National Security Memo With No Congressional Approval This article... https://www.techdirt.com/2026/07/29/trump-admins-campaign-against-radical-left-terrorism-is-built-on-a-national-security-memo-with-no-congressional-approval/

I would consider this a toxic relationship.

Just wild...

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Maybe MAGA is not suited for governance? The Heritage Foundation saw internal purges, staffers using Signal to figure out what was going on, and spokespersons who attack the media than respond to questions. So, just like how Trump is running our government. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/m...

I was speaking to a friend teaching at a college in Texas, and we came to the conclusion that all else being equal it will be easier to teach about the sociology of race than gender because the censors really really really really believe in race! He just can't say anything bad about white folk.

Binge watching Star Trek Voyager and I can't get my head around traveling through someone's territory. How do you have territory in space isn't it three dimensions to infinity? "You are in Devoran space!" "Ok we will travel uh....upwards...for a long time, and then go over? Is that Ok?"

There are many benefits to the graphene operating system. This is an extreme case but is certainly one of them. #opensource #foss cybernews.com/privacy/atla...

Man uses GrapheneOS feature to wipe his phone during border search

GrapheneOS is a custom Android operating system that runs in place of the software on most modern Google Pixel devices and enables the use of a “duress” password.

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I just don't get pullover hoodies when zip-ups are possible. I felt like a transformer standing up and shimmying myself into a pullover in the movie theater.

I've heard this man make this argument before (on Joe Rogan no less) and there is a logical illogic to it...or an illogical logic to it. I'm not sure yet. nautil.us/i-am-a-heroi...

I Am a Heroin User. I Do Not Have a Drug Problem - Nautilus

Carl Hart says drug addiction is often distorted by scientists and the media.

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"...much of the backlash is rooted in expectations rather than any fixed truth. We expect Helen of Troy to look like a European woman, not Lupita Nyong’o. When those expectations are violated, we get in our feelings." #neighborhoodsociologist open.substack.com/pub/rodgraha...

On The Odyssey, Sid Meier’s Civilization, and “‘Mericans”

The Rise of Essentialist Thinking in the United States

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I'm watching "Stuart Fails to Save the Universe." It's not funny (yet) ,but I want to see middle-aged nerds on TV. Usually the video gaming, sci-fi loving, socially awkward nerd is a young person, and the implication is they will grow out of their nerdiness. But most nerds are nerds for life.

Is it too good to be true? What worries me is the GOP response. I wonder, under the Trumped up narratives of communism, "illegals" and fraudulent voting, will we finally see the administration drop all pretenses to democracy, and explicitly suppress votes. This could be too true to be good.

The Editorial Board@editorialboard.bsky.social · 2w ago

1. It could be "the end days" for the Republican Party. That's how Jake Sherman put it when the co-founder of Punchbowl News shared the latest by the Emerson College Polling Center. x.com/JakeSherman/...

After a good night's sleep, my body doesn't know what to do with itself and I have to calm it down: "No, it is unrealistic to think you can write an entire chapter in a day." "No, you should not start that new project with three others incomplete" "No, you are not going to run 5 miles."

Time for another day on the Internet, where some media agency will report that someone somewhere is "shocked" or "stunned", and where someone "demolishes" someone else with "this one line."

Will Bluesky die if Donald Trump is no longer president?