bro i just wanted to doomscroll and this piece of shit app just refreshed and now it all looks even more ass and i get a "how do you like this using our shit" and when going to complain about it, this garbage defaulted to showing my location wtf bruh i hate it here /rantover
We seal envelopes not because the letter contains a conspiracy, but because the contents belong exclusively to the sender and the receiver.
The "nothing to hide" argument is pure corporate/state propaganda. Privacy isn't about hiding a crime; it's about deciding who gets access to your life. It’s a boundary of power, not a shield for guilt.
Instagram decided to roll out a new “Muse AI” feature, that lets users create AI images based on people’s Instagram photos.
Then they opted in EVERYONE with a public account
To opt out:
Click your profile picture
3 bars in the top right
scroll down to "Sharing and reuse"
Toggle off for both Posts and for Reels
This is what's wrong with parents and why the government gets away with eroding rights.
YOU chose to give your kid a smartphone
YOU chose to give them complete access
YOU chose not to use parental controls
YOU chose not to use screen time limitations
YOU chose to not be a parent
The vote is over — and on paper, we lost. Chat Control 1.0 is reinstated until April 2028.
But look at how it passed: with just 314 votes in a 720-seat Parliament — because the EPP’s second-reading trick meant opponents needed 361 to stop it. The bar to block it was set higher than the bar to pass it.
It carried on the last day before summer recess, with barely 600 of 720 MEPs in the room. What Parliament rejected in March passed today — on an empty chamber and a procedural tilt. That should trouble anyone who cares about how democracy works, not just about privacy.
What this means in practice: US tech companies are again allowed to scan private messages without a warrant or prior suspicion — direct messages on Instagram, Discord, Snapchat, Skype and Xbox, and emails via Gmail and iCloud.
The real fight now moves to September, when Chat Control 2.0 — the permanent regulation that reaches into end-to-end encryption — returns to negotiation.
The European Parliament voted AGAINST Chat Control. 314 to 276.
And it passed anyway.
Let me tell you how: they needed 361 votes to say no. On the last day before vacation. Every empty seat counted as a yes.
They lost the vote. They won the law.
That’s not democracy. That’s a trick. #ChatControl
🚨BREAKING NEWS: The Da Vinki Twins will stop offering their digital format starting today.
They will physically go to your house every morning and tell you not be a saddie, be a baddie!
silently crying in the back of my uber and the driver turned around and gave me this stick of gum before saying in broken english “u will be okay tomorrow, today u can be sad”
El oso eventualmente entendió que la mujer no estaba interesada, se fue, y no escribió 20 tweets sobre cómo el feminismo es el cáncer de occidente: punto para el oso.