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@luiscalleo La Makita Soma

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@Eslatt13 @4nt1p4tt3rn @RealTripleA I have so many lying around and was wondering just this. 🙏

[Chris Heatherly @chrisheatherly]

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.

The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.

There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.

What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.

Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.

This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.

That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.

What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.

Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?

No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

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@goddek @EinhornGabe this some circus

[Sir Escanor (𝘏𝘰𝘱𝘪𝘶𝘮 𝘚𝘭𝘢𝘺𝘦𝘳) @EscanorReloaded]

You supported Austin Franco before you finished reading the headline.
Here’s how that happened.

Joe Lonsdale, Palantir co founder, injects himself into the story and sets the emotional temperature.
Palantir is mapping the behavioral data of every person engaging with the narrative in real time.

His network connects directly to Polymarket, which is monetizing your outrage as a tradable asset while you’re busy picking a side.

The GiveSendGo that assembled in 10 minutes was organized by taliban-liaison (whatever the f that means) with documented Polymarket affiliations.

So let’s run that back.

Your reaction was harvested by Palantir. Your outrage was monetized by Polymarket.
Your sympathy was redirected into a funding mechanism built by people inside the same network.

Did you support Austin Franco?
Or were processed through a loop that had your consent at the end of it before you even knew the story existed.

It’s either conspiracy or infrastructure.
And it ran perfectly, making you react before you knew what’s happening.

You’re welcome.

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@EscanorReloaded The entire internet has become a honeypot for advertisers and intelligence agencies.
Nice going guys. 🖕

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nO oNe iS aBoVE ThE lAw

[Ro Khanna @RoKhanna]

Our politics have gotten so ugly.

Leave @JenSiebelNewsom out of this. She is an advocate for women and girls. Families should not be targets for political retribution.

[schmitt trigger 🛠🛩️ @vaizaragorn]

Power banks you can buy online are weak. You can build your own Type-C 100W power bank so easily its almost funny.

Here is one I've built with my friend, it has 16 18650 cells that are connected as 4s 4p. It has 200Wh of capacity, can charge up your phone like 10 times ++

[Steve Howard @SteveHo45255991]

@RepMcGarvey So he is the only one? Let’s investigate all senators and congressmen, actual net worth, where it comes from and how much in taxes are paid. You support that? Bet you won’t respond. How much do I pay for your healthcare?

[MattD @mattdykema]

We worked 16–18 hour shifts producing the first versions of the Falcon 9 thrusters.

To this day, it is still the hardest manufacturing assignment I have ever been asked to run.

We ran the first prototype thrusters in South Bend, IN. I still remember source inspectors coming on-site, finding the smallest cosmetic blemish, and denying payment on the entire product run.

That kind of pressure is what most people never see.

SpaceX did not become what they are today by luck or hype. They became it through manufacturing hardship, brutal design iterations, tight tolerances, failed attempts, rework, and people on the shop floor grinding through problems most will never hear about.

SpaceX is not just an engineering success story.

It is a manufacturing success story.

A true innovative masterpiece built through pressure, persistence, and relentless improvement ( late night calls with the engineering team )

I attest to their achievements.

Good job @SpaceX

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@Kerr72_ @gingerrtom lol you fucking idiot that’s the spaceman meme.

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@gingerrtom @Kerr72_ Oh no hurty words! How do you guys exist in the real world

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@no_one_quits 👩‍🚀 🔫 👩‍🚀

[Darren of Plymouth @DarrenPlymouth]

LAWFUL REBELLION

YOUR RIGHT UNDER MAGNA CARTA

Under article 61 of Magna Carta 1215 (the founding document of our Constitution) we have a right to enter into lawful rebellion if we feel we are being governed unjustly. Contrary to common belief our Sovereign and her government are only there to govern us and not to rule us and this must be done within the constraint of our Common Law and the freedoms asserted to us by such Law, nothing can become law in this country if it falls outside of this simple constraint. Article 61 shows quite clearly who really holds the power in this country, that being quite simply us the people; we have Sovereignty not any Parliament and nor can this be taken from us by any Parliament who claim to have taken the people's Sovereignty.

This is how we solve our political woes and take our country back.

Only we can save ourselves.

Please repost.

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“Comfort teaches a man nothing. Bless the meal that fights back."

[NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 @japan_nobunaga]

They made me sign a waiver before the wings arrived.

A paper. To eat. As though courage came with a release form.

The cheerful waiter set the plate down like a man delivering a verdict. "These are the Infernos. Most people tap out. There's milk if you need it."

I looked at the milk. The milk looked back. We understood each other. Neither of us would be needed tonight.

"I will not be requiring the milk," I said.

The first bite arrived like a small sunrise behind the eyes.

(My tongue filed a formal complaint. My eyes opened a second one. I overruled them both.)

A man does not ask the fire to be gentler. He only becomes harder to burn.

I did not reach for water. I did not wave a hand before my mouth. I sat, straight-backed, and ate the Infernos one by one, the way a man receives ten thousand letters of bad news without changing his face.

Beside me, a college boy attempting the same challenge was weeping openly into a napkin. So, between bites, I turned to him and said, calmly, that the fire is not the enemy — the wish for it to stop is the enemy. He stared. Then he picked up another wing.

When the waiter returned, expecting wreckage, he found an empty plate and a samurai sitting in perfect, sweating peace.

"...sir. You want the wall? You're on the wall now. People take a photo."

I rose. I bowed to the plate. I bowed to the kitchen, where unseen hands had forged so worthy a trial.

"Thank you for the fire," I told them.

Then I turned to the room and said, with smoke still somewhere in my soul:

"Comfort teaches a man nothing. Bless the meal that fights back."

The college boy lifted his last wing like a torch. The cook came out to shake my hand. The whole table behind me began, softly, to applaud the strange calm man who had thanked them for the burning.

I walked out into the cool evening, mouth aflame, heart entirely at peace.

A small fire, faced well, is just another way to know you are alive.

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@BristowEwan Ilian Tape is one of the best labels out there right now.

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What is the point of a representative government?

[Poppy Coburn @kafkaswife]

For 683 days the Government had a legal injunction banning the press, MPs and the public from knowing about the secret resettlement of tens of thousands of asylum seekers into Britain. They spent £7 billion of public money on the scheme.

If the government has lost legitimacy over asylum, it is the predictable result of their own decision making

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@YukiFMSynth

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@deesnider Excellent. What a nice ride.