Austin Britt

Your everyday inventor, mentor, nonprofit President, TX resident, Southampton Saints/San Antonio Spurs/Sydney Swans fan, STEM guy, ally (he/him) #SpursTwitter

[MEGA @MEGAprivacy]

Apple is downgrading the feature that helps you stay private on the web 👎

Hide My Email creates a fake email address you can give to apps and websites instead of your real one, so they never actually know who you are.

But not for long. Later this year, Apple is rolling out a change that moves new Hide My Email addresses to a format that makes it obvious you're hiding your identity. Any app or website can now block it entirely, and you're back to handing over your real email.

Why does Big Tech keep downgrading privacy features at the exact moment we need them most?

[Mololuwa | Cybersecurity - (The God Complex) @cyber_rekk]

The EU is building an age verification system that requires a passport to access adult content online

A security researcher hacked the app in under two minutes

Passport data was stored in plain text
Biometric checks were disabled without triggering any alarm

The EU's response: the app still has value even if it can be bypassed

Their solution to the bypass: discuss restricting VPNs

The proposed VPN countermeasures include blocking commercial VPN IP ranges, triangulating GPS with carrier data, and ISP-level traffic filtering

No VPN ban has been passed
The direction of travel is clear

A system built to protect children is leaking passport data and pointing toward infrastructure controls that journalists, lawyers, and dissidents depend on

They are lying
they built a surveillance system that doesn't work
and the fix is more surveillance

Tshhhhhh

[Elizabeth Warren @ewarren]

Reminder as you're traveling this summer:

Trump reversed a rule that required airlines to automatically refund you with CASH—not vouchers, not points—for canceled or severely delayed flights.

United Airlines and Delta Airlines each gave $1 million to Trump’s inauguration fund.

[Black AnarchyⒶ🏳️‍⚧️Ⓥ @AllStatesAreBad]

A lot of people think the internet censorship will just be isolated to one or a few countries are very ignorant. They want the entire internet so nobody will be safe. They want control and have always wanted control. They didn't know how to do it back then but found ways now.

[Nicole Prause @NicoleRPrause]

Age verification is, as expected, being used to stop speech generally, stop research, and more now.
The Trojan Horse is in, and anti-porn extremists sent it.

[Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @AdamKinzinger]

Good lord the most brutal community note ever. Quoting the MOU directly

[The Intellectualist @highbrow_nobrow]

Chris Miller on Fox News: I "absolutely" told the Jan 6 committee under oath that Donald Trump made an order to deploy the National Guard ahead of Jan 6

Miller Under Oath: "I was never given any direction or order or knew of any plans of that nature."

[The New Republic @newrepublic]

When she declined the invites, she said she began receiving death threats.

Over the next six months, the woman saw the two men continue to approach young women in the atrium at Trump Tower. She saw “girls, usually blondes, approximately 15/16 years old with one of the two men and saw them get on an escalator,” the report stated.

[Aaron Rupar @atrupar]

“In some sense, Paxton is a legal vanguard for the MAGA movement. Because he’s utterly shameless and willing to breach every legal and ethical rule, he effectively clears the way, normalizing prosecutorial abuses that other Republican lawyers would previously have balked at. The legal theories and practices that he road tests wind up in the Republican mainstream.” https://t.co/sghKqwYqlS

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Looks like the same signature from the Epstein birthday card.

[NoelCaslerComedy @caslernoel]

Dear younger voters who went for Trump in ‘24, watch the speeches of Prez & Michelle Obama & Mamdani today then compare it to Trump speaking at the White House this afternoon. Ask yourself what kinda world you wanna live in & what real leadership looks like. Then get involved.

[Adam Crafton @AdamCrafton_]

Bored of people describing some of the irritating things at this World Cup (like drinks breaks or appallingly priced tickets) as “American”. They are not “America’s” decisions. They are FIFA’s decisions, exploiting their perception of the American market.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Switzerland did it.
France have done it.

It's time to get the US/Israeli Spy Agency Palantir out of Europe.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

The Adobe lobbyist CREATOR Act bill only being available via an HTML flipbook that makes it impossible for you to extract or print the entire document is actually a perfect representation of how the people writing these laws think the Internet should function

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Just a reminder about the Epstein class. Some of them begged to go to the island.

[urbanist slop hq @SlopHq]

americans are trained to believe european infrastructure is expensive and then paris builds automated metro for a quarter of our per-mile cost and we go "must be nice to have all that government money." brother they spent LESS than us

[Lyn🦋 @_ayandamay]

I overheard a girl saying yesterday ‘worrying is such a terrible use of your imagination’ … and I audibly gasped.

[SPV Laboratories 〚CORONAVIRUS TASKFORCE〛 @SPVLABS]

Hey @TeamStubHub this is exactly what has happened to me. A refund is not appropriate when current ticket prices are 3x what we paid for. I called customer service but all they did was “empathize”.

I bought tickets. Please give me the tickets.

[Melanie D'Arrigo @DarrigoMelanie]

Trickle down economics is the lie billionaires tell so you’ll support them stealing and hoarding your money.

[Taylor Lorenz @TaylorLorenz]

Stop using the industry PR term “age verification” and start calling it what it is: ID checks for the internet