BrickmuppetVT

Moving onward and upward out of sheer SPITE!

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@TheMuppetPastor It is truly a sign of the times we live in that the sanest, most humane take on this matter that I've seen today comes from a would-be despot in Eternia.

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Stream is ON! We're Exploring Roscalifer and Rummaging Through its Dumpsters for Polychromes! https://t.co/cMYiVuOOsz

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@ChristianHeiens Heretofore, Heiens has been making REALLY good points and source-backed arguments. But now....he posts a hockey stick.

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@ChristianHeiens "The problem is they're constantly outnumbered 3-1." Well...their ballots certainly are.

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@AMAZlNGNATURE So...what do they taste like?

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@ChristianHeiens I was very disturbed to see you engaging in wild, unhinged, conspiracy theories until I realized that the unhinged conspiracy theory was thoroughly domesticated with peer reviewed research. Now I'm just very disturbed.

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@FortheReuni0n @ChristianHeiens

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@AMAZlNGNATURE This story was cute until the last sentence. Then it developed implications. (I've SEEN this movie.)

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The film was awesome! However, it was short. SO: as compensation, we're going to do a short Zomboid stream, experimenting with the recent updates to the current Beta. Join me as I derp around in the zombie apocalypse! https://t.co/cMYiVuOOsz

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Stream is LIVE! Join us over at https://t.co/zk4GqEJVbe with special guest Hyasynth Live for a break from the usual as we screen aa absolutely superb documentary film from 1925. GRASS: A NATIONS BATTLE FOR LIFE follows a tribe of nomadic Iranian herders as they do their annual trek as they chase the seasons that provide them with the key to their survival! This film is awesome, as is the story behind it. We'll be delving into both!

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Tonight in 2 hours (9pm, EDT 1am UTC) Join Myself and another V-Tuber (Hyasynth Live) over at https://t.co/vGoS8MxXog for a break from the usual as we screen aa absolutely superb documentary film from 1925. GRASS: A NATIONS BATTLE FOR LIFE follows a tribe of nomadic Iranian herders as they do their annual trek as they chase the seasons that provide them with the key to their survival: Grass.

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@ChristianHeiens They actually did the meme.

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@ChristianHeiens WAT

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37 years ago today: This strange picture with no context was taken for no particular reason.

OH WAIT! I'm typing this on X! X is based in the U.S.

Thus, I can provide context that is not printable in certain other places.

37 years ago today, the student know to history as Tank Man stood up to murderous oppression and for a brief moment gave the whole world hope, before Tiananmen Square became an abattoir.

An ironic footnote: Tiananmen Square is the park outside the Tiananmen Gate into the old Forbidden City. Tiananmen means 'Gate of Heavenly Peace'

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Stream is happening NOW. In this case the stream is a very chill Genshin Impact, plot mop-up stream over at https://t.co/cMYiVuOOsz

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@MartyrsCornerVT Do you use Brave? (Don't answer that but check this): https://t.co/Q2HD0wckRK

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Recent algorithm changes on X may be unfairly hammering Brave users. And there's a larger issue here about bad interactions between robots and privacy measures.

@nikitabier @brave

My friend Jay Maynard, who some of you may know as Tron Guy, just got permabanned off X for "inauthentic behavior". His appeal was swiftly denied.

Jay is not a spammer, scammer or engagement farmer; he is, in fact, exactly the kind of good citizen X says it wants. Jay asked Gemini for analysis, and now thinks he knows what happened.

Brave, as a privacy measure, randomly changes the identity presented to sites in order to avoid tracking by the ad vampires. Gemini suggested that some code at X interpreted this as spammy behavior using multiple browsers. If so - and this does seem plausible - everybody trying to protect their privacy with Brave is at risk.

This is a general problem, not just an X glitch or a Brave issue. Social media sites are increasingly relying for security on forms of heuristic AI that are prone to unacceptably high false-positive rates.

More specifically, platforms are increasingly treating a user's refusal to be tracked, fingerprinted, and categorized as a hostile act. When a site makes it impossible to connect via a privacy-focused user agent without getting flagged as a malicious bot, it stops being "security" and effectively becomes a retaliatory lockout for protecting oneself.

Worse yet, such system architecture provides no circuit breaker - humans are only rarely and exceptionally asked review for errors. Jay's appeal denial came back so fast that it was obvious no meat-brain ever saw it. He has filed complaints within the Minnesota Attorney General and the Better Business Bureau, because what else can he do? The robots have locked him out.

Badly designed robots and zeal to squeeze human oversight out of the system forces regular citizens to rely on state law enforcement or consumer protection bureaus.

Allow me to gently suggest to the people running X that unless you want politicians poking their noses into your business and imposing constraints on you that you are not going to like, you need to fix your security and appeal processes so running to the law isn't necessary.

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Stream is happening: We've got Darkness, OSHA Violations, Poor Lighting, Demons, and an Illumination Deficit. (Yes we're playing Doom 3 over at https://t.co/cMYiVuOOsz )

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@ChristianHeiens Well, in fairness no one expects Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn to post under a pseudonym with an anime avatar.