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[FanlessTech @FanlessTech]

It's surreal to experience a PC with zero noise

[The Refined Populist @RefinedPopulist]

The same date I took my wife on in HS costs $160 now, not including $4/gallon gas.

>Chili’s: $70 for an app, split entree, and cokes.
>Movie: $70 for 2 tickets, popcorn, and cokes.
> Cold Stone: $20 for two, single scoop cones.

“WhY dOn’T tEeNs WaNt To Do AnYthIng?” Idiot.

[eewie @ewiecat]

@dickcheese999 it's a hindu symbol it means peace.

[HealthRanger @HealthRanger]

This seems pretty crazy: Just handing over a U.S. Senate seat to a completely unqualified SISTER of the senator who just died? Shouldn't voters have a say in this? Or are we back to "royal bloodlines" now?

[The Redheaded libertarian @TRHLofficial]

The Senate is a dynastic monarchy I guess.

[eewie @ewiecat]

@MaNeo_O you do.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Dutch intelligence agencies got caught training AI on citizen data they weren't supposed to have.

the CTIVD, the Netherlands' official intelligence oversight body, published a report finding that AIVD and MIVD staff accessed and retained massive bulk datasets in ways that violate Dutch law.

names. phone numbers. location data. social media. communication content. millions of entries. some from government sources. some commercially purchased. some stolen by criminals and bought on the dark web.

and then Bits of Freedom, the Dutch digital rights organization, flagged something buried in the report: the agencies appear to be training their own AI models on this data.

this is not the first time.

in 2020, the same watchdog found the same agencies had retained citizen data far beyond legal limits. after complaints, they were ordered to delete it.

six years later: same report. same finding. same agencies.

but now with AI in the loop.

the data that was illegally retained is now reportedly being used to train models that will make future surveillance faster, more accurate, and more autonomous.

you cannot opt out. Unlike commercial AI companies, there is no settings menu. no privacy center. no right to delete that you can actually exercise.

Bits of Freedom put it directly:

"They seem to be buying data from criminal data breaches. aren't they supposed to be protecting us from those?"

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Chinese courts have ruled that gaming accounts, in-game items, and digital purchases can be passed on to family after death, setting a major legal precedent for digital ownership.

The decisions come from several court cases over the years, with judges ruling that these digital assets have real value and should be treated like other property. In one recent case, a mother was allowed to inherit her late son’s 87 gaming accounts.

The courts also ruled that platform terms of service cannot automatically block inheritance if the law permits it. However, personal data such as private messages and chat history remain protected and are not included.

[Shahriq Khan @RealShahriqKhan]

When I was Muslim, I never noticed what the Quran doesn’t have.

Dates. Places. Names you can check.

Read the Quran’s stories: no chronology, almost no geography, kings called only “Pharaoh,” events floating in no particular year.

Where did the story happen? When? Under whom? The text doesn’t say. You can’t check it… which conveniently means you can’t crosscheck it.

Now read the opening of Luke 3:

“In the FIFTEENTH YEAR of the reign of TIBERIUS CAESAR — PONTIUS PILATE being governor of JUDEA, HEROD being tetrarch of GALILEE, his brother PHILIP tetrarch of ITUREA and TRACHONITIS, and LYSANIAS tetrarch of ABILENE, during the high priesthood of ANNAS and CAIAPHAS…”

SEVEN historical anchors in one sentence.

An emperor, a governor, three rulers with their exact territories, two high priests.

And people HAVE checked — for centuries, often trying to break it. Skeptics mocked Luke’s “Lysanias of Abilene” as an error…

UNTIL an inscription naming Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene turned up.

Pilate was called legend by some… until the Pilate Stone was dug up at Caesarea in 1961 with his name and title carved in it.

Luke 1:3-4 tells you why: “Having followed all things closely… that you may have CERTAINTY.”

Certainty. That’s the offer.

One book floats above history where nothing can touch it.

The other planted its flag in checkable ground and said: dig.

They dug. It’s still standing.

Praise the Lord and His mighty God-Breathed scripture.

[Flux Alert @FluxAlert]

Bahnhof avslöjar hemlig svensk censur av internet.

Stora svenska internetoperatörer har i tysthet skrivit på ett avtal med rättighetsjättar som Disney, Netflix, Warner Bros, Paramount, Universal och Svensk Filmindustri.

Avtalet handlar om att blockera sajter med livesport och film, och att gemensamt driva på för ny lagstiftning som gör framtida censur ännu enklare.

Bahnhof vägrar skriva på den delen.

De följer domstolsbeslut under hot om vite, men de vill inte bli politiska grindvakter åt innehåll.

Bahnhof kallar det "upphovsmaffian" och varnar för att operatörer håller på att förvandlas till censurmyndigheter genom hemliga handslag.

Sverige håller på att bli en censurstat där stora bolag och rättighetsinnehavare bestämmer vad svenskar får se på nätet.

Det öppna internet är under attack.

[iwsfutcmd @iwsfutcmd]

the Chinese are way ahead of you, buddy

we're currently in the 小暑 (Lesser Heat)

[Morrisan15 @morris_que14]

The difference when China wins like this is that this a victory for the Chinese people as a whole and their collective achievement. When SpaceX wins it's just a win for a private company and not a victory for the American people as a whole.

[eewie @ewiecat]

@Pirat_Nation fire them all.

[Carl Zha @CarlZha]

It turns out China closed the gap in less than 3 month.

Long March 10B reusable booster landing:

[Isabelle d'Artagnan @isa_dartagnan]

Quand j'étais enfant, on m'expliquait que l'URSS et l'Allemagne de l'Est étaient totalitaires parce que l'État espionnait tous les messages privés.

Il y avait des films sur la Stasi, sur l'absence de vie privée et d'état de droit.

#chatcontrol

[Mullvad.net @mullvadnet]

Piccadilly Circus. The London Councils didn’t like our campaign against the upcoming state spyware in the UK. So, first the word ”government” was blacked out. Then the whole message was scrapped.
On the other side of the road, though: alive and kicking.

[Teortaxes▶️ (DeepSeek 推特🐋铁粉 2023 – ∞) @teortaxesTex]

For context, the location of "Kinmen, Taiwan":

[violet ݁⋆⭒˚.⋆ @violetnyann]

democracy is so awesome, 607 out of 450,380,300 got to vote for whether the EU can scan _all_ of your non e2ee encrypted messages until 2028

[MW4Liberty @MW4Liberty]

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.