Lou Katz @lou@entropyservice.com

Joe Rogan Calls Israel-Hamas War a Genocide: ‘You Went Through the Holocaust and Now You’re Willing to Do It?’ https://www.mediaite.com/podcasts/joe-rogan-calls-israel-hamas-war-a-genocide-you-went-through-the-holocaust-and-now-youre-willing-to-do-it/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

Charlie Kirk: Embryos should be saved from a burning building before live babies https://www.rawstory.com/embryo/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

@adamshostack That really bothers me. They have this super tight trust model, but then the whole thing can be undone by phone number? I want to remove phone numbers from ALL important accounts, because they're kind of like a mailbox that lots of people have the key to (or at least access to).

Ah ha! It seems the SEC is capable of going after insider trading, so long as it's former minor league baseball players, not billionaires and banks and hedge funds.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-03-26/minor-league-baseball-players-insider-traded-del-taco-sec-says

Tell me, my Christian friends: Is a Bible more valuable or trustworthy when it is “endorsed” by an adulterer, fraud, and rapist? https://mastodon.social/@indivisibleteam/112167841678937984

If you somehow think translation between languages is a neutral act, go search for any two differently translated versions of the same poem.

And then recognize that that goes for the "same" language, across time, too.

BREAKING: 77-year-old man with possible dementia endorses new $60 book that says he should be stoned for death for adultery.

@pluralistic As I understand it

NBC should offer to let Ronna McTraitor stay on if she agrees to wear full Hannibal Lecter restraints while everyone else talks past her.

'A lifelong crook': Columnist takes a hatchet to GOP claims of Trump victimization https://www.rawstory.com/trump-crimes-2667613566/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

“From February 15, 2023, through February 15, 2024, another 18% of such articles [in the New York Times] included anti-trans misinformation with no fact-checking” #TransRights #NYTimes #journalism #transphobia #MediaMatters https://www.mediamatters.org/new-york-times/seen-not-heard-new-york-times-failed-quote-trans-people-over-60-2023-stories-anti

Just read that article about Facebook buying up a VPN service so they could intercept encrypted traffic on your other phone apps.

If I tried to do that I'd be a arrested for hacking and thrown in jail. This is a long way past just "tech bros be bad actors".

https://mastodon.social/@dangillmor/112165860831650086

Last boost, a reminder that "VPN Service" just means "Sending all your internet traffic through some random dude who can intercept everything*. Sometimes that random dude is a Belarusian script kiddy, sometimes it's Mark Zuckerberg

'Not the actions' of a wealthy man: CNN panel roasts Trump for Bible-hawking stunt https://www.rawstory.com/trump-bible-2667612828/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

The thing about Facebook is that the people who work there just do this shit. They make a plan to do it, they agree to do it and they do it. Sometimes they say "this is very bad there's no way we can justify this" and then they do it anyway.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

I was looking around to see if anyone is making a decent small (7"-8") tablet running Linux when I realized that no one is even making a good small tablet running Android. (Amazon and Samsung small tablets are not good...)

It's a reminder that Google once sold a GREAT small Android tablet, the Nexus 7 -- and like so many things the company has produced, killed it off in a fit of boredom or stupidity.

Well, this is a transcendent level of evil: Facebook bought a VPN company and deployed it, in part, to spy on its competitor's users.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

It's a reminder that VPNs have their own risks, beyond technical ones if operated incompetently -- namely, that you have to trust the VPN company itself.

UPDATED to reflect which users were being spied on.

If the penalty for a crime is a fine, then that law only exists for the lower class.

🦅

My main use of the deadbird site at this point is to chide journalists for remaining there as supporters of an extremists who hates journalism.

While I'm there, I unfollow a bunch of accounts. In most cases they are people I respect in other ways, but I don't want them to think I support what they are doing.

@dalias @pluralistic

Interesting how so many supposed free marketers talk as if stockholders are somehow entitled to safety in their investments, when instead an incorporation was dreamed up to insulate them because what they were doing was inherently risky and we wanted people to able to *only* risk their investment, and not have to risk also losing their home and the shirt off their back.