It’s very American in spirit.

They don’t seem annoyed by their own false positives when they classify anyone who opposes genociding Palestinians as a terrorist. The UK Government seems quite happy with these heavy-handed tactics for the oppression of politically inconvenient people.

Here’s the article they were distributing:

Misguided Brushes of a Pen Continue to Dismantle and Destroy Biomedical Research in the United States: We Can No Longer Afford Complacency and Fear. We Must All Act Now!

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I think of it as being made by one of few really trustworthy organizations in tech.

AMA

We’re good, thanks.

Women’s rights and Transgender rights are in conflict

Some of us would strongly disagree with this fundamental premise of yours. You state it like it’s a solid basis on which these matters should be debated, but it’s actually a controversial point that could only emerge as the conclusion of an argument. It needs justification at least.

VPNs don’t prevent a device from announcing its real location. And they protect you from a MITM at the ISP but not at the VPN provider, so you just switch who you trust. VPNs also don’t do anything to help with the browser fingerprinting that companies use to track you around the web. From the point of view of the services and sites you connect to, all a VPN does is change your IP address, and the IP address may not be a big part of how they track you in the first place. VPNs alone do not improve privacy much at all.

What VPNs do is shield your traffic metadata from inspection by the network hops between your client and the VPN provider (though the content is almost always enxrypted even without the VPN), and change your apparent location for any service that is exclusively using IP-based geolocation.

Woking is in Surrey. I hear they have a good Pizza Express.

Maybe there wasn’t one.

One way to do that would be to stop the endless misdeeds.

Over the many decades I’ve been alive, there have been regular articles saying “scientists discover that such-and-such an animal may feel pain.” And then its forgotten and people continue to treat animals terribly, until a couple of years later a similar article comes out. I can’t see where the thought would even come from in the first place that these animals wouldn’t feel pain, except for religious dogma and a desire to continue abusing animals while telling yourself it’s OK. There’s no reason to even suspect most animals aren’t feeling pain.

He’s doing a Biden, insisting on lingering past his sell-by date so he can appease his ego and hand the country over to fascists.

The article has been withdrawn for being inaccurate.

According to court evidence, the incident began on Feb. 1, 2025, when Muneeb Akhter asked his brother for the plaintext password of a user who had submitted a complaint through the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s Public Portal. Sohaib allegedly queried the EEOC database to retrieve the credentials, which were then used to access the victim’s email account without authorization.

That shouldn’t be possible. Why were they storing passwords in plain text?

The old Israeli approach to ceasefires.

The report reflects that the alerted products have, in their vast majority, an Asian origin: 80.8%. Within that block, the weight of China is decisive: 212 out of 276 national alerts originate in this country, which represents 76.8% of the total. Far behind are products of European origin (8.7%) or those whose origin could not be identified (10.1%).

How much of that imbalance is just because China makes more stuff than other countries?

Casio digital watches.

If only the prices were not so 2026y.

Meanwhile…

Trump again threatens entire nation of Iran saying country will be ‘blown off the face of the earth’

Thanks - that was interesting and informative, if a little depressing.