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I can’t imagine using the web without firefox and ublock. Even the cookie consent popups are awful.

I gave Bluesky a shot and didn’t really like it. This might have to do with how I never liked Twitter before or after the rebranding.

I do think the branding is way better than mastodon though.

B-but china bad. My oil tycoon told me so.

You mean Twitter?

Doing the right thing is often the more treacherous path.

I’m against gambling, but at least with slot machines and poker tables there isn’t a cash incentive to go light the forest on fire.

One-time as in there won’t be another Spider-Man ad. I’m sure the next ad will also be a “one-time” deal as well.

Your issue is one of branding, which is fair. Though, it is not a social media company’s responsibility to educate users on the distinction between “private” from other users and “encrypted” from government snooping.

You have an expectation of privacy in a hotel room. Privacy over social media is akin to passing a note in a classroom and getting upset the teacher snatches it and reads it. Your “private” messages on Discord are not private.

Don’t mistake my opinion as a condemnation of online privacy. My point was privacy doesn’t exist on the internet without the proper encryption.

As it relates to the topic I think it was stupid to say something the FBI would perceive as a credible threat on something that wasn’t a secure communication. If someone said the same thing in a “private conversation” with an AI chatbot I wouldn’t be surprised if the FBI knocked on their door too.

Never, ever, ever post dumb stuff like that in public. Don’t shout fire in a movie theater. Don’t shout bomb in an airport. Don’t talk about killing customers in the work groupchat. Unless you own the hardware or are using end-to-end encryption, it’s public. No excuse. User error.

I guarantee you if this teacher killed the student people would be carrying pitchforks over nothing being done about the messages.

Unpopular opinion: What happened was a good thing.

• One should assume everything they say on the internet is public, even “private” messages on a social media app.
• The person who sent the message needed that reality check after saying something so stupid.
• Though this was a false alarm, it showed a semblance of responsibly from a social media company that is typically evil and indifferent.
• It is not the fault of the social media company that the FBI chose to act on the information.

That would be terrible news if their purpose was fighting crime.

Using loaded language like “deepfakes of disasters” is both disingenuous and cheapening of the word deepfake. Would they use the same words to describe a kid scribbling in some monsters on a paper road map? Because it’s the same thing.

It’s an uneven enforcement of their rules.

Israel has a right to defend itself by bombing Muslims. <- Karma-boosted

Jews have a right to defend themselves by punching Nazis. <- Banned

I hope they don’t act surprised when cheap Chinese cars without all that crap devour their market share.

Punching Nazis is a specific thing that has gotten a lot of people banned, myself included. Which is weird because it’s something I’ve said for years, but I think it was after the DOGE incident they really started clamping down on it as “inciting violence.”

They commit mass amounts of copyright infringement before burning the books.

When was the last time you dusted out your computer case?

Why is this news for a site like Jerusalem Post?