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Lügen, die Vorurteile bestätigen, funktionieren auch dann, wenn sie aufgedeckt werden. Ob etwas wahr ist, ist gar nicht so wichtig, wenn es ja hätte wahr sein können.
Ich hasse die Rothaarige, weil sie versucht meinen Mann zu verführen¹. Erfahre ich später, daß das gar nicht stimmt, sind die Gefühle trotzdem da, und ich seh sie weiterhin mißtrauisch, weil „hätte ja sein können“ – und könnte ja zukünftig. Um dieses Gefühl zu überschreiben bräuchte es dann schon ein explizites Ereignis, …

The FTC says it won't enforce COPPA against companies using age verification tools as long as they use the collected data only to verify a user's age (Suzanne Smalley/The Record)
https://therecord.media/ftc-says-it-wont-enforce-coppa-age-verification

FTC says it won’t enforce COPPA against proper use of age verification tools
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on Wednesday issued a policy statement advising industry that it will not bring enforcement actions against website and online service providers who collect, use and share personal data using age verification technologies.

#FotoDerWoche mit spiegelndem See.
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/04/photo-of-the-week-mirror-lake-stuttgart/

Photo of the week: Mirror lake, Stuttgart
In two minds über den Eckensee, an dem ich immer vorbei komme, wenn ich in Stuttgart zur Arbeit gehe und mal nicht im Home-Office bin. Ich verstehe ästhetisch, was er da soll, und ich bin auch bei weitem nicht der Einzige, der da gerne stehen bleibt und Fotos macht. Aber ein "See", der mehrmals im J

RE: https://digitalcourage.social/@BlumeEvolution/116475223890832485
Es ist mir schon seit längerem ein Rätsel, dass die Geschichte von „Migration als Mutter aller Probleme“ mehr verfängt als die von „Tax the Rich“, wenn man sich anguckt, was …

“When you click “verify” on LinkedIn, you’re not giving your passport to LinkedIn. You get redirected to a company called Persona. Full name: Persona Identities, Inc. Based in San Francisco, California.
LinkedIn is their client. You are the face being scanned.
I had never heard of Persona before this. Most people haven’t. That’s kind of the point — they sit invisibly between you and the platforms you trust.”
(via @…

A news publication has verified some of the details included in a woman’s testimony to the FBI in 2019,
in which she accused Donald Trump of sexually assaulting her when she was a minor.
The publication in question
— Charleston, South Carolina-based The Post and Courier
— was not able to verify the woman’s allegations against Trump.
However, it was able to confirm details about her family history, her personal legal history, and other historical facts relating t…

Newspaper Confirms Some Details in Trump Accuser’s Epstein-Related Story to FBI
The Post-Courier was able to verify key dates a woman accusing Trump of sexual assault provided to FBI agents in 2019.

Oh the joys of a mainframe upgrade.
Defining what type of testing is needed and specific test cases to verify that all functionality for the system is available.
Also, a short briefing note for the upcoming board meeting to describe what is being done, why, when, where the backup will be running from, who is doing what portions and how we verify that it all went smoothly.
It should go smoothly (famous last words), but we will verify that the upgrade was completed and comp…

Just had a small argument with an AI (an LLM) over the Early Modern English (Shakespeare's English) use of singular verb conjugation with the singular: "they."
ex: "There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me" - The Comedy of Errors, Act 4, scene 3
I won the argument, both because I was right, and because the AI doesn't understand anything. 😜
Good times getting into my

Grr and argh.
The people who make government websites generally tend to do a halfway decent job of meeting the spec, but they really really need to learn to push back when the spec is FUCKING STUPID.
Having just completed my "Annual Filing" with Companies House - and why is that even a thing, we're not posting fucking vellum to Victorian clerks who scurry up ladders to deposit the sacred paperwork in the appropriate filing cabinet any more - I got a new scary emai…

Discord says that the "vast majority of people can continue using Discord exactly as they do today" without needing to use a face scan or ID to verify their age (The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/876575/discord-age-verification-vas…

Discord says ‘vast majority’ of users won’t see its new age verification setup
Discord says the “vast majority” of people won’t need to scan their face or present their government ID to use the platform when it implements age verification in March.