@jrefior@hachyderm.io2024-05-01 00:39:04
This is what #cryptocurrency is all about: money laundering for organized crime.
"Changpeng Zhao, founder of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, was sentenced Tuesday to four months in prison for looking the other way as criminals used the platform to move money connected to child sex abuse, drug trafficking, and terrorism."
@cellfourteen@social.petertoushkov.eu2024-02-29 11:17:33
Finally wrapped my head around this. It explains everything: When I use a free social network's services that are monetizing me, I am, nevertheless, the customer. And the customer is always right.
It's interesting how easy it is to forget monetized social isn't "free" when you have been given free reign with the false feeling that you are always right. Such an insidious glitch that has the potential to overtake the entirety of your time and make other people power…
@cdarwin@c.im2024-03-31 19:41:50
Title: Ur-Fascism
Author: Umberto Eco
Topics: anti-fascism, fascism, not-anarchist
Date: June 22, 1995
Source: The New York Review of Books
...
In May we heard that the war was over. Peace gave me a curious sensation. I had been told that permanent warfare was the normal condition for a young Italian. In the following months I discovered that the Resistance was not only a local phenomenon but a European one. I learned new, exciting words like réseau, maquis, a…
@r_cybersecurity@botsin.space2024-04-29 21:42:35
The user is on vacation from work and enjoying the peace. Feeling burnt out, they plan to quit upon returning, despite not having another job lined up. They shared the company's regular layoffs and the firing of half their team have led them to this decision. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1cfnxvb/
@jensilber@mastodon.social2024-04-30 16:36:37
#10Authors5BooksEach
I've read at least five books by each of the following 10 authors:
Becky Albertalli
Lloyd Alexander
Robert Heinlein
Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
Madeleine L'Engle
Mercedes Lackey
Anne McCaffrey
Robin McKinley
L.M. Montgomery
Tamora Pierce
The list skews strongly toward books I read when I was y…
@marcel@waldvogel.family2024-04-25 18:03:50
"The Facebook Pages of national news outlets lost approximately 64% of their Facebook engagement following the end of news availability for Canadian users. Local news outlets lost approximately 85%. Almost half of all local news outlets stopped posting on Facebook entirely in the four months following the ban."
And user used workarounds hurting newspaper visibility. Bad choice. But going to be repeated in CH 🤦
@mariyadelano@hachyderm.io2024-02-25 19:55:45
Come on. This push to summarize all webpages and written content with #AI is ridiculous.
See this example from #Arc Search - in what world is this an adequate summary for an 8,000 word article that takes 43 minutes to read?
The amount of detail, specificity, narrative, and actual arguments that get lo…
@luca@social.luca.run2024-02-27 08:48:10
X/Twitter finds my activity suspicious. Of multiple accounts. Because I am using VPNs? Because I don't post? Because I am logging in every few months? I haven't even used my delete script on those accounts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB1-z6LbX5w
@r_cybersecurity@botsin.space2024-04-29 21:42:35
The user is on vacation from work and enjoying the peace. Feeling burnt out, they plan to quit upon returning, despite not having another job lined up. They shared the company's regular layoffs and the firing of half their team have led them to this decision. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1cfnxvb/
@benrosstransit@mastodon.social2024-02-22 12:43:14
Hey WaPo, here is how you cover the news instead of regurgitating police reports.
It takes maybe 3 minutes of research.
https://www.ffxnow.com/2024/02/21/just-in-man-arrested-for-allegedly-fleeing-crash-in-…
