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Lawmakers visit 'Alligator Alcatraz' after being blocked (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/alligator-alcatraz-immigration-detainees-florida-dd1cd271b864a72e6fed1f95d62ee8f7
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p54#a250712p54

If you get a post like this, it is a scam. This particular one targeted many #HashTagGames players and replied to various hashtag game plays but the account has now been blocked by Mastodon.Social.
Mastodon does not do age verification. Check with your instance, report it, etc if you get something like this.
Edit to remove the player that was targeted from the image and to add …

Don’t you hate it when #FreeTube is being ip-blocked, and #YouTube automatically starts a mix playlist every time you click on a music video?
🤢 🤢

Salesforce is restricting third-party companies from long-term indexing and storing of Slack messages, which would hamper rival enterprise AI firms like Glean (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/salesforce-blocks-ai-rivals…

Salesforce Blocks AI Rivals From Using Slack Data
Slack, an instant-messaging service popular with businesses, recently blocked other software firms from searching or storing Slack messages even if their customers permit them to do so, according to a public disclosure from Slack’s owner, Salesforce. The move, which hasn’t previously been ...

So Naomi Brockwell TV blew my mind about how are smart TVs are spying on us with Automatic Content Recognition and other advertising profile scripts. Yikes!
https://youtu.be/jeq2m-OM53A?si=DPW7TQiDSopBdqiS
I don’t have the resources to switch to a more secure streaming devic…

Were I on a jury I would not vote to convict any of the people seized (I won't honor those acts with the word "arrest") by ICE.
But, of course, none of these people will ever see the inside of a US courtroom, much less obtain benefit of legal counsel and a trial.
The people being seized are becoming increasingly aware that they are going to be sent without due process to a near-death camp in the US or a real death camp outside of the US. So it is understandable tha…

Federal immigration agents carry out sweeps at Ventura County farms
Protesters blocked the roads in and out of one of the farms and at one point federal agents drove their vehicles through the fields.

Last year, we bought a collection of 17 Georgia paintings by 19th- and 20th-century artists, many of whom are lesser known. Even the ones who are better known, like #NellChoateJones, aren't exactly _well_ known. We're excited to start studying these works and learning about the Georgia scenes many of them show.

Got slammed by an unidentified but certainly "#AI"-related #distributed #crawler this week, it drove one site's traffic to 10× average. Today I tired of playing Whac-a-Mole and blocked the two bigge…

A US appeals court blocks the FTC's "click-to-cancel" rule that would have taken effect on July 14, saying it didn't conduct a preliminary cost-benefit analysis (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustr

If you happen to resemble a fascist, talk like a fascist, parade around like a fascist, and suppress like a fascist, congratulations! You’ve just unlocked the exclusive, ultra-elite "Insta-Blocked" club membership—no application needed, no trial, just instant social media exile.
Because why waste time on subtlety when you can just hit the block button and pretend the problem vanished? Welcome to the future of discourse: if you fascist, you get ghosted faster than a bad Tinde…

The Supreme Court on July 8 lifted a federal judge's order pausing the Trump administration's large-scale staffing cuts and agency restructuring,
boosting the president's campaign to bleed the federal bureaucracy to death
In an unsigned and brief opininon, the justices said they are not ruling on the legality of a specific reorganization plan.
But, the court said, the judge was wrong to stop the administration from moving ahead with such plans.
The mass fe…

Supreme Court lets Trump move forward with large-scale staff cuts for now — USA TODAY
A U.S. district judge in San Francisco had temporarily blocked large-scale federal layoffs known as "reductions in force."

"Reform UK backs plan to put swift bricks in every new home in England"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Birds #Animals

Take note: it works even when internet is blocked or unavailable.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/07/jack-dorsey-whatsapp-bluetooth.html

Jack Dorsey launches a WhatsApp messaging rival built on Bluetooth
Block CEO Jack Dorsey has launched Bitchat, a new peer-to-peer messaging app that works entirely over Bluetooth mesh networks.

Mass layoffs likely to remain blocked, for now, thanks to a Supreme Court footnote - Government Executive
https://www.govexec.com/workforce/2025/06/mass-layoffs-likely-remain-blocked-now-thanks-supreme-court-footnote/406381/

I’m dubious that BlueSky is pleased that JD Vance joined.
Meanwhile, their moderation tools are holding up damned well.
The account was initially banned, as an impersonation. Then it was verified.
Most people are reporting it was already blocked because they were using one of the many shared “MAGA” block lists.
And he’s in second place as the most blocked person on the site in less than 24h.

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/openai-chatgpt-north-korean-it-workers
OpenAI blocks ChatGPT accounts linked to North Korean IT worker fraud

OpenAI blocks ChatGPT accounts linked to North Korean IT worker fraud
OpenAI blocked accounts used to create resumes that are likely tied to the long-running scam.

A US appeals court blocks FTC's "click-to-cancel" rule, which was set to take effect on July 14, saying it failed to conduct a preliminary cost-benefit analysis (Jody Godoy/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/legal/legalindustr

There is a long abandoned industrial park that I go to to practice figure eights on the bike. It was closed and blocked off for a solid month. I finally got back to it and saw this at one of the entrances. I am slightly curious what DMV is.

Israeli soldiers on Monday blocked an international media tour organized by No Other Land directors in the West Bank, citing the need to maintain order (Nick Vivarelli/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/global/no-…

'No Other Land' Press Tour of West Bank Village Halted by Israeli Army
The Israeli army has blocked journalists from visiting the village featured in Palestinian Oscar winner 'No Other Land' amid escalating violence.

The people committed to DDoSing the #Apache #SpamAssassin RuleQA server seem to have substantial resources. I’ve blocked a lot of them, but they keep coming, asking about things like the May 7 2017 performance of a single rule in one contributor's stats. Not stuff real people want.
Of course…

Judge temporarily blocks Trump administration from deporting family of suspect in Boulder attack (Melissa Quinn/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/boulder-attack-mohamed-soliman-family-deportation-blocked/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p125#a250604p125

Apparently Vietnam has blocked telegram, but they are doing a real shit job of it, so it works on 4g here in danang, but randomly not working on various beach bar WiFi’s

There was somebody fussing in my replies to my last link to my blog post about Medium (I don’t see them now; they probably blocked me, but their specific words don’t really matter), and the gist of their message was that they didn’t like that site. On the modern internet, if you have an issue with content written by humans, with no surveillance ads, that doesn’t allow AI scraping or AI slop content, with a business model that makes money… I don’t know how to help you. Honestly.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton: • 3/20/23 •
Big victory against Biden:
Last night a federal court blocked the Admin's radical "waters of the
US" rule,
which imposes a leftist environmental agenda on Texas, crushing new regs, and oppressive economic costs.
I will always fight to keep Biden's boots off the necks of Texans!

Good for them.
https://flipboard.com/@euronews/sci-tech-vr0v1u2nz/-/a-47pleMA9Qeip-F7ZfIeC9A:a:89340020-/0

Australia cancels Kanye ‘Ye’ West's visa over Hitler song
Australia's home affairs minister Tony Burke confirmed the news that Ye would be blocked from entering the country over the controversial rapper's …

Update: I heard back from the people running the system. Apparently it isn’t a geoblock, but the specific IPs my requests were coming from were blocked because of abuse from that CDN (bunny.net). The error has been fixed. (Now I wonder if Fraenk hosts their stuff on Bunny.net, or if it’s the DNS resolver I am using 🤔)
Anyway, in the future, access to the warnings should be possible.
Also, they saw this toot and referenced it in their reply 😅.

I tried to access: https://constitutionparty.com/
I got this message:
>Access to browse this site from your country is prohibited.
Is there a way to tell where the access is being blocked, from Brazil or by the site itself?

Apple says it blocked $2 billion in App Store fraud last year https://therecord.media/apple-billions-app-store-fraud

From upper case "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER!!!1!" to "let's get back to JCPOA". After US unilaterally violated the agreement, helped Israel bomb Iran unprovoked, and even bombing themselves them. Lol.
In which fucking world do they live?

Ruling that the law should be applied is a coup, apparently.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/live/2025/may/29/donald-trump-tariffs-court-elon-musk-us-politics-live-news-updates?CMP=share_btn_url

Jamie Zawinski has now blocked me on Mastodon for responding to his uncredited The Onion post with a note that the story was 'Hilarious, but a work of fiction'. (I did in fact click the link, and there's nothing there but the verbatim story.)
Truly, never meet your heroes.

Donald Trump cuts US public spending on health science to lowest level in decade
https://www.ft.com/content/63c12080-d7f3-4ffb-afbc-ff0a90a0131d?sharetype=blocked

A former employee says fewer than 10,000 people use Ola Krutrim's LLM chatbot, which supports 10 Indian languages, and that over 60% of them are random testers (Swathi Moorthy/The Economic Times)
https://

Krutrim finds few takers for its LLMs and cloud products
Ola founder Aggarwal first announced Krutrim in December 2023, launching an LLM that could support 10 Indian languages, starting with Krutrim chatbot in February 2024, and cloud offering shortly after. Two founders told ET recently that repeated sign-in attempts were blocked by a persistent “logged out of session” error, making sign-up via mobile or Gmail difficult.

The US supreme court on Friday permitted DOGE, the so-called ‘department of government efficiency’, broad access to personal information on millions of Americans in Social Security Administration data systems while a legal challenge plays out.
At the request of the Justice Department, the justices put on hold US district judge Ellen Hollander’s order that had largely blocked Doge’s access to “personally identifiable information”
in data such as medical and financial records while …

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.06842 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csIT_…

Aerial Relay to Achieve Covertness and Security
In this work, a delay-tolerant unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) relayed covert and secure communication framework is investigated. In this framework, a legitimate UAV serves as an aerial relay to realize communication when the direct link between the terrestrial transmitter and receiver is blocked and also acts as a friendly jammer to suppress the malicious nodes presented on the ground. Subsequently, considering the uncertainty of malicious nodes' positions, a robust fractional programming optimi…

Reuters' official X account has been restricted in India following a "legal demand", but other accounts, including Reuters Asia, remain accessible (Livemint)
https://www.livemint.com/news/india/reuters-x-…

:ieglobe: I just blocked @GoingNuts@mastodon.social! :ieglobe:
#GretaThunberg

A Wild Number of People Have Already Blocked JD Vance on Bluesky (Josephine Harvey/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/a-wild-number-of-people-have-already-blocked-jd-vance-on-bluesky/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250619/p3#a250619p3

Using SBPF to Accelerate Kernel Memory Access From Userspace
Boming Kong, Zhizhou Zhang, Jonathan Balkind
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.22632 https://

Using SBPF to Accelerate Kernel Memory Access From Userspace
The cost of communication between the operating system kernel and user applications has long blocked improvements in software performance. Traditionally, operating systems encourage software developers to use the system call interface to transfer (or initiate transfer of) data between user applications and the kernel. This approach not only hurts performance at the software level due to memory copies between user space address spaces and kernel space address spaces, it also hurts system perform…

I love it when #Tankies show themselves! If you’re an obvious tankie, like Cat, then I don’t feel sorry if you get insta-blocked!
#MarxismLeninism #Tankies

“This is another snake-oil salesman’s pitch to make him look good and reward the billionaires and millionaire executives and stakeholders for US Steel,”
said Doug May, who worked for 43 years as a steel worker at a mill in Granite City, Illinois, from the age of 19.
“He’s a proven flip-flopper.
Just look at his trade cases:
on again, off again.”
Trump ditched his opposition to the deal
– which Joe Biden blocked in January, citing national security concerns …

The logic of my IT department:
"Hey you need to download this exe to install this program necessary to use our system."
*tries to download*
"Oh, it looks like you tried to download an executable? Sorry you can't do that, we blocked the download." 🐷

In Qatar airport waiting for our transfer and apparently hachyderm.io is blocked from the airport WiFi. Had to enable tailscale exit node to post this.

> For its part, Meta said it is “concerned these false reports will be an excuse for our services to be blocked at a time when people need them the most” and that it does “not provide bulk information to any government”.
https://www.theguardian.co…

Was für ein Shit Move von GitHub (Microsoft) https://infosec.exchange/@tomgag/114504958452945090 /via @…

Tommaso Gagliardoni (@tomgag@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess. So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world. I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfy…

Hundreds of TESS exoplanets might be larger than we thought
Te Han, Paul Robertson, Timothy D. Brandt, Shubham Kanodia, Caleb Ca\~nas, Avi Shporer, George Ricker, Corey Beard
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.19985

Hundreds of TESS exoplanets might be larger than we thought
The radius of a planet is a fundamental parameter that probes its composition and habitability. Precise radius measurements are typically derived from the fraction of starlight blocked when a planet transits its host star. The wide-field Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) has discovered hundreds of new exoplanets, but its low angular resolution means that the light from a star hosting a transiting exoplanet can be blended with the light from background stars. If not fully corrected, t…

Thailand files charges against, and orders the blocking of crypto exchanges Bybit, CoinEx, OKX, 1000X, and XT.com from June 28 for operating without a license (Sam Reynolds/CoinDesk)
https://www.coindesk.com/policy/2025/05/30

Thailand Will Block Access to OKX, Bybit, 1000X and XT.com From June 28, Citing Lack of License
OKX, Bybit, 1000x, and XT are among the exchanges that will be blocked in Thailand by the end of June.

A federal judge on Wednesday blocked Donald Trump's asylum ban at the U.S.-Mexico border,
saying Trump exceeded his authority when he issued a proclamation declaring illegal immigration an emergency and setting aside existing legal processes.
https:…

I... got scammed.
By https://firstpressgames.com .
I wanted to buy a birthday present, and I didn't expect this company to be so problematic.
One month later without getting anything from them, nor responses to my messages... and it crosses my mind that I should have checked online reviews for that e-commerce business before buying anything... and there you go: 1.4 stars out of 5 (no one gave more than 2 stars).
The few reviews that gave 2 stars are something like this, YEARS of delay: https://gamepad.club/@vny/110691909210001220
All of the public reviews use the word scam in one or another language, no exceptions.
Then I checked their social accounts, and... of course, they blocked comments everywhere, to avoid the possibility of angry people popping up and pointing to their shady behavior.

Trump Tariffs Face Threat at Supreme Court -- Over Rulings That Blocked Biden (Greg Stohr/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-05-31/supreme-court-rulings-against-biden-now-threaten-trump-tariffs
http://www.memeorandum.com/250531/p38#a250531p38

#Harvard challenging #DJT edicts against allowing enrollment of non US #citizens in high courts, as top #students accepted to

Harvard foreign students in limbo as college challenges Trump’s ban
Harvard University is challenging President Donald Trump’s move to block foreign students from coming to the United States to attend the Ivy League school, calling it illegal retaliation for Harvard’s rejection of White House demands. In an amended complaint filed Thursday, Harvard called the president’s action an end-run around a previous court order. Last month, a federal judge blocked the Department of Homeland Security from revoking Harvard’s ability to host foreign students. The fi…

Ok, let's say the reply guys are gone from Mastodon(I don't think they are)...
even if they were gone, there are still spam attacks and they are not hackers, they are simple user accounts spamming the usual youtube clickbait garbage.
Xi Jinping happy face
Trump sad face
on the thumbnail.
Blocked 2 accounts that posted such garbage. This is allowed though on my instance.
I guess users are free to "make content interesting".

Day 13 (oh, really? ;))
Registration Form Implementation
I've just finished implementing a registration form with validation and language switching using Next.js and React Hook Form. Now users can register with dynamic language support (English/Polish) and data validation (email, password, phone).
Unfortunately, my account on Write.as has been temporarily blocked, so details about the implementation will be available once the account is unlocked. Stay tuned! 😊

Terry Glavin is the biggest anti-indigenous racist, residential school genocide denier-journalist in all of Canada. (he's also a big Yellow Peril kind of guy which I got into it with him once on Twitter before he blocked me)
Imagine calling lowering flags to half mast for six months due to the nation coming to grips with the DEATH OF THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN "a national psychotic episode"
What an asshole.
#genocide #canpoli #cdnpoli #indigenous #everychildMatters #canada #residentialschools
https://therealstory.substack.com/p/will-the-damage-ever-be-undone?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=748248&post_id=164981259&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=3995q&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email

A federal judge Friday issued a second preliminary injunction blocking some provisions of the sweeping executive order on elections that Donald Trump signed in March.
Judge Denise Casper blocked provisions ordering the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to take steps to require documentary proof of citizenship from people registering to vote and requiring federal voter registration agencies to “assess” the citizenship of individuals who receive public assistance before providing them …

Parts of Trump’s executive order on elections blocked by a federal court
A federal court granted a coalition of states an injunction halting implementation of parts of Trump’s executive order on elections.

Was für ein Shit Move von GitHub (Microsoft) https://infosec.exchange/@tomgag/114504958452945090 /via @…

Tommaso Gagliardoni (@tomgag@infosec.exchange)
Attached: 1 image In a move that surprises absolutely noone, GitHub now requires users to login in order to browse public repositories (including open source projects). After a few (~10) requests, you get blocked (I can confirm). In order to fight AI scrapers, I guess. So, GitHub decided to blanket-limit access to open source projects as a defense against the very scourge that they(r parent company) unleashed on the world. I won't be hypocrite: it's a bit embarrassing, but undeniably satisfy…

The Iranian government says it has restricted internet access in response to Israeli cyberattacks; some Western communication apps have reportedly been blocked (Kevin Collier/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/internet/iran-pl…

Iran plunged into an internet near-blackout during deepening conflict
Iran plunged into a near-total internet blackout Tuesday as Israel continued to bombard the country

Ahead of a vote on Republicans’ budget reconciliation package expected as soon as noon Saturday,
U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee revived his effort to sell off public lands.
Senate Parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough has blocked multiple provisions of the GOP megabill,
including several under the jurisdiction of the Utah Republican’s panel.
Among them is his attack on public lands.
“Here we go again,” Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) …

Mike Lee Tries to Sneak Public Land Sale Back Into 'Big, Ugly Bill' Ahead of Senate Vote | Common Dreams
Ahead of an expected vote on Republicans' budget reconciliation package, U.S. Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Chair Mike Lee revived his effort to sell off public lands.