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In a new wide-ranging interview, DT grad student Shawki Izzat gets me to gab about the sordid state of this country and stuff https://youtu.be/qm32Ok3wbEo

Now that most services have implemented 2FA (multi-factor authentication) we are seeing a new breed of scams that exploit them and trick people into approving requests under the guise of fraud prevention, which is easy to do now that we are bombarded by more secure logins. The next time you get a fraud prevention alert, be quadruple vigilant about how you respond to 2FA requests.

Correx: NYT issued a retraction on this NYC primary age turnout histogram. 30-34 turned out the most. https://mastodon.social/@MattBinder/114769706388770860

Matt Binder (@MattBinder@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image if young voters turned out like they did for Zohran Mamdani for every race, the Democratic Party would never lose an election again so naturally, establishment Dems are…smearing him and refusing to endorse?

need a little favor: can any #akkoma and #pleroma users try and view my account @… and its posts? (you might need to federate a post manuall…

need a little favor: can any #akkoma and #pleroma users try and view my account @… and its posts? (you might need to federate a post manuall…

cryptokleptocracy

cryptokleptocracy

Walking around the neighborhood, & someone has strewn leeks by the sidewalk every 50 yards or so.
Loose leeks sink sheeps?

And yes, please, please, please view anyone raising money to expose some theoretical 2024 election tampering as a Steinesque grifter. They are conning you. And they are more likely than not conning you to fund some right-wing benefactor holding their puppet strings — or at best they’re just an old-fashioned charlatan. Ignore.
/end
https://federate.social/@mattblaze/114684153991038814

During Trump 1.0, esp. in the aftermath of Cambridge Analytica, people demonstrated significant concerns about our data privacy. Consider how Apple & Google deployed Covid Exposure Notifs to be data protecting. During Trump 2.0, we’re witnessing an all-out destruction of our data privacy under Musk & RFK Jr as intentionally decentralized databases are illegally consolidated/appended/blended and feasted upon by crony silicon vulture backed govt contractors.

I find this map especially amusing in that in 1893, 238 colonists departed Australia (purportedly nonexistent) to found the New Australia colony in Paraguay (ditto).
Of course, Australia didn’t federate till 1901, so it could be argued that Australia didn’t *actually* exist at the time. And given Paraguay’s tremendous (but still hotly contested) losses in the 1864-70 Paraguayan War, the latter country was itself hanging on by a thread.

just for the record, I do not think mastodon/fedi is “doomed” or “fundamentally broken” or whatever. I think we’re all early adopters of a new technology that has yet to mature fully. someday in 50 years we will all be telling the youngsters that they have it easy and back in our day we had to federate profiles manually. also mastodon will still not have emoji reactions.

As much as I’d love to believe that the 2024 election results were the result of covert ballot tampering, I land in @…’s camp here. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the evidence here isn’t extraordinary. It isn’t even passing.
Sorry. I’d love to believe it. But I don’t.
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