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@mcakins.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Guys, if I followed you on Twitter and you're now here and I haven't followed you here, just say Hi in reply to this skeet, then I'll know and do the right thing.
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"Everything that China does is covered by the national security law in China, and that means every single company has to co-operate with the Chinese authorities in handing over data."
Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.
Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.
UK investigates remote ‘kill switch’ on Chinese-made buses — The Times and The Sunday Times
The UK is investigating a security loophole that could allow hundreds of Chinese-made electric buses to be remotely deactivated. Government officials are working with the National Cyber Security Centr...
apple.news
November 9, 2025 at 1:56 PM
"Everything that China does is covered by the national security law in China, and that means every single company has to co-operate with the Chinese authorities in handing over data."
Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.
Shock, horror, China flexes its muscles and puts backdoors in foreign products.
Was it me or did Microsoft actually sunset Win10 without much of a fanfare? And equally strange, I don't see folks with pitchforks protesting end of Win10. Can we assume all is hunky-dory on Win11 at this point? 😀
November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Was it me or did Microsoft actually sunset Win10 without much of a fanfare? And equally strange, I don't see folks with pitchforks protesting end of Win10. Can we assume all is hunky-dory on Win11 at this point? 😀
It turned out only human-decency has been holding American democracy together thru the centuries. The experiment fails completely when you have a good Stress Tester introduced into the system! Question is, can it all be salvaged at this point?
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 PM
It turned out only human-decency has been holding American democracy together thru the centuries. The experiment fails completely when you have a good Stress Tester introduced into the system! Question is, can it all be salvaged at this point?
Humanity should do something about the abuse being perpetrated by Facebook daily. It's insane.
🔊 'Just the sheer volume, right? I mean, 15 billion exposures to paid scam attempts every day just on Meta's platforms. It’s a lot.' On the Reuters World News podcast listen as we discuss a Reuters Special Report on how Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads reut.rs/47EM8mI
November 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Humanity should do something about the abuse being perpetrated by Facebook daily. It's insane.
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If you need more evidence that #FossilFuels are #StrandedAssets, look no further. China is the world leader on the #EnergyTransition to address #ClimateChange. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
The US is the world's largest oil and gas producer. Yet, "China is now making more money from exporting green technology than America makes from exporting fossil fuels."
China’s clean-energy revolution will reshape markets and politics
The world’s biggest manufacturer now has an interest in the world decarbonising
www.economist.com
November 7, 2025 at 12:53 PM
If you need more evidence that #FossilFuels are #StrandedAssets, look no further. China is the world leader on the #EnergyTransition to address #ClimateChange. 🧪🔌💡☀️💨💧🔋
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Let's not forget
They plan to NOT lose in 2026 and 2028, no matter how many people vote for Democrats
Republican election official bought Dominion Voting Systems and all their election related subsidiaries
Just one of their many plans
www.wired.com/story/scott-...
They plan to NOT lose in 2026 and 2028, no matter how many people vote for Democrats
Republican election official bought Dominion Voting Systems and all their election related subsidiaries
Just one of their many plans
www.wired.com/story/scott-...
One Republican Now Controls a Huge Chunk of US Election Infrastructure
Former GOP operative Scott Leiendecker just bought Dominion Voting Systems, giving him ownership of voting systems used in 27 states. Election experts don't know what to think.
www.wired.com
November 6, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Let's not forget
They plan to NOT lose in 2026 and 2028, no matter how many people vote for Democrats
Republican election official bought Dominion Voting Systems and all their election related subsidiaries
Just one of their many plans
www.wired.com/story/scott-...
They plan to NOT lose in 2026 and 2028, no matter how many people vote for Democrats
Republican election official bought Dominion Voting Systems and all their election related subsidiaries
Just one of their many plans
www.wired.com/story/scott-...
Yup! They know their crimes! Thus, they'll steal the coming elections by hook or by crook!
Steve Bannon: If we lose the midterms and we lose 2028, some in this room are going to prison, myself included.
November 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Yup! They know their crimes! Thus, they'll steal the coming elections by hook or by crook!
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The White House is starting to look like a Chipotle bag.
November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
The White House is starting to look like a Chipotle bag.
Really?! You realy have to ask that?!
Which part of dark money in politics don't you understand?
There's a reason the guy in WH did a 180 degree on Crypto right?
www.transparency.org.uk/news/does-cr...
Which part of dark money in politics don't you understand?
There's a reason the guy in WH did a 180 degree on Crypto right?
www.transparency.org.uk/news/does-cr...
Does crypto pose a threat to our democracy?
Exploring how cryptocurrency works and potential risks the technology poses to political funding and democratic integrity.
www.transparency.org.uk
November 6, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Really?! You realy have to ask that?!
Which part of dark money in politics don't you understand?
There's a reason the guy in WH did a 180 degree on Crypto right?
www.transparency.org.uk/news/does-cr...
Which part of dark money in politics don't you understand?
There's a reason the guy in WH did a 180 degree on Crypto right?
www.transparency.org.uk/news/does-cr...
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November 5, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Australia has so much solar that it's offering everyone free electricity
Australia's extensive solar power penetration makes so much energy that the government wants to offer free electricity at peak hours.
electrek.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Australia has so much electricity from solar power that it is going to start offering free electricity to everyone for at least three hours during the day as the wholesale price of power goes negative
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
electrek.co/2025/11/04/a...
Seriously, I'll like to see Dems' plans to ensure free and fair elections midterm. They are again sitting on their hands as always.
serious note: they're gonna try 5x harder to sabotage the midterms after tonight and we're gonna have to organize on a literally historic scale to stop them
really obvious now why trump and the republican party have been working so hard to prevent fair elections lol they know
November 5, 2025 at 10:05 PM
Seriously, I'll like to see Dems' plans to ensure free and fair elections midterm. They are again sitting on their hands as always.
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I hear the next Dems president needs at least 4yrs to strip the WH of all the fake gold after which he can apply for the second term to actually rule.
November 5, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I hear the next Dems president needs at least 4yrs to strip the WH of all the fake gold after which he can apply for the second term to actually rule.
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WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
November 5, 2025 at 4:07 AM
WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Gen Z women aren't playing around.
Democracy depends on literate citizenry. When people are stupid, democracy dies! That’s why they are against public education!
What happens when you distill 2025 into a single social media post?
This.
This is what you get.
This.
This is what you get.
November 5, 2025 at 8:25 AM
Democracy depends on literate citizenry. When people are stupid, democracy dies! That’s why they are against public education!
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location data is collected under 'legitimate interest' and most people just click OK instead of turning off seven different sliders on the consent screen and *of course* you can identify people using location data; I have 20 year old research from MSR on this!
A joint Databroker Files investigation shows commercially traded mobile phone location data allows the tracking of millions of Europeans, including EU officials (netzpolitik.org)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
November 4, 2025 at 8:49 PM
location data is collected under 'legitimate interest' and most people just click OK instead of turning off seven different sliders on the consent screen and *of course* you can identify people using location data; I have 20 year old research from MSR on this!
At this point, I don’t understand why any black person will still be associated with the GOP, given the hell GOP is dumping on black and brown people thru ICE. It’s a sore for the eyes.
Spanberger: It is the honor of my lifetime to be elected the 75th governor of the commonwealth.
November 5, 2025 at 7:51 AM
At this point, I don’t understand why any black person will still be associated with the GOP, given the hell GOP is dumping on black and brown people thru ICE. It’s a sore for the eyes.
Shouldn't we start calling them: MSN? Asking for a friend.
November 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Shouldn't we start calling them: MSN? Asking for a friend.
So, finally caught up with Alien:Earth.
Any of you have a theory why that Eye monster always goes for the Left Eye? Can’t find any logic to it. 🤷
Any of you have a theory why that Eye monster always goes for the Left Eye? Can’t find any logic to it. 🤷
November 4, 2025 at 4:49 PM
So, finally caught up with Alien:Earth.
Any of you have a theory why that Eye monster always goes for the Left Eye? Can’t find any logic to it. 🤷
Any of you have a theory why that Eye monster always goes for the Left Eye? Can’t find any logic to it. 🤷
Folks, just made a discovery of the century! Observed a pattern to extroverts and introverts sleep cycles. Extroverts mostly have trouble sleeping while introverts sleep like babies! It turned out extroverts seek attention all day, no time for deep thoughts, which they then do in bed! Ergo, no sleep
November 4, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Folks, just made a discovery of the century! Observed a pattern to extroverts and introverts sleep cycles. Extroverts mostly have trouble sleeping while introverts sleep like babies! It turned out extroverts seek attention all day, no time for deep thoughts, which they then do in bed! Ergo, no sleep
Just like they disappeared thousands of children ripped from their mothers at the border. #EvilInOutTimes
Thousands Of Jailed Immigrants in Chicago Have Vanished From Federal Records, Human Rights Attorneys Claim
Source: Latin Times
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Source: Latin Times
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Thousands Of Jailed Immigrants in Chicago Have Vanished From Federal Records, Human Rights Attorneys Claim - NewsBreak
Human-rights attorneys in Chicago say they cannot account for more than 3,000 people arrested during a federal immigration crackdown known as "Operation Mi
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November 3, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Just like they disappeared thousands of children ripped from their mothers at the border. #EvilInOutTimes