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I'm a fantasy addict
I'm a ghost in a ghost town
I'm a derelict
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I'm a fantasy addict
I'm a ghost in a ghost town
I'm a derelict
mastodon: @Network_Jack@defcon.social
github: https://github.com/networkjack2
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I am an opinion columnist who's never reported an investigative story or set foot in the CBS newsroom. Here's why I think 60 Minutes reporters are overreacting to Bari Weiss killing their story. 1/37....
December 24, 2025 at 10:36 PM
I am an opinion columnist who's never reported an investigative story or set foot in the CBS newsroom. Here's why I think 60 Minutes reporters are overreacting to Bari Weiss killing their story. 1/37....
Trump was virtually bragging about torturing these people just because he felt they "needed to pay" for some reason.
This idiot seems to believe the segment was delayed for good faith reasons
December 23, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Trump was virtually bragging about torturing these people just because he felt they "needed to pay" for some reason.
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Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
December 22, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Bill Clinton releasing a statement saying 'release the Epstein files, you cowards' was not on my bingo list.
This lasts until you talk to actual communists and realize that even the most basic center-left regulations can and have either solve this, or severely restrict this. Except in the US anything involving regulation or the government doing anything is called "Communism".
If you pay attention to any large industry long enough and follow it to its logical conclusion you eventually end up sounding like a communist even if you started off testing CPU case fans. youtu.be/cUrJVdF2me0?...
December 22, 2025 at 10:35 PM
This lasts until you talk to actual communists and realize that even the most basic center-left regulations can and have either solve this, or severely restrict this. Except in the US anything involving regulation or the government doing anything is called "Communism".
D*** in a Box - SNL Digital Short
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December 22, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
Scoop: TikTok signs deal for sale of U.S. unit after yearslong saga
The deal would end a yearslong saga to force TikTok's Chinese parent ByteDance to sell the company's U.S. operation.
www.axios.com
December 18, 2025 at 11:35 PM
The US TikTok sale has been signed. The company will be controlled by a joint venture including Oracle, Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz, Abu Dhabi-based MGX. Adding a UAE company really makes it clear that this was never about national security concerns.
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
www.axios.com/2025/12/18/t...
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Children are being exploited. Let’s respond by dramatically hindering our ability to point out or criticize children being exploited, using methods we don’t understand because we’re old and incurious.
Children are being exploited and abused because Big Tech consistently prioritizes profits over people.
Enough is enough. Time to sunset Section 230.
Enough is enough. Time to sunset Section 230.
December 19, 2025 at 2:16 AM
Children are being exploited. Let’s respond by dramatically hindering our ability to point out or criticize children being exploited, using methods we don’t understand because we’re old and incurious.
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If they want to keep getting work, they can review (=rewrite) the AI slop, for 1/3 of their normal rate (which was already low to begin with)
Readers, we HAVE to complain about it, hold the publishers accountable and boycott these books
Readers, we HAVE to complain about it, hold the publishers accountable and boycott these books
December 18, 2025 at 8:03 PM
If they want to keep getting work, they can review (=rewrite) the AI slop, for 1/3 of their normal rate (which was already low to begin with)
Readers, we HAVE to complain about it, hold the publishers accountable and boycott these books
Readers, we HAVE to complain about it, hold the publishers accountable and boycott these books
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December 16, 2025 at 9:38 PM
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I can't believe I have to say this, but please do not take revolutionary OPSEC advice from YA novels Cory Doctorow wrote almost twenty years ago.
December 16, 2025 at 12:54 AM
I can't believe I have to say this, but please do not take revolutionary OPSEC advice from YA novels Cory Doctorow wrote almost twenty years ago.
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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December 15, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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New from me!
After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials.
Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again.
Check out our investigation!
After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials.
Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again.
Check out our investigation!
Bellingcat’s @koltai.bsky.social uncovers the Hungarian national behind two deepfake porn websites. The key figure rakes in profits and vacations in luxury hotels in Dubai and Bali, whilst website visitors create sexually explicit images and videos.
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/12...
How We Found the Man Behind Two Deepfake Porn Sites
Business documents, website code and leaked data all led us back to one person profiting off non-consensual sexual imagery of women.
www.bellingcat.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
New from me!
After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials.
Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again.
Check out our investigation!
After we reached out to the owner of these deepfake porn sites, they were removed offline and he deleted his socials.
Each time a site goes down, it's a win for me. Hopefully this guy never tries to get them up and running again.
Check out our investigation!
you can always tell that the republicans will try something, and then all of a sudden you see certain liberals and leftists trying to say the same thing, but have some weird butaktually as if it was a liberal/left idea.
And finally, the assault on Section 230. This is the endgame for independent speech.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
If you repeal 230, you don’t hurt Google or Meta—they have the lawyers to survive. You destroy the small forums, the independent blogs, the dissenters. You make the cost of speaking the truth too high to bear.
How Democrats’ Attack On Section 230 Plays Right Into Trump’s Censorial Plans
Like clockwork, lawmakers are once again rallying around the idea of eliminating Section 230. That Republicans are leading this charge is hardly surprising—repealing Section 230 is explicitly laid …
www.techdirt.com
December 15, 2025 at 7:06 AM
you can always tell that the republicans will try something, and then all of a sudden you see certain liberals and leftists trying to say the same thing, but have some weird butaktually as if it was a liberal/left idea.
Just got done. Very much recommended. Up next Calder Walton's "spies". Cold War epic about USSR vs USA in espionage.
On my "to read" pile is "In The Garden Of the Beasts",
December 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Just got done. Very much recommended. Up next Calder Walton's "spies". Cold War epic about USSR vs USA in espionage.
Just finished reading: "In the Garden Of Beasts" - Eric Larson. Good one. Details of Ambassador Dodd's travails in Berlin on the eve of the Nazi takeover. A lot of people claimed that people where over reacting to Hitler, and then night of the long knives happened.
December 15, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Just finished reading: "In the Garden Of Beasts" - Eric Larson. Good one. Details of Ambassador Dodd's travails in Berlin on the eve of the Nazi takeover. A lot of people claimed that people where over reacting to Hitler, and then night of the long knives happened.
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In case you have never seen this.
December 13, 2025 at 10:38 PM
In case you have never seen this.
Hi, this is Melanie From the Loan Department, Your $60k loan has been approved, press 1 to speak to an underwriter.
"hi, I've already accepted a load from Dee's underwriters"
"really"
"AS IN SUCK DEE'S NUTS"
"hi, I've already accepted a load from Dee's underwriters"
"really"
"AS IN SUCK DEE'S NUTS"
December 12, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Hi, this is Melanie From the Loan Department, Your $60k loan has been approved, press 1 to speak to an underwriter.
"hi, I've already accepted a load from Dee's underwriters"
"really"
"AS IN SUCK DEE'S NUTS"
"hi, I've already accepted a load from Dee's underwriters"
"really"
"AS IN SUCK DEE'S NUTS"
December 10, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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this shit is just beyond parody, man
December 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
this shit is just beyond parody, man
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The media and entertainment industry is already highly consolidated. I have serious concerns about acquisitions in this sector that could further limit consumer choice, raise prices, and harm artists. We need more competition—in streaming and across the broader economy—not less.
December 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
The media and entertainment industry is already highly consolidated. I have serious concerns about acquisitions in this sector that could further limit consumer choice, raise prices, and harm artists. We need more competition—in streaming and across the broader economy—not less.
Thats pretty much it. Same people who whine about virtue signally.
Even worse, is that if you see someone doing shakespear in the park, you can bet your sweet ass its 90% liberal
Even worse, is that if you see someone doing shakespear in the park, you can bet your sweet ass its 90% liberal
There’s something doubly grating about the pious invocation of “Western civilization” by the sort of incurious dolt who wouldn’t know a Titian canvas, a Beethoven quartet, or a Socratic dialogue if whapped them upside the head.
It has long been clear that unalloyed racism lies at the core of Trumpism, and he is becoming increasingly explicit about this.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/w...
December 6, 2025 at 12:56 AM
Thats pretty much it. Same people who whine about virtue signally.
Even worse, is that if you see someone doing shakespear in the park, you can bet your sweet ass its 90% liberal
Even worse, is that if you see someone doing shakespear in the park, you can bet your sweet ass its 90% liberal
Once again I want to re-itterate my hatred for netplan. There is no reason for this to exist and YAML can suck my left nut.
xkcd.com/927/
xkcd.com/927/
Standards
xkcd.com
December 4, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Once again I want to re-itterate my hatred for netplan. There is no reason for this to exist and YAML can suck my left nut.
xkcd.com/927/
xkcd.com/927/