jarfil
Programmer and sysadmin (DevOps?), wannabe polymath in tech, science and the mind. Neurodivergent, disabled, burned out, and close to throwing in the towel, but still liking ponies 🦄 and sometimes willing to discuss stuff.
Where I am, the news said:
- “Telegram is a social network” (it isn’t)
- “that allows terrorism from Russia and Iran” (it’s used by Russian and Iranian oppositors)
- “drug trafficking” (because it’s encrypted, I guess)
- “fraud” (scams are also part of email and the web)
- “money laundering” (…what?)
- “piracy” (sigh…)
- “and distribution of child pornography.” (so does email)
- “It doesn’t honor removal requests from the film/music industry organizations” (that’s piracy twice)
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Horsemen_of_the_Infocalypse
Terrorists, pedophiles/child molesters, organized crime like drug dealers, intellectual property pirates, and money launderers are cited commonly
Do we have a BINGO?
It may not be just the Kremlin. I’ve had several cases where I wrote about something in a Telegram chat, stuff I had never talked about before, and in a matter of seconds started seeing related ads on Facebook.
Alternatively, it could be the keyboard leaking all text, or I could have some other spyware, but I’ve only had that happen to me between Telegram and Facebook.
Then again, Telegram group chats are unencrypted, and personal chats are unencrypted by default.
On the bright sight, he also promised Saudi Arabia to build a Hyperloop, also for The Line city in Neom, that’s turning out to be a great way to syphon SA’s oil sales state fund.
But seriously, a Hyperloop would work best on Mars, where the pressure differential would be minimal, while a tube would keep the dust out. Elon’s master plan is still to build a Mars colony with indentured servants under threat of no air. On the way, he’s scamming whoever it takes, and getting any investment or benefit he can land.
narcissistic arsehole
I’ve recently got suckered into a group that turned out to consider calling people “narcissistic” is an “ableist slur… because narcissism is a disability”.
EM is still kind of a real life Tony Stark, the character is not exactly an altruistic philanthropist either.
With TikTok just skimming 80% off the top of all prize money… 🙄
US company enacting puritanical culture erasure guidelines? What’s new?
If they want their culture preserved, there is peertube and archive.org, but they may have trouble monetizing them.