Tim Pierce

The TYT and Chapo crowd have always been extremely receptive to hearing Protocols of Zion crap.

Not that it matters, but I have traced her ancestry extensively going through multiple generations and centuries. This is not true and appears to simply be echoing false claims made by prominent white supremacist Peter Brimelow.

He looks like if Penny Arcade was turned into a real person.

I don't have words for this. Horrific. Heinous. Disgusting.

Actually, I do have two words for it: war crime.

THE QUIET MAN is one of the original Dad Movies!

Screenshot of a Bluesky post by me. I'm reposting someone else's image of a giant painting of a helicopter on the ground with an explosion coming up from it, captioned "Israeli missile hits helicopter shadow decoy".

Google Image Search suggests the only place this image has appeared is on Facebook, Threads and Instagram. There's no source given and no news watermark on the image. I think I fell for a hoax and have deleted it.

Screenshot of a Bluesky post by me. I'm reposting someone else's image of a giant painting of a helicopter on the ground with an explosion coming up from it, captioned "Israeli missile hits helicopter shadow decoy".

Google Image Search suggests the only place this image has appeared is on Facebook, Threads and Instagram. There's no source given and no news watermark on the image. I think I fell for a hoax and have deleted it.

I may have fallen for a hoax. No other coverage of this seems to be using this particular image -- most of it is about this grainy B&W surveillance video, and the idea that Israel bombed a painting seems to have come mostly from Twitter conspiracy theorists.

I demand that we uncork the strategic daytime reserve

If we've been saving daylight all these years, there must be a bunch of it somewhere. We could probably have years of daylight with no nighttime.

But really that's because the Daylight Saving phenomenon is more like "fuck you? no, fuck ME"

A lot of institutions and companies need to be printing out this post and pinning it up in their executive suites for future reference.

I think they might have better luck spending two thousand dollars holding a press conference where they detail who made the key decisions to collaborate with the Trump administration, how and when they were fired, and explaining what would stop that from happening again.

Big Immortan Joe energy here from Sam Altman

Screenshot of the "Data disclosure" section of the Proton Privacy Policy. This sentence is highlighted: "Proton’s general policy is to challenge requests whenever possible and where there are doubts as to the validity of the request or if there is a public interest in doing so."

Here is the interesting question I think is worth asking: did Proton challenge this request at all, as their privacy policy says they will? That would be worth digging into more, but 404 doesn't seem to have asked them that question.

I think there is a story here, in that their privacy policy also says "Proton’s general policy is to challenge requests whenever possible and where there are doubts as to the validity of the request or if there is a public interest in doing so." Did they do that here? That's a question worth asking.

Screenshot of the Proton Privacy Policy section "2.9 Payment information". The sentence "We do not retain full credit card details, we only save your name and the last 4 digits of the credit card number" is highlighted. Full text of the screenshot: 2.9 Payment information: We rely on Chargebee to process payments. Strictly necessary information is shared with Chargebee for credit card, PayPal, Stripe and Bitcoin transactions in order for the payment to be successful and associated with your account. Chargebee does not have access to your email or your Proton account information. We rely on third parties to process credit card, PayPal, and Bitcoin transactions and must therefore share payment information with them. We do not retain full credit card details, we only save your name and the last 4 digits of the credit card number. Anonymous cash or Bitcoin payments and donations are accepted. We may use your account data for payment-related matters, including but not limited to sending you emails, invoices, receipts, notices of delinquency, and alerts to update payment information. The legal basis of these processing activities is the necessity to the execution of the contract to provide the Services. In order to respect the principle of data minimisation, we reserve our right to remove payment information from our systems that is no longer valid, without notice.

Screenshot of the "Data disclosure" section from the Proton Privacy Policy. The phrase "if we are legally obligated to do so by a binding request coming from the competent Swiss authorities" is highlighted. Full text in the screenshot: 5. Data disclosure We will only disclose the limited user data we possess if we are legally obligated to do so by a binding request coming from the competent Swiss authorities. We may comply with electronically delivered notices only when they are delivered in full compliance with the requirements of Swiss law. Proton’s general policy is to challenge requests whenever possible and where there are doubts as to the validity of the request or if there is a public interest in doing so. In such situations, we will not comply with the request until all legal or other remedies have been exhausted. Under Swiss law, subjects of judicial procedures have to be notified of such procedures, although such notification has to come from the authorities and not from the Company. Under no circumstances can Proton decrypt end-to-end encrypted content and disclose decrypted copies. Aggregate statistics about data requests from the competent Swiss authorities can be found in the transparency reports listed in our products-specific policies.

Proton makes this crystal clear in their privacy policy: their records include the name of the person who is billed for services, and they will provide that to Swiss authorities in response to a legally executed demand. proton.me/legal/privacy

Proton Mail complied with a subpoena legally executed by Swiss authorities. That is exactly what they have always told users they would do in response to legal action. Yet this story frames it as Proton betraying their privacy promise. 404 Media does great work but this is a real misstep.

Trump has now explicitly affirmed the right to choose or veto leaders in Venezuela, Iraq, Iran, Honduras and Argentina, and implicitly Brazil and various European countries.

This is a direct violation of sovereignty and self-determination, which are bedrock foundations of any international order.

I’m reminded that in the 1980s and 1990s it was not unusual for open source software packages to include a licensing clause prohibiting their use by the U.S. military.

I’m just not seeing a problem here

TOAD WILL NOW DANCE, AND HE WILL BE WONDERFUL.

imagine being a history buff and getting this random tattoo on your chest that you look at every day in the mirror and then when you watch history documentaries for the next 20 years you never notice that all the nazi uniforms had your chest tattoo on their hats?

our emojis only had 7 bits because that's all we could afford

This is why you need photojournalists

when I got to college @notwebsafe.bsky.social and I spent like a week just trying to figure out how to send each other email because it had to be routed explicitly through two email gateways.

oh a *floppy* drive, look who's all *fancy*

The summer before I went to college I went a little crazy playing GemStone on GEnie and racked up a $3,000 phone bill

that was fun

Optical illusion of a woman bent over some papers. Her sunglasses are pushed up and she is wearing a hair band so the top of her head looks exactly like a Muppet face

Sorry I know the world is in a terrible fix but I've been laughing at this for ten minutes now

Awesome. I was trying to explain this concept to someone but Mina said it better, and with more tact.

As a data person, the search for the answer sometimes sparks new ideas and new pitches! Being lazy or incurious makes you worse at your job. AI atrophies creativity in all forms, not just art.