During my first year of college, I had a writing class. The professor made us join this new micro-blog platform. I tweeted a few times, which were part of some of the assignments. I thought the idea of <140 characters to be interesting. Paying for that sounds hilarious.

I’ll just leave this here, from The New Yorker, titled “L.P.D.: Libertarian Police Department”

We ask them nicely, but firmly, to leave our barbecue.

I’ve seen many of the pre-made homes, some with (at least styled) shipping containers, on AliExpress. Some of them look pretty interesting.

He’s an actual punk-ass bitch. No one believes a word he says. Well, anyone with a brain. His supporters just wave their hands and repeat his ramblings. Europe needs to keep calling his bluff.

An MIT Technology Review investigation reveals World’s unethical practices when onboarding test users across Africa and Asia, including deceptive marketing practices. The investigation also says that World was gathering personal data beyond iris scans, including heartbeat, breathing, and other vital signs, and doing so without obtaining meaningful informed consent.

Insane. When businesses are building massive systems to identify and track the citizenry, the government should step in and stomp it out. Instead, the government is mandating that it proceeds.

The system is functioning as expected. The system must be destroyed.

I just checked the email again, and it was more along the lines of a mass email with his name inserted and such. At the time I read *.mil and my son’s name, immediately replied and archived the message. Actually reading it, the email said they were reaching out to all junior and senior parents to see who is interested. They got our email addresses from the school apparently.

I don’t understand why the school would think that it was acceptable to give the military information about parents and students.

Just another thing that no one will ever be held to account for.

A military recruiter emailed me recently, asking about information from my son. I emailed back that it was a firm NO and to never contact either of us ever again. Fucking predators.

Appreciate it.

I stand by my words, don’t care about up/downvotes.

This whole situation has made me realize that I need to get back on the OpenWRT train.

That would have been a better outcome, but unfortunately that is not what happened. The kid wasn’t on some altruistic journey, he hacked a company whose business is dealing with tens of millions of children’s data. Prison was not the only remedy available, and I don’t relish in the thought of sending a young person there. Could’ve been some deferred action in conjunction with a program that steered the teen back onto a track of help rather than theft.

if he didn’t do it someone more malicious wouldve.

Poor argument.

Thank you for your feedback. You really should take a chill pill. Your activism consists of shouting down anyone who doesn’t pass your purity test. Not a good look.

I didn’t say that being sent to prison was the desired outcome. But at the very least, there needs to be some amount of accountability involved.

Also, chill out. Get some bud, and chill out.

Yeah, we all have to have a red line. Going after children’s data is a net negative. Hackers have all of these terrible companies to extort. No need to bring children into this.

The breach pierced the education technology company PowerSchool – used by 80% of school districts in North America – and “put at risk the security of 60 million children and 10 million teachers,” the Justice Department said.

You lose the argument when you threaten to leak MILLIONS of our children’s private data.

So fucking stupid. The Christian’s will let this go just as soon as he posts a new stream of vowel sounds that they are told they want to hear.

Also Donald Trump is a child rapist. There is most certainly incontrovertible evidence in the Epstein files of him raping children. He’ll say or do literally anything to keep the focus off of uncovering his terrible crimes. Make himself Jesus in an AI Jesus photo? Distraction. Insult the Pope? Distraction. Blockade the strait? Distraction.

It’s working quite well right now.

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Leak everything. Hopefully they are sitting on more.

Dr Fatima Mir, professor of paediatric medicine at the Aga Khan University Hospital in Karachi, says our footage highlights weaknesses in infection control training in Pakistan. “We must warn our injectors: ‘You have become an active instrument for passing disease.’”

Our investigation suggests that unsafe practices are in part driven by systemic pressures including a reliance on, and cultural preference for, injections as treatment.

Pakistan has one of the highest rates of therapeutic injections in the world, many of them medically unnecessary. Members of the general public ask for them, including for their children, and doctors happily oblige, says Mir. “They should keep the threshold for injection practice very high. Only give injections for life-threatening illnesses. For mild to moderate illnesses, use oral medication.”

The fuck? Why would the medical staff oblige? Why not just say “no”? If the government is not giving the hospitals enough money, then why allow for so much waste to occur? But then again, they are reusing needles on children, which is spreading HIV, and do not care enough to stop doing so.

It all comes back to lack of education. If the parents and medical staff were aware of the risks involved, they would hopefully make more informed decisions.

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Sweet.