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chronosensitivity retweeted
We finally have an explanation for “Facebook is listening to me through my phone”. They’d never do that (and it’s not really possible).
Turns out literally everyone else was — and then selling that to ad data brokers.
WTF, $3000 Samsung TV has an always-on mic, automatic content recognition, geo tracking, network mapping, and ships your data to Samsung + 400 partners.
Bro Rooted a brand-new 2025 Samsung TV after noticing absurdly targeted ads.
Firmware was locked down, so zero-days it was.
Got a root shell.
then found: always-on voice service, ACR, geo, full telemetry pipeline, and four separate DRM systems.
This isn’t a bug, It’s the product bro.
chronosensitivity retweeted
BABY CRYING COUNTER inside a TV spying on you ffs this shit has to be regulated out of existence
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🚨 At the U20 Mayors Summit, Mamdani Says the Left Has Ceded “Quality of Life,” “Efficiency,” and “Fraud and Waste” to the Right
This was one of the more interesting arguments Zohran Mamdani made today at the U20 Mayors Summit, and a reminder that he can be genuinely sharp when he drops the “central casting” routine.
“In New York City, there are certain words that have taken on ideological associations.”
“Quality of life has come to be seen as somehow a right-wing concern. Efficiency… has been taken on as a right-wing concern, rooting out fraud and waste, a right-wing concern.”
Mamdani’s argument is that refusing to engage those issues actually helps the Right.
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’”
The harder question is how much of the broader Left is actually prepared to follow the advice.
chronosensitivity retweeted
The only thing I have to say on the 25th anniversary is what Hunter S Thompson said in the aftermath. There's been few things said more prescient than the party's over. For someone like me who partied like hell in the 90's, 21stC has been very different. The party is still over.
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Undoubted PROOF (KIDS ACT) was PAID for by Over 120 major tech, telecom, and media companies 🚨🚨🚨file lobbying occurred on a single bill 2024-2025⚠️⚠️⚠️
⚠️they are not reading it. They are negotiating the text. Lobbying disclosures on a bill mean those companies submitted markups, drafted amendments, met with committee staff, and traded provisions behind closed doors. They bought their way into the drafting room.🚨🚨🚨🚨
This is textbook regulatory capture.🚨🚨
⚠️⚠️It looks like companies funding the bill, hired the lobbyists who drafted the language, working with the legislators who sponsor it, and voting it through before the opposition can read it. The KIDS Act is a consolidated package. H.R. 7757 is the container. S.1409 is the engine. The companies in the screenshot paid for it…
The lobbying database confirms the money trail.
opensecrets.org/orgs/ebay-in…
chronosensitivity retweeted
I would like to remind everyone that all the digital ID bills are SUPPORTED by tech giants like meta and google because their data selling scheme is rapidly becoming worthless thanks to AI and bots (a problem they created).
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Of course the KIDS Act isn’t about protecting actual kids, it’s a massive surveillance bill. We should fight like hell to KILL IT. Could be introduced as early as next week.
The internet could change if the U.S. House passes the KIDS Act today to "protect children." Critics warn it could mean de facto age checks for everyone and weakened encrypted communications.
The KIDS Act is a package of around a dozen bills that pairs a revised Kids Online Safety Act with new age-verification, AI chatbot, and messaging rules.
Digital rights group EFF warns the design would pressure platforms to age-check all users, not just minors, since liability can attach when a service "should have known" a user's age, and flags new rules touching encrypted and disappearing messages. Sponsors Brett Guthrie (R) and Frank Pallone (D) say it's kids-safety protection and note KOSA's text says age verification isn't required.
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America Edition
🚨Tonight, the House overwhelmingly voted to pass the KIDS Act, a bipartisan bill to protect our kids online and finally rein in Big Tech.
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Contrary to the claim that the KIDS Act will "rein in Big Tech", it + other ID/age verification bills are lobbied for by Meta/Facebook
Such bills raise privacy risks, and may require users give private info (which could get hacked/leaked) to use apps/the web
eff.org/deeplinks/2026…
eff.org/deeplinks/2025…
politico.com/live-updates/2…
politico.com/news/2025/04/2…
theverge.com/news/628583/go…
reddit.com/r/linux/commen…
reddit.com/r/linux/commen…
proton.me/blog/discord-a…
chronosensitivity retweeted
This is a Trojan horse that will eliminate privacy on the internet.
Why not make devices just for kids if you want to protect them? Why KYC every single person on the internet?
Because this is about control, not children.
PASSED: the KIDS Act requires age verification on obscene websites, sets nationwide standards enforced by the FTC, and empowers parents, while letting states pass even stronger child protections.
Thank you @RepGuthrie!
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Note absolutely needed. Don't use CNs to push and allow these people to censor the internet and Control Citizen's Lives.
A CN is absolutely needed ro expose the lies and trojan horse that is this bill.
stopkosa.com
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I'll keep doing this until I'm blue in the face (I'm a vampire, that'll never happen I don't need to breath).
It's not about protecting kids, it never was, it never will be- I'll gladly stand corrected when I see legislation that ACTUALLY aims to protect children but so far that acts as a red flag more than anything else.
The Senate needs to stop this bill.
Update: My bipartisan KIDS Act passed the House today by an overwhelming vote of 267-117.
Big Tech has had a free pass for too long. Today, that changes.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Contrary to fighting "Big Tech", The KIDS Act + similar bills are lobbied for by Meta/Facebook
Such bills raise serious privacy risks, and will encourage platforms to require users to upload Government IDs/Face scans (which could get hacked) to use apps/the web
eff.org/deeplinks/2026…
aclu.org/press-releases…
politico.com/live-updates/2…
actonline.org/2025/05/23/int…
theverge.com/news/628583/go…
reddit.com/r/linux/commen…
reddit.com/r/linux/commen…
proton.me/blog/discord-a…
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The NY Comptroller race is the only contested statewide Dem primary this cycle.
It’s a little understood role and doesn’t get much attention, but it’s actually a very powerful position.
If you haven’t yet voted, I’d strongly encourage you *not* to vote for Raj Goyle.
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He is trying to cast himself as the progressive/left candidate in the race, but he is a shape shifter that will clearly say whatever it takes to get elected.
In the Kansas state legislature and during his run for Congress, he:
— Bragged about voting with Republicans 80% of the time in a campaign ad
— Voted to place additional restrictions on abortions after 22 weeks
— Voted to allow concealed carry on government properties (including college campuses)
— Voted allow Kansans to own automatic firearms and silencers
— Voted against raising sales taxes
— Supported extending the Bush tax cuts
— Supported the Patriot Act
— Opposed cap-and-trade
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He is trying to cast himself *the* progressive, pro-immigrant candidate, but in the Kansas state legislature he:
— Called for a crackdown on businesses that hired undocumented immigrants
— Demanded that politicians “oppose amnesty”
— Said “We must with both military and intelligence assets to bring order to the chaos that is happening on our southern border right now”
— Voted to stop undocumented immigrants from getting drivers’ licenses
— He voted to make English the official language of Kansas
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He is running on a platform of divesting from Israel bonds and from Palantir, but the Judge Street Journal reported that:
“As he railed against Israeli bonds at the end of 2025, the Kansas native was quietly invested in two companies that have armed Israel throughout its destruction of Gaza—to the tune of at least $250,000, according to a copy of his personal financial disclosure obtained by the Judge Street Journal. And despite his public disdain for Palantir investments, Goyle had at least half a million dollars in an index fund with Palantir holdings last year.”
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Instead of acknowledging that he has evolved on these issues over time, he flat out refuses that he ever held these views or took these votes or said these things.
I simply cannot trust someone like that to control New York’s massive public pension fund and sweeping audit powers.
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If these "age verification" laws aren't swiftly crushed, incidents like this and identity theft will become more and more common.
Putting everyone online at risk for superficial gains at best is a losing strategy.
Texas Just Leaked 3 Million Driver’s Licenses and Passports
The same government now demanding digital ID to enter websites just proved it can’t guard the identity documents it already holds.
reclaimthenet.org/texas-just…
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The EU is building an age verification system that requires a passport to access adult content online
A security researcher hacked the app in under two minutes
Passport data was stored in plain text
Biometric checks were disabled without triggering any alarm
The EU's response: the app still has value even if it can be bypassed
Their solution to the bypass: discuss restricting VPNs
The proposed VPN countermeasures include blocking commercial VPN IP ranges, triangulating GPS with carrier data, and ISP-level traffic filtering
No VPN ban has been passed
The direction of travel is clear
A system built to protect children is leaking passport data and pointing toward infrastructure controls that journalists, lawyers, and dissidents depend on
They are lying
they built a surveillance system that doesn't work
and the fix is more surveillance
Tshhhhhh
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White House demands that the computer nerds tell them, given the program's input, if any arbitrary computer program will finish running or continue to run forever
Trump administration officials tell WIRED that if Anthropic wants to rerelease Fable 5, it will need to ensure the model's guardrails can't be circumvented. Security experts say that can't be done. wired.com/story/the-white-ho…
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Congrats to @nyknicks . America’s more fun when New York’s happy
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I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.
The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.
There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.
What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.
Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.
This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.
That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.
What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.
Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?
No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.
My first instinct was to support the UK’s social media ban for under 16s.
Protecting children from grooming, exploitation and harmful content seems like common sense.
But I’m seeing a lot of opposition to it, so I’m genuinely curious as to why?
One thing making me second guess is that platforms like bluesky are exempt, while at the same time there’s a push to let 16 year olds vote. To me that looks less like child protection and more like controlling where young people get their information.
Interested to hear other perspectives.