mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Tell me something clever.
https://twitter.com/savagejen/status/849287196419002368
When selfie-verification gated, refuse. Let the account die. Platforms need to learn that they will lose their users over this.
There exists a social platform, which I had an account on, used primarily to talk to people and send them funny things. I have lost access today because evidently I am not a real person. My crime was looking at the profile of another user and my sentence was to complete a selfie verification or lose access. I gave this AI an image of my middle finger and proceeded to feed it a series of words that I have yet to find an AI to be ok with, but you know evidently I'm the one that's not real.
It feels like most captcha replacement ideas are privacy-invasive.
The Trump administration has done a piss poor job of explaining anything useful.
For instance:
- Why are we at war with Iran? This shit has been going on for months and I still don't know.
- Why are there ducks with trump wigs on them? What does it mean?
- Why are we starting beef with our polite neighbors to the north? And Denmark?
In the absence of any of this making any sense, I have to assume our president is insane.
My Mom has 20 cats. I wish that was a joke, but it's not. It started with two, then became four, then she adopted a litter of kitties claiming she was running an unofficial rescue, then another one, and then several more kittens. There is a litter box in every room. Breathing normally is not an option in this house, but I suspect there is a bit of the boiled frog effect preventing awareness of this fact.
I went to visit and came back with a backpack I cannot remove the scent from.
@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ah yes, let me just wear this NFT
Immigration reform idea: codify in treaty a one-in-one-out immigration policy per country. Someone wants to move here from Canada? Well they add themselves to a waiting list and they get to move here when someone from the US adds themselves to the waiting list to move to Canada. One in, one out. Populations remain the same in both countries and people get to live where they want.
Curious, but what happens if a citizen of another country:
Learning to sit with my discomfort instead of filling the emotional pit in my stomach with food
Water heating frogs.
Each degree a little death.
We know what will come.
The terrible knowledge that
the water will not cool down.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1kGluhVXnd6d-7Jt_Iw_o0RD6kd7DJIpWRLOcoabHV3w/edit?usp=sharing
You could pay to make a hospital in every major city completely free for the cost of medicare and medicaid. Paying money to healthcare providers while acting as an insurer was never the right approach. If the government is going to make anything free, they ought to operate it instead. We could have a system that covers only the most expensive types of care for much cheaper that way.
