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Cake day: August 15th, 2023

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  • TL;DR:

    This bill’s proposed amendment NC21 would out trans people. It was rejected by the MPs, but the House of Lords have effectively appealed this.

    However, the article claims that even if this amendment isn’t in there, the bill itself is dangerous, allowing the government to reintroduce these effects even without the amendments, by allowing itself to define how and what data needs to be shared by verification providers.

    It would do so at its own discretion, without further legislative scrutiny.






  • Well, that’s not necessarily true.

    Some apps, alongside providing their core functionality, such as messaging, also collect a lot of information from all the permissions they are granted on your device.

    Think for example constant location tracking or collecting your contacts, as I believe Facebook Messenger does.

    It could be possible to provide a front-end that blocks certain requests or spoofs information.

    Of course, that doesn’t stop them from collecting information you directly provide to them by using the service, such as profile information, direct messages, interactions etc.

    I suppose you could use these services as a skulker which doesn’t have an account (or a semi-anonymous one) whilst denying all permissions and providing as little information as possible. It’s not wholy black and white.

    That said, I do recommend not using these platforms at all if you can. Use alternative platforms that provide similar services. Lemmy vs Reddit is a good example.

    It’s just not always practical advice for everyone, given that some people have jobs that require social media, or have no other means of contacting some relatives and friends.


  • I disagree. Most of the people Trump has pardoned, helped or gotten along with are libertarians.

    They’re millionaires / billionaires who hate taxation and regulations because it gets in the way of their ruthless means of making money.

    Trump is more than happy to help them to do that. He runs the government like a quid-pro-quo crime syndicate where you can buy yourself favours, including getting out of jail.

    His authoritarianism only targets the poor; whatever scapegoat-du-jour the far-right hate today (trans, LGBT, minorities, immigrants); and anyone that tries to protect them.

    He needs votes to stay in power, and since he can’t appeal to the left because everything he does is diametrically opposed with them (regulation, social spending, taxation of the rich) he has to pander to the far-right to keep a majority. Even if he is likely more right than far-right himself.


  • The requirements to get pardoned under the current administration are:

    • Be white
    • Be rich or high profile
    • Be generally aligned with the right
    • Claim your incarceration was politically motivated (it almost never is)

    Your crime does not matter. Trump will accuse foreign refugees of being drug dealers and violent criminals, then pardon drug dealers and violent criminals if they were white and high profile enough (Google Ross Ulbricht as an example).

    So, all things considered, SBF seems to qualify!