Looking at the world through only one eye, whether it be right or left, reduces it to two dimensions.
– “April Twitters”
Providing new excuses for police violence is exactly the point of new prohibitions. –
“A Moral Cancer (#1334)”
It’s worth every free-thinking person’s time and effort to thoroughly grasp the lengths to which modern “democratic” governments will go to destroy innocent people’s lives in order to advance a propaganda narrative those in power find convenient to their agenda.
– “Traffic Jam (#1433)”
[Since] Hiroshima…rulers now need new forms of war that don’t risk destroying them along with the peasants. – “A War By Any Other Name“
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Unserious leaders are unsafe. – Judge Mustafa T. Kasubhai
The internet’s global scope is the main reason politicians hate it and want to destroy it:
An escort website [based in Spain]…“makes a mockery” of Ireland’s law criminalising the purchase of sex, [babbled politician]…Sharon Keogan[, adding nonsense about “]direct defiance[” even though Spanish businesses are not subject to] Ireland’s [puritanic]al law…[she also barfed out the word “]trafficking[” in order to infantilize] migrant women…[and demanded] the law [be made into]…a “ma[gic]al operation[” so as to “]take action against such sites[” despite their being based in other sovereign nations]…She [further slandered]…independent escorts [by claiming they are] often controlled by organised crime groups that dominate the sex trade [in the sick fantasies of prohibitionists, and vomited out the word “]pimping[” before admitting that]…the business…[is] a Spanish-registered company[. She appeared surprised to learn that] multimillion euro [businesses are]…organised…
“Search” is the most common government euphemism for “molest”:
Black [minors] across England and Wales are almost eight times more likely to be [molested under guise of a “]search[“]…by police than their white counterparts…The findings…come more than five years after the case of…a Black 15-year-old schoolgirl who was [molested by cops] while menstruating b[ecause a teacher claimed she had touched a plant. Surprisingly]…a disciplinary panel [later sacked the] two [molesters for] gross misconduct…[Such sexual assaults are] usually [justified by belching “]drugs[” in the victim’s face]…from July 2023 to June 2024…there were a total of 362 [“]search[” branded molestations] of under-18s…Half were white, 31% were Black, 11% Asian, 1.7% of mixed ethnicity and 12% other…[at least] 30% [of the victims had been assaulted by cops]…at least once before…[in the case of] Black [victims the assaults] were almost five times as likely to [be violent]…than [if the victims were] white…
Because this kind of prohibition will surely be different!
[British subjects] aged 17 or younger will face…lifelong [criminalization of] buying cigarettes…Parliament….[has] settled on a final draft of the “[monkey see, monkey do]” legislation that aims to [magically] stop anyone born after 1 January 2009 from [getting cigarettes from the black market] to [magically] create a smoke-free generation [with a wave of politicians’ wands. The government is also giving itself]…new powers to regulate tobacco, vaping and nicotine products, including their flavours and packaging. It is part of a series of measures aimed at [creating a dangerous new front in the drug war]…one of the [world]’s leading causes of preventable death, [state violence,] and [human misery. Cops will also be given new powers to spy on]…cars…playgrounds…schools and…hospitals…
Apparently white people can only care about one group of Muslims at a time:
…hundreds of thousands…since 2016 have suffered the Chinese government’s grave human rights violations in…Xinjiang…[where] authorities have subjected Uyghurs and other Turkic Muslims to mass arbitrary detention, unjust imprisonments, intrusive surveillance and forced labor. The UN Office of…Human Rights concluded in a landmark 2022 report that the Chinese government may have committed crimes against humanity in Xinjiang….Yet…efforts by…countries who tried to place Xinjiang on the formal agenda of the UN Human Rights Council were narrowly defeated after heavy pressure from Beijing…Yet China’s success in shifting the narrative is not solely the result of repression. It also reflects…an increasingly unpredictable US foreign policy…[because] as governments line up to meet [Emperor] Xi Jinping as a hedge against [mad Emperor] Trump…human rights concerns…are routinely sidelined…allowing Beijing to effectively whitewash its crimes and recast China as a reliable…alternative to the United States…
Cops are nothing more than state-sponsored terrorists:
…the Atlanta…“Cop City” [scheme] is at the center of a much larger experiment…[to replace an] urban forest…[with] the most expansive surveillance network of any city in the U.S…supercharg[ing] a pattern of digital tracking in Black neighborhoods…Georgia-based surveillance companies [are already] market[ing] this model nationwide…[despite] its ties to immigration [pogroms] and protest policing…A 2025 mapping project estimated that Atlanta now has about 124 surveillance cameras for every 1,000 residents…higher than any city in the world outside of a handful in China…The network…metastasized through the city’s Connect Atlanta program, which lets [useful idiots give pigs] live access to their private feeds…
The Last Shall Be First (#1600)
Judges need to start presenting a united front against monarchical diktats:
A federal judge…issued a written opinion blasting [Trump henchman] Robert F. Kennedy Jr. for…wanton disregard…for the rule of law in restricting federal funding for gender-affirming care for minors…The judge made it clear he was throwing out the Kennedy declaration…[and] granted an injunction prohibiting the federal government from trying to supersede professionally-recognized standards [again because]…the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services lack[s] the authority to unilaterally establish standards of medical care…[government] lawyers [backpedaled, claiming]…that Kennedy’s declaration reflected his personal opinion…and was not binding…[but] the judge found it was “strikingly apparent” that the…federal government’s arguments are based on [a] “bald-faced lie”…[saying] he was not persuaded by the federal government’s “attempts to gaslight” the court…
Politicians want to “regulate” consensual sex, but not this dangerous toy:
When researcher Nicholas Tiller began to feed health questions into chatbots as a test, he [did not] expect…this level of failure. Five [chatbot]s, 250 questions and a total score of just over 50 percent correct responses. And 1 in 5 of the…wrong [answers] were…dangerous[ly wrong]…A separate…study…in JAMA Network Open…gave 21 [chatbots all]…failing grades…[Another] recent experiment [show]ed how easily…chatbots [can be made to spout complete nonsense]…the problem is not an isolated quirk [but is intrinsic to the way chatbots function]…
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Though I’ve opened the nursery every morning for over a week now, the pullets are still largely uninterested in coming out yet. This is not unusual; there was a flurry of activity on the first day which resulted in one of the pullets going missing, but since then they have stayed where they feel safe. That includes the missing one; Wednesday I needed to drive into Seattle, so I planned to let them stay in the nursery that day. But when I went out to check their food and water, whom should I find wandering around the chicken yard but the missing pullet, very hungry and very vocal, but otherwise none the worse for wear. I was able to catch her and put her in with the others, and there she has stayed since. I have no idea where she went; I spent over an hour looking for her the day she vanished, to no avail. My best guess is that she managed to get through the narrow gap under the ramp and had been hiding under the house for three days; even though I crawled under there with a flashlight as part of the search, it’s a large area and even a thorough, hours-long search wouldn’t have sufficed to peer into every space under there large enough for a pullet. I’m just glad I didn’t lose her, and choose to view her mysterious return as a good omen for this year.
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The myth that memory is a video recording playing in a private theater in your brain is one of the biggest lies about hypnosis. – Penn & Teller
It was very difficult to pick a song with which to send off Moya Brennan, so I finally decided on a live video of one of their early, more traditional songs rather than their more pop-influenced work of the ’80s and ’90s. The links above the video were provided by Anarres Ansible, Shiv Ramdas, Jesse Walker, Radley Balko (x2), and Popehat, in that order.
- R.I.P. Moya Brennan.
- Talk about lost continents…
- “Alarming”. Words mean things.
- Penn & Teller file a SCOTUS brief.
- I’m sure you feel MUCH safer now.
- “Ghoulish” doesn’t even begin to describe this.
From the Archives
- Using sleazy means to violate people’s civil rights with the typical excuses.
- Sleeping with a cop is one of the most dangerous things a woman can do.
- When a cop tries to pass murder as suicide, it’s usually his wife/girlfriend.
- Overseas pharmacies will sell to US customers without asking permission.
- The current “monkey see, monkey do” parade escapes the US to Europe.
- Politicians no longer care about making their new diktats Constitutional.
- Surely you didn’t think they’d stop at threatening librarians & teachers.
- “Journalists” lionize a sexual predator who gets off on destroying lives.
- The first exoneration of a victim of “sex trafficking” hysteria has come.
- This will never stop until there are criminal charges for cops who do it.
- Still think realistic porn cartoons are the worst use for this technology?
- This will never stop while violent thugs have total power over women.
- They try to make it sound like the rapist was doing his victim a favor.
- Cops, Pope Francis, Brad Holland, Wink Martindale, and much more.
- Your periodic reminder that a child-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
- Note that cases of actual coercion don’t look much like the myths.
- Cops, space travel, Lovecraft, Barry Humphries, and much more.
- Cops are sexual predators who often target traumatized women.
- Retrospectives of my blogging from April 2013, 2014, and 2015.
- Government uses a shell game to avoid making actual reforms.
- How a country treats its prisoners reveals a great deal about it.
- The claims in these nuisance lawsuits are increasingly absurd.
- Economic war, propaganda war, and “cyber” war are still war.
- This clown wants to criminalize amateur promiscuity as well.
- Never forget that “filter” is merely a euphemism for “censor”.
- Because obviously prohibition doesn’t ruin enough lives yet.
- Texas censors have descended completely into self-parody.
- The government calls this “correction”; you don’t have to.
- The open internet is rapidly becoming a thing of the past.
- Cops, black humor, chemistry, Bob Heil, and much more.
- A psychopathic rapist-murderer cop is still unconvicted.
- Cop violence is never limited to members of the public.
- It’s getting harder to tell the preachers from the cops.
- Authoritarians want to have their cake and eat it, too.
- Surveillance beyond the wildest dreams of the Stasi.
- Just another kind of cop, with typical cop behavior.
- Don’t think this was an unintended consequence.
- Medical privacy will soon be a thing of the past.
- The reporter appears to have misspelled “care”.
- Cops are a menace to women of all ages.
- Yet another curated selection of tweets.
- Burble burble BLUE STATE burble drool.
- You just can’t keep a bad law down.
- Your “leaders” call this “correction”.
- Wacky warmish weather at Sunset.
- Throwback’s Great Aunt Thursday.
- Batman vs. Throwback Thursday.
- Phrenology for tech worshipers.
- The goose that didn’t live long.
- Many rapist cops of the week.
- A week in the playpen.
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[Chatbots] can be really good at the care and feeding of a delusion. – unnamed source
The End of the Beginning (#1308)
…a federal judge has permanently blocked the [federal government] from prosecuting Californians who [cannot] register…[as “]Sex Offender[s” because] the state doesn’t require them to do so. In a lawsuit filed by the Pacific Legal Foundation…four John Does described the impossibility of complying with…a [diktat] issued by former Attorney General Merrick Garland in 2021 [which demanded that] anyone who’s ever been convicted of a sex offense to register with their state, regardless of whether their state’s laws match the federal requirements…up[on pain of] 10 years in federal prison. This…was particularly problematic for individuals who are no longer required, nor permitted, to register as a sex offender in their home state…there [we]re thousands of individuals in California alone facing the same penalties for circumstances outside of their control…
Lawsuits are the only way to hinder a government that won’t control itself:
…the San Jose [cop shop]…has access to…a network of 474 ALPR cameras that blanket the city, [unconstitutionally] recording residents as they go about their daily lives. More than 1,000 [San Jose pig]s are authorized to [root through] that information…[without] a warrant, probable cause, or even individualized suspicion…[plus pigs in] nearly 300 other [st]ies across California. [Because] that “creepy” and “deeply intrusive” surveillance system violates the Fourth Amendment, the Institute for Justice [has filed] a lawsuit…represent[ing] a class consisting of “all San Jose residents who were drivers of vehicles” that have been photographed by the city’s cameras during the last year or will be photographed in the future…seeking a court order that would require the [pigs] to delete or block access to images and data collected by the cameras after 24 hours unless it has “a specific warrant based on probable cause”…In addition to license plate numbers…Flock’s software [also] generates [“fingerprints”] based on each car’s characteristics…can produce a “vehicle journey map” showing “everywhere the car has been seen”…”analyze patterns of movement,” “flag repeat visitors to a location,” “identify vehicles frequently seen together,” “generate lists of vehicles that have visited multiple locations of interest,” and “predict the future route a vehicle might take”…
Google pretends temporarily making this “opt-in” makes them better than Facebook:
…Google’s latest [chatbot] upgrade…lets users opt-in to connecting Google apps to Gemini…[including] all your photos…Gemini…can scan everything to form its own views of you and everyone you know…[and allow its] Nano Banana 2…[image generator with the sophomoric name] to…use actual images of you and your loved ones….to [create shitty cartoons]…Gizmodo sums it up pretty well as “solving a problem no one had”…
All cops will have these within a few years:
The Department of [Father]land Security is developing specialized [perve]rt glasses that will allow federal [goon]s on American streets to automatically identify “illegal aliens” [and protesters] from a distance…these new ICE Glasses…will be able to [parse] vast federal holdings of biometric data…to identify people in real-time…They…will be two-way, not only able to…match to [targe]ts already in databases, but also to secretly record people to add them to new domestic watchlists…
Chatbots will encourage whatever madness a user discusses with them:
…chatbot[-facilitated]…violence [is]…on the rise…a mass shooter…at Florida State University …used ChatGPT…to [plan]…his attack…[as did Jesse Van Rootselaar in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia]…iterative, sycophantic conversations with chatbots can create powerful feelings of intimacy and trust…among troubled [or mentally ill] people…[leading to] a wave of lawsuits from families…[whose] loved ones [were driven] to kill themselves and others…A Pittsburgh man who…stalk[ed] and violently threaten[ed] 11 women…relied on ChatGPT as a “therapist” and “best friend” to justify his thinking…Google Gemini…sen[t an armed Florida man] on delusional missions…then encouraged [his] suicide…Google[‘s response was “no[body’s] perfect”…
Goodness, who could ever have predicted this?
Unfortunately for the Australian government (and fortunately for most kids), the implementation of a [social media] ban is going about as well as many critics predicted. Kids are largely avoiding enforcement, with 61 percent of kids ages 12–15 who had accounts before the ban still having access to at least one of them…many kids are able to game the system by changing their appearance to look older and fool age-estimation software. Others have used false IDs or VPNs to maintain their access…Still other[s], like 15-year-old Noah Jones, are suing the government for infringing on their…rights…[but] many [others] have not been so lucky. At least 4.7 million accounts have been disabled, and hundreds of thousands of new accounts have been blocked…60 percent of parents [have deluded themselves into seeing] positive behavioral outcomes
[despite objective evidence to the contrary]…
Virginia’s former Lt. Gov. Justin Fairfax, who…derailed [his own career] by sexual[ly] assault[ing women], fatally shot his wife before killing himself…the couple’s teenage son called 911 shortly after midnight [on April 16th]…The couple was going through a divorce…
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Self-appointed guardians of the public morals are always looking for new ways to ensure that absolutely no one can escape their snooping.
– “The Puritan Recrudescence”
- Cops raping whores is so ubiquitous, others pose as cops to facilitate rape.
- What a large-scale, organized forced prostitution scheme really looks like.
- The rescue industry is full of opportunities for the wealthy to play cowboy.
- Prohibition turns bodies into “crime scenes” which cops can violate at will.
- Journalist argues whores are cattle who should be harvested by the state.
- Tiny minority of politicians manages to impose Swedish model on France.
- This listicle is more interested in being “cute” than it is in being accurate.
- The only people ever charged with “sex trafficking” in Alaska are whores.
- Guys have offered to pay me with dogs and horses, but never a monkey.
- Small cities insist they’re infested with bogeymen and imaginary victims.
- Cops, Steven Banks, paperbacks, sex toys, coloring books & much more.
- They say it’s about “pimps”, but it’s really about sex workers and clients.
- Molly Smith debunks claims the Swedish model “decriminalizes” whores.
- Less human rights lawyer and more Hollywood propagandist these days.
- How long will Gay, Inc pretend that decriminalization isn’t a LGBT issue?
- “A Man for Every Day in the Week”, “Rent”, “Hey Lady” & “Darling Nikki”.
- Massage parlors are targeted by cops because they’re low-hanging fruit.
- There can never be too many resources debunking “sex trafficking” pap.
- Fetishists pay for tattoo removal to get women to lie about bad choices.
- “Prince’s only sister to inherit his estate” isn’t good enough for the Mail.
- Yes, Zimbabwe is actually ahead of the US in this area of human rights.
- If government has its way, phone privacy will soon be gone completely.
- It was only a matter of time before male “survivors” started cashing in.
- Cops continue to destroy people’s lives for the “crime” of being human.
- Uber now wants its drivers to spy on whores and rat us out to the pigs.
- Another fact-free anti-porn rant, quoting a bogus prohibitionist “study”.
- “Sex trafficking” fanatics’ ignorance is exceeded by their megalomania.
- I doubt an unwitnessed, informal contract would really protect anyone.
- Defining human sexuality as a medical “problem” in order to control it.
- Even most who really were coerced into sex work hate criminalization.
- Human rights suffer a predictable, but crushing defeat in South Korea.
- The creeps are progressing from spooge sneaking to spooge throwing.
- The bond between close friends is stronger than almost anything else.
- Strip club alcohol bans are the most Puritanical of all sex “regulations”.
- Few sources of sex rays are as dangerous as the names of body parts.
- Swedish model’s xenophobia shows in rhetoric rationalizing its failure.
- Mistress Matisse, Brooke Magnanti and I discuss MGG’s lack of ethics.
- “Sex addiction” is the defense of choice for non-violent sex offenders.
- Wannabe “pimp” follows script learned from anti-whore propaganda.
- Anybody want to try these out & compare them to makeup sponges?
- Soon we’ll hear about how New Hampshire is a “sex trafficking hub”.
- Grady Judd destroys people’s lives for his own self-aggrandizement.
- The Swedish model has virtually eliminated prostitution in Sweden!
- “Clients per day” claims have returned to the realm of the possible.
- Harassing streetwalkers has become a popular “Christian” pastime.
- Cops, Cassandra, end demand, theme music for me & much more.
- There weren’t any actual victims, but we just have to cage people.
- Danish prohibitionists claim sex work is “spreading” like a disease.
- Misinterpreting ordinary interactions is common in a moral panic.
- An interview with Chester Brown about his newest graphic novel.
- Only good thing about prostitution stings: cops getting arrested.
- Colorado politicians make it easier to destroy teens for “sexting”.
- Pig lawyers’ attempt to quash San Diego strippers’ lawsuit fails.
- For most people, efforts to ignore reality are doomed to failure.
- Prince, cops, authoritarianism, sea monkeys, art & much more.
- Brutal thugs invade home, abduct mother & destroy child’s life.
- “Sex trafficking” is an especially good excuse for money grabs.
- A new low in the “cops busting kids’ lemonade stands” genre.
- One can never have too many anti-Swedish model editorials.
- Tara Burns, still doggedly fighting for sex workers in Alaska.
- Tara Burns with a guide on reporting about “sex trafficking”.
- OH MY GOD HE PAID THEM SALARIES! WHAT A MONSTER!
- An evening with Mistress Matisse & Elizabeth Nolan Brown.
- A good article on Ruhama, the Magdalene nuns’ new front.
- Another Potemkin village designed to please the ignorant.
- 1st-person sex worker accounts expose prohibitionist lies.
- Lehrer, Lovecraft, cops, cookies, the TSA and much more.
- Massage therapists just can’t resist anti-whore posturing.
- A disabled Australian couple gets help from a sex worker.
- This was, of course, expected; next stop, the 9th Circuit.
- A few journalists are starting to see where this is going.
- Cleveland tries to paper over an atrocity with a “policy”.
- It’s so good to see more widespread recognition of this.
- The Seattle Times continues its revolting badge-licking.
- Mostly just ignorant cheerleading for a do-nothing law.
- Politicians can’t grasp that all prohibition is the same.
- “Sex trafficking” smoke & mirrors obscure the truth.
- “Christian” vigilantes playing with people’s lives.
- Thai sex worker activists are made of awesome.
- How to share the restroom with a trans person.
- Indian sex workers are getting tired of bullshit.
- The more lawsuits against the cops, the better.
- A nice little collection of debunking resources.
- Is it common for sex workers to use AirBnB?
- Malawi continues to do what the US won’t.
- An excellent essay on the Tracy Elise case.
- A sex worker is arrested for placing an ad.
- A human-shaped toaster is still a toaster.
- Farm machinery causes “sex trafficking”!
- Now where did we put that serial rapist?
- I just love watching them eat their own.
- I hope cops keep feeding on each other.
- Yet another murdered trans sex worker.
- A special edition of Ladies of the Night.
- A review of The Girlfriend Experience.
- More truth about the Swedish model.
- On the recrudescence of Puritanism.
- Protest in support of Alisha Walker.
- Oooooh, it’s a SPOOOOOOKY hub!
- Dealing with a very difficult week.
- First they came for the students…
- This is actually kind of revolting.
- A weekend with Chester Brown.
- Introducing SWOP Behind Bars.
- The harlotography that wasn’t.
- This can only be a good thing.
- How convenient for the State.
- Bree Olson: Her Untold Story.
- Jemima on transactional sex.
- I’m sure you feel safer now.
- Probably a wise precaution.
- Go, Stephanie Farnsworth!
- Burn. It. To. The. Ground.
- Cambodian trauma porn.
- Rapist cops of the week.
- No, I won’t shill for you.
- Color me unsurprised.
- R.I.P. Amber Rayne.
- An April Fools gag.
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I actually like winter, as one of four well-defined seasons; what I do not like is when winter is a bad guest which arrives earlier than it is supposed to or overstays its welcome.
– “Rain, Rain, Go Away”
Would that all of us could leave this earth so gently. – “Diary #668”
911…systems treat cops like Spam in the famous Monty Python sketch: a form of pork that you get with every order whether you like it or not. – “Dangerous Spam”
Smuggling is, was, and always will be a social good, providing to individuals what collectives and/or tyrants wish to deny to them or bleed them for wanting. – “The Tweets Go On“
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We cannot agree to the step-by-step creation of a Chinese-style internet in Europe. – Piotr Müller
First They Came for the Hookers… (#1160)
Just in case you think being a “legal” sex worker protects you:
In March 2024…a lawsuit filed by patrons of three [Arizona] strip clubs — Dream Palace in Tempe and Skin Cabaret and Bones Cabaret in Scottsdale…claimed that dancers were drugging scores of customers and racking up six-figure charges on their credit cards…the [claims appear to have been lifted from] the 2019 film Hustlers…and…neither man could prove he’d been drugged, but…Phoenix attorney Rod Galarza…[has] now [recruited] more than 40 plaintiffs, with the total amount of allegedly bogus charges exceeding $2.3 million…And yet no charges were ever filed in the case…Scottsdale police presented the case to the Maricopa County Attorney’s Office and the Arizona Attorney General’s Office…only to have both decline [it for]…“lack…[of] sufficient evidence”…police didn’t…speak to any dancers…at the clubs, didn’t search the club for drugs and didn’t send in undercover cops. Former club employees who did talk to police reported no direct knowledge of any drugging scheme…and…Todd Borowsky, who owns the Skin and Bones clubs…[has] filed…[a] federal…[law]suit [against] the city of Scottsdale, the [cop shop] and several individual cops…[for] perpetrating a vindictive sham investigation against the clubs…[which] went to great lengths to document their clients’ pricey forays into VIP rooms, requiring signed contracts, a fingerprint and even a photo of the customer holding up the paperwork for each transaction…
Scottsdale cops have a long and sordid history of trying to pin crimes on strippers.
Throwing other sex workers under the bus is a shortcut to losing my sympathy:
A gay Canadian adult film star…was detained for over eight hours by U.S. Customs before receiving a 10-year ban from the country. Milo Miles…was traveling to Las Vegas…in January…to attend the GayVN Awards…where he was set to present and was nominated for six awards…[when goons] accused him of “escorting with no evidence” and were fixated on the “gay clothes”, fiber pills, and PrEP he had packed…When…they found evidence of his career in…porn [it got worse]…then…two hours [later they] found evidence of escorting…Miles [then threw other sex workers under the bus by trying to invoke a bullshit distinction between]…prostitution…[and] escorting…U.S. Customs has the [power] to deny entry to people they believe are sex workers…and will use coercive tactics to try and elicit a confession…
In many ways, Microsoft and Google are as evil as Facebook:
An independent privacy audit of Microsoft, [Facebook], and Google web traffic in California found that the companies [routinely] violat[e] state regulations…[by shoving] ad cookies in[to] a user’s browser even if they opt…out of tracking…The webXray California Privacy Audit…found that most tech companies [simply] ignore when a user asks to opt-out of cookie tracking. [Facebook’s] code [does not even] contain…[a] check for globally standard opt-out signals—it loads unconditionally, fires a tracking event, and sets a cookie regardless of the consumerʼs privacy preferences…[The three companies] have collectively paid billions in fees for previous privacy violations …[but simply view] these fines [as a cost of doing business]…One of the things…revealed in the audit is [that those]…annoying pop-ups that ask users how they want to handle cookies…do…not work…Google, [Facebook], and Microsoft all [lied, saying “nuh-uh” while theatrically crossing their fingers behind their backs]…
From the first time I saw one of those cookie banners I knew they were bullshit; I never respond to them, instead simply archiving the page as soon as such a popup appears, because I suspect that the act of clicking itself triggers some kind of fine-print consent, as in a phishing email.
Prohibitionists always claim surprise when the predicted effects of one of their bans appear:
…the Tax Foundation…[has] reported that “cigarette smokers in the European Union pay far more in excise taxes than they do for the cigarettes themselves…at least 60 percent of the national weighted average retail price…The highest…is levied in Ireland at €10.71 ($12.58) per pack…followed by France at €8.09 ($9.51) and the Netherlands at €7.77 ($9.13)”…[outside] the E.U…taxes make up almost 60 percent of the…Swiss…price…[and almost 50] per cent of the…British price…[unsurprisingly,] Europe’s black market for cigarettes…[is therefore] grow[ing]…especially in France and the Netherlands…France continues to remain the largest [European] market for…black market…cigarette[s]…at 38.5 percent, just slightly exceeding the 37 percent share in Ireland…
Any doctor who trusts chatbots should be sued for malpractice:
…chatbots [are especially dangerous] when used to make medical diagnoses, particularly when faced with incomplete information…frequently narrowing too quickly to a single answer...researchers evaluated 21 LLMs, including leading models by OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, xAI and DeepSeek. It found that failure rates exceeded 80 per cent for all models when they needed to do so-called differential diagnosis — when full patient information was lacking…
The only way to ensure data is not abused is not to collect it:
The European Union’s unveiling of a mobile app to check people’s age online has quickly turned sour, as cybersecurity experts found glaring privacy and security problems with the code…turning into a PR disaster for Brussels…security consultant Paul Moore…hacked the app in under 2 minutes…[while] Baptiste Robert, a prominent French white hat hacker, confirmed…it was possible to bypass the app’s biometric authentication features…The European Commission [quickly backpedaled, absurdly declaring]…”When we say it’s a final version, it’s…still a demo version”…and…the vulnerability “was fixed”…
Every study shows that chatbot usage harms brain function:
In a new study, researchers [demonstrate once again]…that [using chatbots for]…cognitive labor [such as] writing…studying [and] coding…can rapidly impair users’ intellectual ability and willingness to persist…After [using the electronic crutch for as little as] 10 minutes…people…performed worse and gave up more frequently than those who never used it…a growing body of research [shows] that [chatbot reliance] can distort and dampen users’ thinking and independence, and…outsourcing cognitive tasks to [chatbots] could put [lazy fool]s in a “boiling frog”…erosion of [their] cognitive “muscles”…“these effects will accumulate over years, and by the time they are visible, they will be difficult to reverse,” the study [says]… “Once the [chatbot] is taken away…people [don’t simply give] wrong answers…They’re…not [even] willing to try without [the chatbot]”…over-reliance [therefore] function[s much] like an addiction…
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