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WTAF!!! Disgusting world we live in! Squirrels in south London have been filmed “vaping” discarded e-cigarettes, mistaking fruity smells for food. The RSPCA calls it a stark reminder of the dangers littering poses to wildlife.

The magical “aerosol” vanishing trick is now complete 🪄 Bang smack in the middle of the Meningitis outbreak in England, the WHO decided that was the perfect time to take their Meningitis page offline for 4 days… …and now it’s back, the word “aerosol” has magically vanished!

🚨 UK: The govt wants to ban VPNs, social media & AI chatbots in various contexts. Your silence is a yes. Make your voice heard before May 26. Fill out the survey and let them know your views: gov.uk/government/con…

"We picked kids and families who were willing to let the government take their phones away for a propaganda stunt, and we will use the results of that propaganda stunt to argue we should force everyone else's kids not to use social media too."

@puert50160 @WindsorDebs @GOVUK Either wait for Motorola to start releasing GrapheneOS installed phones from the factory or get a Pixel with GrapheneOS installed on it. It looks like Android might be headed the same way.

@WindsorDebs @GOVUK They already know you’re over 18 especially if you pay by DD . I’m reluctant to update & am seriously thinking of switching to android.

My iPhone just updated itself. I keep turning this off then get endless messages to update it and an irritating red circle on the screen. Now this has appeared. Since when is it law to prove your age to use your own phone???? Way beyond your remit now @GOVUK

Absolute bombshell. Data reveals someone made a massive 580 MILLION dollar trade on oil exactly 15 minutes BEFORE Donald Trump posted his tweet about pausing the Iran war. Someone on the inside just made a life changing fortune. The corruption is blatant.

Google turned sideloading into a 10-step process with a mandatory 24-hour wait. The friction is intentional. Enough people give up, enough people stay in the Play Store. Android's openness was once a selling point. Google is killing it on purpose.

Sony is shutting down VFX company Pixomondo • The company has won Oscars and Emmys • They were behind the visual effects for 'Game of Thrones', 'The Boys', 'House of the Dragon', and many other projects • Sony acquired them in 2022

@_CatintheHat Have you seen this god damn awful Telegraph piece? archive.fo/20260322154050… IMO, people like this need to be the ones getting hit by LC hardest. I don't normally wish ill on others, but there are some in this world who are truly the worst assholes.

🤬 Wow! A Kent Uni student sensibly wearing KN95 mask when receiving his antibiotics and, later, his MenB vaccination was told to REMOVE his KN95 mask and don a surgical mask. This bizarre aversion to masks which offer a HIGHER degree of protection has got to STOP. FULL STOP 🛑

Disney has cancelled their deal with OpenAI. They planned to invest $1 billion into the company and let Sora have access to AI generate videos of characters from Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars. (Source: hollywoodreporter.com/business/digit…)

> you download a therapy app because youre struggling > you tell it your darkest fears, your trauma, your diagnosis > you pay $360 a month to keep it private > 2 million people do the same > betterhelp sells your mental health data to facebook and snapchat > your therapist was supposed to keep secrets > the ftc fined them $7.8 million > but betterhelp is still the most downloaded mental health app on earth > you were never the customer. you were the inventory.

Someone is defacing Canadian coins with their 51st state bullshit. If you get one of these in the wild, take it to the bank to be exchanged so they can destroy it. Also defacing canada currency is illegal.

the part they left out: these dogs were stolen for the dog meat trade in Jilin, China. Jilin province has 50+ slaughterhouses. they escaped from a moving truck, formed a defensive formation around an injured german shepherd, and a corgi navigated them 17km home over 2 days. they were all neighborhood dogs who played together every day. they all made it back. China still has no national ban on dog meat, but Shenzhen banned it in 2020.

BREAKING: A price cap will be placed on pet prescriptions, the Competition and Markets Authority has announced Pet owners will pay a maximum of £21 for their first prescription and £12.50 for any other medicines 🔗 Read more trib.al/ooH4b0E

the big brother is watching this is how ugly (and how fast) things are getting it's 1984 already and most people haven't realized that yet the US wants to control the internet this is part of how they do it: achieving full control of most of its users' access point to the internet from that to having a backdoor and running spywares with ease is a non-step (see the new age verification laws, for example, which adds up to that) terrifying times the big brother is watching

UPDATE: THEY STOLE EVERYTHING?? FORTUNE: “The U.S. government is insolvent.” — The Treasury Department’s own consolidated financial statements for FY25, released last week to near-total media silence, say we’re BANKRUPT: $47T in total liabilities but only $6T in total assets! 🤯

android spyware is largely embedded in the google play services sensors, contacts, app info, hardware info, etcetc it collects these with elevated privileges in stock android, it cannot be disabled and telemetry cannot be disabled no matter what you do graphene ships without play services. if you're down for the friction you can direct install some apk's (signal does this), use f-droid for foss apps, and use progressive web apps (pwa's) to fill the gaps if you want play store apps, you can sandbox the play store; giving it the same authority as any other app w tight controls over what it can access and when. apps installed thru sandboxed play store must request permission up the chain: app -> play store -> graphene -> you data flow starts and stops with you. play wants your location? seethe. play wants your hardware ids? mald. play wants your contacts? pound sand. is the pixel-only constraint problematic? is immigration reform on stolen land problematic? yea, it is. you get the cards you get. at least in the former case, graphene & motorola are partnering to further open access to an os that still gives a shit about privacy do not let these ppl black pill you, friend you dont have to live on the backfoot with your data on your device

The air traffic controller cleared the fire truck onto the runway. Seconds later, the same controller screamed “stop, stop, stop.” The plane was doing 93 to 105 mph. Both pilots are dead. Everyone will frame this as controller error. One controller was simultaneously managing a United flight that aborted takeoff after an anti-ice warning, dispatching a fire truck across an active runway, and sequencing an inbound Air Canada landing at highway speed. At 11:40 PM. On a mandatory overtime shift at a facility that has been understaffed for years. A system that assigns one person that workload will produce exactly this outcome. The only variable is when. The FAA is short approximately 3,000 controllers. The headcount dropped 13% from 2010 to 2024 while flight volume rose 10%. Over 40% of the FAA’s 290 terminal facilities are understaffed. The New York TRACON, which manages the most congested airspace in America across LaGuardia, JFK, and Newark, has been chronically below target. Newark was operating at 59% of its staffing goal. LaGuardia handles 900 flights a day. The hiring pipeline is broken at every stage. Only 2% of applicants complete the full process. Training takes up to 6 years. The FAA Academy in Oklahoma City is a bottleneck, with roughly 35% of trainees washing out. Congress blocked legislation to build a second academy. In one recent hiring cycle, the FAA brought on 1,512 candidates and lost 1,300 in the same window. Net gain: around 160 controllers for an entire country. Three things need to happen and everyone who can make them happen has known for years. Congress needs to fund and authorize a second FAA training academy. One facility in Oklahoma City cannot produce enough controllers for 900 million annual passengers. Members of Congress from Oklahoma have actively blocked this. That needs to end yesterday. The FAA needs to cut certification time. Six years from application to fully certified controller is absurd. The agency’s own data shows tower simulators reduce certification time by 27%. They’ve installed them at 95 facilities. That should be every facility, and the simulated hours should count toward more of the certification requirement. The FAA needs to stop plugging staffing gaps with mandatory overtime. Controllers at understaffed facilities are working six-day weeks rotating between morning, mid, and night shifts. The NTSB has flagged fatigue repeatedly. The controller last night was managing overlapping emergencies during a nighttime operation. Overtime is not a staffing plan. It’s a countdown to the next runway collision. The controller said “I messed up” to a Frontier pilot who watched the whole thing. The pilot responded “No man, you did the best you could.” One of them is right. The answer determines whether this happens again.