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#5月1日は扇の日

It feels like Greece's privacy laws are the end game for governments around the world. While some ideas sound good on the surface, like banning social media for anyone under the age of 15, it becomes quickly obvious that the devil is in the details: how are they having user prove their age? With Greek elections slated for January 2027, lots of campaigning is already underway. Greek Politicians have said a number of alarming things about digital ID. While many here in the USA are in denial about the rapid movement towards digital ID, often citing how the age variable recently added into operating systems is self-reported, politicians in Greece are playing with their cards face-up on the table. Greece's Minister of Digital Governance, Dimitris Papastergiou, said specifically that ID laws will be required to to curb "toxicity" online and prevent "character assassination." Government Spokesman, Pavlos Marinakis stated that, while the plan "would not necessarily ban pseudonyms," it aims to ensure every account "links back to a verifiable real identity behind the scenes." As trust in government plummets over the 21st century, somehow the average voter seems content to allow anonymity online to be killed. Dimitris Papastergiou even referenced Ancient Greece, the beginning of Western civilization, in defense of these digital ID laws. Papastergiou said, "In ancient Greece, citizens expressed their opinions openly and by name. This principle should inspire our digital democracy today" in April 2026. Humorously, or tragically, depending who you ask, Ancient Greece had several ways of publishing books anonymously, with Pseudepigrapha being the most prevalent. Pseudepigrapha is when writers published content under the name of famous, long-dead figures, just as many post online using a pseudonym of an anime character or figure from history today. While the EU lacks the powerful free speech laws that the USA has, the USA is also moving quickly in this space, passing bipartisan bill for digital age verification laws in 25 states. While some of these bills appear likely to make it up to the Federal Supreme Court, it is terrifying just how quickly privacy online is being dismantled. I truly believe that these laws are the most important pieces of legislature to challenge of our lifetimes. While I agree that social media is objectively damaging for children to consume, these bills appear to be targeting the freedom of anonymous speech online so that the ruling class can better control narratives across social media. We should look to Greece and see how they are already showing their hand by mentioning a crackdown on "toxicity" and "character assassination" online, when at first, the goals were simply to protect children from social media addiction. "Protect the children" and "terrorism" have been used throughout my lifetime to reign in civil rights, and these bills are the biggest direct assault on these rights that I have seen since the Patriot Act. I hope that people who aren't technologically inclined can recognize how damaging shutting off anonymous posting online will be for society, but to be honest, I have little hope that enough average people will care about these laws before it's too late.

Run away with me

@maraganger @Ikoms4 Sorry to barge in, but could I have it too? Thanks!

@Ikoms4 if you need those in non-video form, i have all the concept art saved and i can forward them to you ! :0

look at this cool video i just found youtube.com/watch?v=_JUiVr…

@ani_obsessive I just learned about this movie yesterday on a MAL stacklist, that's weird.

From: Run, Melos! (1992), dir. Masaaki Osumi, Visual 80

Got curious and put together four graphs regarding the registered users and ratings in AniList and MAL of yoshitoshi ABe and Yasuyuki Ueda's big 4 anime series (Lain, NieA, Haibane and Texhnolyze). My take is that NieA_7 is severely underwatched and pretty underrated.

🚨 Across the world, Australia, Europe and the UK people have decried censorship yet, it’s still coming. Let’s make this a global tweet. We will NOT comply. Just tap 🔁. Let’s see how far this can go.

@MinModulation Just the musical output alone was unlike anything I've ever seen. I'm still unsure of what kind of perfect storm happened for the MLP fandom of all to have taken the shape it did

you know, for how much people made fun of it, the MLP fandom seemed to have been the most industrious by far

band au #haibanerenmei

HERE ITS IS!!!!!!, A COMPILATION OF ALL THE MOVIES I SAVED UNTIL NOW, 12000+ MOVIES!!!!!!!! here: jottacloud.com/s/426281121664… all for you guys, this compilation, in form of an excel file include all the asian collection (7600+) , all of jon w collection ( 3800+) and a new addition, documentaries and old classics (800+) enjoy it all, and to clarify, all of this movies were in my jottacloud before, so thankfully i didn't had to use my old hdd drive, oh and about the donation campaign, we still at 8% of the goal, im still thankful for the support of my friends an followers who contributed to the donation campaign, thank you guys. well, like always, if you want to help me reach the goal you can do it here: ko-fi.com/rarefinder/goa…

Back from EU Parliament. We had several technical & procedural problems happening realtime while we presented, but we brought up all our main points and have majority support. The NGO is now running stopkillinggames.com, I'll get back to regular vids as soon as I can manage.

@h0shiNohate Malice@Doll has been slandered for too long despite its aesthetic being the peak of early CGI artistic direction.

ppl talk about how "you can't talk abt old animation like it's video game graphics" but absolutely nobody sides with u if u apply this to cgi

Stop Killing Games delivers 'absolutely incredible' hearing in European Parliament: 'There was no [parliament member] that wasn't responding positively' pcgamer.com/gaming-industr…

Perhaps folks who don’t do a lot of research might not understand the loss of the Wayback Machine, but when content is published online only, libraries, universities, etc. don’t have a microfiche copies of archived work to look up. The digital work is inaccessible.

Destroying the @InternetArchive's @WayBackMachine would be the equivalent of the burning of the Library of Alexandria - one of the worst losses of knowledge in history. Media giants are now threatening to do this. We can't let this happen. Pass it on.

Aquí en Xataka lo resumen muy bien. Ya no es que me parezca una situación injusta es que creo que alcanza tintes demenciales. ¡Dos años de prisión por compartir películas descatalogadas y sin ningún tipo de animo de lucro! Reitero mi apoyo total a @LaFilmoMaldita, por supuesto.

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. wired.com/story/the-inte…

The existence and input of the actual author is usually seen as a hindrance to most fandoms who really want a sort of context free dollhouse to play with rather a work to engage with.

はじめての今 敏論。書籍『今 敏　未完のアニメーション』（宮本裕子 著）が青土社から4月24日発売予定。『パーフェクト・ブルー』から『千年女優』、『東京ゴッドファーザーズ』『妄想代理人』そして『パプリカ』に至るまで、全監督作を歴史と理論のなかで読み解く　amass.jp/188617/

@ankowaifu It's a really good time, and Milly is as cute in clips as she is in the anime

to be honest, it's mainly because i saw a few clips of Milly and fell in love with her