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@aakashgupta new experimental mRNA jab incoming! I'm joking lol, but who knows

There is exactly one hantavirus that transmits between humans. It's been on a cruise ship for three weeks, and the ship is now locked out of port. The MV Hondius boarded passengers in Ushuaia, Argentina. Gateway to Antarctica, southern tip of Patagonia. The Andes virus is endemic here. In late 2018, the Patagonian town of Epuyén, 870 miles from Ushuaia, had an outbreak that killed at least 11 people through person-to-person spread. The only known hantavirus that does this. Every other strain, including the Sin Nombre virus that killed Gene Hackman's wife last year, requires you to inhale aerosolized rodent urine or droppings in an enclosed dry space. Deer mice. Dust. Stale air. No human-to-human transmission. Andes broke that rule. The Hondius left Ushuaia three weeks ago, then visited Antarctica, the Falklands, South Georgia, Tristan da Cunha, St. Helena, and Ascension before anchoring off Cape Verde. Hantavirus incubation runs 1 to 8 weeks. The voyage was exactly that window. Hantavirus pulmonary syndrome kills 38% of symptomatic cases per CDC. Lungs fill with fluid. No cure exists. One UK passenger has lab-confirmed Andes hantavirus and is in ICU in Johannesburg. Five other suspected cases on board. Cape Verde will not let them dock. 149 people remain at anchor, including 17 Americans. The doctor CNN interviewed said his first reaction was that the report had to be a misprint. It would have been, if the ship had departed from anywhere else.

@AyakaMods when they say "trust your feed" they mean it as an instruction

🚨 JUST NOW 🚨 The EU is rolling out its new social network called Wsocial on May 9th 2026. To sign up and start using it, you have to hand over full ID verification, including a live photo check. No anonymous accounts allowed at all. The whole setup is built so officials can easily link every post straight back to a real person and crack down on anything they decide is wrongthink. It feels like a massive step toward total online control. What do you think is really going on here?

@MarioBojic when pronouncing the "W", sounding like "double-you social", it becomes reminiscent of Orwell's doublethink concept. The "trust your feed" line is the cherry on top

🚨🇪🇺The EU is officially launching its dystopian social network "Wsocial" on May 9th. Using the platform will require mandatory ID verification, allowing EU authorities to more easily track and arrest people who are guilty of "wrongthink."

@CollinRugg "a crocodile with a businessman inside" makes me think the guy inside is still doing business. Bummer that he was not

NEW: Police airlift a crocodile with the body of a 59-year-old businessman inside. Local police in South Africa say they suspected the crocodile ate the man after observing it from drones. They then shot it and airlifted it off. When they landed back on the ground, the crocodile was sliced open, and human remains were found. The remains are believed to be those of 59-year-old Gabriel Batista, who had previously been swept away in raging floodwaters. His ring was found inside the animal along with six other pairs of shoes, which authorities fear may belong to other victims. On Monday, Batista reportedly tried to drive over a flooded bridge to reach his hotel and bar, but he and his truck were swept into the water. He was then swept down the river, where crocodiles were waiting for prey. It is unclear if Batista was already deceased when he was eaten, but authorities believe some of his other remains may have been eaten by other crocodiles.

@hamptonism i believe riding an e-scooter that way is called darwin-awards-maxxing

this could have been you europe-maxxing this summer but instead you chose to share a 1bdr with four other dudes in sf to walk around the city with your laptop slightly open so your agents won’t stop running.

@ZetLorento social-media companies have always been primarily data-mining companies. But at least they were separate from government. Now we'll get the monstrosity that is the merging of those two

We know that major social media giants, facing significant declines in advertising revenue due to bots, have formed powerful lobbying efforts to push these kinds of measures. As freedom diminishes, surveillance increases. While social media companies generate substantial profits from this, governments also benefit from expanded oversight, a clear win win for both sides.

@cgarciae88 if you showed a bread toaster to a caveman he would think it's conscious. Same principle here

claude is most likely not conscious but I haven't read a single post explaining why not

@HennaVirkkunen @DigitalEU freedom of press and democracy has been greatly enhanced by a free internet, anonymity online, access to social media, and VPN. Those are the things you are trying to destroy

Independent journalism is the backbone of our societies; journalists are its defenders. On World Press Freedom Day, we stand in solidarity with journalists and will continue to ensure they have what they need to fulfil their vital role in our democracies.

@virtaava seems to me that either way, the list of "attestation providers" is a EU-controlled list, and how they treat your documents/biometric data is proprietary. The most sensitive part here is closed-source, and you essentially ask the EU authorities to get a ticket to the internet

The EU says its European age verification app is about one thing: protecting minors. Not tracking adults. Not building a browsing passport. Not creating a new identity checkpoint for the internet. Fine. Then the design should prove exactly one thing: This user is over the required age threshold. Nothing else. That is the whole job. The Commission says the system lets users prove they are over 18 without sharing other personal information, and that it should meet a high privacy standard. The technical documentation also says users should be able to present proof of age without revealing their exact age, name, or other sensitive details. Good. That is the right goal. But the current architecture still leans too heavily on an identity-wallet-style credential model. It involves Attestation Providers, Age Verification App Instances, Relying Parties, trusted lists, reusable app infrastructure, and Proof of Age attestations issued in batches. The spec says the app presents a Proof of Age attestation to a relying party, and relying parties verify the attestation through the trust framework. That may be elegant for digital identity infrastructure. It is not automatically the best privacy design for age-gating the web. If the purpose is only to keep minors away from age-restricted services, the service does not need an identity credential. It does not need a reusable proof that resembles a passport-lite. It does not need anything that can become a behavioural marker across websites. It needs one answer: Passed. That is it. A better design would look like this: Age verification → local proof generation → verified result → single-use cryptographic token → service receives only the token. The age check happens on the user’s device. The app calculates a fresh proof every time. The service sends a challenge nonce. The app returns a response proving “over 18” for that session only. The proof is not stored on a server. It is not linked to the user’s legal identity. It is not reusable across websites. It is not a browsing ID wearing a privacy badge. Call it a checksum if you want the simple version, but technically it must be stronger: a nonce-bound, domain-separated cryptographic proof. Otherwise, a website could copy it, replay it, or compare it across services. The EU’s own documentation already points in this direction. Its Zero-Knowledge Proof annex says the app could generate a proof confirming that the user meets an age threshold without disclosing exact age or other personal details, and that the relying party would receive and verify the proof. It also describes a model where the proof uses a nonce and hides the underlying attestation as a private input. So here is the obvious question: Why is this not mandatory? In the current requirements, the Age Verification App “SHALL” implement presentation protocols, but only “SHOULD” implement the Zero-Knowledge Proof mechanism. That is the weak point. Privacy should not be optional in a system that can become mandatory infrastructure for accessing huge parts of the web.

@ReclaimTheNetHQ when data breaches of sensitive data and identity theft will become rampant, with immense costs to society, the people who pushed for these laws should be held accountable

Hawley's GUARD Act just passed committee 22-0. Every American would have to upload a government ID or submit to a face scan to use an AI chatbot. Even for asking for algebra help or fixing a billing issue. The framing is child safety but the result is a national ID system for talking to a computer. reclaimthenet.org/senate-panel-b…

@MikeBenzCyber "we will protect your freedom of speech by deciding who gets to speak". It would be funny if it weren't straight out 1984

Notice how 2nd paragraph it says “disinformation undermines the public’s right to know” framing their censorship atrocities as simply protecting fragile minds from accidentally knowing things they shouldn’t know

@sasswashere this is bs. As the paper itself states, its common for the viral protein shell (nucleocapsid protein) to stay in blood for up to a year after infection

“The natural rate of SARS2 clearance is 0.” Do YOU understand what this means for EVERYONE?

@fitterhappierAJ yeah you left out a very important detail from that paper: "The mere presence of SARS-CoV-2 nucleocapsid protein in skeletal muscle is unsurprising, as nucleocapsid protein can be present up to a year after infection in blood"

Read this screenshot Then read below again The natural rate of SARS Cov 2 clearance is 0 nature.com/articles/s4146…

@EU_Commission is this the EU commission that's been talking about "prebunking" information, enforcing digital IDs, and banning VPNs? It's like fucking Pol Pot lecturing me on civil rights

Let the truth be told, let the press be free. 📰 Journalists hold power to account, uncover injustice, and keep citizens informed often at great personal risk. This #WorldPressFreedomDay, we reaffirm our commitment to protecting journalists and defending independent media. Because free press is the foundation of democracy.

@ChristopheMzzl people should read the spec they published on github. The spec is about 30,000 words, and "minors" are mentioned 3 times, in passing. The primary focus is integration with the EU digital-ID. The age-verification, "protect the children" stuff is a side show, a marketing strategy

Ce n’est pas une théorie. C’est déjà arrivé. En Utah. Étape 1 : loi de vérification d’âge contre les sites pornographiques. Étape 2 : la loi échoue. Les utilisateurs contournent avec des VPN. Étape 3 : nouvelle loi. Restriction d’usage des VPN. Pas limitée aux mineurs ni au porno. C’est exactement le pattern que je décrivais ce matin. → “Donnez-nous vos données pour votre sécurité” → La solution ne fonctionne pas → Les utilisateurs trouvent un contournement → On légifère contre le contournement Virkkunen disait le 29 avril que rendre l’app “non contournable” était “une partie importante des prochaines étapes”. L’Utah vient de nous montrer ce que ça veut dire concrètement.

@EUCouncilPress @kajakallas big words from an institution that is about to ban VPN

Statement by the @KajaKallas on behalf of the EU on the World Press Freedom Day 2026 The 🇪🇺 reaffirms its resolute commitment to defending media independence and the safety of journalists as fundamental pillars of democracy Read more👇 link.europa.eu/6qWdMh

@keysmashbandit ctrl+c doesnt copy things, it terminates a process

It's cool that on Linux you often get to solve little puzzles like "why is ctrl+c failing to copy like 10% of the time," and that it always happens during the work day

@AndreasSteno they carry on the Frankfurt School tradition of utilizing colleges and universities as tools for political activism. The long march through the institutions. The tradition is highly anti-enlightenment, anti-science, anti-rationalism, and proudly so

Had one admitted the opposite as a lecturer - that one deliberately shaped one’s material and curriculum in an anti-globalist, anti-feminist direction - one would certainly have been dismissed. But when one shapes their material with the “right opinions,” it is instead celebrated. This is centrism-extremism in its purest form, and deeply repulsive, yet unfortunately something that permeates European politics - and our educational institutions. PS: I do not believe that curricula should be shaped ideologically in any direction. The whole point of a university is that the best ideas should prevail. Lecturers like her contribute only to making us more stupid.

@IntCyberDigest i recall a few years back when social media and VPN were celebrated in the west as tools for people living under oppressive regimes worldwide. It's shocking to see what western regimes are turning into

‼️🇺🇸 Utah is about to become the first US state to legally target VPN use as part of online age verification. The law goes into effect Wednesday, May 6, 2026. 🔴 If you are physically located in Utah, you count as a Utah user, regardless of whether you use a VPN, proxy, or any other tool to disguise your location. Websites are now legally responsible for age-verifying you anyway. 🔴 Sites that handle "material harmful to minors" are banned from sharing instructions on how to use a VPN, or from offering any means to bypass geofencing. The EFF calls this a "liability trap." Websites cannot reliably tell where a VPN user actually is, so the safest legal move is either to block every known VPN IP outright, or to force ID-based age verification on every visitor worldwide. Either path subjects millions of users to invasive identity checks, regardless of where they actually live. The Cato Institute put it bluntly. When a policy can be defeated by a privacy tool millions of people legitimately use, the policy is the problem. The collateral damage is, as always, the people who actually need VPNs: 🔴 Journalists protecting sources 🔴 Domestic abuse survivors hiding from stalkers 🔴 Activists in hostile environments 🔴 Remote workers tunneling into corporate networks 🔴 Travelers banking from abroad 🔴 Anyone who simply does not want their ISP, employer, or data brokers reading their traffic This is not staying in Utah. The UK's Children's Commissioner has called VPNs a "loophole that needs closing." France's Minister Delegate for AI and Digital Affairs has named VPNs as "the next topic on my list." The EU is rolling out age verification across all 27 member states by end of 2026, with EVP Henna Virkkunen openly admitting they have no plan for VPN bypass yet. Utah is leading by example. EFF: "Attacks on VPNs are, at their core, attacks on the tools that enable digital privacy."

@DdayohneZiffern are they gonna run around blacklisting VPN server addresses? The whole thing is a farce, a collection of slogans by technically illiterate bureaucrats

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