From the raging dickcunts at The New York Times…
The Signal App and the Danger of Privacy at All Costs
(archive.ph link) (bolding is mine)
The company — an L.L.C. that is governed by a nonprofit — is founded on the belief that it needs to combat what it calls “state corporate surveillance” of our online activities in defense of an uncompromisable value: individual privacy. Distrustful of government and large corporations and apparently persuaded that they are irredeemable, technologists look for workarounds.
This level of privacy can be beneficial on a number of fronts. For instance, Signal is used by journalists to communicate with confidential sources. But it is no coincidence that criminals have also used this government-evading technology. When the F.B.I. arrested several Oath Keepers for rioting at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, one of its primary pieces of evidence was messages on Signal. (It’s unclear how the F.B.I. got access to the messages in this instance; there is a longstanding cat and mouse game between lawmakers and technology.)
The J6 Boogeyman has been raised, so strap in for high-pressured spray of liquid bullshit.
The ethical universe, according to Signal, is simple: The privacy of individuals must be respected above all else, come what may. If terrorists or child abusers or other criminals use the app, or one like it, to coordinate activities or share child sexual abuse imagery behind impenetrable closed doors, that’s a shame — but privacy is all that matters.
I guess it’s OK to raise the spectre of groomers in this context.
One should always worry when a person or an organization places one value above all. The moral fabric of our world is complex. It’s nuanced. Sensitivity to moral nuance is difficult, but unwavering support of one principle to rule them all is morally dangerous.
The way Signal wields the word “surveillance” reflects its coarsegrained understanding of morality. To the company, surveillance covers everything from a server holding encrypted data that no one looks at to a law enforcement agent reading data after obtaining a warrant to Eastern Germany randomly tapping citizens’ phones. One cannot think carefully about the value of privacy — including its relative importance to other values in particular contexts — with such a broad brush.
Fuck you. They don’t get warrants to read stuff and even if they did, they’d go to a lapdog judge. And I hope “coarse-grained” describes the next pegging you pay for.
What’s more, the company’s proposition that if anyone has access to data, then many unauthorized people probably will have access to that data is false. This response reflects a lack of faith in good governance, which is essential to any well-functioning organization or community seeking to keep its members and society at large safe from bad actors. There are some people who have access to the nuclear launch codes, but “Mission Impossible” movies aside, we’re not particularly worried about a slippery slope leading to lots of unauthorized people having access to those codes.
“Good governance.” What a fucking joke.
The author is an expert in “AI Ethics.” What a fancy way to grift.
Wife sparks fierce debate after banning husband from napping on Christmas
She’s knows when you’re sleeping — she knows when you’re awake.
A wife has sparked a raging holiday debate after revealing that she has forbidden her husband from napping on Christmas Day as it leaves her with the kids. A now-viral social media thread detailing her Santa-like snooze sanctions is currently blowing up online.
In the thread, posted in the popular Reddit forum “Am I The A – – hole (AITA),” anonymous user u/anyaccount123 described how her husband of 15 years is a “night owl” while she’s a “light sleeper” who never naps.
“My husband LOVES to nap. He’d do it almost everyday,” the exasperated wife wrote, describing his nap-ocalyptic habits. “Besides, he sleeps in every morning on weekends and days off. I don’t mind that much because I would also like to do it, if only I could. We used to take turn[s] when I was still able to sleep in.”
She added, “Even if I tell him to please go to bed earlier, to please not nap, especially when the girls are around, he just doesn’t care. He’ll nap anyway. He never gives in to my requests.”
By contrast, the neglected gal claims she “never” naps in general as she considers “it lost time in a day, and time lost with our daughters (9 and 10) and time that could have been well spent doing chores, playing, exercising, etc.”
The great nap debate reportedly came to a head on Christmas Day after the couple had been up late partying, and the wife was “exhausted.”
“We managed to wake up at 9 a.m., which is awesome for me,” she explained. “We watched our daughters open up their presents and ate breakfast. I asked everyone if they’d like to watch a Christmas movie. The girls declined, preferring to play with their toys.”
Then she dropped the bombshell, explaining: “Then my husband immediately went to bed. At like 11 a.m. on Christmas Day. I’m beyond appalled. I can’t even believe this.”
Let the poor guy sleep. It’s exhausting to have a rabid type-A bitch for a wife.
Only women have uteruses and only women can menstruate. pic.twitter.com/FkQPZoi2O1
— Libs of TikTok (@libsoftiktok) December 26, 2022
With the Powerball jackpot so high be careful what you wish for. An SC winner’s cautionary tale
On the morning after she became a multi-millionaire, a South Carolina woman drove by the KC Mart No. 47 in Simpsonville where she bought her lottery ticket, to see if anyone was there, just in case she had made a mistake and didn’t really win.
It was the largest Mega Millions jackpot to be won by a single ticket — more than $1.5 billion — and she had seen the numbers reported on television.
“If no one was there, I would say, ‘okay, well this was a disaster, we made a mistake,’ and I’d drive home and all would be good. But as we went by the convenience store, there was every media — there was helicopters, there was every piece of media, there was locals, you know, national. I so badly wanted to get out of there, I wanted to go under the seat, I became anxious.”
That was some of her testimony in a trial earlier this year in which her lawyer, Jason Kurland, the self proclaimed “lottery lawyer,” was charged with taking money from some of his clients — in her case more than $80 million.
The South Carolina woman has never been identified and was allowed to testify using the pseudonym, Beth Smith.
And her husband’s anonymized name? Steve Smith. A Rick & Morty and Glibertarians double reference!
(Via the Mysterious Mr. D.)
Look at me.
I am First now.
Speaking of douchery…
Well played, JI.
No, it really isn’t, JI? The deal Trump negotiated wasn’t worth the paper it was written on and could have easily been torn up. Biden made his own decision to exit Afghanistan and he dragged the bureaucrats and military along with it. That isn’t even bagging on Creepy Grandpa Joe at the moment. It’s an argument that if Trump had won a second term, the institutions would have fought him tooth and nail on Afghanistan until they likely would have gotten their way.
Nobody saw Afghan withdrawal as anything resembling a done deal when Biden did it. No one felt tied to a deal Trump signed with the Taliban. His negotiating with the Taliban was controversial in its own right.
Trump’s deal – worth nothing; you make it hard for me to argue. After all, he hadn’t gotten us out of there when I seem to recall he said it would be immediate.
So in the 4th year of his term, he strikes an agreement to leave after his term expires (or deferred to his second term if he was lucky). Shades of Obama’s hot mic moment of I’ll have more flexibility after [re-election]. Biden had no reason to re-negotiate – all the blame was there ready to be laid at Trump’s feet; just follow through, which he did – belatedly. I don’t doubt for a moment that TeamFuckingEmpire wasn’t trying to talk him out of it right up to the 20th of August. Those assholes had careers there, money was being made, promotions granted – everything was perfect.
So don’t tell me that they all jumped, when Joe commanded. It’s just a ridiculous thing to say.
No one can prove what would have happened had Trump won reelection, but we can look to what happened when he exercised his authority in Syria and Ukraine. Was there any pudgy little colonel calling for Biden’s impeachment after Afghanistan and willing to testify that he betrayed his nation by trying to set his own foreign policy?
Let’s review what the careerists did when Trump ordered out of Syria.
There were resignations. There were lies to a president about where and how many troops were actually stationed there. Trump ordered the withdrawal repeatedly.
You really want to compare the level of resistance Biden encountered to anything we saw under Trump? You have career bureaucrats on record admitting they refused to implement Trump administration policies on a whole range of issues. Biden isn’t exercising some iron grip on power because he is too feeble, but there is nothing like that kind of resistance to his administration’s policies.
Trump ordered the withdrawal repeatedly.
He tweeted it. He talked about it. He didn’t order it, or, I suppose there was absolutely no one in the White House that knew anything at all about how to communicate to govt subordinates. In which case, shame the fuck on him for that. It isn’t a mystery. Write it down, sign it and send it. State within that the subordinate has 10 days to comply and report back, or resign.
But Trump was rollable, so they rolled him. Biden at least has some better concept of how to direct within the system, as feeble as he is.
He just tweeted it, so a Secretary of Defense and his envoy to Syria both resigned?
They admit that they hid the troop numbers from senior members of the his administration.
Which is grounds for immediate dismissal under any govt employment terms. Of course that only works if the leadership gets pissed about being lied to, and Trump just never seemed to be bothered by that; I think that in itself is a pretty big flaw – but hardly all that surprising.
“CEO of Virtue”
It’s like you cannot even make this shit up. Do they have any idea how fucking stupid that sounds?
“AI ethical risk”
Pretend career, good gig I guess, if you can get it.
There ain’t no fucking AI, you dimwits. And apparently no longer any intelligence at once prestigious universities.
LOL
It’s unclear how the F.B.I. got access to the messages
They “asked” for them.
Because according to SCotUS precedent, no one has any privacy interest in data once it is held by a third party – not the original person, not the party now in custody of it – it’s just floating out there for the asking.
Would the Post Office count as a third party?
No, but Postal Inspectors are very reasonable people as long as you have a warrant.
good governance
What?
Shut up and suck my cock. We can discuss the nuances afterwards.
I think that’s the best laugh I’ll get all day.
Oxymoron
“This response reflects a lack of faith in good governance…”
We’ve got good governance. Just ask us. And if you don’t believe us, it just goes to show you’re a conspiracy theorist who needs to be surveilled.
When the F.B.I. arrested several Oath Keepers for rioting at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, one of its primary pieces of evidence was messages on Signal. (It’s unclear how the F.B.I. got access to the messages in this instance; there is a longstanding cat and mouse game between lawmakers and technology.)
Easy peasy. Oathkeepers is a glow op.
I’m thinking it might have began legitimate then turned into one.
I don’t imagine it takes long for the FBI to place agents into organizations these days, particularly those who recruit current and former law enforcement officers.
It’s just easier to start the organizations themselves.
But enough about Glibs founding.
First day at places like a new gun range I think everyone is wonder who’s the Fed. Maybe I’m just paranoid.
I worked at a factory in NC shortly after getting off active duty in the Marines. After about 6 months a Black coworker told me he was sure I was a narc for the first few months.
Well, you whitey, so probably narc.
Probably grew his air longer than regulation.
hair dammit, if I was a Cockney I would’ve at least thrown a grautuitous apostrophe in front.
Still had a Marine regulation haircut (still in the Reserves) and still in Marine shape. So I probably looked like a Fed who was really bad at blending in.
The question is: are they sheep dipped, or tea bagged?
STEVE SMITH HIT JACKPOT AND BY HIT JACKPOT MEAN RAPE
The moral fabric of our world is complex. It’s nuanced. Sensitivity to moral nuance is difficult, but unwavering support of one principle to rule them all is morally dangerous.
We’re a nation of laws, until we aren’t.
You see – that would be one principle to rule them all! QED
Then she dropped the bombshell, explaining: “Then my husband immediately went to bed. At like 11 a.m. on Christmas Day. I’m beyond appalled. I can’t even believe this.”
You sound bossy.
“as it leaves her with the kids.”
Not spending time with the kids! (Who apparently didn’t want to spend time with her anyway.)
As someone that works nights and is part of the demi-monde she needs to go fuck herself*.
*I don’t have children (Tres V 2.0 is 16) here, and its possible that he’s a selfish prick with his time as well.
Me neither.
Heh.
What would Pat do?
time that could have been well spent doing chores, playing, exercising, etc.”
What if he’s not napping? Maybe it’s astral projection
Is that you Mo-Dean?
How convenient.
When the history of the Biden administration is written, it will be exceedingly difficult to determine which of his appointments have been most destructive to this nation.
One of the leading contenders must be Biden’s Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland. The last time we checked in on her team of social-justice-focused, eco-activist-oriented bureaucrats, they walked back the required auctions for gas and oil leases necessary to this nation for its energy industry.
Now a significant conflict-of-interest issue has arisen as her daughter, Somah Haaland, is lobbying federal lawmakers to support a moratorium on oil and gas leasing near a historical site in New Mexico.
Wouldn’t it be more of a conflict of interest if it was an exemption from the moratorium? This just sounds like she’s a nut that didn’t fall far from the tree.
Yeah, about that…
https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/planning/school-located-clinics/how-schools-can-support.html
And how about…
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/united-states/2020-11-24/fukuyama-how-save-democracy-technology
“Buffalo store owner opens fire on looters – while frozen body of dad-to-be is found after he went out to buy supplies for nine-month pregnant wife – as city reels from worst storm this century”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11579753/Buffalo-descends-chaos-blizzard-century-rampant-lootings.html
“‘Blizzard of the century’ continues to grip Buffalo: Incredible scenes from western New York and Lake Erie as homes ICE OVER and stranded locals are forced to bed down in Target”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11578871/Aftermath-New-York-State-blizzard-resembles-war-zone-death-toll-rises-search-continues.html
If Buffalo can’t handle snow, we’re all in trouble.
“panicked screams heard in the background as one of the men opens fire at the fleeing suspect”
A couple of dead looters would put a stop to it real quick.
Target? Not bad. Could have been “forced to bed down on Southwest Airlines plane.”
I don’t ever remember anything like that happening before. It’s global warming.
Terrible, but I can’t help wondering why the fuck people were out and about when they KNEW what was coming.
Also, fuck fucking degenerate looters up the ass sideways.
Only if you don’t want to spend the night rollerskating the aisles.
Is there an an award for hottest actress in the worst movie?
good governance
Good and hard. Forcible sodomy, fisting, choking, no additional charge.
Ethics adviser to Free Cascadia?
“America’s most expensive medicines revealed: Newly-approved $3.5m-a-dose bleeding disorder drug tops the list, while gene therapy for motor neuron disease is second at $2.5m – so are insurers actually paying up?”
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-11547237/Americas-expensive-drugs-revealed-insurers-pay-these.html
Yikes!
I take “requires a prior-authorization process that takes longer than your expected life-span” for $500 Alex.
All health care should be free. By free I mean someone other than me picks up the tab.
Have not you heard? The future of health care will be ‘health equity’ and it’s almost free. We all get to be equally sick, no racism!
I thought under health “equity” whites are denied care to make up for past racism.
Exactly, that’s what I said, no racism! No whitey care because racist, no darkie care because oppressed. See? Equity!
“I’m beyond appalled.”
I’m beyond appalled that he apparently was capable of fucking you not once, but twice.
Let the poor guy sleep. It’s exhausting to have a rabid type-A bitch for a wife.
This is why there are no female libertarians….
I read r/AmITheAsshole a lot. Sort of a reverse Rednecks-in-the-Mist thing. If you see a throwaway account post on that sub that references Biggie’s Ten Crack Commandments, it was probably me.
Almost no one on Reddit is over 15. So you cannot take it too seriously. Also, the mods have reached a new level of asshat that rivals the Twatter before the evil Musk took over.
I’m an r/AITA addict. I remember that one the day it was posted, and it just left me scratching my head. I felt like I was missing something.
The Mario Bros. music is a nice touch. 😂
I had no idea honestly. The head of bioethics at NIH is Fauci’s wife?
https://twitter.com/ClownWorld_/status/1608106141913088002/photo/1
I knew that.
It explains the lack of ethics.
Why the hell not. The president of the U.S. is Dr. Jill Biden’s husband.
That garden gnome has a wife?
Top comment:
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That’s a man
Bottled 69 bottles of key lime mead today.
I still have a few bottles of mead left in the cabinet. I should kill one before the new year.
Sounds amazing
Worth every penny of that $80M.
“I never realized how big my extended family was.”
Ass Wednesday: encrypted for your privacy.
https://archive.ph/FQi35
Top baby names in America 50 years ago
Heh feds, I’m not telling if I made the list.
WTF? Stop using boys names for girls.
You can go to https://www.ssa.gov/OACT/babynames to lookup your name or year.
“WTF? Stop using boys names for girls.”
The twins Aaron/Erin hardest hit.
“James is a gender-neutral biblical name”
Sure it is. I mean everyone has known that for thousands of years. Just like Mary is also a popular name for boys.
These people are insufferably disingenuous.
Marion close enough for you, pilgrim?
Also
https://youtu.be/Cv05TdgIcQg
So how many girls was it given to? Curious they don’t say.
I like trad-names so I’m always at a loss when I see all the stupid names that are popular now.
Many boys and girls names have switched back and forth throughout history. There are also plenty of names with gendered versions.
I knew mine was pretty high up the list for my birth year when there were three of us in my college freshman dorm corridor.
Michael was a top 10 name (and much of the time #1) from 1943 to 2016
There are a lot of seconders out there.
*nods solemnly*
One of the nice things about being a Ted is that it’s a nice traditional name, but one that not a lot of people have.
I imagine there was a time in the late ’80s that might have been annoying, especially if you had a friend named William.
I was given an uncommon name that still, to this day, results in my being asked if I’m named after a popular TV character that was on the air the year I was born.
But it’s unambiguously masculine.
Mr. Ed?
Stop gabbin’ and get me some oats!
Gomer?
Maynard?
Is that you Hoss?
Nikita Khrushchev?
Mine is like that. I have only met a few of me in my life even if it was in the top 40 the year I was born.
I had a roommate with my name… in Somerville.
I was in a battalion with another soldier who had the same first name, last name and rank.
News you hopefully don’t need to use.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/dear-deidre/20878323/avoided-sex-since-ex-told-penis-is-small/
“I don’t think my penis is smaller than average. It’s not porn-star sized, but nobody else has ever complained.”
Hot dog….hallway…..
Ummmm… ok?
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/weird-news/russians-fighting-ukraine-told-putin-28830320
That story has more bullshit on it than a rodeo.
WTF? Stop using boys names for girls.
I knew a girl in college whose first name was Sydney.
But did you know a boy named sue?
Did you get to board her hell gondola?
I knew a young lady in Uni whose first name was Seabourne.
Lovely creature.
I knew a woman named Michael. I also worked with a Bambi.
I had a female second cousin named Michael. The story went that her Dad was so certain his 1st child was a boy, he’d already picked the name. When she popped-out, he stuck with it. Jugsy’s gyno is named Misti .
Michael Learned and Bambi Bembenek?
For Glibs in the Richmond area, looks like Colonial Shooting Academy needs more Range Safety Officers.
https://www.colonialshooting.com/about-us/employment-opportunities/
54 miles. Too far.
I just made a little jaunt to the grocery store. There is a down side to two days of warm temps with a little rain thrown in; my driveway couldn’t be any icier or slicker if I ran a Zamboni through here.
Eggs in Podunkville were 8@ dozen, 12 for an 18teener today, price increase in the last couple days
It’s crazy.
Last night we got a small shot of rain. It was 18F at the time. I’ve never seen rain that far below freezing. CLIMATE CRISIS!!!11
“Taylor Greene had cheated on her husband with a polyamorous tantric sex guru Craig Ivey”
That’s quite a job title.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11580019/Marjorie-Taylor-Greene-husband-Perry-Greenes-divorce-finalized-three-months-split.html
Never been interested in her personal life, not interested now.
The dude she cheated with is wearing gold stretch pants, like Gold Finger in Austin Powers.
Sorry, Goldmember.
“He loves gooooold!”
He looks like freaking Sinbad.
“After 2 years of being suspended, I am having a hard time finding the words to express the thoughts and emotions I am feeling. This must be what John Fetterman feels like all the time.”
https://twitter.com/CarpeDonktum/status/1608231178774974464
I think someone may have linked this here in the past, but still a great reply meme
Is it wrong to make fun of our next Vice President?
I genuinely laughed
Now here’s another guy who won’t make it to trial.
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/paul-pelosi-attack-suspect-david-depape-pleads-not-guilty-state-charges
No way he will be allowed to tell a courtroom what happened that evening.
If the real story is drug fueled quasi sex slave and occasional drug supplier lost his temper then I’ll have to agree with you.
Best comment on that article:
“ It’s all a misunderstanding. Paul invited him over to have sex and get hammered.”
How many believe that the cops did not know whose residence they were at and who Pelosi was? Drop the hammer! Lol. Like I said, they knew who Pelosi was and forget that fact, they see an 82 year old guy and a guy who just broke in, and didn’t immediately try to disarm the guy who broke in? Yeah, I know cops are worthless, but…
Did you take a look at that guy? I see suicidal tendencies there.
I see a MAGA RETHUGLIKAN!!!
Has this made the rounds. If it has I still don’t feel bad about posting it again. Gives me some hope for both race relations and humanity.
Buffalo woman saves man with severe frostbite after getting him out of the storm and pleading for help in a Facebook livestream
Yes. Stories like that should get a pass from the drugs/ass treatment.
Just so things get balanced out…
Queens dad, an MTA driver, told sons to ‘keep your seat belts on’ before running down wife with SUV, then stabbing her: prosecutors
Safety First!
“She is the host of a podcast on domestic violence where she shared details of her troubled marriage.”
G_d how I love irony
20 things you (probably) didn’t know about Garden State
Just realized my middle teen is dead ringer for Pete Davidson
avoid Kardashians
Brandon has been doing a good job destroying the auto market. I wonder what worrying about your portfolio has done to the collector car market.
1969 Chevrolet Corvette Stingray ZL-1 Convertible
Estimate is $2.6m to $3m. It’s a car you really aren’t going to drive much because of its value and rarity so it’s just going to sit in your already extensive collection. Bonus points for using Sotheby’s and not an auction firm that only specializes in autos.
Who knew GM was so ahead of the curve and combined the manual and auto transmission in 1969!
Too bad it doesn’t have the original engine included on a crate. I’m sure that would have added another 100k to selling price.
Yup. My guess is with the period dealer installed replacement the value is mostly intact.
It was restored by a top specialist and it did all the show circuits. So it is legitimately a proper, although highly volatile, investment.
I’d just rather have six $500k collector cars. I’m assuming whoever buys this already has a car warehouse with dozens of cars so no issues for storage of my vehicles.
I went to school with 27 Jennifers.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1nN_5kkYR6k
Give one of them a call at 867-5309!
Nothing Could Possibly Go Wrong
WTF how is that even legal?
With enough cheap beer I can release some sulphur particles into the atmosphere. I want a government grant!
You’re going to have to get a lot more woke before getting it.
Imagine the entire USA looking like Buffalo about 9 months of the year. Oops, it worked too good! But, mini Ice Age, how cool is that? The Polar Bears are saved!
Acid rain?
*not a chemist
“Wow. YouTube is censoring my video criticizing drag shows for children. If these shows aren’t family-friendly enough for YouTube, how are they family-friendly enough for kids to go to in real life??”
https://twitter.com/MsBlaireWhite/status/1607885836317753346
Ironically, YouTube is censoring her video because they agree with it.
It has something to do with Elon Musk’s evil plans. It is known.
No humpday zoom?
Zoom here?
Just what I was wondering.
More in the sense of “Should I bother putting on makeup and a bra?”
That requirement is why I don’t join the zoom.
link under the cartoon in the next post