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You may ask yourself: is this my circus?

You may ask yourself: are these my monkeys?

The worst ting is making a thread and blowing the character limit on a couple of the posts so that you have to click through to read them.

If you're going to do that, just make a mega-long post. A thread where I have to click each post to read the last word is just annoying.

Competition is just a click (and $45b) away
justice.gov/opa/press-release/

> #Google pays $45 billion a year for contracts to lock out rivals, signing deals with “Apple, LG, Motorola, and Samsung; major U.S. wireless carriers such as AT&T, T-Mobile, and Verizon; and browser developers such as Mozilla, Opera, and UCWeb— to secure default status for its general search engine and, in many cases, to specifically prohibit Google’s counterparties from dealing with Google’s competitors.”

#Google buys an entire #Twitter EVERY SINGLE YEAR to make sure we don't ever use its competitors' products.

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It is utterly hilarious to me that the scourge of valorant is e-daters.

Alice: Bob, I need your help.

Bob: hmm?

Alice: I'm making mead and I bottled it too early while it's still fermenting. Now I need someone to drink it before the pressure builds up and breaks the bottle.

Bob: I shall fling myself upon this grenade to protect you.

It's funny to me that the bluecheck is going to transition from implying that the wearer is a disconnected clueless buffoon to implying the same thing but with a different political valence, without ever stopping at normal, but wanted the extra features.

I have an incident I want to recast as an Alice and Bob sketch, but I'm not sure who should be Alice and who should be Bob.

I've only recommended one VPN service, ever (and no, I don't have any financial relationship to them): Mullvad. They have always seemed to be one of the few entities that practices the mantra, "You don't have to protect what you don't collect."

This is quite a press release:

"Mullvad VPN was subject to a search warrant. Customer data not compromised
20 April 2023 NEWS

On April 18 at least six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited the Mullvad VPN office in Gothenburg with a search warrant.
They intended to seize computers with customer data.

In line with our policies such customer data did not exist. We argued they had no reason to expect to find what they were looking for and any seizures would therefore be illegal under Swedish law. After demonstrating that this is indeed how our service works and them consulting the prosecutor they left without taking anything and without any customer information.

If they had taken something that would not have given them access to any customer information.

Mullvad has been operating our VPN service for over 14 years. This is the first time our offices have been visited with a search warrant."

Source: mullvad.net/en/blog/2023/4/20/

krebsonsecurity.com/2022/07/a-

Is there an achievement badge for Interacting with someone on Twitter, then they follow you on fedi?

Because I just got that achievement.

@Victor_el_DM what did it say before?

Those look like the (lame) standard terms that social media think they need to show a post on a feed because of bizarre copyright overreach.

My natural posting register is something like Snarky Joking.

Can you tell when I'm being sincere?

I have a lot of disagreements with how things are binned and scored here. But it's interesting.

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Predictions:

Biologically male (very high confidence)

Cisgender (medium-high confidence)

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Enlightenment: Low-ish

Child Consciousness: Low-ish 10-20th percentile
No Self: Upper 65-70th percentile
Phoenix: 45-50th percentile

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Incoherent Screaming: pretty high

Chaos Monkey: 55-60th percentile
Anxious Mother Energy: upper 60-65th percentile
Hot Mess: Upper 75-80th percentile

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