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I’m getting threatening scam emails from author john green

fyi the point of fucking up your data patterns isnt to avoid suspicion. it’s to make EVERYONE suspicious. same logic as the bloc, pals. protect your comrades, be suspicious. ESPECIALLY if you aren’t doing anything likely to get you arrested.

void-milf

the state is less omniscient and significantly more incompetent than you’d think. overextend their resources at every possible opportunity. make them cry wolf repeatedly. run their data analysis agents fucking ragged. and strike. attack.

37womenwieldingknives

YES i’m a postgrad statistics researcher and i can tell you that the state honestly has NO IDEA what to do with the data it collects, it has an obsession with big data but it’s almost impossible to work with in practice. the traditional statistical approaches that are used can’t be scaled up, the adapted approaches are substantially weakened, and the machine learning approaches have the same problems and often tell them nothing. data scientists are only just coming around to these issues too, most still just push on with it anyway - incompetence is the word. above all this though, like you say, the biggest issue for the state is at the point of data collection. they will NEVER get anything useful if they’re collecting shitty messy data. they will eventually figure out that the real solution is working how to collect accurate and meaningful data, we should make it as difficult as possible for them to do that

afraidofamericans

This makes me think that we need WAAAY more apps that generate junk data

queeranarchism

Apps that generate junk data? tell me moooore.

anarchopuppy

Ooh I know this one!

Ad Nauseum is an adblocker that stores the ads it blocks and continuously generates fake clicks, fucking with analytics and costing the ad companies money

TrackMeNot automatically does randomly generated searches on a variety of search engines to obscure your real searches and fuck with analytics, and you can set it up to work with anything that has a search bar (including facebook, twitter, amazon, youtube, etc)

WhatCampaign replaces analytics parameters in links with the string “FuckOff”. I thought there was a similar extension that used random strings, but I can’t seem to find it

Privacy Possum is a fork of Privacy Badger with a focus on costing tracking companies as much money as possible, and idk if my limited tech knowledge is enough to understand what it does but the description does say it falsifies some data so that’s good enough for me

@afraidofamericans

mayflower-gal

Boy it SURE would be a SHAME if this were SPREAD AROUND for everyone TO SEE

sitronsangbody

Half the backlash to fat lib content essentially boils down to "I can't believe you're FORCING me to not be mean to you"

sitronsangbody

Thin people are absolutely relentless with this. "But I have to TELL them!" "I can't just not SAY something!" "We can't just PRETEND it's fine to be fat!"

They really seem to think the main reason people are fat is because we're simply drowning in approval and no one has been brave enough to inform us that it's better to not be fat, actually

specialagentartemis

I genuinely think it's related to what I observe about singleness, virginity, and ace/aro topics: people's entire worldviews are threatened by fat liberation. And having your worldview challenged is scary... especially because so many people have put so, so much personal effort into Not Being Fat, so much self-hate into gaining weight, so much self-denial of food they like and forcing themselves into activities they hate, to avoid being fat.

And fat liberation says "It's okay to be fat!" and fat people say "I'm happy being fat and I don't try to become skinny!"

And it scares people that that is an option. It scares people to think that they have sunk so much time, so much effort, so much misery into avoiding being fat. And this person in front of them is just... not even trying. Rejecting the game. Saying You Don't Have To Do That.

If they accept that they didn't have to do that... then they made themselves so unhappy, for so long, for no reason.

They want their effort, their unhappiness, to have been worth it. To have meant something.

So they have to believe that being fat is wrong, bad, gross, a moral failing, and the only reason anyone would be happy that way is if they just don't know better. Because the other option is to realize and admit that they suffered unnecessarily for years and it meant nothing at all.

jabberwockypie

I don't think there are any fat people who don't know they're fat and who aren't aware their lives would be easier if they weren't. I don't think that's a type of person who actually exists in our society.

Much of the time when I'm talking about fatphobia, I'm talking specifically about medical fatphobia and my experiences struggling to access treatment for various issues - like how I now have eight screws and a metal plate in my right ankle, because I broke it, the first surgeon refused to do the surgery I needed and dismissed me because I'm fat, and so I needed a much more invasive surgery five years later.

It is telling, I think, that when I talk about those things I invariably get a lot of replies going "You can't make me want to fuck fat people! >:(" and assorted comments about how gross fat people's bodies are.

First of all, bold of you to assume I'd want to fuck YOU.

Deeply weird thing to frame an issue about access to medical care in terms of "Do I want to fuck this person?", you know, the human rights issues I was talking about. "Only people I think are hot should have access to competent, appropriate medical treatment and human rights" is not the slay you think it is.

I had a friend who'd had suicidal ideation since she was a small child who refused to increase her antidepressants - which made her want to not die - to a therapeutic dose because "but what if I gain more weight?"

This shit kills people, and they want to talk about "Ew, I think your body's gross".

It's telling that people are so fucking threatened by the idea fat people might exist and just live their lives.

depsidase

natalieironside

nopilled notcore ain'tmaxxing won'tcel

cryptotheism

thickness-protection-program

So just so we're all clear ICE straight up murdered that woman in broad daylight and the government is calling HER the terrorist

thickness-protection-program

So just so we're all clear ICE straight up murdered Renee Nicole Good in broad daylight and the government is calling HER the terrorist

thickness-protection-program

So just so we're all clear ICE agent Jonathan Ross straight up murdered Renee Nicole Good in broad daylight and the government is calling HER the terrorist

ladytuarach

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allthingswhumpyandangsty

Reblog if you love “—” and have never used ChatGPT

sleepdeprivedsurgeon

the purpose of friends is to have people who unconditionally hate your shitty exes & relatives. like maybe YOU have a complex relationship with your father but i sure don't. i'm outside his house with a gun. he's not the unforgivable asshole who raised me he's just an unforgivable asshole

femboylesbiab

mind-altering-bugs

saywhat-politics

The House of Representatives will vote next week on a proposal to force the government to release more Epstein files

President Donald Trump is engaging in a “huge miscalculation” by dismissing the bipartisan group of lawmakers pushing the government to release more of the Jeffrey Epstein files, according to Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, the latest reminder of her growing status as a Trump critic inside the GOP.

Greene, speaking with CBS Mornings on Friday, reiterated her belief that the president did not engage in any wrongdoing during his friendship with the late sex offender, but said she felt the White House has been wrong in dismissing Republicans seeking more information as “stupid.”

“Just being very honest with you, it’s something that I don’t understand,” the MAGA rep said, arguing that releasing more Epstein information sends a powerful message that the government “will not protect the predators,” even if they are tied to rich and influential people.

dogpuppy

blackwatersinkingship

When I finish this whale shark lamp all 4 of you are gonna be So I'm pressed

blackwatersinkingship

She glows now, just so you know, and she's full of string deliciöusee string

god-sent-gender-bent

Are you gonna show us the lamp? 👀

blackwatersinkingship

Good news! Whäle shark lämp 🥰

c-53

pom pom crabs are some of the most unethical animals in the ocean

this man is a serial abuser

c-53

His pom poms are two sessile invertebrates he holds in his hands and starves so he can punch stuff with anemones who are so desperate to eat that they’ll use maximum sting on anything that gets close to him. When they starve to death he just finds more

its-just-levi

Yo thats fucked up, this dude sucks