What if you threw party for yourself and no one cared? #NoKings #NoTrumps
Lorry
Leading online #policy & #enforcement for 40 years. I left as head of Safety and Advocacy for #OkCupid after 9 years with #MatchGroup where I worked in T&S, data governance, legal compliance, DEI, realistic wellness, and ethics then became a #Whistleblower
Formerly worked in IT Security. Probably the world's first non-US-government hacker-catcher, head of commercial security for British Telecom, 2nd (and longest serving) #IRC Operator outside of Finland - And all that #MUD & #MIST stuff.
My pinned posts are on: https://mstdn.social/@Lorry/
It seems weird to repost them on this switched account :)
Why I left Match Group?
. https://bit.ly/okcupid-safety-1
. https://bit.ly/okcupid-safety-2
. https://bit.ly/okcupid-safety-3
. https://bit.ly/dating-site-ripoff
You get the idea!
. First article I wrote online that still exists: 1988
. Oldest email address I use daily: 1989
. First Phrack hate: 1991 (Phrack 35)
. Oldest domain name: 1992
. First academic paper on social media: 1992
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@cmsdengl With the speed and incompetence of the rejection (even ignoring my context, just the fact it was rejected because it was about USAID?!) I suspect you are right. But there's no way to get to a human once the first AI appeal has failed, it seems.
Facebook's "fact-checking" review and appeals process is insanely bad. I'd have sent anyone who wrote policy this ridiculous for retraining.
I posted the same post as I posted here about Hunter Biden's Laptop ( https://infosec.exchange/@lorry/114741328048838021 ) as a partly satirical and partly informative post on what those MAGA nutjobs are saying - And I got a strike for posting misinformation.
I appealed, and was told instantly that my appeal was rejected - Both of the messages Facebook sent to me pointed at a misinformation page that was nothing to do with this which is even weirder:
Is the link they say explains why this Hunter Biden laptop post is wrong.
I was told:
"A reviewer from our team checked your post again.
They found information that fact checkers say is missing context."
The post clearly has a whole load of context, it explains the reason for the post clearly. This crap needs nuance, or it's just removing the ability to flag misinformation by flagging it as misinformaiton.
La la laaaa. No wonder people complain about moderation!
#Facebook #Meta #Moderation #Misinformation #Disinformation #Policy #Shitty #Lack #Of #Nuance #Rant #USPol #MAGA #HunterBidenlaptop #Satire #is #Dead
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So much for military Keynesianism....
Th first big procurement announced by the UK Govt. since upping the projected defence budget is to buy US (nuclear weapon capable) fighter planes.
There's our tax money disappearing out of the country right there...
As I've said before, if you're justifying your defence expenditure by claiming its going to 'create job', you need to procure weapons built in the UK.... like the Eurofigther Typhon (partly built in Preston).
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"Age and education have displaced class as the main demographic dividing line in British politics, according to a leading study on trends in public views."
#UKPOL
Class no longer main dividing ...
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Federal agents thought they could stay at LA-area hotels. Communities are trying to make sure they canโt
https://lapublicpress.org/2025/06/federal-agents-stay-at-la-area-hotels/ #USpol #Resistance
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More of this in the US please. Fewer Bezos and Trumps riding on our backs.
Ah ha, it only took two days for the Trump administration to blame failing to bomb Iran's nuclear capability on Hunter Biden's Laptop.
#US #Iran #Trump #MAGA #Leavitt #Fail #HunterBidenlaptop #Biden
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The concerted effort of those who want us all to have 9 children to seed the white race is so fucked up. There are no actual values to uphold, simply numbers for their spreadsheets and their war machines. #politics
@TomSullivan At this point, it seems pretty likely that the Conservative Judges have had visits from people explaining what will happen to them and their families if they 'vote' against certain things.
I can't see any other reason for even such partisan hacks as Thomas and Roberts to otherwise blatantly ignore the law.
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Welcome to Alligator Alcatraz
Kristi Noem is building in Florida the kind of "FEMA camps the far right has warned about for decades."
What a proud moment for misty-eyed, freedom-loving red-hats. Next Trump will want to annex Devilโs Island.
https://digbysblog.net/2025/06/24/depravity-inc-2/
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Video: Amazingly brave woman stops several men presenting themselves as ICE agents from abducting someone at a car wash.
It is not clear if these are really ICE agents or just some guys posing as ICE agents. They back down once confronted.
The woman calls them bounty hunters. Is that really a thing? Are people kidnapping other people and turning them in to ICE? What is going on here?
h/t The Tennessee Hollar on Bluesky https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5o6k7jvowuyaquloafzn3cfw/post/3lsalddvahs2b
Any of you Map/Chart/Hacker folks know if anyone has cracked the encryption on the charts that go through o-charts.org?
I am asking as someone who has paid, but they are so utterly painful to use in their stupid encrypted format, especially if you ever dare to change anything about your hardware, that they are essentially unusable. People use them on a boat, people drop their Chromebooks into a bilge full of horror - Shit like this shouldn't be wholly dependent on a systemid!
#Charts #Navigation #Boats #BilgeShit #Maps #Hacking #Encryption
@MissConstrue @mattjhodgkinson @cstross
Oh I am not saying it's not propaganda, the last line makes that pretty clear -- But even so I am starting to find that those guys who look like they are playing that Noel Edmonds box-game every night on Russian State TV seem to be giving more real news about stuff happening in the US than most of the US network news shows. And they are funnier too!
Russia's former President & PM Dmitry Medvedev:
#Iran #IranIsraelWar #Russia #War #Trump #Israel #IsraelTerroristState
@bazkie I always block them so I never usually have to watch them but I am using YouTube on a different browser today, it's painful.
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