I don’t think their blog is about ghosts, I think their blog is created with Ghost, not WordPress

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghost_(blogging_platform)

New game:

“AI or Putin? You decide!”

Plausible deniability for when it’s discovered her accounts are controlled from Moscow?

“Oh, I must have been hacked cuz weak passwords. That’s why my account sent our classified war plans to Putin.”

I’ve gotta see that movie, sounds great.

I don’t think there’s an acted movie, but documentaries, TV shows etc. And he has a podcast.

• https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6522386/ (Click “Self”)
• https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct1nbl
• https://open.spotify.com/show/2JlGAHkwKjJYjN3iR8IL0U
• https://peertube.wtf/search/lazy-load-video;url=https:%2F%2Fjetstream.watch%2Fvideos%2Fwatch%2Fb02e8607-19ef-415d-b3b5-b2119c0b13c0

Reminds me of Daryl Davis.

In 1983, he was playing country western music in a “white” bar in Frederick, Maryland, when a patron came up to him and said it was the first time he had “heard a black man play as well as Jerry Lee Lewis”. Davis explained to the man that “Jerry Lee learned to play from black blues and boogie-woogie piano players and he’s a friend of mine”. The white patron was skeptical and over a drink admitted he was a member of the KKK. The two became friends and eventually the man gave Davis contact information on KKK leaders.

A few years later, Davis decided that he wanted to interview Klan members and write a book on the subject, to answer a “question in my head from the age of 10: ‘Why do you hate me when you know nothing about me?’ That question had never been answered from my youth”.

Davis eventually went on to befriend over twenty members of the KKK, and claims to have been directly responsible for between forty and sixty, and indirectly over two hundred people leaving the Klan.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daryl_Davis
• https://www.npr.org/2017/08/20/544861933/how-one-man-convinced-200-ku-klux-klan-members-to-give-up-their-robes

But don’t worry, folks in the free world, this won’t apply to you! Douyin (Tiktok in China) may restrict what kids see, but Tiktok abroad will still serve up to your tween daughter videos that tell her if she isn’t pretty enough, she might as well kill herself.

Thanks for the details.

Thanks for the info. I’ve heard of it but never tried it.

Does it at least have easy ways for users to filter what they don’t want? E.g. block lists that users can subscribe to.

Ay, there’s the rub.

Even the article’s author chooses to exclude some types of content, like porn.

Crewed by transgenic mice!

Just off the top of my head:

1. Pressuring the Fed to cut interest rates and other actions to reduce the US dollar’s value
4. Massive payouts to agribusiness, especially maize and sugar producers.
5. Try bringing in some fruit or a salami into the US. I dare you.
7. OpenAI, Meta, Anthropic, xAI etc ripping off the entire world’s entire content.

Maybe someone else can fill in the rest.

Probably a representation of the legend of the burning of the Library of Alexandria, when many ancient works were presumed lost forever.

More images: https://www.qwant.com/?client=ext-firefox-sb&q=library+of+alexandria+burning&t=images&origin=suggest

Switzerland, however, seems to be taking a less confrontational approach. The message seems clear: Switzerland has no interest in provoking Washington.

WTF? Simply not taking your regular phone is “confrontational” and a provocation?!?

Damn! And I just built $500-million-dollar factory bringing jerbs back to America!

Baghdad Barbie: “This isn’t Linda’s fault… it’s Sans Serif’s fault!”

No sure whether to crosspost this to c/NotThe Onion or c/NaziOnion

Yeah, I too remember there was some anger but not the reason for it. Licensing issues, maybe? Anyway, with the kerfuffle, bloat, and Java requirement, it didn’t have enough to keep me from µTorrent.

Also been using qBittorrent for the last few years, on Windows and the last two years on Linux. With search plugins for key sites, so I can avoid the popups that even uBlock Origin can’t prevent.

(Due to an unpatched security vulnerability in the repo version of qB, currently using AppImages of latest versions of both qB and qB-enhanced. Only difference I personally notice is that qB-enhanced follows my system theme, dark.)

You’re welcome :)

re OT question: I remember trying out Azureus a bit back in the day, and with its “legit content distribution” section getting to watch this video:

YouTube - Benny Benassi - Satisfaction

But I didn’t stick with it, mainly used µTorrent and eMule.