Trump fans keep telling me how evil Biden was for pre-emptively pardoning Fauci, so I assume Trump will do the same.

Trump is not healthy enough to live through a third term.

Sounds like AWS Lambda. It's all great until you write a recursive function and leave it running overnight, and then have a big bill at the end of the month.

In other words, be careful to look at expenses if you turn this on.

The preferred phrase is, "sent to a farm upstate."

Seems their new encryption only limits what they can give law enforcement, until they are motivated to do otherwise.

It's not like they can't push an update to the device to have it dump it's encryption key back to the mothership.

If you don't want other people looking at it, get it off the cloud. Period.

Oh, you're still expecting a Slashdot "editor" to do something besides mash the "accept" button to user submitted stories.

Good luck with that.

Well, actually Denver usually DOES have higher cancer rates. Attribution, however, is difficult. (It's probably not just altitude.)

Ooh. I've always wanted to be a Geocities warlock. Or is that Geocities Warlock(tm)?

But seriously, loving the irony of Elon's petulant rebranding coming back to bite him in the a**.

The fact that twitter.com still exists as a redirect actually strengthens and weakens their claim to abandonment. A mere URL with no content does not generally qualify as use in commerce. And the existence of that redirect without Twitter branding on the resulting site makes it clear that abandonment is willful, because it indicates that the old name is no longer intended to be used, and that they don't have any future product plans with that name (because otherwise they would have a landing page saying that the new Twitter was coming soon).

IMO, X clawing back the Twitter trademark should be rather difficult for them at this point, famous or not, barring concrete documentation created prior to the 3-year limit showing future plans to reintroduce the mark in the very near future.

For some definition of 'they', sure, there's always *someone* paranoid about the scenario.

However there's a fair amount more credible supposition over this one. Trump's sore loser reaction has paved the way for some dangerous moves.

In 2020, he only went to interfere *after* the fact, but he clearly interfered. When the results betrayed him, he sought to overturn them and when that failed he tried to ignore the electors and use their own anyway and as that failed he tried to get Pence to reject the election and as that failed he incited a mom to try to disrupt the proceedings. He learned that in a fair game he actually could lose and that was unacceptable and he was willing to do whatever it takes to replace a loss with a win.

Now he and opportunistic cohorts are already much more proactive about it. Every reason to anticipate any plausible excuse to rig or discard the elections as he has proven himself already willing to do so and is surrounded by a much more all-in administration than his first term. Already trying to mess with mail-in, already openly rigged the representative maps, already been working ICE and national guard troops to get the hang of domestic military operations. Stephen Miller once basically publicly fantasized about sending republican controlled national guard into democratic states against their will to make them bend to his will.

I do anticipate the election will be *held* and if and only if the results are a loss will they try anything like an 'emergency', but I absolutely expect ICE and national guards to be doing operations around strategic polling sites. Ostensibly about immigration or crime, but with the oh so coincidental side effect of voter suppression.

Gee, you don't think that was the plan all along, do you? Imagine a billionaire doing things that only billionaires would benefit from. Nobody could have seen that coming!

If a search for "playdate" comes up with objectionable shit, that says a lot about how your behavior has driven your search algorithm.

There will need to be a lot of exceptions/exemptions, but the current condition is unsustainable. The protective relays are the main concern, so you should still be able to get "dumb" foreign equipment and add domestic protective relays.

Facebook 2026Q2 earnings:
Revenue: $60.80 billion, marking a 28% increase year-over-year.
Net Income: $15.85 billion.
Diluted EPS: $6.18, compared to analyst expectations of around $7.14.
Total Costs and Expenses: $42.03 billion, which included legal charges and severance costs.
Capital Expenditures: Projected to be between $130 billion and $145 billion for the full year 2026, driven heavily by infrastructure and data center investments for AI.

This settlement is a little over 10% of what they are spending on datacenter builds, and a tiny bit more than 3 months of profit. Ripoff confirmed.

Spare me the "red scare" bullshit.

Show one serious person who has an actual avenue to do any of this bullshit and I'll believe you. No, talking about some dipshit streamer on Twitch isn't getting there. Show an elected politician in the US, or one that is currently running as a major party candidate that advocates "outright Communism" or praises Chairman Mao.

Prove your bullshit claim.

This is the same scare tactics bullshit as the "sharia law" dogwhistle. The only elected in office right now that is increasing the creep of socialism and communism is President Trump with his government price controls on hundreds of thousands of tons of imported mystery meat that he won't tell us where it's actually coming from ("most transparent administration in history"), heavy-handed central economic planning through tariffs and trying to fire FED governors that don't do what he wants, and seizing the means of production through the Treasury buying equity stakes in private business.

Not even close.

Elon is actively reposting white nationalist horseshit. That's a pretty big source of angst.
The "For You" tab is a firehose of propaganda shitposts that you probably never asked for, targeted to piss you off and keep you hate-posting. That's a pretty big source of angst.
They still "label" accounts that say things they don't like to shadowban, with no recourse or even any human review / audit / appeal. That causes angst, and it's also the censorship you are screaming about.

X is run by the biggest shitposting troll on the planet, and it shows.