PSA: never discuss private affairs in your DMs, especially contraception and abortion. Social media moguls will absolutely sell you out to the government. There are already cases of people being charged based on evidence in their DMs.
If you are part of a vulnerable group – LGBT+, ethnic minority, women, religious minority, teen, anyone – do not think they won’t hand your DMs to a government looking to persecute you. Yes, including feckin’ Tumblr.
i figured this was common knowledge, but in case you don’t know – NO social media messaging service like this is safe to discuss such things. i’ve heard signal is good and i know it has a great reputation, but never ever ever trust a company to not hand over your data and DMs in a heartbeat
Both Google Gemini and Siri now have free access to ALL of your apps, no matter whether they use encryption. You were not informed of this, but it apparently came with a recent update. Toggle those motherfuckers off!
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If you use Signal, Discord, or any other messaging app and you DON’T want Google or Apple monitoring/reading/learning from your messages, follow these steps.
Android:
1) Open google app
2) Tap your profile photo
3) Settings
4) Google Assistant
5) “Your apps”
6) Choose the app (e.g, Signal)
7) Toggle “let your assistant learn from this app” off
iPhone
1) Settings
2) Apps
3) Choose the app (e.g, Signal)
4) Toggle Apple intelligence or Siri settings to off (“learn from this app”)
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And yeah, can confirm on android: went and checked and google assistant – which I don’t ever use – was plugged into all my apps. Well, no more.
Additionally, for android users (I don’t have an iPhone so no clue what to do on that side), after going through Assistant->Your Apps, back out and do Assistant->Your Data in the Assistant. See what else it’s wired into (web & app activity, if it’s in your contact info, if it’s in your YouTube history) and especially follow up on the ‘personalized ads’ bit down at the bottom.
Fuck you panopticon, I’m gonna keep poking you in the eye with a stick every opportunity I get!
Warning that the charge carried a five-year mandatory minimum sentence, the U.S. Department of Justice declared Friday that the distribution of images featuring a balding Elon Musk constituted an act of domestic terrorism. “For the benefit of all Americans, anyone who posts or reposts photos from Mr. Musk’s PayPal days will be prosecuted for terrorism,” said Attorney General Pam Bondi, who confirmed the Justice Department was already prosecuting multiple cases in which social media users were alleged to have disseminated decades-old photos of the DOGE leader’s receding hairline.
been doing a LOT of analog note-taking / journaling / planning lately (new years’ resolution fulfilled! yes!), and I’ve slowly but surely started writing mostly in cursive again.
that said, I’m old (almost 35, ew) so I have questions.
Dimondstein pointed out more than five decades ago, postal workers won collective bargaining rights. He stressed the union is prepared to fight back on any attempt to weaken union rights or target worker protections and working conditions.
“It’s also very important, I think, for the public to be reminded that good living-wage jobs help our communities,” Dimondstein added. “They help make them stronger. That’s good jobs, turnover in the community to restaurants to small retail stores to housing.”
According to the union, privatization would eliminate more than 600,000 living-wage union jobs, including more than 70,000 military veterans.
start with a roux! 2 tbs butter melted over medium heat in a saucepan, add 2 tbsp flour and a few shakes of salt once it’s melted (gluten free works fine if you use one of the 1-1 flours) and stir it CONSTANTLY for a couple minutes until it turns light brown, then dump in a cup of milk and switch your spatula for a whisk- just beat the shit out of it until it’s smooth. add your seasonings at this point, I used garlic and smoked hot paprika for this one. add about a third of a cup of sour cream and whisk until smooth, then let it bubble away for a few minutes until it smells insane. turn the heat down and add 8 oz of shredded cheese of your choice in batches, whisking between batches to make sure it incorporates. season further to taste and top your noodles with it.
I used a sweet farmhouse-style cheddar from Northwoods co but you can really use any cheese- just make sure you shred it yourself. you can even use not-very-melty cheese like aged cheddar if you incorporate a couple of melty cheeses along with it, or a couple slices of kraft american singles if you want to cheat.
this recipe is for about 8 oz of cooked noodles. enjoy!
JOKES ON YOU I WAS ALSO A WISCONSINITE ALL ALONG
for real though I just wanted to explain the kraft singles thing a little more- it’s not for flavor, but for the stabilizers!
there’s barely any actual cheese in this, but there is enough sodium citrate and glycerin that if you drop a couple of slices on top of a cheese that absolutely doesn’t want to melt, like aged cheddar or pleasant ridge reserve or something, the stabilizers will not only convince that cheese to incorporate, they will also magically prevent the sauce from breaking and allow you to reheat it easily later.
tldr: it’s a cheap and easy way to convince fancy intractable cheeses to behave! use it in any application that you want to make a dairy-based sauce smooth and unbreakable.
Why was I today years old when I learned that lead compounds taste SWEET and THAT’S why kids eating paint chips back in the day was a concern?
people these days, it’s always “stop eating lead” and “lead is poisonous” and never “was the lead yummy?” or “you looked really cool eating those tasty lead chips” smh
the Romans had lead pipes for two reasons: one, lead is soft and it’s easily worked into pipes; two, it makes your water delicious and slightly sweet
Some places with really shitty old plumbing, lead paint, and other lead heavy things (you know, places that poor people and BIPOC live) sometimes a bunch of it gets into the snow melt around the community in winter. A lot of kids in places like that know where it collects and go find it because it’s sweet ice that tastes a little bit like sour patch kids.
I’ve lived in more than one place like that and I’ve talked to other people who have as well and it’s a pretty common experience from what I can tell. Lead is still an issue TODAY. In communities of color and poor rural areas especially.
But, can confirm. Tastes good. And warn kids about WHY eating anything they find outdoors is dangerous. Some kids genuinely can’t follow directions without details.
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