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Cake day: July 17th, 2025

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  • Its in the article:

    And the situation is only getting worse. According to a shocking new BBC investigation, Instagram has been profiting off paid adverts that promote CSAM in India, a shocking revelation that highlights glaring holes in Meta’s efforts to get ahead of the problem.

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    Some of the incriminating ads reviewed by the BBC include terms like “rape video” and “child video” and link the platform’s users to shadowy Telegram channels, where the material can be bought for as little as $1.


  • This is likely true, but in the hacker news thread about this, the non Nazi cofounder was pretty defensive about what a great guy he was, and that there was just no way that him being a Nazi could ever effect Mullvad itself:

    Here’s one example, but these linked thread has more excuses hes made:

    kfreds 1 day ago | root | parent | next [–]

    I’m sorry to hear that. For what it’s worth I think there’s nuance in his decision that most people don’t see. Of course that doesn’t mean I think it was the right decision to make.

    Here’s something worth considering: why would someone whose ideal is open borders, who has been an animal rights activist, and someone who has led Mullvad for 17 years (with the track record it has), choose to donate to this party? If you like what Daniel and I have done together over the past 17 years, and now vehemently oppose his choice to make this donation, doesn’t that make you just a little bit curious?

    It made me curious. It didn’t change my ultimate stance, but it did temper my emotions about it.

    https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=kfreds

    That level of denial feels custom made for them to give him a pass and keep him onboard.




  • “Not all youth pasters,” huh?

    People aren’t drawing conclusions out of nowhere. Its a role that puts abusers into an ideal situation to groom and rape kids. Christian church culture tends to emphazie authority being right, victim blaming and shaming, men over women, cover ups and “good old boy” networks where local law enforcement will turn a blind eye to protect the church. The youth pastors generally have no actual qualifications past being “in the church in good standing” and being charismatic. The faiths tenats put a high emphasis on “foregivness” that somehow always favors the abusers and never the victim. Its often the case that the victim is the one ostracized for their courage and hope for justice.

    Its a situation that is all but geared towards letting men abuse children, and no, churches are not taking that seriously enough to get the benefit of the doubt. This isn’t any specific christian faith either. Stories have come out from Mormons to Methodists to what have you. The individual injustice is different, but the pattern always holds. Rapist rape kids, church lock steps to protect the rapist and hide or shame the victim.

    You had good youth pastors? Neato. The culture is still one that sets up rapists to be able to rape and get away with it. Until the culture is better, one off “good pastors” don’t matter.



  • rainwall@piefed.socialtoProgrammer Humor@programming.dev•The circle of life
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    Because they believe that AI will replace payroll, which is generally a businesses highest expense. The more AI usage, the more likely they can eliminate jobs and give themselves bonuses.

    They are excited the way a farmer is excited when his pigs are gorging themselves on grain and getting really, really fat. The farmer is glad to pay for grain because its much cheaper than the money he makes from selling them for meat.

    They are giddy because its almost time for payday.




  • The Simpsons movie had stakes and emotional impact. The Alaskan scene with Marge leaving Homer? Nothing in Mando comes anywhere close to it.

    I’d say most of the star trek movies did as well. The first one, while being the strangest of the bunch, hit you several times. The Wrath of Khan is rife with it, the nature of family. Even when they retconned Spock back in the next movie, there was weight there.

    Mando by all accounts was placid, shapeless pew pew nothing, with some cute scences and some bright flashing action scences, but with near zero growth or conflict for the titualar characters. They could have pushed the show forward, given Grogu more independence, really redefined the relationship that shows how kids grow from and away from their parents, but no. They split up, have a cute thing, have am action thing, then nothing of impact happens and it just resets to “man and baby go about their day.”

    If you want to take your media to another medium, it should be to do something with it, something that matters, even if its only for a couple of hours. It should have some impact when it shirks its everyday bonds. That did not happen here.