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Facial recognition is being used to detain U.S. citizens—sometimes even when they present birth certificates—based solely on flawed app data and without their consent.

Read More: https://thefreethoughtproject.com/government-surveillance/ices-frightening-facial-recognition-app-is-scanning-us-citizens-without-their-consent

#TheFreeThoughtProject
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@j if the government shut down why am I still paying taxes
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Local restaurants...I beg you...maintain an actual Web Site...that isn't Facebook or Instagram...I am pleading with you...just a simple site, on the web...for me, your old pal Sadsquatch...

I think after releasing my dungeon crawler, I am going to remake the cancelled platformer (the first one that was basically VVVVVV with guns). I think I can actually do it this time as long as I plan ahead and don't over-engineer.

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Windows 11 is the bad ending
We got there when society accepted 10's telemetry bullshit. That was never meant to happen. The divine light was severed at that point.

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Press S to spit on Dick Cheney's grave. That heart transplant he got once should have went to a human.

https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/04/politics/dick-cheney-death-obit
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“I buy avocados that are grown in Mexico and shipped to the UK.”

“I buy tomatoes that are grown in Morocco and shipped to the UK.”

“I buy quinoa that is grown in Bolivia and shipped to the UK.”

"Red meat from local UK farmers should be reduced. It’s bad for the planet.”

🤷‍♂️

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SEGA Master System Brawl.

Think Super Smash Bros., but with SEGA characters—and yes, it actually runs on real Master System hardware.

That’s right, if you’ve got a flashcart, you can load it up and play this full-blown crossover fighter on an 8-bit console from 1986. Pretty wild.

https://bonaf.itch.io/master-system-brawl

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📧 Years before Google, “Gmail” lived on Garfield․com: fan email with @​gmail․garfield․com addresses for anyone thinking I hate Mondays.
It vanished like a pan of lasagne into Garfield’s belly… but its pawprints can still be seen on the #WaybackMachine ⤵️
web.archive.org/web/2000081506

🐈 By May 2001, it was replaced by @​e-garfield․com via Everyone․net. Google didn’t adopt the name until April 2004.

#Wayback1T #InternetHistory

So apparently, the next big trend in web development is to have websites just be rendered in a canvas object much like how many sites were just Flash apps back in the early 2000s.

At that point, why not just have a protocol dedicated to retrieving REBOL/Red scripts over a network? Because that's what those languages were for in the first place.

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If everyone was refusing to provide official IDs to verify their identity and age on social platforms, and just let their account rot there unused instead, we would soon see platforms themselves starting to advocate against these invasive laws to recover their users.

Just saying.
They need you more than you need them.
Stop complying with invasive requests.

#Privacy #AgeVerification

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This is the most punk thing I've ever heard of. This guy got his physics phd then proceeded to use it to create open source plans for everything you need to start a civilization.

Definitely going in my digital apocalypse kit (wait, you don't have one?!), and this guy is now one of my heroes.

technologyreview.com/2025/10/1

#OpenSource #solarpunk #diy #punk #RightToRepair

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Found a really nice website that allows you to compare different handhelds by price, performance, which systems it an emulate, and even if it has ergonomic grips or not. Pretty good stuff if you're thinking of getting one.

https://retrocatalog.com/
fair comparison
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