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a/b testing the insertion of vulnerable code is not a good idea.

Well, X seems to only be “hostile” in the sense that it airs the uncomfortable truths that the UK would rather not have heard.

The US model, where hurty words don’t invoke a SWAT team like the UK does.

Or to give Kier Starmer a Borat-esque outfit?

Yet it seems to be fine for BlueSky, where their first priority is to create a hermetically sealed opinion chamber at scale, then pay attention to the law.

As opposed to creating a botnet opinion chamber at scale, with a sprinkling of financial incentive for people in LCOL countries and territories to manufacture endless ragebait?

Unproven claim that sounds like you just want to dismiss a counter-narrative platform.

If anything, BlueSky is a botnet for narrative enforcement.


Except that the UK is just laundering authoritarianism through a clause that selectively harms one organization and not all of those that have platforms with the same problem.

Given the UK’s already high authoritarian tendencies towards speech codes, it would be better to have the US sanction Kier Starmer, OFCOM, and other associated parties in the Commonwealth, narrowly specified.


If they’re fine with targeting BlueSky for the same reasons, then by all means let the law be.

Or perhaps one might pressure Washington to forcibly unwind the deals with OpenAI and NVIDIA with the foundries.

The neat thing is that Apple and Google are already doing that, just not in the preferred direction.

That in mind:

Gruber unfortunately is making a bigger case for less vendor control over a user’s device, not more.


because narrative security apparently precedes truth here, because truth that counters narrative must be silenced.

https://x.com/AlphaNews/status/2009679932289626385?s=20

She accelerated against the officer, hit them, he defended himself, which stands counter to the bloodlust directed towards ICE.

Order of events based on video analysis:

- The agent approaches the vehicle, which is stopped or slow-moving.

- The woman speaks through the window (partial audio/transcript includes phrases like "Big boy, show your face," "I'm not mad at you," and references to not changing plates or being a U.S. citizen—tone appears defiant or sarcastic).

- The agent positions himself near or in front of the vehicle.

- The SUV then accelerates forward, with the hood/grille filling the camera view (suggesting very close proximity, potentially a bump or near-miss).

- The camera shakes/tumbles, ending with views of the street and the vehicle driving away.


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