Has anyone tried this? It's discord reverse engineered.

TikTok deportation propaganda is fast becoming the new border wall. States, platforms and algorithms are fusing into a single machine. This is turning deportation into bingeable content, burying resistance in the feed, and replacing physical walls with algorithmic control. Local populism dies and global spectacle rules

Communicating with AI agents (like OpenClaw) via messaging apps (like Slack and Telegram) has become much more popular. But it can expose users to a largely unrecognized LLM-specific data exfiltration risk, because these apps support ‘link previews’ as a feature. With previews enabled, user data can be exfiltrated automatically after receiving a malicious link in an LLM-generated message -- whereas without previews, the user would typically have to click the malicious link to exfiltrate data. For example, OpenClaw via Telegram is exposed by default. Test any agent / communication app pairing below!

Might have just been my parents but I remember ironing clothes being so integral to life during childhood but I think I've ironed maybe a dozen things as an adult. What happened?

Scientists have created a wearable sensor that attaches to your underwear and tracks your gut bacteria in real time by measuring the hydrogen gas in your flatulence. And no, that’s not a setup for a joke.

Researchers at the University of Maryland developed the device to solve a problem that has plagued microbiome research for years: how to actually monitor what gut bacteria are doing hour by hour, not just which species are living in there. The answer, it turns out, involves a tiny sensor clipped near your bottom that passively records data while you go about your day.

Amid calls for a national shutdown on 30 January, Anton Kinloch displayed a sign on the sidewalk outside Lone Wolf, his craft cocktail bar and restaurant in Kingston, New York. In large block letters he wrote: “WE LOVE ICE IN DRINKS. WE DON’T LOVE ICE IN REAL LIFE. SOLIDARITY ALWAYS.”

Along with his wife and business partner Lisa Dy, he’d made the difficult decision to stay open, electing instead to donate a portion of the night’s proceeds to a local immigrant advocacy group. With frigid temperatures and inclement weather stymying business in the region this winter, he simply could not afford the lost revenue. But he refused to stay silent in the aftermath of the brutal killings of Renee Good and Alex Pretti by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) agents in Minneapolis.

Within hours, Kinloch discovered that the sign had been vandalized and thrown into the middle of the street. Its wooden frame was splintered and the chalkboard surface shattered; it appeared to have been run over by a car several times. Earlier in the day, he’d received at least a half-dozen derogatory messages after posting support for immigrants on social media. “I spoke to other business owners in the area, and they said that they had received similar threats,” he said. “They also saw a decline in their social media followers after speaking out. People were unfollowing them, blocking them, and sending them hate messages.”

Covertly filming women on nights out to upload the videos to social media should be made illegal, the Liberal Democrats have said.

The party has put forward a private members' bill calling on the government to update voyeurism legislation to prevent the content from being posted online for profit.

It said the bill would clamp down on what it calls "a covert filming epidemic" and wants the government to force social media platforms to remove such content and permanently ban repeat offenders.

It comes after a BBC investigation exposed dozens of accounts on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook and Instagram. The videos focused almost entirely on women, filmed without their knowledge and taken from low angles or behind, sometimes revealing intimate body parts.

The government said covert filming of women and girls was "vile" and vowed to stop people profiting from it.

The BBC investigation identified nearly 50 women who had been filmed without their knowledge.

Ghislaine Maxwell, Jeffrey Epstein's co-conspirator, invoked her Fifth Amendment rights after being called to testify in front of the House Oversight Committee.

Saying he had advised his client not to testify, Maxwell's attorney David Oscar Markus bluntly said in a statement that "Maxwell is prepared to speak fully and honestly if granted clemency by President Trump," according to NBC.

"Only she can provide the complete account" Markus said, per NBC. "Some may not like what they hear, but the truth matters. For example, both President [Donald] Trump and [former] President [Bill] Clinton are innocent of any wrongdoing. Ms. Maxwell alone can explain why, and the public is entitled to that explanation."

Decrepit oil tankers in Iran’s sanctions-busting shadow fleet are a “ticking time bomb”, and it is only a matter of time before there is a catastrophic environmental disaster, maritime intelligence analysts have warned.

Such an oil spill could be far bigger than the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster that released 37,000 tonnes of crude oil into the sea, they said.

Pole Star Global assessed 29 Iranian vessels that went dark by switching off their satellite identification systems after the US first seized a Venezuelan tanker in December. Half were older than the 20-year recommended safe service life, the analysts said, and because they operate in the shadows, they are believed to be poorly maintained and could fail to meet international safety standards.

More than 50 incidents involving shadow tankers from across the world have been reported in recent years, from collisions to oil spills. Nine oil slicks, from Thailand to Italy to Mexico, were attributed to Russian dark fleet vessels between 2021 to 2024. But the Iranian shadow fleet has been little scrutinised.

I was given a wallet today and I've already put some money in it. I don't know what other things I should put in it, maybe my ID.

Google on Tuesday expanded its "Results about you" tool to let users request the removal of Search results containing government-issued ID numbers -- including driver's licenses, passports and Social Security numbers -- adding to the tool's existing ability to flag results that surface phone numbers, email addresses, and home addresses.

The Department of Homeland Security is using a repurposed $55 billion Navy contract to convert warehouses into makeshift jails and plan sprawling tent cities in remote areas.

Ring's 'Search Party' is dystopian surveillance accelerationism.

Archived version: https://archive.is/20260210192450/https://www.404media.co/with-ring-american-consumers-built-a-surveillance-dragnet/

West is Pest

I just thought I'd let people know that you can watch the winter olympics on Sky Open, which is a free channel Sky has. If you have actual Sky I think you have more options over what events you can watch.

But yeah, Freeview channnel 8 or via Three Now app. I think you might be able to watch online here if you log in to three now,

We already have one silver and one bronze: https://www.olympics.com/en/milano-cortina-2026/medals

Which puts us as 7th per capita 😁: https://www.medalspercapita.com/

Unless we don't get to count the broken one.

found this on a linus tech tips video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4e-Kt02rfc

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/42953876

The Israeli Prison Service has begun preparations to introduce the death penalty for Palestinian prisoners, Israeli media reported on Sunday.

According to Israel's Channel 13, preparations include the creation of a facility dubbed "Israel's Green Mile", where executions will take place

The report added that executions will be carried out by hanging, with three guards pressing the trigger simultaneously.

Specialist teams, composed entirely of volunteers, will be assigned to the task.