Notices by funnymonkey (funnymonkey@freeradical.zone), page 3

Imagine being the richest person in the world and you still need to force computers to say nice things about you because real people won't.

This is a great piece of writing, and it highlights a really problematic reality: a so-called "smart" vacuum -- that connected to a home network -- was designed to allow remote code execution on the device via a backdoor in the device.

This. Is. By. Design.

How many other devices are built this way?

https://codetiger.github.io/blog/the-day-my-smart-vacuum-turned-against-me/

@evan Only voted "no" because "fuck no why why why" wasn't an option.

Trump destroying the White House is a pretty spot on presidential legacy.

When you buy and use Amazon Ring products, you are siphoning data to Flock, and to law enforcement.

And yes - this is the same Flock that cops in Texas used to surveil a woman in Texas who accessed medical care.

Don't use Ring products.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/10/ring-cameras-are-about-to-get-increasingly-chummy-with-law-enforcement/

Had to verify that this was real.

It is.

https://www.nytimes.com/1939/02/04/archives/goebbels-ends-careers-of-five-aryan-actors-who-made-witticisms.html

In the years and decades to come, the US will need to come to terms with the reality that we have forced more than a generation of children to go to school having multiple mass shooting drills a year, every year.

@sand The entire point was to give people a reason to drive - aka, places that are worth getting to.

Totally wild.

@darnell @evan This exact mess is why age verification laws create more problems while failing to solve an issue that isn't technical to begin with.

Even if age verification "worked" it would create a privately owned and controlled trove of identifying info, connected to very personal trends and interests.

The data breaches that inevitability occur will make Equifax look benevolent.

If you are an edtech company and you joined X in or after 2024, you have told on yourself.

How about billions of people can keep their old pictures and a few thousand oligarchs give up their private planes?

Apparently we are at the "run diffs on the Constitution" phase in our descent into fascism.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/06/key-sections-of-the-us-constitution-deleted-from-governments-website/

Let the bribes continue.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/11/trons-justin-sun-100-million-trump-memecoin.html

Evergreen note:

Features aren't trustworthy.

Organizations have the potential to be trustworthy.

If an organization has failed to maintain trust, then whatever "features" they offer should be viewed through that lens.+

I know that there are countless things more problematic and pressing -- and -- if we ever needed an example of how thoroughly Trump and his lackeys hate this country, and how thoroughly they want to destroy beauty and history, paving over the Rose Garden is the perfect blend of petty and ugly.

https://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/politics/2025/06/20/white-house-rose-garden-renovation-photos/84292209007/

Millions of people protested peacefully against Trump.

Violence, in the few places where it happened, was instigated by law enforcement and counter-protesters.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/06/15/how-many-people-attended-no-kings/84219725007/

Who was in the room when Padilla was mobbed by federal agents?

Why didn't these people speak up, act, or do anything?

Why did they allow Noem's press conference to continue?

(and if someone in the room did actually do something, please let me know)

ICE agents routinely lie. The number of people arrested for "obstructing", "interfering", or "resisting" is a sign of how ICE works.

They manufacture a conflict, and then they lie about the escalation.

This is the same general strategy as Trump in LA.

And here we see a clear example of ICE's inhumanity and lawlessness, where they assault and detain a US citizen who is 9 months pregnant.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/pregnant-us-citizen-went-hospital-immigration-agents-detained-rcna212033

I'm starting a car rental business. I take cars that are parked on the street and rent them out.

Asking for consent would kill my business.

#aiLogic

That escalated quickly.

https://www.404media.co/the-signal-clone-the-trump-admin-uses-was-hacked/