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@GossiTheDog I don't mean to be dumb, but how would an X-ray scanner backdoor work? Like, how would an object being scanned trigger the backdoor?

I wonder how pollsters deal with the fact that, in my unscientific experience, voters who say the economy is their most important issue often soon reveal in discussion that the economy is not, in fact, their most important issue.

https://nypost.com/2024/09/01/us-news/tiktok-chase-bank-glitch-shows-people-trying-to-exploit-atms/

Those of us old enough to re,ember the 20th century know this as old-fashioned check fraud

I didn't see this until @mmasnick pointed this out, but Trump's apparent confusion about who was President in 2020, when he was running for re-election, feels...problematic?

Is it the behavior of an "elderly man with a poor memory?"

I am deeply, deeply sympathetic to Pavel Durov, in exactly the same sense that Telegram is a “secure e2ee messenger.”

Kaplan then spoke directly to Trump, who was seated at the defense table. “Mr. Trump, I hope I don’t have to consider excluding you from the trial,” he said. “I understand you are probably very eager for me to do that.”

At that point, Trump threw up his hands, saying, “I would love it. I would love it.”

“I know you would. I know you would,” Kaplan replied. “You just can’t control yourself in this circumstance, apparently.”

Trump shot back: “You can’t either.”

Ah yes, the old “I’m rubber, you’re glue” defense.

@jwz @anildash It might be stupid of me, but, personally, I have always felt there must be some difference between "platforms" vs "promoters".

I struggle to get behind the idea of promoting and helping to monetize Nazis, but I also struggle to get behind the idea of everyone blocking Nazis from DNS resolution.

CloudFlare's position strikes me as somewhat more principled than Substack's, though maybe still troublesome.

@jwz @anildash And to be clear, I say this to describe my own ruminating--I'm not sure I have an answer here.

But, like, "We promote the best writers; see these Nazis on our homepage" feels quite different to me than, I dunno, "We issue TLS certs, and some of those certs are issued to Nazis."

There's probably a bunch of shades of gray between those two extremes.