Meanwhile on Xitter, games are extremely mad about this new Xbox CEO being a woman and also being Indian. I know absolutely nothing about her, but I decided to make a post praising her for her success. As expected, gamers are MAD. Conspiracy theories are floating around that I am actually an Indian living in INDIA. Some have speculated I am a SIMP and Microsoft CUCK.

I am sick, but enjoying reading comments from GAMERS about this DEI INDIAN WOMAN and how she is RUINING GAMING

tldr bored, sick, made silly post, gamers mad.

https://x.com/vxunderground/status/2025416657024266362

I made that post about that Xbox CEO lady intentionally inflammatory. I knew gamers would go schizo and start screaming at their computer monitors.

It made me giggle. I said, "hehe gamers are gonna be so rustled".

I subsequently went to nappy noo noo city (my favorite city)

I woke up this morning to an absolute slobberknocker in the comment section. New conspiracy theories have surfaced that I have been larping as an American for 6.5 years, and am actually a man located in India.

Others have speculated I am actually a homosexual, "a simp", and some other mean stuff.

It's all very silly shenanigans.

My favorite comments were those who wrote "you're brown" and informed me they'd be unfollowing me and/or blocking me.

I couldn't believe it.

I thought to myself, "that random person on the internet, who I have never met, seen, interacted with, or even knew existed, has expressed dissatisfaction with my post to such an extent they had to inform me of their departure".

Consequences have never been the same.

Chat, I've got excellent news you're going to love. I'll break this down into two parts. I'll provide the mega tl;dr because most of you are lazy. Then I'll do the actual explanation.

tl;dr Mark Zuckerberg is proposing age verification should be handled at the Operating System, at least on mobile devices.

Non-tl;dr
Meta is being sued because a bunch of people said Meta intentionally made platforms such as Instagram addictive to kids. The people suing Meta assert Meta didn't provide any safeguards to protect kids from Instagram addiction.

One person suing Meta claims Meta messed her up, fried her brain (I'm super paraphrasing, she didn't literally say that). She sued TikTok and Snapchat. They settled for an undisclosed amount. Google and Meta are fighting this lady.

The court case is getting funky. Meta and Google first questioned the validity of the term addiction, because addiction in the legal and/or medical sense would indicate a medical or life threatening emergency.

Additionally, Meta and Google assert they're shielded from liability because of some old ass laws about stuff, blah blah blah, and they have no control over what people post. Hence, her addiction to Instagram is not a real addiction and it is her own fault because she chooses to view the content. No one forced her to view the content and she knowingly violated Meta ToS when she made an Instagram account (or her parents allowed her, whatever).

The people suing cite statistics that over 4,000,000 users on Meta platforms are under the age of 13. Meta (or Zuckerberg, rather) retorted that it is virtually impossible to accurately determine someone's age online.

Mark Zuckerberg has proposed some sort of digital national ID in the United States which is handled at the Operating System level. This shifts liability away from 3rd party platforms. Mark Zuckerberg's proposal coincides with the United States KOSA (Kids Online Safety Act) which (in extreme summary) would place age verification stuff at the Operating System level.

While KOSA was successfully introduced to the United States Congress, it is currently under evaluation by a bunch of different committees. If the committees agree this bill sounds good, it will then proceed to the House and Senate for approval. Of course, there is no guarantee it would pass. Furthermore, the bill has been in limbo for almost one year.

Anyway, basically Zuckerberg is endorsing KOSA because it shifts liability away from Meta and onto Operating System vendors. Zuckerberg did not state how he believes KOSA could be implemented on Linux (it's literally impossible).

The idea behind KOSA is that vendors need to add safeguards to protect children from sexual predators online and cyber bullies. KOSA states vendors must provide parental controls to protect children. Furthermore, vendors must disclose (at a high level) how their age verification works.

In fairness, KOSA never explicitly states OS vendors must perform this, KOSA applies specifically to online social media platforms. However, as is tradition, KOSA does not provide any framework on how accomplish this task and places it on "vendors" (ambiguous)

I remember when a few ransomware operators were on social media and people were eager to engage with them (in some capacity). No one was overtly rude.

This person ransomed healthcare facilities, schools, places of worship, government institutions.

They profited millions upon millions of dollars from extortion, money laundering, and aggravated identify theft.

Conversely, the CEO of Persona is now active on social media and people are eager to engage with them (in some capacity). People appear to strongly dislike this person.

They dislike this CEO so much, and so passionately, even me memeing alongside them has me framed as a villain.

I'm not implying anything as I write this. This is strictly an observational post. But I'm like, "wow, they hate this guy more than the dude who extorts childrens hospitals"

I wanted to share the post, but I couldn't quote post it fully. I'm also sick and couldn't think of a witty comment, so I just screencapped it and used MS-PAINT to overlay it on a picture of a silly kitty cat.

California is proposing California Assembly Bill 1709 (AB 1709).

It's age verification on the internet (again). This makes this the 3rd, or 4th, state in the United States wanting to introduce additional legislation on age verification online. This is different than the current pending federal law Kid Online Safety Act (KOSA).

tl;dr
California say social media bad, social media must verify age somehow, and social media needs to work with law enforcement to stop bad stuff online

Non-tl;dr is California politicians assert social media is dangerous to children and online platforms must introduce safety guardrails to prevent children from being on the website and/or becoming addicted.

California Governor Newsom anecdotally stated his daughter is addicted to her cell phone, stating at a birthday party they went to all of the children were on their phones instead of speaking with each other.

He continues by stating the current generation (Z, Alpha) have "never been more anxious, less free, more stressed, and we have to address this issue".

The current bill, which is EXTREMELY bare-bones, states social media platforms must establish minimum age requirements to open and maintain a social media account. Additionally, the bill proposes social media platforms set and establish an active law enforcement person of contact. This is put in place in the event of potentially threatening and/or dangerous content on social media.

The bill does not have any solutions in place on how to determine someones age, law enforcement actions possible, how persons of contact would be established, penalties, etc.

I don't want to sound like a schizo, but it's really weird that seemingly out of nowhere different parts of the United States are pushing aggressively to do age verification. It's also weird how some have pushed for it at the OS level (including Zuckerberg).

Colorado politicians are smoking methamphetamine for even thinking an OS-based age verification system could work.

If it's local on someones machine it will be damn near impossible to prevent tampering. Beyond the difficulty of forcing it on something like Linux, nerds have historically shown to be incredibly persistent and grumpy when forced to do something they don't like.

For example, I purchased these goofy little toy things for my baby boy called a "Tonies". I was surprised to find there was a "Tonies" hacker community. Basically, any sort of thing nerds don't like, some small niche community pops up to bonk it with a stick.

If in the event an OS-level age verification system appeared, I wholeheartedly believe every nerd on the planet would unite to fight it, tamper with it, break it, reverse engineer it, and make politicians lives miserable.

In summary, it's a "nice idea" for politicians, but it would invoke weaponized autism on an international scale.

Anthropic stealing a bunch of data to train their AI model just to see a bunch of places steal the data they stole to train their AI model

Medical startup idea

Pour some sort of cement mix into the lungs from nose, connected externally to a string

Let the cement solidify

When cement is solid, pull the string.

Cement comes out and pulls out all the nasty stuff in your lungs too

I've cured Emphysema

I'm really sick now, extremely congested. I unironically was like, "why can't we just pull the goop out of our lungs?"

Then I read about lungs and I realized they're really fucking complicated.

Anyway, cement mix should do the trick, it'll be fine

Sometimes when I'm not motivated to do malware stuff (sickness or burnout), I keep my brain active by switching subjects.

I really enjoy history (all forms of it). I enjoy reading about other sciences. I also really enjoy reading philosophy and pretending to understand it and pretending to remember anything they're saying (I've read Nietzsche's "The Gay Science" and "Beyond Good and Evil" twice, can barely remember anything besides core concepts).

Because I am sick I have been reading about health and medicine, specifically in the historical context.

I'm not a physician. I am not a medical expert. I like to ask dumb questions about the body and see stuff about it. I discovered today that someone had the same question as me, "why can't we replace human blood with milk?"

Why? I don't know. Milk is pretty good. What if a patient is dying of blood loss or something, can we just fill them up with milk? Can we replace the blood with milk?

This question was asked in 1873. Physicians tried replacing blood with milk from cows or goats. They tried both old milk and milk freshly ... milked ... from the animal (they had an animal in the operating room). It turns out, if you inject milk into someone, in an attempt to replace their blood, it will kill them. Blood is really complicated, or something, and it turns out you can't just replace it with milk.

When you try a milk transfusion, it causes kidney failure, heart attack, stroke, fat embolism (milk curdles in the veins, I don't know), severe immune system reaction, etc.

Anyway, if you're curious: do not try to replace your blood with milk.