Depending on where you look, Grindr CEO George Arison’s net worth is $20–80 million.

He joins a growing list of gay executives hell-bent on proving that enshittification isn’t just for the straights.

Simone reminds me of the class perspective: musicians here behave like atomized small owners, caught in their enterprecarity, who (legitimately) ask for some defense of their property rights, attacked both by hackers and by the big monopolists of platforms and AI. Because from these property rights, in this case IP, comes a rent, and from this rent, independent artists and label owners try to make a living. Again, right or wrong, this is what’s happening.

I remember reading somewhere that independent artists make basically no money from Spotify.

Is that still true, or have creators found a way to claw back value from the platform, and that’s why they’re defending it?

Thanks for the transcrip and the tl;dr.

What is punycode?

“Telegram is widely used for influence operations, particularly by state actors such as Russia, who invested heavily in information warfare on the channel.” WhatsApp and Telegram are among platforms with consistently expensive fake accounts, averaging $1.02 and $0.89 respectively.

…

Small vendors resell and broker existing accounts, or manually create and “farm” accounts. The larger players will provide a one-stop shop and offer bulk order services for follower numbers or fake accounts, and even have customer support.

A 2022 study co-authored by Dek showed that around ten Euros on average (just over ten US dollars) can buy some 90,000 fake views or 200 fake comments for a typical social media post.

I’m glad that the fediverse is mostly humans and not corpo-bots, but I think this is mostly because it’s not popular enough to be a target yet.

We have manual sign-ups and instance-level blocking, but I wonder if that would be enough if the botters really decide they want a piece of us.

Looking through reviews and official specs, they are infuriatingly vague about what the refresh rate actually is.

It’s all “super refresh technology” and “four different modes”, which is about as meaningful as “natural flavors” on food packaging.

The latency with VNC is very little. The main bottleneck is the low refresh rate and the lag of my old E-ink tablet. This can be a much better experience with a newer tablet with higher refresh rate.

What refresh would we need to hit with e-ink monitors for this to be a viable alternative?

What the judge should have done is threaten to cut the domain name in half and see who was willing to give up their claim out of motherly love.

The video codec was AV1. Saved you a click.

Hundreds of thousands of internet strangers is different from lived experience.

I take the author’s opinion more seriously because they went out and tried it for themselves.

Guys, I don’t think we should use this for work.

It’s not safe.

December 2, 2025 02:52 PM

It looks up to me right now.

TL;Dr: Browser extensions are malware sleeper agents.

The systemic problem isn’t just one malicious actor. It’s that the security model incentivizes this behavior:

1. Build something legitimate
2. Pass review and gain trust signals (installs, reviews, verified badges)
3. Collect large user base
4. Weaponize via update
5. Profit before detection

ShadyPanda proved this works. And now every sophisticated threat actor knows the playbook.

The link just brings me to the front page of a web app. Is there a direct link to the original article ?

Schrödinger’s Surety

I saw the furry art and that’s how I knew they were a pro*.

Most activism groups aren’t really screening for membership.

Usually it’s, “you want to join ? Cool, I’ll add you.”

Edit: Just read the article. They went out of their way to try to make it sound like this group was up to something other than legally show up to immigrant court and keep watch for heinous police behavior.

The memo did not provide any further details about the individual or their alleged past calls for violence and offered no specifics or evidence to explain why the FBI characterized them as “anarchist violent extremists”. The courtwatch efforts have been non-violent, and the FBI did not respond to an inquiry seeking specific examples of violence and did not answer questions about whether law enforcement had ongoing access to the private group.

While the analysis suggests ChatGPT — one of the most widely used text-based forms of generative AI — is rapidly changing the mix of occupations on offer to tech workers, it is not shifting the composition of jobs throughout the entire US economy at a much swifter pace than the arrival of computers and the internet.

The wording vs the actual graphs is suspicious.

Is it

“AI is not killing jobs”

or

“AI is not killing jobs much faster than [things that have definitely killed jobs]”

You have been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models.

“Feature”

If someone was going to accept a $500 pastry, I’d put my money on the gay guy.

(It’s me.)

It was a Reddit comment in response to this video (Catbox alt).