Joke’s on you, Wells Fargo: I’ll never have to pay off my 10¹⁰⁰-year mortgage.

https://defed.xyz/check?software=lemmy&name=lemmy.ml

Emphasis mine:

A team of researchers who say they are from the University of Zurich ran an “unauthorized,” large-scale experiment […]

This whole thing us sus from the get-go. Why should I believe anything these anonymous supposed “researchers” say?

That is not OP is talking about, and it’s not true. Posts & comments only get removed if the ban is done with “Remove Content,” AKA remove_data, which in practice is seldom chosen. https://lemmy.readme.io/reference/post_user-ban

Yes, it’s a server-side regex-based slur filter.

Is this really necessary?

The developers wouldn’t have created it and the admins wouldn’t have enabled it if they didn’t think so.

That’s basically it. We defederate from porn instances, instances overrun by spammers, and fascist instances like the late explodingheads.com and its successor hilariouschaos.com. The only large Lemmy instance we’re defederated from is lemmynsfw.com.

A helpful investigatory tool is https://defed.xyz/.

Private property means private ownership of the means of production. It does not mean your toothbrush or the sandwich you had for lunch, which is personal property.

Hexbear has been defederated from everyone for several weeks. They’re working on plans to refederate. They post major announcements to https://toots.matapacos.dog/@hexbear.

$ curl -sw\\n https://hexbear.net/api/v3/federated_instances
{}
$

They must be using a time machine and copying our future work.

In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale. 😜

Sam Husseini: “Why Are You Not in the Hague?”

Max Blumenthal and I confront Blinken on the US-Israeli genocide. I am literally carried out, manhandled and handcuffed after Blinken talks about the importance of a free press.

These schadenfreude memes are presumptuous in the extreme. For starters, the proposed ceasefire agreement hasn’t even been finalized & signed yet, but they’re presumptuous in several ways. It ain’t over ’till it’s over.

What are you talking about? The proposed ceasefire—which hasn’t even been signed yet—is to begin on Jan. 19.

Financial Times: Israeli cabinet to meet Friday on Gaza ceasefire deal

Israel’s cabinet will meet on Friday to discuss the approval of the Gaza ceasefire deal, an official said, after Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition delayed the meeting, accusing Hamas of backtracking amid tensions within the government’s own ranks.

Antony Blinken, US secretary of state, added that he was “confident” after talking to negotiators that the ceasefire would come into force as planned on Sunday, the day before Donald Trump enters the Oval Office.

freest country in the world btw

• Wall Street Journal: Mueller Doesn’t Find Trump Campaign Conspired With Russia
• Jacobin: Democrats and Mainstream Media Were the Real Kremlin Assets
• Washington Post: FEC fines DNC, Clinton for violating rules in funding Steele dossier
• UC Santa Barbara: President Donald J. Trump to Withdraw the United States from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty
• The Hill: Trump administration pulls out of Open Skies treaty with Russia
• CBC: How successive U.S. administrations resisted arming Ukraine Yet since the 2014 annexation of Crimea by Russia, the Obama, Trump and Biden administrations have all, to some degree, delayed or balked at sending lethal aid to Ukraine
• Jeff Gerth at Columbia Journalism Review on Russiagate: Editor’s Note | Part one | Part two | Part three | Part four
• Matt Taibbi: WMD, Part II: CIA “Cooked The Intelligence” To Hide That Russia Favored Clinton, Not Trump In 2016
• Chris Hedges: Why Russiagate Won’t Go Away

Everything I know about Gross Domestic Product I learned from Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg.

Are American iPhone users going to rediscover web browsing? https://www.tiktok.com/explore

Are American Android users going to discover sideloading? https://lifehacker.com/tech/how-to-use-tiktok-if-its-banned-in-the-us

I identify as an RFC 3339.

It’s only fascism when white male cishet USians are directly affected.