Should’ve used more of his own blood. A lot more. Like all of it

The roots of Britain’s online censorship crisis go back almost a decade, to MindGeek, now rebranded as Aylo, the scandal-ridden company behind Pornhub. This tax-dodging, exploitative porn empire worked closely with the UK government to develop an age-verification system called AgeID, a plan that would have effectively handed Aylo a monopoly over legal adult content by making smaller competitors pay or perish. Public backlash killed AgeID in 2019, but the idea survived.

Fuck me, that explains A LOT. I don’t know why I didn’t think “regulate the competition away” was an actual move for this bullshit

Wikipedia now faces this exact threat. In August 2025, the High Court dismissed the Wikimedia Foundation’s challenge to the categorisation rules, clearing the way for Ofcom to treat it as a high-risk platform. The foundation has warned that compliance would force it to censor vital information and endanger volunteer editors by linking their real identities to their writing. If it refuses, the UK could, in theory, be legally empowered to block access altogether, a breathtaking example of how “child protection” becomes a tool for information control.

I’m sure those lemmings that firmly believed this shit was to “protect children” think this is an acceptable loss.

The most insidious feature of this legislative trend is how it absolves parents while empowering the state.

This should be a stamped headline across the entirety of bri’in and other EU countries. Even if you trust your government today, there’s no guarantee you’ll continue trusting a future one.

You can’t have peace with people around, duh!

From what I hear, every big football association is an endless swamp of corruption

I wonder if the current FIFA president is in the Epstein files, I’m sure the winner of the prize is

😏

muskrat loves his x-rated shit publicly visible to everyone

his fund, Scion Asset Management, bought $187.6 million in puts on Nvidia and $912 million in puts on Palantir (…) Palantir’s market cap is also up over 150 percent year-to-date. Its current valuation is upwards of 200 times its forward earnings, spreading fears that it may be grossly overvalued.

He knows which one is more likely to get really fucked in this bubble and it’s not the shovel seller

Burry similarly made a long-term $1 billion bet from 2005 onwards against the US mortgage market, anticipating its collapse.

Can we assume his puts aren’t for 2026, but at least 2028 or later?

As CNN points out, Burry’s track record isn’t perfect. For instance, he called in January 2023 to “sell” in a now infamous tweet

Something something irrational solvent something

Palantir CEO Alex Karp: “The two companies he’s shorting are the ones making all the money,”

One of the companies is making all the money and it’s not Palantir.

I thought “One World” meant it’s the new one? 🤔

If you count only Valve’s own games’ sales, those earned nowhere as much as the steam market trade of TF2 hats and CS skins

To be fair, mastodon does have a problem of discoverability. Your shit isn’t automatically publicly federated to other instances, even when someone from said instance is following and interacting with you. IE: your account on mas.to received a comment and was retooted by someone on to.mas. Other accounts on to.mas that check their public timeline won’t necessarily see that original mas.to toot.

My important documents are all in a folder inside my closet. Somewhere.

Other than that, the only stuff of value that I have are electronics, like my laptop, tv, phones.

Dibs on One World Trade Center!

I’m curious what the Japanese devs think might be the problem with Steam in this case. I know dlsite has been the main place for trying to sell their own indie stuff

The bottle cap looks flared enough

The real question that remains unanswered: why the fuck did that boy try to earn a Darwin Award? One or two would be an accident, 100 is done on purpose

I had to read the comments to figure this is probably a metaphor on society (people don’t want you to succeed) and not some metaphor on some situation about not knowing that being on top means you’re the first to get cooked

It certainly helps that the biggest enemy of Cuba is like 200km away and is more than willing to pay for every Cuban doctor that arrives there.

The one on the bottom left is slacking off, tho, blowing its own job

I’ll stick to reading 1d6chan rundowns of 40k lore, thanks