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  Sometimes, there are such screaming exceptions to the @ianbetteridge@social.vivaldi.net law. Do Smart Glasses Have a Surveillance Problem? “Does a small light on the glasses amount to asking for consent? I don’t think so, which arguably means they violate the GDPR.” https://archive.ph/20260707203130/https://www.vogue.com/article/do-smart-glasses-have-a-surveillance-problem #SmartGlasses #Meta #Google #Snap #EvenRealities

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  Stupid people in insignificant Englandshire village with silly name vote to leave the UK. "The Principality of Piddington" Who, prey, is their prince? Prince Niggle of Fartage? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ckz7zyn1lwypo #Piddington

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  Led By Donkeys wins compensation over seizure of Gaza protest banner | Led By Donkeys | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jul/28/led-by-donkeys-compensation-seizure-gaza-protest-banner-london #Israel #Genocide #Palestine #Gaza #LedByDonkeys

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  I wonder what difference this will actually make. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/jul/10/bank-of-england-handed-powers-to-regulate-key-tech-firms-including-amazon-and-google #BankOfEngland #FinancialConductAuthority #FCA #Google #Amazon #Oracle #Microsoft

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  Ah, Stewart Lee: “The real worry for Farage will be if those discrediting stories [about Binface] don’t appear. Because then it will mean that his paymasters have decided, not unreasonably, that he’s a lame duck who has backed himself into a corner, discrediting their project as a whole, by putting himself in a position, entirely of his own making, where, in the words of Rachel Reeves, he has to spend his summer arguing with a bin.” https://www.thenerve.news/p/stewart-lee-column-count-binface-...

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  I’ve been in the satellite industry for over four decades, and in the last of these I’ve been seriously concerned by the explosion in numbers placed in Low Earth Orbit. And now there’s Reflect Orbital. 🤦‍♂️ The FCC said that the “risks of harm raised on the record regarding Reflect Orbital’s solar reflector are unrelated to the Commission’s role in authorizing use of radiofrequency spectrum.” And there’s the problem, right there. https://theconversation.com/the-u-s-just-approved-a-giant-space-mi...

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  Quick one today. Found all the letters in lines 1 and 2 - I wasn't sleeping on the job. 😉 Wordle 1,768 3/6 ⬜🟨⬜🟨🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle #Wordle1768

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  Here we go with "only one vowel" again... Wordle 1,769 3/6 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle #Wordle1769

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  Quick one today. Wordle 1,754 3/6 ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle #Wordle1754

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  Those Russian APT28 boys are at it again. Or rather, are still at it. https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/apt28-exploit-routers-to-enable-dns-hijacking-operations #Security #DNS #Router #Microsoft #Outlook

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  The safest Facebook account is no Facebook account at all. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/apr/07/meta-worker-london-accused-downloading-private-facebook-images #Facebook #Meta #Security #Privacy

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  You can rely on Bibi to fuck things up. Will The Donald bring him to heel? Unlikely, as Bibi seems to be the senior partner. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/08/middle-east-ceasefire-doubt-israel-lebanon-iran-oil-tankers #Israel #Iran #Lebanon #DonaldTrump

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  Not too heavily weighed down by this one. 😉 Wordle 1,755 3/6 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟨🟨🟨🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 #Wordle #Wordle1755

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  RE: https://mastodon.social/@j0seph/116374052957643040 "On top of suggesting that the AI is pulling facts out of thin air, ungrounded responses make it difficult for users to verify the AI’s claims."

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  Lest he forget, The Guardian has included in its "33 scandalous photos that shocked the world", that one of the Andrew formerly known as Prince with his arm around 17-year-old Virginia Giuffre, whom he would later claim never to have met. Between Christine Keeler on a chair, and Hugh Grant's LAPD mugshot... https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/apr/04/occasionally-a-picture-can-change-the-course-of-history-33-scandalous-photos-that-shocked-the-world #AndrewMou...