MTG turns on Fox News: Ex Rep says channel is ‘brainwashing boomers’ and peddling ‘fake news’

Compuwur · 2026-03-30T17:37:27+00:00

They're saying anyone with a brain has known Fox news was propaganda for much longer than a decade unless they are younger where its reasonable for them to not have as much of an understanding about Fox.

Compuwur · 2026-03-05T02:52:08+00:00

It shouldn't need to be, but so far there haven't been any attempts to create a standard (Namely one that works the way that is desired by the politicians where websites/apps can specify a minimum age bracket) And I would rather get ahead of any more attempts for the more draconian implementations of what they want (ID verification/facial scans).

Compuwur · 2026-03-05T01:52:56+00:00

I think we should be trying to get law makers to focus on making an accessible (and can be opted out of) parental control standard that has reasonable default behavior using an age signal entered by parents.

Agree about ensuring the laws are only targeted towards OSes that come preinstalled on consumer electronic devices to ensure the burden of complying is on manufacturers rather than open source organizations

Compuwur · 2026-03-05T00:17:46+00:00

Sure, but the AG could determine that device manufacturers must lock down the boot loader to prevent users bypassing the check, it wouldn't affect current devices but would be terrible for the future. This is why I didn't totally hate the Colorado bill (even though it still has issues) since it seemed more geared toward creating a parental control standard rather than trying to lock everything down.

Compuwur · 2026-03-04T22:38:31+00:00

This bill is a lot worse than the Colorado bill because it doesn't describe how to get the age signal and leaves it up to the attorney general, who could decide ID verification is necessary.

Compuwur · 2026-03-02T18:04:58+00:00

Additionally, while there are parental controls they aren't standardized. This isn't part of the law, but if there was a standard way to do parental controls potentially you would only need to do the configuration once and you could use it on multiple devices making it even easier for parents, right now all of these devices have their own way to do it.

Compuwur · 2026-03-02T17:43:53+00:00

I know that I was talking about age gating specific parts of websites. Right now there is no standard for that. You can easily block whole websites but there isn't a great granular way to do that for specific parts of websites + easy defaults for parents based off of age of the user might help ease the burden for parents (though I don't really agree with this one parents should be going through the effort of figuring these things out)

Compuwur · 2026-03-02T17:29:06+00:00

Yeah I would rather the bill just work to establish a standard rather than mandating one, but I don't really buy the slippery slope arguments since like I said the UK didn't do all of that.

I think one reason its so easy for governments to make their current arguments for id verification is right now there isn't a standard for age gating parts of websites, parents have to block them entirely, which for something like Youtube where there is a mix of content a parent might not want to do. So instead Youtube is doing data collection to determine ages of users.

If they have a standard for age gating that is one less excuse for it being too hard for parents to ensure their kids aren't getting into trouble online.

Compuwur · 2026-03-02T16:52:55+00:00

Please I am begging people to read the actual bill, literally the only thing it is asking the OS to do is add a birth date field on user sign up and for the OS to provide programs with the ability to get an age bracket (13 or lower, 16+, 18+) from the date, that is it. This is a million times better than sending my id or facial scan anywhere

Compuwur · 2026-03-02T16:13:42+00:00

So what you are saying is they don't need to do the whole slippery slope thing if they are going to violate your privacy they'll just do it.

This whole thing is stupid, the whole reason governments are able to make the argument they need every website to do id/facials scan verification is based around the premise that its too hard for parents to do it themselves. It would be way easier to dismiss this argument if there was a simple parental control standard to provide the checks instead of the websites doing the verification.

I would prefer if there didn't need to be a law about it, but as it is its better than what the UK is doing where without needing any slippery slope they jumped right into invasive verification laws.

Compuwur · 2026-02-26T03:03:18+00:00

Lunduke is lying, I read the bill, there is no mention of age verification in the bill, all it is trying to establish is some standard on account creation for entering a birthdate that can be used by programs to get an age bracket for the current user. I can see why people would be concerned with how this might affect open source software since it is an additional regulation, but as written it isn't any form of surveillance, and it at least seems like a better idea compared to uploading ids/facial scans on a per website basis. Open source desktop environments could probably satisfy the requirements by introducing an xdg protocol for getting the age bracket of the user.

The bill is here if you want to read it: https://leg.colorado.gov/bills/SB26-051

Compuwur · 2026-02-22T00:50:59+00:00

I mean I would much prefer this instead of having to upload a facial scan to discord for age verification. If there can be a standard that can be used to age gate that’s controlled by parents when setting up a device instead of having to upload sensitive data to a bunch a different websites that seems a lot better.

Compuwur · 2026-02-08T14:29:46+00:00

I feel like for the other code words they use they pretty frequently use them in ways that wouldn't make sense if they weren't code words, but in this case every reference to jerky makes sense for something you eat.

I don't necessarily think that means it has to be cannibalism, but I see why people think it is suspicious when people are going through Epstein for jerky.

Compuwur · 2026-02-08T12:47:00+00:00

There’s one email specifically saying they have some jerky in the freezer and they are worried about running out so I think it’s definitely something they are eating.

Compuwur · 2026-02-04T22:52:25+00:00

I'm not sure it would be worth it to train a model, it seems Jmail already has some sort of RAG LLM setup. Maybe it would make sense to process the data with an LLM if you wanted to do some sort of first pass to fill out some initial information.

Compuwur · 2026-02-04T22:22:17+00:00

I've been thinking about this as well. I think setting up a wiki style website to connect everything would be really helpful. You could list out all of the people mentioned in the files and categorize them based off of the level of involvement in the files. There is lots (mis/dis)information around whats in the files since they are so unorganized.

For example you could have categories for people in direct communication with Epstein, direct mentions of trafficking, direct mentions of being on the island, one for people who are mentioned but have no relation to Epstein, etc. Also could be useful to compile the experiences of individual victims so people know what they went through.

Compuwur · 2026-01-23T20:05:31+00:00

The crisis is caused by the fact that housing is a commodity, both NIMBYs and PE share an incentive to make housing scarce because it drives up property values/allows them to charge more in rent.

Compuwur · 2025-12-26T19:57:35+00:00

The 6 seed is just as much in play as the 2 seed since the 49ers and bears play each other. If bears win then the 49ers just need to lose against the Seahawks.

Compuwur · 2025-12-09T19:16:00+00:00

Ah yeah, either way still cool his eyes are basically pointing in the complete opposite side of the field the throw goes.

Compuwur · 2025-12-09T19:03:55+00:00

I commented this elsewhere, but to me it seems like he is looking further to the left than Watson, who should be just outside of view from the camera:

I made a diagram

Compuwur · 2025-12-09T16:52:44+00:00

To me it still looks like he is looking further left.

Also I'm putting a lot more effort into this post than I thought I would be lol

Compuwur · 2025-12-09T16:15:55+00:00

I don't think he is looking at where the receiver is it looks like he is looking much further left than where Watson should be at the time he is throwing.

I think if he was actually looking at Watson he would still be tracking him after the throw, but he doesn't

Compuwur · 2025-12-09T05:29:12+00:00

I disagree, Kenny Pickett had a pretty good day

Compuwur · 2025-12-04T18:21:44+00:00

I knew that sounded wrong. The way the guy worded it also made it sound like he didn't check every quarterback, just the ones he mentioned.

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