Eric Schultz

They really are.

Don't worry y'all, they're only doing this to control the worst tech billionaires in the world. There's no harm that could come from telling a bunch of cruel, intelligent rich people who the underage victims are, right?

CA and CO require OS vendors to notify every app and service if a user is under 18.

I'm done with this "age gating" euphemism. This is an EPSTEIN SIGNAL, serving underage victims up on a silver platter.

The only question left is who will be on the @gavinnewsom.bsky.social and @colorado.gov lists

Moms Are Risking Arrest to Protect Gender-Affirming Care for Trans Youth The government wants to ban care nationwide, and hospitals are shutting down treatment. Parents just want it all to stop.

www.them.us/story/trans-...

"This probably sounds like nightmare fuel to many, but to wealthy VCs and AI and crypto entrepreneurs it’s the next gold rush." is the quote of our time

If I had a nickel for every time Franz Ferdinand was involved in the precursor events of a world war, I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird it happened twice

This is a joke, right?
I am genuinely asking, because I have never seen this guy before.

Because if it's not...this is just renting.
You've invented renting, but made it sound stupider.

Honestly? Nothing. It wasn't something that resonated that strongly with me as a kid even though I was raised Methodist. So I just kinda stopped.

I do have a stronger appreciation now of the beauty of it and how it inspired many to do good even if I don't necessarily believe in it myself though.

should be pretty straightforward to work out how big a subsidy this is to oil that we're paying for

Jimmy Carter, a white man in a blue suit, seated at a desk.

-Crisis in Iran
-An oil shock at home
-Inflation
-Low approval ratings

Close enough. Welcome back Jimmy Carter

Love is in the air at Edinburgh zoo. Pebbling marks the start of the breeding season for Gentoo penguins.

Kids at Edinburgh Children's Hospital Charity painted pebbles for the penguins to choose from and present to their mates.

I am convinced that the right NBC dramedy would more or less solve the trans sports issue, if you actually talk to people who flipped their views on gay rights in the 2000s a disturbingly high percentage will mention Ellen or Queer Eye

The goal is to have inductees entering the military in 193 days from when the President gives the go ahead. I would be shocked if they could do it. I would be shocked if they could do it in twice that long.

It's basically abandoned.

I am convinced that if you asked all the employees in my department how much they use or are enthusiastic about LLMs, it would inversely correlated to performance. The top rated people that I've talked to refuse to use it, the bottom performers use it all the time. AND IT SHOWS.

As a member of a local Selective Service draft board, this would be a clusterfuck to end all clusterfucks. They haven't added or taken anyone off the boards since 2020. Given the age of the people on the boards likely 1/3 -1/2 are deceased.

I've been trying to get my county changed for 14 years!

This International Women's Day, please remember that trans women are women. Full stop. No qualifiers.

here's another thing i hate: when companies change their AI computer voice to be more "human". under no circumstances do I want that. i want every computer in my life to sound stilted and weird because it's a computer, not a person, and it is a violation of natural law for it to speak in our voice

Michael Che on SNL: “A rash has appeared on President Trump’s neck which is just above his collar. Apparently, someone accidentally washed his shirt in holy water.”

Challenge for people who believe Claude *is* conscious and use it anyway: Explain how you’re not a slaver.

One of the original core functions of the State Department was to help distressed sailors and citizens overseas. This gang doesn’t seem to remember that — or care.

to me it rocks that this company that has never come within light-years of making money and has a bad product with zero practical use cases is the pivot point of the global economy because a bunch of embarrassing Burning Man dorks just decided it should be

Again, the unifying 🧵 about Trump’s foreign policy is not realism or neo-royalism. It’s the extension of sexual assault/predation/partner abuse to IR. If he thinks you’re his macho pal, he’ll respect you/your sovereignty. If not, he’ll try to violate you & humiliate you. Epstein-ism, if you like.

my theory of the Harris campaign, which makes exactly nobody happy:

1. she was put in an incredibly deep and arguably insurmountable hole by Biden

2. she made significant errors, largely in not separating herself from him enough

3. her results were still in the upper range of plausible outcomes

Did not voting for her get the result they wanted?

First, let's correct the headline: Proton did not provide information to the FBI. What happened is that the FBI submitted a Mutual Legal Assistance Treaty (MLAT) request, which was processed by the Swiss Federal Department of Justice and Police. Proton operates exclusively under Swiss law, and we only respond to legally binding orders from Swiss authorities, after all Swiss legal checks have been passed. This is an important distinction. Second, let's talk about what this case actually involved. This wasn't a routine investigation. Swiss authorities determined that the legal threshold was met because a law enforcement officer was shot, and explosive devices were found during a protest in 2024. Switzerland has one of the strongest legal frameworks for privacy in the world, and its standard for granting international legal assistance is exceptionally high. This case met that standard. Third, let's talk about what was actually disclosed. No emails were handed over. No message content. No metadata about who the user communicated with. The only information Proton could provide was a payment identifier because the user chose to pay with a credit card. This is information the user themselves provided to us through their choice of payment method. Proton also accepts cryptocurrency and cash payments, which would not have been linkable to an identity. If anything, this case demonstrates exactly what we've always said: Proton holds very little user data by design. Even under the most serious legal circumstances, the only data that could be produced was a payment record. Our encryption means we simply cannot access email content even if ordered to. We understand that stories like this can be alarming, and we take our users' trust seriously. We will continue to fight for privacy and challenge any legal order we believe does not meet the strict requirements of Swiss law. But we also want to be transparent: no service can operate outside the law entirely, and Swiss law require…

So Proton DID respond to @404media.co and @josephcox.bsky.social hit piece. And I would like to see 404 respond with a follow-up.

old.reddit.com/r/ProtonMail...

This is an executive at Blackboard, the learning management system provider.

Our kids are going to be so fucking stupid.

oh wow maybe we shouldn't have put all our money in a kiln and set it to 4500 degrees