#hack betting websites

[technews-technology]

How to hack betting website

[tenrose]

I honestly can't get behind the "throw a perfectly edible food on a famous art piece appreciated" as an "ecological" revendication. In my book, people destroying (or trying to) pieces of art are never good people, no matter if they say it's for a good cause.

If you want to denounce the destructive nature of capitalism go throw some stones at a bank ffs 😤

[truetellsnigeria1]

Government Order Bet9ja, Nairabet, Others To Link Customers’ NIN

Government Order Bet9ja, Nairabet, Others To Link Customers’ NIN

Nigeria’s house of representatives has ordered the National Lottery Regulatory Commission to ensure that Bet9ja, Nairabet, BetKing and other gaming operators in Nigeria integrate the National Identity Numbers (NIN) of customers into their database. The resolution was sequel to a unanimous adoption of a motion by Ibrahim Isiaka (APC-Ogun) at plenary on Thursday.   Presenting the motion, Mr Isiaka…

[total-drama-brainrot]

would noah be a movie star planet kid a roblox kid or an animaljam kid asking for a friend btw okay thanks bye

He absolutely would've been an Animal Jam kid, if the timeline of his character wasn't based in the early 2000s. He'd be the type of player who scams people out of their rares and hacks into the website to give himself glitched magenta items. We also know from his interviews that he likes roleplaying, so I'd bet my left leg that he'd be the type to join those Clan/Pack roleplay groups- you know, the ones that had those weirdly professional looking pages on the AJ Clans Wiki?

So yeah, my definitive answer is Animal Jam Kid.

But, if anything, I think he'd be more into other MMOPRG-type browser games, like World of Warcraft or Adventure Quest Worlds or Runescape, or maybe even Wizard 101. Since Noah's canonically a "Kosmic Kaos" kid, which- from what little information we're given about it from his interviews- is apparently an online MMOPRG sort of deal. Also, as someone who experienced the thread-ends of the 2000s era "browser" game scene, I think Noah would've loved games like MapleStory or FeralHeart.

[trashyangelic]

𝑻𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒔𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒀𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒔 || ғᴇʟɪɴᴇᴛᴛᴇ (1)

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Marinette gotten up from her bed that she made a makeover of her bedroom its no longer pink but its pastel pink mixed with white colors instead of hot pink all over her room it doesn't look good when she first saw it. Instead of sleeping on the top where she normally sleeps in. 

She can finally sleep on the side of her room that she never touch at all after moving her computer and desk from it but she bought an extended cord for the plugins into her computer but she place them near the empty spot just at the corner instead it has the plugin there for her storage it before fixing her computer. The desk that is in front of her bed is for her study desk. 

She even place all her school stuffs on the shelf above her desk. She even have a storage for the kwamis to explore around. 

It took her three whole weeks to make over on her closet now that has enough room for her clothes that she makes of her own with some help from her mother to make it more roomie even her mother approved it. As for her fabrics are stored inside the drawers at her closet with the sewing machine included. But on the other side of her room is quite empty she might need to buy something to fill that in possibly a dream box that she saw on pinterest. 

That she had help with from her father to place it down so she can fix it herself. She make it look like from the picture she saw on pinterest when she was on her computer last couple weeks before remaking her room.

She replace her old computer into a new computer but she puts her pc drive on the desk. But she might need to build her own high-end gaming PC to fit most of her designs sketches and her games she normally play but she tends to play other ones besides UMS 3 they are Honkai Star Rail, Genshin Impact, Elsword Online, Roblox, and Minecraft. Along with her mic that is near her computer that she finally done with it. I might need to make a new password for my social accounts along with my website as well. She thought to herself so that way her so called classmates won't be hacking into her computer for it.. 

She also removed the posters of Adrien along with her classmates pictures then burn them outside last night. Then replaced it for music she adores and listens to they were Jagged Stone, Clara Nightingale, BLACKPINK, TWICE, Ariana Grande, Selena Gomez, BTS, Aespa, XG, Seventeen, Lee Felix, Taeyang, Jay Park, Vinida Weng, Mao Yanqi, and NCT. But leaves the bulletin board with the tracking of akumas to the main source. She didn't forget to add a sound proof in her room so that way her parents won't have to hear her music going on loud.

Felix went to pick up Dupain-Cheng since Chloe has been nagging him this morning since she got held back by her butler and her father about something. So he arrived to the bakery, "Oh welcome Felix. What can I do for you?" Sabine said at him she is betting on her husband if Felix confess his love to her daughter for 150 euros.

"Is Marinette awake? Chloe has been nagging me to pick her up since she couldn't do it. But I would like a coffee and a crossiant please." Felix stated as Sabine nodded and went to make the coffee but also grabbed a crossiant. 

"Marinette is upstairs you can go up there." Sabine told Felix who nodded. He got his breaksfast and walk up the stairs to Marinette's room. As soon he reach the door then open it he saw the room changed this must have take weeks to finish this. So he sat on the chair to eat his crossiant but also drink his coffee. 

Marinette is in her closet changing but also she changed her hairstyle instead of wearing lower pigtails everyday. She made her hair into a bun but leaves the rest of the hair down as she use the hairpin and bobbypin to make it stay still. 

The door creak open revealing Marinette Dupain-Cheng as Felix was speechless how Dupain-Cheng look good its way better than her old clothes she wears every single day. But he already knew that Dupain-Cheng is Ladybug it wasn't hard to figure it out despite of her hairstyle from before and her eye color is the same. "Oh hello Felix." Marinette said with a smile causing him to blush as she giggle at his expression.

"I came to pick you up since Chloe has been nagging me. Oh before I forget Chloe manage to change your class to Mrs. Mendeleiev instead so you are coming with me in my class with Kagami, Adrien, and Luka." Felix said firmly as she nodded. Instead of wearing that purse she bought a backpack online last week. 

"Say didn't Mrs. Mendeleiev say anything about field trips yet?" Marinette asked him. "She did but we need to do the fundraiser first to get the money you know." Felix stated as they both left the bakery to school follow by Chloe who scowl but ate her croissants with cream inside along with some coffee of her liking.

Arriving to Francois Dupont, Marinette is still chatting with Felix while Chloe follow behind still munching on her snacks that she got from the bakery. She is mostly welcome in the Dupain-Chengs household after apologizing to Marinete for bullying her for years. Then Kagami came by and kiss her girlfriend Chloe as Chloe gave her a coffee and her snacks as well. 

"MARINETTE! HOW DARE YOU PUNCH LILA?!" Alya screech causing her to cover her ears quickly as she remain calm but the demeanor changes from calm to icy cold quite a level to Kagami. As Alya raise her fist at Marinette but she caught it which surprised her then she twist her arm as she scream in pain. 

"Where's your proof huh? I just came to school with Kagami, Felix, and Chloe. Get that in your thick skull. You stupid wannabe reporter." She snarl coldly with so much malice and venom in it caused her to shiver down her spine and backed away. Just before she release her grip on Alya's hand she slapped her in the face hard causing her to stumble to the ground. As to there was a gasp behind Alya's back and a few from Marinette who had no idea she could that.

"You dare hit me?" Alya said while holding her cheek and stared in shock at Marinette who seem calm but glared at her with her death cold eyes. "What wouldn't I dare?" She said to her in a calm simple way with a hint of sickly sweet tone that turned out to be a malice tone. 

"By title as we are students. But by rank, I am the great-granddaughter Head Ambassador of China. Who gave you the audacity to strike a court-appointed official? Do you really want my great-grandfather to declare war with Paris right now." Marinette said calmly although Kagami and Felix didn't know this information except Chloe.

"Bullshit! What kind of court-appointed official are you?" Alya exclaimed as Rose gasped, Bad Move Alya. Rose thought to herself. Until Marinette slapped Alya again causing her to fall down the ground.

"Marinette, you're pushing it too far!" Adrien butted in as Lila went to aid Alya holding her up. "Alya. Based on your insults and attempted assault, you could be punished severely. If you don't believe me, feel free to report it to the police or your lawyer. I'll wait and see to it." Marinette said coldly to them then walk away back to her group as Kagami stared at her speechless.

"Oh and one more thing, Alya... Grow up. And stop acting like a child. Your in high school. You act like a kindergarten." She said coldly then walked away with Felix, Kagami, and Chloe to Mrs. Mendeleiev's class. That tone in Marinette's voice gave chills across the Akuma Class. Nino gulped of how scary Marinette can be if she is near a limit. Lila shudder when she saw Dupain-Cheng glaring at her.

 🌷⁺.  [ ♡ ]  —  Tagged: (to get notification for the next chapter) --

 🌷⁺.  [ ♡ ]  —  i took one of the quotes from a historical chinese drama if you haven't guess it already. its actually What's Wrong With My Princess (Episode 26).

[cassowariess]

People who don't understand Black Mirror: "I bet he's totally gonna use ChatGPT to write Black Mirror because he's a hack and Black Mirror is just Phone Bad."

People on this website: "I called it, he totally used ChatGPT to write an episode. This article in the British Press said it so it must be true! I am vindicated!"

Charlie Brooker: "Fuck AI."

[sabakos]

probably the right way to look for evidence of the Follower Glitch is to make a website that does tumblr API and then counts the followers both ways

i still think it's not jumping up magically my bet is still v much that bots when they get terminated dont properly decrease ur follower count as reported on that screen

Yeah, after comparing with a few other people I think the difference between the numbers is probably bots.

Based on the fact that it doesn't always seem to happen at the same number of followers, I'd bet that for users with fewer followers, Tumblr is using some arcane legacy David-Karp-authored spaghetti method written to count your number of followers rather than just measuring the size of the list. Possibly on the backend the only thing that's actually kept real-time is which blogs a given account follows, and so the number of followers you have needs to be computed from that? I could see that, it would make a lot of sense why follower count only seems to be "updated" once per day around midnight EST rather than being real time.

I'd also bet the reason for the jump is that there's a performance hack that somebody put in later for when that legacy method times out, that circumvents the spaghetti code and does a "proper" follower count from the database, and that method also happens to tally followers whose bot score is too high to display in your follower list, which the less efficient method doesn't do. Evidence supporting this theory is that your name disappeared from my follower list that time your account got shadowbanned flagged as a bot, and when my follower list jumped by a few hundred and I softblocked a few inactive people to bring it back down to the point where it was displaying the number using the old method, the count was exactly correct.

[incarnateirony]

...oh my god she even took me/his/our Rumpocky thing my ex has zero original thoughts.

My ex wife makes shitty website for pagan services

Pretends she was the hermes follower instead of her previous Shaman Schtick or occasional claims at Athena following.

Steals my hermes quotes, makes it her whole brand, something she never even heard from her magical friends

I. Can. Not. I literally have "rumpocky" on a 2007 LJ post and this bitch branded herself. bitch do you UNDERSTAND *WHY* it was rumpocky? Are you??? STEALING??? A MEDIUMSHIP STORY????????????????????????? ARE YOU THAT BORING?

HER ART?? HER CHARACTERS?? HER BRAND??? IS THERE ANYTHING SHE HASN'T KNOCKED OFF FROM ME?????????????????????? SIS YOU CAN'T REPLACE ME, YOU MADE YOUR BED, NOW LAY IN IT.

you dUMb CUnt

d u m b c u n t doesn't understand why even rumpocky those years ago and truly oh my god [facepalm] she really is just sitting there roleplaying every echo of my life, get therapy.

STOP STEALING MY SHIT YOU MORON

"the rumpocky pagan" oh my god the insufferability she literally can't even -- YOU REALIZE IT'S NOT A FASCINATION WITH RUMPOCKY ITSELF AS MUCH AS EXCLUSIVE SEASONALITY AND GETTING STUCK ON THE ONE MISSES THE POINT?

YOU REALIZE THAT WAS A SPECIFIC CONVERSATION HE HAD WITH A SPECIFIC PERSON, RIGHT. ABOUT A CERTAIN EVENT AND TIME HE HAPPENED TO BE DOING MINUTES BEFORE, AND NOT A LIFELONG DEDICATION, YOU HACK.

YOU WEREN'T EVEN THERE!! YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW ME OR HIM OR ANY OF US YET!!! **I'M THE ONE THAT TOLD YOU ANYTHING ABOUT IT AND YOU ASSIGNED IT ARBITRARY VALUE YOU ABSOLUTE FRAUD**

The Rumpocky Pagan. Jesus, just admit you have nothing. He's. Not. With. You. No. Matter. What. You. Play. Neither is She. They haven't been for a long time. And you know it. Charging people out the nose for you badly miming my shadow is truly lowbrow though.

Watch the bitch be arguing in her head "well he takes it and likes it" yeah and he also takes and eats fried crickets on sticks, what the fuck about it. But that'd require him being there, and not you pretending to hide the dreams you know you're having and what they mean to wave and perform for your friends. Or maybe even to self soothe. But it isn't working, is it?

Hey, sweets.

Driving in reverse.

In five years this bitch'll be rebranding to Thee Crustdaddy Pagan or maybe The Incarnate Irony Pagan, maybe with some more stolen logo/character design.

Take the cue on why your art muse walked out the door two years ago, you had nothing but mirror mandalas, art that diminished to fractions of its previous quality, generally had to give up on your stores for it, and could only draw when you were ripping off my shit. It's a muse. You chased yours out. Everything else since is theater.

Move onnnnnnnnn bitch. You wanted me out, so stop trying to bring parts of me in.

My ass out here having to innocently kick rocks when a [redacted] agent is asking how tf I got involved in Some Shit and this bitch can't even figure out her pagan brand name without stealing my shit jesus FUCK yea nbd just disposing of this [other redacted] grade object like a nuclear hazard at sea after [damages removed] [deathcount censored] and a few weeks fuck all chaos, but this bitch is like mmmmmmmm Aaron told me a story about hermes and rumpocky once, that qualifies me as a follower that can charge people money for services lololol

Go back to arguing with ghosts in Alabama.

Damn, wish I'd put something of the bitch's in the final yeeted form too, it worked pretty damn well to yeet jarpad and his fans out of cons.

like Hermes' gramma says, if you're going to throw a box into the sun, you're going to have to do it yourself.

You know she's saying follower of Hermes but I bet you, she couldn't tell you a single axiom of tehuti or a single classic greek tradition or hymn or any of the neoplatonic branches associated with him literally all she has is psychotically larping him off of what she knows from me for others while stealing my shit and hoping nobody notices. while. she. charges. them. she's never studied a goddamn thing about him, and I goddamn know this. I was her pipeline of information or books or references or resources or whatever the fuck and she never once fuckin. even read the kybalion. She doesn't even know the alchemical steps. None of it. God. Dis bitch about to google it all now to update her LARP. Has she brainwashed her pals so bad they had a collective stroke and forgot I was the alchemist, and she constantly ranted that she was a shaman and totally different from my shit?

"durhur crowzzzz" like congratulations you know how to spell his name on wiki search and probably watched a video about Tricksters. Ffs. Start at Liber XXX, bitch, it's Morality For The Average Man. Try it. Start there. You might actually learn something that means something.

You would think even if she pretends to outsiders she isn't dealing with what she is since then. That after she made public that she got tricked by the world's most basic bitch cryptoscammer scheme into losing all their savings, that maybe the god of commerce, communication/internet, trickery and thieves is like. The opposite of in your favor giving you secrets.

Weird how that worked out, isn't it, sweetie? But I mean if you can't even think up a brand name without ripping my shit about him, how can I expect you to hear some godly warning transmission that bitch, you're fucking dumb as a brick, don't give him your login, you absolute mudbrain.

Boy am I glad I caught the vibe from him these last few years and just stopped giving her anything about him even before the split. Like no, no I wasn't projecting, he went out the door and took the art, success, and protection in transactions and life with him and with me and she still can't cope with that, huh

You know, before we left Alabama, Hermes expressed he was concerned with her habit of wanting to hide behind other identities and not own her own. I didn't understand then what he meant. Now I get it. Jesus.

And yknow what bitch. He said it to you, even back then. Stop playing. Either move on or fess up. You will never replace that shit. Stop with the bad echoes.

[mostlysignssomeportents]

Podcasting "Regulatory Capture"

This week on my podcast, I read my Medium column, “Regulatory Capture: Beyond Revolving Doors and Against Regulatory Nihilism,” about the left/right split on theories of sound regulation:

https://doctorow.medium.com/regulatory-capture-59b2013e2526

The column opens by recounting a recent, extremely public, extremely egregious example of regulatory capture: the way that Trump’s FCC chair Ajit Pai — a former Verizon lawyer — killed Net Neutrality.

Net Neutrality is a very simple proposition: it’s the idea that your ISP should send you the bits you request when you click links as quickly and efficiently as it can. The opposite of neutrality is net discrimination, which is when your ISP demands bribes from the services you want to use, and punishes the companies that refuse to pay by slowing down their connections to you.

No one wants this, for fairly obvious reasons, which left Pai with a dilemma: as a matter of law, he couldn’t just kill off Net Neutrality; first, he had to seek public comment on the proposal, and the public didn’t want Net Neutrality dead. When John Oliver did an episode about this, 1.5m people commented in the docket, melting the FCC’s servers.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92vuuZt7wak

If Pai had listened to those commenters, he wouldn’t have been able to kill Net Neutrality. Instead, he falsely claimed that the FCC’s website had gone down because it had been hacked:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/06/fcc-admits-it-was-never-actually-hacked/

(He subsequently lied about lying about this, which is wild)

https://gizmodo.com/heres-the-internal-report-proving-the-fcc-made-up-a-cyb-1828166991

Then he reopened the server for more comments. This time, 22 million comments flooded in. But unlike the comments that came in the first time around, these ones supported Pai’s plan to kill Net Neutrality. That was weird, but weirder still was who had (purportedly) sent those comments. A million identical comments came from people with @pornhub.com addresses:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/01/analysis-shows-majority-of-anti-net-neutrality-comments-came-from-bots/

Millions more came from the addresses of people who’d been compromised in data breaches, including many dead people:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/evg3xw/dead-people-are-posting-anti-net-neutrality-comments-to-the-fcc-website

Two came from sitting US Senators — Senators who supported Net Neutrality and denied having sent the comments in:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/8xeqqz/two-senators-say-their-identities-were-stolen-during-net-neutrality-repeal

More came from nonsense email addresses:

https://www.zdnet.com/article/a-bot-is-flooding-the-fccs-website-with-fake-anti-net-neutrality-comments/

But Pai — incredibly — declared these obviously forged comments to be the legitimate will of the people:

https://www.vocativ.com/431065/fcc-ajit-pai-net-neutrality-bots/

And obstructed a law-enforcement investigation into the comments:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wjzjv9/net-neutrality-fraud-ny-attorney-general-investigation

(That investigation later determined that the fakes had been sent by a dirty-tricks firm in the pay of Big Cable and Big Telco companies):

https://pluralistic.net/2021/05/06/boogeration/#pais-lies

Pai and the FCC finished off Net Neutrality at a “public meeting” held under cover of Thanksgiving weekend, with the public’s attention elsewhere, which allowed them to tell a bunch of easily disproved lies:

https://www.techdirt.com/2017/11/21/fcc-plan-to-use-thanksgiving-to-hide-attack-net-neutrality-vastly-underestimates-looming-backlash/

Today, Pai’s an investment banker, using his access to the capital markets to buy up and consolidate small ISPs, which they call “closing the digital divide”:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/searchlight-capital-bets-on-universal-broadband-11632481201

That’s as neat a parable about regulatory capture as you could ask for. Pai, an industry executive, was confirmed as FCC chairmen by Republican Senators who had each received small (or large!) fortunes in campaign contributions from the carriers and cable companies Pai would go on to oversee.

Pai then cheated and lied to create regulation that his former employer and its cartelmates could use to extract billions from the American public, whom he had sworn to serve. Moreover, Pai ordered the FCC to drop its opposition to state laws (also lobbied into existence by the ISP cartel) that banned cities from offering competing network.

This is the formal definition of regulatory capture: that industries will suborn their regulators and thus gain access to the power of government, which they will use to suppress competitors and harm the public.

But while that is undoubtably what’s going on here, the ideological origins of the theory of regulatory capture are not in anti-corporate, leftist thinking. Regulatory capture was popularized by the “public choice theory” school of economics, a cynical, far-right branch of neoliberal Chicago School economics. It’s of a piece with the ideological project of cheering on monopolies as “efficient,” promoting unlimited campaign contributions as “free speech” and celebrating inequality as “fair.”

The public choice account of regulatory capture goes like this: a corporate-friendly regulation might hurt the public a lot more than it benefits a company, but because the company has concentrated gains, and the public has diffuse losses, the public won’t fight as hard as the company will. Thus, any regulator who has any power will be hijacked by the companies that it is supposed to regulate, and they will use that power to clobber their competitors and screw the public.

Public choice theorists insist that there’s nothing that can be done about this. If we give regulators more power, that will just make them into juicier prizes for corporate corruptors, who will spend even more to capture them.

In public choice theory, the only thing we can do to keep regulators from being captured is to eliminate regulators altogether — or at least, to the greatest degree possible.

When you hear people on the right talk about “regulatory capture,” that what they’re talking about — not making companies more accountable to regulators, but eliminating regulators so that they can’t be captured. “This game,” they say, “is rigged. One team is so powerful that the ref is working for them. The answer is to eliminate the ref. Then that powerful team will play fair.”

Put that way, it’s easy to see the problem with the right’s conception of regulatory capture: it excludes the possibility that we might safeguard regulators from capture by making companies weaker, and instead argues that companies should be as strong as they can be, and that we should voluntarily give up any hope of protecting ourselves from these all-powerful titans.

Think about the political economy of regulatory capture. For Ajit Pai to kill Net Neutrality, the telecoms sector first had to create a cartel. It had to buy up or destroy all the small competitors and then the survivors had to merge. By doing this, the ISPs were able to conspire to divide up the country so that they didn’t have to compete with one other. That let them extract “monopoly rents” — the massive margins that companies without competitors can extract from their customers and workers. Thus armed with surplus billions, the highly concentrated sector could leverage its small numbers to agree on how to spend those billions to corrupt the senators who confirmed Pai and the think-tanks and dirty tricksters who produced the evidentiary record that let him kill Net Neutrality.

If the ISP sector consisted of hundreds of squabbling companies all at each other’s throats, they’d be undercutting each other’s prices, depriving the sector of those corrupting excess billions. And if they were a squabbling mob — rather than a cartel of giants — they wouldn’t be able to agree on a single regulatory agenda.

When one company told a lie to the FCC, its bitter rival would be right behind it, waiting to debunk that lie. They wouldn’t just compete for your business — they’d compete to supply information to regulators.

Regulators can make good regulation. That’s why your dinner doesn’t give you food poisoning, why your kid learned to read at school, why your phone’s battery doesn’t blow your face off. But for regulation to be good, regulators and lawmakers have to fear and respect the public — not lobbyists.

Public choice theory — and its adjacent economic ideas, like “money is speech” and “monopoly is efficient” — has produced a system where any regulator can be captured. But that’s because public choice theory is part of a project to produce cartels and arm them with fortunes to use when they set out to capture their regulators.

Anti-monopoly law — and other anti-corruption policies, like public election campaign financing, and laws against public servants rotating into jobs in the sector they previously oversaw — can produce a governable private sector, one that can’t readily capture its regulators.

The FCC didn’t kill Net Neutrality because it was too strong. It did so because it was so very weak. The Commission didn’t have the resources to fact-check the big carriers’ lies. It had eliminated the data-gathering projects that tracked carrier performance. It was overseen by lawmakers who were in the carriers’ pockets.

For an agency to oversee an industry, it has to be more powerful than that industry. Obviously. A left theory of regulatory capture isn’t merely about strong agencies — it’s about weak corporations: fighting cartels and monopolies so that they can’t capture their regulators.

The public choice answer to all this is we’re just not deregulated enough. Once we completely dismantle the administrative state, then we’ll achieve nirvana. But that’s not what happens. When we let Boeing self-certify the 737 Max, Boeing wasn’t better — they built planes that fell out of the sky and killed hundreds of people.

We have to regulate, because that’s the alternative: planes falling out of the sky. Expensive, slow broadband. Food poisoning. Medicines that kill. We need regulators that are more afraid of the public than they are of corporations.

The 2014 study “Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens” found that “ordinary citizens… get the policies they favor, but only because those policies happen also to be preferred by the economically-elite citizens who wield the actual influence.”

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-politics/article/testing-theories-of-american-politics-elites-interest-groups-and-average-citizens/62327F513959D0A304D4893B382B992B

That is, the only reason you’re not dead from food poisoning is that some rich person hasn’t decided to kill you yet.

Regulatory capture is real, but the public choice movement’s promotion of regulatory capture theory has nothing to do with blunting corporate power. For everyday people to have a safe and prosperous life, we have to shrink down the corporate titans that public choice theory built, shrink them until they fit in a bathtub…

…and then drown them.

Here’s the podcast episode:

https://craphound.com/news/2022/06/12/regulatory-capture-beyond-revolving-doors-and-against-regulatory-nihilism/

And here’s a direct link to the MP3 (hosting courtesy of the Internet Archive; they’ll host your stuff for free, forever, too):

https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_428/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_428_-_Regulatory_Capture.mp3

And here’s a link to my podcast feed: https://feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podcast

[Image ID: A Soviet editorial cartoon featuring an ogrish capitalist in top hat and tails yanking a dollar-sign-shaped lever that ejects a tiny bureaucrat from a seat; ranks of bureaucrats behind him wait their turns, grinning idiot grins.]

[niennanir]

Mum: OMG, what happened?

Me: What?

Mum: You look like you did when your servers were off line for three days, did one of your websites get hacked?

Me: Nothing got hacked. It's fine, I'm fine.

Mum: you don't look fine.

Me: So... remember when I said I bet I could sell the lawn tractor for $100 even though it won't mow any more?

Mum: and I said you'd be lucky to get $50 for it.

Me: I'm overseeing a bidding war.

Mum: for a broken tractor?

Me: We're up to $230, guy across town says he'll be here in 20 minutes. If he's not here in 30 I'm going down to the next highest bid which was $225 but that guy's in Tampa.

Mum: What's that constant beeping?

Me: oh... that's the ping on my facebook messenger. I stopped answering their questions and I'm just copy/pasting the same reply to everyone who asks.

Mum:...

Me: I know... I had no idea *counts* 27 people would want a broken tractor.

Mum: So basically you're stressed because the economy is in the toilet and you're about to make $230 because of it.

Me: How can you make $230 sound bad?

[ghoul-haunted]

I want to talk about these OCs so bad but explaining the character relationships (which is about 80% of the fun) takes up so much space but fuck me I love these characters. I keep looking at the original overclocking scene I wrote Years Ago and making this :') face at them. but also this >:) face because the scene is funny to me---

A: Well, what are you two doing here after hours with a blowtorch?

D: I. uh. We're. (D turns to F) Man, I can't do this. I'm folding.

F: Are you kidding me right now.

D: I'm so bad at lying. You know this. I can't bluff in cards, you think I can lie to the guy who pays us?

F: I can't fucking believe you. Why did I hire you. Christ.

D: Because I blunt force hacked my way into your computer and shut down all the superficial services on your block on a dare when I was in college and you thought it was funny.

F: You shut down the banks one time. A federal government website. You were an absolute menace. I can't BELIEVE your fatal flaw is a debilitating inability to tell a lie.

---when I think about how D's hacking style comes up later in the story

J: There's no one else here but you and me, so let's cut the bullshit. If I take you out, everyone else falls, right? (He leans over, hand on D's face)

D: Fuck you.

J: Cute. (He presses his thumb underneath D's left eye) They said you got this one in an accident, but this is a matching luxury prosthetic, like your hand. They don't use these in emergency situations.

J: Check mate, baby. (It's quick, but the panel beats stutter: this HURTS, and for D it's an eternity. J pulls out the eye, and then crushes the outer shell of it, revealing a small usb drive)

J: Some people have a delicate hand about this, but you like things to swing heavy and hard. I bet this shuts everything down, no exceptions. (He turns on the laptop) You were a DDoS type of guy back in the day, right? Wonder how that's going to work out for your friends.

[strapskinkstories]

A long list of reasons to be in a bad mood today. Mostly censorbots & heatwaves, at least I got some work done on Minecraft

Facebook and Twitter have got to be the outright most corrupt companies in the world run by hackjob right wing trolls.

Mark Zuckerberg and Jack Dorsey are both republican ass kissers. Worse yet the hackjob Elon Musk who is trying to take over Twitter actively kissed Trumps ass to get preferential treatment from the government.

What does that mean? That means algorithms and censorbots that are biased against democrat personalities and are far more lenient with RWNJs celebrities and worse yet politicians. 

Politicians don’t need to be protected from WORDS ON A SCREEN. They need to be protected from real bullets and real threats, like the people who marched into the capitol on January 6 2020 with assault rifles in hand.

Instead, people like me get banned for calling white trash white trash. Lauren Boebert is exactly what I said she is, white trash. 

https://coloradonewsline.com/2022/06/02/lauren-boebert-american-menace/

This is the second time I’ve been banned by Twitter for calling her white trash, and it won’t be the last, because just like I did last time, and the time before, I waited some time made a new identity up and jumped right back on.

You can’t silence the truth forever. Lauren Boebert IS WHITE TRASH. Twitter, you and your censorbots might be able to temporarily shut me up, but you’ll never permanently shut me down because everyone banwalks in this day and age. I don’t know a single political Twitter user whos raged against the republican machine and hasn’t gotten banned for it. Most of “The Resistance” has had to use multiple accounts to get past their censorbots.

It doesn’t help that Facebook is run by incompetent five year old coders who make censorbots worse than nannies. 

Called out for violent conduct, over mentioning a The Simpsons movie line “Stab one more eye and it’s a federal offense” and then called out for violent conduct over a vaccine joke with a friend who laughed at both items. Facebook seems to have no sense of humor nor do they have humans reading anything. It’s all run by worthless algorithms. And apparently, algorithms that support Vladimir Putin too. Totally unironic because both Twitter and Facebook have been caught red handed in the 2016 election hack.

The internet has been overautomated to a point its literally killing people. I kid you not that people have been driven to the edge of and even worse to suicide because of the rampant censorship and abusive algorithms.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/meta-lawsuit-instagram-caused-eating-disorder-self-harm-rcna32221 this is just one recent case of many cases 

https://www.businessinsider.com/facebook-snap-lawsuit-teen-suicide-social-media-addiction-2022-4 this is another case, in which someone actually died. 

I refuse to let any of these apps have that kind of an impact upon me, but you can damn well bet I will continue to fight them. I will make new identities if need be. It doesn’t take much skill to create a new name, grab a burner phone from Walmart, set up a new email account and bam, you got yourself a brand new internet identity to use on every single website.

That said, while I refuse to go to the point of suicide. I can definitely say, this is a real downwards dragging force on me.

Full picture below for more context.

This was posted by a friend of mine who works in retail. My response, I was PISSED OFF to say the least.

I would never wear a form fitting piece of fetish clothing into a retail store showing my genital outlines with great and disgusting clarity.

I’ve shown up in harnesses and restraint cuffs, but these are bulky items that are added on top of non revealing clothing. Items that when I presented myself to a shopkeeper they just chuckled and wondered to my partner who had me on a lead “Is he, uh, mentally disabled if thats the polite way of saying it?” and I just laugh right back and say “Naw, its fun being in a harness and in restraints on a lead sometimes, relaxing actually.” That time a shopkeeper learned about my autism and my kinks all in a midnight trip to Walmart, and respected me for my decision to enjoy my restraints and harness in public.

But what these men did? They posed as IRS agents and demanded the credit card number of my friend.  As shown below.

That comment right there, set me off BIG TIME. So I left a response, and it apparently pissed off Facebook. So badly that they decided to lock my account out for another 60 days and a 3 day total lockout. 

I frankly find the above comment a joke to warrant a total account lockout let alone any action whatsoever as the violence implied is theoretical. Nevermind the fact it’s impossible in that particular store as those stores nationwide don’t have gun counters (Unlike Walmart in the south, which does) 

Instead, Facebook would rather stand behind IRS impersonators rather than let someone vent their frustration with CRIMINALS infiltrating a retail store with their faces obscured and harassing an employee to the point they had to air their grievance publicly online. NO RETAIL WORKER SHOULD EVER BE PUSHED TO THIS POINT! I am disgusted at these men, I am disgusted that they posed for a picture in such a way that makes them look hipster / gangsta. I am disgusted on so many levels... Particularly the fact that they had the nerve to reveal their genitals in body conforming face obscuring clothing and then defraud the IRS.

People like this dumb bitch get thousands of likes and retweets on FAKE NEWS. I mean legit, FAKE NEWS. The stock market doesn’t care what political party is in office. It either goes up or down based on CORPORATE ACTIVITY and INVESTOR SENTIMENT. It has nothing to do with politics that the stock exchange started crashing mid last year, it has everything to do with wage stagnation, uncontrolled inflation being controlled by bad mechanisms read:interest rate hikes and bad politicians being in the mix causing investor sentiment to go in the toilet. Investors are risk shy. When election season comes around, investors switch to a risk off method. They dump money into low risk assets. Even worse so investors often are not ESG investors, especially on the private side. Even in the major ESG players side, a lot of them have side pools of money that they funnel into dirty stocks like Exxon. Exxon just pushed a record quarter, hit an all time high, and then bounced off the ceiling as investors saw the warning bells flashing as the alarms deepened and the market began to enter bearish territories. Now in a full on bear market cryptos are worth about 30% of what they were in Q1 of 2021 

The stock market and crypto markets surged as trump left the white house and rode on a Biden high for almost a year and a half before coming crashing down as Trumps economic failures became more apparent. It’s like small tiny cracks in the hull of a ship, slowly letting water in until BLAM, CRASH, BOOM, the hull breaks wide open and water comes gushing into the boat sinking it. So having absolute white garbage fools like this bitch running their mouths doesn’t help REAL INVESTORS who know a damn thing. High as shit interest rates help nobody, they don’t help people refinancing (Ever refinanced at 10%? Of course not, only an idiot would have a mortgage with that high of a rate) they don’t help people move into new houses, they create a perfect storm environment for homelessness and violence to thrive.

Extreme heatwaves, do not help people psychologically. They destabilize people. They are perfect catalysts for more violence, people can easier find guns hidden in the alleys and then go shoot people up with them. It’s not good when people cry out “climate change is a myth, climate change is fake news, the earth is flat.” in the year 2022 when in 1930 the Senate received a warning that global warming could eventually tumble out of control. In 1970 that warning turned into a full on fire alarm. https://history.aip.org/climate/timeline.htm

Alas not all is bad news... sort of... 

It’s been way too hot to do anything kinky with gear so I’ve been heavily working on my Advocate Lutheran General Hospital Virtual Hospital build in Minecraft with my friend Amanda. https://www.flickr.com/photos/alinslive/albums/72177720299761942 the photos are here. And what’s that blue bar up there? YUP It’s a goddamn censorbot claiming that my damn tweet ABOUT A HOSPITAL FUNDRAISER is ‘sensitive content’

So I complained, I decided I’d whip out one of my favorite TV scenes. Family Guy “HTTPete” scene “Electric Urinal” 

And what happens when I decide to whip out electric urinal? another damn censorbot hit! 

This is legit what I sent into Twitter after the final censor hit. I’m fucking sick of these damn nannybots coded by five year olds who cant seem to wrap their head around humor or theoretics.

With that I rest my fucking case. At least I know here on Tumblr I can run my mouth without worrying about censorbots hitting my blog. Because Tumblr doesn’t use censorbots on text, they only censor images if they think they are excessive nudity. And even that still isn’t a total censor, it simply puts the images behind a sensitive content interstitial clickthrough.

Of all the platforms Tumblr has the freest speech of all my experiences. Hate to say it but if I need to push a political rant you’ll likely see it here on my blog. It won’t be often though because you can damn well bet I’ll be back to harassing Lauren BOOBert. She harasses and damages people and personally attacks them. I have a right to shoot back if she’s going to shoot at me.

I’m going to bed. I better not wake up to my Tumblr having a warning on it or anything and I doubt it will as what I am doing here is DOCUMENTARY in scope and is intended to warn people that if you’re gonna talk about politics or anything online especially on Facebook or Twitter, you may as well act like you’re sat at the altar of a Catholic church and best act like a good little cherub or you’ll get censored because these two platforms especially are censorship havens.

Google is also a censorship haven but y’all have already heard my rant on those goons.

Goodnight, and fuck you Twitter and Facebook.

To all of my friends who actually read to the end of this post, seriously, if you’re reading this far down this gigantic deposition so to speak, thanks. Thanks for sticking with my giant rant and actually reading it. It means something if you mash the like button here. It means something to me when I see people respond and like these posts. I know someone is listening and I know someone cares. Because these corporate censorship happy fuckfaces sure don’t

[hate-letmetellyou]

have-some-cake: You’re a lunatic if you think I was actually flirting with you.

AMTHEGREAT&PWRFL: Well you see, when you need a filing cabinet for the many marriage proposals you have to turn down, it’s just habit to assume.

--dashingrogue has joined the chat.--

dashingrogue: Aha! I have hacked into your network and am here to foil whatever nefarious plot it is that the two of you are cooking up!

have-some-cake: You hacked it by...creating an account and joining the chat?

dashingrogue: Well, I used the laboratory computer instead of a laptop or phone, and I mean what is hacking really if not just an alternate means of entry? You know, I don’t think any philosophers have spoken at length on the subject of hacking, but if they were to, I think they would boil the concept down to just “accessing a website or chatroom or network as the case may be, through some way other than the norm”. I bet that if humans had gotten on the ball sooner and invented

dashingrogue: computer networks all the way back in ancient Greece, ole Socrates would have defined hacking just as I have...only however you say it in ancient Greek.

AMTHEGREAT&PWRFL: Why did you tell Quinoaley about this chatroom? He’s going to crash the server.

dashingrogue: Point is, all your dastardly little secrets are about to be aired out in the open! No matter what you’re planning, whether it be to set the sanctuary on fire, flood it with neurotoxin, or clog up the loo, I’ve got my optic on you! Not literally because I can’t stretch it that far, but I’ll be watching. Colossus even said I could be his security assistant! Well he didn’t so much say I could as he just asked me to repeat that over the blaring Hatsune Miku music in the next room, but I’m going to ask again this aftern

[ask-the-reaper-conspiracy]

@OP if social media existed during the days of our favorite conspirators, what platforms can you see them using?

oh lord,

like all politicians, I can see Stronghart having a twitter account at the very least, though I also think he'd be smart enough not to clown on it like most people do. am i using that term right I don't know if he'd be on anything else. Facebook? But not a regular user. One of those kinds of people who don't really like to create or socialize, but will keep up with the news and use their platform for important announcements and PR if necessary.

by that token, Jigoku also has a twitter! he tweets a lot of funny things on it and comments on pop culture! and then sometimes he will make a wildly inflammatory tweet which leads to endless arguing which no one ever holds against him because Ace Attorney-verse twitter has a five second memory if not real world twitter.

Sithe I see as someone who hates social media on principle... but Maria has a sewing/mortician/goth(?) youtube channel so she lurks around on youtube sometimes and likes all of her daughter's posts/videos.

Gregson is just...... grumpy old Facebook User man who trawls classic literature subreddits he stumbled on by accident.

Jezaille.... idk, she's young maybe she uses TikTok. I bet she uses TikTok. And Instagram. maybe she makes deliberately unsafe life hacks for clout

Wilson... Idk I don't think he'd use social media much. I'm sure there's some medical forums out there for professionals to talk on but he's not very good at tech. He has to have Membami show him how to work the edu portal on Yumei's website for class :C he misses the days of the common syllabus.

Klint would be on basically every social media site commonly in use because he has to maintain a public image and thinks socializing online is part of that. But he probably unwinds on youtube or tumblr idk. I do know that he doom-scrolls like crazy whatever site he's on.

[tacitusauxilium]

For the last few months while being undercover for the Shadow Operatives, Fuuka never bothered to mention to Akihiko and Junpei (both who were free and there for back up since they were only a half an hour away from her) how lonely she felt. Granted, she had kept a steady eye on the Phantom Thieves and of course Masayoshi Shido. All because she can go under the guise of a college student.

...and part of her wondered if she should have suggest Ken for this. Of course, he almost sacrificed himself for Shinjiro and could never ask him to do something that could be traumatic to him again, it’s the least she could do for them. Even if Shinjiro and her were dating and everyone was betting on when and who and how their proposal would go, the calls he sent her were always ignored. Because she focused on the mission at hand--she’d send small texts to him, pictures of food he should try, the usual--and wanted to prove to herself she could do this. She was a big girl and she didn’t want to be a damsel in distress.

Her first month here and she attempted to talk to Makoto Niijima, but she was a brick wall like Mitsuru--never wanting to talk. The second month led to her talking to Ryuji Sakamoto--of course, he reminded her of Junpei so much that she spilled how much she loved manga. The next few months were quiet--leading her to talk to Futaba Sakura. Of course, they clicked faster than a blink of an eye over Shido, their Personas, and technology. She felt at home with her. But, there was one person she constantly kept her eye on--Goro Akechi. That boy reminded her of Tohru Adachi, someone who kept to themselves while playing everyone like a fiddle. And yet...the public eye...parents feeding onto her and wanting her to be something she wasn’t--it made her sick and think of her parents.

Fuuka knew her parents were toxic. She was barely lucky to move out of their house into the dorms with SEES--it brought her out of her shell and made her grow as a person. She only went back for vacation, so a couple days, but her parents constantly nagged on her and their disappointment that she wasn’t going to become a doctor. The yelling and screaming brought her back to whenever she went to the hospital and stayed for a night or two. Always screaming about money or how often she was sick--Fuuka could never hack into the hospitals to find out what was really wrong with her. It could get her into more trouble than she wanted to.

Which led her to land on the Phantom Aficionado Website, but noticed that the percent had gone from 40 percent to almost 1 percent--of course, the whole situation with Okumura brought back memories of Mitsuru’s father dying. It was like the past was haunting them, especially her. She scrolled, reading the nasty comments, but scrolled back up to see something that questioned her and made her sit up in her bed.

I have a little sister who is being abused by our parents. I was kicked out, disowned, and sold to help pay for her to have a better life. I know they haven’t changed but I need to help her. Please help me help her--she doesn’t even know I exist and I can’t have my parents run her ragged to the ground.

signed, big bro yamagishi

Her hand went to her mouth, wondering what were the odds of someone else having the same surname as YAMAGISHI. Fuuka feared her parents might be holding onto more baggage than she thought--on top of pushing her to be something she didn’t want to be, now... ...does she have an older brother that she knows nothing about? So, she didn’t move in her bed, wanting to really talk to Akihiko and Junpei, seeing if Mitsuru knew something about this--and she would NEVER confront Shinjiro about this. He had his own issues.

For now, she had to go talk to one person that she could trust. Someone who might be able to hack the system and see if she can see who this older brother of hers COULD be. Futaba Sakura ...would have to wait until the morning, unfortunately. 

[jcmarchi]

Things That Keep the Grumpy Designer Awake at Night

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Things That Keep the Grumpy Designer Awake at Night

I’ve learned many lessons in my years as a grumpy designer. One is to try and separate work from the rest of your life. It’s a healthy practice – one that leads to (slightly) less stress.

But, try as I might, certain things stick with me. Things that stay at the front of my mind all day and night. This vicious cycle results in less sleep and more grump. Yes, that’s wonderful for inspiring columns. Not so good for the soul, though.

I’m willing to bet that others are facing the same issue. The growing complexity of web design is making it harder to relax.

Feeling better starts with sharing. So, allow me to dig into the depths of my psyche. The following is a look at web-related issues that keep me up at night. Make a cup of coffee and join me on this nerve-wracking journey.

The Never-Ending Quest for Web Security

Security has long been a thorn in our sides. We can build websites in any number of ways. However, they all seem to be a target for malicious actors.

I work primarily with WordPress. I love the flexibility it offers. But securing these sites is a constant battle.

Hackers have numerous points of attack. They might take advantage of a plugin vulnerability. Or they might crack a weak password. They’re even stealing session cookies these days.

WordPress isn’t alone in the struggle for security. But working with it each day seems to magnify the issue. It has become a constant presence in my mind.

Sometimes, the situation feels hopeless. You plug one security hole – only to see another one pop up. Cleaning up a hacked site is tedious at best. Plus, the thought of data theft is enough to make anyone nervous.

Perhaps the answer lies in not going it alone. Web security is a vast subject. Threats continue to evolve. Thus, working with expert tools (and humans) is worth the price.

Even so, security issues make it harder to fall asleep.

The Always-on Work Culture of a Web Designer

Remember my goal of separating work and life? I’m terrible at it. Sure, I do well enough during slow times. But I drown when things get busy.

The web industry has a 24/7 work culture that’s hard to escape. A website won’t wait until business hours to break. Most clients won’t consider the clock when making a request, either.

It used to be easier to get away. Before smartphones, you could leave your desk and inbox behind.

I can recall vacationing in places that had no internet access. I could go an entire week without email. How quaint!

Good luck avoiding your inbox these days. You’ll need self-discipline and clients who can temporarily live without you.

Yes, I try to turn my brain off. I’ll even abstain from replying to an email – for a while. Eventually, my brain gets the best of me. Things stay on my mind until I address them. So, why not respond?

That makes sense on the surface. It doesn’t lead to much peace after hours, though.

The Things Out of My Control

Web designers can only control so much. Security is one example – but there are others. Modern websites tend to rely on third-party providers.

That covers everything from web hosting to SaaS (software as a service) to plugins. We may get to choose which tools to use. But we must also trust them to deliver.

What happens when something goes wrong? We might be able to contact a support person. However, some providers take days to respond. Plus, some companies are using chatbots as their first point of contact. Navigating these tools is no picnic.

The result leaves us stuck in the middle. Our clients want to know what’s going on. Meanwhile, we can only rely on what the provider tells us. A lack of communication can be frustrating and worrisome.

It’s about more than downtime, though. Sometimes, a product makes a significant change that impacts your website. Things may not work the way we (or our clients) expect. That leaves us scrambling to figure it out.

Gmail’s recent bulk-sender policy changes are an example. The change’s impact went beyond my expectations. That led to a lot of rushing around to fix email deliverability issues.

Sure, we can try to prepare for the inevitable. But sometimes, all we can do is react.

The Expectations of Clients and Myself

Expectations can keep any web designer up at night. Clients are asking more from us. They want high-end features in exchange for bargain-bin pricing.

That leads us on a wild goose chase. The quest to be faster, cheaper, and better. How do we squeeze in more projects in the same timeframe?

The expectations we have for ourselves are also a burden. I pride myself on getting things done. I want to create the layouts, pick the colors, and write the code. It’s the way I’ve done things for over two decades.

That’s becoming harder, though. The right tools can help. But there’s still a massive responsibility to do the job right.

Part of this may be cultural. Growth is expected and encouraged. After all, who wants to stay the same?

We don’t prioritize comfort nearly enough. Doing so may be perceived as accepting the status quo. Nobody wants to look like they’re stagnating.

All told, this adds to the pressure we feel. We must move onward and upward, regardless of the consequences.

Making Sense and Making Peace

So, what lessons have I learned? That was the point of writing this down, right?

I think web designers need to create boundaries – and stick to them. Otherwise, it’s too easy to get pulled into that vicious cycle. It’s hard – but better than the alternative.

Self-forgiveness is also a factor. It’s OK if you don’t know how to do something. There’s no shame in needing extra time to complete a project.

Sometimes, we’re harder on ourselves than any client could be. So, permit yourself to be imperfect. Give yourself some grace. None of us go through life without experiencing adversity.

Finally, don’t let your job become your only source of identity. It took me a while to understand that advice. But we all need time away from the online world.

Will the things above still keep me awake? I’m betting that they will. Perhaps it’s better to accept it instead of fighting it. Tomorrow can always be better.

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