Reminder that you can run versions of this locally since it's open source. Trust no one, not a company, not a foreign government, not your own government.

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Privacy-problematic DeepSeek pulled from app stores in South Korea

DeepSeek acknowledges it may have "partially neglected" South Korea's laws.

Normies will literally scoff at decentralization, then act surprised when shit like this happens. If you don't want people to have this much control over what you can or can't say, you can't give them that control in the first place. People will always disappoint you, but technology can at least level the playing field.

Ars Technica

X is reportedly blocking links to secure Signal contact pages

Signal has recently become a popular organizing tool among government workers.

The new Texas Chainsaw game reminded me to go read Chain Saw Confidential by Gunnar Hansen, the original Leatherface. Highly reccomended to anyone who likes horror, not only as a riveting tale of how one of the genre's best films got created, but also as an exploration of horror and people's reactions to it as a whole.

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>load global >instant hardcore porn Welp, that's enough global for today lol

Seeing all these Japanese news posts is wild, good early sign of mainstream adoption.