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RIP lather

It sounds worse than it is. Even good habits aren’t born overnight.

Only a couple of these. Major. Life. Events. would destroy a lot of people. Pet your dog for me and give yourself some kind of hug. You’re amazing.

Just learned people call him by his nickname, Gym, for all the sexual abuse of students, in gyms, that Gym is helping to keep under wraps.

I feel like there might be more to it than the line of thinking.

But seriously, can I finally give up sorting my recycling?

I used to have a president who described their hands like this.

Niiice. The entire Fediverse – especially my home instance – has been hitting that defederate button waaay too often lately.

Does this also mean you end up with copies of abusive media on your server?

Does that mean you’re not impacted by any defederations and can subscribe to whatever you want?

referring to exactly those crimes

Thank you for your service.

Next time someone complains about cancel culture, let’s all remember to enlighten them about Gym fucking Jordan, whose ethical bankruptcy has gone unpunished and almost seems forgotten.

That’s a typo of the cleverest variety considering the millions of human-hours of misery and self harm that occurred after

• hundreds of athletes were sexually abused at the school where he was a wrestling coach and
• Jordan became aware of the abuse, and even worse than saying nothing, he also begged victims and their families to deny it as well

OH. MY. GOD. YES. PLEASE.

In the olden days, Yahoo shuttered some of the largest digital properties on the internet with too little notice for them to be meaningfully archived (especially Yahoo Groups (easily the Reddit and Fediverse of its day) and Geocities (at a time before social media, a place to make a corner of the internet one’s own, it had mountains of longform geekery that’s now lost forever)).

Yahoo also used to be one of most widely used free email providers. Not as ubiquitous as Gmail, but definitely very popular. During that time, they had at least two – and almost certainly more than four – instances where bad actors gained access to user accounts and Yahoo failed to immediately notify impacted users.

This one time, they admitted that all their user email addresses, which then numbered in the billions, had been compromised by a years-old hack whose disclosure they seem to have withheld. The same thing happened a few months later, but affected only some email addresses. For the latter event, they were proven to have withheld discovery of the breach.

There was this one journalist whose email details they gave to the Chinese government to enable his arrest. Then they lied about it to Congress.

And while the NSA likely listens to every piece of data available to them, which trivially and almost effortlessly includes emails, and while Yahoo is one of the tech companies whose NSA PRISM membership is documented, Yahoo additionally performed scans for crime-adjacent keywords on all its users’ incoming and outgoing emails for years.