ok #infosec #browser #android folks: i have a weird thing happening with #localization:

even though i have android set to EN_CA, it looks like sites are reaching for info of my keyboard to set ―what they think― is my actual language.

this is a multilingual keyboard that i use to write in 4 languages. the fuckers think am monolingually french. i thought this was only a Google/Youtube fuck up but now Trackt is doing it too.

WTAF?!?!?

how can i block this stupid #fingerprinting?

live your life so, when people talk about you, they do so like they talk about Dolly Parton

🔥🔥🔥

❝ The best time to have made #Canada digitally sovereign would have been before an American president announced his intention to annex Canada and began explicitly deploying America's tech companies to attack his geopolitical adversaries.

The second-best time is now.

By repealing Bill C-11 and legalizing reverse-engineering and modification of digital technology […] Canada will gain a devastating counter to Trump's tariffs. ❞
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/24/elbows-really-up/

#ElbowsUp #USpol #cdnpoli #tariffs

i can't be the only one who dismantles old microcomputers (mini laptops, handhelds) to find screws to fix her glasses, right?!?!?

we need more of this

am barely learning german cuz it’s hard for me to take it seriously. whenever i see a word starting with KUNT i just cannot but read it as CUNT and giggle. so KÜNSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ becomes CUNTLICK INTELLIGENCE; and i wonder how the world would be… 🤔

― WHO RADICALIZED YOU?

― #techbros

❝ Almost three-quarters […], 73%, expect #AI to mean fewer #jobs over the next two decades, up from 61% two years ago, and only 5% of Americans think it will create more.

The reversal is what makes this notable. This was the age group most taken with the technology, and it is now among the most sceptical, while overall concern has climbed from 37% in 2021 to 52%. ❞

Most Americans under 30 are now more worried than excited about AI https://thenextweb.com/news/pew-young-adults-ai-jobs-concern-europe-comparison

i know folks who work at a funeral home in #PuertoRico. they say, since this #Iran charade started, they’ve been getting about a dozen soldiers’ bodies a week ―fully autopsied and embalmed. supposedly it’s them who in the past processed the deceased.

they say it is not just unprecedented for the amount of dead soldiers. it’s the fact families are coming to them because their dead ones are not appearing in DoD or VA’s DIA rolls.

#DoD is hiding the real numbers of dead soldiers.

welp…

❝ JD Vance wants to end the US dollar's position as a global reserve currency, because he thinks it allows Americans to consume too much and do so too cheaply. ❞

there’s a video of the VPOTUS advocating for, ironically, destroying the currency reserve system that Republican POTUS Richard Nixon created with his “Nixon Shock”; and that #GOP #MAGA #Republicans been building up since the “Reagan Revolution”.

JD Vance admits he wants Americans to be poorer https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2026/08/16/jd-vance-admits/

USMIL veterans who were never radicalized against the USMIL are examples of survivor bias ―and they are in the minority.

if you have a veteran who never talks about their service, they most likely regret it, but are afraid to talk & lose their VA benefits

TALK TO THEM

my brother died of the mutiple cancers of “Operation Desert Storm” veterans. before he died, he spent years in Puerto Rico, as part of Veterans for Peace, talking kids OUT of joining.

USMIL isn't a pathway out of poverty.

you know what changed? the power of insurance companies. many states and localities didn't force people to have car insurance. that changed thanks to “the reagan revolution” which was heavily financed by… you betcha… the insurance industry.

the petromafia are not just the oil companies that bought up all the private railways to ripped them out and bus routes to shut them down. it’s the insurance companies and car makers making sure our lives revolve around their profit-making.

IN OTHER NEWS am watching a BBC docushow on english castles. TIL “Prince of Wales” is a colonial title. never occurred to me the “Prince Of Wales” isn't Welsh.

what’s interesting is that the whole premise of the show is about how the english copied and surpassed the norman building castles and using them as tools for COLONIALISM.

it’s so rare in USA to hear historians referring to europeans colonizing each other before moving on to other continents.

#brittv #tv #history #colonialism #uk