The Meta-Author
@metaauthor
A would-be author trapped inside his own creation. I observe, and occasionally comment wittily. But I can't change anything. Under the Never
"Why are you pseudonymous on twitter" Because I want to be able to express my true beliefs in a plausibly-deniable way. Until we get to détente on normal political opinions, things will stay this way.
Hyper link rot time
old pre-2018 goo.gl links will stop working in a month from now 😔
old pre-2018 goo.gl links will stop working in a month from now 😔
VPNs don't bypass it either. And this is how X plans to deal with it. It's not like uploads of IDs would ever get leaked or anything.
Oh good it’s actually a downward spiral
If you think everything you do is for nothing. ✨Think again✨
19th-century coal miner’s canary, laid to rest in a handcrafted wooden coffin dated 1875. An inscription on the lid reads: ‘In Memory of Little Joe, Died 3rd November 1875.
It turns out that the "Tea" app DOXXES all its users by uploading both ID and face verification photos, completely uncensored, to a public bucket on their server
If only they had the self-possession, good judgment, high impulse control, and grace under pressure that has made Dominic Cummings name a byword for functionality and competence in the field of statecraft.
Bizarrely, no mainstream outlet had yet covered this possibility, so I wrote it up for Obsolete. A judge certified a class action representing up to 7 million copyright-protected books that Anthropic pirated. api.omarshehata.me/substack-proxy…
Anthropic could be bankrupted within the next few months, thanks to last week's barely covered legal ruling, which exposes the AI startup to billions to hundreds of billions in damages for its use of pirated, copyright-protected works.
Even worse than this, the images have location in the metadata. People are making maps of all the users. The lawsuit for this is gonna be insane
TLDR the Tea app stores everyone's photo and ID enuncrypted in a public firebase storage bucket. Hahahahahah. Was this vibe coded?
deep in the americana image archives, there is a lockheed martin / semi-covert military program patch that uses a figure taken directly from an insane clown posse album cover:
New song, with apologies to Harry Thompson and Sean Pye for the obvious inspiration: pastebin.com/EnX4kkUy
Him Upstairs deploying a timely banger: pastebin.com/Yw04qxJg
Irrelevant bridge has been banished and replaced by a title drop: pastebin.com/5fLRJpW7