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Neongreen
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Interested in cybersecurity, online privacy, tech politics, OSINT, and global affairs.
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It goes without saying that requiring ID verification to use a social media site has much more to do with eliminating anonymity and user tracking by authoritarian governments than "protecting" anyone from adult materials.
Starting July 25, Bluesky will require users in the UK to scan their face, upload an ID or verify their identity with a bankcard.

I realize that platforms feel they have no choice but to comply with the government surveillance schemes, but shocking nonetheless.
Bluesky is rolling out age verification in the UK
Bluesky users in the UK can verify their age using their face, ID, or payment card.
www.theverge.com
July 10, 2025 at 10:27 PM
this ties into the Network State plan advanced by prominent technofascists as of late.
March 10, 2025 at 5:25 PM
It is increasingly obvious that the Californian Ideology, once concerned with freedom, communication, and the digital frontier, has evolved into a darker form over the last decade or two, and has merged with rightwing authoritarian neofascism into a new entity that threatens all existence on Earth.
March 9, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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URGENT WARNING: #Trump is Planning to Invade Canada & Greenland
Malcolm Nance reports:
~ @malcolmnance.bsky.social
- discussed between two other sources -
open.substack.com/pub/malcolmn...
URGENT WARNING: Trump is Planning to Invade Canada & Greenland
The Regime’s Big Talk Indicates that the Decision Has Been Made; They Just Don’t Know How or When.
open.substack.com
March 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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This theory on the other hand...
February 6, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Elon Musk's grandfather was a key organizer of the Technocracy Movement in the 1930s. Reading their proposal for the "North American Technate" is interesting in light of the current proposed US annexation of Canada and Greenland.

technocracy.fandom.com/wiki/Technate
Technate
The term Technate was originated by Technocracy Incorporated in the early 1930s to describe the region over which a technocratic society would operate using thermodynamic energy accounting instead of ...
technocracy.fandom.com
March 9, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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This kind of effort blows right past any tenable argument for "pressuring Ukraine to peace" and right towards outright trying to facilitate an outright Russian victory.

How is Ukraine supposed to have any faith in the good offices of US diplomacy against this backdrop?
March 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM