List of Companies who have suspended Twitter Ad’s:

General Mills
CVS
United Airlines
GM
Audi
Mazda
Porsche
Volkswagen
American Express
Coca-Cola
Johnson & Johnson
Levi Strauss
Spotify
Ford
Dyson
Forbes
DIRECTV
Nintendo
Unilever
PBS

— PoliticsVerse 🇺🇸 (@PoliticsVerse) November 5, 2022

Nintendo

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1637420728743088130?s=20

A statement request from Fox News Digital was responded to with the emoji and no other text.

Good conversation. Among other things, we resolved the misunderstanding about Twitter potentially being removed from the App Store. Tim was clear that Apple never considered doing so.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 30, 2022

I've been following this for a while now, and from my sample whom were ALL previously banned, over half of them have come back to life thanks to rocket daddy taking over.

So I created a graph to see if I could spot a pattern in the unbans. Looks like it's a bit sporadic. Just more and more people being unbanned over time. I'm somewhat convinced that these 82 'pet' accounts I've been watching represent the greater Twitter community, and because 43 have been unbanned, that shows that Elon has kept to his word and really has unbanned over half so far.

As previously said, I also included many 'random' and controversial much smaller accounts, and these two are seeing a decent unban rate too, just like the big accounts with lots of followers.

Btw, Nick Fuentes was unbanned yesterday, but was rebanned today. Ooops.

The first human received an implant from @Neuralink yesterday and is recovering well.

Initial results show promising neuron spike detection.

— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 29, 2024

Love you !codecels, so I'm gonna show you how to get GPT-4 access for free. A few major caveats:

• Scale will definitely shut this down at some point, so use it while it's available.

• This might not actually be GPT-4. There's not really a way of knowing. I'm about 98% sure it is, but they may swap it out for 3.5 Turbo during outages (?)

• You need some form of API interpreter for the JSON it spits out. Here, I'm using TavernAI, which is designed to be a Character.AI-like "chat" interface, with the ability to import and design "personalities" of characters. Great for coomers. Here's some pre-made characters, if you're interested (Some NSFW). Just download the image and import it.

• Every message you send will pass through OpenAI's API, Scale, and If you don't change the API key, it will also pass through the 4chan guy who hosts the github's Spellbook deployment. There is exactly ZERO expectation of privacy. Don't be retarded and type illegal shit or personal info.

• As of right now, the OpenAI API is having an outage. These are pretty frequent. (This is why I'm writing this thread rn instead of fucking around with GPT-4)

Now, how to actually set this up, using TavernAI, for lazy retards:

• Have Node.js and git installed and know how to use them. This is /h/slackernews, I won't explain this part.

• Make a temporary email. Just google 'temp email'. Turn on a VPN for the entire session as well, if you're really paranoid.

• Head over to https://spellbook.scale.com/ and make an account with the temp email.

• Create an "App", name and desc. don't matter.

• Make a variant, and select GPT-4 in the dropdown.

• If you're wanting to use the API with Tavern to emulate a chatbot, you should add the following to the 'User' section:

Complete the next response in this fictional roleplay chat.

{{ input }}

• Set the 'Tempurature' to somewhere between 0.6 and 0.9. 0.75 works fine for me.

• Set the maximum tokens to 512 for chatbot length responses. (You can increase this but it requires tweaking the TavernAI frontend.)

• Save the variant. Go to the variant and hit "Deploy". You'll see a "URL" and an "API Key". Copy these down or come back here in a minute.

• Open a terminal in a new folder, and run git clone https://github.com/nai-degen/TavernAIScale

• Now run cd .\TavernAIScale\ then .\Start.bat (or .\start.sh for lincux)

• TavernAI should launch automatically, but if it doesnt, go to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ in your browser.

• In Tavern, go to 'Settings' on the right. Switch API to 'Scale'. Copy the API Key from the Spellbook page that you saw earlier into the API Key field. Same thing with the URL. Press 'Connect' to verify it's working. If it fails, either the API is down or you pasted the wrong Key / URL. Make sure you're using the URL from the URL field here:

• Now, use one of the default anime characters , download a coomer character from here, or make your own.

• The API has many other uses, obviously, but the chatbot is the simplest way to get this up and running. Try fucking around with the "Main Prompt" and "NSFW Prompt" in the settings for some interesting results, or to tweak your desired output. Try pressing "advanced edit" on a character (or making your own) and messing around with personas and scenarios. It's pretty damn cool.

That's it. Have fun until this shit dies in like 3-4 days. Please try not to advertise this or make it known outside of rdrama and /g/. We don't want Scale to shut this down earlier than they already will.

There's a pervasive belief that homeless people in various comfortable climes are migrants from harsher locales, but when you do the research you apparently tend to find that they're overwhelmingly people who had stable living situations in those comfortable locations, and became homeless there: they aren't "imported". So the "warmest place in Canada" thing is unlikely to be meaningful, unless there's some reason a comfortable climate makes housing less stable.

but when you do the research

Can you point me to any of that research?

Are reddit comments valid sources for research?

https://archive.is/CrjrE

If you're not using WebUI (not seedboxmaxxing) - this doesn't concern you tho.

Someone on alt reports a serious security vulnerability concerning qbittorrent WebUI instances, does so publicly outright in github issues without consulting anyone first, prompts hectic scramble for the creation of a security file and the race to figure out and fix the vulnerability (this took them 2 days)

: This is an important find, but you really should have disclosed this privately to the developer before going public with it (their contact info is in the README), especially considering this works without any authentication. Posting it here has it in the clear for attackers to potentially exploit before the necessary fixes are available.

: Security through obscurity is no security at all

: thats not what he's saying, what he's saying is to disclose it responsibly. common practice is to report vulnerabilities like this privately so they can't be used by a malicious actor, then if nothing happens after a few months then disclose it publically. this is not the way to do

: That doesn't respect my freedom™ to use a better client.

Tankie: A hardline Stalinist. A tankie is a member of a communist group or a "fellow traveller" (sympathiser) who believes fully in the political system of the Soviet Union and defends/defended the actions of the Soviet Union and other accredited states (China, Serbia, etc.) to the hilt, even in cases where other communists criticise their policies or actions. For instance, such a person favours overseas interventions by Soviet-style states, defends these regimes when they engage in human rights violations, and wishes to establish a similar system in other countries such as Britain and America.

(Basically the Far-Left's version of Neo-Nazis)

IT starts with a post 12 days ago on a Mastodon site.

Not a big deal. Standard "the privacy on this site is better than other site shit"

Let me read the comm....

Heads up: The tankie behind lemmy.ml got banned from r/socialism for posting fascist LaRouchite propaganda

🔒Brigaded/r/socialism mods are banning Communists: My Story. This is really long so I didn't read it.

Frick the white supremacist Reddit admins, want me to set up a self hosted one for /r/communism?

The lemmy.ml admin is banning anyone that mentions Stalin or Xi or Putin's homophobia

ankies for those who do not know, are are the neo-nazis of the left, and don't care, ignore, or fully support things like mass killings, "work" camps, and "reeducation" centers.

Note: I found this post on Beehaw (Lemmy site) where they discuss Mastodon users saying Lemmy sucks

Spammers are just creating accounts on instances that have no registration verification and creating thousands of posts that ping random people with images. The spam seems to originate from a group of Japanese script kiddies that just wanted to vandalise Misskey and now every instance is getting false-flag spam messages from thousands of accounts over thousands of instances.

The details are actually a bit fuzzy since it's all speculation outside of some discord screenshots and the spam that is actually sent, but it doesn't matter in the grand scheme of things. Since there's like thousands of tiny instances and nothing stops spammers from just making their own, the only guaranteed solution right now is to make a whitelist of servers that moderate account registration. I made one post on an irrelevant instance earlier and got three of these spam messages from different accounts on different instances.

https://mastodon.social/@Gargron/111953045633249137

There is an ongoing spam attack on the fediverse for the last couple of days. It's more widespread than before, as attackers are targeting smaller servers to create accounts. Before, usually only https://mastodon.social was targeted and our team could take care of it. For server administrators out there: If you don't need open registrations, switch over to approval mode. If you do, blocking disposable e-mail providers is a massive stopgap to the problem. Mastodon also supports hCaptcha.

I just have to point out that all of this is being done by a community of 12-15 year olds because ActivityPub is shit actually . The script to test for open registration nodes is literally this:

export async function isNoCapNoMail(host: string, softwareType: string) {
 if (softwareType !== "misskey") {
   return false;
 }

 const endpoint = `https://${host}/api/meta`;
 try {
   const res = await fetch(endpoint, {
     method: "GET",
     headers: {
       "Content-Type": "application/json",
     },
   });

   const json = await res.json();

   if (json["emailRequiredForSignup"]) {
     return false;
   }

   if (
     json["enableHcaptcha"] ||
     json["enableMcaptcha"] ||
     json["enableRecaptcha"]
   ) {
     return false;
   }

   return true;
 } catch {
   return false;
 }
}

Someone's definitely improved this by now since it does more than just misskey, but you get the point. Just imagine the damage someone could do with an integrated captcha solver. Most ActivityPub software doesn't have any kind of middleware for handling incoming messages and maybe drop them based on filters, but that'll probably change soon.

More rumours elsewhere

I have found some more information on this CPTK, the japbros probably already knew but uhh:

1. They're just skids

2. Most of them are like kids (literal 11-14 year olds)

3. They have done many raids in the past, they DDoS'd 2chan back in 2022 and they've taken legal action against them

4. Their old group imploded due to infighting

5. According to the Karasawa Wiki (yeah that lawyer who got doxxed like 100 times for being a 2chan troll), their leaders have been doxxed, MULTIPLE times. And they're all kids.

Anyway good luck to Bluesky on their fediverse integration lol

No significant takeaways yet (~1/5th of the way through on some protected classes). I think the one notable thing is that they have to try really hard to tell the AI that woke racism is different from non-woke racism, which is funny

— Brian Chau (@psychosort) December 16, 2022

Twittercels sleuthed out what was going on using prompts like "a man holding a sign that says" and then noooticing that the contents of the sign are not always gibberish.

Orange site post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32160352

People hate reddit's official app with the fire of a thousand suns, and MANY of them have been force logged-out and told to download the app on their mobile devices instead of using the mobile website.

The people are extremely, EXTRA - EEMLYYY unhappy about this. To the point that even redditors are considering not using reddit!

Edit: https://goodereader.com/blog/e-book-news/z-library-domains-are-seized-and-pirate-book-site-is-dead

https://torrentfreak.com/tiktok-blocks-z-library-hashtag-pending-piracy-investigation-221031/

It's still available on Tor

http://bookszlibb74ugqojhzhg2a63w5i2atv5bqarulgczawnbmsb6s6qead.onion/

Orange Site:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33460970

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32972923

https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/yll45h/zlibraryorg_is_fricking_gone_and_we_can_only_blame/?sort=controversial

(It's the TikTok s fault)

https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/yln9aj/zlibraryorg_is_fricking_gone_and_we_can_only_blame/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/comments/ylmkt1/alternatives/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/ylmjz1/tiktok_blocks_zlibrary_hashtag_pending_piracy/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/comments/ylmkqq/a_workaround_yall_tor_browser_works_click_send_to/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/comments/ylma04/how_to_get_access_to_z_lib_again/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/comments/ylko3f/is_zlibrary_down/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/comments/ylkc8m/z_library_pooping_down/?sort=controversial

https://old.reddit.com/r/zlibrary/comments/yljn16/oh_god_what_now/?sort=controversial

https://twitter.com/search?q=zlibrary%20down&src=typeahead_click&f=top

The even more frugal guy reading this and using a $100 phone is wondering why OP is splurging on a $200 phone.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/12kk6kh/why_do_people_always_need_to_buy_the_latest/jg33vvj/?sort=controversial

I keep my phones for a long time too.

But once it stops getting security updates, I get a new one. You would be more at risk from security exploits if you're not getting patches anymore. The savings from not buying a new phone is not worth the risk.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/12kk6kh/why_do_people_always_need_to_buy_the_latest/jg306au/?sort=controversial

Not everyone sees the world the way you do.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/12kk6kh/why_do_people_always_need_to_buy_the_latest/jg2rgh6/?sort=controversial

Because some people like them the same way you like your phone. It’s okay for people to like different things and have different priorities

Nah if somebody buys the new iphone every year thats a massive redflag that theyre dumb [-72]

https://old.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/12kk6kh/why_do_people_always_need_to_buy_the_latest/jg2u6du/?sort=controversial

I don't understand it either. I used to buy iphones around iphone 2-5 but each one completely died after a year. I got so sick of it so I switched to Samsung. I'm on my second Samsung in like 10 years. I later found out that Apple was updating their phone to kill battery life after the phone was about a year old. I will never ever buy an Apple product again.

https://old.reddit.com/r/Frugal/comments/12kk6kh/why_do_people_always_need_to_buy_the_latest/jg2s8or/?sort=controversial

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