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Thomas Germain
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I'm a Senior Reporter at Gizmodo covering AI, privacy, and life online. Have a tip? Find my contact info at tomgermain.com.

You can’t sign up for an account on a desktop browser but for whatever reason, you can view people’s accounts if you click a link to them. I don’t know all the techno elf magic wizardry going on there but it seems like if you can view pages, you aught to be able to sign up for an account.
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You already have a place (or two) for burner accounts. Read more

On the Instagram app you can choose between “Following” and “Favorites” as the steam in your feed. Read more

Musk simps in 3... 2... 1...

Wait, people actually thought Elon bought Twitter to promote or save free speech? Yikes, what dummies.  Read more

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Slanderous! Everyone knows Nazis love milkshakes!

Reminder to everyone that you can get Twitter to refer to it’s owner as a piece of sh!t with one simple email:
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I couldn’t find your articles about when Twitter suspended and silenced accounts that featured articles concerning Hunter Biden’s laptop, just weeks before the election. Could you repost them? Since you’re all against “silencing free speech and all”. That would be great! Thanks! Read more

This site will censor you.  The Mafia is Nazi in origins (Catholic). Read more

You don’t even have to look forward into the future to spot the hypocrisy.  He ran entirely on the “lock her up” platform against Hillary AND strengthened the punishment for the very crime he’s being accused of.
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At this point, it probably doesn’t even matter. It’s like advertising that your product ‘contains no arsenic’ - your competitors’ products probably don’t either, but you’ve put the implication out there, and most of your consumers probably aren’t going to ask. Read more

Dont forget that time when a Russian telegram bot was set up for users to report Ukrainian troop movements during the crucial early weeks of the war, where following its discovery the resulting NAFO spam was so intense that the channel had to be shut down, possibly affecting the outcomes of actual battles on the

Man, the comments are like at least half the reason I even bother with this place. The occasional bigoted troll aside. Read more

I mean I’d agree if they’d just have a universal way of sorting or handling them. IO9's old, get the blessing of a regular and you can post is good. Read more